@Denverheadlines 11/6

Mostly sunny, with a high near 53. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west northwest 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.

• Colorado voters Tuesday soundly rejected a $1 billion income tax increase for school funding.  Amendment 66 would have created wholesale changes for how Colorado funds public education -- from expanded preschool to more money for K-12 schools with high numbers of at-risk students.  Amendment 66 lost almost 2-to-1

• A state ballot measure imposing special excise and sales taxes on recreational marijuana won handily in statewide voting Tuesday night.

• As hydraulic fracturing moratoriums and one ban passed in Fort Collins, Boulder and Lafayette on Tuesday night, the Colorado Oil and Gas Association declined to talk about the result of elections it has spent more than half a million dollars campaigning against.

• Police began making arrests Tuesday night as protesters moved from the 16th Street Mall on to the City and County Building and then the state Capitol.  At least six people — five adults and one juvenile — had been arrested by 7:30 p.m., police said.  Police cars briefly blocked Bannock Street in front of the City and County Building, preventing vehicles from dropping off ballots at the Denver Election Division less than one-half hour before the polls closed.  At one point, Denver SWAT formed a line, blocking protesters from getting to the building once it was reported some in the group had begun to deface the structure.

• The Colorado Rockies co-owner was arrested Monday in Windsor for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol, according to Greeley Tribune.

• Voters in the county where the North Colorado movement began rejected Tuesday the idea of pursuing the creation of the country's 51st state.  Nearly 58 percent of Weld County voters advised the county commissioners not to move forward with seceding from Colorado. Of the 11 counties with similar questions on the ballot, voters in six rejected it.

• Measures to allow the cities of Centennial and Longmont to use city fiber networks to provide Internet connections for residents and businesses passed by wide margins Tuesday. Longmont's Ballot Question 2B grants the city authority to sell $45.3 million in revenue bonds to pay for expanding a city-owned fiber optic network to pass every home in the city in three years.

• Those who felt the proposed marijuana law in Denver went too far have gotten their way — in part. The draft ordinance has been revised so that people don’t have to worry about being cited for smoking pot in their backyards.  Open and public consumption of marijuana is banned by Amendment 64, but Denver City Council is still struggling with exactly what that means.

• The Lakewood Police Department asked for the public’s assistance in locating a man classified as a sexually violent predator (SVP) on Tuesday. He was later located and taken into custody.  Gregory Alan Buerge, 51, was found at West Colfax Avenue and Depew Street.

Election Results:

Denver 2A Marijuana Tax: Yes – 66,822 (69%) | No – 28,461 (31%)

Denver School Board At Large: O’Brien – 44,568 (61%) |Kiley -  21,874 (30%) | Poston -6,909 (9%)

Denver School Board District 2: C. deBaca - 3,877 (36%) | Rodriguez – 6,838 (64%)

Denver School Board District 3: Johnson – 11,727 (58%) | Schomp – 8,413 (42%)

Denver School Board District 4: Taylor – 10,362 (66%) | Kilgore – 5,339 (34%)

Douglas County School Board B: Geddes - 42, 585 | Chase – 39,162

Douglas County School Board D: Keim – 39,422 | Reynolds – 42,095

Douglas County School Board G: Scholting - 38,212 | Silverthorne – 43,265

Jefferson County School Board District 1: Williams - 68,095 (62%)| Aultman-Bettridge – 42,221 (38%)

Jefferson County School Board District 2: Lamontange - 49,784 (46%) | Newkirk – 59,682 (55%)

Jefferson County School Board District 5: Witt - 64,750 (59%) | Van de Water – 45,564 (41%)

Boulder Gas/Oil Moratorium: Yes – 10,322 (76%) | No – 3,298 (24%)

Lafayette Gas/Oil Ban: Yes - 2,813 (57%) | No – 2,084 (43%)

Boulder Marijuana Tax: Yes - 10,782 (68%) | No – 5,007 (32%)

Littleton Pot Tax: Yes -396 (64%) | No – 226 (36%)

Englewood Pot Ban: Yes - 2,245 (53%) | No – 2,019 (47%)

Broomfield Gas/Oil Moratorium: Yes - 7,464 (49%) | No – 7,763 (51%)

Fort Collins Gas/Oil Moratorium: Yes – 17,915 (55%) | No – 14,708 (45%)

Elbert County – 51st State: Yes – 3,434 (42%) | No – 4,719 (58%)

Lincoln County – 51st State: Yes – 806 (45%) | No – 1,005 (55%)

Kit Carson County – 51st State: Yes – 983 (52%) | No – 917 (48%)

Phillips County – 51st State: Yes – 1,114 (62%) | 676 (37%)

Washington County – 51st State: Yes – 115 (58%) | No – 82 (42%)

Weld County – 51st State: Yes – 22,166 (42%) | No – 30,414 (58%)

Moffat County – 51st State: Yes – 1,786 (45%) | No – 2,139 (55%)

@Denverheadlines 11/5

A 50 percent chance of snow, mainly before 11am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 38. North wind 8 to 10 mph. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.

• Denver police have detained two individuals who they say entered an empty school building late Monday armed with two long rifles. Police Chief Robert White says the two juveniles were apprehended inside the school early Tuesday. Police had earlier surrounded Noel Middle School and a bomb squad was called to the scene after janitors reported a break-in Monday night. Police sent a telephone notification to neighborhood residents warning them to stay indoors. White says officers watched the two individuals on the school's security cameras and saw they were carrying backpacks as well as rifles. Police tried to use the school's public address system to try to communicate with them. White said at a 3:30 a.m. news conference that the rifles or the backpacks haven't been recovered. Officers had feared the backpacks contained explosives.

• Coloradans Tuesday are wrapping up voting on business-related issues ranging from bans on hydraulic fracturing in four cities to a $950 million tax boost for school funding, from municipal broadband services to taxation of recreational marijuana sales. The statewide mail-in election ends Tuesday. As of Monday, some 848,000 Coloradans had already voted. While it's too late to mail in your ballot, you can still vote Tuesday if you drop off your ballot personally.

• An Aurora man who supervised the Ross Dress for Less distribution pool at a warehouse in northeast Denver is facing felony theft charges after an estimated $125,000 worth of clothing and other items disappeared from the warehouse.

• Denver police say officers arriving at a road rage incident found a suspect with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the hand on Monday afternoon

• In what's become a debate over civil liberties and compliances with a new state law legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, the Denver City Council on Monday floated suggestions on the best ways to regulate the open and public consumption of pot.

• Aurora detectives investigating the kidnapping of an 8-year-old girl matched DNA evidence taken from her clothing to that of the 26-year-old parolee accused of grabbing her from her bedroom window.

• Late on the night before Election Day Denver District Judge Michael Martinez rejected a lawsuit aimed at Colorado's new election law.

• More than $5.1 million has been raised and $2.4 million has been distributed by relief funds less than two months after flooding damaged homes and businesses across Boulder County.

@Denverheadlines 11/4

A chance of rain after 5pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 47. Southeast wind 5 to 9 mph becoming east northeast in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 30%

• The last of autumn's brilliant leaves are likely to be casualties of a the windy snowstorm expected to reach the Front Range by Monday night.

• Texans head coach and former Broncos quarterback and assistant coach Gary Kubiak collapsed and was taken off on a stretcher as the teams were headed in to the locker rooms at halftime.

• Denver coach John Fox remained hospitalized Sunday as he awaits aortic value replacement surgery in North Carolina. Fox spoke with Broncos executive vice president John Elway by phone Sunday to discuss logistics during his absence, including who will serve as interim head coach.

• Aurora police believe they’ve tracked down the man who attempted to kidnap a little girl from her bedroom.  Johnathan Snorsky, 26, has actually been in custody at the Arapahoe County Jail since Tuesday, the day after the 8-year-old girl was taken from her bedroom. She got away and her description was key in tracking him down

• Denver police are looking for the driver who hit a pedestrian on northbound Sheridan Boulevard near Sixth Avenue on Sunday afternoon and left the scene.

• A Saudi national convicted of sexually abusing his housekeeper should remain behind bars in Colorado in case investigators find some link between him and the slaying of the state's prisons director, a prosecutor said Friday.

• There was a rare sight in Arvada as a bull elk was running around town on Sunday.  Arvada Police Officer Jeff Monzingo took video of the elk. It could be seen running across a field near the Arvada Center at 68th and Wadsworth Boulevard.  The elk was also spotted at 64th and Miller. Officers are hoping the animal makes its way back into the foothills.

• An experienced skydiver suffered a broken leg, facial injuries and a possible concussion Sunday afternoon after the wind pushed him in to a hard landing, Longmont police said.

• A 9-year-old Colorado Springs girl became an unexpected hero after two men wearing “Jason” masks barged into her home on Halloween night.

• Thanks to some dedicated construction crews a portion of Highway 36 will reopen Monday, about a month earlier than anticipated.  The section will finally once again connect Lyons to Estes Park. The highway has been impassable for several weeks because of the destruction done by massive flooding.

• RTD will resume service Monday on the Y and YL routes, which have been suspended since the Sept. 12 flood.

• Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper dropped of his ballot in advance of Election Day on Tuesday.  Hickenlooper said he voted “yes” on Amendment 66 and urged other voters to do the same. The amendment is a tax increase that will be used for education in Colorado. Critics say the money won’t go to students but instead will be used for administrative costs.

• A Loveland man has been arrested after allegedly trying to lure a teenage girl for sex using Craigslist.  Ronald Brown, 59, thought he was corresponding with a 14-year-old girl who answered a personal ad he posted on Craigslist. He was actually texting an undercover officer posing as the teen.