This is a data file meant to be read by an RSS reader. See http://www.thedenverchannel.com/rss/index.html for more information. Local News Denver News http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/index.html?rss=den&psp=news en-us Copyright 2009, Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc Local News TheDenverChannel.com 60 http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18436313/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2009/0108/18441041.jpg Thousands of Boulder County residents returned to their homes Thursday, after racing from them in the path of a wind-driven wildfire the day before. Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:26:40 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18442495/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news Thu, 8 Jan 2009 19:20:14 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/slideshow/news/16235354/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2009/0108/18438488.jpg See the latest fire pictures captured by viewers. Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:30:54 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/education/18442498/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2009/0109/18442510.jpg Tom Boasberg, the Denver Public School District's chief operating officer, was named as the finalist for superintendent Thursday night. Thu, 8 Jan 2009 18:56:57 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18440238/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2008/0613/16600957.jpg A Colorado State Senator wants to redirect millions of dollars in historic grant funding from the state's largest gaming community following a series of reports by the CALL7 Investigators. Thu, 8 Jan 2009 15:18:08 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/education/18440051/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news Dozens of students at Steamboat Springs schools are getting peanuts, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches -- or nothing -- for lunch this week after the district cut off those with unpaid balances on their school lunch accounts. Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:26:05 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18438582/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news A 24-year-old ski lift operator who fatally shot the general manager of the Eldora ski area was determined to kill co-workers who weren't Christian, according to court records obtained Thursday. Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:42:34 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18437640/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news Department-store operator Macy's Inc. said Thursday it will close 11 underperforming stores in nine states -- affecting 960 employees -- and lowered its forecast for the fourth quarter after one of the weakest holiday seasons in years. Thu, 8 Jan 2009 19:29:25 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/weather/18369227/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2009/0108/18437935.jpg Warm weather made Thursday nice, but more snow is coming for Friday. Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:01:00 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18431516/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news A 22-year-old snowboarder from Norman, Okla., died Wednesday at Swedish Medical Center in Englewood, Colo., after being transferred from Breckenridge Ski Resort Tuesday afternoon with head trauma. Thu, 8 Jan 2009 06:56:14 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18438487/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news Drugstore operator Walgreen Co. says it will cut 1,000 jobs this year, or about 9 percent of corporate management, through a combination of voluntary buyouts and layoffs. Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:22:53 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18433959/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2008/1223/18340432.jpg The pilot of an airliner destroyed after veering off a Denver runway last month told federal safety investigators he struggled to keep the aircraft on course during the attempted takeoff. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:19:08 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18435524/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2009/0108/18433438.jpg Thousands forced to leave their homes as fire intensifies. Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:12:33 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18422205/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2009/0106/18422302.jpg A skier partially fell off a lift chair on New Year's Day and ended up hanging upside down half naked. A photographer who took photos has been suspended. Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:16:37 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18431798/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2009/0107/18433276.jpg Three wind-driven wildfires raced across Boulder County grasslands on Wednesday, destroying at least four structures and prompting mandatory evacuations of at least 500 homes. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 22:48:08 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18434246/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2009/0108/18434276.jpg A Grand Junction man serving a sentence in the Mesa County jail has been charged with trying to hire a man to kill a family member and a witness, authorities said Wednesday. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 20:17:48 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18430906/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2008/1130/18171326.jpg The deaths of a Denver family of four appears to have been caused by a disconnected plastic exhaust pipe connected to a boiler in the Aspen-area home they were staying at over the Thanksgiving holiday. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:51:55 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/health/18434858/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2009/0108/18435373.jpg Wed, 7 Jan 2009 23:52:33 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18430051/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2007/0314/11250607.jpg A 15-year-old girl said she was bound, gagged and sexually assaulted while walking through a Fort Collins park early Tuesday evening. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:54:48 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18427790/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2006/1205/10465755.jpg Two adults and two juveniles are in custody after their vehicle crashed into a police car following an officer-involved shooting in Broomfield. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:15:01 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/money/18392132/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news Hundreds of workers in Arapahoe County did not get paid Wednesday after officials said there was a problem with the direct deposit system. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:20:56 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/politics/18432556/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2008/0116/15057566.jpg Colorado lawmakers began their 2009 session Wednesday facing nettlesome economic problems but celebrating a historic milestone as the first state with blacks leading both chambers of the Legislature. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:09:12 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/politics/18434134/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2009/0106/18417283.jpg Sharecropper's grandson Terrance Carroll was chosen Wednesday as speaker of Colorado's House of Representatives, making the state the first in the nation where blacks lead both chambers of its Legislature. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:07:48 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18434025/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news The outgoing U.S. attorney for Colorado says he'll run for state attorney general in 2010. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:00:33 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/politics/18434110/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news A day after learning she'll be among 50 "ordinary Americans" on a pre-inauguration train ride with Barack Obama and Joe Biden, Patricia Stiles of Parker was figuring out what to say to them. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:56:46 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18431059/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news A prosecutor says he won't file charges against a woman in the shooting death of her husband, Trinidad lawyer Jim Tatum, because she was a victim of domestic violence. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:04:01 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18430232/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2008/0904/17391731.jpg A school bus stop will be moved because it near the home of a sexually violent predator. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:17:47 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18430399/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news Alpine Bank employees say they recognized the man who allegedly robbed the bank last month as the "annoying kid" who had visited the bank in the last few years. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:07:45 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18428814/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2008/0215/15306284.jpg Interstate 70 has been reopened in both directions over Vail Pass after highway crews worked to reduce the threat from avalanches. Berthoud Pass also reopened. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:53:43 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18427759/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news We may never know the cause of a fire that killed three young people in Roxborough. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 16:46:02 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18427760/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news Authorities say a pastor who is part of a theft investigation used money from a church trust fund to pay for his two children's college education. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 05:29:51 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18431033/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news A tiny middle school tucked in a snow-covered mountain valley ditched its decades-old coal-fired boilers for a wood pellet furnace, partly due to a beetle not much bigger than an eyelash. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:45:24 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18430667/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2008/0125/15135314.jpg Colorado's premier rodeo won't use electric prods this year to get uncooperative broncs out of the chute and bucking. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:55:06 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18430536/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news Loveland police are asking for the public's help to find Ryan Lee Robert Davis, who is wanted in several church burglaries. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:21:25 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18429136/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2009/0107/18429165.jpg Fort Collins police are investigating the attempted abduction of a 13-year-old junior high school student. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:58:56 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18426822/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2009/0107/18426816.jpg The father of a DU student who died from carbon monoxide poisoning says it was a preventable tragedy. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:32:33 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18425231/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2008/1110/17945867.jpg Adams Public Workers construction manager Sam Gomez retired last week after he could not document who did the work on his house and whether he paid for it. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 06:02:27 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18426802/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2009/0107/18426841.jpg Peaceful Valley Scout Ranch received approval to build new shooting ranges. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 00:34:41 MST http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/18422815/detail.html?rss=den&psp=news true http://www.thedenverchannel.com/2009/0106/18417283.jpg A panel looking for ways to catch illegal immigrants who commit serious crimes in Colorado says the federal government should open its fingerprint records to state authorities. Wed, 7 Jan 2009 00:53:50 MST