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Sunny. High 88F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph.
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An Amber Alert issued for children who were last seen in the 7700 block of East Orchard Avenue in Greenwood Village a few minutes before midnight Tuesday was canceled Wednesday morning after the children were found safe and the suspect was found dead.(GC)
- A Castle Rock man who ran multiple cancer-themed charities but used them for his own gain faces a lawsuit by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, according to a news release. Adam Cole Shryock, 33, faces allegations that he deceived customers into thinking they were donating to charities Boobies Rock, Inc., The Se7ven Group and Say No 2 Cancer.“Shryock misled thousands of consumers in Colorado and across the country into believing they were supporting breast cancer-related charities,” said AG John Suthers.(AP)
- A spike in car thefts drove a 3.6 percent increase in property crime throughout Colorado last year, but violent crime dropped 3.4 percent, according to statistics released this week by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.(DP)
- Former students who lived through the Columbine and Virginia Tech massacres joined demonstrators breaking a new law Tuesday when they exchanged high-capacity magazines outside Larimer County Justice Center.(Coloradoan)
- The West Fork fire complex burning 14 ½ miles northeast of Pagosa Springs is at 94,476 acres Tuesday with 7 percent containment, fire managers reported.(DP)
- Colorado Gov John Hickenlooper said Tuesday there are initial talks with Western governors about sharing a regional aerial fleet to fight fires, although the idea is far from reality at the moment.(AP)
- Residents of Manitou Springs started the task Tuesday of cleaning up from a flash flood. 20 homeowners are dealing with damage from a flash flood that washed through the Waldo Canyon burn scar from last year. Three homes are a total loss. More than a half inch of rain fell in less than 20 minutes Monday, causing mud to flow into the houses in Manitou Springs and western Colorado Springs.(GC)
- The University of Colorado conducted a casting call Tuesday, looking for students to star in a television commercial that will air during nationally broadcast football games in the upcoming season. (Daily Camera)
- A man who pleaded guilty to using his home computer to obtain and share 30,000 images and 2,600 videos of child pornography was sentenced on Tuesday to 40 years in prison. Jon Baker, now 33, sent undercover FBI agents in Maryland and Colorado images of child pornography using a file-sharing program before he was arrested in Denver on April 27, 2012. Authorities found thousands of child pornography images and videos — many of which Baker produced himself — on his hard drive.(DP)
- Thirty-nine people were caught with guns at TSA checkpoints at Denver International Airport last year, part of a growing trend at airports nationwide.(KMGH)
- Fox News reporter Jana Winter says her journalism career is suffering and she is "paralyzed with fear" because of attempts to force her to reveal her sources for a story about Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes.(KMGH)
- The Colorado Rockies just can’t seem to stay healthy. Dexter Fowler was placed on the disabled list Tuesday. Adding insult to Fowler’s injury, the Rockies lost to the Dodgers 8-0 Tuesday night.(GC)
Headlines updated daily by 6:00am
