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A man was shot to death by a Craig police officer and Moffat County sheriff’s deputy Friday night in a trailer park, officials said Saturday.Around 9:40 p.m. Friday, an officer from the Craig Police Department and a deputy from the Moffat County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of a man with a gun in the Cedar Mountain Mobile Home Community — located at 925 West 1st St. in Craig — according to a joint news release from both departments.When the two arrived on the scene, they found a man brandishing a handgun, the release stated.Information on what happened after the…

Two motorcycles collided on westbound Interstate 270 in Commerce City early Saturday morning, sending three people to the hospital. The two motorcycles were likely traveling at a high speed down the westbound interstate near York Street when they crashed and slid, one hitting another vehicle, the Commerce City Police Department said in a statement on social media at 2:46 a.m. Saturday. Both drivers and one teenage passenger were hospitalized, and the teenager’s injuries are critical, police said. The drivers’ ages were not available. This is a developing story and may be updated.  Sign up to get crime news sent straight…

A historic 90-acre Boulder County mountain resort with ties to Chief Niwot is up for sale.Frequently visited by the Arapaho tribe as a summer retreat, Gold Lake has also served as a mining camp, girl’s camp, resort and mentoring center for young men since the 1800s, according to Boulder County records.The property just east of Ward is now for sale, with Colorado real estate firm Slifer Smith & Frampton attaching a $12.5 million price tag and extensive redevelopment plans.While the resort at 3371 Gold Lake Road was listed for sale in 2015 for $11.5 million, it was last sold in…

AUSTIN — Even if population growth in metro Denver came to a screeching halt, the region would still need to add tens of thousands of new homes and apartments to cover a deficit built up after a decade of under construction, according to an analysis from Zillow.The country has seen the strongest pace of new home construction since 2007, the final year of the housing boom. Even with that, Zillow estimates that the country’s housing deficit rose from 4.3 million units in 2021 to 4.5 million in 2022, the most recent year available for analysis.“We desperately need to build more…

Moon Alert: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The Moon is in Sagittarius.Happy Birthday for Saturday, June 22, 2024:You’re sensitive, romantic and affectionate. You’re optimistic about new beginnings because you seek perfection. This year is the end of a nine-year cycle. Take inventory of your life. Let go of people, places and things that hold you back. It’s time for an internal and external housecleaning!ARIES(March 21-April 19) ★★★You’re high-viz today, which means people notice you more than usual. This might not be a bad thing, because it’s a great day to get things done! You can…

With apologies to George Gershwin …“Summertime, and the runs come easy. The baseball’s jumpin’ and ERAs are high.”And so it goes for the Rockies at Coors Field, where they lost again Friday night.The Nationals mashed 19 hits, including two home runs, en route to an 11-5 victory in front of an announced crowd of 31,935. Colorado countered with 11 hits, including home runs by Ezequiel Tovar, Nolan Jones and Hunter Goodman. But it wasn’t nearly enough.The Rockies, on pace to lose 107 games, are a disappointing 2-6 on the current 10-game homestand, and their June swoon is in full bloom.…

You can call the kids on the Grading The Week team a lot of things (and you have), but don’t call us homers.Unless Derrick White is involved.With Boston’s big Buffalo? Guilty. Guilty as charged. When our favorite former CU Buff/former UCCS Mountain Lion/former Legend High Titan is on the docket, our level-headed, crack staff is about as objective as Hawk Harrelson calling White Sox games.So, yeah, if the Nuggets couldn’t put a ring on it during the NBA Playoffs, GTW is happy to see White, a native of Parker, finally reach the mountaintop as a key cog of the Boston…

Dear Readers: The following Q&A first ran in 2020.Dear Amy: A couple of years ago, an acquaintance of ours hosted a dinner party. I was only acquainted with half the people there. The hostess didn’t make introductions.One person present was someone I had met a few times. (I’ll call her “Jane.”)I knew that Jane had a partner, “Joan,” whom I had only met once years before.At the dinner, Jane was sitting next to a man.At one point I stared across the table because I was trying to determine if this was Jane’s brother, or if Joan was transitioning to male.I…

AUSTIN — U.S. existing home sales have reached their lowest levels in nearly 30 years, despite a surge of millennials entering their prime homebuying years, and activity likely won’t bounce back until interest rates start coming down.“I thought by this time the housing market would be recovering. It has not yet recovered. Home sales are still down from last year,” said Lawrence Yun, chief economic with the National Association of Realtors, speaking Thursday at the annual conference of the National Association of Real Estate Editors in Austin.The Federal Reserve gave guidance in December that it might cut rates three to…

An Adams County District Court judge won’t rule on a request to change the sentence for the sole Aurora police officer convicted in Elijah McClain’s death because the former officer’s appeal of his conviction is underway, according to a Friday order.Randy Roedema in late May asked Judge Mark Warner to change his 14-month work-release sentence — in which Roedema leaves the jail during the day to go to work and returns to jail on nights and weekends — into home detention, in which Roedema would live at home and be monitored by GPS.Warner on Friday said he could not rule…