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Tuesday
Sunny, along with a few afternoon clouds. Hot. High near 95F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday night
A stray thunderstorm is possible through the evening. Considerable clouds early. Some decrease in clouds late. Low around 65F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
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- Broncos star linebacker Von Miller could be suspended for six games instead of the original four-game sentence the league handed him for violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy, ESPN reported.
- It's not entirely clear why prosecutors have decided to list Von Miller as a potential witness in a death penalty case.
- Denver International Airport plans to add 10 charging stations for electric vehicles in its parking garages. Visitors who park their plug-in electric vehicles in the garages can use the charging stations for free. The stations are scheduled to be installed this fall.
- It was back to school for students who didn’t even know if they would have a school for a while this summer. At one point, Edith Wolford Elementary School was in the line of flames during the massive Black Forest Fire. Nearly 500 homes burned in the fire in June northeast of Colorado Springs. On Monday, the students headed back to class. Edith Wolford Elementary School survived the fire with little damage, but for a moment many Black Forest residents thought the school building was destroyed completely.
- Two young heroes can rest easy knowing the man they helped save is alive and doing better. The pair met the man's uncle Monday and heard about the impact they made. Jake Rasco and Vince Gumina helped pull a drowning man out of a pool at Quall Hill Mobile Home Community Saturday.They said he'd been underwater for four minutes. Since then, they'd been worried about the man's condition. The man's uncle, Gustavo Sanchez said he is hopeful his nephew will recover. He is in critical condition at Memorial Hospital. Sanchez said it if weren't for the boys, his nephew might have died in the water.
- The economic impact of Colorado’s oil and gas industry amounted to $29.6 billion last year, according to a study released Monday. The study was conducted for the Colorado Oil & Gas Association by researchers at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business. CU Boulder researchers Brian Lewandowski and Richard Wobbekind, who conducted the study, reported the industry supported more than 110,000 high-paying jobs
- The Colorado health department says independent tests so far have confirmed the reliability of blood-alcohol testing by a state toxicology lab, which suspended blood-alcohol and -drug testing after a report raised questions about its work. Defense attorneys questioned the lab’s reliability after a consultant’s report noted complaints by some lab workers about blood samples kept in unlocked refrigerators and a supervisor making statements suggesting a bias favoring prosecutors.
- The Longmont Urban Renewal Authority gave its final argument Monday in a court battle for the title to Dillard's, but also said it would pull back from seeking that title if it got a Nov. 18 condemnation hearing.
- Dozens of Fort Collins residents are expected to speak at Tuesday night's City Council on the topic of mosquitoes, citywide spraying of insecticide and West Nile virus.
- The rulemaking surrounding Amendment 64 is in full swing at the state level. The Department of Revenue has released a set of draft rule changes and clarifications for a huge chunk of medical marijuana law, as well as draft regs regarding the recreational cannabis industry.
- The University of Colorado Boulder went smoke free on Monday. The campus has banned all smoking on campus except for designated smoking areas, and those smoking areas could vanish this December as well. CU is now part of 1,100 schools to ban smoking across the country.
