Morning headlines from DenverPost.com

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Today's Front Page News

System fails young victims in State's welfare program
In the past five years, 43 Colorado children died from abuse or neglect after entering the child welfare program. Every one of those deaths was marked by a policy violation or sparked concern in the way the case was handled by county social workers.  

• PETA keeps watches on CU labs and files new complaint
• On the Colorado prep scene, in-house hires often create a coaching challenge
• Alabama tornado survivors help towns hit by latest outbreak of twisters
• Colorado counties hustle to meet need for food aid
• Colorado teenager jumps from her mother's moving car and is fatally hit by another vehicle

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Today's Business

Travel industry is "cautiously optimistic" about growth as economy improves
The buzzwords these days among those who book business travel are "cautiously optimistic. After nearly dropping off the map after the 2001 terrorist attacks and again when recession hit in late 2008, corporate travel has gradually recovered.  

• Parker: Silence on the lamb,Councilman Brown
• Colorado tourism tax in eye of storm
• Shops invest in scents to reap dollars

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Today's Sports Headlines

X Games include teen sensations flush with fame, fortune
A dozen of today's Winter X Games stars are teenagers who are finding themselves flush with fame and fortune while tracking toward Olympic stardom, their teenage life engulfed by a grown-up world of business, travel and competition.  

• Bobby Brown wins gold at X Games in ski big air
• On the Colorado prep scene, in-house hires often create a coaching challenge
• Pro Bowl a super consolation prize for six Denver Broncos
• Denver Pioneers lose game, first place in division
• Inconsistent young Avs need to get better to earn playoff spot

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Today's Entertainment

This weekend's theater openings
Twelve varied choices, from the Denver Center's bug-buzz premiere "Two Things You Don't Talk About at Dinner" to a pair of "Earnests" to Spark's Craigslist play to Aurora's "Crumbs" to the experimental, the macabre and the reprisals (Su Teatro's "Enrique's Journey" and LIDA's "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep").  

• PHAMALy and Curious continue to push theatrical boundaries