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Tuesday
A mainly sunny sky. Hot. High 91F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday night
Partly cloudy skies. Low near 65F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
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- The Royal Gorge Bridge took 6 months to build in 1929. The Royal Gorge Company that runs the attraction believes it will only take around seven months to rebuild the structures destroyed in the Royal Gorge fire. 48 of the 52 buildings at the park were destroyed.
- Denver City Council on Monday made several big decisions about the nascent marijuana industry, including allowing stores to sell both medical and nonmedical pot without requiring physical barriers in the shops and setting a proposed 3.5 percent tax rate.
- Deep in Colorado's agricultural heart, Republican Rep. Cory Gardner and Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet agreed Monday that immigration reform needs to be tackled now. But the two were deeply divided in a batch of town hall meetings about how to get that accomplished.
- An officer on patrol early Monday morning in Longmont saw a man sitting with his legs crossed in the middle of the 300 block of Main Street, according to reports. The man appeared to be intoxicated, and he told the officer he was sitting in the street because it was "a new experience."
- The St. Vrain Valley School District Board of Education is expected to cancel November's election because no seats will be challenged.
- Contractors will be spraying for mosquitoes between 8 p.m. Wednesday and 12:30 a.m. Thursday at Erie Community Park, Erie Parkway and East County Line Road, and along Vista Point Trail between Taylor and Columbine Court.
- The founder of the 211 Crew protected Evan Ebel after a rival prison gang targeted the white supremacist soldier for violence at Sterling Correctional Facility. That left the young gang member with a debt authorities suspect he repaid by killing prisons chief Tom Clements.
- A man who spent nearly an hour and a half pinned by a 2-ton boulder will survive. The 63-year-old man had been digging beneath the rock to fix a water line in the front yard of a home In Broadmoor Bluffs in Colorado Springs. Firefighters and paramedics worked for 80-minutes to lift the larger boulder off his feet and legs. He's in the hospital with a broken leg.
- Two men have been arrested after allegedly taking two Grand Junction teenagers to an apartment against their will and demanding everything they had, including the clothes on their backs. Grand Junction police took 18-year-old Enyinna Chiaka Irechukwu and Donte Levaris Barnett, 22, into custody on Thursday for their alleged involvement in the crime. According to the arrest affidavit, Irechukwu and Barnett approached the teenagers while they were in a parked car near Blockbuster off of 12th Street and Patterson Road on Wednesday, August, 21. The teenagers apparently knew the suspects.
- A Boulder County District Court judge has ruled that Dillard's must turn the title to its property over to the Longmont Urban Renewal Authority.
