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Fair play Friday-Saturday: The third annual Tennyson Street Fair begins on Friday, July 18, this year with the inaugural Berkeley Beer Festival from 5 to 8 p.m. on north Denver’s Tennyson Street, between 39th and 43rd avenues. Fifteen Colorado breweries will be in attendance, including Call to Arms, Westbound & Down, New Terrain, Cerebral, Gravity and The Empourium. Tickets to the beer fest, which also includes live music, are $25. Events at the family-friendly, farmers market-style fest start again on Saturday at 11 a.m. when more than 100 area businesses will set up alongside food trucks and live music. All…

By SALLY HO and CHARLOTTE KRAMON, Associated Press/Report for America WOODINVILLE, Wash. (AP) — Havalah Hopkins rarely says no to the chain restaurant catering gigs that send her out to Seattle-area events — from church potlucks to office lunches and graduation parties. The delivery fees and tips she earns on top of $18 an hour mean it’s better than minimum-wage shift work, even though it’s not consistent. It helps her afford the government-subsidized apartment she and her 14-year-old autistic son have lived in for three years, though it’s still tough to make ends meet. Apartment buildings are seen at the…

By MARTHA BELLISLE A group immigrants and legal advocates filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday that seeks to stop Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers from arresting migrants who appear at immigration courts for previously scheduled hearings and placing them on a fast-track to deportation. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Department of Homeland Security, Justice Department and ICE says the arrests of thousands of people at court have stripped them of rights afforded to them under U.S. immigration law and the Fifth Amendment. The large-scale immigration court arrests that began in May have…

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a prosecutor in the federal cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein, two people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Wednesday. There was no specific reason given for her firing from the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York, according to one of the people who spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters. Her termination comes shortly after she prosecuted Combs,…

By DAVID A. LIEB Twenty Democratic-led states filed suit Wednesday against the Federal Emergency Management Agency, challenging the elimination of a long-running grant program that helps communities guard against damage from natural disasters. The lawsuit contends President Donald Trump’s administration acted illegally when it announced in April that it was ending the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program. FEMA canceled some projects already in the works and refused to approve new ones despite funding from Congress. “In the wake of devastating flooding in Texas and other states, it’s clear just how critical federal resources are in helping states prepare for…

Forget the cartoons. All little John Succarde wanted to do on Saturday mornings was watch Chad LaChance. LaChance’s TV show, “Fishful Thinker,” became a staple for Colorado outdoor enthusiasts after it debuted in 2009. The educational fishing show endeared the Evergreen High School and CSU alum to anglers of all ages, including Succarde, who looked forward to watching it every weekend growing up. “The amount of information he was able to put out throughout an episode was unmatched,” said Succarde, now a 29-year-old Pueblo resident and avid outdoorsman. “He was able to explain techniques, show you different ways to rig…

Once a rough industrial area dominated by warehouses, foundries and factories, Denver’s River North Art District has rapidly evolved over the years. The area has attracted new investments and transformed into a bustling cultural hotspot, with vibrant murals, entertainment and a variety of bars and restaurants, making it a go-to destination. In 2004, area leaders and the City of Denver drafted the River North Plan to revitalize the area, and then the following year, artists created RiNo Art District, a nonprofit organization, with the desire to foster a creative community that would connect artists working and living in the area.…

A judge has ordered CBZ Management to turn over to state investigators records about how the company has run its various Colorado rental properties, including several notoriously dilapidated apartment buildings in Denver and Aurora. Denver District Judge Jill Deborah Dorancy gave CBZ and its constellation of associated companies until July 28 to comply with several investigative subpoenas from the Colorado Attorney General’s Office that were issued nearly a year ago. Dorancy wrote that CBZ and its other companies had sought to prevent the state’s “lawful investigation” into whether the landlord violated safe-housing and consumer-protection laws. Attorney General Phil Weiser’s office…

Students at the Metropolitan State University of Denver can now major in mariachi. The new degree program, Mariachi Performance and Culture, is the first of its kind in Colorado, blending musical performance, cultural studies and business. “What we’re really trying to create here is the Juilliard of mariachi,” said Philip Ficsor, MSU Denver music professor and one of the faculty members who helped develop the program, in a university publication. “That’s our goal in Denver.” The degree began as a student mariachi club founded by music professor Lorenzo Trujillo, a lifelong musician and cultural advocate, that grew into a class…

Denver officials want voters to let them change the name of the city’s Department of Excise and Licenses by dropping the word “excise.” That’s because its work doesn’t have anything to do with excise taxes. The agency — which issues licenses for restaurants, rental housing, child care facilities and marijuana shops — would be renamed the Department of Licensing and Consumer Protections. “When we say ‘Excise and Licensing,’ it just doesn’t resonate with the public — nobody understands what it means,” said Molly Duplechian, who has been with the department since 2017. “I have always wanted a name that is…