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Tuesday
Partly cloudy skies. High 78F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Tuesday night
A few clouds. Low 49F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
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- A judge ruled last month that the City of Denver was right in firing Officer Kevin Devine and a second officer, Rick Nixon, for their conduct in the Denver Diner incident in July 2009. A widely circulated videotape showed the officers pepper spraying and using force on several women who were involved in an altercation inside the restaurant. The city agreed last month to pay the women in the case a total of $360,000 to settle their lawsuit which claimed they were punched, shoved, dragged and the victims of excessive force. The city also contends the officers were deceptive in reports they filed following the incident.
- Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes was back in court on Monday and there was a new family member there offering her support. Thousands of prospective jurors will be considered in the case and on Monday lawyers argued over evidence involving dating websites. Holmes’ younger sister, Chris Holmes, sat in front of CBS4’s Rick Sallinger in court. She is a singer and song writer who wrote a song that has a very strong connection to the case. Years before the shooting she wrote a song called “Walking Down Death Row.”
- Traffic will be reduced to one lane in each direction on Interstate 70 between Tower Road and Colfax Avenue starting Oct. 14 as crews begin rebuilding a 2½-mile stretch of the highway, including pavement replacement, shoulder widening and new bridges over the Union Pacific Railroad lines and Smith Road.
- Larimer County authorities recovered a body Monday from flood debris in the Big Thompson River, which may be the final unaccounted-for flood victim.
- A state audit released Monday criticized the Colorado Lottery for high prize payouts and administrative costs — including nearly $400,000 of employee bonuses last year — which siphoned away millions of dollars from public-school construction and parks, recreation and open space.
- The Air Force Academy has faced one of the most uncomfortable consequences of the government shutdown: a toilet paper shortage. Fortunately, the problem was fixed, but it renews the debate over who exactly the "non-essential" employees are during a government shutdown. "We're not always aware at a high level who has the contracts with the toilet paper but we found out pretty fast and we fixed it,” said Superintendent of the Air Force Academy Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson during a press conference.
- A Denver couple is facing multiple felony child abuse counts after authorities found their four children malnourished, surrounded by feces and only able to communicate via grunting sounds. Parents Wayne Sperling, 66, and Lorinda Bailey, 35, were each charged with four counts of felony child abuse -- one count for each child found
- A man accused of getting drunk, then leading police on a brief Friday afternoon chase in his employer's landscaping truck is due for filing of charges on Wednesday.
- The Regional Transportation District provided a first glimpse Monday at the latest ridership numbers and cost estimates for the proposed Northwest Rail Line, giving some in the corridor hope that the long-sought commuter train between Denver and Longmont could be rolling down the tracks sooner than 30 years from now
