Aoc: Denial Of Claims Is An 'act Of Violence'

The Nuggets tackled their awkwardly long gap in the schedule this week by traveling back in time. How far? Depends on who you ask. Michael Malone felt the team’s recent rebounding woes warranted a rewind to the preseason. But Julian Strawther was thinking in years, not months. “It was like a little throwback to middle school,” Strawther said after Denver’s 120-98 win over the Clippers.

President Joe Biden pardoned a longtime Denver anti-violence community leader this week as part of a sweeping clemency action as he prepares to leave office next month. Johnnie Williams, 58, who heads Denver’s Gang Rescue and Support Project, or GRASP, was pardoned Thursday. He had been convicted in 1999 for assisting in the preparation of an income tax return containing a false statement, according to the U.

There’s only one hard-and-fast rule about rooting interests up in the Grading The Week offices: Cheer for good narratives. Cheer for good stories. Don’t cheer for teams. But when it comes to individual players around the Front Range, full disclosure, the powers that be have been known to make … um, exceptions. Cards on the table?

WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had hip replacement surgery Saturday at a U. S. military hospital in Germany after falling while at an event in Luxembourg with other members of Congress. Pelosi, 84, “is well on the mend,” said Ian Krager, a spokesman for the California Democrat, in a statement. Pelosi thanked the staff at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center and the hospital in Luxembourg, where she was also treated, for “their excellent care and kindness.” She was in Europe with a bipartisan congressional delegation to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. Pelosi tripped and fell while at an event and fractured her hip, according to people familiar with her injury who were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter and spoke on condition of anonymity. Among those on the trip was Rep.

Colorado Springs police shot and killed a man overnight who they say brandished a handgun when confronted by officers in a parking lot. Police wrote on social media that a man called the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office dispatchers at 9:40 p.m. Friday and told them he was suicidal and armed with a gun. Deputies alerted other local law enforcement agencies after they arrived at the man’s home and were unable to locate him. Colorado Springs police officers began receiving calls about gunshots near the 3800 block of Astrozon Boulevard at 11 p.m.

A person was killed Friday night in a shooting near East Colfax Avenue and Cherry Street in Denver, according to police. Denver police wrote in a social media post at 10:36 p.m. that they had located one person suffering from unknown injuries and were working to identify a suspect. At 11:24 p.m., they said the victim had died and the shooting was being investigated as a homicide. Denver police did not immediately respond to questions about the incident. Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day.