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Dear Eric: An old high school girlfriend of my husband’s (more than 40 years) creates social media posts about him and tags him, including photos of him or of the two of them together. In my husband’s defense, he has always responded or reacted appropriately with only a short neutral comment or reaction. On our shared desktop one day, I was signing him out of his email to sign into mine because he never signs out making this a normal routine. While I was doing this, I saw an unread email inviting him to connect with her on another business…

David Adelman didn’t just “win” his introductory news conference. He throttled that thing the way the Thunder throttled his Nuggets in Game 2. It was over from the jump. Only in a good way. The basketball wonks on the Grading The Week (GTW) crew are not too proud to admit when they dig what they hear. And our hoopsters found themselves nodding an awful lot while Adelman formally offered up his platform as the new full-time head coach for the 2022-23 NBA champs. Conditioning? Oh, yeah! A focus on shooting? Preach! More wacky defenses? Hallelujah! (Your most indispensable players, Nikola…

LAKEWOOD — As a freshman last year, Michael Kroll hurt his elbow right before the season, threw only one inning on junior varsity and didn’t pitch at all in the summer after breaking the ring finger on his pitching hand. Fast forward to Friday, and the sophomore right-hander put an exclamation point on a breakout campaign, throwing a complete game to propel Regis Jesuit back into the Class 5A baseball championship. Kroll outdueled Grandview ace Ethan Wachsmann as the Raiders beat the Wolves, 2-1, at All-Star Park. Kroll allowed one run on three hits, while Wachsmann also allowed one run…

The Front Range’s summer ozone pollution season begins Sunday and with it comes the annual warnings about being careful when working or playing outdoors on high-pollution days. A new analysis of where ozone pollution is most intense shows that even escaping to the mountains may not prevent people from breathing dirty air. In recent years, high ozone levels have been detected at Chatfield State Park, South Table Mountain in Golden, Boulder Reservoir and Rocky Mountain National Park, according to online maps created by the Colorado Public Interest Research Group. “It makes it clear there’s too much ozone pollution not only…

When Mets star shortstop Francisco Lindor led off the first inning with a home run, it already felt like the Rockies were in deep trouble. The Rockies’ track record told us so. When Lindor led off the eighth with another solo blast, those feelings were confirmed. The Mets beat the hapless Rockies, 4-2, on Friday night at Citi Field as Colorado continued to make the worst kind of history. The Rockies lost their sixth straight and slid to 3-26 on the road. And here’s the kicker: Colorado’s overall record is an almost unfathomable 9-48, putting them on pace to go…

Eastbound Interstate 70 has reopened between east Vail and Vail Pass after the highway was closed for a crash on Friday afternoon, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. Related Articles Texas man gets 36 years to life in prison for human trafficking in Colorado Fort Collins man arrested on suspicion of kidnapping Aurora woman after 30-mile car chase Westbound I-70 reopens near Glenwood Springs after crash closed roadway Westbound I-70 reopens near Eagle after crash Body of missing person found near Frisco The crash was reported just after 4 p.m. and closed the roadway between exit 180 and exit…

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials killed a gray wolf from the Copper Creek Pack linked to four livestock attacks on the Western Slope this month, the agency said Friday. This is the first wolf that state wildlife staff have killed because of attacks on domestic animals, though federal officials in Wyoming killed a collared Colorado gray wolf in March after connecting it to attacks on sheep. CPW staff killed wolf 2405, a male pup, on Thursday night after state officials confirmed a wolf from the Copper Creek Pack killed two calves and injured three calves and a cow in attacks…

Two conservative Colorado counties — Weld and El Paso — along with the city of Aurora have been removed from a list of “sanctuary jurisdictions defying federal immigration law” a day after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued it. And there are likely more removals in Colorado to come. Drew Sexton, a spokesman for U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s office, said the Republican congresswoman and her staff “have been working around the clock with state legislators, county commissioners and DHS” to get jurisdictions that have passed resolutions declaring they cooperate with federal immigration authorities off the list. Boebert, who represents…

The Colorado Avalanche has signed its top goaltending prospect to his first NHL contract. Ilya Nabokov, the club’s first selection in the 2024 NHL draft, signed a two-year, entry-level deal Friday. Nabokov, who turned 22 years old in March, has been one of the top goaltenders in the KHL over the past two seasons. He helped Metallurg Magnitogorsk capture the Gagarin Cup in 2024, earning league rookie of the year and playoff MVP honors. That persuaded the Avalanche to select Nabokov in the second round with the 38th pick of the draft after he had been passed over previously. Nabokov…

Four orangutans had to be tranquilized and moved back into their enclosure after a malfunctioning door allowed them to escape into a service hallway Wednesday at the Denver Zoo Conservation Alliance. Spokesperson Jake Kubie said the one male and three female apes did not come into contact with zoo guests after entering the employees-only area, but the exhibit was closed to the public when workers became aware of the breach about 3:45 p.m. “Everybody’s back to normal, and operations are back to normal,” Kubie said Friday morning. “These events are very rare, but our animal care teams are prepared for…