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Six people are injured in a four-car crash that involved a police vehicle on Monday night in Aurora, according to a post on X by the Aurora Police Department. At 8:25 p.m., police posted that there was a crash involving multiple vehicles that had shut down the intersection of Alameda Parkway and Buckley Road. An update at 9:09 p.m. added that six people — three adults and three children — were injured in the crash. One of the adults has life-threatening injuries. The police officer was uninjured, according to police. The department’s traffic unit is conducting the investigation. No further…

SAN FRANCISCO — Replacement grass will be nearby and at the ready when the Sutter Health Park sod begins to deteriorate this spring with regular play from both the San Francisco Giants’ Triple-A team and the newcomer Athletics.Given the unique circumstances of a major league club sharing its ballpark with a minor league affiliate from another franchise — the Sacramento River Cats — contingency plans are in place to maintain the grass quality.Murray Cook, Major League Baseball’s field consultant and President of BrightView Sports Turf, said both longtime head groundskeepers from the Giants and A’s have been part of efforts…

Ali Farokhmanesh brought Nique Clifford to Fort Collins, then made him a millionaire.When Clifford hit the transfer portal after leaving CU, Farokmanesh, the CSU Rams assistant who’d recruited Nique when the kid was a springy teen out of the Springs, reached out instantly for a second chance.After Nique eventually chose CSU, it was Coach Ali who helped break down No. 10’s jumper and rebuild it from the ground up.“Power in your feet,” Farokhmanesh would remind Clifford at practice. “No swimming.”As a Buff, Nique was a 33.8% shooter on 3s and 60.6% converter of free throws. An electric driver/dunker/slasher, he was…

SUN VALLEY, Idaho — Mikaela Shiffrin’s flashbacks to her November crash in a giant slalom race are happening less and less when she’s training.For her, as she deals with post-traumatic stress disorder in the discipline, that’s major progress. While the other racers compete in the GS on Tuesday at World Cup finals in Sun Valley, Shiffrin plans to squeeze in some training in the slalom. It will be the American standout’s only event of the weeklong finals after not qualifying in giant slalom. The two-time Olympic champion revealed last month that she’s suffering from PTSD after falling in the GS…

Half a million dollars for marijuana growing efficiency? Cut.Thirty-eight million dollars for school bus electrification? Cut.Seventy-two million dollars to promote alternate transportation? Cut.And so on. Dollar by dollar, through programs big and small, whether by “haircut” or outright elimination, Colorado lawmakers have spent months sifting through the state’s $16 billion state budget looking for more than $1 billion in cuts to state spending.Budget-writing lawmakers have described the decisions as gut-wrenching and compared the cuts to ranking the worst days of their lives. They’ve responded with rage and tears as they try to protect programs for kids, and fretted over what…

Jose Avila, the chef behind Denver’s La Diabla Pozole y Mezcal, has built a national reputation over the past few years for his rich takes on regional Mexican cuisine, like his five kinds of pozole, birria street tacos, a whole fish on a trompo, mole dishes and even an annual festival de bichos, which elevates humble maguey worms and crickets to Michelin-recommended status.But rather than create fine dining experiences, Avila has made sure his approach is representative of the “real Mexico” – no frills, just great service and food. “I want to see your face here two, three times a…

Daniel Brenner, Special to the Denver PostPresident Donald Trump’s portrait hangs in the rotunda gallery of the Capitol in Denver on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019. President Donald Trump took to social media Sunday night to complain about what he called a “distorted” portrait of himself hanging in the Colorado State Capitol’s Gallery of Presidents. “Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves, but the one in Colorado, in the State Capitol, put up by the Governor, along with all other Presidents, was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before,” Trump wrote in his…

Brackets, busted.The handful of remaining perfect brackets in the NCAA Tournament busted out on Sunday, ending the hopes of millions against exceptionally long odds.The final perfect brackets on Yahoo Sports and CBS Sports were shredded with Saturday’s games. Top-seeded Florida’s 77-75 win over two-time reigning national champion UConn continued the carnage on Sunday.Duke’s 89-66 win over Baylor left one remaining perfect bracket on ESPN’s tracker and it didn’t last long. That bracket imploded with Kentucky’s 84-75 win over Illinois, creating 24.3 million imperfect brackets.The Wildcats’ win also killed off the last bracket of the 34 million on the NCAA’s platform.Michigan’s 91-79 win over Texas A&M on Saturday night shredded…

An Aurora police officer on Monday shot and injured a teenager who was armed with a knife and “prowling” around an apartment complex, according to the police department.At about 3:18 a.m. Monday, officers were patrolling near an apartment building at 1035 South Elkhart Way and saw a 16-year-old boy “prowling” in the area, Division Chief Mark Hildebrand said in a news briefing.The apartment complex is near the intersection of East Mississippi Avenue and South Chambers Road in Aurora’s City Center neighborhood.The teen, who has not been publicly identified, “took off running” as soon as officers arrived, Hildebrand said. A few…

The Rockies’ opening day, 26-man roster is set after a series of surprising, late decisions.The most significant move came Sunday when manager Bud Black announced that veteran Nick Martini, 34, made the team while outfield prospect Zac Veen did not. Veen, 23, part of the Rockies’ youth movement, will begin the season at Triple-A Albuquerque.The Rockies hope Veen will be motivated by the move, accept the challenge to improve several aspects of his game and, eventually, knock down the big-league door. They also want to ensure that he gets at-bats every day.“He’s showed a lot of positives in this camp…