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Mike Shanahan will wait at least another year for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.The winningest coach in Broncos history was passed over by a blue ribbon committee in charge of selecting a coaching candidate as a finalist for the 2025 class.The Hall announced Tuesday that Mike Holmgren is the lone finalist for consideration by the full selection committee. Holmgren was picked over Shanahan, fellow former Denver coach Dan Reeves and six others.Shanahan, of course, took over as Broncos head coach in 1995 and led the franchise to Super Bowl victories in 1997 and 1998. At the helm until 2008,…

Ina Garten, the wildly popular cookbook author and TV personality, took the stage before a sold-out crowd at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa this past weekend to talk about her newly released, bestselling memoir, “Be Ready When the Luck Happens.”The conversation was moderated by actor and comedian Julia-Louis-Dreyfus, a choice that seemed spotless. On a recent episode of Garten’s TV show, “Be My Guest” (Food Network and streaming on Max), the two had a joyous time at Ina’s house, frosting a decadent chocolate cake and finished the final scene with wide grins, chocolate cake pressed on…

The man who critically injured a bartender while shooting into a Greeley bar after hours Saturday morning fired 59 rounds into the building less than an hour after he had been kicked out of the bar for fighting, according to arrest records.Police arrested 32-year-old Jimmy Cazares on suspicion of a slew of felony charges on Saturday after he fled to a relative’s house following the shooting.Just before 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Greeley police responded to a shooting at Wyler’s Pub & Grill, 2385 27th St., Unit 513. While en route, officers learned that a woman had been shot in the neck…

By Emily Weinstein, The New York TimesIs it OK to have just cookies for dinner? Asking for a friend.We’ve fully toggled into holiday mode here at New York Times Cooking, starting with Cookie Week, our annual baking bonanza. Inch for inch, is there anything happier than a cookie? It’s joy forged from butter and sugar. I’m tempted to just disappear into the kitchen and bake up a storm.Yet, as always, I have to eat a real dinner. And after a Thanksgiving weekend that included steak, French fries and multiple martinis, I’m due for a few lighter meals, like the maple-miso…

Election season is mercifully over but Courtland Sutton took a couple of minutes at his locker Monday night to stump.After spending five minutes explaining the Broncos’ wild, 41-32 victory over Cleveland on Monday Night Football, the Broncos’ top receiver explained his choice of shirt.It featured Colorado two-way star Travis Hunter striking the Heisman pose and read, simply, “He12man.”Sutton and Broncos All-Pro cornerback Pat Surtain II each wore the shirts during pre-game warmups, too.Sutton went to SMU with Deion Sanders Jr., so he’s known the Sanders family and Hunter for several years.“I’m not going to sit here and act like I’m…

A birding group visiting the Denver Audubon Kingery Nature Center took a tour led by Master Birders Jordan Gerue and Urling Kingery, for whom the nature center is named, in Littleton on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024. The Walk the Wetlands event takes place on the first Sunday of every month.The group ventured along the South Platte River through open fields and deciduous woodland, near ponds and marshes. The walk is about 3 miles on relatively flat terrain and takes about 3.5 hours, depending on weather conditions. Among the resident birds that winter here are many species of ducks, both Hairy…

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 3, the 338th day of 2024. There are 28 days left in the year.Today in history:On Dec. 3, 1984, a cloud of methyl isocyanate gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India, causing an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 deaths and more than 500,000 injuries.Also on this date:In 1947, the Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire” opened on Broadway.In 1967, a surgical team in Cape Town, South Africa, led by Dr. Christiaan Barnard (BAHR’-nard) performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky, who lived 18 days with the…

Ja’Quan McMillian (29) of the Denver Broncos intercepts a pass by Jameis Winston (5) of the Cleveland Browns before regaining his footing and taking it to the house for six during the fourth quarter of the Broncos’ 41-32 win at Empower Field at Mile High on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (Photo by AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)Cody Barton (55) of the Denver Broncos takes off his helmet after sealing the game by way of an interception on a Jameis Winston (5) of the Cleveland Browns interception deep in Denver’s territory during the fourth quarter of the Broncos’ 41-32 win at Empower…

The Broncos are pushing their decision on wide receiver Josh Reynolds to the final day.Denver on Monday downgraded Reynolds (finger) to out and the team did not activate him for the primetime game against Cleveland.Reynolds has been on injured reserve since October after he sustained a hand injury that required surgery during the Broncos’ Week 5 win over Las Vegas. After that injury, Reynolds was also shot twice during an incident in which he and two others were in a vehicle that was shot at dozens of times after being followed leaving a strip club Oct. 18, according to an…

As part of a national “moonshot” to cure blindness, researchers at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus will receive as much as $46 million in federal funding over the next five years to pursue a first-of-its-kind full eye transplantation.“This is no easy undertaking, but I believe we can achieve this together,” said Dr. Kia Washington, the lead researcher for the University of Colorado-led team, during a press conference Monday. “And in fact I’ve never been more hopeful that a cure for blindness is within reach.”The CU team was one of four in the United States that received funding awards from the…