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Lightrail service through Lakewood was temporarily halted today after a suspected drunken driver crashed their car onto the train tracks, according to police. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | One person dies in crash with train in Nunn Crime and Public Safety | 1 dead, 1 hospitalized after vehicle drove into water in Thornton overnight Crime and Public Safety | Denver police investigating early morning fatal crash Crime and Public Safety | Woman hit, killed by driver in Aurora Crime and Public Safety | Wrong-way driver killed in four-vehicle crash on E-470 in Thornton they caused No one was…

The Larimer County Coroner’s Office has identified Jesse Speker as the man killed in a late December Loveland house fire. However, the coroner’s office said the cause and manner of death of the 25-year-old Loveland resident are pending a toxicology test, according to a post on the office website. The Loveland Police Department dispatch center received a call for a structure fire in the 3100 block of Butternut Drive at 3:22 a.m. Dec. 23, according to previously released information; crews from the Loveland Fire Rescue Authority, Thompson Valley Emergency Medical Services and Berthoud Fire Protection District all responded with the…

Eddie Lampkin Jr. might still be a newcomer to the Pac-12 Conference. But he’s no stranger to the desire for a little payback against the Arizona Wildcats. Lampkin was a redshirt freshman at TCU two years ago when the Wildcats ended TCU’s season in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, eliminating the Horned Frogs despite a career game from Lampkin. The 20 points Lampkin scored in that game remains his collegiate career high, and he will get his first shot at Arizona as part of Colorado’s program when the Buffaloes visit the 10th-ranked Wildcats on Thursday night (7:30 p.m.,…

Denver police are investigating a homicide in the 1200 block of North Washington Street after a man was found dead in a home late Tuesday morning, according to the Denver Police Department. Officers responded to a welfare check at the Capitol Hill home and found the man already dead, according to Denver police. No information about a suspect in the case was available on Tuesday, and the incident is still under investigation. The man’s identity and cause of death will be released by the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner. This is a developing story. Sign up to get crime…

Dozens of workers at the Westminster location of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain are planning to unionize to combat what they allege are dangerous working conditions, low pay amid record profits, and firings related to union action and HR complaints, leaders said Tuesday. Employees will rally outside the six-year-old Sloans Lake location, at 4255 W. Colfax Ave., at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 2, to bring attention to the cause, said former Alamo Drafthouse employee Ian Miller, who’s helping lead the union drive. About 60% of Westminster’s 109 employees who were formally polled have already said they’d get behind the…

By STEVE LeBLANC and COLLIN BINKLEY (Associated Press) CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school’s conduct policy. Gay is the second Ivy League president to resign in the past month following the congressional testimony — Liz Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania, resigned Dec. 9. Gay, Harvard’s first Black president, announced her departure just months into her tenure in a letter to the Harvard…

An armed man “violently assaulted” a woman before forcing her into his vehicle in Aurora Friday night, and Aurora police believe the man kidnapped the woman. Police are asking anyone with information to contact them as they search for the man and woman. Officers responded to reports of an assault about 10:30 p.m. near Shawnee Street and East 42nd Avenue just east of Denver’s Green Valley Ranch neighborhood, according to a police department post on X. #APDAlert Officers are investigating an assault and believed kidnapping and we are asking for the public’s help. On December 29th, officers responded to a…

The Colorado Rapids have waived defender Danny Wilson and winger Sam Nicholson, the club announced Tuesday. Wilson, 32, arrived in Colorado in 2018 and has appeared in 136 matches, starting 125 of them. Last season, he recorded one goal and one assist in what turned out to be the worst campaign in club history. He racked up the third-most minutes on the team with 2,315, behind center back partner Andreas Maxsø (2,924) and midfielder Connor Ronan (2,846). With the announcement coming less than a month after the Rapids traded 28-year old defender Andrew Gutman for 24-year old defender Miguel Navarro,…

Denver’s first snow of the new year is right around the corner. After a warm start to 2024 with temperatures expected in the 50s Tuesday, a cold front moves into the state Wednesday and will likely bring with it some snow Thursday afternoon and evening. The Wednesday forecast has a high of 46 degrees and Thursday’s forecast has 35 degrees. Low temperatures on both days are 23 degrees. Forecasters at the National Weather Service in Boulder expect the mountains and the Palmer Divide south of Denver to receive the most snow, but Denver could get as much as 2 inches…

An armed carjacker allegedly fired shots outside a Centennial Walmart’s auto center before fleeing in the stolen vehicle, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office posted at 1:08 p.m. they were responding to a report of shots fired at the Walmart at 10900 E. Briarwood Ave. and said the incident was related to an auto theft and was not an active shooter situation. About 45 minutes later, the sheriff’s office said there was a carjacking outside the Walmart’s auto center. The victim is safe, and the suspect fled the scene in a silver Honda Civic, according to…