- Denver police have detained two individuals who they say entered an empty school building late Monday armed with two long rifles. Police Chief Robert White says the two juveniles were apprehended inside the school early Tuesday. Police had earlier surrounded Noel Middle School and a bomb squad was called to the scene after janitors reported a break-in Monday night. Police sent a telephone notification to neighborhood residents warning them to stay indoors. White says officers watched the two individuals on the school's security cameras and saw they were carrying backpacks as well as rifles. Police tried to use the school's public address system to try to communicate with them. White said at a 3:30 a.m. news conference that the rifles or the backpacks haven't been recovered. Officers had feared the backpacks contained explosives.
- Coloradans Tuesday are wrapping up voting on business-related issues ranging from bans on hydraulic fracturing in four cities to a $950 million tax boost for school funding, from municipal broadband services to taxation of recreational marijuana sales. The statewide mail-in election ends Tuesday. As of Monday, some 848,000 Coloradans had already voted. While it's too late to mail in your ballot, you can still vote Tuesday if you drop off your ballot personally.
- An Aurora man who supervised the Ross Dress for Less distribution pool at a warehouse in northeast Denver is facing felony theft charges after an estimated $125,000 worth of clothing and other items disappeared from the warehouse.
- Denver police say officers arriving at a road rage incident found a suspect with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the hand on Monday afternoon
- In what's become a debate over civil liberties and compliances with a new state law legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, the Denver City Council on Monday floated suggestions on the best ways to regulate the open and public consumption of pot.
- Aurora detectives investigating the kidnapping of an 8-year-old girl matched DNA evidence taken from her clothing to that of the 26-year-old parolee accused of grabbing her from her bedroom window.
- Late on the night before Election Day Denver District Judge Michael Martinez rejected a lawsuit aimed at Colorado's new election law.
- More than $5.1 million has been raised and $2.4 million has been distributed by relief funds less than two months after flooding damaged homes and businesses across Boulder County.
