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8212; Rimmed to the south by a 3-mile stretch of Pacific beach, and to the north by craggy bluffs and deep, verdant canyons, the seaside enclave of Pacific Palisades has long been a celebrity hideaway and magnet for those drawn to nature’s doorstep not far from the skyline of downtown Los Angeles. Venerated in song and a backdrop for a long list of films and TV shows, its famous waves were celebrated by The Beach Boys in “Surfin’ U.

Jared Bednar won’t go very long without thinking about his hockey team or his various outdoor-related passions. It certainly shouldn’t be surprising when he finds a way to tie the two together. The Colorado Avalanche reached the midseason point on a turbulent 2024-25 campaign Tuesday night. His way of describing this season to date isn’t that different from other years.

Several large landlords allegedly colluded in an effort to keep apartment rents high, including by using an algorithm that influences prices, according to new legal filings by the Colorado attorney general, the U. S. Justice Department and a coalition of other states. An amended complaint filed Tuesday added six landlords to an antitrust lawsuit levied last summer against RealPage, the software developer whose algorithms have faced scrutiny for their alleged role in fixing rents.

A 77-year-old Jefferson County man who served as the mayor, police and fire chief of the tiny town of Lakeside pleaded guilty on Tuesday to embezzlement and official misconduct in a car-flipping scheme. Robert Joel Gordanier pleaded guilty to one felony and one misdemeanor charge and was sentenced to four years of probation, the 1st Judicial District Attorney’s Office said. Gordanier’s other charges — two counts of embezzlement, two counts of official misconduct and felony theft — were dismissed as part of the plea agreement. Gordanier also received a deferred sentence and must pay the town $26,088. Investigators accused Gordanier of buying police vehicles from other jurisdictions and selling them to his daughter, former Town Clerk Brenda Hamilton, for a fraction of their market value.

8212; Wildlife officials and several climbers rescued a bull elk by lowering it down a cliff after the animal became entangled in a rope at a popular ice climbing area in southwestern Colorado. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said a group of ice climbers in Lake City encountered the distressed elk Friday morning, and a CPW biologist darted the ungulate with a tranquilizer and covered part of its head with a ski mask to protect its eyes during the rescue. The team cut the rope away from the elk’s antlers but needed a way to get the 700-pound (318-kilogram) animal down from the climbing wall. That’s when the ice climbers who reported the stranded elk came to the rescue by helping state wildlife officers rig a system that used two ropes — one under its chest and another along its antlers — to lower it to the base of the route.

DEKALB, Ill. — Northern Illinois has accepted an invitation to join the Mountain West for football only in 2026, the school and conference announced Tuesday. The Huskies will go from the Midwest-based MAC to a conference in which the easternmost school is in Colorado Springs, Colorado. They will join Air Force, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, San Jose State, UNLV, UTEP and Wyoming in the Mountain West. “This move will open new opportunities for our student-athletes, expand the reach and strengthen the national brand of Huskie Football as they represent NIU and compete for championships the hard way, and the right way,” NIU president Lisa C.