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Tuesday
Sunny. High around 85F. Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph.
Tuesday night
Mainly clear skies. Low 58F. Winds S at 15 to 25 mph.
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- State auditors on Monday faulted the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for its oversight of the state's medical marijuana patient registry, pointing to lax regulation of physicians, unnecessarily high fees and a failure to oversee caregivers.(GC)
- Wheat Ridge police have confirmed that they have arrested the former roommate of Leann “Annie” Meyer in connection with her death. Melissa Miller, 54, of Lakewood, was taken into custody Monday afternoon. Meyer’s body was found in Park County on July 4 and the remains were identified on last Monday.(AP)
- Denver Mayor Michael Hancock used his second State of the City address to lay out an ambitious but somewhat vague plan to increase entrepreneurship and foreign business interest in the Mile High City while continuing to cut down on homelessness and a shortage of lower-income housing.(DBJ)
- Insurers estimate that the recent wildfire in Colorado Springs caused nearly $300 million in damage. The Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association released an estimate from the Black Forest Fire Monday.(KRDO)
- The Denver Broncos have suspended two executives who are facing drunken driving charges. Director of player personnel Matt Russell was suspended indefinitely without pay Monday, and director of pro personnel Tom Heckert was suspended for a month without pay.(GC)
- A statewide grand jury has indicted Robert Allen Zickefoose on seven counts of securities fraud and theft related to allegations of unregistered oil and gas investments, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced Monday.(DBJ)
- The owners of about 10,900 properties in unincorporated Boulder County's rural residential subdivisions are getting letters explaining the county's latest proposals for rehabilitating those subdivisions' crumbling roadways. The county has to figure out how to pay the projected $50 million to $70 million cost of repairing, repaving and reconstructing approximately 150 miles of paved roads in nearly 120 subdivisions. One option is to form a permanent property-tax-supported public improvement district (PID) to fix the subdivision roads within 15 years, then try to keep them in good condition.(TC)
- A former Loveland teacher from Fort Collins is getting deported to the United Kingdom after pleading guilty to sexually exploiting a 17-year-old female student.(Coloradoan)
- The man accused of murdering and dismembering his mother pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity on Monday. Investigators in Arapahoe County said Ari Misha Liggett, 24, poisoned his mother, Beverly Liggett, in their home in Centennial last October. Then they believe he cut up her body. Liggett told investigators his mother had recently left him out of her will. He originally told the interviewing officers he had found his mother dead in the living room after she committed suicide.(KCNC)
- Police are now looking for a silver BMW after its driver lost officers during a high-speed chase in Longmont on Monday afternoon. The Daily Camera reports that speeds reached 100 mph during the chase. At about 12:10 p.m., Longmont Police responded to a report that shots were fired near 18 Ash Court. Officers showed up and found no shots were fired but there had been a fight about a car involving firearms. The firearms were used to assault a person at the address.(TC)
- No charges will be filed against a motorist involved in an accident that injured a Boulder triathlete after an investigation revealed the driver had stopped to avoid another car and not because of road rage,(DC)
- Boulder plans to use about 300 goats over the next couple of months to control invasive weeds on city property(DC)
- The Arvada City Council approved a proposal for a new Wal-Mart Tuesday morning. A public hearing began at 7 p.m. Monday and went past midnight.(DP)
- A large high-pressure system over the eastern part of the country is keeping a low-pressure system over Texas from progressing, which is creating the storms in Colorado, said Kari Bowen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder.(GC)Updated daily by 6:00am
