@Denverheadlines 11/21

Today Snow. Temperature falling to around 12 by 5pm. Wind chill values as low as zero. North northeast wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.

Tonight Snow likely, mainly before 11pm. Cloudy, with a low around 8. Wind chill values as low as -3. North northeast wind 5 to 7 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.

• El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa slammed Black Forest Fire Department Chief Bob Harvey for telling multiple media outlets Wednesday night that this summer's Black Forest fire was intentionally set by a perpetrator.

• The marijuana battle has returned to Denver's front yards. The City Council continues to wrestle with where to draw the line on marijuana consumption when it comes to private property.

• Legislative leaders have dismissed an ethics complaint filed against the lobbyist for Colorado's most strident gun-rights group, but the issue is a long way from over.

• Prosecutors are expected to present a plea deal in the case against Melissa Miller, who is accused of killing Wheat Ridge resident LeAnn "Annie" Meyer.

• The ACLU and a Castle Rock couple whose car was hit by a police officer's bullet while he was responding to a burglary in February are suing town officials for records related to the shooting and the officer's conduct.

• Detectives with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department are working to solve a mystery after car windows are shattering while traveling near C-470 and Highway 285.  The sheriff’s department says it happened three separate times. Two occurred on C-470 near Alameda Parkway and another on Highway 285 near Highway 8.  Although some drivers reported a gun shot or loud boom before the window shattered, nothing was found.

• Police looking for help identifying three men involved in an armed robbery at a Broomfield business.  Police released surveillance pictures of the men.  The suspects entered the AAA Nail Supply business Tuesday night. One pointed a gun at the employee and stole his wallet while the other two stole cash from the registers and a safe box containing cash and credit card receipts.  The men may have left in an older model grey or silver Honda sedan.

• Police in Colorado Springs are investigating a deadly accident that killed two airmen.  The airmen were from Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. They died after their car was hit by a truck.  Investigators say the car’s driver swerved to avoid a couch in the middle of the highway and an oncoming truck hit it.  The base has not released the names of the airmen.
• A mother’s courage can be heard in a 911 call as she turned her son in for murder. Not only did Mindy Sigg call for help, she handed the phone to her son Austin who confessed to killing Jessica Ridgeway.
• CBS4 Investigator Rick Sallinger requested the tape of the dramatic call after first hearing it in court.
• From their home Austin Sigg’s mother Mindy called police.
• Mindy Sigg: “Hi, um, I need you to come to my house … um, my son wants to turn himself in for the Jessica Ridgeway murder.”
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• The words apparently seemed incredible — that Austin Sigg was turning himself in, admitting to the murder the 10-year-old girl.
• Dispatcher: “And what’s going on there. Ma’am, are you there?”
• Mindy Sigg: “Did you not hear me? He just confessed to killing her.”
• Dispatcher: “I know. I want you to tell me what’s going on. Can you tell me exactly what he said?”
• Mindy Sigg: “That he did it and gave me details and her remains are in my house.”
• As police were dispatched to the Sigg home the call taker asked if she could speak to Austin and asked how he was feeling.
• Austin Sigg: “I don’t exactly get why you’re asking me these questions. I murdered Jessica Ridgeway.”
• Dispatcher: “Okay.”
• Austin Sigg: “There is … I have proof that I did it … there is no other question. Uou just have to send a squad car, something down here.”
• Austin Sigg also admitted to attacking a jogger at Ketner Lake. He was then asked if he had weapons.
• Austin Sigg: “I have knives in my room, um, and we own a few guns, but … I’m giving myself up completely, there will be no resistance whatsoever.”
• The dispatcher then is heard once again talking to Mindy Sigg.
• Dispatcher: “Is Austin still there with you?”
• Mindy Sigg: “Yeah, I’m hugging him (crying).”
• Dispatcher: “Okay, you guys are hugging? … Okay, you definitely did the right thing. You tell me when the officers get there, they’re coming to your front door, okay?
• At one point in the call Mindy Sigg is so distraught she says she can’t breathe.
• What started for her with that phone call ended Tuesday with her son being sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.

@Denverheadlines 11/20

Today Increasing clouds, with a high near 58. Southwest wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the morning.

Tonight A slight chance of rain before 11pm, then snow. Low around 25. Light and variable wind becoming north 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible.

• A single-engine plane heading from California to Aspen crashed Tuesday night in Delta County , killing the pilot.

• Two Colorado cantaloupe farmers who pleaded guilty to charges related to a deadly listeria outbreak met Tuesday with some of the family members of people who got sick or died

• Federal authorities in charge of saving wolves from extinction ignited outrage Tuesday when they made their case to end protection of gray wolves

• On the U.S. House of Representatives floor Tuesday, Rep. Jared Polis ripped Colorado's state regulations involving hydraulic fracturing, saying the growth of fracking in the state "without common-sense federal guidelines, without common-sense state guidelines" has caused friction for his constituents.

• A Boulder man who was bicycling at north Lake Tahoe last week remains in critical condition after he was struck by an SUV in a hit-and-run accident near Carnelian Bay

• A proposed high-speed rail system from Fort Collins to DIA and then south to Colorado Springs would cost about $9.8 billion and carry roughly 13 million passengers a year, according to planners Tuesday night.

• Developers broke ground Tuesday on a new dining district in Denver’s Lowry neighborhood.  The new attraction will be located at Hanger No. 2 near Lowry Boulevard and Rampart Way.

• Aurora has joined the effort to try and quickly find drivers involved in hit-and-run accidents.  The city is now the latest city to participate in the “Medina Alert Program.” Alerts are sent out so everyone can be on the lookout for a hit-and-run driver.

• The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says there have been four new cases of a thief or thieves getting into homes through dog doors since CBS4 first reported the story on Nov. 6.

• Colorado legislative leaders say there’s not enough evidence to settle a complaint against a gun lobbyist accused of threatening a lawmaker to influence her vote.
• Prosecutors have decided not to pursue a third trial for a Texas man accused of killing his wife near the couple’s Colorado vacation home.  Juries in two Colorado counties previously considered the allegations against Frederick Mueller, but did not reach a unanimous verdict. Prosecutors announced Tuesday they were dismissing the case, canceling a third trial that was scheduled for January.

• An Arapahoe County judge has scheduled a Thursday morning hearing to discuss a prosecution request that the Aurora movie theater gunman undergo another psychiatric evaluation.

• As Austin Sigg was sentenced on Tuesday to a life behind bars, a judge and prosecutor said Sigg himself offered the best word to describe what he had done to Jessica Ridgeway: evil.

@Denverheadlines 11/19

Today Partly sunny, with a high near 63. Southwest wind 5 to 7 mph becoming west northwest in the afternoon.

• Walmart officials told police this year that the store at 7800 E. Smith Road loses $1.5 million each year to theft, putting it among the top 5 percent of the chain's locations nationwide for shoplifting. The store is far and away the city's leading destination for shoplifters, with 283 offenses reported in the past year — 179 more than the second-highest location, a Rite Aid on the 16th Street Mall.

• Amid recalls, lawsuits and what will soon be repeal efforts of the state's new gun-control laws, a broad coalition of activists and family members of gun violence victims congregated Monday to urge state lawmakers to "stand strong."

• The state Independent Ethics Commission on Monday unanimously voted to proceed with an ethics complaint filed against Gov. John Hickenlooper, a step that calls for further review but is not an indication a violation occurred.

• Medicare is wasting hundreds of millions of dollars a year by failing to rein in doctors who routinely give patients pricey name-brand drugs when cheaper generic alternatives are available.

• A path for a 435-mile pipeline that will carry natural gas liquids from northern Colorado to Texas received final approval Monday night.

• Aurora police are asking the community for help in identifying a person of interest from the Fuego Fuego bar parking lot homicide.

• The Longmont Humane Society remains in financial trouble. It needs $250,000 to make its mortgage payment. The organization is trying to pay off a bond used to pay for a new facility. The facility still has $2.4 million to pay off.  The Humane Society is trying to figure out its money troubles so it won’t be going month to month.

• The Denver Broncos will break ground Tuesday on an expansion of their Dove Valley headquarters.  The facility will now include a new indoor field house with a full-length field, locker room, meeting area and upgrades to the Paul D. Bowlen Memorial Broncos Center.  Fans will notice a difference during training camp in 2015. A larger public viewing area will be accompanied by additional parking and improved restroom facilities.  the Broncos say the goal of the renovations is to make their facilities among the best in all of professional sports.
• Denver police would like the public’s help with more information about how a man found lying in a street died. According to police, on Nov. 14 George Jackson was found lying in the 2200 block of Lawrence Street unconscious. “He was taken to the hospital and died the following day,” police said in a statement. “The Denver police are requesting any person who saw what caused Mr. Jackson to become unconscious to contact Crime Stoppers.”  Police said it’s unknown if Jackson was the victim of a crime.

• State exchange enrollments for new health insurance still lag, but high demand for expanded Medicaid has pushed total signups for reform benefits beyond 53,000, a new count shows.

• The Castle Rock Town Council Tuesday night will weigh how best to manage the noise from train horns in the community.