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The head of the prosthetics department at Aurora’s Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center improperly canceled 1,000 orders without contacting veterans who sought artificial limbs, hearing aids and other devices to help them live more functional lives, a regional Veterans Affairs leader acknowledged. Sunaina Kumar-Giebel, director of the VA Rocky Mountain network, which includes the Aurora hospital, confirmed The Denver Post’s reporting from November that first uncovered the prosthetics order-deletion scheme that left vets without necessary equipment. “The consults were closed outside of guidelines,” she said Friday in the VA’s first interview on the topic. Leadership, after being made aware…

The last frost date for the Denver is May 4, according to the Farmer’s Almanac. Generally across the Front Range, you can count on closer to Mother’s Day weekend to begin warm-weather garden planting. Here are some May plant sales for Denver gardeners who want to prioritize locally grown, regionally adapted plants that support local organizations, nonprofits, or green-thumb individuals. At many of these sales, you can learn more about gardening practices and cool organizations and folks who grow. Happy planting! Organizations and nonprofit plant sales • Denver Botanic Gardens annual Spring Plant Sale, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. May…

There is a chair in front of Michael Porter Jr.’s locker where the artwork rests. It was a gift from teammates Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Jamal Murray, a reminder that there is no paved road back to an NBA title. It reads simply: “I am going to do today what others won’t, so that tomorrow I can do what others can’t.” Porter looked back at the picture Saturday night with comfort. “I have to go hang that up at the house,” Porter said. Porter, 25, had an awful week off the court. Wednesday, his brother Jontay, 24, a former Toronto Raptors…

WINNIPEG — The Colorado Avalanche did not make it to Game 2 of the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs before goaltending became the dominant storyline. Alexandar Georgiev allowed seven goals on 23 shots, and a fast start by Colorado quickly faded under the weight of an avalanche of goals against in a 7-6 defeat Sunday night at Canada Life Centre. Adam Lowry and Kyle Connor both scored twice, with all four goals coming after a wild first period, to help the Winnipeg Jets secure Game 1 of this best-of-seven Western Conference opening-round series. Game 2 is here Tuesday night. “I’ll watch…

By ISABEL DEBRE and ALMUDENA CALATRAVA (Associated Press) ROSARIO, Argentina (AP) — The order to kill came from inside a federal prison near Argentina’s capital. Unwitting authorities patched a call from drug traffickers tied to one of the country’s most notorious gangs to collaborators on the outside. Hiring a 15-year-old hit man, they sealed the fate of a young father they didn’t even know. At a service station on March 9 in Rosario, the picturesque hometown of soccer star Lionel Messi, 25-year-old employee Bruno Bussanich was whistling to himself and checking the day’s earnings just before he was shot three…

When John Huggins and his wife Monica Martinez bought 35 Eudora St. in 2007 for $850,000, they wanted to restore the midcentury modern home to its mid-1960s glory. Huggins employed a method he calls “architectural archaeology” to meticulously restore the Hilltop home, a 1966 masterpiece designed by the renowned Denver architect Donald R. Roark. “We tried to stay true to the original owners’ vision and imagination. We wanted to bring back the wild colors, and the source of most of the original colors was already here,” Huggins said. “When we started the renovation, we used architectural archaeology. We looked behind…

Coloradans have until 4:20 p.m. on Saturday to bid for the rights to cannabis-themed license plates in a state auction. The annual auction features 10 phrases, including 420, COHEMP, HASHISH, HILIFE, REEFER, among others. Proceeds from the auction will go toward grants and state programs to support people with disabilities. Since the auction launched in 2021, the state has raised more than $96,000, according to a news release from the governor’s office. Bidders can win the right to own the use of the marijuana phrases on their state license plates or they can buy a novelty plate and keep the…

Paul Frassanito rushed to jump on a “good deal” on a house in Denver’s West Colfax neighborhood in 2000. He made an offer — even before touring the home — soon after he moved from Albuquerque, N.M. Since then, the area around his house on Vrain Street has retained some of its character, with several neighbors residing on the same street for generations. But it’s also seen some of the most rapid change in the city as new apartment complexes and townhomes have gone up. There are good and bad sides to that, with Frassanito, 56, counting himself as a…

Photographs line the walls, plants sit on windowsills and a Buddhist altar is arranged atop a dresser. Nearly every surface of the living room is covered by an item or memento collected by Thin Soe, Ye Ye Thin and their five children over the years in their three-bedroom apartment in Denver’s East Colfax neighborhood. Since the Burmese couple first moved in 16 years ago, after arriving from a refugee camp in Thailand, the rental has become their long-term home — as they’ve struggled to keep up with the rising costs in an area where they don’t always feel safe. Thin…

Over the better part of two decades as an NFL head coach, Sean Payton has seen and done it all. Or at least most of it. He won a Super Bowl in 2009, a first for New Orleans. He got suspended an entire season for his role in the Bounty Gate scandal, a first for any NFL coach. He was on the wrong side of the Minneapolis Miracle in 2018 and the worst pass interference call in league history a year later. He’s scored a ton of points, won a ton of games and spent 14 years with a Hall…