Posted: 2:17 PM Larimer County officials hamstrung by budget cuts are waiting for a judge to approve their plan to only jail suspects who have committed the most serious crimes.

Posted: 2:14 PM Colorado lumberyards are shutting down and thousands are losing their jobs across the country as homebuilders have scaled back on construction.

Updated: 11:21 AM The Senate begins debate this week on its version of the stimulus bill and Republicans see little support from their side.

Posted: 7:51 AM The Commerce Department says GDP, the widely followed measure of the economy, shrank at a 3.8 percent pace in the final three months of 2008. That compares with a 0.5 percent decline in the previous quarter.

Updated: 7:51 PM The Walt Disney Co.'s television division is cutting 400 jobs, or about 6 percent of its work force, due to the slumping economy.

Posted: 8:04 PM Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. says it earned $18.7 million in December and had a net profit of $1.1 million for the quarter.

Posted: 8:01 PM Nine of the state's worst bridges are ready to be fixed with money from the economic stimulus being negotiated in Washington.

Posted: 3:10 PM The postmaster general says huge deficits could soon force the post office to cut out one day of mail delivery. Postmaster General John Potter says the loss could reach $6 billion this year.

Posted: 2:30 PM The plan's proposed Colorado spending includes nearly $413 million for highways and bridges, almost $95 million for mass transit, $990 million for state budget aid, and nearly $227 million for school modernization.

Posted: 9:22 AM Hoping to keep distressed borrowers in their homes, the Federal Reserve is moving ahead on a number of relief options.

Posted: 9:05 AM It isn't releasing specific numbers, but IBM has cut thousands of jobs over the past week including positions in sales, hardware and software divisions.

Posted: 7:29 PM Rising unemployment spared no state last month, and 2009 is shaping up as another miserable year for workers.

Posted: 5:12 PM Colorado's unemployment has reached 6.1 percent, the highest in more than five years.

Posted: 4:05 PM Wind power has seen historic growth and the blessing of President Barack Obama -- but it's far from recession proof.

Posted: 3:07 PM Wind power has seen historic growth and the blessing of President Barack Obama -- but it's far from recession proof.

Updated: 2:45 PM Target Corp. says it's cutting an undisclosed number of staffers in its headquarters as part of an effort to reduce expenses.

Posted: 1:49 PM Target Corp. says it's cutting an undisclosed number of staffers in its headquarters as part of an effort to reduce expenses.

Posted: 11:55 AM American Greetings Corp. says it's cutting about 200 jobs as the company adjusts for weaker sales in the ailing economy.

Posted: 7:36 PM A congressional analysis says that President Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan would flow into the economy a little more slowly than he predicted.

Updated: 2:23 PM Wall Street has managed an advance the hard way -- zigzagging in response to a mix of earnings and economic news before closing moderately higher.

Posted: 10:41 AM It's already been a lousy year for workers less than a month into 2009 and there's no relief in sight. Tens of thousands of fresh layoffs were announced Monday and more companies are expected to cut payrolls in the months ahead.

Posted: 10:08 AM A news release sent out by Home Depot Inc. stressed that the layoffs do not affect "orange box" Home Depot stores and no Home Depot employees will lose their jobs. Only Expo Design Centers and YardBIRDS will be affected.

Posted: 6:33 PM Investors will be looking to a pile of earnings reports due out this week for signs of when the economy might begin to turn around.

Updated: 6:43 PM Don't expect a quick fix to the nation's economic problems.

Updated: 4:47 PM National Hirschfeld LLC has filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but the 102-year-old Denver printing company says it still plans to close.