MARIJUANA PETITION SHORT BY 66 VOTES City clears out tent encampments. 18- year- old charged with murder in Aurora couple’s deaths.

LOVLEAND » A citizen petition to bring the issue of retail marijuana sales back before Loveland voters in November was deemed insufficient on Friday, after City Clerk Patti Garcia agreed to look at more signatures.

While Garcia said in an email that registered electors have until Sept. 6 to protest the determination, ballot content must be certified by Sept. 4, and it was not clear Friday whether a protest could be submitted and evaluated in time to impact the content of the fall ballot.

Petitioners were found to have submitted only 2,822 valid signatures, just 66 shy of the 2,888 needed for the item to come before voters in November.

The language of the proposed law would allow retail marijuana businesses to operate in Loveland, which currently does not allow marijuana businesses of any kind.

BOULDER » After receiving notices to demobilize, multiple tent encampments between the Ninth Street bridge and Broadway — including “Occupy Boulder” in front of the Municipal Building — were cleared last week.

A coordinated, multidepartmental team worked to clear the encampments, according to a news release from Boulder. On Friday morning, workers cleared Occupy Boulder, where about 20 individuals were living. Of those, six were connected to services to help them out of homelessness, and several accepted transportation to the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless. The city does not know where the remaining individuals dispersed to. All personal property that people wanted to keep but couldn’t move is being stored until it can be retrieved, the release said.

An 18year- old wanted in connection with the shooting deaths of an Aurora couple was taken into custody Thursday and charged with two counts of first- degree murder.

Kyree Brown was apprehended after a short pursuit that ended near East 29th Avenue and Central Park Boulevard in Denver, according to an Aurora Police Department news release. He is accused of killing Jossline Roland and her husband, Joseph Roland, in an Aug. 14 shooting at 11763 E. Cornell Circle in Aurora. The couple were parents to five children.

Aurora police did not reveal a motive behind the shooting or what circumstances surrounded it. The news release referred questions to the 18th Judicial District attorney’s office, but a spokeswoman said she could not talk about the case.