Your daily resource for late-breaking news, upcoming events, the , , and the stories that will be talked about today, April 18, 2014.
1. MAGIC FINISH FOR THE AVS IN GAME 1
A team that appeared nervous much of the night in a favored, home-ice role against the Wild at a sold-out, delirious Pepsi Center. Sports columnist , while was Erik Johnson. You can find and on our Media Center.
2. DENVER PARENTS APPEAR IN COURT
accused of keeping their four young boys in a filthy apartment. Wayne Sperling, 66, and Lorinda Bailey, 36, who have each been charged with four counts of felony child abuse, learned Friday they will go on trial separately in September.
3. COLORADO ADDS JOBS
Colorado added 3,300 jobs in March, , according to a report Friday by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. The unemployment rate, however, dipped slightly.
4. NEW DETAILS IN OBSERVATORY PARK KILLING
An while her husband ranted about eating marijuana candy and the end of the world moments before he allegedly shot her to death.
5. ELECTION-FRAUD INVESTIGATION IN GHOST TOWN
This teeny town at a dirt-street dead end high in the mountains of Summit County has long been included on lists of Colorado ghost towns. But lately, .
6. RUINS TO RIGHTS
A granite monument on a dusty plain in southern Colorado stands as a reminder of the Ludlow Massacre, in which, 100 years ago Sunday, 11 children and two women died amid a coal-miners strike. But .
7. TRAGEDY ON THE WORLD’S HIGHEST PEAK
An , and three more are missing in the deadliest disaster in the mountain’s history.
8. EARTH’S COUSIN
Scientists have using the Kepler Space Telescope, offering hope of life elsewhere and of a future for the handicapped spacecraft.
9. YOUR WEEKEND GARDEN TO-DO LIST
? Time to start work on your raised beds, and your lawn.
10. ROCKIES WRAP ROAD TRIP WITH A WIN
Veteran Michael Cuddyer is not one for hyperbole, especially not 17 games into the season. So when he calls a win a “big win,” it’s, well, a big win. . Meanwhile, when they signed him this offseason.
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