Tuesday...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.
- Firefighters are responding to three separate fires in Lakewood early Tuesday morning. Lakewood police said all three began as car fires, with the first report coming in around 5:45 a.m. West Metro Fire Rescue was on scene of a blaze near West Dakota Avenue and South Carr Street just south of Alameda Avenue, where flames were about 20 feet high at one point and a plume of smoke was visible from at least a dozen blocks away. That fire was extinguished. There was no immediate word on injuries. Another fire was reported at West Dakota Avenue and South Estes Street. The exact location of the third nearby fire was not immediately available.
- The first of what will be several dinners to benefit Lyons restaurants will be Wednesday night at Joe's Steak * Italian * Cocktails at 526 Main St.
- Boulder County commissioners came in for another round of criticism Monday for the options they've proposed for rehabilitating rural residential subdivisions roads.
- Consumers, insurance brokers and navigators trained to ease health reforms are venting deep frustration with glitches in the Colorado exchange and Medicaid signups, reflecting national doubts over the new system.
- Colorado's congressional delegation was told Monday that roads damaged and closed by September flooding will be open by Dec. 1. But those roads may not look like they did before flood waters hit.
- The opponents of a $950 million tax increase for education have seized on comments by Gov. John Hickenlooper to bolster their claim that if Amendment 66 passes the money will be used to "backfill" the state's pension system instead of going to students.
- James Holmes' lawyers say police coerced and misled him into discussing the bombs in his apartment after the Colorado theater shootings. In a pretrial hearing Monday, defense lawyers said anything Holmes told officers shouldn't be used against him, arguing that police violated his rights. Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of killing 12 and injuring 70 in the 2012 attack in suburban Denver. Prosecutors and the defense are arguing over evidence that could be used to support or undermine his insanity claim, such as the bombs that police have said were intricately planned to divert officers from the theater. Prosecutors argue police did nothing wrong in questioning Holmes.
