Saturday Headlines

	Highs	Lows	Saturday Sunshine to start, then a few afternoon clouds. A stray afternoon thunderstorm is possible. High 92F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph. Saturday night A stray thunderstorm is possible through the evening. Some clouds this evening will give way to mainly clear skies overnight. Low 61F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph.
	92° F	61° F
	33 C	16 C
			Sunrise: 5:47 am    Sunset: 8:22 pm    Moonrise: 6:28 pm    Moonset: 3:29 am

• The Colorado Department of Transportation has announced several road closures for this weekend which may impact travel plans. Lasting until 5 a.m. Monday, I-70 will be closed in both directions between I-25 and Federal Blvd. due to bridge construction. Suggested alternative routes are Federal Blvd., I-76, U.S. 6 and U.S. 36.(GC)

• Survivors of mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut gathered with dozens of supporters Friday in a suburban Denver park to honor those killed in the massacre at an Aurora movie theater almost a year to the day after the attack.  Vigil participants read a list of names of those killed in recent gun violence around the nation and talked about the pain of losing loved ones as they called for strict federal gun control laws.  The scene was somber, even as about 100 gun rights activists held a protest nearby to oppose new firearms restrictions as infringements on Second Amendment rights.(AP)

• A judge says a teen accused of killing 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway and also attacking a jogger months earlier will have two trials.  A Jefferson County District Court judge ruled Friday that Austin Sigg will have one trial of charges alleging he kidnapped, killed and dismembered Jessica and one on charges alleging he tried to kidnap a jogger in May. He has pleaded not guilty.  Meanwhile, the judge says jurors who will decide the case against Sigg will be allowed to see evidence that he searched for and accessed websites about child sex abuse, child torture and child dismemberment, a year before Jessica's death. Sigg's attorneys wanted to block the evidence.(AP)

• Four men have been charged with crimes stemming from a beating outside a downtown Denver bar, the first of a series of unrelated violent crimes — including a deadly shooting — that erupted during bar closing time last weekend.(DP)

• The Denver District Attorney's Office has declined to file criminal charges in the case of an attempted home intruder who was shot and killed by the homeowner.(KMGH)

• Denver's Civil Service Commission has upheld a four-day suspension against a police officer for using unnecessary force during the arrest of a shoplifting suspect nearly six years ago.(AP)

• People living in Rist Canyon near the High Park burn area are cleaning up after mudslides left a mess.(Coloradoan)

• A consortium of hotels and the Denver and Colorado hotel and lodging associations are formally petitioning the Colorado Economic Development Commission to reconsider Aurora’s application for a tax subsidy aimed at building a massive hotel-convention center and resort complex near DIA.(DBJ)

• Boulder’s city council is scheduled to vote next week on moving forward to buy — or condemn — Xcel Energy Inc.’s power poles and wires and create a new utility to serve its residents.(DC)

• In a letter to shareholders, Lakewood-based FirstBank Holding Co. reported net income of $78.5 million in the first half of this year, down 4 percent from $81.5 million in the first half of 2012.(DBJ)

• Denver Councilman Chris Herndon is seeking council approval to put a sales tax hike on November's ballot that would pay for college scholarships for the city's students.(DP)
• The Rockies blew another phenomenal outing from Jorge De La Rosa. The Colorado Rockies embarked on a critical 10-game home stand against three of the worst teams in the National League. They lost to the Chicago Cubs 3 - 1.(GC)

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Friday Headlines

	Highs	Lows	Friday Variable clouds with thunderstorms, especially during the afternoon hours. High near 85F. Winds NNE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50%. Friday night A few thunderstorms this evening. Mostly clear skies late. Low 61F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50%.
	85° F	61° F
	29 C	16 C
			Sunrise: 5:46 am    Sunset: 8:23 pm    Moonrise: 5:28 pm    Moonset: 2:29 am

• Lightning injured 12 people Thursday afternoon while thunderstorms created mudslides that damaged structures in northern Colorado.  A lightning strike before 4 p.m. at a farm near Wellington injured eight workers, two of them critically.  Five of those workers took shelter from the storm under, for unknown reasons, a work vehicle, a supervisor for the workers said through a translator. Some workers were taken to Medical Center of the Rockies and others to Poudre Valley Hospital.  Three other people were also treated at those two hospitals for lightning-related injuries.(DP)

• While Denver has become a national leader in how it regulates medical marijuana, an audit released Thursday found serious problems with how the city licenses, tracks and manages the booming medical marijuana industry in the city.  Denver has the most medical marijuana dispensaries in the state — more than the number of liquor stores — but the city's oversight has been "ineffective" and "inefficient" and poses "substantive risks to the city," according to the report.(AP)

• Crews from the Colorado Department of Transportation will be shutting down all lanes of I-70 from Federal Blvd. to I-25 starting at 10 p.m. Friday until Monday morning. They will be overhauling the interchange at Pecos Street. CDOT will demolish the existing Pecos Street bridge and then roll the new bridge into place.  The $18.6 million project is going to look a lot different with modern merge lanes and exit ramps. The entire project was financed by vehicle registration fees.  The best detours around the construction are 6th Avenue and I-76. (GC)

• Two Democratic Colorado state senators who supported gun restrictions won’t appeal a Denver judge’s ruling Thursday refusing to stop recall elections against them, meaning their political fate lies with voters now. (AP)

• A gun-rights group denies it's being insensitive by scheduling a rally in the same park where another group plans to read the names of gun violence victims on the anniversary of the Colorado theater shootings.(KRDO)

• Sheriff's officials say human remains that were found along a Garfield County road last week are that of a woman who disappeared in December 2005.  Sheriff's officials said Thursday that a DNA analysis by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation confirmed the remains were those of Mary Comiskey.(AP)

• A new court filing in the Aurora theater shooting case shows detectives delicately, but persistently, attempted to question suspect James Holmes after his arrest.(DP)

• Loveland Ski Area is already looking forward to opening day this fall thanks to a dusting of snow on Thursday.(GC)

• The judge in the Colorado theater shooting is rescinding an order to bar witnesses from the courtroom during testimony from other witnesses, as he considers prosecutors' request to let alleged victims attend the trial and key hearings(AP)

• Colorado's plans for a comprehensive system to track recreational marijuana from seed until sale won't be quite so comprehensive. Officials from the state Department of Revenue said Thursday the system won't be able to start tracking marijuana weights until after the buds are harvested off the plant.(DP)

• Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. (NYSE: CMG) reported another quarter of steady profits Thursday, and officials of the Denver fast-casual restaurant chain said they have no plans to increase menu prices despite the escalating costs of several key ingredients.(DBJ)

• The teen accused of murdering Jessica Ridgeway appeared in court on Thursday and his mother took the stand with some emotional testimony.(GC)

• A former recycling company executive in Englewood will do prison time for sending electronic waste to China where it was illegally dumped.(AP)

• Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Colorado will add nearly 300 jobs at its Denver operations center as the insurer prepares for growth shortly before 16 million new Americans are expected to become privately insured in 2014.(GC)

• Ana Cabrera, 7News early morning anchor, will depart KMGH for the new CNN Denver bureau — a new domestic bureau that has been a long time coming and which would be a significant addition to the regional news scene.(DP)

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Thursday Headlines

	Highs	Lows	Thursday Some sunshine with a thunderstorm or two possible this afternoon. High 93F. Winds NNW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%. Thursday night Variably cloudy with scattered thunderstorms. Low 64F. Winds NW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
	93° F	64° F
	34 C	18 C
			Sunrise: 5:45 am    Sunset: 8:24 pm    Moonrise: 4:23 pm    Moonset: 1:37 am

• Two Colorado Democratic state senators facing recalls over their support for new gun restrictions argued Wednesday to stop the proceedings, telling a judge the petitions against them are invalid and that no election should be set until judicial review is complete.(AP)

• Two groups will meet at noon Friday at Cherry Creek State Park to mark the first anniversary of the Aurora movie theater massacre — one will remember those killed by guns, the other will rally to support the Second Amendment.(DP)

• Prosecutors in the Colorado theater shooting case say they have received “a voluminous number” of calls from victims who are worried they won’t be able to attend the suspect’s trial or hearings.(AP)

• A 12-year Longmont police veteran has been arrested on suspicion of felony sexual assault.(TC)

• As the Colorado legislature this year raced in its final weeks to get crucial marijuana regulations out the door, money spent on marijuana lobbying came rushing in.  According to state records, advocacy groups on both sides of pot issues spent at least $183,000 on lobbyists in April and May. The money spent on marijuana lobbying in that period — during which the legislature met for a total of 5½ weeks — was more than double the amount of money spent on marijuana lobbying during the legislative session's first three months combined.(DP)

• An assessment by the El Paso County health department has found damage to dozens of wells that supply water to homes in the area burned by the Black Forest Fire in June.(AP)

• A Massachusetts-based company has agreed to purchase a downtown Denver office building for $217 million, a deal that, if closed, would rank as the city's largest commercial purchase in 2013.(DP)

• A citywide spraying of Longmont, an emergency attempt to control the West Nile virus-carrying mosquito population, is to begin at 9 p.m. Thursday.(TC)

• The small town of Deer Trail, Colorado is considering a bold move. The town board will be voting on an ordinance that would create drone hunting licenses and offer bounties for unmanned aerial vehicles.(GC)

• Larimer Humane Society volunteers and board members turned in 18,000 signatures Wednesday on a petition seeking a vote to impose a penny-on-$10 sales tax in Larimer County for a new animal shelter.(Coloradoan)

• Denver just opened the book on its finances. The City and County of Denver launched "Transparent Denver" Wednesday afternoon, a website displaying city finances and information that were before only available through public record requests and deeper digging.(DP)

• Denver Health Medical Center is cutting hundreds of jobs to cut costs. The Denver Post reports the hospital will cut about 300 jobs to reduce personnel expenses by $18 million within 12 months. (GC)

• Boulder has more than tripled the amount of money it plans to set aside for energy efficiency programs and solar rebates in response to criticisms that a municipal utility would not offer the same level of benefits as Xcel Energy.(DC)

• The gas-line break that shut down U.S. 36 in the Broomfield area for several hours on Tuesday is one of hundreds that are expected to occur during the summer months, an Xcel Energy spokesman said.(DC)

• Denver’s FBI office has been certified as an Energy Star building by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency due to efforts to cut the building’s energy use during 2012.(GC)

• A pilot and passenger were able to walk away without serious injuries this afternoon after the plane they were traveling in skidded off a runway during landing at Broomfield's Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport.(DC)

• A federal judge on Wednesday pushed back the trial of a man accused of killing a fellow prisoner after the defense argued that prosecutors have delayed providing documents they need to fight the case.  Senior U.S. District Judge John Kane delayed the death penalty trial of Gary Watland, which had been scheduled to begin on Sept. 4, to a still undetermined date in early February.(DP)

• A former executive at an Englewood electronics recycler that claimed to properly recycle electronic waste but sent it overseas instead was sentenced to 14 months in prison on Wednesday.(DP)

Wednesday Headlines

	Highs	Lows	Wednesday Sunny to partly cloudy. High near 90F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph. Wednesday night Some clouds this evening will give way to mainly clear skies overnight. Low 62F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph.
	90° F	62° F
	32 C	17 C
			Sunrise: 5:45 am    Sunset: 8:24 pm    Moonrise: 3:16 pm    Moonset: 12:52 am

• A former Wheat Ridge woman accused of murdering her roommate appeared before a judge for the first time on Tuesday, months after the roommate went missing.  The judge issued Melissa Miller a cash-only bond of $50,000.  Wheat Ridge police said they believe Miller, who knew Meyer for 20 years, is their only suspect in the case.  Miller faces as much as 48 years in prison. She is scheduled to be back in court next Monday.(KCNC)

• A memorial service was held Tuesday for a Fort Morgan teen whose body was discovered at the end of June. Kayla Chadwick, 17, had been missing for over a year.  The cause of death is unknown, and no one has been charged with the crime.  Chadwick disappeared in March 2012 after an argument with her 19-year-old boyfriend Ivan Torralba. Torralba was arrested in June on a parole violation. He was already out on bond on perjury charges related to Chadwick's disappearance.(KUSA)

• A retired Weld County Sheriff's deputy, who still worked part time for the department, was arrested Tuesday after a standoff with SWAT.  Ed Herring, the retired deputy, was reported to authorities for alleged domestic violence, according to a news release from the sheriff's office.  Herring was not cooperative with officers and barricaded himself inside his residence, the release states.  Weld County SWAT was deployed and Herring was eventually taken into custody after a brief standoff.(DP)

• The weekend closure of Interstate 70 near Pecos Street will still cause plenty of problems for motorists.  To prepare commuters for the shutdown, the Colorado Department of Transportation has made numerous online and smart-phone tools available including CDOT Mobile, 511 and cotrip.org.  But mostly, "we strongly encourage motorists to start planning their trips accordingly," project engineer Tamara Hunter-Maurer said.  Starting at 10 p.m. Friday, and continuing until 5 a.m. Monday, crews will close both directions of I-70 between Interstate 25 and Federal Boulevard for major bridge work .  Specifically, CDOT will demolish the existing Pecos Street bridge over I-70 and roll-in the new 2,400-ton Pecos Street bridge into its final configuration.(DP)

• The Boulder County Sheriff's Office Tuesday  afternoon lifted a fire ban that previously applied to a vast portion of the county's western foothills.(GC)

• Police in Lakewood have taken a man into custody who is the suspect in as many as six attempted carjackings on Tuesday afternoon.  According to police the suspect was successful in at least two carjackings.  Officer caught up with the man, identified as Shane Edward Corp, 38, at the main reservoir located at Kipling and Florida.  The incident may have initially started in Denver with a pursuit.(KCNC)

• A grand jury in Wise County, Texas declined to indict a pair of sheriff's deputies who fatally shot Evan Ebel, the man suspected of killing Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements, in March(DP)

• Colorado added about 52,400 jobs from May 2012 to May 2013, putting the state on track to have a higher-than-expected 2.5 percent job growth rate this year(DBJ)

• The head of Colorado Parks and Wildlife is leaving state government to become a vice president of natural resources and conservation for Vail Resorts Inc. (DP)

• Ardent Mills, the new flour milling joint venture of ConAgra Foods Inc., Cargill and CHS Inc., has chosen the Denver area for its headquarters, beating out the Kansas City, Minneapolis and Omaha, Neb., areas.(DBJ)

• The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft is about to leave Jefferson County and head to Cape Canaveral where it will be launched toward Mars in November(AP)

• Air Force Academy spending plunged by 21.1 percent in 2012 as the military scaled back across all branches.(AP)

• A Boulder District judge sentenced a 65-year-old Longmont woman on Tuesday to two years in prison for escaping from a jail work release sentence and felony theft from a bank.(TC)

• Lafayette has become the second community in Boulder County to test positive for West Nile Virus and will use a ground-based adulticide against the mosquitoes at Waneka Lake Park on Wednesday night in an effort to combat the potentially deadly disease.(DC)

• Here’s a statistic you weren’t expecting: Colorado and its lack of oceanfront ranked 11th in the U.S. in 2012 in cruise industry expenditures, totaling $413 million in direct spending, according to a study released Tuesday.(DBJ)

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Tuesday Headlines

	Highs	Lows	Tuesday Sunny. High around 85F. Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph. Tuesday night Mainly clear skies. Low 58F. Winds S at 15 to 25 mph.
	85° F	58° F
	29 C	14 C
			Sunrise: 5:44 am    Sunset: 8:25 pm    Moonrise: 2:09 pm    Moonset: 12:14 am

• State auditors on Monday faulted the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment for its oversight of the state's medical marijuana patient registry, pointing to lax regulation of physicians, unnecessarily high fees and a failure to oversee caregivers.(GC)

• Wheat Ridge police have confirmed  that they have arrested the former roommate of Leann “Annie” Meyer in connection with her death.  Melissa Miller, 54, of Lakewood, was taken into custody Monday afternoon.  Meyer’s body was found in Park County on July 4 and the remains were identified on last Monday.(AP)

• Denver Mayor Michael Hancock used his second State of the City address to lay out an ambitious but somewhat vague plan to increase entrepreneurship and foreign business interest in the Mile High City while continuing to cut down on homelessness and a shortage of lower-income housing.(DBJ)

• Insurers estimate that the recent wildfire in Colorado Springs caused nearly $300 million in damage. The Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association released an estimate from the Black Forest Fire Monday.(KRDO)

• The Denver Broncos have suspended two executives who are facing drunken driving charges. Director of player personnel Matt Russell was suspended indefinitely without pay Monday, and director of pro personnel Tom Heckert was suspended for a month without pay.(GC)

• A statewide grand jury has indicted Robert Allen Zickefoose on seven counts of securities fraud and theft related to allegations of unregistered oil and gas investments, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced Monday.(DBJ)

• The owners of about 10,900 properties in unincorporated Boulder County's rural residential subdivisions are getting letters explaining the county's latest proposals for rehabilitating those subdivisions' crumbling roadways.  The county has to figure out how to pay the projected $50 million to $70 million cost of repairing, repaving and reconstructing approximately 150 miles of paved roads in nearly 120 subdivisions.  One option is to form a permanent property-tax-supported public improvement district (PID) to fix the subdivision roads within 15 years, then try to keep them in good condition.(TC)

• A former Loveland teacher from Fort Collins is getting deported to the United Kingdom after pleading guilty to sexually exploiting a 17-year-old female student.(Coloradoan)

• The man accused of murdering and dismembering his mother pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity on Monday.  Investigators in Arapahoe County said Ari Misha Liggett, 24, poisoned his mother, Beverly Liggett, in their home in Centennial last October. Then they believe he cut up her body.  Liggett told investigators his mother had recently left him out of her will. He originally told the interviewing officers he had found his mother dead in the living room after she committed suicide.(KCNC)

• Police are now looking for a silver BMW after its driver lost officers during a high-speed chase in Longmont on Monday afternoon.  The Daily Camera reports that speeds reached 100 mph during the chase.  At about 12:10 p.m., Longmont Police responded to a report that shots were fired near 18 Ash Court. Officers showed up and found no shots were fired but there had been a fight about a car involving firearms.  The firearms were used to assault a person at the address.(TC)

• No charges will be filed against a motorist involved in an accident that injured a Boulder triathlete after an investigation revealed the driver had stopped to avoid another car and not because of road rage,(DC)

• Boulder plans to use about 300 goats over the next couple of months to control invasive weeds on city property(DC)

• The Arvada City Council approved a proposal for a new Wal-Mart Tuesday morning. A public hearing began at 7 p.m. Monday and went past midnight.(DP)

• A large high-pressure system over the eastern part of the country is keeping a low-pressure system over Texas from progressing, which is creating the storms in Colorado, said Kari Bowen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boulder.(GC)
  
  
  
  
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Monday Headlines

	Highs	Lows	Monday Showers and a possible thunderstorm during the morning will give way to partly cloudy skies this afternoon. High 81F. Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 60%. Monday night Some clouds this evening will give way to mainly clear skies overnight. Low 56F. Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph.
	81° F	56° F
	27 C	13 C
			Sunrise: 5:43 am    Sunset: 8:26 pm    Moonrise: 1:04 pm    Moonset: 12:01 am

• The Air Force has identified an airman killed in a shooting near several LoDo nightclubs early Saturday morning.  Airman 1st Class Shaquille Hargrove, 19, was a satellite systems operator stationed at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora, the Air Force said in a media release Sunday. He was pronounced dead at 2:28 a.m. after a large fight at 15th and Market streets in which multiple shots were fired, the Denver Police Department reported. (GC)

• Buckley Air Force Base officials have issued a mandate forbidding 460th Space Wing personnel from going near a Denver intersection where one member was shot and killed Saturday(AP)

• Several hundred people rallied in Denver on Sunday to protest the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the Florida man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin.  The rally in front of the Martin Luther King memorial in City Park was attended  by members of the Greater Metro Denver Ministerial Alliance, local officials, and activists. (GC)

• State Sen. Greg Brophy held a rally on Sunday to announce that he is the latest Republican joining the race for governor.  Brophy said he’s confident that he will be able to challenge Gov. John Hickenlooper, who had to deal with some difficult and divisive decisions the last legislative session. (AP)

• James L. Voss, namesake of Colorado State University's Veterinary Teaching Hospital, died on Friday at a Fort Collins nursing facility, the university said in a statement Sunday.(DP)

• A Leadville man who was being detained at Summit County Jail died of apparent cardiac arrest while deputies were trying to stop him from harming himself Saturday afternoon, Summit County Sheriff’s Office reported.  Zackary Dean Moffitt, 33, was being held on an outstanding warrant and for violation of a civil protection order out of Lake County.(GC)

• The University of Colorado Board of Regents is scheduled to meet this week to discuss how to prioritize academic programs.(KMGH)

• Greg Zanis, the carpenter who last year erected 12 crosses in honor of the victims of the Aurora movie theater shootings, said he will return to Aurora to put up 12 crosses again on the tragedy's one-year anniversary.(DP)

• A woman gave birth to a baby boy inside the Cañon City Walmart bathroom Saturday afternoon, a manager at the store confirmed.(DP)

• Sections of the Poudre River through Fort Collins are expected to look more like construction zones than natural areas during the next few years.  Fort Collins officials are planning a series of projects aimed at improving the river’s ecological health and recreational opportunities. Highly visible work is expected to be done at city-owned natural areas from the North Shields Ponds to Arapaho Bend near Interstate 25.(Coloradoan)

• It's been two months since Longmont began refilling Union Reservoir, taking advantage of a snowy April that led to strong runoffs in May. The water in the popular recreational lake has now hit 10,500 acre-feet, 500 more than the city expected to see.(TC)

• The Broncos and star left tackle Ryan Clady agreed Sunday to a five-year, $52.5 million contract, with $33 million guaranteed over the first three years.(GC)

• Michael Cuddyer hit a two-run homer and drove in another run to help the Colorado Rockies defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-1 Sunday in the teams' last game before the All-Star break. (GC)

Sunday Headlines

Highs	Lows	Sunday Variable clouds with thunderstorms, especially during the afternoon hours. High 83F. Winds NNE at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 60%. Sunday night Scattered showers and thunderstorms, especially during the evening. Low 61F. Winds NE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 60%.
83° F	61° F
28 C	16 C
		Sunrise: 5:42 am    Sunset: 8:26 pm    Moonrise: 12:00 pm    Moonset: 11:40 pm

• Severe weather caused flooding across the Denver metro area Saturday afternoon and evening.  Lakewood police said Union Boulevard had to be closed between 6th and Alameda for flooding. A dispatcher told CBS4 there were “floating cars.”  Denver firefighters responded to a stalled car at Dahlia Street and 39th in water. A woman had to be rescued from her car.(KCNC)

• Very heavy rain is again in the forecast Sunday afternoon and evening for many areas in the state - from the mountains to the Front Range, Denver Metro Area, and eastern plains.  There will again be watches for potential flooding Sunday afternoon and evening for many areas in Colorado.(GC)

• Boot camps, yoga, jogging groups– people love working out in Colorado’s city parks, but now workout groups might have to pay to break a sweat in a park.  Next week Denver City Council will discuss fees for fitness classes who use city parks.  City council is considering adopting a permit and fee structure. Under it the cost for one 90-minute session would range from $4.50 to $32.50 depending on the park, season and time of day for groups of 25 people or less.(GC)

• A 59-year-old man is in police custody after allegedly stalking a teenage girl in Denver.  The Denver district attorney’s office says Douglas Margel was driving near 26th and Hazel when he asked the 13-year-old if she wanted a ride. He later passed by allegedly demanding the girl get in the car. The girl was able to get home.  Police said it wasn’t the first time she says the man approached her — the same thing happened two weeks earlier.  Margel’s bail is set at $5,000.(KCNC)

• A man convicted of kidnapping and raping a 12-year-old girl in Colorado Springs has been sentenced to 224 years to life in prison(KRDO)

• The city of Boulder is appealing a judge's decision to strike down an ordinance that banned the use of language that can provoke a disorderly response.(AP)

• In Larimer County nearly 9,000 delinquent property tax statements for the property tax year 2012, payable in 2013, will hit mailboxes this week.  Interest on late payments increases at a rate of 1 percent each month. Taxes were due April 30 if paying in full and June 15 if paying in installments.(GC)

• Police haven’t named any suspects in the death of Fort Morgan teenager Kayla Chadwick who went missing 16 months ago, but they are focusing on her former boyfriend and his mother.(KCNC)

• The Boulder County Farmers' Markets are in need of a new executive director for the second time in two seasons, after officials with the markets this week announced that the board of directors "made the decision to release Shanan Olson from her responsibilities.(GC)

• After some lean recession years, this year Colorado lawmakers were swimming in cash - a $1.1 billion pool of unspent dollars over what budget forecasters had predicted.  The problem was what to do with the cash but that's a good problem to have and the Democrats who control the statehouse proffered up some big line items for the 2013-14 fiscal year.(Gazette)

• One Buckley Air Force Base airman was shot and killed and another was injured during a melee involving numerous people in LoDo that broke out just as bars closed Saturday morning, officials say.(DP)

• AT&T Inc. is paying $1.9 billion to buy Leap Wireless, the San Diego-based provider of Cricket pre-paid mobile phone service, which bases a large portion of its operations in the Denver area.(GC)

• The deadly shooting of a would-be intruder in southeast Denver last week was the first documented case in more than a year in which a city dweller defended himself with a gun during a home invasion.(DP)

• Rockies right-hander Tyler Chatwood was terrific, but Dodgers right-hander Zack Grienke was almost perfect.  The Rockies lost 1-0 Saturday night.(GC)

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