Your daily resource for late-breaking news, upcoming events, the , , and the stories that will be talked about today, February 6, 2014.
1. Deep freeze continues for Denver metro area, when will it let up?
Denver metro area endured temperatures that dipped to -16 degrees just past midnight. With the wind chill factor it felt like -28, according to a meteorologist.
2. Poll: Do Coloradans favor arming staff members in schools?
The idea of arming public school employees gained traction , a week before lawmakers hear testimony on a bill that would allow Colorado school districts to permit adults to carry guns inside classrooms.
3. Study: Discrimination prevalent in metro Denver housing market
Minorities and families face high rates of housing discrimination in Denver’s increasingly competitive rental market, .
4. Denver worker fired for “pre-pubescent porn,” but no police report filed
Officials fired a senior accountant in Denver’s public works department last year after a co-worker alleged she saw him viewing “pornography involving pre-pubescent girls” while on the job, .
5. Denver Museum of Nature & Science enters new wing and era
After a ribbon-chewing ceremony by a life-size replica of a T. rex skeleton, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science will , when it opens a massive new wing for exhibitions, classrooms, studios, research facilities and storage of its collections.
6. Who got off to a fast start at the Sochi Winter Olympics?
in the Olympic debut of slopestyle on Thursday at Russia’s stunning Rosa Khutor Extreme Park.
7. Broncos blues: Why do you also feel at a loss when your team loses?
Why does it hurt that the Broncos were humiliated and embarrassed in the Super Bowl? Relationships columnist Neil Rosenthal, who turned the game off in the third quarter, .
8. Nuggets top Bucks for seventh straight time
The Nuggets have jumped back and forth across the .500 line this season .
9. Slope style: What influences the latest ski fashion trends?
The typical skier or snowboarder might not have much in common with competitors tackling the giant slalom course or pipes in Sochi during the 2014 Winter Olympics, but .
10. Happy 50th birthday, G.I. Joe
. The birthday of what’s called the world’s first action figure is being celebrated this month by collectors and the toy maker that introduced it just before the nation plunged into the quagmire that would become the Vietnam War—a storm it seems to have weathered pretty well.
