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Daily Digest: Sloppy Denver-area commute expected as rain continues, and 9 other stories

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As Coloradans wake up Friday to a rain soaked — — landscape, forecasters say the state should well into the afternoon.

Some Colorado communities have become inhospitable to the state’s blossoming music festival scene, leaving patrons, organizers and musicians wondering: ?

With the future of Aurora’s Veterans Affairs hospital again in doubt, the U.S. Senate on Thursday that would keep work going on the site until at least October.

Colorado Board of Education chairwoman Marcia Neal announced her resignation Thursday blaming board dysfunction and baffling decisions, behavior she speculated is driving an exodus of top talent from the state education department.

There are so many rescued tigers, lions and other large carnivores flying to freedom on Colorado’s high plains that operators of a 720-acre sanctuary .

The former girlfriend of the Aurora theater shooting gunman that she urged him to seek therapy after he began talking about an “evil” philosophy.

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A 24-year-old man sentenced to life in prison Thursday for an Aurora murder over an iPhone continued to claim innocence, telling the court defiantly that there was “doubt” in his conviction, that he’ll appeal, and he’s ” .”

In a room overlooking the Coors Field ballpark Thursday, you needed no hands to count the number of venture capitalists and CEOs . But while the casual business attitude attracts millennials and outdoor enthusiasts, there’s another reason why out-of-state investors are looking closer at technology companies here.

Perhaps it was the cross-country flight that put them into Miami at 1:30 a.m., .

Though the math isn’t done yet, this spring likely has been one for the record books. The , from last fall’s polar plunge to the not-so-merry month of May’s hail and floods, to this month’s plague of flea beetles.

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

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