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An Aurora man will spend the rest of his life in prison after kidnapping and sexually assaulting a hotel clerk in 2020, according to court records. Arapahoe County District Court Judge Jacob Edson sentenced 37-year-old Khafre Buxton on June 13 to 99 years to life in prison on seven felony charges, according to a news release from the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. An Arapahoe County jury in April found Buxton guilty on all charges, including two counts of second-degree kidnapping, two counts of aggravated robbery, one count of sexual assault, one count of first-degree burglary and one count of…

More than a dozen downtown bus routes will see detours, delays or boarding location changes this weekend during Denver’s PrideFest, according to the Regional Transportation District. During the Denver Pride 5K, a charity run with festivities scheduled from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, boarding locations for bus routes 10 and 12 will change, according to a news release from the transportation district. Cheesman Park will be closed to traffic during the event, so RTD passengers can access those bus routes on either side of the park, according to the news release. That’s west of Corona Street or east of York…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that states can block the country’s biggest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid money for health services such as contraception and cancer screenings. The 6-3 opinion authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch and joined by the rest of the court’s conservatives was not directly about abortion, but it comes as Republicans back a wider push across the country to defund the organization. It closes off Planned Parenthood’s primary court path to keeping Medicaid funding in place: lawsuits from patients. While Medicaid law allows people choose their own provider, it doesn’t make that…

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday granted a preliminary injunction to stop the U.S. Department of Labor from shutting down Job Corps, a residential program for low-income youth, until a lawsuit against the move is resolved. The injunction bolsters a temporary restraining order U.S. District Judge Andrew Carter issued earlier this month, when he directed the Labor Department to cease removing Job Corps students from housing, terminating jobs or otherwise suspending the nationwide program without congressional approval. Founded in 1964, Job Corps aims to help teenagers and young adults who struggled to finish traditional…

A Denver judge said Wednesday that state law doesn’t allow officials to comply with a federal immigration subpoena that Gov. Jared Polis had decided to fulfill, and he prohibited the governor from directing a senior state employee and his staff from turning over personal information to authorities. But District Judge A. Bruce Jones said he wouldn’t block Polis or other state officials from otherwise responding to the subpoena. He said, though, that he would find it “very problematic” if Polis and the state fulfilled the request, which seeks employment and health records on 35 people, without first notifying those individuals…

By Emily Weinstein, The New York Times It’s a myth that you can easily fry an egg on the sidewalk in hot weather, yet it still feels as if you could do that here in New York this week. The temperature is reaching 100 degrees, which is my cue to stay away from the sidewalk, the oven and, really, the kitchen altogether. I’ll pop some bread in the toaster or boil water for rice or pasta, but that’s about it for anything that involves the actual transfer of heat. If you, too, are looking for no-cook dinner ideas, I’ve picked…

Brandt Jobe never thought going to a hospital would be so bad for his health. A force on the PGA Tour Champions, Jobe could no longer wince through the pain three years ago, pushing him to undergo right hip surgery to prepare for the 2023 season. Jobe figured he would be good to go in four months. The procedure didn’t take. His hip didn’t work. “First of all, I came out of the surgery, and I had to have shoulder surgery from my hip surgery. You figure that out,” said Jobe, noticeably irate, in part, because had delivered nine top…

Heavy rain is expected to expected to cause flash flooding across sections of Boulder and Weld counties on Wednesday night, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasters issued a flash flood warning for Lafayette and Erie at 6:41 p.m. after weather radars showed thunderstorms had dropped an inch or more of rain and are expected to drop up to another inch. “Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly,” forecasters said. Flash Flood Warning including Lafayette CO and Erie CO until 9:45 PM MDT pic.twitter.com/vV8s2YAcQs — NWS Boulder (@NWSBoulder) June 26, 2025 There may be flooding in small creeks,…

By FATIMA HUSSEIN WASHINGTON (AP) — The budget bill championed by President Donald Trump could complicate next year’s tax filing season after the IRS lost one-quarter of its employees through staffing cuts, an independent watchdog reported Wednesday. The IRS workforce has fallen from 102,113 workers to 75,702 over the past year, according to the latest National Taxpayer Advocate report to Congress. The report Wednesday offered the first official numbers on the IRS job losses associated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. Most of the employees took the “fork in the road” resignation offer from DOGE rather than waiting to…

Investigators are still searching for leads in the death of a 27-year-old man who was shot in Denver five years ago, according to the police department. Angel De La Cruz was shot at about 2:45 a.m. on June 20, 2020, near the southbound off-ramp of Interstate 25 at 20th Street, according to the Denver Police Department. Paramedics took De La Cruz to the hospital, where he later died from his injuries, police said. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867 or online at metrodenvercrimestoppers.com. Tipsters can remain anonymous and could be eligible…