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Exactly two minutes before the 2022 trade deadline hit, Phillies bench coach Mike Calitri came strolling out to center field, and a 24-year-old Mickey Moniak knew his time in Philadelphia was done. He was the league’s No. 1 pick in 2016. But his star dulled across six years, yanked up and down and across the farm. At 5:58 p.m. ET that August, Calitri slung an arm around Moniak and walked him to the dugout. Whispering pleasantries. Whispering thanks. And as his cleats moved across the outfield grass in Atlanta to his next stop, Moniak was convinced he was getting traded…

For Ballpark businessman Jon Van Sistine, 1010 Park Ave. was love at first sight. “Its an amazing building. I used to drive by on the street everyday. I would always tell my wife that’s the most beautiful building in Denver,” he said. Last week, Van Sistine purchased the 12,200-square-foot, three-story building for $6.5 million from Open Studio Architecture, the firm that developed the property in 2018 and has its office on the second floor. Van Sistine’s plan is to turn the building’s upper floors into a 16-room hotel. Tapville Social’s first-floor bar will stay where it is. The building lends…

Tamara Rhone wants to know what happened to a showcase inside Denver’s Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library that displayed memorabilia from her father’s pioneering Black law firm. A few months ago, staff removed the display case in the library’s upstairs museum and all of the belongings inside it. The collection that represented her father, Robert Rhone, and his law partner, Irving Andrews, is still missing. “I used to come up on the second and third floor and bathe in the history,” Rhone said. “We need to know our history. Our children need to know our history. This was the facility…

Bo-gus for Bo Nix. The Broncos quarterback continues to create suspicion about his rookie season. It traces back to his draft status, his skillset and that last season in Auburn that some people cannot seem to forget. With training camp two months away, social media feeds populate with rankings. While respecting the work involved, two created irritation. Pro Football Focus ordered all 32 projected starters this week, dividing them into seven tiers. It began with the elite (Patrick Mahomes, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen) and ended with low-enders who are not long-term options (Joe Flacco, Anthony Richardson, Mason Rudolph,…

A metro Denver man kidnapped four women at gunpoint and sexually assaulted them after he found them on hookup websites, according to an arrest affidavit. Glen Orion Meridith, 36, was arrested May 13 on suspicion of eight counts of sexual assault, three counts of kidnapping and menacing and one count of assault related to drugging a victim. Aurora and Denver police identified Meridith while investigating four assaults across the two cities in December, January, February and March, detectives wrote in the affidavit. The assaults followed a similar pattern — Meridith would meet the women, some of whom were escorts, through…

BY MATTHEW LEE, AAMER MADHANI and SEUNG MIN KIM WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is ordering a massive overhaul of the National Security Council that will shrink its size and return many career appointees back to their home agencies, according to two U.S. officials and one person familiar with the reorganization. The move is expected to significantly reduce the number of staff at the NSC, according to the officials, who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive personnel matter. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been serving as national security adviser since early this month following the ouster of Mike…

Nuggets center Nikola Jokic was a unanimous First-Team All-NBA selection for the 2024-25 season, the league announced Friday. Jokic, 30, has made the All-NBA team seven consecutive years. He is the 29th player in league history and the sixth active player to receive First-Team honors in five seasons. The other active players in that club are Luka Doncic, James Harden, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kevin Durant and LeBron James. Jokic was named the MVP runner-up to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander earlier this week. This was the second year of positionless voting for All-NBA teams. Under the previous system, only one center was eligible to make…

A Commerce City woman was injured after she opened a glass jar labeled “to my enemies” and it emitted an unknown gas that burned her face, police officials said. The woman found the jar in her yard in the 6700 block of East 72nd Avenue on May 15, the Commerce City Police Department said in a video posted on social media. She reported the incident to police Sunday night after she sought medical treatment, police officials said. The jar also contained a letter, debris and nails. Investigators are still looking into who made it and left it. Sign up to…

Gov. Jared Polis vetoed legislation Friday that would’ve instituted a slew of new security and reporting requirements on ride-share companies like Uber and Lyft. Though the governor also directed state regulators to take steps to improve rider safety, the bill’s sponsors blasted his rejection of the legislation as a decision to side with tech companies. In a letter describing his veto of House Bill 1291, the governor acknowledged the need for tighter regulations on ride-share companies. But he was swayed to reject the bill in part because of Uber’s threat to leave the state if the bill were signed into…

Several tornadoes touched down on Colorado’s Eastern Plains on Friday night but did not appear to cause extensive damage, National Weather Service forecasters said. Trained spotters and storm chasers submitted five reports of tornadoes between 5:09 p.m. and 6:11 p.m. in Logan and Washington counties, according to the agency. One person reported tornado damage to a home near Fremont Butte and another reported damage to two silos near Messex, a ghost town between Brush and Sterling. No injuries were reported. Tornado warnings for the area expired at 6:30 p.m. and severe thunderstorm warnings were in effect until 7:15 p.m. It…