Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Tuesday Headlines

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Tuesday
Sunny to partly cloudy. A stray afternoon thunderstorm is possible. High 82F. Winds NNE at 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday night
A stray thunderstorm is possible through the evening. Some clouds this evening will give way to mainly clear skies overnight. Low around 55F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
82° F55° F
28 C13 C
Sunrise: 5:35 am    Sunset: 8:30 pm    Moonrise: 1:39 am    Moonset: 3:47 pm

  • Heavy rains Monday afternoon in the Waldo Canyon burn area with lots of erosion brought mud down in Fountain Creek.  Some 20 homes suffered damage.(AP)

  • Search teams in Wyoming are looking for the 61-year-old brother of Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado, who was due back from a hike in the Wind River Range last week.(KCNC)

  • The 22-year-old man injured in a boating accident Sunday at Horsetooth Reservoir remains in critical condition at Medical Center of the Rockies. The victim of Blue Riverwas being taken back to shore to leave the reservoir Sunday when he jumped from the boat as it was backing up to let him out. The boat continued in reverse, running over the victim and hitting him with the boat’s propeller. The driver of the boat is a 22-year-old Fort Collins man who is believed to have been intoxicated while driving.(Coloradoan)

  • Denver police have arrested two members of a graffiti tagging crew in connection with the April shooting of an 8-year-old boy in southwest Denver, though only one has been criminally charged, court records show.(KMGH)

  • The judge in the Colorado theater shooting says most witnesses won’t be allowed in the courtroom during the trial or pretrial hearings until they are called to testify.(AP)

  • A Colorado man accused of trying to trade pipe bombs and hand grenades for drugs or cash has pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing firearms that weren’t registered with a national database.(AP)

  • The La Plata County coroner says it is unlikely a cause of death will be determined in the Dylan Redwine case.(AP)

  • New-car sales in Colorado have topped used for the first time in years, according to the latest Colorado Auto Outlook Report. The June report found 67,217 new cars had been sold in the state from January through May — 83 more than used.(DP)

  • The confidence of Colorado business leaders has continued its strong upward trend, surging into the third quarter of 2013, according to the most recent Leeds Business Confidence Index released.(AP)

  • Xcel Energy on Monday announced some help to keep low-income families cool this summer.
    Flipping on air conditioners can really jack up energy bills, so Xcel and Denver Human Services announced a program called Heat Wave Help. It can help people pay a portion of their summer utility bills.  Xcel also presented a check for $100,000 to Denver Human Services to help get the program started.(KCNC)

  • A jury on Monday convicted a Highlands Ranch businessman of trafficking in forced labor for luring foreign nurses to the United States with promises of high-paying jobs but then demanding they kick back a portion of their wages or face deportation.Kizzy Kalu was convicted in U.S. District Court in Denver on all but six of the 95 counts he was facing.(AP)

  • Troy Lowrie, the owner and operator of a string of strip clubs across the country, including five in the Denver metro area, can now be found handing out traffic tickets and enforcing the law in the town of Morrison near Red Rocks.(KCNC)
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