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The La Plata County Sheriff’s Office has identified a person of interest in the death of 13-year-old Dylan Redwine. Sheriff’s office spokesman Dan Bender said Wednesday that they are not naming the person, but that authorities are hopeful that the investigation of the teenager’s 2012 disappearance and death is moving forward.
This festival, which turns 25 this year, is one of Denver’s most popular, drawing about 350,000 people each year. Despite the heat, fans flock to see works by more than 250 of the nation’s visual artists, including painting, fiber arts to ceramics and photography.
It’s tough to pick 10 highlights of this event, but we’ve compiled a start.
A top Department of Veterans Affairs official said Wednesday that his agency may never explain precisely how a hospital project in Aurora with a $604 million construction budget skyrocketed to $1.73 billion in barely two years. Members of Congress, including Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet of Colorado and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, have asked for a detailed account of the price increase, saying those numbers must exist. But during a news conference at the construction site, VA Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson said not to expect a line-item description of the $1.1 billion difference.
U.S. Rep. Jared Polis has tens of millions of dollars to his name, but he doesn’t have a clue about how to dress himself, media sources have noted over the years. That’s why NINOX, a Boulder-based designer menswear company, stepped in. Polis showed up to get his NINOX makeover dressed like your dad at a middle school band concert. He left looking like an international playboy.
BP and five Gulf states announced an $18.7 billion settlement Thursday that resolves years of legal fighting over the environmental and economic damage done by the energy giant’s oil spill in 2010. The settlement money will be used to resolve the Clean Water Act penalties; resolve natural resources damage claims; settle economic claims; and resolve economic damage claims of local governments, according to an outline filed in federal court. The settlement involves Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
Surging electricity consumption by Colorado’s booming marijuana industry is sabotaging Denver’s push to use less energy — just as the White House perfects a Clean Power Plan to cut carbon pollution. Citywide electricity use has been rising at the rate of 1.2 percent a year, and 45 percent of that increase comes from marijuana-growing facilities, Denver officials said Wednesday.
A car on a CSX train carrying a flammable and toxic substance derailed and caught fire in eastern Tennessee, prompting the evacuation of thousands of people within a 2-mile radius.In a statement, CSX said the train car that derailed was carrying acrylonitrile, a hazardous material used in a variety of industrial processes including making plastics. The substance is flammable and is dangerous if inhaled, CSX said. About 5,000 people in the area were being evacuated along with several businesses.
The Avalanche spent a ton of money to put big, angry bears on skates. For better or worse, the nearly $45 million that Colorado committed to contracts for large and feisty Francois Beauchemin, Blake Comeau and Carl Soderberg owed more to the old-school tradition of backcheck, forecheck, paycheck than cuddling up to the notion of 21st century fancystats.
Nine people have been arrested by Parker police as part of a coordinated national crimes against children investigation, the department announced Wednesday. Operation Broken Heart II, conducted in April and May, focused on suspects who allegedly possess, manufacture, and distribute child porn, engage in online enticement of children for sex, engage in child prostitution and child sex tourism, according to the Parker Police Department.
Sunrise thunderstorms rolled through northeastern Colorado Thursday morning, with strong, gusty winds, dark skies and rain. Thunder and lightning were associated with storms early Thursday morning in extreme northeastern Colorado including Sedgwick and Phillips counties, according to the National Weather Service. “It doesn’t happen often, once in a while we get it here,” said Jim Kalina, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
Francie Swidler: 303-954-1001, fswidler@denverpost.com
