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The blizzard that brought travel along the Front Range to a standstill this week also apparently led to the capture of two slaying suspects fleeing the Denver area, authorities said. Police had been tracking the suspects, 23-year-old John Doubleday and 22-year-old Amie Lewis, for several days after the fatal shooting Dec. 10 of Jutte Burton, a 7-Eleven store clerk in Aurora. By Wednesday, when the blizzard hit, investigators knew the pair had made it to the southern edge of the Denver metro area, said Aurora police spokesman Detective Robert Friel. They stayed Tuesday night at a motel in Castle Rock,...

A radio commercial for a local gun shop advises Houstonians to arm themselves against "Katricians," adding to the growing tension between Houstonians and the Katrina evacuees who have been blamed for a rising crime rate. Gun shop owner and radio talk-show host Jim Pruett said Thursday he started running the ad a few weeks ago after hearing a local television interview with a Katrina evacuee living in Houston who implied he would have to turn to crime if his government assistance ran out. "There are many evacuees here who are working," said Pruett, who has owned Jim Pruett's Guns &...