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The Broncos might be on a short week, but they’re setting up the return of a couple of potentially key pieces Thursday night at New Orleans.Denver opened the 21-day practice window for right tackle Mike McGlinchey (knee) and outside linebacker Baron Browning (foot) on Tuesday. Both are on injured reserve but have been designated to return and can do so at any point over the next three weeks. The team listed them as limited participants in practice.The Broncos also have cornerback Damarri Mathis on injured reserve but back to practice.The team created a pair of spots on its 53-man roster…

Beans are kind of like the your best friend from high school — nearly forgotten but always ready to step back into the limelight and help out an old pal when needed. As gorgeously (and tantalizingly) demonstrated in Rancho Gordo’s new cookbook, “The Bean Book: 100 Recipes for Cooking with All Kinds of Beans” (Ten Speed, $35), beans are indeed a magical fruit, though not in the way you heard as a kid. Classified as both a vegetable and a plant-based protein in the USDA’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans, beans and other legumes can be the ingredient you build an…

Walgreens will close about 1,200 locations over the next three years as the drugstore chain seeks to turnaround a struggling U.S. business that contributed to a $3 billion quarterly loss.The company said Tuesday that about 500 store closures will come in the current fiscal year and should immediately support adjusted earnings and free cash flow. Walgreens didn’t say where the store closings would take place.Walgreens operates about 8,500 stores in the United States and a few thousand overseas. All of the stores that will be closed are in the United States.Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. leaders said in late June that…

Which green tea is best? Green tea is the fresh, nonoxidized leaves of the tea plant, picked at the height of their verdant glory. Picking tea before it has oxidized imparts it with a lighter more vegetal taste that is herbal in flavor and feel. Although it can contain as much, if not more, caffeine than black tea, the best green teas provide a mellow, energetic boost that provides a counterpart to black tea’s frenetic rush. If you’ve never tried green tea before, Harney & Sons Japanese Sencha Green Tea is a good place to start. What to know before…

Regional Transportation District passengers will be able to ride for free on two upcoming voting days to encourage voter participation, RTD officials said.RTD and Colorado County Clerks Association officials said National Vote Early Day on Tuesday, Oct. 29, and Election Day on Tuesday, Nov. 5, will both be “Zero Fare” days.The free transportation days are part of a program called “Zero Fare to Vote” and are intended to remove a cost barrier for people who need to travel on public transportation to cast their ballot, RTD officials said.“Providing RTD customers with systemwide zero-fare transit to access polling places was well…

The New York Jets have agreed to terms to acquire disgruntled wide receiver Davante Adams from the Las Vegas Raiders, reuniting him with quarterback Aaron Rodgers, two people with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press.The Jets are sending a conditional third-round pick in next year’s draft that could become a second-rounder, but it is pending a physical, one of the people told the AP on condition of anonymity Tuesday because the teams didn’t announce the deal.NFL Network was the first to report the trade.The 31-year-old Adams immediately boosts a Jets offense that has been inconsistent through the first…

The National Hurricane Center on Tuesday continued to track a system in the Atlantic and one that could form in the Caribbean that have chances to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, one system located in the central tropical Atlantic was a well-defined area of low pressure with occasional showers and thunderstorms.“This system remains embedded in a dry air environment, and development is unlikely over the next couple of days,” forecasters said. “However, this system is forecast to move generally westward and environmental conditions are expected to become more favorable…

John Fabbricatore enforced federal immigration laws in his position as an ICE field office director until two years ago, and now he hopes to help secure America’s borders as a congressman.The Republican candidate in Colorado’s 6th Congressional District is drawing on his career with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as he runs against U.S. Rep. Jason Crow in the Nov. 5 election. Crow, a Democrat, just finished his third term in Congress as the representative of the district, which includes Aurora, Littleton, Englewood, Greenwood Village and Centennial.The odds weigh heavily in Crow’s favor. The nonpartisan Cook Political Report doesn’t consider…

The Colorado Avalanche injury bug appears to be contagious.Devon Toews will not play Monday night against his former team, the New York Islanders, at Ball Arena. He’s out with a lower-body injury, a team spokesman said.Calvin de Haan is also not going to play against the Islanders, but he is a healthy scratch. Oliver Kylington and and John Ludvig will make their Avalanche debuts against New York in place of Toews and de Haan.Toews will be the fifth core player for the Avalanche to miss time already this season. Forwards Gabe Landeskog (knee), Artturi Lehkonen (shoudler) and Valeri Nichushkin (suspension)…

Bo Nix took a moment to appreciate the Broncos’ all-Oregon touchdown in the fourth quarter Sunday against the Chargers.A trio of college teammates handled the football’s chain of custody, with Alex Forsyth snapping it to Nix. who then threw it to Troy Franklin for Franklin’s first career touchdown.But a different comment Nix made about the play after Denver’s 23-16 loss to Los Angeles is much more interesting and more indicative of the direction this offense needs to go in the coming weeks.“He ran a great route. We actually had a conversion on that play,” Nix said, meaning Franklin’s route changed…