COLORADO SPRINGS – A Colorado marijuana dispensary is opening what is thought to be the world’s first combination pot dispensary and gas station.

The Gas & Grass business opened Saturday in Colorado Springs. It is a gas station adjacent to a Native Roots medical marijuana dispensary.

Colorado does not allow pot shops to sell non-marijuana products. So the gas station and pot shop will have distinct entrances. But medical marijuana patients that shop at Native Roots will get discounts on the gasoline, similar to a grocery store loyalty program. Members of the public who don’t shop at the dispensary can also fill up at the station.

Second doctor pleads guilty in painkiller case

MONTROSE – A former Western Slope doctor has made a plea deal with prosecutors over charges that he and another physician overprescribed painkillers to patients, four of whom died of overdoses.

Sam Jahani pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy to violate controlled substances laws, health care fraud and money laundering. In return, prosecutors dropped dozens of other charges that included unlawful dispensing of a controlled substance.

Prosecutors are recommending a prison sentence of two years and forfeiture of $3.2 million from Jahani and the other doctor, Eric Peper. Peper previously pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors. Jahani is scheduled to be sentenced Feb. 8.

Jahani and Peper ran Urgent Care clinics in Delta, Montrose and Grand Junction. The clinics were shut down after federal raids in 2009.

250 drivers cited for DUI during Halloween

DENVER – Transportation officials say 250 drivers in Colorado were ticketed for driving under the influence over the Halloween weekend.

The Colorado Department of Transportation says the tickets were issued during heightened patrol that included sobriety checkpoints between Oct. 30 and Nov. 2. During Halloween weekend last year, 329 drivers were arrested on DUI charges.

The Denver Post reports the Colorado State Patrol and three police departments – Denver, Aurora and Colorado Springs – accounted for a majority of the arrests.

Man to go to trial for girlfriend’s death

PUEBLO – A judge has ruled there is enough evidence to try a man for murder in the stabbing death of his pregnant girlfriend.

The Pueblo Chieftain reports District Judge William Alexander ruled Tuesday there is probable cause to try 57-year-old Joseph Romero on charges of first-degree murder and unlawful termination of a pregnancy.

Phenia Martinez was reported missing in January after she didn’t pick up her children from school. The body of the 25-year-old woman, who was eight months pregnant, was later found in the couple’s home. Court documents say Martinez’s daughters told police the couple had been fighting on Jan. 5 and Romero threatened to kill her.

Judge finds project approval improper

SANTA FE, N.M. – The Interstate Stream Commission improperly approved two contracts involving the Gila River diversion project in southwestern New Mexico, a judge’s ruling found.

State district Judge Francis J. Mathew of Santa Fe ruled earlier this month in Santa Fe that the entire commission must retroactively pass the multimillion-dollar contracts for work on diverting water from the river.

The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed by former commission director Norm Gaume last year. Gaume argued the panel violated the Open Meetings Act when four of the nine commissioners passed the contracts in secret without getting public comment. However, the judge ruled that the commission’s approval of the contracts in public meetings before they were signed didn’t violate the state’s procurement code.

Man pleads guilty to filming children

ALBUQUERQUE – A man charged with illegally filming children in the restroom at his Albuquerque office two years ago is pleading guilty.

KOB-TV reports that Craig Highfill pleaded guilty Friday to one count of sexual exploitation of children by manufacture. Highfill must also register as a sex offender.

Prosecutors say Highfill secretly recorded children who used the restroom at his Albuquerque insurance business in 2013. They say a co-worker found a hidden camera that contained videos of her underage daughter and a friend.

Associated Press