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Bo Nix has made plays with his feet and his arm through his first eight NFL starts. This weekend the quarterback across from him is one of the best at doing both in the league’s history. That’s two-time NFL MVP Lamar Jackson, Baltimore’s star quarterback. Jackson is off to a blistering start again for the 5-3 Ravens.

Two men arrested on suspicion of shooting Broncos wide receiver Josh Reynolds after he left a Denver strip club on Oct. 18 have been charged with first-degree attempted murder, assault and other felonies, according to court records. Burr Charlesworth, 42, and Luis Mendoza, 35, are each charged with six counts of first-degree attempted murder and six counts of first-degree assault, according to online court records for their cases in Denver County Court. Charlesworth is also charged with three counts of illegal firearm use and Mendoza faces an additional 16 felony charges and one misdemeanor, including illegally using a firearm, possessing a weapon as a previous offender, having a large-capacity magazine and drug-related charges. The Oct.

For months, Donald Trump has projected confidence on the campaign trail that he’s poised to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris. But with less than a week until Election Day, he’s planting the seeds to say the election was stolen if he loses. The former President has ramped up his rhetoric this week to sow doubt in the integrity of the outcome, particularly in the pivotal battleground of Pennsylvania, where Trump and Harris are essentially tied in the polls.

NEW YORK — A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu, the U. S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. It’s the first time the virus has been detected in U. S. swine and raises concerns about bird flu’s potential to become a human threat. The infection happened at a backyard farm in Crook County, in the center of the state, where different animals share water and are housed together.

Tom Secrist is splitting off from Atomic Cowboy. Secrist, 64, sold the biscuits, beer and pizza spot for $3 million, along with the restaurant group’s headquarters around the corner in a house-turned-office-building at 1515 Adams St. “It feels great,” Secrist said of the closing. “It doesn’t mean that I’m out of the business … maybe I’ll go back to fix and flips on the houses … I just hope what I’ve done has helped to improve the selection of offerings on the street on the retail and restaurant end of it.” Justin Brockman, a broker at Required Properties, listed the spaces in August and was under contract by the first week of September, he said.

Just when it seemed like the Colorado Avalanche’s injury situation couldn’t get worse, it did. Jared Bednar said Wednesday morning that Ross Colton will miss six-to-eight weeks with a broken foot after leaving the Avalanche game early Monday night. The coach also said Miles Wood is likely out 7-10 days with an upper-body injury that he’s been trying to play through but no longer can. This means the Avs will play Wednesday night against the Tampa Bay Lighting without six of the club’s top-10 forwards, more than $26 million worth of players. RELATED: Avalanche Journal: 10 observations from a wild, roller-coaster start to the season “I feel like we’ve been through it a lot,” Bednar said.