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Thursday
Variable clouds with thunderstorms, especially during the afternoon hours. High 86F. Winds NW at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
Thursday night
Isolated thunderstorms this evening, then skies turning partly cloudy after midnight. Low 58F. NNW winds shifting to SSW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
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- In an email sent to students, faculty and staff, the University of Colorado Boulder says that it is under federal investigation over the way it handled a female student's report of a sexual assault.
- A 2-year-old girl is still on life support after her head was trapped between the window and door frame of an SUV Tuesday evening. The girl's mother left five children between the ages of 10 months and 10 years old alone in the red SUV for 10 to 15 minutes, according to police.
- Boulder took a major step toward forming a city utility Wednesday night when the City Council voted 6-3 that the utility meets the charter requirements and that the city should begin negotiations to acquire Xcel Energy's distribution system.
- By Friday, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey must decide whether to ask a jury to consider the death penalty for a 23-year-old man accused of stabbing five people to death at a Denver bar in October. A decision to proceed would be the first time since 2001 that Denver prosecutors even have sought the death penalty.
- Organizers have canceled a gun buyback at the request of Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle, who said Colorado's new gun laws would make the Aug. 4 event nearly impossible to stage. A stricter law that went into effect July 1 requires buyers to go to a licensed firearms dealer and undergo a background check. The InstaCheck systems used in the checks are not mobile, which means they couldn't be used at the sheriff's compound where the buyback was planned.
- Police cited a Greeley couple with disorderly conduct, after a brawl at a little league baseball game. Witnesses said the profanity-laced ballpark tirade in front of 10-year-old boys escalated when Jammie Dyer, James Dyer's wife, grabbed the cell phone of a woman taking video of it all.
- Denver Public Schools will receive $10 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to bolster its teacher evaluation system.
- Two men sickened in the 2011 cantaloupe listeria outbreak have died, two years after the national scare was linked to melons grown on a Colorado farm.
- By charging up to six times the market rate for serving foreclosure notices on property owners, Colorado's second-largest foreclosure law firm generated millions of dollars in profits on the backs of homeowners and taxpayers, according to a state attorney-general lawsuit.
- Three times in the last four years, the city has been forced to close the swim beach at Boulder Reservoir due to elevated levels of the E. coli bacteria.
- A Colorado State University student faces charges after a man showering in the campus recreation center was secretly videotaped while he showered.
- In Colorado Springs a man was accidentally burned Wednesday when he caused a fire apparently while trying to extract THC by using a heating process, police said. The Associated Press reported that a woman also was burned, although less severely. Police said the burn victim may have been running a substance through pipes to extract THC, the active component of marijuana, and started a fire.
