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- Daily horoscope for Dec. 23, 2024
Monday - 12/23/2024 - 04:00 AMMoon Alert: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The Moon is in Libra.
Happy Birthday for Monday, Dec. 23, 2024:
You have an eclectic taste and many of your friends are unusual.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Football recruiting: Former Tulsa receiver Joseph Williams transferring to CU Buffs
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 05:38 PMThe top freshman in the American Athletic Conference this season is coming to Boulder.
On Sunday, former Tulsa receiver Joseph Williams announced that he has verbally committed to Colorado and head coach Deion Sanders as a transfer.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Jamal Murray scores in clutch again as Nuggets pull off 17-point comeback to beat Pelicans in overtime
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 10:29 PMEvery Nuggets comeback needs a stroke of inspiration, and this one fittingly occurred without Nikola Jokic on the floor. With 9:18 remaining in a game Denver trailed 100-90, Julian Strawther was barreled over away from the ball while Jamal Murray buried a corner 3-pointer.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Broncos’ Sean Payton outlines sequence vs. Chargers where “I kind of kicked myself”
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 02:15 PMSean Payton’s been telling his team all season that they’d eventually be playing in bigger games.
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Those games are here and so far the results are mixed.
The Broncos started slow but dominated late to beat Indianapolis and get to the doorstep of the playoffs. - You can’t mess up this holiday roast
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 03:46 PMBy Genevieve Ko, The New York Times
It was only a matter of days, but, somehow, losing the usual week between Thanksgiving and the start of December compressed the holiday marathon into a 100-yard dash.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Denver’s Tennyson Center serving kids with more severe trauma symptoms “than ever before”
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 08:00 AMDenver’s Tennyson Center for Children has a long history of supporting traumatized children across Colorado. Now, in the center’s 120th anniversary year, it may be more needed than ever.
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“We’re seeing kids now with more severe trauma symptoms than ever before, the acuity of their mental health and behavioral health challenges are much more significant,” Tennyson Center President and CEO Mindy Watrous said. - Colorado’s seismic budget gap has given key lawmakers a grim task: “What programs are we going to cut?”
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 08:00 AMWith the Denver Broncos playing well this season, the grimmest show in Colorado can be found in a small room near the state Capitol.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What’s next for Arapahoe Basin after sale to Alterra Mountain Company?
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 08:00 AMSince he was 3 years old, Leon Joseph Littlebird has skied Arapahoe Basin every winter. That’s 71 years. He cherishes the unpretentious vibe of the area, founded in 1946 by two World War II veterans who trained with the 10th Mountain Division ski troops near Leadville.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Broncos’ Sean Payton: Not a fan of broadcast showing play sheet Thursday night
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 01:08 PMEverybody knows Sean Payton wanted to remind himself Thursday night to run the football.
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Why?
Because he wrote “Run It!!!” at the top of his play sheet and the Thursday Night Football broadcast showed it clearly early in the game. - Asking Eric: Husband’s mean comments about house clutter cause arguments
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 06:30 AMDear Eric: My husband and I have been married for more than 30 years and enjoy each other’s company. As many couples, after many years there are certain things that we do that get on each other’s nerves.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump threatens to try to take back the Panama Canal. Panama’s president balks at the suggestion.
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 03:24 PMBy BILL BARROW and WILL WEISSERT
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - DJ McKinney looking forward to challenge of filling Travis Hunter’s shoes as CU Buffs’ top cornerback in 2025
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More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Broncos HC Sean Payton hopes CB Riley Moss can play vs. Bengals
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 01:37 PMBroncos coach Sean Payton said he hopes starting cornerback Riley Moss, who has missed the last three games with a knee injury, can play on Saturday against the Cincinnati Bengals.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Lafayette police officer cited for careless driving after crash, state patrol says
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 02:39 PMA Lafayette Police Department officer was cited for careless driving after crashing into a Toyota Camry while responding to a separate crash Saturday night, according to the Colorado State Patrol.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Bluesky finds with growth comes growing pains — and bots
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 05:30 PMBluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election, boosted by people seeking refuge from Elon Musk’s X, which they view as increasingly leaning too far to the right given its owner’s support of President-elect Donald Trump, or wanting an alternative to Meta’s Threads and its algorithms.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Plans take shape for Colorado’s “last resort” property insurance for those with no other options
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 08:00 AMA new insurance company is forming in Colorado, but it won’t be advertised on television by Patrick Mahomes, an emu or a guy named Mayhem.
Instead, this insurer will be overseen by a board appointed by Gov.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Colorado’s child advocacy centers — a lifeline to kids who’ve suffered abuse — are scrambling for money amid federal cuts
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 08:00 AMLori Jenkins is running as bare bones as she can at the Kindred Kids Child Advocacy Center in Cañon City.
The center, which supports children who survive abuse and neglect, has three employees — the lowest number allowed under its professional certification.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Colorado’s landfills leak climate-warming methane into the air. What’s the state going to do about it?
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 08:00 AMLandfills in Colorado release millions of metric tons of greenhouse gasses each year as organic waste including food, paper and yard trimmings decomposes into the soil, contributing to global warming and harming human health.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Daily horoscope for Dec. 22, 2024
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 04:00 AMMoon Alert: Avoid shopping or big decisions from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. EST today (5 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. PST). After that, the Moon moves from Virgo into Libra.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Opinion: Fear of forest fires fuels unnecessary and unhelpful logging on public lands
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 07:01 AMHumanity’s earliest irrational fear of forests had to do with “evil spirits,” along with anxiety over mostly harmless wildlife. Soon it was fretting over bandits, outlaws, and (gasp!) Native Americans.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Today in History: December 23, teen sniper Lee Boyd Malvo spared the death penalty
Monday - 12/23/2024 - 04:00 AMToday is Monday, Dec. 23, the 358th day of 2024. There are eight days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Dec. 23, 2003, a jury in Chesapeake, Virginia, sentenced teen sniper Lee Boyd Malvo to life in prison, sparing him the death penalty.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nebraska governor hospitalized after he is bucked off a horse
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 08:10 PMOMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen was injured Sunday after being bucked off a horse and is expected to be hospitalized for several days.
Pillen, a first-term Republican, was with his family when he was thrown off a new horse and injured, according to the governor’s office.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Joel Kiviranta, Avalanche sink Kraken for seventh win in nine games ahead of holiday break
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 10:45 PMThe Avalanche needs a break after a grueling five-week stretch of travel, but the club is also finally starting to pile up points.
Joel Kiviranta had a natural hat trick to set new career-highs in goals and points, while Mackenzie Blackwood made 17 saves on Sunday night to help the Avs defeat the Seattle Kraken, 5-2, at Ball Arena.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What Trump’s decision to wade into spending fight tells us about the next 4 years
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 02:57 PMWASHINGTON — After days of threats and demands, Donald Trump had little to show for it once lawmakers passed a budget deal in the early hours of Saturday, narrowly averting a pre-Christmas government shutdown.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Party City to close its stores as company files for bankruptcy
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 05:02 PMLOS ANGELES — For nearly 40 years, customers flocked to Party City for Halloween costumes, favors for children’s birthday parties and decorations for New Year’s Eve celebrations. Now, the go-to shop for everything from cartoon-themed balloons to Super Bowl decor is closing stores.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - FAA “will not fund any portion” of widening to reduce jams on DIA’s overloaded Peña Boulevard
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 08:00 AMFederal aviation officials won’t fund any portion of the project to expand the overloaded Peña Boulevard that leads to Denver International Airport.
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Colorado Department of Transportation officials also are steering clear. - The Book Club: A Kate Atkinson novel, “Kindred” and more short reviews from readers
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 08:00 AMEditor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Nearly 200 people evacuated from Winter Park gondolas after “malfunction”
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 01:04 PMNearly 200 people were evacuated by rope from gondolas at Winter Park Resort on Saturday after a crack in a metal support structure halted the lift mid-air, stranding skiers and snowboarders for several hours.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Today in History: December 22, four shot by New York subway vigilante
Sunday - 12/22/2024 - 04:00 AMToday is Sunday, Dec. 22, the 357th day of 2024. There are nine days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Dec. 22, 1984, New York City resident Bernhard Goetz shot and wounded four young Black men on a Manhattan subway, alleging they were about to rob him.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - CSU Rams men’s basketball rallies past Nevada in Mountain West opener
Saturday - 12/21/2024 - 08:03 PMDespite squandering a double-digit advantage in the second half, Colorado State men’s basketball regained the lead in the final minutes and held on to defeat Nevada, 66-64, and open conference play with a victory Saturday in Reno, Nev.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share