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1. WOMAN’S FATE IN JURORS HANDS
if she knew the masked men in her car were planning a robbery and whether her boyfriend shot and killed a Grizzly Rose security guard who tried to stop them.
2. COLORADO GOP CANDIDATES GIVE THEIR PITCH
In a Denver Post debate, Republican candidates for governor staked out their positions on a variety of issues, including toll roads, TABOR, guns, immigration, wildfires and marijuana. However, .
3. EXPOSURE SEEN AS A GIVEN
Former workers at Golden’s Rocky Flats Plant, which manufactured plutonium triggers for nuclear weapons, no longer have to reconstruct their own personal histories of radiation exposure in order to receive medical compensation. While hailing the “good news,” here’s .
4. BANKS WON’T FINANCE PROPERTIES OVER POT
Despite a recent “green light” from the feds, some banks say loaning money to marijuana businesses is just too risky. Bankers with commercial loans on properties that lease to a marijuana business say — contrary to normal business practices — leaving some property owners scrambling for financing.
5. LAWMAKERS MOVE TO CLEAN UP CHEMICAL POLLUTION
State lawmakers are looking at the toxic legacy of PCE and other cancer-causing chemicals poisoning soil, water and air inside buildings. Here’s that would make $11.2 million a year available to developers working to reclaim “brownfield” sites contaminated by chemical spills.
6. HOW DO TRADER JOE’S PRICES COMPARE?
Trader Joe’s says that its mission is to give its customers the best food and beverage values that can be found. But ? In other news, it didn’t get the fanfare that Trader Joe’s received, but in Capitol Hill.
7. 29 YEARS AGO TODAY
Two young boys made a gruesome discovery in the spillway of the Cherry Creek Reservoir 29 years ago today: It was the body of 24-year-old model Vicki Carpenter, wrapped in chains. Reporter Kirk Mitchell examines .
8. 5 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT POWERBALL JACKPOT
Here’s one: , which are 1-in-175 million, don’t change as the jackpot grows.
9. DENVER RESTAURANT WEEK ARRIVES
Denver Restaurant Week is upon us, that annual stretch of Mile High menu mania that sees diners — some of whom rarely go out to eat — descending on more than 300 local restaurants. .
10. BRONCOS PREPARE FOR DRAFT
It has been said the NFL is a young man’s game, and after the Super Bowl the Broncos should need no more convincing. . In other NFL news, TV commentators .
11. NUGGETS LOSE IN OVERTIME
So much for the all-star break leading to rest and recovery for the Nuggets. to the Phoenix Suns at the Pepsi Center.
12. GOLD FOR LIGETY
with a dominating performance Wednesday, becoming the first American man to win two Olympic gold medals in Alpine skiing. In other Olympic news, it was , and the in the quarterfinals today.
