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The Colorado driver in a wrong-way crash on the New Jersey Turnpike that killed four teenagers over the weekend was charged Tuesday in their deaths, according to court records. Christopher Neff, 41, faces four counts of aggravated manslaughter, four counts of vehicular homicide and multiple weapons charges for a gun and ammunition found in his car, according to New Jersey court records. Neff is accused of driving a Dodge pickup truck the wrong direction down the highway in Carneys Point Township, crashing head-on into the teenagers’ car. A semitrailer then hit the Mazda from behind, according to the Carneys Point…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It has been just seven months since Bangot Dak and Sebastian Rancik last took the floor at T-Mobile Center. In that time, the entire universe of Colorado men’s basketball has transformed around the pair of young, versatile forwards. Only four rotation players remain for the Buffaloes from when Houston eliminated them in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Conference tournament at T-Mobile Center in March. Role players a year ago who were still finding their footing as significant contributors at the power conference level, Dak and Rancik returned to T-Mobile Center on Wednesday, taking another step in…

The day finally arrived for Denverites to find out if love is truly blind for the couples on Netflix’s reality series “Love is Blind” and there’s only one way to put this: No. The show, which landed in the Mile High City for its ninth season, came to a dramatic conclusion this week and made history as the first season in the franchise with zero successful marriages. You read that right: Not a single couple that got engaged sight unseen said “yes” at the altar and to a life thereafter, a record that puts “Love is Blind” in the company…

Denver Post sports writer Patrick Saunders with the latest installment of his Rockies Mailbag. Pose a Rockies- or MLB-related question for the Rockies Mailbag. Patrick, how’s the search for our new general manager going? There’s a name I haven’t heard mentioned, but I think it would be good. How about Kim Ng? She built a Marlins team that made the playoffs. The Marlins! I think she would do wonders here. — Marshall, Parker Marshall, the Rockies are narrowing their list of finalists for the head of baseball operations. That process could be finished by the end of this week, and…

A 32-year-old Denver driver was arrested on suspicion of fleeing the scene of an Aurora hit-and-run that killed a pedestrian Tuesday night, according to the police department. Aurora officers responded to the hit-and-run on East Colfax Avenue, between Laredo Street and Chambers Road, at about 6:40 p.m. Tuesday, according to a news release from the police department. An unidentified man was crossing Colfax when he was fatally struck by the driver of a GMC SUV, who fled the scene, police said in the news release. “The pedestrian was not in a crosswalk and did not have the right of way,”…

Chris Sempeles gets his cheese whiz from back east and his hoagie rolls from a local bakery owned by a Pennsylvania native. “I don’t want to serve a half-assed cheesesteak,” he said. The 36 year old, along with two of friends, purchased 674 Santa Fe Drive earlier this month for $690,000 from a private trust fund, according to public records. That amounts to $362 per square foot for space that was previously home to a head shop. “It was the tippy-top of our budget, but we hadn’t seen a space this good check all of our boxes ‘til here,” Sempeles…

With the Nuggets’ season opener around the corner, sportsbooks are putting Denver among the favorites to win it all in 2026. The Nuggets have +550 odds — meaning a $100 bet would win $550 — to win the NBA championship, according to BetMGM. They have the second-best odds behind the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder (+240). Renck: Nuggets gave Nikola Jokic everything he needs. Now watch him cement his legacy. Denver is still second, according to Draftkings Sportsbook, at +600. The Nuggets’ odds are a little worse with Fanduel Sportsbook, coming in at third at +700. The Thunder (+210) and…

Most Colorado homeowners do not have enough insurance coverage to rebuild their house after a total loss. That’s according to our new research examining whether homes destroyed in Colorado’s Marshall Fire — which burned more than 1,000 houses in suburban Boulder County — have been rebuilt. We are economists who study the financial resources available to households to cope with disasters, including insurance, crowdfunding and federal disaster aid. Over the past five years, insurance premiums in Colorado rose nearly 60%, driven by mounting losses from wildfire, hail and other disasters. These patterns are not unique to Colorado. They reflect a…

He’s a marble doorstop chiseled by Michelangelo. A lead guitarist playing bass. A soloist propping up the chorus. Aaron Gordon is an All-Star who dresses up as a “role player” every Halloween. Only his Halloween lasts nine months. “We have so much talent on the offensive side. I’m not even really worried about it,” Gordon said of his 2025-26 Nuggets, whose regular season tips off Thursday night at Golden State. “… I’m gonna just take what is open for me and do what I can to take the pressure off of us if the game gets stymied.” All the shots Michael…

Denver prosecutors on Tuesday opened their long-awaited criminal case against former business owner Jay Bianchi, who is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting three women at his Grateful Dead-themed bars between 2020 and 2024, as well as drugging another man and a woman during that time period. “This is not about character or lifestyles or choices the victims may have made,” said Bree Beasley, chief trial deputy at the Denver District Attorney’s office, and a sexual violence specialist, in her opening statements. “It’s not a memory test … (and) it’s absolutely not some kind of gigantic conspiracy against Jay Bianchi.…