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Law enforcement officials are searching for an Indigenous teenager reported missing Wednesday from Englewood, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Tyrain Willow, 17, is a 5-foot-4-inch, 120-pound boy with black hair and brown eyes, according to a missing Indigenous person alert from the agency. He is affiliated with the Northern Arapaho Tribe. Tyrain was last seen at about 7 a.m. Wednesday near South Broadway and Eastman Avenue in Englewood, CBI officials said in the alert. He was wearing a white-and-black Los Angeles Dodgers hat, black jacket, black shirt, gold/tan pants and white shoes, investigators said. He may have been…

Denver police are searching for a 26-year-old man suspected of murder in an early October homicide, according to the department. A judge issued a first-degree murder arrest warrant for Gabriel Ortiz Trujillo, described as a 5-foot-6-inch, 100-pound Hispanic man with brown eyes and brown hair, Denver police said. Police said the homicide happened at about 9:25 p.m. on Oct. 3 in the 8600 block of East Colfax Avenue. Officials didn’t specify which incident Trujillo is suspected in, but previously reported a fatal stabbing near that area on that date. Paramedics took the unidentified stabbing victim to the hospital, where the man…

Denver police are searching for leads in a cold-case shooting that killed a man nearly 30 years ago, according to the department. Robert Escobedo Jr., 28, was shot and killed on Oct. 16, 1997, during an argument behind the now-defunct High Rise Lounge, 3240 W. Colfax Ave., according to the Denver Police Department. Witnesses told investigators that they saw several men leaving the scene of the shooting in a white Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck, police said. Escobedo was also seen arguing with three unidentified men before shots were fired, according to police. “Despite many years of investigative efforts, this crime…

One of the biggest decisions about the future of the Colorado Avalanche has been made. The Avalanche signed Martin Necas to an eight-year contract extension Thursday, worth $11.5 million per season, a league source confirmed to The Denver Post. Necas, who will turn 27 years old in January, would have been an unrestricted free agent after this season. Necas has seven goals and 13 points in 11 games this season for the Avs. He was the marquee asset in Colorado’s return for the Mikko Rantanen trade with the Carolina Hurricanes this past January. A Czechia native, Necas has played almost…

Saturday marks the 70th anniversary of the day the United Air Lines Flight 629 exploded over Weld County, killing 44 before crashing and spreading debris east of Longmont, an event that will be memorialized at an event on Saturday in Denver. Now, 70 years later, Philip Bearly remembers the explosion “like it was yesterday.” Bearly, who was 5 ½ years old at the time, remembers driving to his grandmother’s birthday celebration at 17th Street and Main Street in Longmont when he saw a flash. “… it was as bright as daylight,” Bearly said in an interview. The DC-6B aircraft leaving…

A Lochbuie man is accused of stealing nearly $600,000 worth of property from a Fort Lupton renewable energy company and selling it as scrap metal. Dustin Ulmer, 42, faces two counts of theft between $100,000 and $1 million, according to an affidavit for his arrest. Just before noon on Oct. 14, Fort Lupton police responded to Sphere Renewables, 13516 Weld County Road 8, on reports that an employee had been scrapping company property and pocketing the money. Managers at Sphere Renewables said they had spoken with All Recycling in Brighton and learned that Ulmer had been recycling tower feet weekly…

Honoring compassionate Coloradans 70 years after plane bombing On Nov. 1, 1955, minutes after leaving Stapleton Airport, United Airlines Flight 629 exploded over Colorado farmland, killing all 44 aboard — including my father. It was the first confirmed plane bombing on U.S. soil, caused by a suitcase bomb planted by a passenger’s family member seeking insurance money. What followed was extraordinary: Hundreds of Coloradans — farmers, ranchers, neighbors — joined law enforcement, the FBI, and National Guard in a massive search and recovery effort. Their unity and compassion became a defining moment of hope. As the daughter of one of…

Marcedes Lewis ventures from Los Angeles to Joshua Tree about every six weeks. The 41-year-old makes the trek to the desert, he said Wednesday, to “relax and just be intentional about my life moving forward.” The trips are on hold for now. Lewis had just returned to L.A. on Monday when he received a call from a Denver number. He didn’t answer. Another call. It was Broncos general manager George Paton. How does a 20th professional season sound? “They asked if I could hop on a flight tonight and I was like, ‘of course,’” Lewis told reporters here, after his…

DeAndre Jordan will be remembered as a Lob City Clipper, but Denver will always be a second home to him. It’s the city where he spent his second-longest tenancy as an NBA player, measured both by years (three) and games played (131, plus 13 in the playoffs). It’s where he finally won a championship in his 15th season. It’s where received a tribute video and warm standing ovation Wednesday night. He watched it from the other sideline. Nuggets Podcast: Jamal Murray goes off, Christian Braun gets paid and Aaron Gordon goes hyphy “Definitely some emotions for sure,” Jordan said Wednesday…

By TIM REYNOLDS, Associated Press Embattled NBA guard Terry Rozier will not receive his salary from the Miami Heat while on leave because of his arrest on federal charges related to a gambling scheme, two people with knowledge of the matter told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Feds allege Chauncey Billups was ‘face card’ in high-stakes, Mafia-backed poker scam Rozier’s salary — about $26.6 million this season, paid in installments, the first for this season having been due later this week — will be held pending resolution of the legal case, said the people, who spoke to the AP on…