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Living paycheck to paycheck is tough, but it is increasingly the situation for families in Denver and across Colorado. In fact, more than one-third of families in the United States would not be able to cover a $400 emergency, and nearly half have no emergency savings at all. This means that many families are one paycheck away from disaster. As a social worker and researcher, I’ve met many families like this, some of whom have landed in shelters because a single small crisis caused the economic dominoes to fall. Imagine a mom with two kids, aged 8 and 11. She’s…

By CEDAR ATTANASIO NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander was arrested by federal agents at an immigration court Tuesday after he linked arms with a person authorities were attempting to detain. A reporter with The Associated Press and other journalists witnessed Lander’s arrest at a federal building in Manhattan, the latest confrontation between U.S. agents and a Democratic politician objecting to the Trump administration’s mass detention and deportation programs. Lander was released from custody after a few hours. The U.S. attorney’s office said it was investigating his actions and would decide later whether to…

ATLANTA (AP) — The baby of a woman in Georgia who was declared brain dead and has been on life support since February was delivered early Friday morning, her mother said. April Newkirk told WXIA-TV that 31-year-old Adriana Smith’s baby was born prematurely by an emergency cesarean section early Friday, the Atlanta station reported Monday night. She was about six months into her pregnancy. The baby, named Chance, weighs about 1 pound and 13 ounces and is in the neonatal intensive care unit. “He’s expected to be okay,” Newkirk told the TV station. “He’s just fighting. We just want prayers…

Five people were injured Tuesday morning in a crash at Denver International Airport involving an off-site parking shuttle bus, airport officials said. The two-vehicle crash happened near the intersection of East 71st Avenue and North Jackson Gap Street, on airport property, at about 9:50 a.m. Tuesday, according to a Denver police spokesperson. The parking shuttle rolled onto its side during the crash, DIA officials said in a 10:41 a.m. social media post. At least two people injured in the crash were taken to the hospital with serious injuries, police said. Information about which vehicles the injured people were in at…

By Hunter Boyce, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Fluoride — it’s in your toothpaste, your drinking water and now the occasional legislative bill. Two U.S. states have already decided to stop adding it to their water supplies — a trend concerning local dental experts. Now, a new study has discovered what banning the mineral on a larger scale could mean for children and their parents. The results? Billions in added dental bills and millions of new cavities. It’s one major toothache of a projection. What would happen if the U.S. banned fluoride? Researchers out of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard School…

Denver Post Broncos writer Parker Gabriel posts his Broncos Mailbag weekly during the season and periodically during the offseason. Click here to submit a question. What’s your take on the lack of love for Bo Nix for Season 2? I feel like it’s been underplayed what a rare rookie season this guy had. Maybe it’s the Jayden Daniels effect and how Washington transformed. Maybe it’s that so many pundits thought Nix wasn’t a first-round talent and don’t want to acknowledge that Payton was right. I just don’t know how you can look at what Nix did after those first four…

Federal immigration agents arrested a Utah college student driving through Grand Junction in early June after they learned about her from local law enforcement — a situation that Colorado laws are designed to prevent. The federal agents identified the 19-year-old, who was born in Brazil, for immigration enforcement after a Mesa County Sheriff’s Office deputy pulled her over for a traffic stop on Interstate 70 near Fruita on June 5. The deputy shared information about her in a group chat that included members from several law enforcement agencies, including federal agents, the sheriff’s office said in a statement Monday. The…

A 34-year-old man was arrested Monday on suspicion of murder after a weekend shooting near Coors Field left one person dead, police said. Deonte Reshod Minyard was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder in the shooting, which happened late Saturday night in the 2200 block of Blake Street, according to a news release from the Denver Police Department. Police believe several people got into a verbal fight just before midnight Saturday near the intersection of Blake and 22nd Street, according to the release. That fight escalated into the fatal shooting. The victim will be identified by the Denver Office of…

Denver Water and the Broncos have been engaged in discussions for at least 13 months about the water utility’s 36-acre campus, which is located next to a potential stadium site. The utility confirmed the talks Monday after documents revealed regular meetings between team executives and Denver Water officials, with Denver city officials also taking part. RELATED: The $tadium Game: Inside the lucrative world of Colorado’s pro sports stadiums Denver Water’s campus is located in a spot of acute interest to the Broncos in the city’s Lincoln Park neighborhood as the team’s owners eye a potential new stadium. The utility campus…

Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow and one of the most prominent conspiracy theorists about the 2020 presidential election, defamed a former Dominion Voting Systems executive when he called him “treasonous,” a federal jury in Denver concluded Monday. The jury ruled that Lindell and his media company, Frankspeech, must pay $2.3 million in damages for his attacks on Eric Coomer, the former director of security for Denver-based Dominion. The jury found that three of the 10 cited attacks leveled by Lindell or published on his platform amounted to defamation. Coomer sued Lindell in the U.S. District Court for the District…