Saturday Headlines 6/15

Saturday
	Highs	Lows	Saturday Mostly sunny early then increasing clouds with some scattered thunderstorms this afternoon. A few storms may be severe. High 83F. Winds NE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 40%. Saturday night Widely scattered showers or a thunderstorm this evening. Then partly cloudy. A few storms may be severe. Low 56F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
	83° F	56° F
	28 C	13 C
			Sunrise: 5:30 am    Sunset: 8:29 pm    Moonrise: 12:06 pm    Moonset: 12:06 am

• Fire officials leading the battle against the Black Forest Fire say they are beginning to see some hopeful signs as they work to contain the blaze. Some mandatory evacuations were lifted Friday afternoon. A total of 473 homes were destroyed and 15 were a partial loss. The fire was 30 percent contained Friday afternoon.

• Twelve Colorado counties qualify for federal disaster relief because of drought conditions.

• The 353-acre Big Meadows fire burning on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park is threatening some Front Range water supplies.

• The once-promising Nuggets continue to come apart at the seams. Andre Iguodala will opt out of the final year of his contract and test the market as a free agent.

• Denver will be host to the Clinton Global Initiative America in June 2014 and 2015, attracting the county's top thinkers and famous faces in business, government and philanthropy, its local organizers announced Friday afternoon.

• Former Memphis Grizzlies coach Lionel Hollins will interview Saturday with the Nuggets for their coaching vacancy, an NBA source confirmed Friday.

• The Denver Zoo is welcoming the birth of an endangered, female Grevy's zebra.

• Residents who are concerned about fracking in Broomfield will circulate a petition that calls for a five-year ban on the oil and gas drilling practice.

• A federal judge has sentenced a Larimer County jail inmate to seven years in prison for threatening President Barack Obama and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and spitting in the face of an FBI agent.

• Metro Denver Crime Stoppers has unveiled two billboards seeking information about a March hit-and-run that killed two young brothers.

• The Denver District Attorney cleared two Denver police officers Monday who shot a knife-wielding teenager

• Officials say one person was taken into custody following a "possible security threat" on a Denver-bound flight.

• Just 40 percent of Colorado voters said in a poll out Friday they believe Sen. Mark Udall deserves to win his re-election bid next year and only 45 percent believe in the job he's doing — even though the first-term senator doesn't have an opponent yet

• Freddy Galvis hit a pair of two-run triples and Jimmy Rollins delivered the go-ahead single as a pinch-hitter in the Phillies' 8-7 win against the Rockies on Friday night at Coors Field.

• Smoke from the Black Forest Fire and the summer heat are making it difficult to breathe while outdoors, sending many inside for entertainment.
  
  

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Friday 6/14

Friday
	Highs	Lows	Friday Sunshine and clouds mixed. A stray afternoon thunderstorm is possible. High 91F. NNW winds shifting to E at 10 to 20 mph. Friday night A stray thunderstorm is possible through the evening. Some clouds this evening will give way to mainly clear skies overnight. Low 56F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
	91° F	56° F
	33 C	13 C
			Sunrise: 5:30 am    Sunset: 8:28 pm    Moonrise: 11:07 am    Moonset: 12:01 am

Bodies found in most destructive Colorado forest fire


The most destructive fire in the US state of Colorado is burning out of control and heading toward the state's second largest city, Colorado Springs, where mandatory evacuations began Thursday afternoon. Fire officials confirmed Thursday evening they have recovered two bodies in the blaze that has claimed a record 360 houses and consumed 15,700 acres of land. The fire is "extremely aggressive and moving quickly" due to shifting, high winds and extremely dry conditions. Its destructive level has surpassed last June's Waldo Canyon fire that burned 379 houses and killed two people.

Defense may withdraw insanity plea for James Holmes

Lawyers for Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes say they might withdraw his plea of not guilty by reason of insanity after they see the results of his mental evaluation. The defense made the statement in a motion filed Tuesday. The motion did not say what plea Holmes would enter if he decides to change, but their only other choices are guilty or not guilty, said attorney Dan Recht, a past president of the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar. Nor did the motion indicate what kind of a result would cause the defense to drop the insanity plea, but presumably it would be a finding that Holmes is sane.

High winds divert almost 2 dozen flights headed to Denver International Airport

High winds have diverted 23 flights that were scheduled to land at Denver International Airport. Airport officials say winds up to 48 mph Thursday night diverted the flights to other airports, but the planes were returning to Denver once they refuelled . The airport averages about 1,700 flights per day. The Denver Post reports that on Wednesday evening, as smoke from fires around the state reduced visibility, the airport closed two of four runways and briefly trimmed the number of arrivals and departures it was handling.

Charges filed against Longmont kidnapping suspect

The Boulder District Attorney's Office on Thursday filed 16 charges — including 12 felonies
against a man accused of fleeing to Canada with his son after attacking the boy's mother with pepper spray and a stun gun at her home in Longmont.

Parolee Evan Ebel had 'hit list' that included Tom Clements, others in DOC

The Colorado parolee accused of killing corrections chief Tom Clements was working from a hit list that also named ex-Parole Director Tim Hand and two other corrections employees, The Denver Post reported Thursday night.  "Evan Ebel killed Clements and (Denver tech professional Nate Leon), but there were a lot of other people who had their fingerprints all over this," said Hand, DOC’s former division director over parole, community corrections and the Youthful Offender System. "This is big time. This is a bunch of 211 Crew members who were doing this. It wasn’t Ebel working alone."

Rockies lose Tulo and to Nationals 5-4

Outfielders Carlos Gonzalez and Dexter Fowler left with foot and hand injuries, respectively, and shortstop Troy Tulowitzki exited with what MLB.com is reporting to be a broken rib on his right side. He is expected to miss 4- to-6 weeks.