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Denver’s Office of the Medical Examiner on Friday announced skeletal remains found last year near Cherry Creek are those of an Indigenous woman who had been missing since May. The remains of Marcie Fairchild, 56, were discovered in October near Cherry Creek South Drive and Holly Street. Colorado’s Bureau of Investigation had previously published an alert regarding Fairchild’s disappearance, identifying her as a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes and saying she was last seen in the 1400 block of Poplar Street. The Office of the Medical Examiner said the cause and manner of Fairchild’s death remain under investigation.…

A male inmate was pronounced dead Saturday morning at Denver’s Downtown Detention Center, according to the Denver Sheriff Department.The department wrote in a news release that the inmate was found unresponsive in a housing unit at the jail about 6 a.m., and a medical emergency team tried unsuccessfully to revive him.Deputies did not say what may have caused the inmate’s death.“To ensure the investigation is not compromised, we are limited in what information can be shared at this time,” the department wrote.Denver police are investigating the incident. The inmate will be identified by the medical examiner’s office, which also will…

Colorado lawmakers are again seeking to provide more protections for police officers who report misconduct within their own agencies, taking a more compartmentalized approach nearly a year after a first attempt sparked resistance from a wide swath of law enforcement officials.This time around, Democratic Reps. Jennifer Bacon and Chad Clifford spent months in negotiations and meetings with Colorado’s police chiefs, rank-and-file officers and county sheriffs across multiple working groups. The result is a whistleblower-protection measure, House Bill 1031, that is the first of what may become a four-bill package of overlapping law enforcement reforms that sprang from those negotiations and…

EDMONTON, ALBERTA — The Colorado Avalanche and Edmonton Oilers produce brilliant hockey games when they face each other.Colorado showed Friday night that it can throw haymakers with arguably the best roster in the NHL. Now the Avs have 25 games to make sure they don’t need to see Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and friends until the second half of the NHL’s playoff tournament.Nathan MacKinnon had a four-point night, and Cale Makar scored twice to help the Avs win a wild one, 5-4, at Rogers Place. MacKinnon set up Martin Necas for the game-winner with 4:22 remaining after Colorado had blown…

Regional Transportation District officials on Friday announced the end of slow zone speed restrictions for northbound D Line light rail trains and the shortening of a slow zone along the E and H lines as part of the agency’s catch-up maintenance to fix and replace deteriorating tracks.But riders on the RTD’s A Line between Denver International Airport and the Peoria Station will be diverted to bus shuttles on Saturday, Feb. 15 to facilitate track maintenance.Next week, riders on RTD’s H and R lines along the Interstate 225 corridor between the Florida and Southmoor stations also will face temporary delays as…

A Colorado Tesla dealership was vandalized after someone tried to set it on fire early Friday morning and left graffiti that was “offensive and hateful in nature,” Loveland police said.Officers responded to the dealership near the intersection of U.S. 34 and U.S. 287 around 7 a.m. Friday and found someone had attempted arson and vandalized the building and some vehicles with graffiti, the department said in a news release.Loveland police declined to release further information about the graffiti or say whether it was directed at a specific person or group, but CBS Colorado reported it included a spray-painted message, “Nazi…

SAN DIEGO — Tiger Woods committed Friday to playing the Genesis Invitational at Torrey Pines, returning to one of his favorite venues for his first PGA Tour start since the British Open last July.Woods will be playing — and walking — 18 holes in competition for the first time since he had a microdiscectomy in September to alleviate pain down his legs, his sixth surgery on his lower back. He will compete just over a week after the loss of his mother, Kultida Woods, who died Tuesday at age 80.Woods is the host of the Genesis Invitational, which was moved…

The basketball skill that Denver misses most about Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was a subject of banter between him and DeAndre Jordan when they encountered each other as teammates for the first time.They work out at the same Los Angeles area gym during the summers. When they showed up in 2022, they were both new Nuggets — Caldwell-Pope via trade, Jordan via free agency.“He brought it up to me,” Jordan remembered, grinning. “Us being competitors throughout the course of our careers, and me illegally screening him a ton.”Jordan appreciates nothing more than verbal jousting, and Caldwell-Pope was always game. In teaming up,…

Colorado lawmakers are trying to make it a right — rather than a privilege — for inmates in the state’s prisons to receive visitation while incarcerated.Now, inmates in Colorado’s 19 state-run prisons can have their visitation privilege revoked if they violate the Department of Corrections‘ rules, which can include infractions like failing to work. House Bill 1013, if passed, would specify that visitation can be limited only when necessary for routine operations or safety.The bill cleared its first hurdle on a party-line vote Wednesday, with support from the majority Democrats. It does not have formal opposition, but the Department of Corrections…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMANWASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has agreed to refrain from publicly identifying any FBI agents whose conduct is under review as President Donald Trump’s administration examines the investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, according to a court filing Friday.Attorneys for FBI employees filed two lawsuits Tuesday to halt the collection and potential dissemination of agents’ names. Many within the FBI feared the Justice Department would use a list of names to conduct mass firings.Attorneys for FBI agents who fear for their safety if their identities are released asked U.S. District Judge Jia…