@Denverheadlines 10/18

	Highs	Lows	Friday Snow showers early. Bright sunshine later. High 48F. Winds N at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of snow 50%. Friday night Clear skies. Low 33F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
	48° F	33° F
	9 C	1 C
			Sunrise: 7:12 am    Sunset: 6:14 pm    Moonrise: 6:06 pm    Moonset: 6:51 am

• A judge said the grand jury indictment of JonBenet Ramsey’s parents should be made public.The district attorney of Boulder at the time decided not to prosecute John and Patsy Ramsey.The six-year-old’s body was found in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder on Christmas day 1996. JonBenet was found during a police search of the home, about eight hours after she was reported missing. She had been struck on the head and strangled. The case remains unsolved.

• Interior Department lawyers said Thursday that Congress will have to explicitly authorize reimbursement to states, including Colorado, that decided to re-open national parks during the partial government shutdown.

• Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn was the only Colorado lawmaker to vote "no" on the debt deal that re-opened the government, even though he represents Colorado Springs, the city with the highest percentage of impacted workers in the nation.

• The former Fire Chief of the Inter-Canyon Fire Protection District has been indicted in a theft case. David MacBean has been accused of stealing $643,000 from the district.

• Wildlife officers have located and put down a third coyote that attacked a man walking to work early Monday morning.

• Pink’s concert at the Pepsi Center has been postponed until later this month after her doctor ordered her to rest her voice. Pink was scheduled to perform for fans at the Pepsi Center on Friday night.

• Denver Public Works has a snow removal plan in place for Thursday night into Friday morning even though Denver is only expected to get about one inch of snow.

• Emergency workers rushed to a school under construction at Pearl and Bayaud on Thursday afternoon after a worker became trapped when a portion of a wall collapsed.

• Two adults and a teenager are under investigation after the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office bomb squad disarmed an explosive device found by a homeowner on Dakan Mountain

• More than three months after he was placed on paid leave, a Larimer County judge remains absent from the bench without explanation.

• The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo says one of it's African lions died after getting into a fight with another lion. The fight happened at 10:25 a.m. on Thursday.

• Denver's auditor announced it plans to sue the city's Human Services Department for not being transparent enough regarding gift cards given to needy families.

• Aurora theater shooting attorneys were back in court on Thursday arguing over statements made to the officers by the suspect after he was arrested and taken to the police station.

@Denverheadlines 10/17

	Highs	Lows	Thursday Partly cloudy skies in the morning will give way to cloudy skies during the afternoon. Slight chance of a shower late. High near 50F. Winds ENE at 10 to 15 mph. Thursday night Rain and snow showers in the evening, transitioning to light snow overnight. Low 29F. Winds NE at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precip 70%. Snow accumulations less than one inch.
	50° F	29° F
	10 C	-2 C
			Sunrise: 7:11 am    Sunset: 6:16 pm    Moonrise: 5:32 pm    Moonset: 5:47 am

• Dave Matthews, The Fray, Big Head Todd and The Monsters along with members of the Lumineers and DeVotchKa will perform live at a concert for flood relief.  The concert is Sunday, Oct. 27 at the 1STBANK Center in Broomfield. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the show starts at 6 p.m. All proceeds from the concert will go directly to  LiveUnitedColorado.org.

• An organization that gave away free marijuana cigarettes as a way to protest possible taxes in Colorado has filed an unusual campaign finance report, after a watchdog group said the pot qualified as a campaign contribution.

• The Park County Sheriff's Office says Hantavirus is suspected in the death of a 29-year-old deputy. Deputy Joseph Edward Ybarra Hamilton died on October 14, 2013. The Sheriff's Office says Deputy Hamilton, 29, was in good health and his death came as a surprise. Investigators are zeroing in on Hantavirus as a possible cause of his death

• The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office bomb squad searched Chatfield High School Wednesday after a report that someone who lives with students had a bomb at home.

• Two Colorado cantaloupe farmers plan to plead guilty under a deal with federal prosecutors in connection with the 2011 listeria outbreak that killed 33 people in the nation's deadliest case of foodborne illness in a quarter century.

• Longmont's third fiber-optic election since 2009 is also its first not to attract massive opposition spending by the telecommunications industry.  

• The Colorado Department of Transportation says 120 state bridges need repair after flooding last month.  The department said Wednesday it has completed inspections of 411 bridges on the state highway system that were potentially impacted by flooding in northeast and eastern Colorado. The department said no bridges were completely destroyed.  The remaining 291 are currently open with no need for repairs.

• Police have arrested a man after a deadly shooting in the North City Park neighborhood.  The shooting occurred inside a home near 28th and Adams Street on Tuesday.  Police arrested Zachary Cooper, 27, in connection with the shooting. He’s being held on investigation of first-degree murder.

• Groups opposing four anti-fracking measures have campaign contributions of $606,205, 99.7 percent of which came from the Colorado Oil and Gas Association, reports filed by Tuesday show.

• Government shutdown deal includes a provision that would allow Colo. to get the money it needs to repair roads.

• Walmart appears to have unknowingly violated city code in advertising the opening of its new grocery store in Boulder.

• Wanted man with forehead tattoo runs from police in his underwear in Fort Collins

• A teenager killed in Adams County after an extortion attempt went bad was shot four times, according to an autopsy report

• Arapahoe Basin Ski Area is already open, and Loveland Ski Area opens Thursday!
• Longmont police, aided by a SWAT team, arrested a 25-year-old man Wednesday morning on suspicion of second-degree kidnapping.

• A bomb squad commander testified Wednesday that he was so concerned about the possibility of finding explosives in the car of Colorado theater shooting defendant James Holmes that he ran when he spotted a green laser

@Denverheadlines 10/16

	Highs	Lows	Wednesday Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 52F. Winds NNW at 5 to 10 mph. Wednesday night Clear to partly cloudy. Low 33F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.
	52° F	33° F
	11 C	1 C
			Sunrise: 7:10 am    Sunset: 6:17 pm    Moonrise: 4:58 pm    Moonset: 4:42 am

• A building collapsed in Denver’s Highlands neighborhood Tuesday night.  Firefighters were on the scene trying to figure out exactly what happened to the building under construction located at 2727 West 33rd Avenue, which is at the intersection of Clay Street.  A passerby reported the collapse just before 7 p.m.  The building was a two-story apartment building that was being renovated. Denver Fire Department officials said they don’t know what renovations were being done.  Nobody was inside at the time of the collapse and no firefighters have been injured.

• One person has died in a house fire on West 24th Avenue near Clay Street in West Denver.

• Denver police are investgating a homicide in the 2800 block of Adams St. One male victim has been pronounced dead at the scene and a male suspect is in custody, police said on Twitter after 7:30 p.m. Tuesday

• A bank robber making his getaway in Denver found an unusual vehicle for the job, and the driver of the vehicle may never have known a crime was even committed.  The U.S. Bank on South Broadway was robbed Tuesday morning and the thief left the scene in a taxi cab.

• The Colorado oil and gas industry has spent more than $250,000 to beat back a Fort Collins ballot question that seeks to impose a five-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in the city.

• Gov. John Hickenlooper has announced a new website that will provide information about recovery efforts related to flooding in Colorado last month.

• A court ruling Tuesday evening knocked down a late challenge to the petition process that put Amendment 66, the proposed school finance overhaul and $950 million tax hike, onto the November ballot.

• A man accused of punching a woman in the head outside the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Denver has been charged with bias-motivated crime and third-degree assault.

• The Denver auditor's office will examine police response times early next year after fielding a flurry of concerns from inside and outside the department that officers are taking too long to respond to certain calls.

• On Tuesday at the Pepsi Center, Roy tied Tremblay for an NHL record he spearheaded. Six consecutive victories to begin an head-coaching career

• More than 10,000 people flocked to Rocky Mountain National Park over the Columbus Day weekend after the park reopened with state funding on Saturday.

• The city of Fort Collins is offering zero-interest loans for homeowners working to remove mold, radon or wood smoke from their homes.