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World War II Air Force veteran Major Richard Olson never discussed his military service with his son, Dick Olson. “I didn’t have all that much time to be asking these questions while he was at home,” Dick, a Westminster resident, told the Denver Post in an interview. “He was a distant father, and I imagine a lot of that came from what happened to him during the war and in service.” After Richard died, Dick turned to military archives, old photos and interviews with the surviving members of his father’s B-24 Liberator airplane crew to learn about the veteran’s journey.

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A Denver judge has thrown out a lawsuit that state regulators filed against an investment broker and signaled she will do the same to their case against an Indian restaurant. In a setback for the agency, Judge Sarah Wallace determined the Colorado Division of Securities can sue only people and companies who committed investment fraud within the past five years, rejecting the division’s argument that it is immune from statutes of limitations. In mid-April, the Division of Securities sued the securities broker Michael Bissonnette as well as Bombay Group, which operates Saucy Bombay on East Colfax Avenue.

Five Lone Tree residents are suing the city over the noise from a nearby recreation center’s pickleball courts. The residents — Mark Goodman, Richard Campbell, Donna Campbell, William Fornia and Matthew Troyer — filed a lawsuit Thursday, saying the courts at the Lone Tree Recreation Center disrupt neighbors’ “quiet enjoyment of their homes and outdoor spaces.” The residents are asking the Douglas County District Court to order the city and district to shut down the courts until they construct a “soundproof structure” around them. “(The filing residents) bring this suit to protect a public good, namely, the ability of Plaintiffs and other residents of the Community to enjoy the quiet use of their homes and avoid negative health impacts caused by unreasonable exposure to noise,” the suit reads.

A life-sized version of Monopoly is kicking off its “Travel Edition” tour from Denver this fall, marking its U. S. debut after a popular run in London. The escape room-like experience substitutes actual people for the Scottie dogs, tiny cars and thimbles industrialists that usually populate the board in the real estate fortune game, which was first introduced in 1935. They roll dice and play aspects of the game while wandering through immersive rooms and activities.

Two Colorado nonprofit groups called publicly on Attorney General Phil Weiser this week to “root out collusion and price fixing among large landlords” amid national and state scrutiny of software that’s allegedly used by property owners to artificially increase rental prices. The nonprofits — law firm Towards Justice and the housing group Community Economic Defense Project — said Wednesday on the social platform X that companies that manage thousands of apartments in Colorado have been accused of price-fixing in lawsuits and investigations elsewhere in the United States.