@Denverheadlines 10/11

	Highs	Lows	Friday Mostly sunny skies early. A few showers developing later in the day. Thunder possible. High 63F. Winds NNW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 30%. Friday night Rain showers in the evening with clear skies overnight. Low 38F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40%.
	63° F	38° F
	17 C	3 C
			Sunrise: 7:05 am    Sunset: 6:25 pm    Moonrise: 1:49 pm    Moonset: 12:01 am

• A wanted sex offender slipped his handcuffs and escaped from custody at Denver police headquarters Wednesday afternoon.  Eugene Martinez, 48, has an extensive history of sex crimes against children and other offenses in Denver and Pueblo, court records show. He remains at large.

• Another early-season mountain snow storm may trigger severe thunderstorms on the plains and will bring powerful wind to the Front Range, according to the Colorado weather forecast.

• The woman accused of giving Evan Ebel a gun that was used to kill the Colorado corrections chief plans to plead guilty. In a court filing Thursday, a lawyer for Stevie Marie Vigil said she intends to plead guilty to giving a firearm to a felon without any concessions from federal prosecutors. The 22-year-old faces a penalty of up to 10 years in prison.

• Police in Denver are searching for a gunman who robbed two businesses near the area of E. Colfax Ave. and N. Ivy St. The suspect is described as a black male, 5-fot-5, 200 pounds, and was last seen wearing white latex gloves, a dark hooded sweatshirt and dark jeans.  The suspect also wears a baseball hat under his hooded sweatshirt.

• Colorado Gov John Hickenlooper (D) hammered the "knuckleheads" in Congress over the federal government shutdown on Thursday, citing the devastating effects it is having on the state's flood victims who are still trying to get their lives back together.

• The Obama administration said Thursday it will allow states to use their own money to reopen some national parks that have been closed because of the government shutdown.

• Even the smell of marijuana wafting from your backyard could be illegal if a new ordinance passes Denver's City Council.

• A disability rights group is suing the Regional Transportation District in U.S. District Court, claiming the agency consistently fails to make sure people using wheelchairs have a place to ride

• An Oregon man who lost his gay son to suicide and was walking across the country to raise awareness about bullying is dead after being hit by a truck in Colorado. The Colorado State Patrol says 48-year-old Joseph Bell of La Grande, Ore. died Wednesday after being struck along a two-lane highway in a rural area 20 miles northwest of Kit Carson.  Investigators believe the driver fell asleep.

• Police in Lakewood have released a sketch they hope will lead to the arrest of a man who assaulted a teenager in a park.  The 14-year-old girl told police that on Sept. 23 about 4:30 p.m. she was walking in Cottonwood Park near S. Kipling Pkwy. and W. Jewell Ave. when a man approached her.  He asked if she would like to have a good time. When she responded, “No,” the man grabbed her arm and struck her in the face with his fist. The victim was able to get away and run. She told police she had never seen the man.

• The Great American Beer Festival is getting greater, reported Denver Post today. The fest will get 30 percent more space in the Colorado Convention Center starting in 2015, which means tickets might sell out in 45 minutes, instead of this year’s record 20.

@Denverheadlines 10/10

	Highs	Lows	Thursday Becoming windy with scattered thunderstorms developing. High near 70F. S winds at 5 to 10 mph, increasing to 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 50%. Thursday night Windy with a few clouds from time to time. Low 44F. Winds WSW at 20 to 30 mph.
	70° F	44° F
	21 C	7 C
			Sunrise: 7:04 am    Sunset: 6:26 pm    Moonrise: 12:58 pm    Moonset: 11:07 pm

Eugene Felix Martinez (Denver Police Dept.)

• A wanted sex offender slipped his handcuffs and escaped from custody at Denver police headquarters Wednesday afternoon.  Eugene Martinez, 48, has an extensive history of sex crimes against children and other offenses in Denver and Pueblo, court records show. He remains at large.
• Longmont police are looking for a man who reportedly followed a woman on her walk on Tuesday night and then pushed her into Mountain View Cemetery and sexually assaulted her

• Broomfield police are asking the community for help in identifying a man who broke into the Range Mobile Home Community Clubhouse and stole checks and money orders.

• Colorado's child protection ombudsman will investigate why it took so long for authorities to rescue four small boys from a filthy Denver apartment filled with flies and feces when concerns about the family were registered more than a year ago.

• Investigators found envelopes addressed to a Denver man suspected of human rights violations in Ethiopia when they searched the home of a man being tried for immigration fraud, a witness said Wednesday.

• Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter as well as Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are in Denver to help build new townhomes.

• The judge in the Colorado theater shooting case says it could take up to three months to pick a jury.

• Rain described as "unprecedented" by Denver Water has filled area reservoirs to levels well above the average for this time of year.

• The Town of Lyons has begun testing water lines for possible problems in preparation for eventual restoration of water service to homes and businesses.

• The Federal Emergency Management Agency will start closing its Colorado flood Disaster Recovery Centers on Sundays, beginning this weekend.

• Boulder County is reopening several more open space areas and trails to the public after its Parks and Open Space Department staff has determined that the areas are now safe and accessible.
• Boulder County Commits to Kids, the campaign for Amendment 66, is hosting a rally at 10 a.m. Saturday in Boulder.
• Sprinkler repair crews have put out a warning that thieves are targeting copper pipes again.

• All City Market and King Soopers stores in Colorado, including those in Craig and Steamboat Springs, have voluntarily stopped selling potentially dangerous chicken.

• In a decision that both sides read as favoring Xcel Energy, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission on Wednesday ruled that it will decide which assets Boulder can condemn for a future municipal electric utility -- and that Boulder should pay Xcel not just for those assets, but the replacement costs of any equipment that needs to be rebuilt to maintain system reliability.

• NASA's Jupiter-bound spacecraft, built here in Colorado, hit a snag Wednesday soon after it used Earth as a gravity slingshot to hurtle toward the outer solar system, but mission managers said it's on course to arrive at the giant planet in 2016.

• Mulch dropped by helicopters and timbers laid across charred slopes mostly held through the recent flood — proving the value of a $10 million gambit Greeley and Fort Collins took to protect urban water supplies after wildfires last year.

@Denverheadlines 10/9

	Highs	Lows	Wednesday Lots of sunshine. High 69F. Winds NNE at 5 to 10 mph. Wednesday night A few passing clouds. Low 43F. Winds WNW at 5 to 10 mph.
	69° F	43° F
	21 C	6 C
			Sunrise: 7:03 am    Sunset: 6:28 pm    Moonrise: 12:01 pm    Moonset: 10:05 pm

• Denver Mayor Michael Hancock helped mark the half-way point for construction completion for the new hotel and train station at Denver International Airport.  A time capsule was placed in the floor of the transit center on Tuesday. It will be opened in 50 years. The $544 million project includes a 500-plus room hotel and conference center. That is being built on top of the airport’s new rail station which will take commuters and travelers from Denver to DIA. The project is more than a year into the five-year construction process. Project managers said they’re right on track to open the hotel by Fall 2015 with trains operating by 2016.

• The Colorado Public Utilities Commission is expected to rule Wednesday on a request from Xcel Energy to stop Boulder from taking roughly 6,000 county customers for a future city electric utility.

• For the second time in the less than a year, Colorado Senate Democrats Wednesday elected new leadership, this time tapping Sen. Morgan Carroll to lead the caucus.

• Police in Arvada say they have arrested the suspect connected to multiple break-ins. Thomas Kimber, 35, was arrested late last month after a homeowner reported a suspicious man in a neighborhood near 50th and Sheridan. Kimber wound up running from from officers after he ditched a bicycle that was reported stolen, but was captured. After the arrest police say Kimber confessed to between 10 and 20 crimes.

• Wearing her pink construction work boots and a baseball hat on backwards, country music super star Trisha Yearwood arrived at Denver International Airport Tuesday evening. Her husband, Garth Brooks, was right beside her. They are a team, and they are in Colorado to work. "We've been looking forward to this since last year," Garth Brooks said. The couple has sold an estimated 81 million albums between them. They are also the couple that has spent six years volunteering on Habitat for Humanity construction

• Retailer Dillard's Inc. has failed to convince a court to let it delay turning over title to its store at the Twin Peaks Mall in Longmont, the Longmont Times-Call reports. The owners of the mall are working toward a redevelopment project, but Dillard's owns the space it occupies at Twin Peaks. The Longmont Urban Renewal Authority filed suit in may to condemn the Dillard's property, and won an order from a Boulder District Court judge for the title.

• The domestic violence case against Denver Nuggets point guard Ty Lawson has been dropped.

• An Aspen couple out to reduce noise and music from restaurants wants an injunction that would ban all music after 10 p.m. The restaurants say the couple bought condos in a vibrant nightlife district and now want to turn it into a bedroom community.

• North Denver is getting a lot of attention as it begins a major redevelopment project that is expected to bring new business to the area.  Denver Mayor Michael Hancock helped with a groundbreaking ceremony on a new office space called “The Industry” on Brighton Boulevard between Park Avenue and Interstate 70.  The former warehouse will be turned into about 400 offices.  Hancock believes there is a lot of this corridor of opportunity in what is known as the RINO District or River North has to offer.

@Denverheadlines 10/8

	Highs	Lows	Tuesday Partly cloudy skies. High 78F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Tuesday night A few clouds. Low 49F. Winds W at 5 to 10 mph.
	78° F	49° F
	26 C	9 C
			Sunrise: 7:02 am    Sunset: 6:29 pm    Moonrise: 10:59 am    Moonset: 9:09 pm

• A judge ruled last month that the City of Denver was right in firing Officer Kevin Devine and a second officer, Rick Nixon, for their conduct in the Denver Diner incident in July 2009. A widely circulated videotape showed the officers pepper spraying and using force on several women who were involved in an altercation inside the restaurant. The city agreed last month to pay the women in the case a total of $360,000 to settle their lawsuit which claimed they were punched, shoved, dragged and the victims of excessive force. The city also contends the officers were deceptive in reports they filed following the incident.

• Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes was back in court on Monday and there was a new family member there offering her support.  Thousands of prospective jurors will be considered in the case and on Monday lawyers argued over evidence involving dating websites.  Holmes’ younger sister, Chris Holmes, sat in front of CBS4’s Rick Sallinger in court. She is a singer and song writer who wrote a song that has a very strong connection to the case. Years before the shooting she wrote a song called “Walking Down Death Row.”

• Traffic will be reduced to one lane in each direction on Interstate 70 between Tower Road and Colfax Avenue starting Oct. 14 as crews begin rebuilding a 2½-mile stretch of the highway, including pavement replacement, shoulder widening and new bridges over the Union Pacific Railroad lines and Smith Road.

• Larimer County authorities recovered a body Monday from flood debris in the Big Thompson River, which may be the final unaccounted-for flood victim.

• A state audit released Monday criticized the Colorado Lottery for high prize payouts and administrative costs — including nearly $400,000 of employee bonuses last year — which siphoned away millions of dollars from public-school construction and parks, recreation and open space.

• The Air Force Academy has faced one of the most uncomfortable consequences of the government shutdown: a toilet paper shortage.  Fortunately, the problem was fixed, but it renews the debate over who exactly the "non-essential" employees are during a government shutdown.  "We're not always aware at a high level who has the contracts with the toilet paper but we found out pretty fast and we fixed it,” said Superintendent of the Air Force Academy Lt. Gen. Michelle Johnson during a press conference.

• A Denver couple is facing multiple felony child abuse counts after authorities found their four children malnourished, surrounded by feces and only able to communicate via grunting sounds.  Parents Wayne Sperling, 66, and Lorinda Bailey, 35, were each charged with four counts of felony child abuse -- one count for each child found

• A man accused of getting drunk, then leading police on a brief Friday afternoon chase in his employer's landscaping truck is due for filing of charges on Wednesday.

• The Regional Transportation District provided a first glimpse Monday at the latest ridership numbers and cost estimates for the proposed Northwest Rail Line, giving some in the corridor hope that the long-sought commuter train between Denver and Longmont could be rolling down the tracks sooner than 30 years from now

@Denverheadlines 10/7

	Highs	Lows	Monday Plentiful sunshine. High 76F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph. Monday night Some clouds. Low near 50F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
	76° F	50° F
	24 C	10 C
			Sunrise: 7:01 am    Sunset: 6:31 pm    Moonrise: 9:54 am    Moonset: 8:18 pm

• A highway devastated by last month’s floods reopened ahead of schedule on Sunday.  Local residents were on hand to help move roadblocks to the side of Highway 119 in Boulder Canyon. It was a big moment for residents of Nederland who had to drive an hour out of the way to get down to Boulder for work and school.  Highway 119 had been closed for about month.

• Marijuana sellers and growers in Colorado joke that it's rare for an industry to seek a tax on its own product - in their case, a 25 percent tax rate that goes before voters next month.

• Colorado Springs firefighters battled an apartment fire late Sunday night. It was reported around 10:15 p.m. at the Austin Bluffs Retreat. That's located at the intersection of Austin Bluffs Parkway and Barnes Road. Smoke is pouring out of at least one building according to KRDO Newschannel 13's Olivia Wilmsen. Firefighters are trying to account for residents and put out the fire right now.

• Two students from the University of Northern Colorado are getting shots after they tried to rescue an injured bat that later tested positive for rabies.  The Weld County health department said Friday the students put the injured bat in a cage in their dorm room and it was later found to have the potentially deadly disease.  Health department officials say the students are healthy and will continue classes while receiving the treatment. The health department says no other students are at risk.

• Sunday was the kickoff for Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter’s work project as part of Habitat for Humanity in Denver.  This is the 30th year of the former president’s worldwide project. The week-long event centers on improving homes and communities around the metro area.  Volunteers will help build and repair homes in Denver’s Globeville neighborhood and take on preservation projects.

• The Sigma Pi fraternity at the University of Colorado in Boulder has been expelled from the Interfraternity Council.  Members of the fraternity were accused of providing alcohol to potential recruits during fall rush.

• State lawmakers are discussing ways to help Colorado flood victims.  A dozen lawmakers will decide if new laws are needed in the wake of the disaster. The bipartisan group will tour flood damaged areas and gather input from victims, responders and local governments. Gov. John Hickenlooper raised the idea of a special session but later said it was unnecessary.