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Wednesday
Mainly sunny. Near record high temperatures. High 93F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph.
Wednesday night
A mostly clear sky. Low 62F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
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- The recall elections for two Democratic lawmakers has become a political soap opera — with subplots, new characters and daily developments — that Tuesday included a $350,000 donation from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court.Senate President John Morse of Colorado Springs and Sen. Angela Giron of Pueblo face separate recall elections in their districts on Sept. 10 for supporting gun-control legislation in the 2013 session.
- A Denver judge overseeing the death-penalty case against Dexter Lewis, who is accused of stabbing five to death in October, on Tuesday denied a request by defense attorneys to withdraw Lewis' plea of not guilty.
- Department of Interior officials said Tuesday they won't withhold oil and gas royalty payments next year from 34 states, including Colorado, as part of the federal budget sequestration and will pay back funds captured in 2013. Colorado is owed $5.7 million as of July, Attorney General John Suthers said in a prepared statement.
- A group of strippers at a Grand Junction club are seeking to force its owner to keep his hands off their tips and pay them wages, according to a class-action lawsuit. Their lawyer is encouraging more dancers to join the fight.
- A dedicated bike lane will open along 15th Street in downtown Denver on Thursday, pushing all non-motorized two-wheeled traffic to the left side of the busy cross-town route. It's part of the 15th Street Bikeway pilot plan, designed to keep bicycles out of fast-moving vehicle traffic headed northwest across downtown Denver.
- Colorado police officers stop tens of thousands of people for suspicious behavior each year and often frisk them for weapons during street interrogations. Yet their departments provide little information about who is being stopped, or why. Some are not even collecting the type of information that led a judge to rule this month that New York's stop-and-frisk practices unconstitutionally targeted minorities. In a survey of police departments in Colorado's five largest cities, The Denver Post found just two — Colorado Springs and Aurora — that provided demographic information about what they call field-interview reports on everything from disturbances to suspicious persons and suspicious vehicles.
- A company that sued the city over a window-washing contract issue at Denver International Airport on Tuesday received a $98,431 settlement. Carnation Building Services sued Denver after its contract to wash windows at DIA was rescinded and eventually canceled. Denver District Court Judge Kenneth Laff said "the way in which Denver pulled the rug out from under Carnation is unprecedented. Whatever caused Denver's about-face on the bid, it was undisputedly not the fault of Carnation."
- In a tight vote last week, the Denver City Council defied Mayor Michael Hancock's request to ask voters to approve a sales tax rate for retail marijuana that begins at 5 percent. The council, in a 7-6 vote, chose 3.5 percent, siding with Auditor Dennis Gallagher. The auditor sent each council member two letters within a few weeks of each other, pleading with them to pick 3.5 percent over 5 percent.
