Thursday, October 17, 2013

@Denverheadlines 10/18

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Friday
Snow showers early. Bright sunshine later. High 48F. Winds N at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 50%.
Friday night
Clear skies. Low 33F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
48° F33° F
9 C1 C
Sunrise: 7:12 am    Sunset: 6:14 pm    Moonrise: 6:06 pm    Moonset: 6:51 am
  • A judge said the grand jury indictment of JonBenet Ramsey’s parents should be made public.The district attorney of Boulder at the time decided not to prosecute John and Patsy Ramsey.The six-year-old’s body was found in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder on Christmas day 1996. JonBenet was found during a police search of the home, about eight hours after she was reported missing. She had been struck on the head and strangled. The case remains unsolved.
  • Interior Department lawyers said Thursday that Congress will have to explicitly authorize reimbursement to states, including Colorado, that decided to re-open national parks during the partial government shutdown.
  • Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn was the only Colorado lawmaker to vote "no" on the debt deal that re-opened the government, even though he represents Colorado Springs, the city with the highest percentage of impacted workers in the nation.
  • The former Fire Chief of the Inter-Canyon Fire Protection District has been indicted in a theft case. David MacBean has been accused of stealing $643,000 from the district.
  • Wildlife officers have located and put down a third coyote that attacked a man walking to work early Monday morning.
  • Pink’s concert at the Pepsi Center has been postponed until later this month after her doctor ordered her to rest her voice. Pink was scheduled to perform for fans at the Pepsi Center on Friday night.
  • Denver Public Works has a snow removal plan in place for Thursday night into Friday morning even though Denver is only expected to get about one inch of snow.
  • Emergency workers rushed to a school under construction at Pearl and Bayaud on Thursday afternoon after a worker became trapped when a portion of a wall collapsed.
  • Two adults and a teenager are under investigation after the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office bomb squad disarmed an explosive device found by a homeowner on Dakan Mountain
  • More than three months after he was placed on paid leave, a Larimer County judge remains absent from the bench without explanation.
  • The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo says one of it's African lions died after getting into a fight with another lion. The fight happened at 10:25 a.m. on Thursday.
  • Denver's auditor announced it plans to sue the city's Human Services Department for not being transparent enough regarding gift cards given to needy families.
  • Aurora theater shooting attorneys were back in court on Thursday arguing over statements made to the officers by the suspect after he was arrested and taken to the police station.