GROUP SEEKS MORE EAGLE PROTECTION

COUNTY» A nonprofit study BOULDER group surveying bald eagles in Boulder County and western Weld County is sounding the alarm over the lack of state-regulated protection from any oil and gas operations’ leaks and air pollution in wetland and riparian areas.

Dana Bove, leader of Front Range Bald Eagle Nest Studies, told the Daily Camera that he fears a proposal by Crestone Peak Resources in Boulder County will mirror how the company is already operating in western Weld County, within proximity to sensitive wildlife areas and bald eagle territories in the Bulrush wetland at Colorado 52 and Weld County Road 5.

While Crestone and other operators in the area are not in violation of state and federal rules — such as a minimum 660-foot setback from bald eagle nests — Bove believes that more quantitative data on top of what already exists could show that the wildlife areas are being negatively impacted.

Immigration activists end sit-in. Immigration activists ended a nearly 44-hour sit-in at U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet’s Denver office after the Democrat voted against Thursday night’s budget agreement.

At 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, six immigration activists entered the office for Bennet, who has been active on immigration issues in recent years. They demanded that he vote against last week’s proposed budget agreement, which bolstered military and domestic programs but left out immigration reform.

Bennet did vote against the budget agreement, but he cited concerns about the deficit. The activists left at 11 a.m. on Friday, said Emma Bliesener, one of the protesters.

Suspect said he kept thinking of killing. SPRINGS» A 20year-old

COLORADO Colorado man charged with fatally stabbing his two youngest siblings Oct. 17 told investigators: “I can’t stop thinking about killing people.”

Prosecutors played the video of Malik Vincent Murphy’s interrogation Friday and presented other evidence during a three-hour hearing.

District Judge G. David Miller ordered Murphy to trial on two counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of 7-year-old Noah Murphy and 5year-old Sophia Murphy in Colorado Springs. He also is charged with attempted first-degree murder for stabbing his father in the attack.

Court records say Murphy told investigators that he wanted to kill everyone in the house “to be by myself,” and had been thinking about it for months. Public defenders plan to use a mental health defense.