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Don’t let the clouds fool you, it’s still Friday morning. The weekend stretches ahead of you, endless and colorful, begging you to do a lot, a little or nothing at all, as long as it’s exactly what you want to do. Make your weekend proud. And now, it’s time for news breakfast, the most important news meal of the day.
The Rundown
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Quick Hits
+ Two sisters (one from Denver) and autopsies show that they both aka “excess water in the lungs.”
+ Yesterday a man claiming to own 20 percent of the Denver Broncos walked into the team’s Dove Valley headquarters, refused to leave and . He was, unsurprisingly, arrested.
+ Back in 2009, a dismembered body was found in a Garfield County apple orchard, . If you read true crime, .
+ A Douglas County couple claimed in 2010 that their autistic son was not provided an adequate education in public schools. Now in 2016, and could potentially rewrite how disabled students are treated around the country.
+ With the opening of a 2.4-mile stretch of bike path, you can now, technically, .
+ Good news: More people are visiting the 16th Street Mall. Bad news: .
By The Numbers
500 / 11,265
On the left is how many pounds of pot Denver police seized in 2013. On the right is how much (illegally grown/transported) marijuana they expect to seize in 2017, which is why the department .
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Even Quicker Hits
+ Today in bank robberies: and .
+ . We also , one of the truest signs of fall in Colorado.
+ Does ? Should DJ LeMahieu ? Will ?
+ The Cubs and the Pirates got along so well last night .
+ An and now employees around the country are demanding new safety measures.
+ If you can’t make it to the but are going to DIA, you can experience “Beer Flights” a kind of mini-GABF in the terminal. !
+ Starting tomorrow, .
+ ???????? Stuff to watch: After a series of boring movies, , and .
+ Montreal, just three months after a dog fatally mauled a woman, .
+ The latest on .
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+ Oh yeah, the play on Sunday. .
What We’re Reading
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+ One guy (and one sophisticated database catfishing scheme) .
+ Portlandia has always walked that line between being genuinely funny and a little too pleased with itself. But real-life feminist book store In Other Words, where one of the show’s recurring bits took place, after production left a mess, didn’t pay for lost business and shut down an entire block of independent businesses to shoot their segments (not to mention laying blame for Portland’s gentrification on the show).
+ The URL for this story contains the phrase ‘whatsapp-doc’ which I think is a pretty good joke about a very serious topic: More people are using smartphones and tablets and laptops for many more hours a day and . (I just sat up straighter in my chair reading it).
+ Gregg Popovich, the legendary head coach of the San Antonio Spurs, . It’s worth a read.
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Song of the Day
Song: ““
Artist: Ty Segall
Sounds like: The lost art of using an acoustic guitar to rock out hard and a good way to kick off your weekend.
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Hat Tips & Corrections
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