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Wednesday
Sunny to partly cloudy. High near 90F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph.
Wednesday night
Some clouds this evening will give way to mainly clear skies overnight. Low 62F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph.
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- A former Wheat Ridge woman accused of murdering her roommate appeared before a judge for the first time on Tuesday, months after the roommate went missing. The judge issued Melissa Miller a cash-only bond of $50,000. Wheat Ridge police said they believe Miller, who knew Meyer for 20 years, is their only suspect in the case. Miller faces as much as 48 years in prison. She is scheduled to be back in court next Monday.(KCNC)
- A memorial service was held Tuesday for a Fort Morgan teen whose body was discovered at the end of June. Kayla Chadwick, 17, had been missing for over a year. The cause of death is unknown, and no one has been charged with the crime. Chadwick disappeared in March 2012 after an argument with her 19-year-old boyfriend Ivan Torralba. Torralba was arrested in June on a parole violation. He was already out on bond on perjury charges related to Chadwick's disappearance.(KUSA)
- A retired Weld County Sheriff's deputy, who still worked part time for the department, was arrested Tuesday after a standoff with SWAT. Ed Herring, the retired deputy, was reported to authorities for alleged domestic violence, according to a news release from the sheriff's office. Herring was not cooperative with officers and barricaded himself inside his residence, the release states. Weld County SWAT was deployed and Herring was eventually taken into custody after a brief standoff.(DP)
- The weekend closure of Interstate 70 near Pecos Street will still cause plenty of problems for motorists. To prepare commuters for the shutdown, the Colorado Department of Transportation has made numerous online and smart-phone tools available including CDOT Mobile, 511 and cotrip.org. But mostly, "we strongly encourage motorists to start planning their trips accordingly," project engineer Tamara Hunter-Maurer said. Starting at 10 p.m. Friday, and continuing until 5 a.m. Monday, crews will close both directions of I-70 between Interstate 25 and Federal Boulevard for major bridge work . Specifically, CDOT will demolish the existing Pecos Street bridge over I-70 and roll-in the new 2,400-ton Pecos Street bridge into its final configuration.(DP)
- The Boulder County Sheriff's Office Tuesday afternoon lifted a fire ban that previously applied to a vast portion of the county's western foothills.(GC)
- Police in Lakewood have taken a man into custody who is the suspect in as many as six attempted carjackings on Tuesday afternoon. According to police the suspect was successful in at least two carjackings. Officer caught up with the man, identified as Shane Edward Corp, 38, at the main reservoir located at Kipling and Florida. The incident may have initially started in Denver with a pursuit.(KCNC)
- A grand jury in Wise County, Texas declined to indict a pair of sheriff's deputies who fatally shot Evan Ebel, the man suspected of killing Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements, in March(DP)
- Colorado added about 52,400 jobs from May 2012 to May 2013, putting the state on track to have a higher-than-expected 2.5 percent job growth rate this year(DBJ)
- The head of Colorado Parks and Wildlife is leaving state government to become a vice president of natural resources and conservation for Vail Resorts Inc. (DP)
- Ardent Mills, the new flour milling joint venture of ConAgra Foods Inc., Cargill and CHS Inc., has chosen the Denver area for its headquarters, beating out the Kansas City, Minneapolis and Omaha, Neb., areas.(DBJ)
- The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft is about to leave Jefferson County and head to Cape Canaveral where it will be launched toward Mars in November(AP)
- Air Force Academy spending plunged by 21.1 percent in 2012 as the military scaled back across all branches.(AP)
- A Boulder District judge sentenced a 65-year-old Longmont woman on Tuesday to two years in prison for escaping from a jail work release sentence and felony theft from a bank.(TC)
- Lafayette has become the second community in Boulder County to test positive for West Nile Virus and will use a ground-based adulticide against the mosquitoes at Waneka Lake Park on Wednesday night in an effort to combat the potentially deadly disease.(DC)
- Here’s a statistic you weren’t expecting: Colorado and its lack of oceanfront ranked 11th in the U.S. in 2012 in cruise industry expenditures, totaling $413 million in direct spending, according to a study released Tuesday.(DBJ)
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