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Arvada police arrested a 30-year-old Jeffco Public Schools substitute teacher and after-school worker on child sex assault and child abuse charges Wednesday.Justin Joshua Martinez was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust and misdemeanor child abuse, the Arvada Police Department said in a news release. The felony assault charge included that the victim was younger than 15 and was part of a pattern of abuse.Martinez most recently worked in the before- and after-school programs at Red Rocks Elementary School in Morrison, Arvada police said.He was hired in 2011 and worked…

Artificial Intelligence not possible without wealth of human knowledgeThere is no artificial intelligence without the vast trove of human knowledge.Today’s generative AI applications were built on a foundation of such information, drawn from across the internet and from various databases totaling, according to at least one estimate, somewhere around 300 billion words.That’s a lot of intellectual property, much of it produced by generations of professional writers, honed and polished by editors and sent out into the world by publishers in newspapers, magazines, books and more.Hard to put an exact price on such a thing or even to measure the collective…

New month, same awful Rockies.The Colorado club that is becoming nearly impossible to watch lost again on Wednesday at loanDepot Park, dropping to 7-23 in the club’s worst-ever 30-game start.In the 4-1 defeat in Game 2 in Miami, the Rockies wasted a strong outing by Dakota Hudson and, in a familiar refrain, lacked clutch hits. They mustered just four knocks overall, and also committed two errors while making the Marlins, the National League’s other hopeless cellar-dweller, look good.“We’ve got to keep fighting,” Rockies manager Bud Black told reporters. “The youth on this team is being served. … It’s baptism by…

Moon Alert: Avoid shopping or making important decisions from 5 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. EDT today (2 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.). After that, the Moon moves from Aquarius into Pisces.Happy Birthday for Thursday, May 2, 2024:You are courteous, helpful, sensitive and caring. You are also an independent thinker who is fiercely honest. This year you will receive acknowledgement and appreciation for your past efforts. This is why you can expect kudos, awards, promotions — whatever acknowledges your past efforts and talents. Bravo!ARIES(March 21-April 19) ★★★At this time, your chart has a strong emphasis on money, cash flow and financial dealings.…

WINNIPEG — Rick Bowness invoked the wisdom from one of hockey’s most famous playoff tales Tuesday night.His Winnipeg Jets had just finished a season with 110 points — fourth-most in the NHL — but only one postseason victory after the Colorado Avalanche rolled past his club in five games during an opening-round series in the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs.“You get to this stage, at the end of a playoff series, if you’re not putting an ice bag on, you’re not playing hard enough,” Bowness said. “Simple as that.”As the story goes, the young, up-and-coming Edmonton Oilers had just lost the…

By BETH HARRIS (AP Racing Writer)LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — As a record crowd cheered, American Pharoah rallied from behind and took aim at his remaining two rivals in the stretch. The bay colt and jockey Victor Espinoza surged to the lead with a furlong to go and thundered across the finish line a length ahead in the 2015 Kentucky Derby. “There’s nothing like winning the Kentucky Derby,” recalled Espinoza, a three-time winner. “To me it’s the most important thing in horse racing.”America’s longest continuously held sporting event turns 150 years old this Saturday. By age, it’s got the Westminster dog…

A major Colorado insurer and a large hospital system failed to reach an agreement by their Tuesday deadline, meaning some patients will have to change doctors or prepare to pay more.Anthem BlueCross BlueShield of Colorado and CommonSpirit Health, which owns 11 hospitals in the state including St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, couldn’t reach an agreement to continue their contract because they disagreed on how much the insurer should pay for procedures.As of Wednesday, CommonSpirit is no longer in Anthem’s network, meaning Anthem-insured patients who go to any of the health care system’s hospitals could be stuck paying the difference between…

COLLEEN LONG (ASSOCIATED PRESS)WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is weighing measures to help Palestinians living in the United States who want to bring family from the war-torn region.“We are constantly evaluating policy proposals to further support Palestinians who are family members of American citizens and may want to come to the United States,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Wednesday.Jean-Pierre said discussions were underway but had no further details on how procedures might work. The new measures would help those who are legal permanent residents or U.S. citizens and who have family in the region.It’s difficult right now…

By The Associated PressThe wave of incoming rookies such as Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Kamilla Cardoso and the return of popular players A’ja Wilson and Kelsey Plum of the defending champion Las Vegas Aces have led to unprecedented demand for WNBA games on one of the world’s largest ticket resale platforms.StubHub announced its sales for WNBA games as of Wednesday were up 93% compared with last season. The increase followed StubHub’s record sales for the women’s NCAA Tournament and for the 2023 WNBA Finals, spokesperson Adam Budelli said.The highest ticket demand was for the Aces, who host three of…

A Denver police officer pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault Monday and was sentenced to two years of probation after he was caught on camera body-slamming a man into the pavement during the celebrations that followed the Nuggets’ NBA championship win last year.Adam Glasby, 39, was charged with felony assault and official misconduct after the June 13 incident. He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault Monday, and, as part of a plea agreement, the other charges against him were dismissed.The assault conviction will mean he can no longer work as a police officer in Colorado, according to the Denver District Attorney’s Office.Glasby…