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The roar came immediately, a rising ooooOOOO reverberating throughout CU’s weight room Friday as Will Sheppard’s hand slapped dangerously close to the top of a vertical test-stick.This, for Sheppard, was nothing new. This was his element. He was a leaper in high school, once soaring for a 6-8 high jump back in his early days in Louisiana. And he needed something this Friday, after a slump at the Big 12’s pro day in late March, the CU receiver already snubbed of an invite to the NFL combine in February.So he bent and exploded, feet eventually floating back to Earth with a vertical…

Stephen Julia is about to open an Ace Hardware in a City Park West building he owns — three years later than he thought.“We’re through it, and I’m excited,” Julia said of a lengthy zoning and permitting process. “Seeing the store come together and having product in it is awesome.”The shop will start slinging tools, grills and other outdoor equipment on April 14 at 2101 Humboldt St.Ace will take up just over 8,000 square-feet of a roughly 10,000 square-foot section in the building, Julia said. That extra space means a meatier selection of grills and outdoor gear, he added.Julia hopes…

Colorado lawmakers introduce bill to expand protections for undocumented immigrants Colorado lawmakers introduced legislation Friday to expand protections for undocumented immigrants in the state, including by further limiting where federal immigration authorities can operate and how information can be shared with those authorities. Senate Bill 276‘s Democratic sponsors have been drafting the measure for weeks, and its introduction has been delayed amid negotiations with a leery Gov. Jared Polis. The measure also lands almost exactly two months after federal raids were launched across metro Denver and amid broader scrutiny of the Trump administration’s immigrant crackdown, which has included the deportation…

The NHL’s award for general manager of the year is really given to the GM of the moment.Trying to parse whether the award should go to the GM who did the most in the past year to improve his team, or if it should just honor someone who built a Stanley Cup contender over several years, has always been fuzzy. There are three finalists every year, and it’s almost always three GMs who are in the conference finals.That said, there are two obvious candidates this season. Avalanche GM Chris MacFarland and Capitals GM Chris Patrick have both done extraordinary work…

This legislative session, Colorado missed a unique and important opportunity to lead the nation in helping its military veterans access the benefits they earned in the course of serving their nation. By killing House Bill 1233 in the House State, Military, and Veterans Affairs Committee earlier this month, veterans have essentially been denied consumer protections for a necessary but largely unregulated avenue of assistance for claiming veteran benefits.The system currently available to assist veterans in accessing the benefits they earned through their service suffers from a number of inherent flaws. This stems from chronic underfunding of the Veterans Administration, a…

A Broomfield woman is suing a lodge near Estes Park after she got locked out and stuck on a balcony and had to jump off to escape, breaking her ribs, neck and back, according to court records.Diana Gathright, 60, was staying at Dao House on April 6, 2023, when she went out onto her balcony to stargaze and the door locked behind her, according to a complaint filed in Larimer County District Court on Thursday.Gathright was the only person staying at the lodge at the time. Dao House employees stay in a different building and there is no cell phone…

The saga surrounding 19 “highly sensitive” books that Colorado’s Elizabeth School District removed from its libraries last year continued Friday as the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals paused a federal judge’s order requiring the district to re-shelve the titles.U.S. District Judge Charlotte N. Sweeney on Thursday had denied an appeal from the Elbert County school district and ordered the books be returned by 5 p.m. Saturday.But the district filed an emergency motion in the 10th Circuit late Thursday and, on Friday, the appellate court issued a temporary stay on the part of Sweeney’s order that required the books be…

A woman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 2021 shooting of a 16-year-old boy in Denver.Ashlye Handy, 36, was convicted of second-degree murder on Jan. 14 in Denver District Court in the shooting death of Abrehem Yohhanes in a Denver apartment building in the 1400 block of Yosemite Street in September 2021, according to a news release from the Denver district attorney’s office.Yohhanes was discovered bleeding from his head inside an apartment by a friend about 4 a.m. Sept. 16, 2021, according to Handy’s arrest affidavit. The friend went to check on Yohhanes after receiving a screenshot…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday granted the Trump administration’s plea to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in teacher-training money as part of its anti-DEI efforts, while a lawsuit continues.The justices split 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the three liberal justices in dissent.The cuts had been temporarily blocked by a federal judge in Boston, who found that they were already affecting training programs aimed at addressing a nationwide teacher shortage. The federal appeals court in Boston turned away an appeal from the administration to allow them to resume.The emergency appeal is among several the high…

Eventually, Champ Bailey wised up to the fact that doing less meant getting paid more. Eventually, he dropped the dream he’d carried with him from Georgia to Washington, a twentysomething corner realizing he needed to protect his body, an all-time great racking up roughly $108 million in career earnings over his years in Washington and Denver.But when he first broke into the NFL as the seventh overall pick in 1999, a young Bailey wanted to play both ways. He played wideout at Georgia, good enough to lead the Bulldogs in receiving yards his senior year. The rationale was simple, as…