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SALT LAKE CITY — Maybe it doesn’t matter who else is missing for the Colorado Avalanche, as long as Jared Bednar can start his lineup card with Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar and Mikko Rantanen.The Avs are officially rolling, wiping out the Utah Hockey Club on their first trip to Delta Center with a 5-1 win. It completed a three-game sweep on this road trip and was a fourth consecutive victory.Colorado is still missing four key forwards who count more than $20 million against the salary cap. The Avs added another critical player to the list Thursday night, but also made…

Broncos safety P.J. Locke is dealing with a thumb injury that has put his status for Sunday’s game against Carolina in question.Locke appeared to drop out of practice Wednesday with the injury. He was doing normal work during the open portion of practice Wednesday but was not seen coming off the field when the Broncos finished their work day. Then Thursday head coach Sean Payton confirmed Locke did not practice because of the injury.Locke has started each of Denver’s first seven games and played mostly next to Brandon Jones. When Jones was limited during training camp and Week 1 against…

Broncos wide receiver Josh Reynolds was injured in a shooting last week in Denver, the team confirmed Thursday, and two men have been arrested on charges of attempted murder.Reynolds and another man were injured in the early morning shooting on Oct. 18 after they were followed from a strip club, according to reporting by 9News.“Josh Reynolds was a victim of a shooting on Friday in Denver and received treatment for minor injuries,” the Broncos said in a statement. “Out of respect for the legal process, we will defer further comment on this matter to the authorities.”A 911 caller told dispatchers…

Everything in Aurora Highlands looks big. A yawning sky and oatmeal-colored fields sprawl around the densely arranged, master-planned community, located about 30 minutes southeast of Denver near Buckley Air Force Base. Flocks of birds take flight over oil wells as construction trucks rumble down long gravel roads. Aircraft crisscross the sky almost constantly, with Denver International Airport about 17 miles to the north. It’s not the first place you’d expect to find millions of dollars in world-class public art.And yet, says Aurora Highlands co-owner and onsite development director Carla Ferreira, there it is. While Aurora Highlands officially opened in summer 2023,…

A kangaroo gave three Durango police officers a late-night workout after wandering away from home and taking an evening hop through the southern Colorado city’s streets, according to a video shared by the Durango Police Department on Wednesday.The small red kangaroo easily hopped away from the police officers who tried to beckon it with whistles and tongue clicks, according to the video timestamped just after 11 p.m. on Sept. 18.One officer tried to suppress giggles as the marsupial bounced down the street. “How do I get it?” the officer can be heard asking, while a second beckoned the kangaroo to…

Metro Denver developers pushed out more than 5,000 new apartments in the third quarter, and rents barely moved despite that high volume, according to a quarterly update from the Apartment Association of Metro Denver.For the past several quarters, developers have added as many apartments in three months as they would average across an entire year before 2011.“I have been concerned about this for some time that we would flood the market with lots of apartments and vacancies would shoot up,” said Cary Bruteig, author of the quarterly report during a press call Wednesday.Rising vacancies would in turn force landlords to…

A political advertisement sent to voters last week falsely implied that the head of Colorado’s largest teachers union supports Amendment 80, which, if passed in next month’s election, would enshrine families’ right to school choice in the state constitution.The advertisement, which was sent via text message, doesn’t explicitly say Kevin Vick, president of the Colorado Education Association, supports the measure. But it features Vick’s photo, an audio recording and a quote from him saying, “School choice has worked very well for students for years.”A political advertisement was sent to voters supporting Amendment 80 that included a quote from Kevin Vick,…

Two men were arrested this week on suspicion of attempted murder after Denver police shut down southbound Interstate 25 on Monday to investigate a Friday shooting.Burr Charlesworth, 42, and Luis Mendoza, 35, were both arrested on investigation of attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault after allegedly shooting two men Friday on southbound I-25, according to a news release from the Denver Police Department.Around 3:12 a.m. Friday, Denver officers responded to reports of a shooting on southbound I-25 near Colorado Boulevard, police said in the release.Two men driving together on the interstate were shot in their car and pulled over onto…

Opening up a pie shop is hard enough. Throw in an abrupt closure from your crowdfunder, and that might make you crazy.That’s exactly what happened to Elias Lehnert, a fourth-generation piemaker who owns Legacy Pie Co., when Mainvest, a Massachusetts-based equity crowdfunding site, announced it was closing.At the end of May, Mainvest sent an email to Lehnert and all his investors to announce its shuttering, he said. All dividends from Legacy Pie’s two capital campaigns would be frozen if investors didn’t withdraw them from custodial accounts — something akin to a Venmo account — in time. Mainvest gave two weeks’…

The tight end position in the Broncos’ passing game is like an onion. The more layers you peel, the more it stinks.The Broncos are developing an offensive identity as a physical team that protects the football. Denver ranks 13th in rushing (124.1 yards per game) behind the revival of Javonte Williams and speed of Bo Nix.You head to the mountains in a 4Runner. The Broncos head to the stadium in a BoRunner. He is a legitimate dual-threat quarterback — has been since high school — and yes, he is cool with that.“I think it is a compliment if they give…