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Initial thoughts from the Broncos’ 31-7 loss to the Buffalo Bills in the wild card round of the NFL playoffs on Sunday at Highmark Stadium: Tough lessons. The Bills delivered Denver a clinic on how to win in the postseason. They didn’t flinch after Denver threw an early punch. They didn’t make the big mistake.

NEW YORK — Walmart says customers should throw out a chicken broth product that was sold at stores in mostly Southern states late last year. The retailer has recalled 48-ounce cartons of Great Value Family Size Chicken Broth that had been sold at 242 stores in nine states. The U. S. Food and Drug Administration reported the recall in December affecting just over 2,000 cases of broth with a shelf life lasting until March 2026.

DALLAS — Aaron Gordon is available in Dallas to make his return from a calf strain that sidelined him for nine games, the Nuggets announced Sunday. Gordon will be on a minutes restriction against the Mavericks, a league source told The Denver Post. Denver’s starting power forward has missed 20 games this season with the same injury, which has caused two separate prolonged absences. Gordon, 29, is averaging 13.7 points, 5.8 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game when he plays.

A woman was killed and two men were injured Saturday night in a string of stabbings along 16th Street Mall in Denver’s Central Business District. All three stabbings happened on 16th Street between 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, the Denver Police Department said in a news release. Officers first responded to a stabbing in the 700 block of 16th Street, near California Street, around 5:20 p.m., police said in the news release. Police said paramedics took an unidentified woman to the hospital, where she later died from her injuries. Two other nonfatal stabbings are under investigation: one that happened near 16th Street and Lawrence Street around 5:56 p.m.

A Denver pedestrian was killed Saturday night in a hit-and-run crash near Empower Field, according to the police department. Police first posted on social media about the crash, which happened at the intersection of West Colfax Avenue and Federal Boulevard, at 7:59 p.m. Saturday. At that point, the pedestrian had been taken to the hospital with serious injuries. In a Sunday morning update, police said the pedestrian died overnight. No suspects have been identified in the crash and police said the investigation is ongoing. Related Articles Crashes and Disasters | Colorado road conditions: I-70 reopens east of DIA to Burlington Crashes and Disasters | Drunken driver gets 20 years in prison for crash that killed Commerce City police detective, woman Crashes and Disasters | Police search for road-raging driver who struck pedestrian in Commerce City hit-and-run Crashes and Disasters | Los Angeles fires: Catastrophic weather conditions drive firestorms across Southern California Crashes and Disasters | CSP walks back claim driver in double-fatal New Year’s Day crash on U.

Scattered snow showers will dust Colorado’s mountains Sunday and Monday as strong wind gusts blow across the Eastern Plains, according to the National Weather Service. Less than an inch of snow accumulation is forecast for most of the mountains, according to Sunday morning snow forecasts. A few isolated peaks — including the Park Range’s Mount Zirkel and Mount Farwell, the San Juan Mountain’s Expectation Mountain and the Sangre de Cristo Mountain’s Cucharas Pass — could see up to 2 inches of snow, NWS forecasters said. The snow could create dangerous winter driving conditions overnight Sunday, especially on mountain passes, forecasters said in a Hazardous Weather Outlook. Denver and the Eastern Plains won’t see snow on Sunday but it will be windy, forecasters said. Winds of up to 10 mph in the metro area will make 36-degree temperature highs feel below-freezing, according to NWS forecasters.