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Class 5A 1. Mountain Vista (6-0) vs. ThunderRidge, 7 p.m. Friday. Next week: at Fruita Monument, 6 p.m. Oct. 18. 2. Cherry Creek (6-1) won vs. Arapahoe, 41-7: Junior QB Brady Vodicka shredded Arapahoe to the tune of 303 yards and three TDs on 21-of-30 passing, junior Jayden Fox (15 carries, 110 yards, 2 TDs) topped 100 yards rushing for the fourth time this fall, and the Bruins cruised to their seventh straight Centennial League win dating back to 2022. Next week: at Eaglecrest, 7 p.m. Oct. 18. 3. Columbine (7-0) won vs. Arvada West, 35-14. Junior running back Mark…

A Pueblo District Court judge on Friday ordered the immediate release of two individuals who have spent months in the city’s jail on municipal contempt of court charges.Judge Michelle Chostner freed Lyrcis Martinez, 34, and Michael Tafoya, 47, days after the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado filed petitions arguing their Pueblo Municipal Court sentences violated both the U.S. and Colorado constitutions.The judge’s order comes one week after she freed a 55-year-old Pueblo man also serving time on municipal contempt of court charges. Chostner said she will rule during a Nov. 1 hearing on the legality of the three sentences…

Go to: Candidate Q&A home page • Denver Post Voter GuideRebecca Keltie RepResidence: Colorado SpringsProfession: EngineerEducation: Military and civilian degreesExperience: My experience includes 21 years in the military, working with foreign leaders, government agencies and private sector business leaders.Campaign websiteWhat are your top three priorities, if elected?– Education and parental rights– Veteran and senior issues and programs– Protecting business rights and smart developmentRecent polling has shown trust in government hovering at historically low levels and stark partisan divides in views of election integrity. What will you do to bridge those gaps?Offering mutual respect and having effective conversations without emotions. Election…

Go to: Candidate Q&A home page • Denver Post Voter GuideAlessandra Navetta DemResidence: ElizabethProfession: Nurse and attorneyEducation: BScN NursingEducation, Juris DoctorExperience: I have worked as a nurse in nursing education, psychiatry, and neonatology. Up until retirement I was employed as an attorney.Campaign websiteWhat are your top three priorities, if elected?My district consists of seven counties in the rural eastern plains of Colorado. My priorities include providing the residents of the district with access to affordable, quality health care. Access to reliable internet connectivity is another issue that needs to be addressed. And access to affordable post-secondary education is another issue…

Go to: Candidate Q&A home page • Denver Post Voter GuideKaren Breslin DemResidence: ElizabethProfession: Professor and lawyerEducation: B.A., M.A., J.D.Experience: Instructor and professor of political science – 30 yearsProgram manager, senior policy advisor, National Park Service – 25 yearsLawyer in private practice – 18 yearsWhat are your top three priorities, if elected?1) strategies to reduce violent crime – especially among youth, including early intervention emphasizing conflict resolution and measures to reduce gun violence2) strategies to reduce incarceration of those with substance abuse and mental health issues that are non-violent offenders3) monitor racial disparities in prosecution and create a conviction integrity…

Go to: Candidate Q&A home page • Denver Post Voter GuideCarlos Barron RepResidence: Fort LuptonProfession: Coucilman/Business Owner/General ManagerEducation: Experience: 23 years’ experience in oil and gas industry; 2 years on City of Fort Lupton Planning Commission; 3 years as a City of Fort Lupton Councilman; 9 years as a youth sports coach.Campaign websiteWhat are your top three priorities, if elected?(1) My House District feeds the world and powers the world, so advocating energy independence and standing up for our energy workers and farmers and ranchers is job one, (2) parental rights in education, (3) supporting our small businesses and first…

Today is Friday, Oct. 11, the 285th day of 2024. There are 81 days left in the year.Today in history:On Oct. 11, 1991, testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment; Thomas re-appeared before the panel to denounce the proceedings as a “high-tech lynching.”Also on this date:In 1906, the San Francisco Board of Education ordered all the city’s Asian students segregated into their own school. (The order was later rescinded at the behest of President Theodore Roosevelt, who in exchange promised to curb future Japanese immigration to the United States.)In 1968,…

Go to: Candidate Q&A home page • Denver Post Voter Guide Neither candidate returned the questionnaire. How candidate order was determined: A lot drawing was held at the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office on Aug. 7, 2024, to determine the general election ballot order for major and minor party candidates for U.S. House, State Board of Education, CU Regent, State Senate, State House, and District Attorney races. Colorado law (1-5-404, C.R.S.) requires that candidates are ordered on the ballot in three tiers: major party candidates followed by minor party candidates followed by unaffiliated candidates. Within each tier, the candidates are…

A conflict brewing in southwestern Colorado between residents and a group calling itself the Free Land Holders Committee escalated Thursday when ranchers and outdoors enthusiasts began tearing down barbed-wire fencing the group had erected around about 1,400 acres of land in the San Juan National Forest.The Free Land Holders started building the fence on U.S. Forest Service land over the weekend. Some of the group’s members have past ties to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a polygamist sect led by the imprisoned Warren Jeffs.Patrick Pipkin, who identified himself as a member of the Free Land Holders…

Donald Trump’s visit to Aurora on Friday for a sold-out rally will mark the first big public event by a major-party presidential candidate in Colorado this year — with Trump’s visit motivated more by the chance to amplify his rhetoric about migrants than to seize on any likely prospect of winning Colorado.His planned afternoon stop on the northern edge of Aurora, near the airport, comes three weeks after the former president and current Republican nominee pledged to visit a suburban city he’s falsely claimed has been overrun by Venezuelan gangs. His visit has been met with praise from some Republican…