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WESTMINSTER — Her rock is 28 pounds of Red Bull on four legs — one part husky, one part lab, one part funny car. Mishka, 11, moves like a comet in the grass, blessed with a gorgeous blond mane that fades into cream from the eyes to the nose.But you know what’s crazy? For a dog whose default mode is sprinting with reckless abandon, Rose Namajunas’ most cherished memory might be the time when Mishka lay perfectly still.“Let’s just say I spent the night in my car, sleeping with her, and just her,” Namajunas, the Westminster-based UFC fighter recalled as…

The Oak Ridge fire burning on more than 1,100 acres of U.S. Forest Service land in Pueblo County is the first on that area of land in more than 100 years, forest officials said Saturday.“This has allowed the area between the Junkens fire burn scar to the north and the Mason Gulch fire burn scar to the south to become overgrown and dense,” forest officials said in a Saturday update. “If fuels aren’t reduced, it’s not a matter of if fire will occur, it’s a matter of when.”As of Saturday morning, the Oak Ridge fire was burning on 1,156 acres…

The road to American sport climbing at the Paris Olympics was paved through Boulder.Three of the four Americans headed to Paris for lead and bouldering — Colin Duffy, Brooke Raboutou and Natalia Grossman — spent their youth at ABC Kids Climbing in Boulder. There, the trio padded the city’s reputation as one of America’s premier climbing hotspots. And soon they could further reinforce it by bringing home gold.“Colorado certainly was for a while, and still is in a lot of aspects, the mecca of climbing in the U.S.,” Duffy said. “Boulder was such a notable part of the early days…

Having sniper-trained police in our neighborhoods to protect us and our homes was not anything we thought we would see when we were elected to the University of Colorado Board of Regents – an unpaid elected position.Yet, this was exactly what happened to both of us this month when a group of anti-Israel protesters came to both of our homes. We are extremely grateful to law enforcement for protecting us and our families, and we continue to be grateful to the many community members from all faiths and backgrounds who supported us during the protests at our home.Involving our families…

After a decades-long ban on the uniform addition, Arapahoe County sheriff’s deputies will once again be allowed to don cowboy hats on patrol.The last time Arapahoe County deputies were allowed to wear cowboy hats was in the early 1980s, according to a social media post from the sheriff’s office.Cowboy hats are an optional addition to the uniform and deputies have to buy their own, the sheriff’s office said. The hat is a black wool Stetson from the Stallion Collection.Arapahoe County Sheriff Tyler Brown recently approved the new dress code policy, and several deputies have already adopted the new look.“Don’t be…

LAS VEGAS — It’s becoming clearer that without trading a significant player off the current roster, it could be a pretty quiet week ahead for the Colorado Avalanche.The Avs signed Casey Mittelstadt to a three-year contract to kickstart their offseason. They can sign Mikko Rantanen to a long-term extension for the 2025-26 season and beyond once the calendar flips to July.But the math is the math, and the Avs don’t have room below the salary cap ceiling to make a big addition to the 2024-25 roster without removing someone who was important in 2023-24. That includes bringing back Jonathan Drouin,…

A man was stabbed to death in Westminster on Saturday morning, and police are searching for a suspect.Westminster officers responded to reports of a stabbing in the 12000 block of Melody Drive about 9:10 a.m. Saturday, according to a news release from the police department.The area is near Willowbrook Park and the Wesley Chapel Cemetery in northern Westminster.When officers arrived, they found an adult man with a stab wound to the chest, the release stated. Paramedics transported the man to a hospital, where he died from his injuries. Police are searching for a suspect who left the area, according to…

Jim Buchta | Star Tribune (TNS)Last year, after Deb Jerikovsky’s husband died, she decided to swap the lake home where they planned to spend retirement for a house in the metro that’s closer to family.She put that plan on hold, however, once she realized 7% mortgage rates would force her to dip too deeply into her savings. Instead, she moved in with her daughter, hoping she’d eventually score a lower rate.She didn’t have to wait long.Mortgage rates were still hovering near 7% last October when she ran across a listing for a townhouse in Coon Rapids, Minnesota, that touted a…

Two people were killed Friday night in a suspected murder-suicide in Denver’s Hampden neighborhood, police said Saturday.Denver officers were conducting a welfare check Friday night in the 9600 block of East Girard Avenue when they found a man and a woman dead in the Hampden home, police said in a statement on social media.The two deaths are being investigated as a domestic-violence-related murder-suicide, police said. Information about how the victims were related to each other and what happened leading to their deaths was not available.The medical examiner’s office will release the victims’ identities and cause of death at a later…

Your faithful pals on the Grading The Week crew are gamers and, full disclosure, have a love affair with EA Sports that goes back four decades now. (Tom Chambers’ “Fake Drive 2-Hand Slam” on “Bulls vs. Lakers” is still the most fun, unstoppable SEGA hoops move known to man, no matter what “NBA Jam” enthusiasts say.)But our crack staff was more than a little confused to see during the social reveals for EA Sports College Football 25, which drops on July 19, that the eighth highest-rated offense in the popular video game, ahead of Clemson, Penn State, Ole Miss, Arizona,…