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How passengers, some with their carry-on luggage in hand, evacuated an American Airlines plane that caught fire at Denver International will be part of the federal investigation into the incident, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.Photos showed passengers scrambling out on a wing above the smoke as ground crew members tried to get the bridge to DIA in place and positioned slides and ladders.“Evacuation procedures will be part of the investigation,” an NTSB email said. The role of the bridge, in particular, “is something the investigators are looking into.”An NTSB-led team has been investigating at DIA since the incident…

A 14-year-old boy with a cognitive impairment reported missing Monday evening from Erie has been found safe, according to the Erie Police Department. The teenager was last seen at about 5 p.m. Monday near Piney Creek Lane and Longs Peak Drive in Erie, Colorado Bureau of Investigation officials said in an Endangered Missing Person Alert. Officials said in an 8:28 a.m. update on Tuesday that the boy had been found safe. Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day. Originally Published: April 1, 2025 at 7:23 AM MDTsource

Olive & Finch is flying into Golden Triangle.The local cafe chain, started by Mary Nguyen in 2013, will open a sixth location at 1140 Bannock St. in the fourth quarter this year, according to Callie Sumlin, a spokesperson for the business.The 4,200-square-foot space will be on the ground floor of Dryden, a recently completed apartment complex developed by Charlotte, North Carolina-based Quarterra.Permit filings submitted to the city show the spot will have a 460-square-foot patio able to fit 30 people.The indoor dining area, which appears to have a counter-service layout similar to Nguyen’s other locations, can hold up to 113,…

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Ask Sean Payton where his team improved most from his first year to his second in Denver, and the list gets long quickly.Quarterback play is up there. So, too, is just about every defensive metric from sacks to pressures and red zone defense.Another major change: Payton insisted from the start of 2024 that the group had better leadership and more chemistry.That manifested in a 10-7, playoff-drought-ending season that took most around the NFL by surprise.As the Broncos now try to vault into true contention in the AFC, Payton and general manager George Paton sought more of…

By BEN FINLEYPresident Donald Trump ‘s administration has acknowledged mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a notorious El Salvador prison but is arguing against returning him to federal custody in the United States because of alleged gang ties.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials admitted in a court filing on Monday night to an “administrative error” in deporting the 29-year-old man, generating immediate uproar from immigration advocates.Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was arrested on March 12 after completing a shift as a sheet metal worker apprentice at a construction site in Baltimore, according to a complaint filed in…

Colorado Republicans have elected a former county treasurer as their new chairwoman as the party seeks to reverse recent trends of electoral losses and intraparty conflict.Brita Horn, who previously served as the Routt County treasurer, was elected Saturday to a two-year term. She won on the second ballot at the party’s reorganization meeting in Colorado Springs, beating former state Rep. Lori Saine. Horn, who won out over a field of six other candidates vying for the state’s top Republican posting, succeeds former state lawmaker Dave Williams, who did not seek another term as chair.Brita Horn, the new chair of the…

The maker of Egg Beaters and Bob Evans liquid eggs is recalling thousands of pounds of product that may be contaminated with a bleach cleaning solution, including those sold in Colorado, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.Michigan-based Cargill Kitchen Solutions announced the recall of 212,268 pounds of liquid eggs on Friday after someone submitted a tip to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.Liquid eggs sold in Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois and Iowa and sent to distributors in Ohio and Texas were also included in the recall, and it’s possible the product was distributed nationwide.Federal officials do not expect…

Student-athletes at Colorado colleges can now be paid directly by their schools under a bill signed by Gov. Jared Polis, though the law did not come without some heartburn about public transparency.Polis signed House Bill 1041 into law Friday to bring Colorado in line with recent court rulings that allow schools to pay their student-athletes directly. But the law also carves out the athletes’ contracts as exempt from the state open records law.In a signing statement, Polis said he supported the bill’s aims and keeping Colorado collegiate athletics competitive — but he had “concerns” about the exception.“While the bill’s exception…

By Kausar Ahmed, The New York TimesThe night before Eid al-Fitr, the festival of breaking the Ramadan fast, markets in Karachi, Pakistan, bustle with preparations. This evening, which this year falls on Saturday, is known as Chand Raat, or the sighting of the moon, and is filled with last-minute shopping, intricate henna applications and, of course, cooking.Among the many delicacies on the Eid trolley of sweet and savory, sheer khorma remains a classic. Each cook has a style of making the creamy pudding, with ghee-fried vermicelli simmered in sweet milk, cloves, cardamom and fried slivered nuts. Sometimes it’s thin and…

By AMANDA SEITZ and MATTHEW PERRONEWASHINGTON (AP) — As they readied to leave work Monday, some workers at the Food and Drug Administration were told to pack their laptops and prepare for the possibility that they wouldn’t be back, according to an email obtained by The Associated Press.Nervous employees — roughly 82,000 across the nation’s public health agencies — waited to see whether pink slips would arrive in their inboxes. The mass dismissals have been expected since Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced last week a massive reorganization that will result in 20,000 fewer jobs at the Department of Health…