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FORT COLLINS — Mead football had one last chance at Class 3A state championship glory and all of the weapons it needed to pull off a last-second comeback to stun top-seeded Thompson Valley. The Eagles’ arsenal, however, was just too great in their 16-14 win over the No. 2 Mavericks at Canvas Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The turnaround in the final five minutes had all the makings of an instant classic. First, the Eagles’ defense forced a fumble at midfield.

Aurora police say they’ve towed and impounded at least 193 vehicles under a new “three-strikes” law targeting drivers pulled over without a license, registration or insurance. A majority of Aurora’s City Council signed off on the law in September, with supporters arguing that confiscating the cars of drivers caught without any of the three documents was about protecting others on the road. “I’m a broken-windows kind of person in terms of criminal justice, and I believe that if you don’t get the small stuff, it turns into bigger stuff,” Mayor Mike Coffman said during a Sept.

Police are looking for the driver of a vehicle they say struck and killed a pedestrian Friday afternoon on a residential street in Englewood. Officers responded to the 3300 block of South Logan Street at about 6:46 p.m. and found a person who appeared to have been hit by a passing vehicle, according to a news release. The victim was taken to Swedish Medical Center, where they later died.

The Rockies head to Dallas with a game plan, but don’t expect them to make any dramatic deals in the “Big D.” General manager Bill Schmidt continues to believe that the club — undergoing a youth movement led by shortstop Ezequiel Tovar, center fielder Brenton Doyle and intriguing pitching prospects — is headed in the right direction. Many others beg to differ.

By PAT GRAHAM COPPER MOUNTAIN, Colo. (AP) — For a pair of lower-level downhill events, this sure had plenty of Olympic medal-capturing and World Cup-winning ski racers. The stage belonged to Lindsey Vonn, the 40-year-old who took another step on her comeback trail Saturday with her first races in nearly six years. Vonn wasn’t particularly speedy and finished in the middle of the pack on a cold but sunny day at Copper Mountain.

8212; Notre Dame is reopening its doors for the first time since a fire in 2019 nearly destroyed Paris’ beloved 12th-century cathedral. World leaders — including President-elect Donald Trump, America’s first lady Jill Biden, Britain’s Prince William and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — gathered Saturday among more than 2,500 guests to celebrate the restoration of the landmark widely considered to be a pinnacle of French architectural heritage. Saturday’s events started with Archbishop Laurent Ulrich symbolically reopening Notre Dame’s grand wooden doors with three resounding knocks. Following the 2019 fire, nearly $1 billion in donations poured in from around the world, a tribute to its worldwide appeal. For more of AP’s coverage on Notre Dame, visit https://apnews.com/hub/notre-dame-cathedral ___ Here’s the latest: Macron welcomes Trump to Paris with presidential pomp, includes him in talks with Zelenskyy French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Donald Trump to Paris on Saturday with a full a dose of presidential pomp as the two held a hastily arranged meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy before the grand reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral. The once and future American president was warmly embraced by Macron upon arriving at the Elysee Palace. “It’s a great honor for French people to welcome you five years later,” Macron told Trump.