HAGGARD'S EX-CHURCH PARES STAFF The megachurch founded by evangelist Ted Haggard, who was fired over drug and sex allegations, has laid off 44 people amid falling income.
The cuts at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, announced during services Sunday, amount to about 12 percent of the church's work force, said Associate Pastor Rob Brendle.
Income at the 14,000-member church has fallen 10 percent since the scandal, forcing layoffs of pastoral staff, support staff and nursery workers, Brendle said.
THREE TEENS SHOT Commerce City police are investigating a triple shooting in the 11600 block of Oswego Street early Sunday.
Police were called to the River Run subdivision around 1:35 a.m. on a report of a loud party. As officers arrived they heard several shots and saw people leaving in cars and running away from the home.
Three people were shot, including two 19-year-old Westminster men and a 19-year-old Denver woman, police said. Names of the victims were not released.
Anyone with information is asked to call 303-227-8837.
EBERT TO MISS CU CONFERENCE For the first time in 38 years, Roger Ebert won't be at the University of Colorado's Conference on World Affairs in April.
Ebert, 64, who is recovering from cancer treatment, first attended the conference in 1970.
Ebert had surgery in June to remove a growth on his salivary gland; two weeks later, an artery burst near the surgery site, lengthening his recovery time.
RISE CITED IN HEROIN USE A study conducted by the Boulder County Drug Task Force shows that heroin use and overdoses in Boulder County have increased in the past year.
Between Oct. 1, 2006, and Feb. 28, Boulder police logged 16 heroin-related reports and made three arrests involving heroin use in public bathrooms.
Five deaths in the county - four in Boulder and one in Longmont - during that period reportedly were related to heroin use.
The task force has assigned a team of detectives to investigate the increased heroin use.
AFA BUILDS ON MOUSE'S LAND The Air Force Academy is investigating why officials allowed the construction of a parking lot on a section of land used by the threatened Preble's meadow jumping mouse without notifying federal environmental officials.
There are 3,500 acres of land at the academy reserved for the mouse's habitat.
It will be up to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to decide how the academy should remediate the damage.
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