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Denver is soldiering through a blast of freezing cold and snow Saturday morning, as winter weather generated by a polar vortex continues to hit the Front Range.National Weather Service meteorologist Bruno Rodriguez said the Denver metro area and communities along Interstate 25 received some of the heaviest snow among Colorado cities overnight.More snow fell near the foothills, with 6 to 7 inches falling near Golden, compared to just a few inches on the east side of the metro area, while up to 8 inches fell in Boulder.Rodriguez said the snow is expected to taper off around Denver by the early…

By HALELUYA HADEROThe clock is ticking toward a U.S. ban on TikTok, but users seeking clarity on what that will mean did not get much Saturday from the company that runs the popular video-sharing platform or the tech giants that offer the TikTok app in their digital marketplaces. However, President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview with NBC News that he was considering granting an extension that might allow TikTok to keep going beyond Sunday, when a law that prohibits mobile app stores and internet hosting services from distributing TikTok to U.S. users takes effect.The ban’s timing has complicated matters,…

One-time Olympic gymnast Yul Moldauer from Arvada says he was suspended 16 months by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency after he missed three drug tests within a 12-month period.Moldauer, a member of the 2020 U.S. Olympic team, the 2017 national champion and a two-time world championship medalist, confirmed the suspension on Instagram.The 28-year-old Golden High School graduate wrote Friday that he missed three “whereabouts” notifications. Olympic-level athletes are required to provide their location daily so they can be available for random drug testing.Moldauer said in a since-deleted post that two of the missed tests were during conflicts with competitions and that…

The union that represents King Soopers employees said Friday that after months of negotiations, its contracts with the supermarket chain have expired and votes authorizing a strike could be announced as early as Monday.The United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, which represents members in Wyoming and Colorado, agreed to extend the contracts, originally set to expire Jan. 5. The contracts were extended, but bargaining sessions lasting into the night Wednesday and Thursday produced only an offer that would require concessions from workers, the union said in a statement.“We started meeting with the company in October with clear goals of…

Colorado’s Avalanche Information Center says a lone skier triggered the avalanche that buried and killed him in southern Colorado’s San Juan Mountains earlier this month.The agency wrote in a Jan. 16 report that the victim was found by his wife, who contacted the Ouray County Sheriff’s Office after he failed to check in with her.She then drove to Red Mountain Pass and snowshoed to the slope where the avalanche took place. The woman located her husband’s body using a transceiver and avalanche probe, digging his remains out of the debris with the help of other backcountry skiers and members of…

Today is Saturday, Jan. 18, the 18th day of 2025. There are 347 days left in the year.Today in history:On Jan. 18, 1996, Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson after less than two years of marriage.Also on this date:In 1778, English navigator Captain James Cook reached the present-day Hawaiian Islands, which he dubbed the “Sandwich Islands.”In 1911, the first landing of an aircraft on a ship took place as pilot Eugene B. Ely brought his Curtiss biplane in for a safe landing on the deck of the armored cruiser USS Pennsylvania in San Francisco Harbor.In 1958, Canadian…

In Miami, the sheen of a 2023 NBA Finals run has long since worn off. It has been replaced by an ongoing public feud between Heat team president Pat Riley and star forward Jimmy Butler, who’s trying to force himself into a new team before the trade deadline.The Nuggets rolled into town at a critical moment in the soap opera Friday, defeating the Heat 133-113 in Butler’s first game back from a seven-game suspension imposed by Riley for conduct detrimental to the team.Jamal Murray went for 30 points (20 in the first half), seven rebounds and eight assists, and the…

A man was charged Friday with murder, attempted murder and assault for the downtown Denver stabbing spree along the 16th Street Mall that killed two and sent two others to the hospital last weekend.Elijah Caudill, 24. (Provided by Denver Police Department)Elijah Caudill, 24, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing deaths of Celinda Levno, 71, and Nicholas Burkett, 34. Caudill also faces two charges each of attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault for the two attacks that were not fatal.“Our thoughts are with the victims of these terrible attacks and their families,” Denver…

Nick Burkett’s family huddled together in the cold, passing a bouquet, candles and laminated sheet of photos between them as they created a makeshift memorial on Denver’s 16th Street Mall on Friday afternoon.It has been only a few days since a detective called Carol Cortez to tell her that her son had been killed in a stabbing during the weekend, and Cortez said she thinks she’s still in shock.Family members pray for stabbing victim Nick Burkett on Friday at the corner of Wazee Street and 16th Street Mall in Denver. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)Burkett was homeless and struggled…

Police are asking for the public’s help investigating a shooting at a south Aurora park that left two people dead in November.Ahmad Malachi Richardson, 18, and Isaiah Ray Chavez Seppelt, 20, died in the shooting that wounded a third person on the morning of Nov. 17. Officers responded to a hospital and spoke with the wounded person, who told them the shooting happened in the parking lot of Utah Park.Richardson’s and Seppelt’s bodies were found at the park, and police later said two Latino males fled the scene in a small, black car — possibly a four-door.“Numerous witnesses have been…