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No team takes the field and tries to get off to a slow start.In Thursday night games, though, a fast start isn’t just preferred. It’s critical.Broncos coach Sean Payton noted before his team’s first Thursday night game — Week 7 at New Orleans — that teams leading at halftime on Thursday nights win a disproportionate number of games.This week, in a potential clinching matchup against a division rival with whom Denver is jockeying for postseason position, that message is getting hammered home.The Los Angeles Chargers have been a fast-starting team this year in general. That was never more apparent than when…

A woman was shot and injured by police in northeast Colorado Springs on Tuesday afternoon after she allegedly pointed a gun at officers during a domestic disturbance, officials said.A resident in the 5600 block of Buckskin Pass Drive called 911 at around 2:58 p.m. and told dispatchers his ex-girlfriend was ringing the doorbell and “excessively knocking,” the Colorado Springs Police Department said in a post on X. Officers knew the woman often carried a gun and attempted to contact her as she walked away from the area. She allegedly pointed a gun at police, and at least one officer shot her.Officers…

A onetime burger joint in Platt Park is coming down.“I don’t think the neighborhood has been very appreciative of the current status of the building,” said Doug McKinnon.The real estate professional, who runs McKinnon & Associates, spent $2.9 million in cash last week on the 1301 S. Pearl St. property. The building sits at the southwest corner of Pearl Street and Louisiana Avenue, and was last home to Hanson’s Grill & Tavern, which closed at the end of 2019.But McKinnon isn’t after the building. He said he plans to knock it down “immediately.” The site spans 12,500 square feet, making…

Aurora police detained 15 people early Tuesday and said they expected to take more into custody following a gang-related home invasion and violent kidnapping at the troubled and soon-to-close Edge of Lowry apartments.Investigators believe all the people involved — including the two victims, one of whom was stabbed — are Venezuelan immigrants and most are undocumented, Aurora police Chief Todd Chamberlain said during a news briefing Tuesday morning. He said the victims were targeted because they’re undocumented.The late-night home invasion was “100% gang activity,” Chamberlain said. “There is a high assumption” the suspects are affiliated with the Venezuelan gang Tren…

Picture this: Daylight is petering out behind the snow-capped Rockies, and it’s getting cold — really cold. You’re comfortable, though, sipping loose-leaf tea from a pot, nibbling on delicate, scratch-made pastries.Afternoon tea is a delightful ritual that Anna Maria Russell, Duchess of Bedford — one of Queen Victoria’s besties — improvised in England in the 1840s.According to the tale, the Duchess complained of a sinking feeling in her stomach between her midday meal and late-night dinner. She didn’t need much in the interim: Tea would do, with some bread and butter, of course, and oh, maybe a slice of cake, too.Other…

The owner of two dilapidated buildings along East Colfax Avenue will go before Denver’s Landmark Preservation Commission for a second time Tuesday, citing financial hardship as the reason he should be allowed to demolish the 130-year-old structures.Property owner Pando Holdings, developer Kiely Wilson’s firm, is appealing the commission’s rejection last summer of its demolition application, and the financial hardship pleading is one of the final avenues left to get permission to tear down the former mansions in the Wyman Historic District.The historic designation of the buildings at 1600 and 1618 E. Colfax Ave. complicates the demolition bid as city officials…

A 42-year-old man died Monday after falling from Boulder’s Second Flatiron, sheriff’s officials said.The man, who has not been publicly identified, was reported missing around 9 p.m. Monday after he failed to return from a hike on the Flatirons, according to a news release from the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office.Friends of the 42-year-old hiker told sheriff’s officials he was supposed to return home around dark. When he didn’t, they searched the trail area and found the man’s body on a rock ledge of the Second Flatiron.Boulder County sheriff’s officials said deputies, Boulder Parks and Open Space rangers, a Rocky Mountain…

A cold front moving into Colorado has brought with it a new wave of mountain snow, according to National Weather Service forecasters.The most snow is expected to fall in Colorado’s Park Range of the Rocky Mountains, according to NWS snow forecasts. As of Tuesday morning, NWS forecasters called for: Up to 17 inches of snow on Mount Zirkel, the highest summit in the Park Range, and Buffalo Pass; Up to 12 inches on other Park Range peaks; Up to 11 inches of snow on Rabbit Ears Pass, a U.S. 40 mountain pass near Steamboat Springs; Up to 8 inches of…

The new year will bring more than a dozen new laws to Colorado, from restrictions on texting while driving to car-seat age limits and new caps on medical malpractice lawsuits.Nineteen laws that passed in 2024 will go into full or partial effect on Jan. 1, one of the largest and last implementation dates from this year’s legislative session. The new laws for 2025 include testing accommodations in licensing exams for Coloradans with disabilities; penalties for companies that violate the state’s child-labor laws; and new requirements for autopsies of minors, including no longer making them public records in most cases.The new…

U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse leads three other Colorado Democrats in an early poll of potential candidates for the party’s 2026 gubernatorial primary that shows the largest slice of respondents are still undecided.Colorado U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse speaks during a press conference in July 2023. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)The early December survey of 630 registered voters was released Monday. In the results, 20% of respondents told pollster Magellan Strategies that they probably or definitely would vote for Neguse, the fourth-ranking Democrat in the U.S. House, if the June 2026 Democratic primary was held now. That was ahead of 16%…