Thursday, November 28, 2013

@Denverheadlines Thanksgiving Day News

  • Thanksgiving Day Partly sunny, with a high near 50. Calm wind becoming northeast around 6 mph.
  • Tonight Mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. Calm wind becoming southwest around 5 mph after midnight.
  • A Denver police officer opened fire on a driver who tried to run him over late Wednesday afternoon.
  • Northglenn police are asking the community for help in identifying a man who stole a service dog from a parked car Wednesday afternoon.
  • A suspected serial killer who was awaiting trial for the 1996 murder of a 27-year-old woman has died in a Denver hospital from pneumonia and other health complications.
  • Thornton police are asking the community for help in locating a man suspected of stealing cars from people who let him into their home when he asks to use their phone.
  • Nine months after LeAnn "Annie" Meyer disappeared from her Wheat Ridge home, her roommate, Melissa Miller, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Park County court.  Miller was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
  • Three bodies were found inside a home that burned in Rye Wednesday morning after firefighters put out the blaze.
  • Democratic state Sen. Evie Hudak, whose constituents are attempting to oust her from office in a special recall election, is set to resign her seat.
  • A $343 million contract to build the North Metro Rail Line from Denver Union Station to 124th Avenue was approved Tuesday night by the Regional Transportation District board of directors.
  • When it comes to luggage, John Allen Papelbon has an eye for quality and an appreciation for the finer things. Unfortunately for him, some of those finer things turned out to belong to others, Denver police said. One of them was 1970s guitar god Peter Frampton.
  • There is buzz over the rare coincidence that for the first time since 1888 Thanksgiving and the first day of Hanukkah fall on the same Thursday.
  • A federal judge said Wednesday he is inclined to allow a man arrested during major raids on Colorado marijuana businesses to be released on bond because the government has not sufficiently shown him to be dangerous.
  • The Federal Emergency Management Agency's Lyons Disaster Recovery Center will close permanently at 6 p.m. Monday.
  • After vowing to rebuild when Colorado's devastating floods submerged RockyGrass' home of Planet Bluegrass Ranch in Lyons, festival organizers have announced the preliminary lineup for the 2014 event.
  • The Denver Zoo has a new addition. A male gerenuk, named Stitch, was born at the zoo on Nov. 17, officials announced Wednesday.

  • ERIE — A 66-year-old man was killed early Wednesday afternoon when a small plane crashed in Boulder County.