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Through the first road trip of the season, the Rockies’ starting pitching looks like it’s ready to win the World Series.The rest of the club? It’s looking very much like the 100-loss teams of the past two years.Colorado lost 3-1 to Philadelphia on Thursday at Citizens Bank Park, dropping to 1-5 as the Rockies return to LoDo for the 2025 home opener on Friday against the Athletics.For the sixth straight game to open the season, the starting pitching was strong. The Rockies’ starting ERA stands at 1.35. Yet Colorado only has one win to show for its starters’ excellence, as…

A multifamily building caught fire in east Denver on Thursday morning, according to the Denver Fire Department.Firefighters were called to the building near Fairmount Drive and East Alameda Avenue at around 7:30 a.m., agency officials said on social media. The area is near Denver’s Windsor and Lowry Field neighborhoods.Crews found smoke coming from the building when they arrived but managed to get water on the fire and started overhauling it, according to the department.No injuries were reported. Department officials did not say how many people were displaced by the fire and could not immediately be reached for comment.This is a…

New investors — Silicon Valley VCs and mom-and-pop landlords — are flocking to a Denver startup that just leased a new headquarters.Flock Homes Founder Ari Rubin (Courtesy Flock Homes)Flock Homes, which buys homes that are pooled in a REIT-styled fund, raised a $22 million round last month, according to SEC filings.That brings the Andreessen Horowitz-backed firm to nearly $50 million raised since its founding in 2020, when it raised $1.7 million. Flock also raised $26 million in 2022.Though founder Ari Rubin declined to comment on the specifics of this round, he said the company will start buying new types of…

Gas stations across Colorado would have to post a sticker warning drivers that their fuel use contributes to climate change under legislation that narrowly passed the state House on Wednesday.House Bill 1277 squeaked out of the chamber with 33 votes, the minimum needed to clear the chamber; 30 representatives voted no, with some Democrats joining Republicans. The measure will now advance to the state Senate.If passed, it would essentially establish a prominent warning requirement similar to the labels affixed to cigarette packages for decades. By July 1, 2026, gas stations and other fuel retailers would have to display a sticker…

Five people suspected of burglarizing 21 homes in Aurora have been formally charged by the Arapahoe County District Court.The suspects, all Colombian nationals, each were charged with criminal attempt to commit second-degree burglary and conspiracy to commit second-degree burglary,but the charges still could be changed or modified, Eric Ross, spokesperson for the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s office, said.They are being held in an Immigrant and Customs Enforcement detention facility.The suspects are accused of robbing 21 Aurora homes by placing cameras around victims’ houses and trackers in their cars, following and watching them, and then using WiFi signal jamming technology to…

A missing 14-year-old boy may be in the Denver area after leaving Rifle with a woman on Tuesday, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.Austin Mairel was last seen near the 1100 block of East Eighth Street in Rifle on Tuesday getting into a vehicle with 19-year-old Aaliyah Quintanilla, the agency said in an endangered missing person alert.Austin and Quintanilla’s last known location was the intersection of Santa Fe Drive and West Seventh Avenue in Denver. Police are concerned for his safety, according to the alert.Austin is described as white; 5 feet, 10 inches tall; and 140 pounds with brown…

To understand how Connor Caponi has impacted the DU Pioneers amid their pursuit of a third national title in four seasons, rewind the tape to his senior year at Culver Military Academy in Indiana.As a senior star on one of the country’s top prep hockey teams back in 2018, Caponi was all intensity and aggression. One time, that meant laying the hammer down with a series of checks that reversed the course of a game in which Culver was getting dominated by a bigger opponent.“He kept looking back at me like, ‘Can I go?’” recalled Steve Palmer, Caponi’s coach at…

You gotta wonder if Kyle Freeland was born under a bad sign. Because, once again, if it wasn’t for bad luck, he would have no luck at all.The veteran lefty pitched his heart out Wednesday night, but once again, the Rockies were left singing the blues after a 5-1 loss to the Phillies at Citizens Bank Ballpark.Freeland was charged with three runs on nine hits, but his line doesn’t tell the whole story. The Phillies dinked and dunked their way to those runs on a frigid night when the baseball gods smiled down on them.And on a night when the…

By public-address decree, patrons of Ball Arena are prohibited from sitting down until the home team scores its first points. They were left standing and stewing in awkward silence during an early Michael Malone timeout three minutes into an unusual Nuggets game on Wednesday night.The rest of the night wasn’t so bleak, but the ominous start did accurately forecast the result. Denver’s entire starting lineup (and then some) took a desperately needed PTO day, and the San Antonio Spurs held off what was left of the Nuggets, 113-106.Consider it the cost of doing business after Nikola Jokic played 53 minutes…

An injured baby great horned owl that was discovered and reported to Broomfield police near the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield on Tuesday is expected to fully recover, according to Broomfield animal services officers.Broomfield Police Department’s Animal Services unit found the owlet near a hangar with several broken feathers, according to Broomfield police public information officer Sgt. Todd Dahlbach. He said the animal services officers believe the baby owl likely fell from a building while trying to fly.Officers brought the owlet to the Birds of Prey Foundation for treatment and rehabilitation. The young bird happily obliged to being weighed…