Morning headlines from DenverPost.com

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Today's Front Page News

Denver parents, kids rally for principal in suspected cheating case
Children chanted in the afternoon sunlight for their suspended principal: "Mr. Roti, Mr. Roti, Mr. Roti!" About 30 children and a dozen parents from Beach Court Elementary School rallied Friday at Zuni Park.  

• Gaylord, Pueblo get Colorado tourism tax incentives
• Avs re-sign Milan Hejduk to one-year contract
• Nature lover waits for goslings to emerge in Denver's Washington Park
• Colorado Rockies get shut out by Kevin Millwood, Seattle Mariners
• U.S. House passes measure to slash troops in Europe

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Today's Business

Colorado unemployment rises to 7.9 percent; fewer jobs created
Colorado's unemployment rate edged up to 7.9 percent in April, and the state added 1,500 fewer payroll jobs during the month than it did a month earlier, the state reported Friday.  

• National Bank Holdings will relocate headquarters, 150 jobs to Denver
• SEC subpoenas Chipotle over the restaurant chain's hiring practices
• IHS wins incentives to bring jobs to Douglas County headquarters
• Denver airport to clear air by cutting back on smoking lounges
• Developers in Denver's River North tap into neighborhood's creative juices

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Today's Sports Headlines

Lefty Tyler Anderson pitches first official game in Rockies' system
Tyler Anderson is on the clock. The lanky left-handed pitcher whom the Rockies made their first-round draft pick in June made his professional debut last week for Asheville, the Rockies' affiliate in the South Atlantic League.  

• Avs re-sign Milan Hejduk to one-year contract
• Colorado Rockies get shut out by Kevin Millwood, Seattle Mariners
• Avalanche re-signs captain Milan Hejduk to 1-year deal
• Colorado Rockies get shut out by Kevin Millwood, Seattle Mariners
• Nederland runner Kelley Robinson defends 2A state title in 3,200

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Today's Entertainment

Denver-born composer Austin Wintory's musical journey
Given the dizzying speed at which Austin Wintory produces music, it's a wonder that any of it makes sense — let alone that it's winning awards and catapulting him into the echelons of his heroes.  

• Movie review: Grave work for actor Jack Black in gentle, dark comedy, "Bernie"
• Solar eclipse, transit of Venus coming to Colorado skies
• Private family funeral planned for Donna Summer
• Kool & the Gang will get Van Halen's Denver party started at the Pepsi Center
• Seven nights of entertainment in Denver, spring edition

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Today's Style

Solar eclipse, transit of Venus coming to Colorado skies
They traveled the globe 250 years ago, spending months at sea and dealing with storms and disease, with wars and homesickness and miserable food, to witness Venus crossing the sun from different locations. The transit of Venus. Next month, when it happens for just the third time in 130 years, you can check it out, minus the shark worries and the rogue cannonballs.  

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Today's Opinion

Approving civil unions in Colorado the right thing to do
As a long-time resident of Colorado, conservative Catholic, and proud Republican, I was disappointed that the final weeks of our just concluded legislative session looked much more like Washington, D.C. than the Colorado we all know and love.  

• Mark Ruffalo: Erie mothers battle to stop drilling
• Editorial: Test the waters on using Dillon Reservoir for swimming
• Obama's Julia says "I do" to the hubby state
• Opposition to civil unions is not bigotry
• Colorado House speaker was a coward in civil union debate