@Denverheadlines 10/24

Areas of fog before 9am. Otherwise, cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 59. North wind around 8 mph becoming south southeast in the morning.

• The Englewood and Denver Police Departments and the FBI are looking for Robert Estes, a man they believe is associated with two recent bank robberies in the Denver Metro Area.

• Royal Gorge Park is a place for people to get away to, meet people and create memories, but all of that will be put on hold. Canon City Council met Wednesday to discuss plans to reconstruct Royal Gorge Park. The park was devastated by wildfires in June. The meeting started off public, but after the plans were presented to City Council the meeting went private for more than 40 minutes. Canon City Mayor Tony Greer said this happened because of legal ramifications.

• On Nov. 5, the way elections are conducted in Colorado will make a historic shift, but most voters shouldn't notice the change, said Amber McReynolds, Denver's director of elections.  In the past, Coloradans had the option of voting by mail rather than standing in lines on Election Day. In this election, every voter in the state will get a ballot in the mail, with the option of voting in person.

• Investigators are fielding tips and analyzing evidence in the hope they can determine the cause and perpetrator of a series of vehicle fires in Lakewood.

• Tests showed the blood alcohol level of a school bus driver who was arrested while driving more than 30 students was close to three times the legal limit

• The father of a young man believed to be shot and killed for his pizza delivery uniform reacted with anger to the plea given by the woman who bought the gun.  Stevie Marie Vigil pleaded guilty on Tuesday to transferring a firearm to Evan Ebel, the lone suspect in the March 19 slaying of corrections chief Tom Clements and the killing of computer technician and pizza deliveryman Nathan Leon two days earlier.

• The defendant in the Colorado movie theater shooting had the day of the attack marked "with a unique symbol" on a calendar, a Batman mask and a violent drawing in his apartment, according to testimony Wednesday.

• The Berthoud police officer at center of a probe that led to the town’s chief of police being put on leave has been arrested

• Two-year-old local craft brewery Denver Beer Co. on Wednesday announced plans to open a production brewery and packaging operation in north Denver, where it will start canning and bottling.

• Ski areas are sending out a reminder to skiers who like to smoke marijuana: Colorado’s new pot laws do not apply on the slopes.  The ski season isn’t even two weeks old and some violators have already had their season passes revoked.

• T-Mobile will give owners of iPads and other tablet computers free data service for life as part of an effort to broaden its customer base beyond phones.

• The outcome of the Nov. 5 election on a proposed five-year moratorium on fracking in Fort Collins is not likely to put the issue to rest.

• Smog along Colorado's Front Range is thickening again, exceeding federal standards, and government-backed scientists say the oil and gas boom is partly to blame.

• Denver police graduate 29 new officers, the first class in five years

@Denverheadlines 10/22

Tuesday...Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid to upper 60s.

• Firefighters are responding to three separate fires in Lakewood early Tuesday morning.  Lakewood police said all three began as car fires, with the first report coming in around 5:45 a.m.  West Metro Fire Rescue was on scene of a blaze near West Dakota Avenue and South Carr Street just south of Alameda Avenue, where flames were about 20 feet high at one point and a plume of smoke was visible from at least a dozen blocks away.  That fire was extinguished. There was no immediate word on injuries.  Another fire was reported at West Dakota Avenue and South Estes Street.   The exact location of the third nearby fire was not immediately available.

• The first of what will be several dinners to benefit Lyons restaurants will be Wednesday night at Joe's Steak * Italian * Cocktails at 526 Main St.

• Boulder County commissioners came in for another round of criticism Monday for the options they've proposed for rehabilitating rural residential subdivisions roads.

• Consumers, insurance brokers and navigators trained to ease health reforms are venting deep frustration with glitches in the Colorado exchange and Medicaid signups, reflecting national doubts over the new system.
• Colorado's congressional delegation was told Monday that roads damaged and closed by September flooding will be open by Dec. 1. But those roads may not look like they did before flood waters hit.

• The opponents of a $950 million tax increase for education have seized on comments by Gov. John Hickenlooper to bolster their claim that if Amendment 66 passes the money will be used to "backfill" the state's pension system instead of going to students.

• James Holmes' lawyers say police coerced and misled him into discussing the bombs in his apartment after the Colorado theater shootings. In a pretrial hearing Monday, defense lawyers said anything Holmes told officers shouldn't be used against him, arguing that police violated his rights.      Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of killing 12 and injuring 70 in the 2012 attack in suburban Denver.  Prosecutors and the defense are arguing over evidence that could be used to support or undermine his insanity claim, such as the bombs that police have said were intricately planned to divert officers from the theater.  Prosecutors argue police did nothing wrong in questioning Holmes.