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Lauren Penington

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Lauren Penington

    Denver weather: fourth-warmest September on record, sixth in a row without snow (opens the original)

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    Another month of unusually warm temperatures cemented September as the fourth-warmest on record for Denver, and the sixth in a row without snow, according to the National Weather Service. Denver’s average temperature last month was 69.2 degrees, more than 4 degrees above the city’s normal September average of 64.8 degrees and just short of the 70-degree record set in 2024, according to weather service data. The coldest September average on record was 54.7 degrees in 1912. Despite the warmth, abo

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Lauren Penington

    Denver library branch closed Thursday following HAZMAT investigation (opens the original)

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    One Denver Public Library branch remains closed Thursday for cleaning after a “powerful” narcotic contaminated one of the library’s rooms the day before, city officials said. Denver Fire Department crews led a HAZMAT investigation at Denver Public Library’s Sam Gary branch on Wednesday after library officials raised concerns that an earlier medical incident had exposed the building to a hazardous substance, according to a news release from the city’s Department of Public Safety. Denver Fire and

  3. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Lauren Penington

    Denver man gets 40 years in prison for murder in wife’s shooting death (opens the original)

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    A Denver man who shot and killed his wife with his son asleep in the next room will spend the next four decades in prison, a judge ruled Wednesday. Denver District Judge Stephanie Scoville sentenced Tyler Nelson, 32, on Wednesday to 40 years in prison for killing his wife, 30-year-old Breanna Canter, in September 2024, court records show. A jury convicted Nelson in August of second-degree murder and first-degree assault in Canter’s death. “Breanna Canter was a loving mother and beloved daughter

  4. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Lauren Penington

    RTD bus driver cited for running red light after crash in Denver’s East Colfax rapid transit lane (opens the original)

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    Two people were injured Tuesday night when a Regional Transportation District bus ran a red light and collided with a truck on East Colfax Avenue, two days after the street’s center bus rapid-transit lanes opened. It is the first crash involving a bus using those lanes. East Colfax’s first complete section of the bus rapid transit project opened its bus-only lanes on Sunday, after two years of construction. That construction, which brought major changes to one of Denver’s oldest and largest comm

  5. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Lauren Penington

    ‘Triple-threat’ storm to douse Colorado with heavy, flooding rain (opens the original)

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    While Denver’s rainfall forecasts have diminished, converging tropical storm systems are still on track to douse southern Colorado with heavy, flooding rain through Thursday morning, forecasters said. AccuWeather forecasters called the storm a “triple-threat,” with three weather systems converging to create widespread rain across the southwest United States, including southern Colorado. Leftover moisture from Hurricane Polo and Tropical Storm Odalys will merge with an already existing trough, wh

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