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The Great American Beer Festival welcomed drinkers to Denver over the weekend to experience the best in craft beer and cider, and it turns out Colorado residents don’t have to travel far to sip the best suds the industry has to offer. The festival’s prestigious awards, announced Saturday, are a testament to that. Colorado breweries and cideries made a phenomenal showing, collecting a total of 40 medals, 19 of which were gold. That is down slightly from last year’s haul of 41 medals, but the straight numbers don’t tell the full story. In 2025, three producers were honored as “brewery…

An hour or two after he finished up his player development work at Ball Arena on Wednesday, Spencer Jones was scribbling math equations on a whiteboard in Aurora. Using NBA salaries as an example, he walked through the difference between mean and median to a handful of teenagers. Four players in a sample of five might make between $2 million and $4 million per year, he explained, but if the fifth is Nikola Jokic, the mean is no longer an accurate portrayal of the real average. Jones is likely not a player you’ll hear about much this NBA season. He’s…

Flooding and broken levees along a southern Colorado creek forced mandatory evacuations in La Plata County north of Vallecito Reservoir on Saturday morning. The Upper Pine River Fire Protection District ordered immediate evacuations just after 10 a.m. for people living near Vallecito Creek after water began breaching the west side of the creek. La Plata County officials set up a shelter at Bayfield High School, 800 County Road 501, for people who evacuated. An online evacuation map from La Plata County shows mandatory evacuations along the creek, from Safley Road to the north and Mushroom Lane to the south. Heavy…

A Denver jury on Friday convicted a 33-year-old man of first-degree murder in two shootings on the South Platte River Trail in September 2023, according to the district attorney’s office. Related Articles Aurora teen sentenced to 35 years in prison for deadly rental hall shooting Man killed in Sheridan shooting; suspect arrested Pueblo woman sentenced to life in prison for murder of two children Suspect in 1994 Boulder murder to be prosecuted again after first conviction tossed in wake of CBI scandal Robert Redford’s death reignites interest in 1983 Boulder cold-case murder Tanner Ray Fielder was arrested after police connected…

Dear Eric: My daughter is in a committed relationship with a partner. My daughter insists that she will never get married. They bought a house and have a child together. We live nearby and see them often, providing backup childcare as needed. They both have good jobs. Their money is separate. They pay for things separately and have elected to not set up a joint account for household expenses. Not my concern or problem. Except that my husband and I gifted them $20,000 at the end of the year last year, no intended strings attached. It is for their household/family.…

Today is Saturday, Oct. 11, the 284th day of 2025. There are 81 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 11, 2002, former President Jimmy Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize for his and The Carter Center’s work to resolve international conflicts and advocate for human rights. Also on this date: In 1906, the San Francisco Board of Education ordered the city’s Asian students segregated into their own school. (The order was later rescinded at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt, who in exchange promised to curb future Japanese immigration to the United States.) In 1968, Apollo…

Pickleball is rapidly growing across Colorado, fueling a wave of stand-alone and all-in-one entertainment venues opening in Denver and nearby communities. No longer limited to local park courts, at least four pickleball destinations have emerged this year in Louisville, Thornton, Aurora and Denver, with several more projects underway. “You could Google indoor pickleball clubs, and there’s a lot now in the Denver Metro, but I think everybody offers a little something different. So I’m excited about it. I think there’s room for all of us,” said U.S. Army veteran Liz Tanji, who, alongside her husband Michael, recently opened Ace Pickleball…

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Jackson Brousseau followed a 73-yard touchdown run by Justin Marshall with three first-half touchdown passes and Colorado State cruised to a 49-21 victory over Fresno State on Friday night. Marshall’s long scoring run came on the third play from scrimmage for Colorado State (2-4, 1-1 Mountain West Conference) and the Rams took a 7-0 lead and never looked back. Jace Bellah picked off an E.J. Warner pass and returned it 27 yards to the Rams’ 47-yard line. Five plays later Brousseau connected with Javion Kinnard for a 29-yard touchdown and a 14-0 lead after one quarter.…

There wasn’t a lot of social media content from Nathan MacKinnon’s wedding in August, but Erik Johnson did post a couple of short videos from the festivities in Italy. It was a gathering of MacKinnon’s friends and teammates, past and present. The guy destined to hear the loudest boos at Ball Arena this season, Mikko Rantanen, was one of them. “It was great,” Rantanen said Friday after the Dallas Stars practiced at Ball Arena ahead of their first showdown with the Colorado Avalanche this season. “Unreal setup and a lot of fun hanging out with the guys. It was a…

BEREA, Ohio — Shedeur Sanders has waited patiently for his chance to play for Cleveland. He’s real close. Sanders will back up Dillon Gabriel on Sunday in Pittsburgh, meaning the Browns, who haven’t won a regular-season game on their rival’s home field since 2003, will face the Steelers with two rookie quarterbacks. Sanders has been Cleveland’s No. 3 emergency quarterback — and inactive on game days — for his first five games as the Browns, who drafted the high-profile QB in the fifth round, slowly developed him. But they think he’s now ready to be their No. 2 despite not…