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The last thing an NFL decision-maker is going to do one week before the draft is tip their team’s hand. Broncos head coach Sean Payton and general manager George Paton certainly didn’t Thursday. But they did make one thing clear seven days before Denver enters the first round of the draft needing a quarterback and holding the No. 12 pick: They’re open for business. Up, down, sideways. Everything’s on the table. “Do we have to draft a quarterback? You’d say it sure looks like we have to draft a quarterback,” Payton said. “And yet it has to be the right…

Adams County may soon land its third large-scale battery manufacturing plant, one producing more affordable and environmentally safer batteries. The Colorado Economic Development Commission approved $1,053,000 in state Strategic Fund incentives on Thursday morning to Project Eleven, the code name for a startup developing sodium-ion battery technologies. “The main drivers for the location decision are incentives, a business-friendly tax environment, access to talent and renewable energy policies,” Michelle Hadwiger, director of global business development at the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade told commissioners. State support, which will come in the form of cash rather than the usual…

The Ride the Rockies Bicycle Tour, a cherished institution in Colorado’s cycling community for more than three decades, has been canceled for 2024 due to lack of interest, according to the event’s website. Founded by The Denver Post in 1986, Ride the Rockies was a fully supported tour that took cycling enthusiasts to dozens of locations around the state and over many high mountain passes over the years. The Post sold the event in 2021 to a subsidiary of Gannett USA Today, Ventures Endurance Events. “We extend our heartfelt gratitude to all the towns, participants, sponsors, crew, volunteers, and supporters who…

Police arrested a 51-year-old man in Arizona on Tuesday suspected of fatally shooting 35-year-old Luis Gómez-Reyes in Denver’s Ruby Hill neighborhood. Francisco Ivan Romero was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder, Denver Police Department officials said in a news release Wednesday. Officers responded to a shooting at 6:50 a.m. March 29 in the 1600 block of South Federal Boulevard and found a man, later identified as Gómez-Reyes, with multiple gunshot wounds. Gómez-Reyes was pronounced dead at the scene. Further details about how Romero was identified as a suspect were not immediately available. This is a developing story and may be…

The Rockies were on the cusp of the most incredible comeback since Rocky Balboa decked Clubber Lang. An exaggeration? Of course. But the underdog Rockies only needed to land one more punch in Rocky’s City of Brotherly Love. But, “Yo, Adrian,” it never came, and the Phillies escaped with a 7-6 win Wednesday night at Citizens Bank Park to complete a three-game sweep. The Rockies, who finished 1-5 on their road trip, are 4-15 to begin the season — the worst start in franchise history. In the ninth, the Rockies had the tying run at second base in pinch runner…

Colorado lawmakers are abandoning plans to overhaul the Regional Transportation District’s governing board and change how its members are selected after transit officials blasted the plan. Reps. William Lindstedt and Meg Froelich said Wednesday that they are still set to pursue other RTD reforms through House Bill 1447. But they said they plan to drop the bill’s most contentious provision: a plan to eventually cut the board’s size down from 15 elected, voting members to seven voting members — with five elected and two appointed by the governor. Froelich and Lindstedt told fellow legislators they wanted to further discuss board…

A Pueblo police officer fatally shot an armed man who pulled a gun while he was being arrested Wednesday, according to the Pueblo Police Department. Officers responded to a call about animal cruelty at 2 p.m., Pueblo Police Department officials said in a news release Wednesday night. Officers spoke to a suspect and found he had an arrest warrant for failing to appear in court. When officers attempted to arrest him, the man pulled a gun from his pocket and an officer shot him in response, Pueblo police said in a news release. Officers provided first aid and the man…

Moon Alert: Avoid shopping or important decisions from 7:45 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. EDT today (4:45 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. PDT). After that, the Moon moves from Leo into Virgo. Happy Birthday for Thursday, April 18, 2024: You’re energetic and dependable, and you have conviction. You stand by your beliefs. You are also confident and dignified. Lucky you! This is a playful, fun-loving year! Make time to let your hair down and enjoy yourself. Seek out pleasure, but don’t lose sight of your goals. ARIES (March 21-April 19) ★★★Roll up your sleeves today, because anything that you do to get…

Denver Fire Department Chief Desmond Fulton said Wednesday that he was following what he believed to be the department’s standards when he claimed hundreds of hours of compensatory time off — and then effectively cashed much of it in for $42,000 in extra pay over the last three years. The chief said he supported an investigation ordered by the city into how he and other members of the department’s leadership tracked and used their hours and paid time off. He issued a statement to The Denver Post after his timekeeping practices were brought to light by a CBS News Colorado…

One commonly held thought about next week’s NFL Draft is that there’s a chance quarterbacks could be taken with the first four picks for the first time. What if, instead, Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy was sitting there for the Broncos to take at No. 12? NFL Network analyst Daniel Jeremiah raised the possibility during a Wednesday conference call ahead of the draft, painting a scenario that would allow Denver to take him without moving draft capital. If Minnesota, which holds Nos. 11 and 23, trades up and takes North Carolina’s Drake Maye, Jeremiah thinks McCarthy might make it to No. 12.…