Saturday, June 15, 2013

Saturday Headlines 6/15


Saturday
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Saturday
Mostly sunny early then increasing clouds with some scattered thunderstorms this afternoon. A few storms may be severe. High 83F. Winds NE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
Saturday night
Widely scattered showers or a thunderstorm this evening. Then partly cloudy. A few storms may be severe. Low 56F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
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28 C13 C
Sunrise: 5:30 am    Sunset: 8:29 pm    Moonrise: 12:06 pm    Moonset: 12:06 am

  • Fire officials leading the battle against the Black Forest Fire say they are beginning to see some hopeful signs as they work to contain the blaze. Some mandatory evacuations were lifted Friday afternoon. A total of 473 homes were destroyed and 15 were a partial loss. The fire was 30 percent contained Friday afternoon.
  • Twelve Colorado counties qualify for federal disaster relief because of drought conditions.
  • The 353-acre Big Meadows fire burning on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park is threatening some Front Range water supplies.
  • The once-promising Nuggets continue to come apart at the seams. Andre Iguodala will opt out of the final year of his contract and test the market as a free agent.
  • Denver will be host to the Clinton Global Initiative America in June 2014 and 2015, attracting the county's top thinkers and famous faces in business, government and philanthropy, its local organizers announced Friday afternoon.
  • Former Memphis Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins will interview Saturday with the Nuggets for their coaching vacancy, an NBA source confirmed Friday.
  • The Denver Zoo is welcoming the birth of an endangered, female Grevy's zebra.
  • Residents who are concerned about fracking in Broomfield will circulate a petition that calls for a five-year ban on the oil and gas drilling practice.
  • A federal judge has sentenced a Larimer County jail inmate to seven years in prison for threatening President Barack Obama and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and spitting in the face of an FBI agent.
  • Metro Denver Crime Stoppers has unveiled two billboards seeking information about a March hit-and-run that killed two young brothers.
  • The Denver District Attorney cleared two Denver police officers Monday who shot a knife-wielding teenager
  • Officials say one person was taken into custody following a "possible security threat" on a Denver-bound flight.
  • Just 40 percent of Colorado voters said in a poll out Friday they believe Sen. Mark Udall deserves to win his re-election bid next year and only 45 percent believe in the job he's doing — even though the first-term senator doesn't have an opponent yet
  • Freddy Galvis hit a pair of two-run triples and Jimmy Rollins delivered the go-ahead single as a pinch-hitter in the Phillies' 8-7 win against the Rockies on Friday night at Coors Field.

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