Officers: Dispute Over Pool-game Loss Ends In Killing

A home repair show that helps Coloradans recover from shady contractors is accused of hiring just such a contractor for a project in Larkspur. “Rico to the Rescue,” which has run for two seasons on HGTV, follows local homebuilder Rico León as he visits abandoned or poorly built home projects and finds solutions. “When it comes to new renovation, people underbid, overpromise and then (homeowners) get stuck in the middle,” León, whose legal name is Andrew, told The Denver Post in 2023. Jon Schauer, a captain with the Denver Fire Department, was building his dream house south of Castle Rock when he had a tiff with a fellow firefighter who was helping him for free.

We Democrats need to look in a mirror. We didn’t lose because we missed the “right” audiences or didn’t have the perfect candidate. We need much more than Monday-morning quarterbacking. We lost because we’ve become blind to the soul of this country. As a nearly life-long Democrat from a fifth-generation Kansas family farm, a family of Trump supporters, and married to a self-professed, ultra-MAGA Trumper, I’m perplexed. For the first time in 20 years, a Republican candidate for president won the popular vote. Fellow Democrats, let that sink in.

Joseph Drexler, 14, has advice for anyone feeling frustrated or overwhelmed lately by politics, the government and their civic duty. Seek out multiple news sources to learn what’s happening in your city, state and country and hear it from different perspectives. Get involved in your local community by volunteering or making your voice heard at public forums.

A Catholic hospital chain that bought a 270,000-square-foot office building in Douglas County last week wanted the land beneath it. CommonSpirit Health said Friday morning that it will demolish the former TTEC headquarters building at 9197 S. Peoria St. and incorporate the land it sits on into a 42-acre medical campus. The Chicago-based health care company paid $45.5 million for the building just south of E-470, east of Interstate 25.

Colorado’s first snowstorm of the season may not go down in the record books, but it still managed to blow past average monthly snow totals for the Front Range and Eastern Plains and provide much-needed moisture for the region. The storm’s long duration was a buffer against some of the worst impacts on metro Denver, said David Barjenbruch, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Boulder office. Denver International Airport and the southeast metro, including Highlands Ranch and parts of Aurora, saw around 20 inches of snow over 96 hours, almost tripling the November average of 7.3 inches.

Happy hours are a great way to spend less money while enjoying small bites and deals on drinks. But it can be tough to sync up a late-afternoon time block during the weekday grind. Enter Wine Wednesday, a longstanding tradition of dozens of bars and restaurants in metro Denver. It celebrates alliteration by inviting oenophiles to come on in and stay awhile, letting the wine and conversation flow throughout the evening.