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By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS, Associated Press AURORA — East Colfax Avenue was the best place to find a job. That’s what everyone told Sofia Roca. Never mind the open drug use, the sex workers or the groups of other migrant women marching the sidewalks soliciting work at the very same Mexican restaurants and bakeries. On East Colfax in Aurora, bosses would speak Spanish and might be willing to hire someone like Roca — a 49-year-old immigrant from Colombia — without legal authorization to work.

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After nearly 10 months of extensive repairs and cleaning, the Colorado Supreme Court building will reopen its doors to the public on Tuesday. “The Ralph L. Carr Judicial Center is an important symbol in our legal community — it is the hub of activity for a number of agencies critical to our judicial system,” Chief Justice Monica M.

A baseball phenomenon is coming to Coors Field next summer. The Savannah Bananas will play in LoDo on Aug. 9 and 10, bringing their zany, entertaining style of play to Denver for the first time as part of a summer tour to 18 MLB stadiums and three football stadiums. Banana Ball is an unconventional style of baseball focused on fun and excitement that originated at Grayson Stadium in Savannah, Georgia, in 2020.

The 46-year-old man fatally shot by Thornton police officers during an August standoff has been identified, coroner’s officials announced Thursday. Pedro Noe Sotelo was shot by Thornton officers on Aug. 12 after shooting his dog and firing at police, according to the police department. Paramedics took Sotelo to the hospital, where he later died from his injuries on Sept.

Odds are back up that a system developing in the Gulf of Mexico could become a tropical depression or storm before it makes its way to Florida next week, according to the National Hurricane Center. As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, forecasters are looking at the trough of low pressure currently with disorganized showers and thunderstorms located over the western Gulf of Mexico that is expected to form into a larger area of low pressure in the southwestern to south-central Gulf this weekend. “Thereafter some gradual development is possible while the low moves slowly eastward or northeastward.