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Friday
Mostly sunny skies this morning. Scattered showers and thunderstorms developing during the afternoon. High 84F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
Friday night
Isolated thunderstorms early, then partly cloudy after midnight. Low around 60F. Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
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- When first-of-their-kind stores selling recreational marijuana are allowed to open in January, they look increasingly likely to be confined to only a handful of communities in the state. Dozens of Colorado cities and counties have in recent weeks voted to ban the stores — and their sibling cultivation and marijuana-infused products businesses. That leaves only about 20 cities and counties likely to start accepting applications for recreational marijuana stores later this year and to allow the stores to open as early as Jan. 1, according to advocates. Of the 10 largest cities in Colorado, only Denver looks likely to initially allow pot shops.
- The alleged sexual assault that spurred a federal investigation into the University of Colorado at Boulder was reported to police nearly four months after it occurred, according to a Boulder police report.
- Denver Parks and Recreation joined forces with the Police Department to install 14 security cameras in Civic Center, which has been a hub for drug deals and related crimes. "They're installed for crime suppression," Denver police Sgt. Brian Kimberly said. "Civic Center park, for quite some time, has been plagued with some crime problems. We already had some cameras monitoring the park, and Parks and Rec came to us and asked about a few more." The Parks and Recreation-funded cameras were installed this week, adding to the five cameras already used to observe the park near the Denver City and County Building. When the cameras come online — likely next week — they will be monitored by Denver police.
- A federal judge on Thursday allowed the release of a Littleton police officer charged with buying $1,300 worth of Ecstasy as long as he submits to home monitoring and drug or mental health treatment.
- A soldier from Colorado Springs was one of three killed in an Afghanistan attack, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday. Spc. Rob L. Nichols, 24, died Tuesday when an insurgent's bomb detonated near Soltan Kheyl, Afghanistan, a town southwest of the Afghan capital of Kabul.
- The murder case against a 23-year-old man accused of stabbing five people to death at a Denver bar "cries for the death penalty," Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey said Thursday. Prosecutors announced they will seek the death penalty against Dexter Lewis, who faces 16 counts in the Oct. 17 attack at Fero's Bar and Grill. The charges include multiple counts of first-degree murder, felony murder, robbery and arson.
- An Adams County man has been charged with criminal conduct after more than 100 dogs were seized from his Watkins home earlier this month. Richard Pilicer, 63, was charged this week with 13 counts of criminally negligent animal cruelty. Authorities retrieved 118 Havanese dogs from his home July 7, according to the Adams County and Broomfield District Attorney's Office. The Denver Dumb Friends League's investigations team assisted the Adams County Sheriff's Office, Adams County Animal Control and the Adams County Animal Shelter in removing the dogs from the residence.
- An attorney turned whistle-blower at Colorado's second-largest foreclosure law firm has detailed to state investigators a pattern of abuses that stretch beyond the scope of their investigation into alleged overbilling practices
- An arrest warrant has been issued for the wife of TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman after she was accused of verbally harassing a Colorado teenager.
- The Rockies lost to the Marlins...again. It’s football season.
