@Denverheadlines Friday

	Highs	Lows	Friday Some clouds and possibly an isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. High 89F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%. Friday night Isolated thunderstorms early, becoming clear after midnight. Low 62F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
	89° F	62° F
	32 C	17 C
			Sunrise: 6:18 am    Sunset: 7:43 pm    Moonrise: 9:04 pm    Moonset: 9:17 am

• Students at the University of Colorado in Boulder got a text at 4 a.m. warning them about an aggravated assault on campus Friday morning.

• Retired U.S. Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey, former drug czar under the Bill Clinton administration, said Colorado voters erred in passing Amendment 64 legalizing recreational marijuana and predicted that adolescent drug use here will rise because of it.

• Black Forest is dealing with the aftermath of Thursday night's flash flooding. Both Black Forest Road and Woodmen Road opened around midnight after they were closed for hours because the rain built up so badly on both streets. Just miles from Black Forest on I-25 off the Woodmen Road exit, you can tell mother nature was in charge. The storms stopped traffic as water poured onto the highway.

• Police say four people have come forward regarding a Colorado veterinarian who is accused of providing care to a man who later had to have three toes amputated.

• Fort Collins residents may drop off household hazardous waste free of charge from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 7 in the CSU parking lot at the northwest corner of College Avenue and Lake Street.

• Police in Wheat Ridge are searching for the man wanted in a double stabbing at a trail head. Police believe Marvin Gean Wilson attacked a woman and her little boy Thursday morning at the trail head

• The chairman of the Colorado Republican Party says a state senator's "careless" remarks about minorities and their eating habits don't reflect the views of the state party.

• As new construction continues after the destructive wildfire, the Black Forest Fire District has passed new fire codes for those rebuilding which now go to county commissioners for final approval.

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Wednesday
	Highs	Lows	Wednesday Morning sunshine will give way to isolated thunderstorms during the afternoon. Hot. High 91F. Winds N at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30%. Wednesday night Isolated thunderstorms during the evening, then skies turning partly cloudy overnight. Low near 60F. Winds N at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30%.
	91° F	60° F
	33 C	16 C
			Sunrise: 6:16 am    Sunset: 7:46 pm    Moonrise: 7:57 pm    Moonset: 7:00 am

• Colorado's efforts to compel large online retailers to collect millions of dollars in state taxes on Internet sales scored a win Tuesday, although enforcement of the so-called Amazon tax law may be contingent on whether opponents continue their legal challenge.

• At more than two dozen public, private and for-profit colleges in Colorado, thousands of former students have stopped paying on their federal student loans — and at least one school faces federal sanctions because the default rate is so high.

• Manitou Springs gives voters the green light to decide if there should be a city sales tax on recreational marijuana. City council passed two different options. One ordinance passed: a question will be on the ballot in November and voters can decide whether to  put a sales tax on retail pot. The second ordinance that passed was to put a moratorium, or a temporary ban on retail marijuana until December 31, 2013. That's so they can wait for the sales tax ballot results and go forward from there.

• Wildfire managers from the national and state level have raised the national preparedness level to its highest designation for the first time since 2008. The National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group (NMAC) today increased the national fire Preparedness Level (PL) to its highest point, PL-5. The PL ranges from one, indicating minimal activity, to five, which signals very high activity. NMAC, which consists of top federal and state fire managers, sets the national PL.

• Vance Brand Municipal Airport wants longer leases, but it'll need a city charter amendment to get them.

• The city of Ft. Collins is considering a new smoking ban that would make it illegal to smoke outdoors in certain areas. The areas in the new ban under discussion would include restaurant patios, parks, certain open walking areas and trails.

• Denver Broncos linebacker Von Miller will be suspended without pay for the first six games of the season.

• Colorado's capital city could become the next city to begin charging a fee on disposable bags at the grocery store.

• On Monday 16-year-old Crestone, a Grevy’s zebra, gave birth to a new baby. The zoo has not yet checked to see if it’s a male or female, and they’re still waiting to name it.

• There are new cases of the West Nile virus in Colorado.There are 46 cases statewide. That’s 20 more sick people since last week.  The hardest hit counties are Larimer County with 30 followed by Delta County with six, Boulder County with four, Adams County with two, and several other counties with one.  The worst year ever for West Nile in Colorado was in 2003, which saw 2,947  cases and  66 deaths.

@Denverheadlines Tuesday

Tuesday
	Highs	Lows	Tuesday Sunny, along with a few afternoon clouds. Hot. High near 95F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Tuesday night A stray thunderstorm is possible through the evening. Considerable clouds early. Some decrease in clouds late. Low around 65F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
	95° F	65° F
	35 C	18 C
			Sunrise: 6:15 am    Sunset: 7:47 pm    Moonrise: 7:21 pm    Moonset: 5:49 am

• Broncos star linebacker Von Miller could be suspended for six games instead of the original four-game sentence the league handed him for violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy, ESPN reported.

• It's not entirely clear why prosecutors have decided to list Von Miller as a potential witness in a death penalty case.

• Denver International Airport plans to add 10 charging stations for electric vehicles in its parking garages. Visitors who park their plug-in electric vehicles in the garages can use the charging stations for free. The stations are scheduled to be installed this fall.

• It was back to school for students who didn’t even know if they would have a school for a while this summer.  At one point, Edith Wolford Elementary School was in the line of flames during the massive Black Forest Fire. Nearly 500 homes burned in the fire in June northeast of Colorado Springs. On Monday, the students headed back to class.  Edith Wolford Elementary School survived the fire with little damage, but for a moment many Black Forest residents thought the school building was destroyed completely.

• Two young heroes can rest easy knowing the man they helped save is alive and doing better. The pair met the man's uncle Monday and heard about the impact they made. Jake Rasco and Vince Gumina helped pull a drowning man out of a pool at Quall Hill Mobile Home Community Saturday.They said he'd been underwater for four minutes. Since then, they'd been worried about the man's condition. The man's uncle, Gustavo Sanchez said he is hopeful his nephew will recover. He is in critical condition at Memorial Hospital. Sanchez said it if weren't for the boys, his nephew might have died in the water.

• The economic impact of Colorado’s oil and gas industry amounted to $29.6 billion last year, according to a study released Monday. The study was conducted for the Colorado Oil & Gas Association by researchers at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business. CU Boulder researchers Brian Lewandowski and Richard Wobbekind, who conducted the study, reported the industry supported more than 110,000 high-paying jobs

• The Colorado health department says independent tests so far have confirmed the reliability of blood-alcohol testing by a state toxicology lab, which suspended blood-alcohol and -drug testing after a report raised questions about its work.  Defense attorneys questioned the lab’s reliability after a consultant’s report noted complaints by some lab workers about blood samples kept in unlocked refrigerators and a supervisor making statements suggesting a bias favoring prosecutors.

• The Longmont Urban Renewal Authority gave its final argument Monday in a court battle for the title to Dillard's, but also said it would pull back from seeking that title if it got a Nov. 18 condemnation hearing.

• Dozens of Fort Collins residents are expected to speak at Tuesday night's City Council on the topic of mosquitoes, citywide spraying of insecticide and West Nile virus.

• The rulemaking surrounding Amendment 64 is in full swing at the state level. The Department of Revenue has released a set of draft rule changes and clarifications for a huge chunk of medical marijuana law, as well as draft regs regarding the recreational cannabis industry.

• The University of Colorado Boulder went smoke free on Monday.  The campus has banned all smoking on campus except for designated smoking areas, and those smoking areas could vanish this December as well.  CU is now part of 1,100 schools to ban smoking across the country.

@Denverheadlines Tuesday

Tuesday
	Highs	Lows	Tuesday Sunny, along with a few afternoon clouds. Hot. High near 95F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Tuesday night A stray thunderstorm is possible through the evening. Considerable clouds early. Some decrease in clouds late. Low around 65F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
	95° F	65° F
	35 C	18 C
			Sunrise: 6:15 am    Sunset: 7:47 pm    Moonrise: 7:21 pm    Moonset: 5:49 am

• Broncos star linebacker Von Miller could be suspended for six games instead of the original four-game sentence the league handed him for violating the NFL's substance-abuse policy, ESPN reported.

• It's not entirely clear why prosecutors have decided to list Von Miller as a potential witness in a death penalty case.

• Denver International Airport plans to add 10 charging stations for electric vehicles in its parking garages. Visitors who park their plug-in electric vehicles in the garages can use the charging stations for free. The stations are scheduled to be installed this fall.

• It was back to school for students who didn’t even know if they would have a school for a while this summer.  At one point, Edith Wolford Elementary School was in the line of flames during the massive Black Forest Fire. Nearly 500 homes burned in the fire in June northeast of Colorado Springs. On Monday, the students headed back to class.  Edith Wolford Elementary School survived the fire with little damage, but for a moment many Black Forest residents thought the school building was destroyed completely.

• Two young heroes can rest easy knowing the man they helped save is alive and doing better. The pair met the man's uncle Monday and heard about the impact they made. Jake Rasco and Vince Gumina helped pull a drowning man out of a pool at Quall Hill Mobile Home Community Saturday.They said he'd been underwater for four minutes. Since then, they'd been worried about the man's condition. The man's uncle, Gustavo Sanchez said he is hopeful his nephew will recover. He is in critical condition at Memorial Hospital. Sanchez said it if weren't for the boys, his nephew might have died in the water.

• The economic impact of Colorado’s oil and gas industry amounted to $29.6 billion last year, according to a study released Monday. The study was conducted for the Colorado Oil & Gas Association by researchers at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business. CU Boulder researchers Brian Lewandowski and Richard Wobbekind, who conducted the study, reported the industry supported more than 110,000 high-paying jobs

• The Colorado health department says independent tests so far have confirmed the reliability of blood-alcohol testing by a state toxicology lab, which suspended blood-alcohol and -drug testing after a report raised questions about its work.  Defense attorneys questioned the lab’s reliability after a consultant’s report noted complaints by some lab workers about blood samples kept in unlocked refrigerators and a supervisor making statements suggesting a bias favoring prosecutors.

• The Longmont Urban Renewal Authority gave its final argument Monday in a court battle for the title to Dillard's, but also said it would pull back from seeking that title if it got a Nov. 18 condemnation hearing.

• Dozens of Fort Collins residents are expected to speak at Tuesday night's City Council on the topic of mosquitoes, citywide spraying of insecticide and West Nile virus.

• The rulemaking surrounding Amendment 64 is in full swing at the state level. The Department of Revenue has released a set of draft rule changes and clarifications for a huge chunk of medical marijuana law, as well as draft regs regarding the recreational cannabis industry.

• The University of Colorado Boulder went smoke free on Monday.  The campus has banned all smoking on campus except for designated smoking areas, and those smoking areas could vanish this December as well.  CU is now part of 1,100 schools to ban smoking across the country.