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Moon Alert: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The Moon is in Aries.Happy Birthday for Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024:You are hardworking, creative and a natural leader. You like to be in control of your destiny. This is a quieter year because it’s time to rejuvenate your energy. Focus on relationships and make sure these people have your back. Concentrate on your needs and what brings you happiness.ARIES(March 21-April 19) ★★★★You have that back-to-school feeling, which makes you want to work hard for the next several weeks. You want to be organized and productive. Look for ways…

CASTLE ROCK — It might have been Gabe Landeskog’s first time participating in a pro-am golf tournament, but he didn’t miss a chance to show off his best Tiger Woods impersonation.Landeskog sunk putts to finish off the front and back nines Wednesday at Castle Pines Golf Club. Both times he pulled off a muted Woods-style fist pump to a smattering of cheers from the crowd.“My putter was hot today,” Landeskog said. “It was about the only club that was.”Landeskog played 18 holes at Castle Pines at the Gardner Heidrick Pro-Am in a group that also included Avalanche and Nuggets president…

CASTLE ROCK — Scottie Scheffler unintentionally trained to conquer Colorado’s altitude on a family vacation between green jacket and gold medal triumphs.So what if lung preparation wasn’t exactly the point of his trip to Telluride in early July? It provided him a little peace of mind, placebo or not, about returning to the Centennial State a month later for the BMW Championship.“The elevation got to me a little bit (in Telluride),” Scheffler said. “So I’m kind of glad I got it out of the way then because I have struggled with it from time to time.”Elevation might be the only…

A brother of Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic appeared in Denver County Court on a misdemeanor assault charge Wednesday after a gameday fight in April.Strahinja Jokic, 42, was charged with third-degree assault after a video went viral on social media that appeared to show him punching a man in the face courtside at Denver’s Ball Arena during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers.The punch followed a “verbal exchange,” police wrote in an affidavit. The fan who was punched spoke with police three days after the April 22 game. He suffered a concussion and cuts and bruises on his face.…

A former campus security officer at Lakewood High School was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a student, police said Wednesday.On Aug. 13, a former Lakewood High School student told police she was sexually assaulted by a school employee about 10 years ago, the police department said in a Wednesday statement.The woman told investigators that in her junior and senior years of high school, Rubel “Tim” Martinez — a campus security officer with Jefferson County R1 School Security — repeatedly assaulted her on and off school grounds, police said.Martinez worked as a campus security officer at Jefferson Junior and Senior…

By JONATHAN J. COOPER and ALI SWENSONPHOENIX (AP) — Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will speak Friday “about the present historical moment and his path forward,” his campaign announced Wednesday, fueling growing speculation that Kennedy could drop out and support Republican nominee Donald Trump.Kennedy’s running mate openly discussed the possibility on a podcast this week, saying the campaign was considering a move to “join forces” with Trump to limit the election chance of Kamala Harris, whose Democratic convention winds up Thursday night in Chicago.The move would have once seemed unthinkable for Kennedy, a Democrat for most of his…

By JOSH BOAK and NICHOLAS RICCARDICHICAGO (AP) — The Democratic National Convention’s second night showcased a double dose of Obama firepower to validate Vice President Kamala Harris and deliver an unsparing indictment of Republican Donald Trump. The convention also served up a raucous roll call of states that was essentially one big dance party.Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, ducked out of Chicago to hold a rally just up the interstate in Milwaukee, wooing voters in battleground Wisconsin. It was a recognition that, regardless of whatever good vibes may exist at the convention, Democrats expect this presidential…

Moon Alert: Avoid shopping and important decisions from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. EDT today (2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. PDT). After that, the Moon moves from Pisces into Aries.Happy Birthday for Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024:You have a powerful, almost mysterious appeal about you, which is why you are noticed. You stand out. Yet, you don’t seek this. This is an exciting year because it has new beginnings and fresh adventures! What you do now will benefit your future.ARIES(March 21-April 19) ★★★Be careful about doing something spontaneously that could impact your finances. For example, you might want to buy something…

Under a cloudless blue sky, the world’s 50 highest-ranked golfers on Tuesday descended on Colorado’s Castle Pines Golf Club — and with them came legions of adoring fans hoping to catch a glimpse of greatness.Crowds arrived bright and early to watch the pros play practice rounds in advance of this week’s 2024 BMW Championship, the first time since 2014 that Colorado has hosted the tournament — or any PGA Tour event.Spectators gathered around the driving range and putting green, witnessing the precision and attention to detail that go into making a top-tier golfer.“These are the outliers,” said Steve Babbitt, 76,…

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 21, the 234th day of 2024. There are 132 days left in the year.Today in history:On Aug. 21, 1831, Nat Turner launched a violent slave rebellion in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of at least 55 white people; scores of Black people were killed in retribution in the aftermath of the rebellion, and Turner was later executed.Also on this date:In 1858, the first of seven debates took place between Illinois senatorial contenders Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas.In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. (It was recovered two years…