Your daily resource for late-breaking news, upcoming events, the , , and the stories that will be talked about today, June 5, 2014.
1. WOMAN RIDES OUT HUGO STORM UNDER MATTRESS
On the outskirts of Hugo Wednesday night, a , hiding from a destructive storm under a mattress she had pulled from her bed. ( ) “It was so loud, a ferocious sound,” Hoefler said Thursday morning. “It was scary.” On Thursday, a damage assessment team from the National Weather Service is .
2. JOHN ELWAY’S SON PLEADS NOT GUILTY
Jack Elway, the son of Broncos executive vice president of football operations and general manager John Elway, stemming from what . Here’s .
3. POLICE SHOOT MAN AT FORT COLLINS HOSPITAL
A , in the parking lot of a local hospital. There were no further details on his condition. An investigation into the incident is ongoing.
4. OH, GIVE ME A HOME
The dwindling of open space where bison can roam is hurting federal efforts to restore herds, . But the bison on fenced preserves continue to multiply.
5. DENVER COPS ACCUSED OF DRUNKEN SWINGER BRAWL
Two Denver police officers are being investigated after Aurora police responded last month to .
6. 26 YEARS AGO TODAY
Weddings can be very stressful. You smile a lot and hug people you’d rather not. At 2 a.m. on June 5, 1988, Mary Vialpando and her husband were at the end of a marriage celebration that had begun in Pueblo the day before. Nerves were frayed. Mary got so upset she stormed out of her house in Old Colorado City. .
7. “HOLD THIS”: DENVER METRO CRIME BLOTTER
A man who crashed a party reportedly threatened to slap everyone, and when police arrived, he handed a toddler to his girlfriend, saying “hold this.” That’s just one of .
8. WHY BERGDAHL’S HOMETOWN IS CANCELING WELCOME-HOME CELEBRATION
Hailey, Idaho, has been swamped with critical emails and calls amid a debate over . , depending on who you ask.
9. DOES VON MILLER HAVE A SCREW LOOSE?
Denver Post columnist Mark Kiszla sure thinks so. He told Miller as much. ” It’s definitely good at some times,” Miller said. , and this season, it looks like he’ll have .
10. BEWARE “THE BLOB”
You know a baseball struggle is a slump when it starts feeding on itself like “The Blob” in Steve McQueen’s horror movie, recycling its own negative energy and terrorizing all hope. That’s exactly what happened Wednesday, as the , , and saw .
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