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Denver police arrested a 31-year-old man in a fatal domestic violence shooting in the 2700 block of West Iliff Avenue. James Lee Sanchez was arrested Thursday on suspicion of first-degree murder and second-degree murder in the shooting death of 39-year-old Desiree Terrazas on March 2. Officers responded to the shooting in southwest Denver and found Terrazas dead at the scene from a gunshot wound, according to the Denver Police Department. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | 500-acre prescribed burn scheduled for Rocky Mountain Arsenal on Monday Crime and Public Safety | Colorado considers mandatory minimum prison sentences for human traffickers…

Immediately following its Class 4A state championship loss on Saturday night, Holy Family girls basketball experienced one last heartbreak. Head coach Ron Rossi handed out a piece of paper that read, “All things must pass.” After more than half of a century on the court, he decided to enter the transfer portal into retirement. The 75-year-old, who spent the last 21 years at Holy Family following a 32-year stint at Arvada and Lakewood, said he wished to focus more on his family. Through 53 years, he’s worn many hats, primarily as the girls basketball coach with the Tigers, while also…

Why plaster Broncos Country’s gaping, aching wound with another Band-Aid when you can use a diamond watch? If the Broncos want to Stink For Shedeur, that’s cool by Darrell Colbert Jr. “I think it’s a no-brainer that he’ll be a top-five (draft) guy or a top-three guy, just based on what team has what (at quarterback,” Colbert, the longtime personal QB coach for CU Buffs star signal-caller Shedeur Sanders, told me by phone recently. “I think he’s a generational talent. “It’s crazy. … He’s been in college three years and this is his fourth different offensive coordinator, not including his…

After the Nuggets’ worst third quarter of the season quietly sandwiched inside a blowout win, Jamal Murray shrugged off the complacent portion of the game. “If you look at every game we’ve played, I feel like there’s been a stint where we haven’t played well,” he said Saturday. For their next trick 48 hours later, the Nuggets proved that point in reverse. They dug their deepest halftime hole of this season at Ball Arena — 17 points after trailing by as many as 22 — as if to see whether they could crawl out against an injury-depleted opponent. They could.…

2024 election is stuck in loop from 2020 Well, it looks like it’ll come down to the same song and dance this November with Donald Trump and Joe Biden. I’m really angry that both parties couldn’t find stronger, better, younger candidates than these old farts! Don’t these two have lives like normal older people who want to retire and spend time with family, travel, or just relax? Or is it just the egomaniacal want for power that they just keep on (and on and on)? I don’t want either one of them again, but I really can’t stand another four…

The U.S. Supreme Court spared our democracy disruption but left it vulnerable to far worse. Concerned a conflicting “patchwork” of state election laws could result in “chaos,” the court ruled unanimously in Trump v. Anderson that states like Colorado cannot uphold the 14th Amendment’s injunction against former officeholders who have engaged in insurrection. Donald Trump will stay on the ballot. This concludes a journey that began August 21, 2023, when local attorney and friend Mario Nicolais sent me a draft of the suit. I had heard two legal scholars with the Federalist Society had concluded likewise — Trump was ineligible…

A process of taking patients’ own cells and reprogramming them to fight cancer has been a last-ditch option for blood cancer patients when nothing else worked, but a new study underway in Aurora is trying to determine whether more patients could benefit from trying the procedure sooner. Chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy, known as CAR-T, is a type of immunotherapy that involves taking cells from the patient’s body and altering them to attack cancerous cells that have specific proteins on their surfaces. The patient then gets the altered cells by infusion. A study at University of Colorado’s Gates Institute…

Editor’s note: This is part of The Know’s series, Staff Favorites. Each week, we offer our opinions on the best that Colorado has to offer for dining, shopping, entertainment, outdoor activities and more. (We’ll also let you in on some hidden gems). I was born on St. Patrick’s Day, which is both a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing because people tend to remember to wish me a good day. In fact, you’d be surprised how many birthday cards you can find for people born on specific holidays. It’s a curse because it also happens to be one of the…

Ski season is nearing an end in Colorado’s high country, but it’s just beginning inside what used to be a big-box clothing store in a Thornton shopping center. That’s where the owners of Snöbahn opened their second location on Saturday at 14200 Lincoln St. The 38,000-square-foot space, previously home to a Stein Mart, features four “ski slopes” — inclined moving walkways — where people can learn how to ski and snowboard indoors or practice what they’ve already learned. Competitive skiers and riders can use it for off-season training. “This is where they learn proper fundamentals, proper technique, build that muscle…

By Kate Zernike, The New York Times CASPER, Wyo. — It was not such an implausible idea, back in 2020, when a philanthropist emailed Julie Burkhart to ask if she would consider opening an abortion clinic in Wyoming, one of the nation’s most conservative states and the one that had twice given Donald Trump his biggest margin of victory. In fact, Burkhart had the same idea more than a decade earlier, after an anti-abortion extremist killed her boss and mentor, George Tiller, in Wichita, Kansas, where he ran one of the nation’s few clinics that provided abortion late in pregnancy.…