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There was an opportunity Wednesday morning for the Colorado Avalanche to celebrate a remarkable 2024-25 season. Next up will be a chance to save it and avoid seeing this roller-coaster campaign end in another postseason disappointment. Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar became the first teammates since Mario Lemieux and Jaromir Jagr in 2001 to be named finalists for the Ted Lindsay Award, which is given to the most outstanding player as voted on by the NHL Players’ Association. Now, the franchise with two of the three best players must try to avoid the same fate for the third straight season…

Homeowners across metro Denver should finally receive a reprieve from property tax increases in the next two years after county assessors reported mostly flat to declining residential property values. “This is a bit of a sigh of relief,” said Denver County Assessor Keith Erffmeyer, as he exhaled after a news conference Wednesday morning. Property owners, who have had to deal with 14 straight years of rising valuations and property tax bills, including a historic jump two years ago of 30% or higher in many places, can now breathe easier. And county assessors and their staff, who faced a flood of…

A motorcyclist died Wednesday in a Wheat Ridge crash north of Sloan’s Lake, according to the police department. At least one car and one motorcycle collided near the intersection of West 32nd Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard, less than a mile north of Sloan’s Lake, Wheat Ridge police said. Paramedics took the motorcyclist to a hospital, where the unidentified rider later died, police said. It’s not clear what caused the crash, but the intersection was closed for about three hours for the cleanup and investigation. It reopened at 11:45 a.m., police said. No other injuries were reported. Sign up to get…

The Colorado legislature is a week out from the end of the 2025 session and is working Wednesday to push bills through committee and the House and Senate floors. Several ongoing policy discussions remain unresolved, and Wednesday’s debates will include lengthy testimony and likely amendments to a transgender rights bill. This story will be updated throughout the day. 7:12 p.m. update: The Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the transgender rights bill is ending its fourth hour, with testimony expected to continue late into the evening or longer. Once testimony ends, the committee is set to consider amendments and then vote…

By CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL, Associated Press Shrimp is payday food for many, but Raul Ortega figured out how to make the shrimp taco affordable by using fewer shrimp while optimizing flavor. At Mariscos Jalisco, Ortega’s food truck in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles, the tacos de camarón, or shrimp tacos, are the main attraction. Ortega stuffs a perfectly seasoned shrimp filling into tortillas and fries the tacos to golden crispness before finishing them with tomato salsa and avocado. His recipe is a closely guarded secret, but for the recipe in our cookbook “ Milk Street 365: The All-Purpose Cookbook…

A California sheriff’s office is investigating the death of sports agent Jeff Sperbeck after he fell from a golf cart driven by former Denver Broncos quarterback and Hall of Famer John Elway on Saturday. Sperbeck, 62, rolled and hit his head on the asphalt when he fell off the cart in a private California golf community, according to TMZ. Paramedics took Sperbeck to Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs and he was put on life support before he was pronounced dead at 1:10 a.m. Wednesday, according to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office. Elway and Sperbeck were longtime friends and…

David Adelman voiced what every Nuggets fan was thinking. “It was such a Jamal game in Game 4,” Denver’s interim coach said 90 minutes before the sequel Tuesday. What he meant was obvious enough to the well-acquainted. Murray’s flair for the dramatic knows no bounds, especially at the exact moment he seems to have faded into anonymity on the floor. In an endlessly tense first-round series between the Nuggets and Clippers, he had turned in his quietest performance in Game 4 — but he made two massive shots down the stretch when nobody else could, scoring five of his 13…

Jamal Murray (27) of the Denver Nuggets dunks as Kawhi Leonard (2) of the LA Clippers watches during the fourth quarter of the Nuggets’ 131-115 win at Ball Arena in Denver on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)Christian Braun (0) of the Denver Nuggets pulls up and converts a three pointer as Nicolas Batum (33) of the LA Clippers defends during the third quarter of the Nuggets’ 131-115 win at Ball Arena in Denver on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)Christian Braun (0) of the Denver Nuggets celebrates making a late three…

A former LaSalle police officer who fatally shot a man outside a Family Dollar store while on duty was sentenced to six years in prison on Friday. Erik Gustavo Hernandez, 36, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in January, court records show. Hernandez was indicted by a grand jury on one count of second-degree murder, but a Weld County jury couldn’t reach a verdict after his trial in November. The shooting happened on May 3, 2023, when Hernandez and another officer were investigating a suspicious vehicle parked outside the Family Dollar at 165 S. Second St. in LaSalle. The vehicle’s owner, Juston…

By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — General Motors is recalling nearly 600,000 vehicles across its Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC brands in the U.S. due to potential manufacturing defects that can cause engine failure. The recall covers certain Cadillac Escalades and Escalade ESVs; Chevrolet Silverado 1500s, Suburbans and Tahoes; as well as GMC Sierra 1500s, Yukons and Yukon XLs between model years 2021 and 2024. According to recall documents published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, these vehicles share a gas engine that may have connecting rod or crankshaft component problems, due to supplier manufacturing or quality…