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It was a weekend night in April at Williams & Graham, the trend-setting speakeasy in Denver’s Highland neighborhood, and the staff was worried federal immigration agents had shown up nearby. One of them called Tiffany Hernandez, a local bartender who had recently organized a seminar with a civil rights attorney that went over what to do in a similar situation. Hernandez reached out to the attorney, who said he would be at the bar in 20 minutes. The officers outside Williams & Graham turned out to be Denver Police officers conducting routine underage drinking enforcement rather than immigration agents, bar…

A body was discovered in a burning car early Monday morning south of Pueblo. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation launched a death investigation after a passerby called 911 to report a burning car on the west side of the frontage road along Interstate 25, according to a CBI news release. The 911 call came just after 1 a.m. Monday. The Pueblo Fire Department extinguished the fire and firefighters discovered a body inside the vehicle. The Colorado State Patrol and the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control assisted. An autopsy will be conducted by the Pueblo County Coroner to identify…

Denver police are investigating a fatal Monday morning shooting in the Central Park neighborhood. One man was killed in front of a hotel on the 3800 block of North Quebec Street, said Denver Police Department spokesman Doug Schepman. The shooting happened around 6:38 a.m. Monday. The man was taken to a hospital and died there. Police are still investigating and trying to develop suspect information, Schepman said. This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available. Originally Published: May 26, 2025 at 9:23 AM MDTsource

Jacques Bailly took a razor blade to the dictionary in 1991, revolutionizing the mechanics of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Before then, the Scripps Bee pronouncers who bestowed tricky words on the brainiacs on stage had to flip through a dictionary looking for answers whenever a contestant requested the definition or language of origin. To streamline that practice, Bailly cut out dictionary pages featuring the chosen words so the pronouncer he was assisting had all the information at their fingertips — a pre-internet feat that helped solidify his promotion to chief pronouncer more than 20 years ago. Bailly, who grew…

Moon Alert: Avoid shopping or important decisions from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. EDT today (6:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. PDT). After that, the Moon moves from TAURUS into GEMINI. The New Moon in GEMINI peaks at 11:02 p.m. EDT (8:02 p.m. PDT) Happy Birthday for Monday, May 26, 2025: Your personal independence is important. You are inspirational, dynamic and very much your own person. Work and construction are a theme this year. Create foundations both internally and externally. Take care of your health. Physical exercise is important. Stay grounded, levelheaded and organized. ARIES (March 21-April 19) ★★★★★This is an…

NEW YORK — A dual U.S. and German citizen has been arrested on charges that he traveled to Israel and attempted to firebomb the branch office of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, officials said Sunday. Federal prosecutors in New York said the man, Joseph Neumeyer, walked up to the embassy building on May 19 with a backpack containing Molotov cocktails but got into a confrontation with a guard and eventually ran away, dropping his backpack as the guard tried to grab him. Law enforcement then tracked Neumeyer down to a hotel a few blocks away from the embassy and…

More than 900 flights going into or out of Denver International Airport were delayed Sunday and another handful were canceled as thunderstorms swept across Colorado. The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop for the Denver airport at 3:45 p.m. Sunday, which lasted for an hour. During that time, all outbound flights were indefinitely delayed. As of 6:15 p.m. Sunday, 956 flights had been delayed and 11 had been canceled at DIA, according to flight tracking software from FlightAware. United delayed the most flights on Sunday, 285, and another 258 Southwest flights failed to leave the gate on time. Regional…

Visitors paid their respects for loved ones at Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver on May 25, 2025. Hundreds of volunteers with Flags for Fallen Vets helped place flags on every single grave marker of fallen vets and their family members for the weekends events. Amber Schoenrock, lead coordinator for the organization, said this year they placed 109,000 flags costing $10,000 to do. They rely on volunteers to help them place the flags as well as pick up the flags after the long holiday. Memorial Day is a day to honor and remember those who have died while serving in…

A grand total of seven tornadoes touched down in eastern Colorado last week during two separate storms, according to the National Weather Service. One EF1 and three EF2 tornadoes tore across parts of Adams, Arapahoe and Elbert counties on Sunday, May 18, destroying or damaging dozens of buildings. Another EF2 and EF1 touched down on Friday, but the strength of a third tornado spotted during that storm remains unknown, according to a preliminary damage survey released Saturday by the weather service. “Most of the observed damage was snapped power poles and trees,” meteorologists stated in the report. “One single-family residence sustained…

Parts of Colorado are as vulnerable to measles as West Texas, where the highly contagious virus has infected hundreds of people and killed two. Colorado has recorded more confirmed measles cases so far this year than it has in almost two decades. Rural pockets of the state are undervaccinated, and large counties have seen their protection erode since the pandemic. The country as a whole has more than three times as many measles cases already this year as it did in all of 2024, and federal health officials are pushing vitamins as an alternative to vaccines. “I think what’s clear…