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The term “debrief” has become a favorite in Sean Payton’s glossary. By simple definition, it’s the act of reviewing individual or team performance on a gameday by digesting tape in the hours and days to come. This week’s “debrief,” after the Broncos’ shaky Week 1 win over the Tennessee Titans, left Payton with one unmistakable conclusion. “I don’t know how many games I’ve called,” Payton told reporters Wednesday. “But that’s one of those where I came away from it like, ‘Man, I’ve gotta be a lot better.’” Indeed, it was not one of the more surgical performances across a 276-game…

Part of my job as a Grand Canyon educator is picking up stuff a hiker drops or leaves behind next to a trail. Some of the things I’ve found this summer lead me to wonder what the John Muir they were thinking. A fast-food burger, in the original wrapper. I suppose they left it for the timid woodland creatures, except if fast food isn’t good for us, why would critters want it? Someone’s last remains. When a hiker pointed out a shiny object off the trail, I clambered over rocks to find a sealed urn of cremains, which is illegal to…

Dear Eric: Twenty years ago, I married a man who took care of me and my kids. He tells me he loves me, brings me flowers and supports me. The problem is, he doesn’t want to be physical with me, and it is tearing me apart. I am not asking to go to the moon; I am simply asking for some physical TLC. I have asked, cried, you name it. I don’t want to twist his arm to show me some love. I tell him I am lonely, can we get a dog for some companionship, and his reply is…

Vail can once again prohibit delivery trucks from its pedestrian malls, a federal appeals court has ruled, overturning a Denver judge’s decision last year that put a stop to that ban. A divided panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decided Aug. 29 that laws regulating the trucking industry do not prevent the resort town from excluding UPS and FedEx. “These statutes ordinarily preempt local trucking regulations, but exceptions exist for motor vehicle safety,” Judge Robert Bacharach wrote. “Do these exceptions allow a town to regulate trucking companies that frequently deliver goods in a pedestrian mall? We answer yes.” Judge Gregory…

A 6,000-square-foot warehouse in Denver’s RiNo that sits next to one of the neighborhood’s new office buildings has sold. The nearly 90-year-old building at 3440 Walnut St. on a 6,250-square-foot lot sold late last month for just under $1.9 million, according to public records. That works out to $311 a square foot based on the building, or $298 based on the land. The buyer, Mountain Peak Holdings LLC, was formed by Richard Anderson. He could not be reached for comment. The property was sold by 3440 Walnut Property LLC, which bought it in 2016 for $885,000. Vincent DiPietro, who signed…

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, MARK SHERMAN and ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press OREM, Utah (AP) — Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump who played an influential role in rallying young Republican voters, was shot and killed Wednesday at a Utah college event in what the governor called a political assassination carried out from a rooftop. “This is a dark day for our state. It’s a tragic day for our nation,” said Utah Gov. Spencer Cox. “I want to be very clear this is a political assassination.” No suspect was in custody late Wednesday, though authorities were…

Group14 Engineering was an energy consultant with an office space problem. “When I joined, we were about 30 people, and now we’re 75 people. So we just kept trying to shove everybody in and knock down walls, and we’re just at a point where that’s just not working for us anymore,” said Celeste Cizik, one of the owners of the Denver company. The company spent decades in 7,500 square feet at 1325 E. 16th Ave. in City Park West. But to solve its problem, it’s moving into nearly 11,600 square feet at 1278 Lincoln St. in Cap Hill, where the alt-weekly Westword…

The Loveland Police Department posted an alert Wednesday that warns community members of scam mail containing child sexual abuse material. The alert, which was posted on X, stated that along with the sexual abuse material, the mail also contains instructions on scanning a QR code, to visit a website, or call/text a listed number to send money, with threats of blackmail if the demands weren’t met. The police department added that the content of the mail is extremely graphic and urged recipients to secure the mail and call the agency’s non-emergency line at 970-667-2151. An officer will respond, document the…

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and ALI SWENSON, Associated Press Charlie Kirk, who rose from a teenage conservative campus activist to a top podcaster, culture warrior and ally of President Donald Trump, was shot and killed Wednesday during one of his trademark public appearances at a college in Utah. He was 31. Kirk died doing what made him a potent political force — rallying the right on a college campus, this time Utah Valley University. The event was kicking off a planned series of Kirk college appearances from Colorado to Virginia dubbed “The American Comeback Tour.” His shooting was one of an escalating number of attacks…

By STEPHEN GROVES, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations and other hardline immigration measures will result in roughly 320,000 people removed from the United States over the next ten years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday in a report that also projected that the U.S. population will grow more slowly than it had previously projected. Trump’s tax and spending law, passed by Congress and signed in July, included roughly $150 billion to ramp up his mass deportation agenda over the next four years. This includes funding for everything from an extension of the…