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OTERO COUNTY — Spring burst across the Lower Arkansas River Valley in late March, sending farmers and their crews in this swath of southeastern Colorado hustling to prepare for another growing season.Just-turned fields filled the air with the rich scent of dirt, mixing with the tart smokiness from workers burning weeds in irrigation ditches, preparing for the return of water. Early crops of alfalfa and winter wheat peeked from the ground, hinting at the fields of green to come.As a worker maneuvered a massive leveler in the fields behind their house, Alan and Peggy Frantz pondered the future of their…

Colorado immigration lawyers are increasingly fighting their noncitizen clients’ detentions by using the same strategy at play in the challenge of activist Jeanette Vizguerra’s arrest in March.These attorneys in recent months have been filing petitions for writs of habeas corpus — requests to determine the validity of a person’s detention — in order to bring the cases before federal judges for review.  As the immigrants spend day after day in limbo inside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Aurora, the filing is a tactic that adds legal urgency — and the chance to get a federal judge…

Asher Luzzatto’s nine-figure real estate plans are getting kickstarted with a fire sale.The real estate developer – who splits time between Los Angeles and Taos – purchased an entire city block with two office towers on it and plans to convert it to apartments.“These buildings in Denver represent an opportunity to make good on my thesis that we have all of the square footage we need to build the housing we need,” Luzzatto said.He paid $3.2 million for 621 and 633 17th St., a source familiar with the deal told BusinessDen. The property record has yet to be recorded.In 2008, the…

The Timberwolves didn’t just beat the Nuggets.They broke them.Did you see Nikola Jokic gesticulating on the bench in San Francisco during a 118-104 loss to the Warriors late Friday night? As they say in Sombor, nije dobro.If you haven’t, don’t look. It’ll hurt. Like it hurt the guys on the Grading The Week crew who still proudly wear their Robert Pack replica jerseys to work.For one, it’s a third straight defeat and Denver’s fifth loss in eight games. For another, it’s the second time this season the Nuggets have lost consecutive games immediately after a loss to those Pups from…

There will come a time, if not on Sunday, then soon, when Chase Dollander will be face-to-face with the beast of LoDo.He’ll watch a bloop hit drop into the vast outfield, witness a double sail into the gap in left-center and stand amazed as a cheap home run creeps over the left-field wall, turning a well-pitched ballgame into a Coors Field special with a crooked score.Dollander understands that and says he’s prepared.“I think, mentally, I’m 100% ready,” the Rockies’ No. 1 prospect said Saturday afternoon from the dugout at Coors. “I’ve been preparing for this moment, and I’m ready to…

The Rockies pulled off a rarity Saturday night at Coors Field. They turned their first triple play in almost a decade in the second inning against the Athletics. It was the first triple play in the majors this season. Colorado’s German Marquez walked Shea Langeliers to open the inning, and Tyler Soderstrom reached first on an infield single. The Jacob Wilson hit a hard one-hopper to third baseman Ryan McMahon, who stepped on third and fired to second baseman Kyle Farmer, who threw hard to first baseman Michael Toglia to beat Wilson by a step. It was the fifth triple…

USA Cycling junior cyclist Magnus White of Boulder (Ethan Glading / Courtesy of USA Cycling) A Boulder County jury on Friday night convicted the driver who struck and killed 17-year-old rising cycling star Magnus White nearly two years ago. Jurors found Yeva Smilianska, 24, guilty of one count of reckless vehicular homicide for fatally hitting the USA Cycling junior cyclist on Colo. 119 in July 2023. Smilianska, who remains out of custody, is scheduled to be sentenced June 13. She faces a presumptive sentence of two to six years in prison, but the sentence is probation-eligible, according to Boulder County…

BOULDER — Deion did Indy better than Indy does Indy. Sean Payton held court, smiling at everybody but the scribes. A radio row loomed behind one end zone, while a DJ spun tunes behind another.Crowds cheered players who grunted through the bench press. NFL Network talking heads broke down Shedeur Sanders’ warm-up tosses like they were the Zapruder film.Who needs a scouting combine when you can hold your own CU-bine at 5,360 feet? Boulder on Friday offered many of the same touches downtown Indianapolis does in February — minus those late-night runs to the 24-hour Steak ‘n Shake. It even…

The owner of popular Denver bars and restaurants like View House, My Neighbor Felix and Wonderyard Garden & Table, is opening a new one — this time with a country and western theme.Belles & Boots, located in the former Sports Column bar at 1930 Blake St., doffs its hat for the first time on Friday, April 4, and will showcase “non-stop honky-tonk entertainment in the form of line dancing, mechanical bull riding,” and DJ sets, according to Lotus Concepts Management, which was founded by Francois Safieddine in Denver more than 20 years ago.The two-story, 4,000-square-foot space is decorated with “desert…

Never assign logic to what can be explained by ego and incompetence.This is not about a Signal text chain but the NFL draft train. It chugs down the tracks during the offseason and no one knows, as Broncos coach Sean Payton loves to say, who is driving it (Picturing Alec Baldwin as the narrator and conductor while riding on Thomas the Tank Engine makes it more fun).The Broncos have been connected to roughly 11 players with their 20th selection in the first round. The list includes multiple running backs (Omarion Hampton, Ashton Jeanty, TreVeyon Henderson), three receivers (Tetairoa McMillan, Luther…