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Residents living in a condemned apartment building in Aurora pleaded with city officials Thursday for more time to find new housing ahead of a move-out deadline looming early next week.“We are humans. We are not animals,” said Emanuel Chabrier, 27, a renter for about three years. “This is not fair.”On Wednesday morning, police notified tenants of 1568 Nome St. that the complex, which is run by CBZ Management, will soon be shuttered because of its history of unaddressed code violations, including rodent infestations and sewage backups. More than 85 families — many of them Venezuelan migrants — are affected by…

Dear Eric: I had a stroke in 2017. My husband passed away in 2022. This stroke was quite debilitating for me. I could not walk, sit up or stand.Little by little, I’ve regained some abilities through hard work and therapy. I still can’t walk at all unless I have an orthotic device on.My husband was wonderful in so many ways after my stroke and was also a cheerleader for me. While I have some wonderful friends and neighbors in my life, some longtime friends are not kind. They only talk about all that they are doing. Nary a question about…

Attendance Did not practice: Physically Unable to Perform List — S Delarrin Turner-Yell (knee) and LB Drew Sanders (Achilles).  Injured reserve — OL Quinn Bailey (ankle/leg). Out — S Brandon Jones (hamstring) and CB Levi Wallace (hamstring). Third-year edge rusher Nik Bonitto (back) was a limited participant during Thursday’s practice. He stretched and was involved in walkthroughs but watched the team period from the sideline. QB Race Today With the Broncos getting closer to Sunday’s preseason opener in Indianapolis, Jarrett Stidham took snaps with the first team. Rookie Bo Nix was the second-string quarterback, while Zach Wilson had third-team reps.…

Jonas Griffith is reveling in rediscovery.The half-hate, half-love grind of training camp. The anticipation before the ball’s snapped and the reaction to what happens next. The joy of hitting somebody. The sting of missing an assignment.The Broncos inside linebacker has not done any of this for a long time.In fact, the last time he played in a game was Nov. 13, 2022, at Tennessee. Denver had just returned from a win against Jacksonville in London, and Nathaniel Hackett still had seven weeks left as the Broncos head coach. Griffith was putting together a productive season as a rotational player with…

PARIS — Down by 11 in the fourth quarter, against what looked like overwhelming odds, the U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team got a spark.Six points in two seconds.Kevin Durant and Devin Booker provided that wild sequence to start the comeback, Stephen Curry had a scoring night like almost none other in U.S. Olympic history, and the Americans will play for gold at the Paris Games. Curry scored 36 points, including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 2:16 left, and the U.S. beat Serbia 95-91 in a semifinal classic on Thursday night.LeBron James had the fourth triple-double in Olympic history for the U.S., which trailed…

It is standard practice for scientists and drug companies to use synthetic psilocybin formulas when conducting clinical studies or drug trials. But synthetic psilocybin is now also showing up outside the lab in illicit “magic mushroom” edibles that are making consumers sick.Products made by California’s Prophet Premium Blends, and sold under the Diamond Shruumz brand, have been linked to 113 illnesses in the U.S., including at least two Colorado, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s latest outbreak report. The agency is also investigating two potentially related deaths.On Thursday, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said the…

Drivers along Interstate 70 west of Denver near Evergreen will face 20-minute stops, then follow-on delays lasting up to 45 minutes, starting Monday as highway construction contractors blast rocks to build a Pegasus bus stop and a parking lot, Colorado Department of Transportation officials said.These disruptions are expected to last for two weeks – ending around Aug. 23, the CDOT officials said. There will be no detours. CDOT officials said drivers must stay on I-70.CDOT’s contractors will be breaking up rock and flattening terrain for building a planned I-70 El Rancho Pegasus Shuttle Stop and adjacent 40-spot parking lot with…

Colorado Crisis Line: 1-844-493-8255, coloradocrisisservices.org. Chat online or text TALK to 38255. 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Dial 988 for national hotline. Mental Health First Aid: mhfaco.org. Get trained to recognize the signs and how to respond. Crisis Text Line: crisistextline.org. Text 741741 from anywhere in the nation to reach a counselor. The 67-year-old man who leaped to his death inside Denver’s Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse last week was on trial for attempted murder. Thomas Stilson jumped from an upper floor of the courthouse just after 8 a.m. on Aug. 1. He injured two other people in the fall; they suffered only minor injuries. The Denver…

It was not an inscription but a premonition.On Father’s Day in 2012, Todd Powers received a book from his children. They thanked him and wished him well, but one sentence remains etched in his memory. It read: “I want you to know I will never stop being your kid when I am the best offensive lineman in the NFL” – Bennett.Bennett is now Ben and he’s a big deal, one of the linchpins of an offensive line that is being counted on to form the F-around-and-Find-Out identity of the 2024 Broncos regardless of when Bo Nix starts.“Ben already had in…

Number 0 might be on his swan song, and his laboratory is no more. But Adam Ottavino already has another baseball dream up his sleeve.The former Rockies reliever, now with the Mets, is 38 years old and will be a free agent at the end of the season. The right-hander doesn’t know what his career holds beyond that, and his pitching lab in a vacant storefront in Harlem where he and others honed their craft for the past seven years is now a credit union.“This is the first year I’ve had to face the facts that I’m probably a lot…