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Wednesday
Mixed clouds and sun this morning. Scattered thunderstorms developing this afternoon. High around 85F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
Wednesday night
Scattered thunderstorms early, then partly cloudy after midnight. Low 62F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
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- The driver of a moving van has been issued a summons after hitting and killing a cyclist. Donald Schaefer, 83, died at the scene, near 6th and Garrison In Lakewood. Schaefer was riding a recumbent cycle, and police say the driver of the truck turned off Garrison onto the ramp to 6th. Investigators do not believe drugs or alcohol were involved.(DP)
- The city analysis that shows Boulder can create a municipal utility that is less polluting and cheaper than Xcel Energy was endorsed Tuesday by an independent evaluation commissioned by the city.(DC)
- The Colorado Springs City Council decided Tuesday that the city will opt out of having retail marijuana sales, taking advantage of a provision in a state ballot measure.(KRDO)
- Two of Colorado's most prominent Republicans pushed varying messages Tuesday on how to achieve comprehensive immigration reform to a House subcommittee — a rift that exemplifies the uphill battle the issue has in getting accomplished before the end of the year.(DP)
- A train derailed Tuesday morning and went crashing through a building in the 4400 block of Sherman Street in Denver.(GC)
- Denver authorities have arrested a 53-year-old Pennsylvania man in the rape and murder of a woman in a group home for mentally disabled people in 1981.(DP)
- Jurors hearing a lawsuit against a former Denver Sheriff's deputy watched video of the deputy manhandling and appearing to stomp a homeless man who was being moved to another cell.(DP)
- The city of Lafayette and the town of Erie both announced contractors will be conducting mosquito sprays Wednesday night in response to mosquitoes in several areas of the county testing positive for West Nile virus.(GC)
- A long line of residents confronted the Longmont City Council on Tuesday about the recent citywide mosquito sprays, arguing that the risk from the chemicals was greater than any from West Nile virus.(GC)
- Loveland's city clerk Tuesday said an anti-fracking group has collected enough signatures to place a two-year ban of in-town hydraulic fracturing on the fall ballot, the day after the planning commission recommended changes to zoning rules to allow building within buffer zones around oil and gas facilities.(DP)
- The staff of the Denver Zoo is mourning the loss of a lion to cancer for the second time in a little over a month and the third time this year.(DP)
- A son lost his father to a motorcycle crash Tuesday afternoon as they were driving their Harley-Davidsons up a switchback, and the father lost control on a hairpin curve, according to Colorado State Patrol.(Coloradoan)
- The Colorado Department of Transportation today announced there will be no more daytime closures along the Diagonal Highway as crews continue the ongoing construction projects at Niwot and Jay roads.(DC)
- Colorado ranks eighth in the nation for solar power generated per capita, but the state still should do more to increase the solar power it produces, a new report says.(DBJ)
- Rookie Jose Fernandez tossed seven strong innings and Christian Yelich went 3 for 4 with two RBIs in his major league debut, lifting the Miami Marlins to a 4-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night.(GC)Updated Daily by 6:00am
