Post News: Burlington boy gets 7 years in juvenile detention for fatal attack on family

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Today's Front Page News

Burlington boy gets 7 years in juvenile detention for fatal attack on family
In the minutes before he killed his parents and gravely wounded two younger siblings, a 12-year-old Burlington boy built an elaborate city in a sandpit behind his home — a playscape more suited to an 8-year-old, not an adult capable of understanding murder.  

• "I'm a Mormon" campaign in Denver and other cities aims to explain church
• Canteloupe-linked listeria's toll expected to keep rising
• Supreme Court asked to settle constitutionality of health care law
• U.S. arrests 102 criminal illegal immigrants in Colorado, Wyoming
• Denver home decked in pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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Today's Local Politics

Colorado Rep. Summers calls newest House district map lopsided
Republican Rep. Ken Summers didn't protest when he and Democratic Rep. Andy Kerr initially were put into the same state House district in Lakewood.  

• Denver water commissioners approve rate increase for '12
• Congressional Dems seek investigation of Gessler
• At stop in Denver, Obama calls self "warrior for the working class"

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Today's Business

Amazon targets the iPad: Ready, aim, Fire
Amazon is taking on the untouchable iPad with a touch-screen tablet of its own. The company Wednesday introduced its entry in the rapidly expanding market for hand-held computers — a device called Kindle Fire.  

• At Denver EPA hearing, oil and gas industry seeks delay in new pollution controls
• Magellan Petroleum moving to Denver
• Spending up in Colorado's high country
• Parker: 5280 magazine shakes up its top 25 restaurant rankings
• Beetle-killed wood being used in home construction

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Today's Sports Headlines

Dumervil likely to play Sunday against Packers
Plenty of Broncos coach John Fox's day is determined by the fold in one sheet of paper he puts in his pocket daily at practice.  

• Braves' collapse complete after losing to Phillies in 13 innings
• Chargers Bob Sanders' season is over
• Packers are taking precautions with Grant's injury
• Red Sox's collapse reaches completion in loss to Orioles
• Broncos fans fuel QB issue

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Today's Entertainment

Ostrow: Ken Burns epic on Prohibition a fine "Boardwalk" chaser
Whether you're a fan of "Boardwalk Empire" or of filmmaker Ken Burns, you're bumping into rum runners, speakeasies, police raids on backyard stills, celebrity gangsters, flappers and other unintended consequences of the bill that established Prohibition.  

• Theater review: "Next to Normal" serves up a gut-punch
• Movie review: Yokels meet coeds in not-quite classic spoof
• Movie review: "Courageous" keeps the faith but slips a step
• Movie review: "Fall" descends into mystical ambiguity
• People: Arnold and Maria reunite for son's 14th birthday

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Today's Style

Cheesman Park mailboxes in Denver deliver fairy-tale "romance"
Their love was simple and pure. But fate and a coat of paint intervened ... Like magic, they found each other once again. It's true: Love conquers all! The fairy tale continues ...  

• Smartphone apps can help find perfect date or next romance
• Style File: Kiehl's cause
• Style File: Supply chain
• Style File: Help kids and get young-looking skin
• Style File: Show Biz

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Today's Opinion

Editorial: Pointing fingers over health costs
When critics insist the growth of this nation's health care burden is unsustainable, this is what they mean: The average cost of an employer-provided family insurance plan soared by 9 percent in 2011. That's far higher than the rate of inflation or the average growth of wages.  

• Littwin: Colorado: The king of swing states
• Marcus: Fiscal Trivial Pursuit and those $16 muffins
• Rosen: A decaffeinated compromise
• Milbank: The Herman Cain surge
• Editorial: Atlas maker's mistakes pour fuel on climate skeptics' fire