- Saturday Mostly sunny, with a high near 59. Southwest wind 6 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
- In a national first, a federal prosecutor in Denver has acknowledged in court that the case against a terror defendant rests in part on information gleaned from warrantless wiretaps.
- Snow is expected in the Colorado mountains over the weekend, with a slight chance of snow or rain in Denver Saturday night and Sunday morning.
- Colorado regulators have begun surveying marijuana businesses about the price of pot, in an effort to implement a new excise tax that voters passed earlier this month.
- The results of Broomfield's anti-fracking measure -- which appeared to have failed by a slim margin on Election Day -- flipped late Thursday night, but the five-year hydraulic fracturing ban's approval was so narrow that a recount is mandatory.
- A judge postponed a hearing Friday for a Denver couple to enter pleas on charges of child abuse for allegedly starving their four young sons and keeping them in a filthy apartment. No reason was given for the delay, which was announced after a brief discussion among the judge and attorneys. Their comments weren’t audible to others.
- Police in Nebraska counties along the Colorado border are fighting to keep medical marijuana from crossing state lines. It’s a problem they fear will grow worse when it becomes legal to buy marijuana for recreational use in January.
- A long fight over water rights between ski areas and the federal government appears to be settling down. Over the past decade, the U.S. Forest Service has tried to change the rules on water rights four different times, but many say the most over-reaching measure happened nearly two years ago. The government didn’t offer to buy the water rights, it just asked that they be handed over.
- The Weld County Sheriff's Office has cited three suspects for their involvement in alleged animal abuse on newborn calves, released on video this week by an animal rights group.
- Police on Thursday evening arrested a 14-year-old Longmont boy on suspicion of auto theft out of Mead.
- Police say a teen who was pepper sprayed by police threw "bodily fluid" on an officer at a Colorado Springs hospital.
- A parolee accused in the recent kidnapping of an 8-year-old Aurora girl had a history of sexual misconduct in state prison, documents obtained by 7News
- The Federal Emergency Management Center is closing its Lyons Disaster Recovery Center at 6 p.m. on Monday. FEMA officials have announced.
- An outbreak of whooping cough has Colorado health authorities urging people to make sure their vaccinations are up to date.
- Both luxury home sales and median sale prices in the Denver metro area moved higher in October compared to a year ago, according to a report released Friday by Coldwell Banker
- How did Mars lose its air, water and possible life? It’s a Martian mystery that NASA hopes to solve with a new spacecraft that was built in Colorado. NASA will launch a spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday to try to answer that. It’s called the Maven Orbiter, and it was built by Lockheed Martin in Colorado. The $671 million NASA mission is being led by the University of Colorado Boulder.
- Boulder police have arrested a woman on a warrant for cruelty to animals after investigators said she failed to get veterinary treatment for three-month-old puppy when it suffered broken legs and burns.
- The Longmont Ice Pavilion began rebuilding Friday from about $20,000 of damage caused when someone put "ice melt" on the ice.
