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Eastbound Interstate 70 was closed Friday near Edwards in Eagle County after an early morning crash involving two semitrailers, according to the Colorado State Patrol. Crews on the scene of the crash around 8:20 a.m. said the closure could last more than eight hours due to the crash investigation and cleanup, according to a news release from Colorado State Patrol. Related Articles Crashes and Disasters | 3 officers crash during police motorcycle training in Arapahoe County Crashes and Disasters | Eastbound Interstate 70 reopens in Glenwood Canyon after crash cleanup Crashes and Disasters | Driver arrested in fatal crash near Denver’s City Park Crashes and Disasters | I-70 reopened through Glenwood Canyon following semitruck rollover Crashes and Disasters | At least one dead in fatal Northglenn crash Saturday State Patrol officials said one semitrailer was driving westbound on I-70 early Friday morning when it crashed through the left shoulder barrier and into the eastbound lanes, where it collided with another semitrailer. Paramedics took two people in the eastbound semitrailer to the hospital in unknown condition, according to the release.

Palizzi Farm lost a big battle at the beginning of the summer when a judge ruled a metropolitan district could run a stormwater pipe across the 95-year-old Brighton farm to support a planned housing development nearby. But tucked into the final page of Adams County District Judge Sarah Stout’s 41-page eminent domain ruling was an “expectation” from the court “that the Palizzis will be able to continue to farm on the land at the conclusion of the Project.” It’s that directive that Debora Palizzi, whose great-grandfather Antonio started the farm on East Bromley Lane in 1929, is counting on to keep the 57-acre operation running past this year.

Steer, steer on the wall; what’s the cowboyiest state of them all? Here in Colorado, we pride ourselves on our cowtown, Wild West heritage, but are we actually out there working the land in our Wranglers, or just strutting our stuff at the Grizzly Rose in our Rockmounts? If the cowboy spirit is all self-reliance and hard work, where do hipsters and $10k-a-month apartments fit in? In movies, cowboys look like the gunslinging John Wayne, the sometimes morally dubious “hero” battling it out with Native Americans and outlaws.

A presidential candidate, two congressional candidates and several dozen disparate-but-like-minded advocates gathered in a suburban Denver Marriott on Thursday morning to discuss a political movement that they believe is having its moment. At least, that’s how attendees at the 2024 Independent National Convention felt. Bolstered by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s now-paused independent presidential run and convinced of high dissatisfaction with America’s political status quo, several attendees and speakers said interest in independent candidates and movements was accelerating. Artist DPAK, right, interviews Jon Block of Abundant Tribe Leader Collective during the Independent National Convention in Denver on Thursday, Sept.

Maria Fernandez stood at the front of the room in the Sun Valley People Center, ready to make the case for a project. Gathered across five tables on a recent weeknight, around 20 of her fellow project delegates had parsed through hundreds of ideas submitted by the public that could potentially receive a share of $1 million earmarked by the city to benefit their neighborhoods in west Denver. Fernandez, 50, presented a project worth $350,000 that, if selected, would improve the Lakewood Gulch Trail by adding signage and other amenities. “We’re asking for solar lights, benches, picnic tables, trash cans, parking for bicycles, doggie waste bags,” Fernandez said in Spanish through a translator.

By BASSEM MROUE and JULIA FRANKEL BEIRUT (AP) — An Israeli airstrike hit a neighborhood in Beirut on Friday, killing at least eight people and wounding nearly 60 others, Lebanese health officials said, the first such Israeli attack on Lebanon’s capital in months. The Israeli strike on Beirut’s crowded southern suburbs hit during rush hour, as people headed home from work and children left school.