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Around the AFC Jets… back? The Jets finally stopped their losing streak at five games with a 21-13 win over Houston on Thursday night. For a while, it looked like Aaron Rodgers and company might get smothered again, but they got the catch of the year from Garrett Wilson and a late touchdown from Davante Adams.

Colorado’s blitz to update all voting machine passwords and verify security ahead of next week’s election has been completed, Gov. Jared Polis announced Friday morning. Teams of hastily deputized state employees who had undergone background checks, including 22 cybersecurity staffers and eight Secretary of State officials, went to county clerk offices in a scramble to shore up security around Colorado’s election voting machine system following a leak of partial passwords.

Drivers using Express Lanes to quickly navigate the interstates through Colorado’s Rocky Mountains can expect to pay more or less depending on traffic, under a new “dynamic tolling” system coming later this fall. Colorado’s Department of Transportation said in a news release that the new tolls will be similar to current rates based on the time of day, ranging from $1.50 to $4.75 on the South Gap segment of Interstate 25 between Monument and Castle Rock and up to $9 on the Mountain Express Lane segment of westbound Interstate 70 between the Veterans Memorial Tunnels and Empire. However, starting later this fall, the tolls will be adjusted for traffic volume rather than fluctuating predictably, with higher tolls designed to minimize traffic in the Express Lanes during peak hours. Related Articles Transportation | Pedestrian crashes on Colorado highways, interstates increasing, state patrol says Transportation | Southbound I-25 reopens in Colorado Springs after crash Transportation | Passenger killed in crash near Denver’s Vanderbilt Park early Saturday morning Transportation | Denver man gets 10 years of prison time for road rage assault Transportation | 2 arrested for attempted murder in shooting that caused hours-long I-25 closure The agency said in its release that toll rates could be updated as often as every five to 15 minutes, with overhead signs indicating current toll prices for drivers with ExpressToll passes.

It was with some mixture of excitement, pride and dread that I took my 16-year-old son and his friends to visit colleges in October. As we walked through campus I watched them dream of the possibilities — places they might want to go, subjects they might want to study, careers they might choose.

When I asked a friend to the Taste of Ethiopia festival this summer in Aurora, she was nervous. That’s what watching Fox News will do — scare a person away from the world’s best coffee. We encountered nary a gang member and instead enjoyed the hospitality of the city’s Ethiopian community.

Troy Franklin had a routine before training camp practices. The rookie wide receiver would line up on the end line of the Broncos’ practice fields and work on his releases. Not fancy stuff, just getting off the line efficiently and cleanly. Most days, passing game coordinator John Morton would remind him — sometimes calmly, sometimes more animated — to work on a detail so small you’d never notice it during a game. In a way, though, it encapsulated the entire challenge in front of Franklin this summer.