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Monday
Partial cloudiness early, with scattered showers and thunderstorms during the afternoon. High 81F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
Monday night
Isolated thunderstorms during the evening. Mainly clear skies after midnight. Low 59F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
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- More people in Colorado than ever before are attempting to legally carry a concealed gun, and by no small margin. It's 87 percent more. And while 2012 saw a sizable increase from 2011 of permit seekers, that figure pales in comparison to this year. From January to June, 31,518 background checks were processed for concealed-carry permits by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, according to bureau data. For the same period last year, there were only 16,886 processed.
- Parsons Corp., an international engineering firm, last week unveiled its proposed $3.5 billion project to ease traffic on Interstate 70 through the central mountains.
- The city of Boulder is set to adopt a goal of cutting its greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050. Meeting that new goal, which is expected to be adopted by the City Council next year, will require an "unprecedented level of action," a city staff memo said. The goal is aimed at Boulder doing its part to cut man-made emissions of so-called greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide, that have been linked to climate change.
- Three decades after they were introduced as a crime-fighting tool, electronic ankle bracelets used to track an offender's whereabouts have proliferated so much that officials are struggling to handle an avalanche of monitoring alerts that are often nothing more sinister than a dead battery, lost satellite contact or someone arriving home late from work.
- Colorado churches are on alert after a man made threats against Roman Catholic and Mormon Latter Day Saints churches.
- After five ATM robberies in Colorado Springs this July, a sixth incident happened Saturday night when a man tried to steal from a woman making a transaction.
- Michelangelo exhibit follows Da Vinci exhibit to Denver Pavilions
