Your daily resource for late-breaking news, upcoming events, the , , and the stories that will be talked about today, April 7, 2014.
1. SEARCH RESUMES FOR MISSING HIKERS
around the Echo Lake area west of Denver for a missing father and son. Damian and Evan McManus, who are from St. Louis Park, Minn., were last heard from on Wednesday.
2. BROTHER STABBED AT LONGMONT CHURCH
Church members had to rush to the rescue of outside the Faith Baptist Church in Longmont. Police suspect the boy’s 15-year-old brother in the stabbing.
3. PRIVATE MONEY PROPS POT SHOPS
When some banks began calling commercial notes they held on properties leased to marijuana businesses, it opened the doors to private financiers willing to take on the fledgling industry and its associated risks. Here’s .
4. “LIVE WHERE YOU WORK”
In an effort to put a dent in the extremely low homeowner rates in a part of north Aurora, a city councilwoman and a real estate broker have started an initiative to improve those numbers. They’ve got near the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
5. HEMP CURIOUSITY SPROUTING
After more than a half century of being forbidden from growing hemp, . Farmer Dick Blumenhein said he’s heard good things about the plant, but wanted to know what to consider before growing a crop later this year.
6. WHAT MAY BE “PROMISING” IN MALAYSIA PLANE SEARCH
The head of a joint agency coordinating the effort calls “a most promising lead.” In other international news, “Blade Runner” , describing himself as being traumatized and awakening from nightmares to the “smell of blood.”
7. 22 YEARS AGO TODAY
On April 7, 1992, Ellyn Hoge, naked and bleeding, was apparently so terrified she ran onto I-25 trying to flag down cars at 3 a.m. A tractor-trailer truck couldn’t stop. Denver Post reporter Kirk Mitchell explores .
8. HIRING HELP AT HOME
There comes a time when most of us will need to hire someone we can trust to cross the threshold — maybe even with a key — to provide care, to clean, to fix what’s broken. Here are . And ?
9. GEORGE STRAIT WINS ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR AT THE ACM AWARDS
The , an industry-voted show. Find itself, on our Media Center. In other news from the world of entertainment, legendary actor .
10. TOUGH DAY FOR DENVER SPORTS
It was a difficult day to be a sports fan in Denver on Sunday. The , the in the final minutes against Houston, and the , despite the absence of Sidney Crosby. There was, however, .
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