@Denverheadlines Friday

	Highs	Lows	Friday Mostly sunny skies this morning. Scattered showers and thunderstorms developing during the afternoon. High 84F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40%. Friday night Isolated thunderstorms early, then partly cloudy after midnight. Low around 60F. Winds SSE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
	84° F	60° F
	29 C	16 C
			Sunrise: 5:52 am    Sunset: 8:17 pm    Moonrise: 10:34 pm    Moonset: 10:31 am

• When first-of-their-kind stores selling recreational marijuana are allowed to open in January, they look increasingly likely to be confined to only a handful of communities in the state. Dozens of Colorado cities and counties have in recent weeks voted to ban the stores — and their sibling cultivation and marijuana-infused products businesses.  That leaves only about 20 cities and counties likely to start accepting applications for recreational marijuana stores later this year and to allow the stores to open as early as Jan. 1, according to advocates. Of the 10 largest cities in Colorado, only Denver looks likely to initially allow pot shops.

• The alleged sexual assault that spurred a federal investigation into the University of Colorado at Boulder was reported to police nearly four months after it occurred, according to a Boulder police report.

• Denver Parks and Recreation joined forces with the Police Department to install 14 security cameras in Civic Center, which has been a hub for drug deals and related crimes.  "They're installed for crime suppression," Denver police Sgt. Brian Kimberly said. "Civic Center park, for quite some time, has been plagued with some crime problems. We already had some cameras monitoring the park, and Parks and Rec came to us and asked about a few more."  The Parks and Recreation-funded cameras were installed this week, adding to the five cameras already used to observe the park near the Denver City and County Building. When the cameras come online — likely next week — they will be monitored by Denver police.

• A federal judge on Thursday allowed the release of a Littleton police officer charged with buying $1,300 worth of Ecstasy as long as he submits to home monitoring and drug or mental health treatment.  

• A soldier from Colorado Springs was one of three killed in an Afghanistan attack, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday. Spc. Rob L. Nichols, 24, died Tuesday when an insurgent's bomb detonated near Soltan Kheyl, Afghanistan, a town southwest of the Afghan capital of Kabul.

• The murder case against a 23-year-old man accused of stabbing five people to death at a Denver bar "cries for the death penalty," Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey said Thursday.  Prosecutors announced they will seek the death penalty against Dexter Lewis, who faces 16 counts in the Oct. 17 attack at Fero's Bar and Grill. The charges include multiple counts of first-degree murder, felony murder, robbery and arson.

• An Adams County man has been charged with criminal conduct after more than 100 dogs were seized from his Watkins home earlier this month.  Richard Pilicer, 63, was charged this week with 13 counts of criminally negligent animal cruelty.  Authorities retrieved 118 Havanese dogs from his home July 7, according to the Adams County and Broomfield District Attorney's Office.  The Denver Dumb Friends League's investigations team assisted the Adams County Sheriff's Office, Adams County Animal Control and the Adams County Animal Shelter in removing the dogs from the residence.

• An attorney turned whistle-blower at Colorado's second-largest foreclosure law firm has detailed to state investigators a pattern of abuses that stretch beyond the scope of their investigation into alleged overbilling practices

• An arrest warrant has been issued for the wife of TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman after she was accused of verbally harassing a Colorado teenager.

• The Rockies lost to the Marlins...again.  It’s football season.

@Denverheadlines Thursday

	Highs	Lows	Thursday Variable clouds with thunderstorms, especially during the afternoon hours. High 86F. Winds NW at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 40%. Thursday night Isolated thunderstorms this evening, then skies turning partly cloudy after midnight. Low 58F. NNW winds shifting to SSW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
	86° F	58° F
	30 C	14 C
			Sunrise: 5:51 am    Sunset: 8:18 pm    Moonrise: 10:01 pm    Moonset: 9:24 am

• In an email sent to students, faculty and staff, the University of Colorado Boulder says that it is under federal investigation over the way it handled a female student's report of a sexual assault.

• A 2-year-old girl is still on life support after her head was trapped between the window and door frame of an SUV Tuesday evening.  The girl's mother left five children between the ages of 10 months and 10 years old alone in the red SUV for 10 to 15 minutes, according to police.

• Boulder took a major step toward forming a city utility Wednesday night when the City Council voted 6-3 that the utility meets the charter requirements and that the city should begin negotiations to acquire Xcel Energy's distribution system.

• By Friday, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey must decide whether to ask a jury to consider the death penalty for a 23-year-old man accused of stabbing five people to death at a Denver bar in October. A decision to proceed would be the first time since 2001 that Denver prosecutors even have sought the death penalty.

• Organizers have canceled a gun buyback at the request of Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle, who said Colorado's new gun laws would make the Aug. 4 event nearly impossible to stage.  A stricter law that went into effect July 1 requires buyers to go to a licensed firearms dealer and undergo a background check. The InstaCheck systems used in the checks are not mobile, which means they couldn't be used at the sheriff's compound where the buyback was planned.

• Police cited a Greeley couple with disorderly conduct, after a brawl at a little league baseball game.  Witnesses said the profanity-laced ballpark tirade in front of 10-year-old boys escalated when Jammie Dyer, James Dyer's wife, grabbed the cell phone of a woman taking video of it all.
• Denver Public Schools will receive $10 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to bolster its teacher evaluation system.

• Two men sickened in the 2011 cantaloupe listeria outbreak have died, two years after the national scare was linked to melons grown on a Colorado farm.  

• By charging up to six times the market rate for serving foreclosure notices on property owners, Colorado's second-largest foreclosure law firm generated millions of dollars in profits on the backs of homeowners and taxpayers, according to a state attorney-general lawsuit.

• Three times in the last four years, the city has been forced to close the swim beach at Boulder Reservoir due to elevated levels of the E. coli bacteria.

• A Colorado State University student faces charges after a man showering in the campus recreation center was secretly videotaped while he showered.

• In Colorado Springs a man was accidentally burned Wednesday when he caused a fire apparently while trying to extract THC by using a heating process, police said.  The Associated Press reported that a woman also was burned, although less severely.  Police said the burn victim may have been running a substance through pipes to extract THC, the active component of marijuana, and started a fire.

@Denverheadlines Wednesday

	Highs	Lows	Wednesday Mixed clouds and sun this morning. Scattered thunderstorms developing this afternoon. High around 85F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40%. Wednesday night Scattered thunderstorms early, then partly cloudy after midnight. Low 62F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
	85° F	62° F
	29 C	17 C
			Sunrise: 5:50 am    Sunset: 8:19 pm    Moonrise: 9:27 pm    Moonset: 8:14 am

• The driver of a moving van has been issued a summons after hitting and killing a cyclist.  Donald Schaefer, 83, died at the scene, near 6th and Garrison In Lakewood.  Schaefer was riding a recumbent cycle, and police say the driver of the truck turned off Garrison onto the ramp to 6th.  Investigators do not believe drugs or alcohol were involved.(DP)

• The city analysis that shows Boulder can create a municipal utility that is less polluting and cheaper than Xcel Energy was endorsed Tuesday by an independent evaluation commissioned by the city.(DC)

• The Colorado Springs City Council decided Tuesday that the city will opt out of having retail marijuana sales, taking advantage of a provision in a state ballot measure.(KRDO)

• Two of Colorado's most prominent Republicans pushed varying messages Tuesday on how to achieve comprehensive immigration reform to a House subcommittee — a rift that exemplifies the uphill battle the issue has in getting accomplished before the end of the year.(DP)

• A train derailed Tuesday morning and went crashing through a building in the 4400 block of Sherman Street in Denver.(GC)

• Denver authorities have arrested a 53-year-old Pennsylvania man in the rape and murder of a woman in a group home for mentally disabled people in 1981.(DP)

• Jurors hearing a lawsuit against a former Denver Sheriff's deputy watched video of the deputy manhandling and appearing to stomp a homeless man who was being moved to another cell.(DP)

• The city of Lafayette and the town of Erie both announced contractors will be conducting mosquito sprays Wednesday night in response to mosquitoes in several areas of the county testing positive for West Nile virus.(GC)

• A long line of residents confronted the Longmont City Council on Tuesday about the recent citywide mosquito sprays, arguing that the risk from the chemicals was greater than any from West Nile virus.(GC)

• Loveland's city clerk Tuesday said an anti-fracking group has collected enough signatures to place a two-year ban of in-town hydraulic fracturing on the fall ballot, the day after the planning commission recommended changes to zoning rules to allow building within buffer zones around oil and gas facilities.(DP)

• The staff of the Denver Zoo is mourning the loss of a lion to cancer for the second time in a little over a month and the third time this year.(DP)

• A son lost his father to a motorcycle crash Tuesday afternoon as they were driving their Harley-Davidsons up a switchback, and the father lost control on a hairpin curve, according to Colorado State Patrol.(Coloradoan)

• The Colorado Department of Transportation today announced there will be no more daytime closures along the Diagonal Highway as crews continue the ongoing construction projects at Niwot and Jay roads.(DC)

• Colorado ranks eighth in the nation for solar power generated per capita, but the state still should do more to increase the solar power it produces, a new report says.(DBJ)

• Rookie Jose Fernandez tossed seven strong innings and Christian Yelich went 3 for 4 with two RBIs in his major league debut, lifting the Miami Marlins to a 4-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night.(GC)
  
  
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@Denverheadlines Tuesday

	Highs	Lows	Tuesday Sunshine and clouds mixed. Hot. High near 95F. WNW winds shifting to NE at 10 to 15 mph. Tuesday night A stray thunderstorm is possible through the evening. Partly cloudy skies. Low 63F. Winds SE at 10 to 15 mph.
	95° F	63° F
	35 C	17 C
			Sunrise: 5:50 am    Sunset: 8:20 pm    Moonrise: 8:50 pm    Moonset: 7:01 am

• A longtime Littleton police officer is facing federal drug charges.  The U.S. Attorney's Office says Jeffery Johnston was arrested at his home in Parker on Friday.  Johnston was advised Monday that he faces charges of possession of Ecstasy with intent to distribute; maintaining a drug-involved premises; possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; and using a telephone to facilitate a drug trafficking felony.  Prosecutors say Johnston was arrested after allegedly buying Ecstasy from an FBI informant Friday. The affidavit says a search of Johnston's home turned up suspected cocaine and steroids.(AP)

• Von Miller, considered the most dominant player on the Denver Broncos' defense, will be suspended for the first four games of the 2013 season, pending an appeal, for violating the NFL drug policy, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation.(GC)

• The Colorado Lottery's award of a $62 million contract to an overseas company has raised questions about whether the state's selection process was fair and reignited criticism that the lottery is poorly managed.(DC)

• Colorado's second-largest city is poised to ban recreational marijuana stores.  The Colorado Springs City Council planned to vote Tuesday on allowing retail marijuana stores. Four of nine council members have said they'll vote against retail pot, and even if the sales are approved, Mayor Steve Bach says he'll veto recreational pot shops.(DP)

• Eight men were arrested Friday at an Aurora hotel in a case involving an alleged child prostitute.  The suspects went to the hotel to have sex with a 17-year-old, according to an Arapahoe County District Attorney's Office media release.  The arrests were made based on an investigation by the Aurora Police Department and Denver's FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets/Innocence Lost Task Force.(DP)

• The Colorado National Guard will be conducting large-scale, multi-agency emergency exercises in Colorado Springs and the Denver metro area this week.(GC)

• The University of Colorado says it raised a record $258.8 million during the past fiscal year, which is up 13 percent from the previous record set a year ago.(DC)

• Weld County's commissioners will give the public four opportunities to provide feedback on the recent idea of creating a 51st state out of northeastern Colorado.(DP)

• The Denver City Council on Monday is expected to agree to pay $75,000in liability claims in a move to settle with a woman who waged sexual harassment allegations against a former staffer and close friend to Mayor Michael Hancock.(DP)

• Investigators continue to work Monday on a weekend hit-and-run traffic incident in Lakewood that killed a teenager.(GC)

• For the 100th time, the Denver Cold Case Project has used DNA evidence to close a case that had previously been unsolved.(KMGH)

• Doctors who examined the body of Evan Ebel, suspected of killing Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements and Denver pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon, found anti-anxiety medication in his system but no evidence of harder drugs, according to an autopsy report.(DP)
• A Boulder company has developed a free app for smartphones to provide avalanche-safety tools that can help save the lives of hikers and skiers in Colorado's backcountry.(KRDO)

• The city of Longmont conducted a second round of citywide mosquito spraying to combat West Nile, after the virus was found in a high number of mosquito pools.(KMGH)

• Drew Pomeranz struggled once again an the Rockies lost 3 - 1 to the Marlins last night.(GC)

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Monday Headlines

	Highs	Lows	Monday Sunny to partly cloudy. Hot. High 96F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph. Monday night Partly cloudy skies. Low 62F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
	96° F	62° F
	36 C	17 C
			Sunrise: 5:49 am    Sunset: 8:21 pm    Moonrise: 8:09 pm    Moonset: 5:48 am

• Police are investigating whether alcohol was a cause in a head on accident in  Aurora that left four people injured Sunday morning.(GC)

• Xcel has laid out a list of new programs it says it will implement in response to #Boulder’s attempt to start a municipal utility.(DC)

• Interstate 70 has reopened ahead of schedule after a new bridge spanning the highway at Pecos Street was moved to its final location Saturday night.(GC)

• Eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 have reopened at York Street after a semi-truck rolled over and caught fire at about 9:30 pm Sunday night.(GC)

• Lane closures are planned this week on Interstate 25 near Wellington and the Wyoming border.(GC)

• The builder of Colorado's troubled Veterans Affairs hospital says overruns bring the cost above $1 billion, far higher than the red ink already acknowledged, and has asked for the right to quit the project.(DP)

• Rescue crews have recovered the body of a man who fell 200 to 300 feet while descending Capitol Peak west of Aspen, Colo.  The Pitkin County sheriff's office says Ryan Joseph Palmer, of Vail, decided to climb down the north face of the peak Friday instead of crossing the exposed "knife edge" route again. The sheriff's office says search and rescue crews found Palmer's body at the base of the north face just after 2 p.m. Saturday. The body was recovered Sunday.  Capitol Peak rises to an elevation of 14,130 feet.(AP)

• Boy Scout camp damaged in East Peak fire will be rebuilt for 2014.  Boy Scouts were among the first to spot the East Peak fire west of Walsenburg in southern Colorado, but being so close to the point of origin sealed the fate of the 480-acre Spanish Peaks Scout Ranch.  The fire burned as much as 80 percent of the camp's trees, consumed several buildings and caused plumbing and electrical wiring to become defective in other structures.(DP)

• Colorado Springs police reported Saturday night that a Colorado Springs couple discovered a partially decomposed body in their backyard when they returned from a 12-day vacation.(AP)

• A 61-year-old arts marketing consultant from Colorado Springs died after a medical crisis Saturday during the first day of the Courage Classic bicycle tour.(DP)

• An offensive against the Russian olive tree - an invasive species that chokes out native cottonwoods and willows - has been launched by Denver, Lakewood, Englewood, Colorado Heights and the Fort Logan National Cemetery.(GC)

• Investigators won't rule out alcohol as a factor in a crash that sent a woman to the hospital Sunday on Colorado Springs west side. It happened around 7:45 p.m. at the intersection of Colorado Ave. and Walnut St. Police said a car rear-ended a motorcycle ejecting the woman on the bike. Police have not identified her but say she is white and 40 years old. She was not wearing a helmet and suffered a serious head injury. (KRDO)

• Cadets from the Air Force Academy spent much of Sunday helping to restore the Waldo Canyon burn area.  A total of 14 cadets volunteered on the project to start restoration on the fire that started in June 2012 and burned 18,247 acres and 346 homes.  The crews worked with the Rocky Mountain Field Institute to prevent erosion like mudslides and flooding in the burn area.(KRDO)

• After a year of deflecting accusations of questionable and unethical budget practices, Adams 12 Five Star Schools officials say they are changing the way they develop district budgets.(DP)

• John Hickenlooper was sworn in as Denver mayor 10 years ago today,on July 21, 2003.(GC)

• After hitting the ball hard and coming up empty in recent games, Nolan Arenado finally got one to drop.  Tyler Chatwood pitched six strong innings, Arenado snapped an 0-for-18 skid with a go-ahead single and the Colorado Rockies beat the Chicago Cubs 4-3 on Sunday to win the three-game series.(ESPN)
  
  
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Sunday Headlines

	Highs	Lows	Sunday Sunshine and a few afternoon clouds. A stray afternoon thunderstorm is possible. High near 95F. WNW winds shifting to NNE at 10 to 20 mph. Sunday night A stray thunderstorm is possible through the evening. Partly cloudy skies. Low 62F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
	95° F	62° F
	35 C	17 C
			Sunrise: 5:48 am    Sunset: 8:22 pm    Moonrise: 7:22 pm    Moonset: 4:36 am

• Some recited the names of the dead. Some did good deeds for their neighbors. And some practiced yoga, walked through nature or simply talked.  Coloradans embraced ways to heal Saturday as they marked the anniversary of the Aurora movie theater massacre with a city-sponsored “Day of Remembrance.”  It was one year ago that a gunman opened fire into a packed midnight screening of the Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises.” The rampage lasted less than two minutes but left deep wounds that still ache in Aurora, Colorado’s third-largest city, which spreads out across the rolling plains on Denver’s eastern side.(Coloradoan)

• Two people injured in the theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., one year ago marked the anniversary Saturday afternoon by getting married.(AP)

• People driving across Denver are reminded to stay off of Interstate 70 if possible to avoid potentially long delays throughout the weekend as the Pecos Street bridge project goes forward.  I-70 should reopen by 5am Monday morning.(GC)

• Colorado Springs and Grand Junction have a ways to go before getting back jobs lost during the Great Recession.  The Gazette reported Saturday that the Colorado Springs area has recovered about two-thirds of the nearly 14,000 jobs it lost during the recession. The newspaper cited a U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report as saying the area has 4,800 fewer jobs than in May 2008.The Grand Junction area has recovered just a quarter of the 7,000 jobs it lost during the recession.(GC)

• People who fire guns at drones are endangering the public and property and could be prosecuted or fined, the Federal Aviation Administration warned Friday.(AP)

• Supporters of Colorado Sen. President John Morse said Saturday they will ask for a criminal investigation into "suspicious" signatures on Morse's recall petitions.(DP)

• Sherwood Gulch Trail, a beloved, decades-old path for hikers, horseback riders and mountain-bike aficionados near Nederland, is in limbo as officials with Boulder County Parks and Open Space decide how it will be used in the future following a recent public land acquisition.(DC)

• When the stretch of U.S. 36 between Denver and Boulder re-opens shiny and new a few years from now, conscientious carpoolers will be able to whiz past the solo driving masses stuck in traffic in a dedicated lane reserved for buses, high occupancy vehicles and those willing to pay for access.(DC)

• The Colorado Rockies placed right-hander Rafael Betancourt on the disabled list after the closer had his appendix removed Friday night(GC)

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