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Thursday
Sunny to partly cloudy. Hot. High 97F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph.
Thursday night
Generally clear. Low 63F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph.
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- The Aurora Police Department's destruction of DNA evidence in 48 sexual assault cases could complicate efforts for both prosecutors and defense attorneys, but it won't stop investigators from pursing new leads, District Attorney George Brauchler said Wednesday. (AP)
- The big spring snow in the mountains and a sharp drop in water use by metro Denver residents has driven utility officials to loosen lawn-watering rules. Denver water commissioners on Wednesday decided to let customers water their lawns and gardens three days a week, instead of two. Denver Water's mountain reservoirs are 92 percent full, and since restrictions took effect April 1, the utility's 1.3 million customers have used 3.4 billion gallons less than average. (Denver Post)
- Authorities say they have collected several items that could be clues in the search for Dylan Redwine, a teen who has been missing since last November. According to the La Plata County Sheriff’s Office, several days of searches were conducted in the area of Middle Mountain. “A variety of items were collected during five days of searching along 12 miles of U.S. Forest Service Middle Mountain Road,” sheriff’s office spokesman Dan Bender said in a statement. Bender said the found items will have to be sent to a laboratory to see if they are connected to the investigation.(AP)
- The judge in the Aurora theater shooting case is prepared to summon the largest jury pool ever called in Colorado if the case goes to trial. The 5,000 summonses that Judge Carlos Samour said this week he intends to send out to prospective jurors would dwarf other jury pools summoned in Colorado and would be at least among the largest called in U.S. history, according to a national expert on jury selection. People on the jury rolls in Arapahoe County, where the trial is scheduled to start in February, would have a roughly 1-in-90 chance of being summoned for the trial.(GC)
- A Longmont homeowner was shot in the leg during a confrontation with a man he told police he found burglarizing his home on the 4600 block of Portofino Drive on Wednesday morning. (Daily Camera)
- Gilpin County authorities responded Wednesday to a wildfire burning about five miles northwest of Central City The fire is on Dakota Mountain, about four miles west of mile marker 10.(DP)
- One person was found dead inside a burning apartment in Aurora early Thursday morning but investigators say the victim did not die in the fire. The fire broke out around 2:20 a.m. at 1434 East Kentucky Place, Aurora Fire Department said. That's just a few blocks northeast of Interstate 225 and East Mississippi Avenue. The Aurora Police Department mobile crime lab was at the home at about 3:45 a.m.(KMGH)
- Colorado gay-rights advocates reacted with joy and anticipation over two U.S. Supreme Court decisions Wednesday that sided with gay-marriage and against the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DP)
- Bicyclist advocates are pushing for permanent bike lanes in the Denver metro area to cut down on crashes between the two-wheeled modes of transport and vehicles. (KCNC)
- With mere days left before new Colorado gun-control legislation goes into effect, a company will protest one more time by handing out 1,500 30-round magazines for free. (DP)
- Residents of Fort Collins, are you smarter than your peers in Boulder? Not according to recently released rankings from brain-game producer Lumosity, which lists Fort Collins at No. 47 on the list of the nation’s smartest cities. Boulder is ranked 16th.(Coloradoan)
- The Jefferson County sheriff ordered a Stage 2 fire ban Wednesday due to the high fire danger conditions. (AP)
- The University of Colorado has spent more than $1 million in an investigation and legal battle in the wake of the Aurora theater shooting. (AP)
- Homeowners are giving the Colorado Department of Transportation an earful because they don’t like a proposal to widen a busy stretch of Interstate 70 through North Denver and bury part of it underground. (KCNC)
- Colorado officials have scheduled a hearing July 3 to address a protest of a petition to recall state Sen. Angela Giron, of Pueblo. (AP)
- Michael Cuddyer hit two home runs but the Colorado Rockies could not overcome Roy Oswalt's early struggles as they fall to the Boston Red Sox 5-3. (Mile High Sports)
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