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A woman shot in north Denver late Thursday night has died and police are now investigating the case as a homicide, authorities said Friday morning. Denver Police Department officers responded to a shooting in the 2200 block of East Bruce Randolph Avenue at around 10:20 p.m. and found one victim, the agency said in a post on X. The area is less than a mile from where Denver police fatally shot an armed man four hours earlier. The woman was later pronounced dead, Denver police said Friday morning, and officers are working to develop information about suspects. Her name will…

Denver’s real estate market experienced spring-like activity last month, with new listings increasing 11%, pending sales increasing 22%, and closed sales rising 22% over January.According to the monthly trends report from the Denver Metro Association of Realtors, the median closed price also increased 4% to $599,990.“If January is seen as a metaphor for hitting the snooze button, then February symbolizes the wake-up call to start moving,” said Andrew Abrams, a market trends committee member.“The transition from the start of the year begins as a trickle, slowly gaining momentum into summer. With February caffeinated and ready to buy and sell properties,…

Adams County Sheriff’s Office deputies on Friday captured one of two immigrants who allegedly escaped from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Aurora earlier this week.Joel Jose Gonzalez-Gonzalez was contacted by deputies responding to a report of a suspicious person in unincorporated Adams County near 64th Avenue and Beech Street, according to sheriff’s  Sgt. Adam Sherman.Gonzalez-Gonzalez was detained and brought to a sheriff’s office substation, where he was then taken into custody by ICE agents, Sherman said.Denver ICE spokesperson Steve Kotecki said the other escapee, Geilond Vido-Romero, was still at large as of Friday morning.The two reportedly escaped…

A one-of-a-kind Paul Skenes baseball card has been sold for $1.11 million after a two-week auction.There was a total of 64 bids on Skenes’ debut patch card, which is autographed and contains a patch that was on the pitcher’s jersey for his heralded major league debut in May.The final price announced by Fanatics Collect late Thursday night included a 20% buyer’s premium. The buyer was not identified. Fanatics Collect plans to donate its proceeds from the sale to the LA Fire Relief Fund.The 22-year-old Skenes is slated to make $875,000 while in the major leagues this year with the Pittsburgh…

Ken Salazar has been a high-profile politician in Colorado and nationally for nearly four decades, recently returning home after serving as ambassador to Mexico in the Biden administration. A logical question for the Democrat is, “What’s next?”He’s writing a book. He’s spending time with his family in Denver and helping out on the Salazar family ranch in the San Luis Valley.And the former U.S. senator and interior secretary is thinking through his next move.“I know what the options are. I could run for governor, and I might. I could run for national office and there’s only one and I might…

OTTAWA, Ontario — Nathan MacKinnon, Brock Nelson, Cale Makar and Joel Kiviranta all scored in Colorado’s first-period barrage and the Avalanche cruised to a 5-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night.Nelson finished with two goals — his first two since being acquired by Colorado from the New York Islanders — and Scott Wedgewood made 15 saves.Wedgewood’s shutout bid being ended by Dylan Cozens’ power-play goal with 4:41 left in the game.The Avalanche chased Linus Ullmark from the game just 17:29 in after he allowed four goals on 13 shots.It was the Senators’ second straight loss following a six-game…

Amazon is ending a little-used privacy feature that let some users of its Echo smart speaker prevent their voice commands from going to the company’s cloud.Beginning on March 28, Amazon is ending the “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” option that kept audio from being sent to Amazon’s cloud and had it process locally on the device instead.In an email sent to customers who’d been using the option, Amazon said it made the decision to “no longer support this feature” as it expands Alexa’s capabilities with generative artificial intelligence features that rely on being processed in the cloud.While the change may…

Before his stint at Park High School in Minnesota, basketball wasn’t really on Pharrel Payne’s radar. But on Thursday night, the Texas A&M junior forward/center’s presence on the court at Ball Arena was as large as he is — all six feet, nine inches of him.Texas A&M Aggies forward Pharrel Payne (21) slam dunks over Yale Bulldogs guard John Poulakidas (4) in the second half of the NCAA March Madness first round at Ball Arena in Denver on Thursday, March 20, 2025. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)His emphatic alley-oop on a lob from senior guard Wade Taylor IV with…

The run of play was against them. The crowd was against them. The basketball gods even took King Triton’s side in the final minutes after a dreadful first half of shooting from 12-seed UC San Diego.Stymied out of their offensive sets by the Tritons’ unorthodox speed-and-swarm defense, all the fifth-seeded Michigan Wolverines could do Thursday was play basketball in a 68-65 win in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Ball Arena.Vladislav Goldin, who grabbed two enormous offensive rebounds in the final minute, “did what (he) had to do.”One of them, a towering two-handed snatch on a miss off…

There are fond memories, sure. This was the building, after all, where Kevin Young watched his former Phoenix Suns close out a sweep of the Nuggets on the Suns’ dream run to the NBA Finals in 2020-21, the first year of a tenure in the desert that molded him.But really, this return to Ball Arena brought “nightmares,” as Young put it Wednesday, of trying to scheme a Jamal Murray-Nikola Jokic pick-and-roll that proved near-impossible, the attack that broke then-associate head coach Young and the Suns in a subsequent playoff series in 2022-23.“I stand by — one of the hardest teams…