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American Airlines, facing lawsuits after a flight attendant allegedly filmed girls using plane bathrooms, is blaming a 9-year-old girl for being secretly recorded. The airline in a new court filing is arguing that the young girl should have known that the airplane toilet contained a recording device. “Defendant would show that any injuries or illnesses alleged to have been sustained by Plaintiff, Mary Doe, were proximately caused by Plaintiff’s own fault and negligence,” American Airlines’ lawyers wrote in their defense filing. The airline’s attorneys added about the 9-year-old girl using “the compromised lavatory” on the plane: “She knew or should…

Ahed Bseiso took a step forward. And then another.Her hands held the walker and her eyes were trained downward, watching her left foot advance — and then her new right foot, which followed in a careful, slightly stilted rhythm. She’d learned a short time earlier how to navigate the prosthetic leg, needing only a few moments supported by a set of parallel bars before she lifted her hands and took tentative steps forward.She was at an Englewood prosthetic clinic, its walls covered in photos of smiling people playing softball or golfing with their prosthetics. Her appointment Saturday was a world…

These last final weeks of this year’s legislative session have been incredibly demanding. The last-minute rush to pass bills and finish our work means many long days and late nights. Every legislator has been feeling the strain.But for myself and my daughter — who also serves as my legislative aide — the last few weeks have been particularly taxing as we’ve also contended with making our way through more than 20,000 emails I’ve gotten from both sides of the gun issue. The emails were in response to one issue in particular: a bill to ban assault weapons, House Bill 1292,…

I made a big mistake last summer. Instead of exploring Colorado, I gallivanted around Europe and other parts of the United States. Call it pent-up post-pandemic wanderlust or whatever you want, but I swear I blinked a few times, and suddenly it was September.I spent so much time traveling that I missed summer in Colorado — and I’ve been kicking myself ever since. Dramatic? Maybe, but it’s true.This summer, I won’t make the same blunder. You’ll find me right here in the Centennial State, camping and hiking with my dogs, sipping drinks on sunny patios, trying to level up my mountain biking…

The city of Denver announced Monday that it would pay $1,000 bonuses to qualifying young people who log at least 100 hours at a job this summer.The payments — available to Denverites ages 14 to 21 years old — are part of a broader effort Mayor Mike Johnston’s office is spearheading this summer to drive down rates of youth violence.“We are thinking about this as a multi-pronged approach to how we can engage young people into positive summer activities and how we can help prevent the risks of summer violence,” Johnston said during a morning news conference.The YouthWorks initiative will…

The pages of fine print that skiers and snowboarders must agree to when hitting the slopes in Colorado — waivers of liability — do not protect ski resorts when resorts violate state laws or regulations, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday.The ruling, handed down in the case of a 16-year-old girl who fell from a ski lift at Crested Butte Mountain Resort and was paralyzed two years ago, likely ends a years-long push by the ski industry to use waivers to shield resorts against almost all lawsuits, even in cases where ski areas violated state law, experts said.“It’s a sea…

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis’ first vetoes following this year’s legislative session included a bill aimed at fighting wage theft in the construction industry that he said “would not punish the real wrongdoers.”The bill sought to hold general contractors liable for wage theft committed by subcontractors. But Polis wrote in a veto letter that as passed, the measure would let subcontractors “off the hook” while penalizing good actors further up the project’s chain of command.In all, Polis nixed six bills. His office announced the vetoes in a news release Friday evening, and they prompted expressions of disappointment from fellow Democrats who…

In the NBA arguably more than any other American sports league, the playoffs have a tendency to consume any relevant regular-season context about a team or an individual.That reality has worked to Jamal Murray’s advantage over the last five years of Nuggets runs. It’s working to Michael Porter Jr.’s disadvantage this time.Porter chose to wear the blame Sunday night for Denver’s early exit from the playoffs after Game 7 against the Timberwolves. He averaged 10.7 points on 37.1% shooting from the field in the second-round series, and he made only 10 of his 35 shot attempts across the last four…

A Denver Nuggets fan is suing Ball Arena owner Kroenke Sports & Entertainment and Argus Event Staffing for not hiring enough female security guards after she was assaulted in a bathroom during a 2023 playoff game against the Los Angeles Lakers.Denver resident Kathy Kim alleges she was assaulted by two women who thought she was someone else in a third-floor bathroom at the Denver arena during the fourth quarter of the Nuggets-Lakers game on May 16, 2023.In a lawsuit filed in Denver District Court on Thursday, Kim says she was washing her hands when two drunk women walked up to…