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Daily Digest: Colorado marijuana edibles ban proposed, quickly shelved, and 9 other stories

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Colorado’s health department proposed an industry-spinning ban on the sales of nearly all forms of edible marijuana at recreational pot shops Monday but amid an industry outcry and questions over legality.

Gov. John Hickenlooper is preparing to release his state budget for the next fiscal year on Nov. 3 — the day before Election Day — raising the stakes on . To learn more about candidates and issues in the upcoming elections, visit .

Denver police are investigating after a .

Four unidentified students were suspended immediately from Laredo Middle School in which a student was struck in the leg. While one person fired the shot, the other three were suspended because, school officials said, they knew about the presence of the gun but didn’t report it to officials.

Afrikka Hardy was 19, tired of Colorado, and looking forward to a new life when she moved in June to Chicago, . Her body was found Friday night in a Motel 6 in Hammond, Ind., where she was apparently strangled by a man who near Gary, Ind.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said that he had the same idea as Colorado Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob Beauprez about reducing regulations on vocational schools. Read .

Colorado’s memorial sign program began in 1994 to designate spots where people were killed by drunken drivers. The program expanded in 2004, when legislation was passed to commemorate victims of fatal crashes that were not related to drugs or alcohol. Now, it’s helping .

When Starbucks enabled its mobile app to let customers pay for lattes with their phone, Denver Post technology writer Tamara Chuang ditched plastic and converted immediately. So, when Apple said last week that it had convinced major banks and retailers to let customers pay with their iPhones, .

Jump to a happy conclusion about a long-suffering baseball team with an improbable World Series dream, and it’s tempting to assume Kansas City is Rocktober 2.0. But it would be a mistake to get this narrative all tangled up in purple and blue. Lorde knows: .

Several recent studies suggest people who focused on performance-based measures — like distance, speed and calories-burned stats tracked by most fitness devices and apps — exercised 15-34 percent .

Jesse Paul: 303-954-1733, jpaul@denverpost.com or twitter.com/JesseAPaul

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