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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-31T04:46:43 | null | 2016-08-31T03:21:02 | Each day, there are 90,000 flights around the world, carrying more than 8 million people. And the overwhelming majority of pilots in those cockpits are sober. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fintoxicated-in-the-air-drunk-pilots-make-news-but-are-rare%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20150624__20150625_Z00_OP25E_UNITEDp1.jpg?w=654&h=474 | en | null | Intoxicated in the air: drunk pilots make news but are rare | null | null | www.denverpost.com | NEW YORK — Every few months, a pilot somewhere in the world is stopped before a jet takes off because of suspicion of drunkenness. It makes headlines and gives nervous travelers another reason to avoid flying.
Despite their notoriety, such cases are extremely rare.
Each day, there are 90,000 flights around the world, carrying more than 8 million people. And the overwhelming majority of pilots in those cockpits are sober.
Pilots take being fit to fly seriously and act accordingly,” says former US Airways pilot John M. Cox, now CEO of the consulting firm Safety Operating Systems. “Pilots know they are one of the most carefully monitored professions and therefore, are very conservative.”
There are occasional lapses. The latest incident occurred Saturday morning when two United Airlines pilots were pulled from their flight — and arrested — as they prepared to fly 141 passengers from Scotland to the United States.
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But don’t think this will end the pilots’ careers.
United has removed both men from flying duties — for now.
Many pilots caught drinking on the job have later returned to the skies.
The United pilots, Paul Brady Grebenc, 35, and Carlos Roberto Licona, 45, were released on bail Monday. Grebenc, from Columbus, Mississippi, and Licona, from Humble, Texas, made no plea and are free until a later court hearing.
The Federal Aviation Administration has a process that allows recovering alcoholics back in the cockpit if they pass a medical evaluation and stay clean during monitoring for the next five years. Since the union-backed program started in the 1970s, about 5,300 pilots — more than 100 a year — have gone through rehab and regained their licenses, according to a program official.
“Pilots aren’t any different than other people in the respect of having occasions they probably regret,” says airline analyst Robert Mann.
U.S. rules prohibit pilots from flying if they have a blood-alcohol content of .04 percent or higher. (The United Kingdom has a stricter limit of .02 percent.) By comparison, the legal threshold to drive a car in the U.S. is twice that level at 0.08 percent.
Pilots must also wait several hours after having a drink to fly. The FAA has a saying for this: “Eight hours from bottle to throttle.”
Last year, random alcohol tests were given to 12,480 U.S. pilots. Only 10 failed.
Pilots in the U.S. and most of Europe are only tested randomly or if there is a suspicion that they are drunk. There are also random drug tests.
But in India, all pilots and flight attendants are tested before departing. That’s every single one on every outbound flight. With that stricter policy, 43 pilots tested positive for alcohol before flights last year, according to India’s civil-aviation agency. India has about one-tenth the number of annual flights as the United States.
Fliers might take solace in knowing that the danger from drunk drivers is much greater. Each year, about 10,000 people are killed on American highways because of drunk drivers — almost a third of all driving fatalities — according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
But there is a mental disconnect between statistics when it comes to flying. There’s something unsettling to many fliers about being buckled into a metal tube, racing through the air near the speed of sound without being able to see who is at the controls.
“If you are in a taxi and you think your driver is drunk, you ask them to pull over and get out,” says John DiScala, who runs the travel advice site JohnnyJet.com . “You can’t ask a pilot to pull over.”
Since the 1970s, airline pilots have had a confidential program in which they can be treated for alcohol abuse and return to the cockpit. Those in the program, called the Human Intervention Motivation Study or HIMS, must be evaluated by an FAA-certified doctor. The pilot is interviewed monthly by a flight manager and a committee of other pilots. Because of the risk of relapse, monitoring usually continues for several years after a pilot returns to flying.
Paul Hayes, director of air safety for aviation consultancy firm Ascend, says that it is extremely rare that alcohol is a factor in an accident.
But there have been a handful of crashes tied to drinking.
In 1977, the American pilot of a Japan Air Lines DC-8 cargo jet was drunk when he crashed the plane during takeoff from Anchorage. All five people onboard — all crew — died.
In September 2008, an Aeroflot flight within Russia crashed on its landing approach, killing 88 people. One of the factors, according to investigators, was that the pilot became disorientated as a result of his drunkenness.
Back in the U.S., there are a handful of cases where pilots were caught actually flying passengers drunk.
A JetBlue Airways pilot was charged with flying two flights between New York and Orlando in 2015 while under the influence. An Alaska Airlines pilot was charged with being drunk on two 2014 flights between Oregon and California.
The most famous case though might be a 1990 Northwest Airlines flight from Fargo, North Dakota, to Minneapolis.
The three pilots had been out at a bar the prior night. One had more than 15 rum and colas while the other two shared at least six pitchers of beer. Their flight left at 6:30 a.m. but two of them had been out at the bar until 10:30 p.m., the other staying until 11:30 p.m.
The plane landed safely; the pilots ultimately ended up in prison. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/intoxicated-in-the-air-drunk-pilots-make-news-but-are-rare/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/524513ea987805edb28416d118af475c1d3e173fd02e62cbe9b081681a9a7906.json |
[
"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-28T20:46:17 | null | 2016-08-28T20:19:36 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fvisitors-behaving-badly-national-park-service-100%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/115031251.jpg?w=1024&h=660 | en | null | Visitor misbehavior abounds as National Park Service turns 100 | null | null | www.denverpost.com | YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — Tourist John Gleason crept through the grass, four small children close behind, inching toward a bull elk with antlers like small trees at the edge of a meadow in Yellowstone National Park.
“They’re going to give me a heart attack,” said Gleason’s mother-in-law, Barbara Henry, as the group came within about a dozen yards of the massive animal.
The elk’s ears then pricked up, and it eyed the children and Washington state man before leaping up a hillside. Other tourists — likewise ignoring rules to keep 25 yards from wildlife — picked up the pursuit, snapping pictures as they pressed forward and forced the animal into headlong retreat.
Record visitor numbers at the nation’s first national park have transformed its annual summer rush into a sometimes dangerous frenzy, with selfie-taking tourists routinely breaking park rules and getting too close to Yellowstone’s storied elk herds, grizzly bears, wolves and bison.
Law enforcement records obtained by The Associated Press suggest such problems are on the rise at the park, offering a stark illustration of the pressures facing some of America’s most treasured lands as the National Park Service marks its 100th anniversary.
From Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains to the Grand Canyon of Arizona, major parks are grappling with illegal camping, vandalism, theft of resources, wildlife harassment and other visitor misbehavior, according to the records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
In July alone, law enforcement rangers handled more than 11,000 incidents at the 10 most visited national parks.
In Yellowstone, rangers are recording more wildlife violations, more people treading on sensitive thermal areas and more camping in off-limit areas. The rule-breaking puts visitors in harm’s way and can damage resources and displace wildlife, officials said.
Often the incidents go unaddressed, such as when Gleason and the children approached the bull elk with no park personnel around. Gleason said he was “maybe” too close but felt comfortable in the situation as an experienced hunter who’s spent lots of time outdoors.
These transgressions add to rangers’ growing workload that includes traffic violations, searches for missing hikers and pets running off-leash in parks intended to be refuges of untrammeled nature
“It’s more like going to a carnival . If you look at the cumulative impacts, the trends are not good,” said Susan Clark, a Yale University professor of wildlife ecology who has been conducting research in the Yellowstone area for 48 years. “The basic question is, ‘What is the appropriate relationship with humans and nature?’ We as a society have not been clear about what that ought to be, and so it’s really, really messy and nasty.”
Recent events at Yellowstone grabbed national headlines:
— A Canadian tourist who put a bison calf in his SUV hoping to save it, ending with wildlife workers euthanizing the animal when they could not reunite it with its herd.
— Three visitors from Asia cited on separate occasions for illegally collecting water from the park’s thermal features.
— A Washington state man was killed after leaving a designated boardwalk and falling into a near-boiling hot spring.
The flouting of park rules stems from disbelief among visitors that they will get hurt, said Yellowstone Superintendent Dan Wenk. “I can’t tell you how many times I have to talk to people and say, ‘Step back. There’s a dangerous animal,’ and they look at me like I have three heads,” he said.
Inconsistent record keeping, including a recent switch to a new criminal offenses reporting system, makes it difficult to identify trends that apply uniformly across the major parks.
But the records reviewed by the AP reveal the scope of visitor misbehavior is huge. In Yellowstone, administrators and outside observers including Clark say the park’s problems have become more acute. That threatens its mission to manage its lands and wildlife “unimpaired” for future generations.
Beyond incidents that lead to citations are many more that result in warnings. More than 52,000 warnings were issued in 2015, up almost 20 percent from the year before.
Washington state resident Lisa Morrow’s son was among the children Gleason led toward the elk. Despite safety advisories — and numerous examples of visitors getting gored by bison, mauled by bears and chased by elk — Morrow declared herself unafraid of the park’s wildlife. She said she was eager to see a grizzly up close.
“I want to see one right there,” Morrow said, pointing to a spot just feet away. “I’d throw it a cookie.”
The top 10 parks by visitation collectively hosted almost 44 million people last year, according to National Park Service figures. That’s a 26 percent increase from a decade earlier, or more than 9.1 million new visitors combined at Great Smoky Mountains, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, Yosemite and the other national parks on the list.
Yellowstone boasts the most large, dangerous carnivores among those parks, but each has its risks. In Rocky Mountain National Park, it’s elk that become more aggressive during mating season. In Yosemite, it’s towering waterfalls where visitors insist on swimming near the edge. In the Grand Canyon, it’s squirrels habituated to humans and sometimes quick to bite an outstretched hand.
Wenk said the rise in popularity of social media complicates keeping visitors safe.
“You take a picture of yourself standing 10 feet in front of a bison, and all of a sudden a few hundred people see it, and it’s reposted — at the same time we’re telling everybody wildlife is dangerous,” Wenk said. “They get incongruous messages and then it happens. They get too close, and the bison charges.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/visitors-behaving-badly-national-park-service-100/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/e7d2288d4014a0c80cd478823ed43933bb28d65b54ec2734707ab6c8e6390a9d.json |
[
"Nicki Jhabvala"
] | 2016-08-28T20:46:13 | null | 2016-08-28T19:11:43 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fbritton-colquitt-broncos-punter-pay-cut%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/585819712.jpg?w=1024&h=761 | en | null | Broncos ask punter Britton Colquitt to take pay cut | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Another year, another request to revise his contract.
As first reported by Altitude Sports’ Vic Lombardi, Britton Colquitt, the Broncos’ veteran punter who was once the highest-paid player at his position, has been asked by the team to take a significant cut off his $3.25 million salary for 2016.
They asked because they have the leverage. The Broncos drafted Riley Dixon in the seventh round this year, giving them a younger and cheaper alternative, to the tune of four years and $2.42 million, with approximately $530,000 due this season.
The Broncos decided to have Dixon take all eight of their punts Saturday against the Rams, and handle all holding duties. He averaged 44.9 yards per punt, with one touchback and one inside the 20-yard line.
“It really gets back to the same thing, when you have a veteran guy who’s been doing it for you, you know what they bring to the table and what they do,” coach Gary Kubiak said Saturday night. “When you have a young kid that’s competing with them, you never know how far they’ve come until you give them a chance. You can ask me about the quarterback, it’s the same thing with Riley. We wanted to watch him hold, we wanted to watch him punt. We have some tough decisions to make and we’re trying to help ourselves make those decisions with how they play.”
The decision, however, may be mostly financial. Colquitt, the longest-tenured Broncos on the roster, signed a three-year, $11.7 million extension in 2013 that made him the highest-paid punter in the NFL with an average salary of $3.9 million.
In August 2015, Colquitt accepted a $1.4 million reduction in salary for that year only. His salary for 2016, the final year on the deal, was to stay at $3.25 million.
The Broncos must trim their roster from 90 to 75 players by Tuesday and reach the final 53-man group by Saturday. Should Colquitt not accept the latest request — it seems unlikely that he would — the Broncos could cut him and have only $750,000 in dead money. They could also look trade him and not have any of his remaining salary count against the cap. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/britton-colquitt-broncos-punter-pay-cut/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/47740129cf17c86acdf40b98a8fdcbc436d526e93af6d1afb3977e693aaf8bf0.json |
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"Jon Murray"
] | 2016-08-29T22:46:38 | null | 2016-08-29T22:42:24 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fdenver-normls-pot-clubs-initiative-falls-short-wont-make-november-ballot%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/pot-clubs.jpg?w=1024&h=675 | en | null | Denver NORML’s pot clubs initiative falls short, won’t make November ballot | null | null | www.denverpost.com | One of two potential citywide initiatives aimed at allowing the social use of marijuana has failed to make the ballot after falling short in verified petition signatures, the Denver Elections Division said Monday.
That means voters citywide won’t get a chance in the Nov. 8 election to allow private marijuana clubs, which some other Colorado cities and towns have sanctioned. But they still might have the option of voting for a broader measure that would legalize the social use of cannabis products in some regular businesses, such as bars or cafes or even yoga studios. Permit-seekers would have to win the backing of a neighborhood group.
The latter measure, called the Neighborhood-Supported Cannabis Consumption Initiative, still is having its petition signatures verified. Denver Elections spokesman Alton Dillard said the verification process for that measure should be complete by next week.
The petition submission for an Initiated Ordinance from @AdultUseDenver did NOT contain enough valid signatures to make Nov. 8 ballot. — Denver Elections (@DenverElections) August 29, 2016
For its private clubs measure — dubbed the Responsible Use Denver initiative — the Denver chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) turned in more than 7,500 signatures, Dillard said. An initiative requires 4,726 valid signatures from registered Denver voters to make the ballot.
But workers verified just 2,987 as eligible. The rest came from voters registered outside Denver County or from people who weren’t registered voters.
The remaining proposed ballot measure has a little more room for error. Backers including Kayvan Khalatbari of Denver Relief Consulting said they filed petitions containing 10,800 signatures.
.@AdultUseDenver has turned in petitions for their #ballot intiative. We have 25 days to verify their signatures. pic.twitter.com/d9Zly7D5Ff — Denver Elections (@DenverElections) August 9, 2016
Jordan Person, Denver NORML’s chapter director, said she was surprised by the number of rejected signatures for the group’s private clubs initiative, adding that it underlined the need for more voter registration drives.
In the meantime, she said, she still plans to speak to a City Council committee about the issue soon.
“You know, we’re not going to stop,” she said, arguing that private clubs are the better solution to the need for places where people, including tourists, can consume marijuana together. “We’ve done so much in the year that we’ve been a chapter. I’m just proud so everyone’s efforts.”
Neighborhood Approved #Cannabis Consumption Pilot Project Initiative turns in #Petition sigs. 25 days to review. pic.twitter.com/InmMIa3Mih — Denver Elections (@DenverElections) August 12, 2016
Earlier Monday, the Colorado secretary of state announced that two proposed statewide anti-fracking ballot measures failed to make the ballot, also because of insufficient signatures. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/denver-normls-pot-clubs-initiative-falls-short-wont-make-november-ballot/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/4e054df02c48c3f4941c26a5e735dcce4e2c62e959e5d5da594b759dc437ad14.json |
[
"Cohen Peart"
] | 2016-08-30T22:46:42 | null | 2016-08-30T22:22:11 | San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who has been outspoken on racial issues, caused a stir when he refused to stand for the national anthem before a recent preseason game. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fcartoons-of-the-day-colin-kaepernicks-national-anthem-protest%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/colin-kaepernick-cartoon-mckee.jpg?w=1024&h=677 | en | null | Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest | null | null | www.denverpost.com | San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who has been outspoken on racial issues, caused a stir when he refused to stand for the national anthem before a recent preseason game. Editorial cartoonist Rick McKee says Kaepernick is “excercising his right to be stupid,” while Joe Heller depicts the Statue of Liberty as wishing Kaepernick would stand up for the U.S. flag.
Rick McKee, The Augusta Chronicle
Joe Heller, www.hellertoon.com | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/cartoons-of-the-day-colin-kaepernicks-national-anthem-protest/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/60371027ab406e7380cc36fe7cbcafe03a5037b2c857b2882d9cc9c0decf1656.json |
[
"Jesse Paul"
] | 2016-08-29T18:46:40 | null | 2016-08-29T17:11:34 | Authorities in Adams County are investigating the death Monday morning of a 6-month-old infant at a motel. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fadams-county-infant-death-primrose-motel%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/infant_motel_death.jpg?w=1024&h=768 | en | null | Adams County deputies investigating 6-month-old infant’s death at motel | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Authorities in Adams County are investigating the death Monday morning of a 6-month-old infant at a motel.
Deputy Michael Kaiser, spokesman for the county sheriff’s office, said investigators are working to determine if there is anything criminal about the death.
Infant death investigation at Motel . 5450 Federal. pic.twitter.com/asmnzmMjMz — D7photog (@D7photog) August 29, 2016
First responders were called to the Primrose Motel on the 5400 block of Federal Boulevard about 9:30 a.m. on reports of a young child in distress that bystanders were trying to revive. By the time help arrived, the child was dead.
Kaiser said the baby was with its parents. He did not immediately know the child’s gender.
”We’re just preliminary at this point in the investigation,” Kaiser said.
No arrests had been made as of about an hour after authorities were initially called to the scene. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/adams-county-infant-death-primrose-motel/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/2ab8826e9d2c09fa527ab3ef1901da600cc1aec7152f91a7668c74bd6841cc2f.json |
[
"Mike Brohard",
"The Reporter-Herald"
] | 2016-08-27T04:46:04 | null | 2016-08-27T03:43:14 | In the past three seasons, the talk was all about Rashard Higgins. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fwith-rashard-higgins-gone-the-rest-of-colorado-states-receiving-corps-steps-out-of-obscurity%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/489222982.jpg?w=1024&h=682 | en | null | With Rashard Higgins gone, the rest of Colorado State’s receiving corps steps out of obscurity | null | null | www.denverpost.com | FORT COLLINS — In the past three seasons, the talk was all about Rashard Higgins.
With good reason. He was a consensus All-American as a sophomore, and he left early for the NFL Draft the proud owner of every major season and career receiving record at Colorado State.
Now it’s time for somebody else to step to the forefront. But who?
Even whom.
“Of course everybody wants to be that guy; we’re all competing,” Bisi Johnson said. “We need to work as a group, because we want to be the best we can be.”
The most experienced of the group is Xavier Williams. He looks ideal for the role at 6-foot-3 and 200 pounds, combined with the ability to run and make tough catches. At the end of the spring, it was said he had the potential to be like Higgins — maybe better — but he had to decide that. By conference media days in Las Vegas in July, CSU head coach Mike Bobo wasn’t talking the same way, more with a challenging tone.
Williams hasn’t run much with the top offense, starting with the 3s. But he is progressing.
“He knows what he needs to do to get into good graces with me and this football team,” Bobo said. “It’s a work in progress, but I’m real pleased with him. He’s still down (the depth chart) a little bit, but he’s doing what he said. Xavier is going to make a lot of plays for us this year. I really believe that.”
Right now, however, it’s Sammie Long IV and Johnson running with the top offense, as Bobo said both have proven they can be relied upon to run the right route, be where they’re supposed to be and when they’re supposed to be there.
Long, like Williams, was part of the same recruiting class as Higgins. He didn’t approach this season as his turn to shine, but rather a group project for the wideouts to be the best group they can be.
Read the rest here | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/with-rashard-higgins-gone-the-rest-of-colorado-states-receiving-corps-steps-out-of-obscurity/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/e9c573971eb520b8f18b7e809604b9628efdac784e9d60b80f903301298c6f5d.json |
[
"Cameron Wolfe"
] | 2016-08-28T04:46:16 | null | 2016-08-28T02:53:46 | NFL reporter Cameron Wolfe analyzes how Broncos quarterbacks Trevor Siemian and Paxton Lynch played in the Broncos third preseason game Saturday night. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fdenver-broncos-qb-watch-trevor-siemian-rams%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/broncos_98.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Broncos QB watch: Trevor Siemian shows good and bad vs. Rams | null | null | www.denverpost.com | NFL reporter Cameron Wolfe analyzes how Broncos quarterbacks Trevor Siemian and Paxton Lynch played in the Broncos’ third preseason game Saturday night:
Siemian — The Broncos second-year quarterback had to wait until his third drive to throw a pass as the offense went run-heavy early. On his fourth drive, he moved the ball into Rams territory before throwing an interception on a underthrown deep pass intended for Cody Latimer. On his final two drives, Siemian led the Broncos’ offense to 10 points highlighted by a 43-yard touchdown pass to Demaryius Thomas.
Final stats: 10-of-17, 122 yards, 1 touchdown, 1 interception
Lynch — The rookie out of Memphis played the entire second half ahead of veteran Mark Sanchez. Six of his seven complete drives ended in punts, including five three-and-outs. He did lead a touchdown drive on his second series, but failed to gather a rhythm after that.
Final stats: 6-of-13, 57 yards, 0 touchdowns, 0 interceptions | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/denver-broncos-qb-watch-trevor-siemian-rams/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/e4f2876c4aa9719c29caf6acc0ed210e28d74faae9c22092112c181b03091979.json |
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"The Denver Post"
] | 2016-08-28T02:46:06 | null | 2016-08-28T01:27:20 | A fatal, multi-vehicle accident shut down southbound Parker Road at Hess Road on Saturday evening, police said. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fmulti-vehicle-accident-parker-road%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/tweetdeck-twitter-com-cq6m5ewusai9tze.jpg?w=1024&h=768 | en | null | Three-car accident with motorcycle leaves victims trapped, shuts down Parker Road | null | null | www.denverpost.com | A crash involving three cars and a motorcycle in Parker on Saturday evening shut down southbound Parker Road at Hess Road and sent seven victims to the hospital, police said.
The crash happened at Parker Road and J. Morgan Boulevard around 6:30 p.m. Three people were trapped in vehicles and a helicopter had been requested by authorities. South Metro Fire and Rescue was on the scene to help extract victims from their vehicles.
Law enforcement also requested help from Aurora and Franktown firefighters and the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.
This story will be updated as more information becomes available. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/multi-vehicle-accident-parker-road/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/90855d30abedf695d4de84a7d3d0af9c444be2ae5fe396747fc9cc105e076f2a.json |
[
"Dp Opinion"
] | 2016-08-26T20:46:03 | null | 2016-08-26T19:23:23 | Hooray for Gary DeFrange and his success in restarting the Ski Train! The leisurely ride is an excursion to be treasured in itself. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fthrilled-by-the-return-of-the-ski-train-to-winter-park%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20150225__ski-trainp1.jpg?w=654&h=452 | en | null | Thrilled by the return of the Ski Train to Winter Park | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Re: “Thanks to the Winter Park Express, Denver just became a ski-in, ski-out town,” Aug. 25 news story.
Hooray for Gary DeFrange and his success in restarting the Ski Train! The leisurely ride is an excursion to be treasured in itself. From the early morning trip up to Winter Park packed with the excitement and camaraderie of anticipation, to the ride back in weary but pleased accomplishment, the trips are perfect bookends. The views are stunning, the conversations delightful, and the experience memorable.
There are too few examples of individuals who step up and accomplish what so many say is impossible, even when those others yearned for the same goal. DeFrange did it and I, for one, am grateful.
Harry Puncec, Lakewood
Submit a letter to the editor via this form or check out our guidelines for how to submit by e-mail or mail. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/thrilled-by-the-return-of-the-ski-train-to-winter-park/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/c0bb9d957dc40159ff4aa9a03b91aad5d0a8567d6d604b2ac2adf037efb5b9c5.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-31T06:46:54 | null | 2016-08-31T05:44:59 | Stocks fell slightly on Tuesday in another quiet day on Wall Street as hesitant investors remained on the sidelines as a slow summer winds down. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fus-stocks-mostly-lower-as-investors-wait-for-jobs-report%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | US stocks mostly lower as investors wait for jobs report | null | null | www.denverpost.com | NEW YORK — Stocks fell slightly on Tuesday in another quiet day on Wall Street as hesitant investors remained on the sidelines as a slow summer winds down.
Shares of the candy company Hershey plunged after it walked away from a merger proposal, and Apple slipped after the company was hit with a large tax bill in Europe.
Investors continue to wait to see whether the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates later this year. The next key piece of data is coming on Friday with the August jobs report.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 48.69 points, or 0.3 percent, to 18,454.30. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 4.26 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,176.12 and the Nasdaq composite fell 9.34 points, or 0.2 percent, to 5,222.99.
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Trading was extremely light once again, with roughly 2.95 billion shares changing hands on the New York Stock Exchange, the seventh-slowest day of the year. Monday was the slowest trading day of 2016.
Bank stocks were among the few gainers as investors continued to interpret comments from Federal Reserve Chair Yellen and Vice Chair Stanley Fisher at a conference in Wyoming last week as signs the Fed is ready to raise interest rates later this year. In her comments, Yellen said “the case for an increase (in interest rates) has strengthened in recent months.”
Banks are a major beneficiary of rising interest rates since they can charge more for loans when interest rates rise.
Bank of America rose 35 cents, or 2 percent, to $16.19, Wells Fargo rose $1.06, or 2 percent, to $50.62 and Morgan Stanley rose 78 cents, or 2.5 percent, to $32.19.
Investors are waiting to see if the Labor Department’s monthly jobs survey this week indicates whether the U.S. economy remains on solid footing. Economists expect employers added 182,500 jobs in August and that the unemployment rate fell slightly to 4.8 percent.
A strong jobs report would give the Federal Reserve additional ammunition to raise interest rates either at its September meeting or later this year.
“After Yellen’s comments at Jackson Hole, there are some investors who think higher interest rates could hinge on this jobs report,” said Scott Wren, a senior global equity strategist at the Wells Fargo Investment Institute.
In other company news, Hershey fell $12.02, or 11 percent, to $99.65 after snack food company Mondelez International said it was walking away from its proposal to buy Hershey for roughly $25 billion.
Mondelez, which makes Oreo cookies and other snack foods, initially proposed to buy the company earlier this summer, but Hershey is a notoriously difficult company to propose mergers with since the majority of the shares are controlled by a non-profit organization.
Apple fell 82 cents, or 0.8 percent, to $106 after the European Union ruled that it has to pay $14.5 billion in back taxes. Both Apple and Ireland said they would appeal the decision, which is the EU’s latest and most aggressive move in its campaign to have multinationals pay a fair tax rate.
United Continental rose $4.04, or 8.6 percent, to $50.99 after the company announced it was hiring a former American Airlines executive, Scott Kirby, to become president and take over day-to-day operations.
In energy trading, benchmark U.S. crude oil fell 63 cents to $46.35 a barrel. Brent crude, used to price oil internationally, fell 89 cents to $48.37 a barrel. In other energy commodities, heating oil fell 1.5 cents to $1.471 a gallon, wholesale gasoline fell 1.9 cents to $1.448 a gallon and natural gas fell 7 cents to $2.827 per thousand cubic feet.
Bond prices were mostly unchanged. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note edged up to 1.57 percent.
The dollar rose to 102.97 yen from 101.98 yen late Monday. The euro slipped to $1.1139 from $1.1187.
In metals, gold fell $10.60 to $1,316.50 an ounce, silver fell 19 cents to $18.67 an ounce and copper fell less than 1 cent to $2.077 per pound. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/us-stocks-mostly-lower-as-investors-wait-for-jobs-report/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/8061c75577148cedafb32c313319914dab7e02af221f418e219c7c323ab858bc.json |
[
"Boulder Daily Camera"
] | 2016-08-29T14:46:39 | null | 2016-08-29T14:33:32 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fcu-boulder-business-school-settles-discrimination-complaint%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | CU Boulder business school settles discrimination complaint for $40,000 | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The University of Colorado paid a former female staffer in the Leeds School of Business $40,000 in 2013 in exchange for her dropping a federal gender discrimination complaint, according to documents recently provided to the Daily Camera by the university.
As part of the settlement with Robin Miglarese, former associate director of operations in executive education for the business school, the university also paid $7,845 for a Westminster leadership coach to work with Dean David Ikenberry and other leaders of the business school on “emotional intelligence.” The settlement agreement and the complaint Miglarese filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission were provided to the Daily Camera this month in response to a request for legal documents and complaints during Ikenberry’s five-year term.
The university previously shared with the Camera documents related to two other gender discrimination complaints filed with the employment commission. The complaint filed by former Leeds instructor Lauren Ramsay in May 2015 is still pending, while the complaint filed by Tip-Arpar Karasudhi, the business school’s former budget and finance director, was dismissed in April.
All told, three women have complained to the employment commission about Ikenberry and business school leaders since 2013, according to the university’s legal department. He became dean of the business school in 2011 and was reappointed to a second five-year term this summer.
Read the full story at DailyCamera.com. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/cu-boulder-business-school-settles-discrimination-complaint/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/78d96f55ee91cf276ebe887c7061530f8d4060fa2086b37ef92314136861497f.json |
[
"The Denver Post"
] | 2016-08-28T22:46:18 | null | 2016-08-28T21:50:39 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fdelays-expected-after-accident-involving-aurora-fire-vehicle%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Delays expected in Aurora after accident involving Aurora Fire vehicle | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Traffic was being delayed around the intersection of Havana Street and East Alameda Avenue after an accident involving an Aurora Fire Department vehicle, according to the Aurora police.
Aurora police said on Twitter that some lanes were closed after the Sunday afternoon accident. At least one person was reported injured.
This is a developing story and will be updated. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/delays-expected-after-accident-involving-aurora-fire-vehicle/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/d941ec9f1fcea7ccc88d1e2806921272cabfdf1768e8bf34565e4cc3e480d1b6.json |
[
"The Denver Post Editorial Board"
] | 2016-08-30T22:46:47 | null | 2016-08-30T22:00:00 | Gov. Hickenlooper should work more deliberately on a climate change executive order leaked last week to avoid the perception he seeks a Cabinet post in a Hillary Clinton administration. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fon-climate-change-order-hickenlooper-faces-a-perception-problem%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/545227160.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | On climate change order, Hickenlooper faces a perception problem | null | null | www.denverpost.com | What to make of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s plan to launch an executive order meant to bolster Colorado’s climate change goals?
Many of the order’s goals resonate with policies and laws already in place that we support. But its timing and the unavoidable perception that it is driven by the governor’s rumored interest to serve in a Hillary Clinton Cabinet creates a real problem for the plan. And for us.
The question of increasing Colorado’s commitment to fighting climate change is too important to set against such a backdrop. Another problem, the oil and gas industry just dodged two anti-industry proposals making the ballot that created a lot of uncertainty. It seems like the wrong time to risk sending yet another signal to such a large part of the state’s economy that Colorado plans to make more changes to its rule books.
The governor’s office stresses that the plan was leaked, and that helps explain why it has caught folks off balance. Normally, Hickenlooper takes a more collaborative approach. A perfect example for this situation was his work in 2014 to prevent anti-fracking measures from making it onto the ballot. The governor worked with many differing interests and formed a commission to study concerns from local governments and oil and gas industry executives. While reasonable people see the results of that effort differently, the method behind it was sound.
The leaked draft calls for state agencies to require, at a minimum, a 25 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from power companies by 2025, as compared to 2012 levels. By 2030, the goal would be to achieve a 35 percent reduction.
The draft also calls for creation of a multi-agency task force meant to implement the 2015 climate plan the administration crafted to align with the president’s Clean Power Plan, currently in legal limbo. The draft says this working group, and the order itself, are to be in place by an unspecified date in September.
Further, the draft order would ask state agencies to provide economic development strategies and supportive services for communities dealing with the transition from an economy based on fossil fuels to one that increasingly draws its power from the renewable marketplace. Clearly, that’s a good idea. Whatever happens with the order, Colorado will need to focus on ways to make that transition as energy production evolves.
Hickenlooper said last week he thinks the goals in development can be achieved without big spikes in costs for businesses and consumers. “We want to keep any increase in cost to less than inflation, so essentially in terms of real dollars zero,” he said.
The governor’s office tells us now that he is in no rush to sign the order, and that its adoption requires more discussion and could come after Election Day — despite the September time frame indicated in the leaked draft.
That’s more the Hickenlooper we know. If the governor intends as his next big act to help further guide Colorado toward a clean energy economy, he will need state lawmakers and industry to get on board. Working through this process more deliberately would go a long way toward removing the suspicion that he’s acting to advance his political career.
To send a letter to the editor about this article, submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by e-mail or mail. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/on-climate-change-order-hickenlooper-faces-a-perception-problem/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/7030b94befcf24f0ec532ae6d6dcd24935cd1f41f8b5d95363e0acbf6da60b96.json |
[
"Cameron Wolfe"
] | 2016-08-27T02:46:01 | null | 2016-08-27T01:43:34 | Connor McGovern has admittedly let his mind wander a bit to September 8th. Due to injuries and uncertainty at the position, it isn’t a stretch that the Broncos’ fifth-round pick could be the opening day starter at right guard. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fbroncos-rookie-connor-mcgovern-prepared-to-assume-unexpectedly-significant-ol-role%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/528648406.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Broncos’ rookie Connor McGovern prepared to assume unexpectedly significant OL role | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Connor McGovern has let his mind wander a bit to Sept. 8. Because of injuries and uncertainty at the position, it isn’t a stretch that the Broncos’ fifth-round pick could be the opening day starter at right guard.
Is McGovern ready for the job?
“I’d like to think I am,” said McGovern, laughing and rubbing his recently shaved head. “That’s obviously a huge call especially against a team like Carolina. It’s going to be primetime TV. It’s the Super Bowl all over again. It’s something that I’m going to do everything I can to be ready for, if it does happen.”
Regardless of whether he starts opening night, McGovern has to be prepared for significant action during his rookie season. The transition between college and the NFL seems to be the most difficult for offensive linemen. Many have to take a year to learn the more intricate blocking schemes and techniques.
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McGovern said he’s had some of the early struggles that many young offensive linemen have with consistency and being hesitant because he’s thinking too much at times. The Broncos might not have that luxury to allow him to just sit and learn this season.
Ty Sambrailo’s hyperextended right elbow and Darrion Weems’ concussion leave the Broncos’ top two choices to start at right guard as an uncertainty. The Broncos are hoping that Sambrailo and Weems will return soon, but they have to be prepared otherwise. McGovern and Michael Schofield are the next two in line.
“Connor is a young player who’s in the mix at the right guard spot for us,” Broncos coach Gary Kubiak said. “He’s having to bounce around. As we try to get to suiting seven guys in two weeks, a big factor with that is how does Connor keep coming? I’ve been pleased with his work.”
In the midst of competing at right guard, McGovern got another duty put on his plate – center.
Backup center James Ferentz had his knee scoped earlier this week and is expected to miss a few weeks. If Ferentz isn’t ready to start the season, it’d likely be McGovern as the lone player on the 53-man roster who could also function as a backup center behind starter Matt Paradis.
McGovern had been functioning as the Broncos’ third-team center for much of the summer, but now his responsibility becomes more vital. He has relished the opportunity.
“I like it because it helps me really understand the offense. There’s no better way to learn it than to be thrown in the fire and making all the calls,” McGovern said. “You don’t have that mental side down, it might be pretty hard.”
McGovern said playing center has also improved his guard play because he understands every offensive lineman’s responsibility. It doesn’t help him much in facing defensive end Derek Wolfe every day in practice though.
Wolfe’s combination of strength, size and experience provides the most difficult test for McGovern, who is a strong man himself.
“Going against a guy like Wolfe every day, that’s practice you can’t get anywhere else,” McGovern said. “Any little weakness those kind of guys are going to expose it. It’s not a confidence builder to go against them, but it’s great practice because you’re going to learn what you need to work on.”
Getting daily repetitions against the Broncos’ first-team defense has provided the baseline for him to face similar challenges in game action. McGovern still has a lot of room to grow, but he’s an important player in the Broncos’ plans for 2016 and beyond.
McGovern file
A glance at Broncos offensive lineman Connor McGovern:
Size: 6-foot-4, 306 pounds
College: Missouri
Draft: 2016 fifth-round pick, 144th overall
Versatility: McGovern started at left tackle, right guard and right tackle in college, but he prefers to play inside now including his new role of center.
Creating the tone: McGovern loves run blocking because its when he can be the aggressor and bring the hurt to his opponent. At guard, he’s working on doing more of that in pass protection.
Strong as an ox: McGovern benched 33 repetitions of 225 pounds at the NFL combine, tied for second-most among all players. He said he can squat more than 700 pounds.
Cameron Wolfe, The Denver Post | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/broncos-rookie-connor-mcgovern-prepared-to-assume-unexpectedly-significant-ol-role/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/1e6f5817979be7ba0f5440f23242b5d72e9f262b1ca4176a208ea52622e15d83.json |
[
"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-26T16:45:58 | null | 2016-08-26T16:09:18 | Texas Rangers reliever Jeremy Jeffress, who was suspended twice as a minor leaguer for violating drug rules, has been arrested in Dallas on a drunken driving charge. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fjeremy-jeffress-charged-dwi-rangers%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/jeremy-jeffress.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Rangers reliever Jeremy Jeffress charged with DWI in Dallas | null | null | www.denverpost.com | DALLAS — Texas Rangers reliever Jeremy Jeffress, who was suspended twice as a minor leaguer for violating drug rules, has been arrested in Dallas on a drunken driving charge.
Online records for the Dallas County jail show that the 28-year-old Jeffress was booked around 5:15 a.m. Friday on a driving while intoxicated charge. No bond or attorney information was listed. Dallas police didn’t immediately provide details on the arrest.
A statement from the Rangers says the team was aware of a situation early Friday involving Jeffress and was gathering information.
The closer was acquired Aug. 1 from Milwaukee.
The Brewers drafted Jeffress as the 16th selection overall in 2006, giving him a more than $1.5 million signing bonus. The right-hander was suspended for 50 games in 2007 and for 100 games in 2009. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/jeremy-jeffress-charged-dwi-rangers/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/4797e4de10db2f9e4794a7b3c72b6c1abd84de75a39b0439e0fbc02f9aea0704.json |
[
"Dp Opinion"
] | 2016-08-26T20:46:05 | null | 2016-08-26T19:09:18 | Gov. John Hickenlooper’s proposed order for a 35 percent drop in carbon emissions in the state by 2030, though laudable, doesn't reach the levels called for in the Paris agreement. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fhickenlooper-right-to-call-for-lower-carbon-emissions-2-letters%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/545227160.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Hickenlooper right to call for lower carbon emissions (2 letters) | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Re: “Hickenlooper says climate change is hurting state economy,” Aug. 24 news story.
Your article on Gov. John Hickenlooper’s plan to order cuts in carbon emissions contained a question by Colorado Mining Association president Stan Dempsey. He asks, “What is the policy goal here?” Dempsey sees coal miners out of work, but he ignores our rapidly changing climate, increased floods, fires and droughts. Does he not see temperatures are rising and disasters increasing? I think the policy goal is to protect the Earth from coming major impacts of global warming, and I applaud Hickenlooper.
Marc Alston, Denver
Gov. John Hickenlooper’s proposed order for a 35 percent drop in carbon emissions in the state by 2030, though laudable, does not get Colorado close to the necessary level of emissions to meet the standards agreed to in the Paris agreement of December 2015. Colorado needs to take far more stringent measures to curb emissions, not just of carbon dioxide but also of methane caused by fracking of natural gas. We need to get serious about mitigating and adapting to climate change before It’s too late.
Susan Permut, Monument
Submit a letter to the editor via this form or check out our guidelines for how to submit by e-mail or mail. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/hickenlooper-right-to-call-for-lower-carbon-emissions-2-letters/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/b7eddd80b30c5cf357c1aff282e4a6a438deb386928122692437353ed5b08935.json |
[
"John Broening"
] | 2016-08-31T08:46:45 | null | 2016-08-31T07:00:30 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2Fwatermelon-chipotle-margarita-recipe%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/watermelon_chipotle.jpg?w=1024&h=545 | en | null | Short Order: Watermelon Chipotle Margarita | null | null | www.denverpost.com | “Leave well enough alone” might be a rule that could be applied to the margarita, one of the handful of perfect drinks in the standard bartender’s repertoire.
A margarita has sweetness (from Cointreau, sugar and Triple Sec); it has acidity (from lime juice); it has saltiness (from the salt that rims the glass); and it has smokiness from the tequila.
My twist on the margarita involves using watermelon — now that most watermelons are seedless, you don’t have to go through the bother of de-seeding them. The watermelon is muddled in the cocktail shaker, so you end up with a rough puree of watermelon that adds body and texture to the cocktail.
I also like to reinforce the smokiness of the drink by adding chipotle powder to the salt that I use to rim the margarita glass.
This recipe calls for a cup of watermelon, but if you like less watermelon and more of everything else ( especially hard liquor), feel free to reduce the amount you use.
Watermelon Chipotle Margarita (makes 4 cocktails)
Ingredients:
2 limes
8 ounces tequila
4 ounces Triple Sec
2 tablespoons superfine sugar
1 cup seedless watermelon , chopped
crushed ice
Chipotle Salt ( recipe follows)
To make the Chipotle Salt:
3 tablespoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon chipotle powder ( available at Savory Spice)
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
Directions:
In a small bowl, mix all ingredients together. Keep covered at room temperature until ready to use.
To make the Watermelon Margarita:
Chill four martini or coupe glasses.
Halve the limes and, using a reamer, juice the limes and the lime pulp into a cocktail shaker. Add the tequila, Triple Sec, sugar and watermelon to the cocktail shaker and muddle well. Place the Chipotle Salt on a saucer and roll the rims of the glasses in it.
Add the crushed ice to the cocktail shaker, and shake well. Strain the margarita mix into the four glasses and serve immediately. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/31/watermelon-chipotle-margarita-recipe/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/c2dfae96449d90320ec1e30c2048a89a352756f8da1c916d34632d59e6921832.json |
[
"Jason Blevins"
] | 2016-08-30T22:46:41 | null | 2016-08-30T22:40:17 | TEN: The Enthusiast Network's Dew Tour bringing snowboard, freeskiing halfpipe and slopestyle contests back to Breckenridge | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fdew-tour-returns-breckenridge-freeskiing-snowboarding-pipe-slopestyle%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp16dewtoursunday__ao15286x.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Dew Tour returns to Breckenridge with freeskiing, snowboarding pipe and slopestyle contests | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The Dew Tour returns to Breckenridge in Dec. 8-11, marking the ninth year the skiing and snowboarding contest has taken over the Summit County ski area’s halfpipe and slopestyle course.
Mountain Dew and TEN: The Enthusiast Network — the media outfit that took over production of the Dew Tour this year — are promising a “reimagined” Dew Tour with a new format that will include the traditional ski and snowboard pipe and slopestyle contests and as well as team competition that will pit athletes divided by their equipment sponsors, like Atomic vs. Salomon or Burton vs. Volcom.
The revamped Dew Tour drew record attendance at the Long Beach, Calif., stop in July. Top athletes like snowboarder Danny Davis and back-to-back Dew Tour champion freeskier Gus Kenworthy are booked for this year’s show. On Tuesday, Shaun White tweeted a photo of himself in a slopestyle park, saying he was “Ready to get back out there.”
With Snow Park Technologies designing new slopestyle features and the superpipe for Breckenridge, this year’s Dew Tour stop will likely bring out the biggest names in freeskiing and snowboarding as the 2016-17 season sets the stage for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.
This year’s Dew Tour also will include live music and, for the first time, the popular Transworld Snowboarding Riders Poll Awards and the Powder Awards.
“On the heels of the most recent successes coming out of the new summer skate event in Long Beach, we are really looking forward to carrying on the vigor into the winter sports, and returning back to Breckenridge,”Mountain Dew marketing chief Greg Lyons said in a statement. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/dew-tour-returns-breckenridge-freeskiing-snowboarding-pipe-slopestyle/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/99d4fb5ff5080396ee5a332ea0f7f7d804c8b64ad8bf207ef86e6134885bc10f.json |
[
"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-31T06:46:57 | null | 2016-08-31T04:47:35 | The FBI thinks that Lyle Jeffs, the polygamist religious leader accused in a multimillion-dollar food stamp scheme, disappeared from house arrest this summer. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Flawyer-fugitive-polygamist-lyle-jeffs-may-have-been-swept-away-in-the-rapture%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/lylejeffs.jpg?w=1024&h=1206 | en | null | Lawyer: Fugitive polygamist Lyle Jeffs may have been swept away in the rapture | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The FBI thinks that Lyle Jeffs, the polygamist religious leader accused in a multimillion-dollar food stamp scheme, disappeared from house arrest this summer by coating his ankle monitor in olive oil and sliding it off.
That explanation may fly with nonbelievers, but in court documents filed last week, Jeffs’s attorney has put forth a divine reason for his disappearance – the miracle of rapture:
“As this Court is well aware, Mr. Jeffs is currently not available to inform his counsel whether or not he agrees to the Continuance. Whether his absence is based on absconding, as oft alleged by the Government in their filings, or whether he was taken and secreted against his will, or whether he experienced the miracle of rapture is unknown to counsel.”
Rapture, for the uninitiated, is the Christian belief that during the second coming of Christ, the holy will be whisked away to heaven.
Kathryn Nester, Jeffs’s public defender, filed the documents in support of a continuance because Jeffs had been missing for a month, leaving only the greasy ankle monitor behind.
The FBI isn’t buying the heavenly intervention angle.
The organization issued a wanted poster for Jeffs, who is “thought to be a leader in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.”
The church is not affiliated with the Mormon church – they separated decades ago. FLDS members practice polygamy and have been accused of taking wives who are too young to give consent, The Washington Post wrote in February.
Agents say Jeffs is most likely hiding out in one of the safe houses belonging to the church, and that he “should be considered armed and dangerous.”
The FBI is offering $50,000 for information that leads to Jeffs’s arrest. No person or divine entity has come forward to claim the reward since it was announced Monday.
The case is more than just an outlandish excuse for a defendant on the lam. The controversial church’s existence may hinge on whether Lyle Jeffs is free or not.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has called the FLDS “a white supremacist, homophobic, anti-government, totalitarian cult” that has taken over small towns on the Utah-Arizona border. In a civil rights trial, prosecutors argued that two of those communities discriminate against people who are not church members, according to The Post.
As Melissa Etehad wrote in The Post, the FLDS “came under national scrutiny when the church’s self-described ‘prophet,’ Lyle Jeffs’ brother Warren Jeffs, was sentenced to life in prison in 2011 for raping a child.”
FLDS teaches that the biblical character Cain “was cursed with a black skin and he is the father of the Negro people,” according to the SPLC, and that homosexuality is “the worst evil act you can do, next to murder.”
In her book “Stolen Innocence,” former FLDS child bride Elissa Wall recounts that Jeffs taught everyone that “nonwhite people were the most evil of all outsiders.”
Women followers of FLDS are often seen wearing prairie dresses to “cover their bodies from neck to ankles because their bodies are considered sacred temples that can’t be exposed,” according to ABC News. “They also never cut their hair because, according to their teachings, they will need it in heaven to wash men’s feet as an anointing.”
Most forms of entertainment are banned, and FLDS children are educated in home schools that have Warren Jeffs’ face on the textbooks, wrote ABC News. At the north end of the FLDS community, there’s a bunker-like network of tunnels 100 yards deep, designed to protect the church in case of a government raid.
Lyle Jeffs and 10 other FLDS members were arrested in February after being accused of diverting $12 million in federal benefits, according to the Associated Press. The resulting vacuum of leadership could cause the church to implode, a former member said.
“If they are finally going to prosecute Lyle Jeffs and the leaders of the church, it will eventually bring the church down,” Wallace Jeffs, a half-brother of Warren Jeffs who was expelled from FLDS, told the Salt Lake Tribune. “This pretty much cuts the head off the snake.”
U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart granted Lyle Jeffs supervised release June 9, over the objections of federal prosecutors, who warned that safe houses and a stream of FLDS cash made Lyle Jeffs a flight risk.
Two weeks after the judge signed the release order, by means heavenly or earthly, Lyle Jeffs was gone. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/lawyer-fugitive-polygamist-lyle-jeffs-may-have-been-swept-away-in-the-rapture/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/dc8118df401e066312d8572e60451663e8f7ee66b725f64b0e46ca0422f6d9d2.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-30T08:46:37 | null | 2016-08-30T08:20:50 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Famerican-airlines-no-2-executive-departs-for-united-airlines%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | American Airlines’ No. 2 executive departs for United Airlines | null | null | www.denverpost.com | DALLAS — The president and No. 2 executive at American Airlines has left the company and taken the same job with rival United Airlines.
United Continental Holdings Inc. said Monday that Scott Kirby has been named president and will oversee operations, sales and other duties.
Kirby, 49, was often seen as a likely successor to American Airlines Group Inc. CEO Doug Parker. Instead, he will add airline-industry expertise to United’s management.
Chicago-based United is led by Oscar Munoz, a longtime railroad executive who became CEO less than a year ago and missed several months after a heart attack and transplant.
In a statement, Munoz said Kirby “is a proven leader, whose deep airline experience and expertise will further accelerate our efforts to build the best airline in the industry.” Munoz said Kirby’s hiring culminated the building of his senior leadership team, which included this month’s hiring of a new chief financial officer and chief commercial officer.
Investors have been pushing Munoz to speed up improvement to the airline’s operations and financial performance. Earlier this year, two activist shareholders threatened a proxy battle if Munoz did not surround himself with more people experienced in the airline industry.
Kirby’s departure from American breaks up what was an unusually long-tenured management team for the airline business. Kirby worked for Parker at America West Airlines and US Airways, where he rose to president in 2006. Both men took the same jobs at American after engineering the December 2013 merger with US Airways.
American said Kirby’s departure came after discussions about CEO succession and “career expectations” of its executives. Lead outside director John Cahill said the company was looking forward Parker’s leadership “for many years to come.”
Kirby will get a termination package valued at $13.2 million in cash and stock, according to an American Airlines regulatory filing.
Kirby’s replacement at American will be another member of that team, Robert Isom, 52, the airline’s chief operating officer.
Isom joined US Airways in 2007 and was credited with reducing that airline’s flight delays. When US Airways management took control of post-merger American, he kept the chief operating officer’s job at the combined carrier, which is based in Fort Worth, Texas. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/american-airlines-no-2-executive-departs-for-united-airlines/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/6116267d41c60f797274fb372878ff9dbc8f2427dfbc01b0e00d9c299070291b.json |
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"Colorado Springs Gazette"
] | 2016-08-27T04:46:02 | null | 2016-08-27T03:11:31 | A fuel tanker-truck crash in south Colorado Springs early Friday allowed thousands of gallons of gasoline to spill into a nearby creek, killing a slew of resident fish. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Ffuel-spill-kills-hordes-of-fish-colorado-springs%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/coloradospring.jpg?w=500&h=500 | en | null | Fuel spill kills hordes of fish in Colorado Springs | null | null | www.denverpost.com | A fuel tanker-truck crash in south Colorado Springs early Friday allowed thousands of gallons of gasoline to spill into a nearby creek, killing a slew of resident fish.
The spill occurred at about 4 a.m. when a truck hit a parked vehicle on Motor City Drive and rolled onto its side, leaking roughly 8,000 gallons of fuel. Officials believe most of the gasoline — although it’s not known exactly how much — spilled into the street’s drainage system, which feeds into Fountain Creek, according to the Colorado Springs Fire Department.
City and county officials are urging residents and their pets to keep out of the creek following the spill.
Read the full story on Gazette.com. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/fuel-spill-kills-hordes-of-fish-colorado-springs/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/0428dc8217a6ccff87c575b90e3dcce8f46607f856df98312364dc463a4f7702.json |
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"The Aspen Times"
] | 2016-08-28T00:46:05 | null | 2016-08-28T00:41:28 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fpitkin-county-delays-decision-for-woman-who-wants-to-turn-pottery-studio-into-pot-grow%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Pitkin County delays decision for woman who wants to turn pottery studio into pot grow | null | null | www.denverpost.com | A majority of Pitkin County commissioners voted to delay making a decision until next month on a Basalt-area woman’s application to start a retail marijuana growing operation.
Commissioners Patti Clapper, Steve Child and Michael Owsley voted Wednesday to continue Candace Resnick’s application until Sept. 28 to give her time to try to clear up issues associated with it, including allowing neighbors who haven’t yet been consulted to comment. Commissioners George Newman and Rachel Richards voted against that plan, with both saying they’d prefer to deny Resnick the license and readdress her application in the future when issues they felt would take longer than a month to resolve can be dealt with.
Resnick, 68, told commissioners she wants to convert the ceramics studio at her home to a grow house. She said her hands and back can no longer handle the strain of creating pottery, and her motivation for starting the grow operation is to be able to stay in her home. “I’m a responsible businessperson,” said Resnick, adding that she doesn’t smoke marijuana. “It’s going to be completely low-key.”
Resnick seeks conditional approval, meaning that commissioners would make a list of conditions she must meet before she could begin growing marijuana. Resnick wanted it that way because she didn’t want to spend a lot of money and then be denied by the county board.
Read the full story on AspenTimes.com. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/pitkin-county-delays-decision-for-woman-who-wants-to-turn-pottery-studio-into-pot-grow/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/e2d1a9fa84f1a7fe4767e674a614f7205d5d6fae96ca4a6fa903a2bd54387492.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T20:46:36 | null | 2016-08-29T20:24:02 | A couple of days before she returned to the site of her stunning upset of Serena Williams at the 2015 U.S. Open, Roberta Vinci was grabbing a coffee at a Starbucks in Manhattan when her breakfast was interrupted by fellow customers. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Froberta-venci-us-open-serena-williams%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/roberta-vinci.jpg?w=1024&h=674 | en | null | Year after stunning Serena Williams, Roberta Vinci returns to U.S. Open with win | null | null | www.denverpost.com | NEW YORK — A couple of days before she returned to the site of her stunning upset of Serena Williams at the 2015 U.S. Open, Roberta Vinci was grabbing a coffee at a Starbucks in Manhattan when her breakfast was interrupted by fellow customers.
“Some Americans recognized me,” Vinci recounted, a mix of appreciation and bewilderment written on her face. “They complimented me, and they wished me good luck.”
Regardless of whatever else may come for Vinci on — or, indeed, away from — a tennis court, the Italian will always be remembered as the woman who stopped Williams’ bid to complete the first calendar-year Grand Slam in more than a quarter-century. On Monday, Vinci made a successful return to Arthur Ashe Stadium, beating 46th-ranked Anna-Lena Friedsam of Germany 6-2, 6-4 in the U.S. Open’s first round.
The stakes and atmosphere were rather different from her previous two appearances in the tournament’s main arena, which now features a retractable roof that provides extra shade even while open, as it was Monday, with the sky blue and the temperature at 90 degrees.
A year ago, unseeded and ranked 43rd, Vinci beat Williams in the semifinals, then lost to another Italian, childhood friend Flavia Pennetta, in the first Grand Slam final for both.
“It’s always beautiful to be back on that court,” Vinci said. “The stadium wasn’t full, like when I played against Serena or when I played against Flavia. But it’s a special court … so I tried to bring to mind the emotions of a year ago, to boost myself and think more positively than negatively.”
Those sorts of thoughts helped Vinci when she got into a bit of a second-set rut against Friedsam, who eliminated her at this year’s Australian Open.
“I tried to think of things from last year,” Vinci said. “Those moments on the court where I lived the most beautiful moments of my life from a tennis standpoint.”
Against Friedsam, Vinci displayed the same varied game that carried her past Williams, filled with frustrating slices and drop shots and angles. There were also the same grunts of “Heh!” accompanying most shots. And, when it ended, the same broad smile and quick wit that charmed New York spectators a year ago.
She says she appreciates hearing from fans who realize who she is, whether via a greeting during a chance meeting at a coffee shop or via chants of “Vinci! Vinci!” during practice sessions.
Vinci is seeded No. 7 at this U.S. Open, a big step up from 2015, and a status which brings with it the realization that if she can’t duplicate last year’s run, her ranking will fall. She joked after Monday’s victory that she had earned 60 ranking points by virtue of that result — but says she’s trying not to harp on that part of the equation.
“Everyone says, ‘There’s so much pressure on you!’ That’s normal. That’s normal,” said Vinci, who will play Christina McHale of the U.S. next. “Repeating the results of last year would be a dream.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/roberta-venci-us-open-serena-williams/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/2ee1a1eae792e9ea7f5bf1419c7106e99bcd6d681a70bf890f362ed8cc13f038.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-27T06:45:58 | null | 2016-08-27T05:53:03 | The "religious vote" is vast and complex, and it extends beyond generalizations about "social conservatives." | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Ftrump-clinton-capitalize-religious-vote%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/trump-clinton-hunt.jpg?w=1024&h=667 | en | null | Presidential candidates capitalize on the ever-powerful ‘religious vote’ | null | null | www.denverpost.com | ATLANTA — Republican Donald Trump has told conservative evangelical pastors in Florida that his presidency would preserve “religious liberty” and reverse what he insists is a government-enforced muzzling of Christians.
The same afternoon, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine praised another, more liberal group of black church leaders in Louisiana for their “progressive values that are the values of Scripture,” and he urged them to see Hillary Clinton as a kindred spirit.
The competing appearances earlier this month highlight an oft-overlooked political reality: The “religious vote” is vast and complex, and it extends beyond generalizations about “social conservatives” who side with Republicans and black Protestant churches whose pastors and parishioners opt nearly unanimously for Democrats.
Here’s an overview of how the dynamics among religious voters could help determine the 45th president.
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HOW RELIGIOUS ARE AMERICAN VOTERS?
There’s a reason politicians chase steeples. Exit polls from recent elections suggest religiously affiliated Americans and those who attend services regularly are more likely to vote than those who claim no organized faith identity.
In 2012 exit polls, almost nine out of 10 voters claimed some religious affiliation and eight out of 10 voters identified as Christian. That’s a higher proportion than what surveys typically find in the general population: A 2014 Pew Research Center survey found that three out of four people claim a religious affiliation, while seven out of 10 Americans are Christian.
Still, there’s no absolute count of who believes what, since the government’s census doesn’t ask.
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MOST CHRISTIANS ARE REPUBLICANS, RIGHT?
White Christians do skew toward Republicans. President Barack Obama won about 40 percent of white Catholics, according to 2012 exit polls. He won less than a third of white non-Catholic Christians. A slice of that group, white evangelical or “born-again” Christians, are even more conservative, with a strong opposition to abortion rights and same-sex marriage, along with strong support for Israel. Obama won just a fifth of them.
Yet those groups are just a subset of religious voters, and the Democratic nominee still gets some of that vote. White non-Catholic Christians cast about 40 percent of the 2012 ballots, with white Catholics responsible for less than a fifth. The “born-again” white evangelical vote accounted for just a quarter of the overall electorate — same as the total Catholic vote that includes millions of Hispanics, Asians and African-Americans.
Black and Hispanic voters, meanwhile, also form key pieces of the religious vote, and they lean heavily in Democrats’ favor.
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TRUMP AND WHITE EVANGELICALS
In Florida, Trump told pastors he’s not their “perfect” candidate.
He’s drawn fire for his boasts about sexual exploits and his caustic rhetoric about immigrants.
But he’s tapped Mike Pence as his running mate, touting the Indiana governor’s staunch anti-abortion, anti-gay rights record that appeals to many white religious conservatives.
Trump compares himself to Ronald Reagan, another divorced candidate initially questioned and then embraced by conservative religious leaders. Reagan “knew how to win,” Trump reminded the pastors in Florida. Arguing that too many evangelicals stayed home for Obama’s victories, Trump says he’s the movement’s best chance for conservative federal court appointments and relaxing the ban on tax-exempt churches participating in blatant political activity.
Yet Trump also risks his own oversimplifications. He urged the Florida assembly to “get your people out to vote,” pointing specifically at Utah, a GOP-stronghold where he is underperforming. Utah is, in fact, heavily Mormon.
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CLINTON, THE METHODIST
Just as Trump is aiming for traditionally Republican religious sectors, Clinton’s is focusing most heavily on a Democratic trove: the black church. The group Kaine addressed in New Orleans was the Progressive National Baptist Convention, an outgrowth of the civil rights movement. Clinton’s staff includes a “national African-American faith outreach director.”
Still, Clinton bets that Trump’s atypical GOP profile gives her some opening. She touts her Methodist faith, and some of her arguments about Trump’s temperament and his treatment of others are aimed broadly at moderate and even Republican voters who prioritize their faith.
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IS THERE A BELLWETHER?
The winner among Catholics has also won the national popular vote in every presidential election since 1972. But it’s really more a function of math: Catholics cast about a quarter of presidential ballots, and the group is ideologically, ethnically, racially and geographically diverse. So it’s basically a massive sample size of the complete electorate. For example, Mitt Romney won six out of 10 white Catholics in 2012, about the same proportion he claimed among all whites; Obama dominated among non-white Catholics, just as he did among other non-whites. Together, Obama won a narrow majority of the Catholic vote, not much different than his national popular vote share.
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WHERE IT MATTERS MOST?
Each party’s religious anchors — black Protestants for Democrats, white evangelicals for Republicans — figure prominently in Southern battlegrounds of Florida, North Carolina and Virginia (and Georgia, assuming that traditionally GOP state stays competitive). They also are important in Ohio, though the Midwestern band of states that Trump will depend on for any chance of victory generally is whiter and more Catholic than the Southern battlegrounds.
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Follow Barrow on Twitter at https://twitter.com/BillBarrowAP. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/trump-clinton-capitalize-religious-vote/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/1eeb4794ac6ca8aca68715b576ae113ba492085957b683b95e5bdbdb31163132.json |
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"Nick Groke"
] | 2016-08-28T22:46:16 | null | 2016-08-28T22:20:54 | The Broncos' offensive line, a ragtag unit that got trampled on last season, is piecing together a new front five. The first team, for the most part, finally played together Saturday. The results were mixed. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fbroncos-settled-trevor-siemian-can-he-survive-denvers-offensive-line%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/596864818.jpg?w=1024&h=577 | en | null | Broncos finally settled on Trevor Siemian. But can he survive behind Denver's offensive line? | null | null | www.denverpost.com | His legs were moving, but C.J. Anderson was running in place. The Broncos tailback bumped into trouble twice on Denver’s first drive Saturday night against the Los Angeles Rams and twice fell backward. His offensive line was leaning in the wrong direction.
“It’s a work in progress,” Broncos center Matt Paradis said.
Now that the Broncos finally, seemingly, have settled on a starting quarterback in Trevor Siemian, the next looming question might be even more important: Can he survive the first month?
The Broncos’ offensive line, a ragtag unit that got trampled on last season, is piecing together a new front five. The first team, for the most part, finally played together Saturday. The results were mixed.
Denver’s offense gained just 27 yards in the first quarter against the Rams’ first-team defense. The Broncos twice went three-and-out, with 7 total yards over six plays from scrimmage in their first two drives. All those plays were runs. Four of the six went for losses or no gain.
The Rams, a 7-9 team last season, pushed into Denver’s backfield on six tackles for lost yardage.
“We started slow,” Broncos coach Gary Kubiak said. “We were trying to run the ball, and we didn’t run the ball well. The first two games we went right down the field the first two drives. What I do is I build on the positives. That’s what we’ll continue to do.”
On the bright side for the Broncos, Siemian was touched only twice on hits from the Rams’ defense. He was never sacked. But the Broncos are walking a thin line up front, so to speak.
“We have a lot of work to do,” Broncos left tackle Russell Okung said. “We definitely have the talent up front. Guys have amazing skill sets. There’s time to bring it together.”
Okung, the Broncos’ most expensive offseason free-agent offensive signing at $5 million this year, finally saw sustained playing time with the first-team line. Okung and fellow free-agent addition Donald Stephenson at right tackle saw sparse field time in the first two preseason games. The Broncos were protecting them, just as a string of training camp injuries nicked their depth.
But with presumptive starting right guard Ty Sambrailo still sidelined with an elbow injury, the Broncos flashed their likely starting front five against the Rams, with Michael Schofield in for Sambrailo at right guard, Paradis at center and Max Garcia at left guard.
If nothing else, the Broncos gained some experience on the offensive line over a year ago. Evan Mathis left for the Arizona Cardinals, but Okung and Stephenson replaced him as veterans. Paradis, who played every offensive snap last season, returns as the anchor. Schofield, so maligned a year ago, has learned to play multiple positions.
“We have the potential to be the best offensive line in this league, undisputed,” Okung said Saturday night. “There’s a tenacity and physicality to our group. We have guys who can do everything, run block as well as pass block. And we have a balanced offense — that really plays to our group.”
The Broncos’ O-line, though, has a long way to go before even entering the conversation of best lines. They ranked near the bottom third in the NFL last season for sacks and quarterback hits. Siemian, who will throw his first NFL pass Sept. 8 in Denver’s opener against the Carolina Panthers, may have to play on his toes this season.
“There’s time to bring it together,” Okung said. “As long as we gain a blade of grass, we’re doing a good job there. Games are long. You can’t always win it early.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/broncos-settled-trevor-siemian-can-he-survive-denvers-offensive-line/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/a26bbf7387a6ec4230c183688ccd0986592cc9b5536e00bdde8b308b1a80b224.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-31T02:46:43 | null | 2016-08-31T02:12:03 | Goalkeeper Hope Solo has decided to end her season with the Seattle Reign of the National Women's Soccer League. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fhope-solo-quits-nwsl-seattle-reign%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/458113670.jpg?w=1024&h=769 | en | null | Hope Solo decides to end her season with NWSL’s Seattle Reign | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Goalkeeper Hope Solo has decided to end her season with the Seattle Reign of the National Women’s Soccer League.
The beleaguered goalkeeper, who was handed a six-month suspension and saw her contract with U.S. Soccer terminated last week, announced her departure from her professional club team in a statement Tuesday.
U.S. Soccer suspended Solo following disparaging comments she made about Sweden during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, calling her opponents a “bunch of cowards” for their defensive style of play during the quarterfinals. She won’t be eligible for selection to the national team again until February.
Before a match last weekend against the Portland Thorns, the Reign announced Solo was granted an indefinite personal leave. Haley Kopmeyer took over for Solo in goal and the Reign won 3-1.
“Coming to terms with the fact I was fired from the U.S. Women’s National Team after 17 years of service has been devastating. After careful consideration, I have decided to end my season with the Seattle Reign, an organization I love playing for,” Solo said Tuesday. “Mentally, I am not there yet. After watching the team’s win against Portland this weekend and seeing Haley Kopmeyer playing so well in goal, I truly believe this decision is what’s best for me and for the Reign organization.”
Reign head coach and general manager Laura Harvey issued a statement saying that while the team was disappointed in Solo’s decision, it was understood and respected.
“Hope has always wanted what is best for our team — she is a relentless trainer, a fierce competitor and demands from herself nothing less than excellence on the pitch,” Harvey said.
The three-time defending champion U.S. women were handed their earliest-ever exit from the Olympics earlier this month when Sweden advanced 4-3 on penalty kicks following a 1-1 draw on Aug. 12.
Sweden’s coach, Pia Sundhage, who led the U.S. team to gold medals in Beijing and London, replied to Solo’s postgame “cowards” comment by stating: “It’s OK to be a coward if you win.” Sweden went on to play in the gold-medal match against Germany.
Solo had caused a stir in Brazil even before the comment about Sweden because of social media posts over the Zika virus, showing her wearing mosquito netting and armed with insect repellent. Brazilian fans booed her mercilessly and shouted “Zika!” every time she touched the ball.
While talented in goal, controversy has shadowed the 35-year-old Solo throughout her career.
She still faces a possible trial on misdemeanor domestic violence charges after a 2014 incident at her sister’s home, when she was accused of being intoxicated and assaulting her sister and 17-year-old nephew. Solo said she was a victim in the altercation. Earlier this year, an appeals court in Washington state rejected Solo’s request to avoid trial.
In early 2015 while Solo was at a team training camp in Southern California, her husband Jerramy Stevens was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in a U.S. Soccer team van. Solo was with him at the time.
The former Seattle Seahawks tight end later pleaded no contest and was sentenced to 30 days in jail and four years on probation. Solo was suspended by U.S. Soccer for 30 days.
There were other incidents as well, including Twitter comments she made about former U.S. player Brandi Chastain during the London Games, and public criticism of coach Paul Ryan during the 2007 World Cup over his decision to start Briana Scurry in the semifinals, a match the Americans lost. Solo was sent home early from the tournament.
U.S. Soccer indicated in its statement announcing her suspension Wednesday that it was a culmination of events.
The controversies have tainted Solo’s legacy in the net.
She became the first goalkeeper with 100 international shutouts last month when the United States defeated South Africa 1-0 at Soldier Field in Chicago. It also was her 150th career win.
During the Rio Games she made her 200th appearance in goal for the United States, an international record.
Solo won her second straight Golden Glove Award for the best goalkeeper at the Women’s World Cup a year ago. Over the course of the tournament in Canada, she had five shutouts and allowed only three goals in seven games. The U.S. won the World Cup for its third title in soccer’s premier event. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/hope-solo-quits-nwsl-seattle-reign/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/89cdd3ac6e7ab0dbbd907ce15d5d712251faac4153da2afb4946560f933e7bb1.json |
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"Tamara Chuang"
] | 2016-08-30T12:46:36 | null | 2016-08-30T12:00:56 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Flogrhythms-user-friendly-approach-to-cybersecurity-attracts-50-million%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/logrhythm-interior-signage.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | LogRhythm’s user-friendly approach to cybersecurity attracts $50 million | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Fast-growing LogRhythm is expected to announce Tuesday that it raised another $50 million from investors to speed up its global expansion to help large companies fight cyber attacks.
The new round was led by Riverwood Capital Management, which led the $40 million round two years ago. Riverwood, the largest shareholder, is a big believer that the Boulder cybersecurity firm has a lot of growth ahead, said Jeff Parks, founding partner of Riverwood Capital.
“In my world, when you’ve got a winner on your hands and the capital to put into the space, you take it,” Parks said. “The market they address is quite sizable and growing and the company is very well-positioned. It really is one of the top technology companies in the Denver-Boulder area.”
LogRhythm, which started in 2003, collects data from a corporation’s existing security programs and analyzes the data into a user-friendly dashboard that prioritizes threats. That appeals to very large companies with aging systems, and to mid-sized companies that don’t have a large security staff monitoring — and understanding — every single intrusion.
While LogRhythm has grown rapidly — it has doubled its staff in two years to 600 people— the time wasn’t quite right to go public, CEO Andy Grolnick said.
“We saw an opportunity to double down on growth and our presence worldwide. That’s why we’re pursuing this route,” Grolnick said. “There’s a lot of demand and growth (for cybersecurity solutions) but the next layer of the onion, there’s a real shift going on as organizations really recognize the need to get investment on more of a prevention approach and invest more on analytics-based technology. For LogRhythm, that’s our wheelhouse.”
The threat detection and response market is projected to reach $23 billion in spending by 2020, according to market researcher Gartner. The new funding lets LogRhythm grow its team in Europe and with a new investor in Asia, it plans to expand in those regions. It also lets the company remain independent in a competitive field that includes IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel.
This security niche is specifically known as SIEM, short for security information and event management. The potential growth for the space had the three giants buying SIEMs in recent years with HPE acquiring ArcSight for $1.5 billion in 2010, IBM buying Q1 Labs in 2011 and Intel’s McAfee group buying NitroSecurity in 2011.
Still, the smaller LogRhythm is a major contender for any large business user when it comes to investing in cybersecurity management, said Scott Crawford, an information security analyst at 451 Research.
“LogRhythm is often on an enterprise’s shortlist,” Crawford said. “One of the things that really stands out about LogRhythm is the user experience. It’s fairly intuitive and easily adapted to the customers’ environment.”
And by staying independent, he added, “LogRhythm has been able to stay fairly agile.”
Crawford said that LogRhythm added features faster than the big rivals, including Elasticsearch, which looks for unknown threats instead of the typical practice of looking for threats based on rules.
LogRhythm also “embraced user-behavior analytics earlier than some of the other SIEM competitors,” Crawford added. This alerts a system to a permitted user doing something not normal for that user, which could indicate the person was phished and inadvertently shared a user name and password with a hacker.
With the latest round, LogRhythm has raised $122 million to date from investors, which also include EDBI, the dedicated investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board. Other investors in the round include Adams Street Partners, Siemens Venture Capital, Delta-v Capital, members of the LogRhythm management team, Exclusive Ventures and Silver Lake Waterman. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/logrhythms-user-friendly-approach-to-cybersecurity-attracts-50-million/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/2dfdb2bd9ec7d014bdd315b5fd2b6dd66c620f2866e689bf01cda24ebec0e3a3.json |
[
"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-30T02:46:36 | null | 2016-08-30T00:53:57 | Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw will face hitters in a simulated game Tuesday in Los Angeles, and it just happens to coincide with the baseball tryout former Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow is holding in the same city. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fclayton-kershaw-vs-tim-tebow%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/538135296.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Clayton Kershaw vs. Tim Tebow? Watch for the slider | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw will face hitters in a simulated game Tuesday in Los Angeles, and it just happens to coincide with the baseball tryout former Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow is holding in the same city.
But no, the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner won’t be stepping into the batter’s box to face Kershaw, who’s working his way back from mild disk irritation.
“Great athlete. I don’t know if he’s ready for the Clayton Kershaw slider, though,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts joked. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/clayton-kershaw-vs-tim-tebow/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/daf5bd0df37abb6ef835008ab1dd85599329c5e89486bd60ee246d0d9e9a0861.json |
[
"Mike Brohard",
"The Reporter-Herald"
] | 2016-08-29T04:46:23 | null | 2016-08-29T03:55:44 | Monday on a Sunday. Must be game week. Finally. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fyoung-colorado-state-spends-sunday-on-practice-field-ahead-of-rocky-mountain-showdown%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/tyree-simmons.jpg?w=1024&h=819 | en | null | Young Colorado State spends Sunday on practice field ahead of Rocky Mountain Showdown | null | null | www.denverpost.com | FORT COLLINS—Monday on a Sunday. Must be game week.
Finally.
“It’s a Monday practice, and it’s a little bit different than normal Mondays,” Bobo said after Sunday’s workout in preparation for Friday’s season opener with Colorado in Denver (6 p.m.; ESPN). “Normal Mondays you’re installing and showing the base look, but we’ve done that for basically most of last week. I think this is our fourth day on CU. We’ll have a total of eight days on CU, nine if you count a walk-through the day before the game, so we’re a little bit ahead, which is a good thing.”
Last week was a mix for the Rams, who spent the brunt of their practices still going good-on-good, but with a steady dose of introducing the game plan for the Buffaloes. It made for an interesting mix in practice for the players, who also had started class that week.
“You definitely don’t feel like you’re in camp any more, and it’s not 100 percent focused on CU,” quarterback Nick Stevens had said.
Teams always get extra work for an opener, but with the makeup of Colorado State’s roster, this time around can only prove more beneficial.
The Rams are not only young on paper, but will be on the field with as many as seven newcomers to the program lining up against the Buffs, a number that could rise as the week approaches. That doesn’t even include the redshirt freshmen and sophomores who have yet to see real game action.
Read the rest here | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/young-colorado-state-spends-sunday-on-practice-field-ahead-of-rocky-mountain-showdown/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/4b358c9ab26fe5413ce26ab6c687a57e88b3b35993436091dd9aaf22c691cac3.json |
[
"Shay Castle",
"Daily Camera"
] | 2016-08-29T22:46:33 | null | 2016-08-29T21:50:55 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fboulder-pasta-jays-marinara-sauce-grocery-stores%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/pasta_jays.jpg?w=1024&h=682 | en | null | Pasta Jay’s takes marinara sauce born in Boulder to national market | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Early patrons of Pasta Jay’s could order up a plate of spaghetti marinara to enjoy at the Pearl Street restaurant and two scoops of the delicious handmade sauce to take home.
“That’s how we sold it, by the scoop,” said founder and namesake Jay Elowsky. “People would come in with their own vessel and order two scoops or three scoops.”
Elowsky is pursuing a slightly more polished approach to slinging his sauce to grocery stores, partnering with Boulder’s 1908 Brands, a natural product manufacturer, to embark on a national retail push.
The marinara is made from a secret family recipe dating back to the mid-1800s when Elowky’s uncle’s great-great-grandmother was a cook for the king of Italy. It has been sold at the Boulder restaurant since day one: Sept. 16, 1988.
It’s also sold (in jars) at the two Pasta Jay’s locations in Lone Tree and Moab, Utah, and will be offered at the soon-to-open spot in Hays, Kan.
1908 Brands founder and CEO Steve Savage approached Elowsky after the restaurateur announced his intentions to get the pasta sauces and salad dressings on store shelves in 2014.
“Since I grew up in Boulder, I’ve always been a huge fan of Pasta Jay’s restaurants,” said Savage, a longtime natural products veteran. “I even make it a point to stop by their Moab location when I’m mountain biking there.”
Since starting in 2012, 1908 has so far acquired Boulder’s Appleooz, Clean and CompoKeepers, as well as Longmont’s Wholly Bites and a Schultz’s, a Centennial-based gourmet sauce company.
The contacts Savage made through his work with Schultz’s will help him put Pasta Jay’s products into stores. The initial plan is for regional distribution in Whole Foods, King Soopers, Albertsons/Safeway, Sprouts and Alfalfa’s.
The sauces are already selling well in the two local Lucky’s locations, Savage said, as well as Lolita’s Market & Deli and Bayleaf, both on Pearl Street.
Read the full story at dailycamera.com | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/boulder-pasta-jays-marinara-sauce-grocery-stores/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/5c0ee5e4e9887ee31a1ff5cab7fd452f9253322b8f59d8e8f57193abb6c7c8e8.json |
[
"Jonathan Bernstein"
] | 2016-08-27T02:45:59 | null | 2016-08-27T01:59:33 | One of the most encouraging signs in this often depressing election year is that more Republicans are stepping up to try save their party. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fmore-blunt-truths-from-republicans-please%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ben-sasse-bernstein.jpg?w=800&h=624 | en | null | More blunt truths from Republicans, please | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Jonathan Bernstein, Bloomberg View
One of the most encouraging signs in this often depressing election year is that more Republicans are stepping up to try save their party. Not only is Donald Trump the wrong choice for conservative Republicans, some are saying, but the reason Trump happened to the party in the first place is that the party has some serious problems.
These Republicans don’t just write Trump off as a fluke of a nominee — one who is hugely unpopular and has little or no commitment to party issues. They accept that he’s part of a pattern of embarrassing candidates such as recent Senate nominees Todd Akin in Missouri, Christine O’Donnell in Delaware and Sharron Angle in Nevada.
Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake and Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse are among those who have faced up to the bigotry that Trump exploits and to the closed information loop that allows myths to flourish within the party. These and other voices hint at the possibility of a healthier Republican Party emerging from this debacle.
Another welcome sentiment comes from Steve Deace, a #NeverTrump talk-show host and author of a recent column titled “Conservative Media Needs To Do Its Job and Start Telling People the Truth.” He’s right that Republican-aligned media have spread too much misinformation. Unfortunately, he falls far short of arguing for the truth.
Instead, before making his strong indictment of Trump, he starts by repeating the myth that Republicans in Congress haven’t opposed Barack Obama. Except for blocking Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, he said, “it’s tough to pinpoint exactly how things would be substantively different if Nancy Pelosi were speaker and Harry Reid the majority leader.”
This is exactly the kind of mythology that makes Republican voters willing to support Trump.
If congressional Democrats had retained the majorities they held back in 2009-2010, they almost certainly would have passed comprehensive immigration reform, a climate change bill and even some sort of gun safety legislation. Democrats on appropriations committees would have spent more on domestic programs (no one would ever have heard of a sequester), and Democrats on the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees would probably have paid for that additional spending with additional taxes on the wealthy. The minimum wage would be higher. Obama’s preschool and community-college initiatives would be law.
And not only would Democrats have confirmed a replacement for the late Justice Antonin Scalia — and Obama would likely have nominated someone younger and more liberal than Merrick Garland – but most of the current 11 vacancies in circuit courts and 72 vacancies in district courts would have been filled with confirmed judges. Instead, Deace makes the preposterous claim that Republicans “rubber-stamped all of Obama’s administrative and lower court judicial appointments.”
Granted, Democrats would have needed very large majorities to do all of the things I mentioned. And maybe one or more of the party’s initiatives — gun control? — would have been derailed anyway. But can you seriously make the argument that the Republicans have not succeeded in shutting down Obama’s legislative agenda? Or that Obama hasn’t been just as successful at preventing Republicans from achieving all that they campaigned on?
E-mail Jonathan Bernstein at jbernstein62@bloomberg.net. Follow him on Twitter: @jbview
To send a letter to the editor about this article, submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by e-mail or mail. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/more-blunt-truths-from-republicans-please/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/ebf5f1c767bf1a1d34539ba67469d3d6e95ce3ce8e14d23dabfa4c9e92d5ae68.json |
[
"Kieran Nicholson"
] | 2016-08-31T06:46:52 | null | 2016-08-31T04:58:54 | A woman and her children were kidnapped by a man brandishing a gun in Lafayette and were forced to drive to the victim's bank, and on to her home, where money was stolen. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fmom-two-kids-kidnapped-in-lafayette-forced-to-withdraw-cash-from-bank%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/layetterobbery.jpg?w=550&h=382 | en | null | Mom, two kids kidnapped in Lafayette, forced to withdraw cash from bank | null | null | www.denverpost.com | A woman and her children were kidnapped by a man brandishing a gun in Lafayette and were forced to drive to the victim’s bank, and on to her home, where money was stolen.
The incident started at about 2:30 p.m. Monday when the woman and her 4-year-old son were shopping at a Goodwill store. A woman approached the victim and asked for directions to the Lafayette post office, according to a Lafayette Police Department media release.
As the victim was giving directions, a man approached and joined the conversation. The victim, her son and the man and woman asking for directions got into the victim’s vehicle, and she drove to a local elementary school to pick up her 8-year-old daughter.
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That’s when the man, in the front passenger seat, brandished a gun and ordered the victim to drive to her bank in Louisville, police said.
The female accomplice stayed outside in the car with the children as the robber went with the victim into the bank, where she withdrew money.
The pair forced the victim to drive to her home in Lafayette, and they stole more money from her, police said.
The robbers then forced the victim to drive them back to the area of the Goodwill store, where they were dropped off a short distance apart.
A witness in the area said he saw the male robber being picked up by a white, late-model sedan with out-of-state plates driven by a woman.
The woman robber is described as Spanish-speaking, about 5-foot-4 and 180 pounds, about the age of 50 with tattooed eyebrows. The man is described as Spanish-speaking, about 6-foot-0 with a large build, about the age of 40, with dark hair and eyeglasses.
Anyone with information on the incident or suspects is asked call police at 303 665-5571 or 303 604-8014. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/mom-two-kids-kidnapped-in-lafayette-forced-to-withdraw-cash-from-bank/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/67e2fe5a01530601027f09cd5e7521c1718888ad3d15439363c2e7b8aacbdac1.json |
[
"John Aguilar"
] | 2016-08-26T22:46:03 | null | 2016-08-26T21:47:39 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fsedgwick-county-sheriff-tom-hannas-arrest-shock-to-residents%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sheriffrj1_6666.jpg?w=1024&h=755 | en | null | Sedgwick County Sheriff Tom Hanna’s arrest comes as a “shock” to residents | null | null | www.denverpost.com | JULESBURG — You could just about fit the entire population of Sedgwick County, a rural corner of northeast Colorado, into the outfield Rockpile section at Coors Field.
Sedgwick County — with a population around 2,500 — is the kind of place where everyone knows everyone else or at least knows somebody who knows somebody else.
And just about everyone knows Thomas J. Hanna, the sheriff of nearly two years, whether they delivered fresh produce to his doorstep in Julesburg, served him lunch at Lucy’s Place in Sedgwick or got locked up by him in the county jail.
“I was hoping it wasn’t true,” said Sam Guzman, a lifelong Julesburg resident who ran crosswise with Hanna a few years back when Hanna was still a deputy and Guzman ended up behind bars for a while. “Personally, I find it hard to believe that he would be that kind of person.”
It’s a sentiment that many in the county, just a short drive from the Nebraska border, share. How did their top law enforcement man end up in an orange inmate jumpsuit, with a prosecutor describing him as a potential threat to the community and a judge telling him he might spend the rest of his life in prison?
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August 23, 2016 Sedgwick County Sheriff Tom Hanna arrested, held in Logan County Heidi Schutte, who lives just over the border in Nebraska’s Deuel County and was selling her goods at a roadside farmer’s market in Julesburg this week, said Hanna and his wife were customers of her produce and picante sauce.
“I talked to him several times and delivered things to his house,” she said. “I’m really shocked.”
“We are all shocked,” said Kathleen Kinnie, at the next table over, which was filled with kraut burgers, cabbage pockets and all manner of fresh-baked bread. “I thought he was going to be a good cop.”
On Tuesday, Hanna was arrested at his office in the county courthouse building in Julesburg and accused of sexually assaulting a developmentally disabled inmate at his home two weeks earlier. He had brought her there on a day he was supposed to be transporting her to a jail facility in a neighboring county, prosecutors allege.
Hanna, 43, has denied having sexual contact with the woman, telling agents with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation that he didn’t “know why she would say something like that,” according to an arrest affidavit. He hasn’t yet been formally charged, although he faces two possible felony counts and a pair of misdemeanors in the case.
A $250,000 bond was set Wednesday for his release. On Friday afternoon, he was still in custody in Weld County, which had him on a courtesy hold due to his law enforcement role in the 13th Judicial District.
Ali Kuhlman, who was waiting for a customer at the hair salon she recently opened in Sedgwick, worried how the news might affect her newfound community. She moved to the tiny town of 150 in June from Parker.
“It makes the whole county look bad,” Kuhlman said. “I left Denver to get away from all this.”
A couple of miles down the road at Lucy’s Place, waitress Bailey Haynes said there were no signs that something like this might happen with the sheriff she voted for in 2014. Hanna always treated her well whenever he came into her restaurant for a meal, which was just about every Tuesday, she said.
“We’re all pretty surprised about this,” Haynes said. “We thought we needed a change (from the previous sheriff), but this was not the change we were expecting.”
Others living in the county’s three towns up and down U.S. 138 condemned any rush to judgment. One of the sheriff’s next-door neighbors cautioned that Hanna was innocent until proven guilty and decried the media for descending upon the town this week “like a bunch of ghouls.”
A group of older residents who were gathered for coffee in the Julesburg Family Market on Thursday morning declined to talk about the case.
“Our news is our news,” a woman said.
Chris Johnson, former Otero County sheriff and now executive director of the County Sheriffs of Colorado, said the arrest of a sheriff is rare, particularly one facing the kind of charges Hanna faces.
In 2005, former Conejos County Sheriff Isaac Gallegos was arrested after a grand jury indicted him on charges of embezzlement and criminal extortion in connection to his use of inmate labor to build an addition on his house and chop firewood that he later sold for a profit.
And earlier this year, former El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa was arrested along with two of his underlings and charged with nine counts, including extortion, official misconduct, witness tampering, kidnapping and false imprisonment.
But Johnson said a charge of sexual abuse on an at-risk person is on a different level.
“In my 34 years in law enforcement, I’ve never heard of anything remotely like this,” he said.
Because the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office is so small, with only three deputies serving alongside Hanna, Johnson said a conviction could have repercussions on other defendants’ cases in the county because of Hanna’s likely involvement as a party or witness in day-to-day policing, unlike a sheriff’s role in a larger department.
“The sheriff has a greater probability of being involved in more cases,” he said. “It has serious implications that ripple out beyond just his case.”
Brittny Lewton, district attorney of the 13th Judicial District, told The Denver Post this week that she will probably review all the cases Hanna was involved in investigating.
“I have not had the opportunity to get to that stage,” she said. “Once the advisement is complete and charges are filed, I will likely look into them.”
Sedgwick County Coroner Howard McCormick has assumed the duties of sheriff while Hanna’s case is being adjudicated. McCormick, dressed in a black T-shirt and jeans while standing in the doorway of his compact office in the county courthouse Thursday, said he’s just in charge “until things get sorted out.”
McCormick, who has been the coroner since 1996 and is running for county commissioner in November, acknowledged that he has his hands full. He’s also a flight paramedic and owns a ranch in the area.
“We’ve got some good officers here,” he said, “and I’ll be relying on their expertise through this transition.”
The transition comes less than two years after the last changing of the guard at the sheriff’s office, one that Ovid resident Melissa Wakefield said she and many others in the county welcomed. Hanna’s predecessor, Randy Peck, had a rocky tenure in office, with charges of excessive force by his deputies leveled at him by angry citizens. He underwent a recall election in 2011 but survived.
She has had nothing but positive interactions with Hanna since he took office in January 2015, adding that he was friendly and honest.
“We were all excited that we got (Hanna) as sheriff,” said Wakefield, sitting at the counter inside her Missy’s Worms Plus store in Ovid. “We finally had a sheriff that was more into being part of the community than terrorizing it.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/sedgwick-county-sheriff-tom-hannas-arrest-shock-to-residents/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/bb540f205146f60fd93535a6f82a4ce88889e32857460f660479b0752e154e70.json |
[
"Lisa Kennedy"
] | 2016-08-26T12:47:30 | null | 2016-08-26T06:01:56 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Freaction-shot-southside-with-you-review%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/movie.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Reaction Shot: “Southside With You” is an intimate charmer | null | null | www.denverpost.com | What a day, what a date. The endearing indie “Southside With You” follows two colleagues around Chicago as they walk, talk and debate whether they’re indeed on a date or not. Turns out lawyer Michelle Robinson and summer associate Barack Obama were on a date. Lisa Kennedy reviews this intimate charmer starring Tika Sumpter and Parker Sawyers. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/reaction-shot-southside-with-you-review/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/e7777f5e8beef3dc45f6b2250f564b04586621bd3f3c3a571cb3a61efb9091fe.json |
[
"Bethany Ao"
] | 2016-08-26T22:46:06 | null | 2016-08-26T21:00:20 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fsouth-platte-river-run-park-surfing-denver%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fexxriverrunpark_hhr_9720.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | A new park is making surfing just outside Denver possible | null | null | www.denverpost.com | It wasn’t California surfin’, dude, but no one seemed to care.
Dozens of river surfers in wetsuits and helmets jumped into the waters of South Platte River Run Park Thursday night to ride two man-made wave features. Even though the water flow was half of what it’s supposed to be, enthusiastic whoops of excitement filled the air as the sun set over the water.
The $15 million project, which has been in the works for more than four years, opened its initial phase. The second phase will open in 2018, including four more wave features and new hiking trails. The park is located near the Broken Tee Golf Course, close to Oxford Avenue.
Partners for River Run Park included the cities of Englewood, Littleton and Sheridan; the Arapahoe County Open Spaces Department; the South Suburban Parks and Recreation and Urban Drainage and Flood Control District; and the Colorado Water Conservation Board. McLaughlin Whitewater Design Group of Merrick & Company, which focuses on recreational whitewater and open channel hydraulics, drew up the concept for the park.
The idea for River Run Park came from the need to fix flood control and drainage issues. After city officials looked at the problem, they decided that the solution could offer residents recreational opportunities as well.
“This became a wonderful amenity for the community and not just a source of drainage,” Englewood Mayor Joe Jefferson said. “It’s been planned for a long time, and we want to show people what rivers could be in urban areas.”
Besides the wave features, the park will include a playground and river restoration features like protected habitats for fish and new vegetation. Related Articles April 5, 2016 Eagle approves sales tax for river park project
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Ben Nielsen, project engineer for River Run Park, began ocean surfing during his college years in California. He fell in love with the surfing lifestyle. After he moved inland, he found river surfing an adequate replacement.
“Unlike surfing in the ocean, where surfers move with the waves, river waves are stationary because the speed and steepness of the water keeps surfers in one spot,” Nielsen said. “Instead of traveling through a tunnel of water like in the ocean, surfers feel like they’re flying on top of the water because the speed allows them to float on the surface.”
River surfers also ride on different boards, which are a little thicker, shorter and wider than ocean boards. They’re made out of the same material as ocean boards, fiberglass.
Nielsen said River Run Park was designed to minimize boulders and obstructions. The South Platte River’s natural flow, influenced by the Chatfield Reservoir, controls the height and flow of the wave features.
According to Nielsen, Denver has been at the forefront of river parks. Urban rivers are frequently in bad shape from the pressures of being close to a city, so there’s been a national push in the last few years to restore and enhance them.
“A lot of people see the benefit of river parks for people living in cities and the environment, and they take them as a tremendous opportunity to improve these rivers,” Nielsen said. “For this project, we engaged water users and trail users. I’m a firm believer that by engaging the community, this multi-aspect project will be better received.”
One surfer at River Run Park, Ben Smith, said he was excited to start his river surfing in the spring. Smith, who has been river surfing for four years, picked up ocean surfing first, like Nielsen. But after moving to Colorado, he bought a paddleboard and began hanging ten on river waves.
“What I like about river surfing is that it’s a much more relaxed lifestyle. You’re not competing with other surfers because the wave is always there, so you just kind of stand in line until it’s your turn,” Smith said. “That way, you pick up tricks a lot faster because you can keep repeating one move on the same wave.”
While surfing lessons aren’t currently offered at the park, the beginner-level lower wave feature is wider and less steep. And if surfing’s not really your thing, kayakers can also access the whitewater, and there’s a designated area for tubing.
But for landlocked Colorado surfers, River Run Park is a welcome addition to the Denver area.
“America is really in love with surfing culture,” Nielsen said. “A lot of people connect with the surfing image without having the opportunity to actually do it. When you provide that opportunity in middle America, that’s something pretty special.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/south-platte-river-run-park-surfing-denver/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/11fe02dbfa44c2d0ce354702790ddb50f068a5c1e5ee0a568ae2c48132c482c6.json |
[
"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-27T20:46:09 | null | 2016-08-27T19:12:50 | Turkey's official news agency says one Turkish soldier has been killed and three wounded in Syria. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2F2140089%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/turkish-troops-in-syria.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | The Denver Post | null | null | www.denverpost.com | BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest developments in the Syrian civil war (all times local):
10 p.m.
Turkey’s official news agency says one Turkish soldier has been killed and three wounded in Syria.
The Anadolu Agency says two Turkish tanks in the Syrian town of Jarablus came under rocket attack Saturday by Kurdish militants.
The Turkish military began its so-called Euphrates Shield operation in Syria with Free Syrian Army units and coalition airplanes Wednesday to push Islamic State militants out of Jarablus and to limit the advance of Kurdish forces to the west of the Euphrates River.
The soldier’s death is the first reported fatality on the Turkish side.
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6:30 p.m.
Syria state TV is reporting that the evacuation of the Damascus suburb of Daraya following a deal to end a four-year siege and a grueling bombing campaign has been completed.
The declaration Saturday comes only a day after the evacuation of nearly 5,000 residents and fighters from the suburb began. The deal followed an extensive government campaign of aerial bombing and shelling of Daraya, the last bastion against President Bashar Assad in the western Ghouta region, southwest of Damascus.
Some 700 gunmen and 4,000 civilians were evacuated. The gunmen and their families headed to the northern rebel-controlled Idlib province. Other civilians were escorted to shelters in government-controlled suburbs of Damascus.
State TV said Saturday that Daraya was clear of gunmen, and is under the control of the Syrian army. Control of Daraya is a boost to Assad’s forces and increases security to the capital, his seat of power. Meanwhile a bloody battle for the northern city of Aleppo, Syria’s largest, is ongoing.
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5:45 p.m.
Syrian rebel-groups backed by Turkey say they are clashing with fighters affiliated with Kurdish forces in northern Syria, in a bid to wrestle control of territory from them south of a town they recently seized from Islamic State militants.
The clashes Saturday highlight concerns that Turkey’s incursion into Syria was likely to raise the potential for an all-out confrontation between the two American allies.
The Turkish-backed Nour el-din el-Zinki rebel group said fighters, backed by Turkish tanks, advanced Saturday on the village of Youssef Beik that lies southwest of Jarablus, seizing it from Kurdish-affiliated forces. The group claimed to have captured two Kurdish fighters.
There was no immediate comment from the Syria Democratic Forces, the U.S.-backed Kurdish-affiliated forces.
Earlier an SDF-affiliated group said Turkish airstrikes targeted its bases and civilian homes south of Jarablus.
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5:15 p.m.
Turkey’s state news agency says the Turkish Military Joint Special Task Forces and coalition airplanes have targeted the bases of suspected “terror groups” south of the Syrian town of Jarablus.
The Saturday statement, citing military sources, comes hours after Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria said Turkish airstrikes had hit their bases near Jarablus, a town seized by Turkey-backed rebels earlier this week. It said the target was an ammunition depot and a command center for “terror groups” but didn’t name the area or the group.
The Jarablus Military Council, supported by the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces, said the airstrikes on their bases in the village of Amarneh marked an “unprecedented and dangerous escalation.”
Turkey sent tanks across the border to help Syrian rebels capture Jarablus from the Islamic State group, and to contain Kurdish-led forces. Turkey says the Kurds must withdraw to the east of the nearby Euphrates River.
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3:45 p.m.
Syria activists say at least 15 civilians have been killed when suspected government helicopters dropped barrel bombs on a wake for children killed in earlier airstrikes in rebel-held Aleppo.
Hospital officials in rebel-held Aleppo say the death toll from the two barrel bombs dropped Saturday in the Bab al-Nairab neighborhood is likely to rise. Mohammed Khandakani, a hospital volunteer, said one of the injured told him a barrel bomb was dropped as people paid their condolences for children killed Thursday in an airstrike that left 11 children dead in the same neighborhood. Minutes later, Khandakani said another barrel bomb was dropped, injuring an ambulance driver, and hampering rescue efforts.
The Syrian government and its Russian ally are the only ones operating helicopters over Aleppo. The government denies it uses barrel bombs.
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1:15 p.m.
Kurdish-led forces in northern Syria say Turkish airstrikes have hit their bases near Jarablus, a town seized by Turkey-backed rebels earlier this week.
The Jarablus Military Council says the airstrikes Saturday on their bases in Amarneh village marked an “unprecedented and dangerous escalation” and came after Turkish artillery shelled the positions the day before.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed the airstrikes. Turkish officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
The Jarablus Military Council is supported by the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces. Turkey sent tanks across the border to help Syrian rebels capture Jarablus from the Islamic State group.
The incursion was partly aimed at containing Kurdish-led forces. Turkey says the Kurds must withdraw to the east of the nearby Euphrates River. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/2140089/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/0ba2f146bf143cbfd7971de351dd588ef7cf11a7ec5f0570c44db0dfcde68a61.json |
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"Tom Mcghee"
] | 2016-08-28T14:46:11 | null | 2016-08-28T14:10:43 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Ftemperatures-in-low-80s-through-most-of-the-week-88-on-thursday%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Temperatures in low 80s through most of the week, 88 on Thursday | null | null | www.denverpost.com | There is good weather on tap through the week, though isolated thunder storms are possible between Sunday and Thursday, according to the National Weather Service.
“It should be a pretty nice week from Monday through Saturday. The best chance for storms is this afternoon and tonight,” said Kyle Frieden, NWS meteorologist.
Sunday will be partly sunny, with a high temperature of 85 degrees in the metro area, with thunderstorms later in the day.
The temperature will top out on Thursday at 88 degrees. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/temperatures-in-low-80s-through-most-of-the-week-88-on-thursday/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/f3bf4874a1fd337ac1707942068d3644d195929977344fbbcebedf8fbb043ce4.json |
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"Jesse Paul"
] | 2016-08-29T22:46:32 | null | 2016-08-29T22:01:20 | Firefighters rescued two people from a blaze at a home in south Denver on Monday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Ftwo-rescued-from-house-fire-in-denver-cause-under-investigation%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/denver-house-fire.jpg?w=1024&h=768 | en | null | Two rescued from house fire in Denver; cause under investigation | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Firefighters rescued two people from a blaze at a home in south Denver on Monday.
Melissa Taylor, spokeswoman for the Denver Fire Department, said crews were called out to the 4500 block of East Warren Avenue where they found heavy smoke and flames coming from the building.
4501 E Warren Ave pic.twitter.com/iWhuYH18WL — Denver Fire Dept. (@Denver_Fire) August 29, 2016
The two injured people were taken to the hospital. An update on their conditions was not available.
Taylor said investigators have not determined how the fire, near the intersection of South Colorado Boulevard and East Iliff Avenue, started. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/two-rescued-from-house-fire-in-denver-cause-under-investigation/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/b1ec56999b573c4bdeb3427c2dc27698153bf52afad344f7fa2bc0bf42ce7470.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T06:46:30 | null | 2016-08-29T06:01:15 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fneighboring-churches-in-georgia-split-on-race-lines-work-to-heal-divide%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/0590c27662aa442bb12b8deebdb8641f.jpg?w=1024&h=664 | en | null | Neighboring churches in Georgia, split on race lines, work to heal divide | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Rachel Zoll, The Associated Press
MACON, Ga. — There are two First Baptist Churches in Macon — one black and one white. They sit almost back-to-back, separated by a small park, in a hilltop historic district overlooking downtown.
“We’re literally around the corner from each other,” said the Rev. Scott Dickison, pastor of the white church.
About 170 years ago, they were one congregation, albeit a church of masters and slaves. Then the fight over abolition and slavery started tearing badly at religious groups and moving the country toward Civil War. The Macon church, like many others at the time, decided it was time to separate by race.
Ever since — through Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, desegregation and beyond — the division endured, becoming so deeply rooted it hardly drew notice. Jarred Moore, whose family has belonged to the black church for three generations, said he didn’t know the details of the history until recently.
“I thought, ‘First Baptist, First Baptist?’ There are two First Baptists right down the street from each other and I always wondered about it, ” said Moore, a public school teacher.
Then, two years ago, Dickison and the pastor of the black church, the Rev. James Goolsby, met over lunch and an idea took shape: They’d try to find a way the congregations, neighbors for so long, could become friends. They’d try to bridge the stubborn divide of race.
They are taking up this work against a painful and tumultuous backdrop: the massacre last year at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina; the much-publicized deaths of blacks at the hands of law enforcement; the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the sniper killing of white Dallas police officers. These events, and the tensions they have raised, have become part of the tentative new discussions among congregants at the two First Baptists.
Next month, the pastors will take their most ambitious step yet, leading joint discussions with church members on racism in the history of the U.S., and also in the history of their congregations.
“This is not a conversation of blame, but of acceptance and moving forward,” said Goolsby, sitting in the quiet sanctuary of his church on a Monday morning. “What will govern how quickly we move is when there’s a certain level of understanding of the past.”
The South is dotted with cities that have two First Baptist Churches.
In the early 19th century, before the Civil War, whites and blacks often worshipped together, sharing faith but not pews; blacks were restricted to galleries or the back of the sanctuary. Eventually, black populations started growing faster in many communities. Whites, made uneasy by the imbalance, responded by splitting up the congregations.
This was apparently the case for First Baptist in Macon.
In 1845, church leaders bought property a block away, as “a place and habitation for the religious service and moral cultivation and improvement of the colored portion” of the congregation, according to the deed. A building was quickly erected and the black church opened.
That was a year when tensions between anti- and pro-slavery Baptists boiled over nationwide, leading Southerners to break away and create their own denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, which upheld slavery as ordained by God. The white Macon congregation, known as the First Baptist Church of Christ, became Southern Baptist.
Whites maintained oversight of the black church as required by Georgia law at the time for fear of slave rebellions. But after the Civil War ended in 1865, the white church fully severed ties.
The two First Baptist Churches stayed that way, just steps from each other but apart, ever since.
Religious groups try to set a moral standard that rises above the issues and ideologies dividing society. But faith leaders often fall short of that ideal, reflecting or even exacerbating the rifts. Like many other American institutions, houses of worship have largely been separated by race, to the point that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. called Sunday mornings “one of the most segregated hours.” Recently, more churches have tried to diversify and to look critically at their past actions and teachings, with denominations from the Southern Baptist Convention to the Episcopal Church making a priority of fighting racial bias.
When Goolsby last year told the black church of the plan to work with the white congregation, people applauded. White congregants were enthusiastic as well. Yet, it was excitement mixed with some apprehension, since the effort would inevitably require “some challenging conversations,” Dickison said.
“It’s hard to talk honestly about race,” said Doug Thompson, a member of the white church and also a Mercer University professor who specializes in religion and race. “It’s always hard to help people move forward.”
The two churches’ first activity together was modest but symbolically significant. For years, each church held its Easter egg hunt in the same tree-shaded park behind their churches, but at different times. Last year, they met there together. Photos from the joint gathering show children huddled together for a group picture, grasping pink, blue and yellow baskets, black faces and white faces squinting into the sun.
As the churches held other combined activities — a book drive, a Thanksgiving potluck — some participants were so moved they had tears in their eyes. There were members of both churches who said they had been waiting for decades for such a reunion.
“I thought it would be a great opportunity and a blessing,” said Bea Warbington-Ross, a retired human resources specialist and member of Goolsby’s congregation. “There’s no reason for Sunday to be the most segregated day.”
Congregants were surprised to learn their sanctuaries had nearly identical designs, with vaulted ceilings that resembled the inverted hull of a ship. Warbington-Ross lives in the historic district five blocks from the white church, which some of her neighbors attend. She’d never been inside.
While the visits back and forth and the joint activities are clearly establishing connections, the churches are not working toward a merger.
“We don’t want to be one congregation again. We want to be a family,” said Jessica Northenor, a public school teacher and member of the white church who is helping shape the new relationship.
The congregations sealed their commitment to each other at a joint Pentecost service at the black church. Before a choir drawn from both congregations, leaders pledged to work together under the auspices of the New Baptist Covenant, an organization formed by President Jimmy Carter to unite Baptists.
“If you hold onto the pain of the past, you don’t allow God to minister and bless you in the days to come,” Goolsby said in his sermon that day. “We can show in our relationship what it means to be a child of God.”
But the pastors acknowledge the long journey ahead. They are tackling what some call the original sin of the country’s founding. The influence of racial inequity on U.S. history and modern-day life is, of course, a contentious and sensitive issue. Consider reaction to the recent comment by first lady Michelle Obama that slaves built the White House, a reference long acknowledged by historians as fact but one that critics complained was unpatriotic.
In Macon, where plaques and monuments commemorating Confederate soldiers’ valor adorn street corners and parks, white congregants will be asked to re-examine their own church history, which until recently had been officially recorded in mostly benign terms. It reflected a perspective of white “good paternalism” toward the black congregation, Thompson said, with almost no recognition of racism.
The review is so sensitive that Goolsby had suggested early on that the two churches wait to address the past until they built more mutual trust and goodwill. Dickison, acknowledging that some congregants will be embarrassed and some distressed or resistant, considers the conversation vital.
“A white person from the South — to not come to terms with our own history and experience with race is to deprive ourselves of a full understanding of the Gospel. We need to go through this kind of conversion experience of confession, of repentance and of reconciliation. We need to have that when it comes to race, not just in the country but within the church,” Dickison said.
Goolsby, a 59-year-old Atlanta native and graduate of Morehouse College and Mercer’s McAfee School of Theology, has been pastor at the black church for more than 12 years. He said he and a previous pastor at the white church tried to build ties between the congregations but the effort didn’t go very far.
This time is different, he said, in part because of his relationship with Dickison. The 33-year-old North Carolina native and Harvard Divinity School graduate became a pastor in Macon about four years ago. He and Goolsby have attended meetings of Carter’s organization, and last month took their families to meet the former president on a Sunday at Carter’s church in Plains, Georgia.
“We’ve already seen the fruits of this,” Goolsby said.
He recalled that after the attack last year on the Charleston church, he was in the parking lot of a J.C. Penney store, waiting for his wife, when Dickison called.
“Scott shared how he felt, how he was struggling with what he would share with his congregation,” Goolsby said. The two discussed the history of violence against black churches, and Dickison asked how he could show support.
“I said, ‘We’re already doing it,'” Goolsby said. “The mere fact he thought to call me was huge.”
The stakes were even more personal about six months later, when the white church invited black church members for a youth trip to Orlando.
Goolsby’s teenage son was among those invited. But Goolsby had considered Florida a danger ever since Trayvon Martin, an unarmed, black 17-year-old, was fatally shot in Sanford by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer who was later acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges.
The pastor could not let his son go on the trip. “If you put a hoodie on him,” he said, “he looks just like Trayvon.”
The concerns of anxious black parents had been much in the news amid the shootings of black men. But the white church members hadn’t had to confront the issue directly until Goolsby raised it.
“It’s one thing to understand it intellectually and another thing to understand it emotionally. Once he said that, I could feel it,” said David Cooke, a white deacon, who is also the Macon-Bibb County district attorney.
Cooke was to be a chaperone on the Orlando trip. He promised Goolsby he would be especially watchful. The trip went ahead safely with young people from both congregations — including the pastor’s son.
“The fact that that was so easy to share — we’ve already made progress,” Goolsby said.
Dickison strode into the basement hall of his church with a box under one arm. Inside, were copies of “Strength to Love,” a collection of sermons and writings by King. The book was at the center of classes that Dickison organized on racism for the white church, in preparation for the talks next month.
But the readings had extra significance that morning. It was the Sunday after the fatal police shootings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota, and the fatal ambush on Dallas police. “It’s weeks like these when we need more than ever to be with God’s people,” Dickison told the roomful of congregants.
With the stifling humidity of a Georgia summer building outside, he launched into a discussion of King’s sermon on the parable of the Good Samaritan, about despised groups and showing mercy.
“We have our tribes. We see ourselves over and against others,” he said, then asked church members to reflect.
One man said when you reach out to someone from another group, “you’re perceived as unpatriotic,” or disloyal.
A woman said fear often kept people from crossing racial divides. “What if you make it worse?” she asked.
Another woman said she was upset to see some disrespect of the police. She compared law enforcement officers to the Good Samaritan, who helped a wounded stranger others had ignored. “They rush toward danger when others run,” she said.
Dickison acknowledged “fear is powerful” in shaping reactions to others. After more discussion, he wrapped up the session by quoting King, who said the solution to racism is the “willingness of men to obey the unenforceable.”
“We can’t survive spiritually separate,” the white pastor said.
That same morning, at the service at the black church, the congregation announced it would host the city’s Black Lives Matter vigil, marking the tragedies of the preceding week.
The movement has been a topic at meetings of a group appointed by Goolsby and Dickison, comprised of representatives of each church, to help guide their new relationship.
“I think it’s an opportunity for healing,” said Warbington-Ross, who is part of the group. “It’s an opportunity for us to just inform the church that black lives matter also as it relates to inclusion and exclusion, and to inform them of some things that they take for granted that we have to endure, like racial profiling, like police brutality, like racial inequality, those kinds of things.”
At the vigil the next night, police officers directed traffic as people climbed the steep marble church steps, where “God’s Mighty Fortress” is engraved in gold. Clergy from across the city filled one side of the broad pulpit. Cooke, the prosecutor, and the county sheriff were among those representing law enforcement; community leaders and residents nearly filled the pews.
A speaker wearing a Black Lives Matter T-shirt explained the movement “was not birthed out of hate. It was birthed out of hurt.”
Goolsby and Dickison sat side-by-side on the pulpit, swaying along with the hymns, then stood together to speak. Dickison compared racism to “a cancer that roams inside the body of this nation, and yes, even in the body of Christ.” Goolsby urged people to maintain hope “in spite of our circumstances,” and he added, “We know there will be change.”
Said both men: “Amen.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/neighboring-churches-in-georgia-split-on-race-lines-work-to-heal-divide/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/3f3e4ae99e53f8e95c1eaa9f2be7e3f66e8eab22a1a99bbed83e49d17431f7e3.json |
[
"John Frank"
] | 2016-08-28T06:46:21 | null | 2016-08-28T06:01:39 | Republicans and party strategists in Colorado are becoming concerned about Senate candidate Darryl Glenn, who some worry could be squandering a chance to defeat a once-vulnerable Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fdarryl-glenn-colorados-senate-race%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/darryl-glenn-compromise.jpg?w=1024&h=682 | en | null | Darryl Glenn’s failure to launch in Colorado’s U.S. Senate race worries fellow Republicans | null | null | www.denverpost.com | LAKEWOOD — Toward the end of an event at Colorado Christian University last week, a student stood to ask U.S. Senate candidate Darryl Glenn a question.
He identified himself as a “proud supporter of you from Day 1” but now he is concerned about the Republican’s campaign against Democrat Michael Bennet.
The recent polls, he started, show “Michael Bennet beating you by double-digit numbers. We know polls aren’t always reliable, but it’s gotten worrying because I want you to win.” What’s the plan? he asked.
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In convincing fashion, Glenn won the five-way Republican primary in June and scored a coveted speaking slot at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. But now he appears to have lost any momentum behind his campaign and the national party is offering only modest help.
The missed opportunity to hold Bennet accountable for supporting the Iran nuclear deal is an often-cited example. Another: Glenn’s apparent inability to reach beyond Republican voters.
“Part of what a candidate has to accomplish after a primary is to convince people you can win and Darryl hasn’t done that yet,” said Josh Penry, a prominent Republican strategist in Colorado who is not involved in the race.
“I’m just not sure what happened here,” said Sean Duffy, a veteran Republican communications consultant. “You would think that a gentleman with his oratorical skills and background … you would think there would be more of a footprint there.”
Glenn dismisses such criticism, as evidenced by his light-hearted reply to the student’s question at the event hosted by the conservative Centennial Institute in Lakewood. “They have not been able to poll me this entire time,” he said. “The best poll that I have is the fact that Michael Bennet sent my mother a fundraising letter showing the race is in single digits.”
The majority of polls show Bennet with a double-digit lead, but his exaggerated fundraising pitch is common practice. Glenn’s underdog campaign did catch Colorado politicos by surprise when he emerged as the only candidate from the Republican state convention. But a number of private polls showed Glenn as the likely winner in the primary, even if they didn’t predict a 13-point margin of victory.
Two months later, Glenn’s schedule suggests he remains focused on winning his party’s support, leading more than one GOP consultant to joke that he is still pursuing the Republican nomination, rather than a general election win.
The same day Glenn spoke at the conservative-minded university, where he received questions on abortion and Donald Trump, he attended a Jefferson County Republican cookout. A day later, he spoke at the Colorado Oil and Gas Association conference and Lincoln Club of Colorado, a Denver-based Republican organization.
In August, according to his public calendar and campaign sites, Glenn attended Republican Party events in Douglas, Pitkin and El Paso counties and spoke to the Republican National Lawyers Association and Red State Gathering, a conservative conference.
“I hope he pivots to the general and works really hard there,” said Jeff Hunt, the Centennial Institute director who hosted Glenn. “I think he’s smart enough to spend time with independents and moderates.”
His public events are likely only a slice of his total schedule. But the campaign is not following the traditional path to reaching new voters with television advertisements or statewide tours to generate attention.
“It’s partially a resources challenge for him,” Penry said, citing Glenn’s limited campaign fundraising. “If you don’t have the resources to push yourself to the broader level, it’s harder to be known more broadly.”
Glenn declined to talk to The Denver Post after the Lakewood event Tuesday. “My press secretary back there will handle all Denver Post questions,” he said, repeating the same line four times when asked other questions.
Glenn did not explain why he is blacklisting Colorado’s largest newspaper, but in an interview Thursday with KFKA talk radio, he appeared to link his decision to the Post’s coverage of his conflicting explanations of a 1983 charge for third-degree assault, which was later dropped.
“The Denver Post, and quite frankly the people that are covering this, when they flat-out call you a liar, instead of becoming journalists, they become advocates,” he said. “I think that’s totally unacceptable. So I’m drawing a very bright line.”
The coverage of the incident did not call him “a liar.” A campaign spokeswoman did not immediately respond to questions Friday.
His objections to speaking with a Post reporter also came moments after the organizers of the Centennial Institute event publicly thanked the newspaper and other reporters for attending.
Glenn’s decision — which drew criticism from Republicans and Democrats — and other missteps are disturbing to GOP strategists in Colorado, but many still hope he can regain his footing.
“The Labor Day magic moment comes next week,” Duffy said. “So I think everybody wants to see things begin to pop.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/darryl-glenn-colorados-senate-race/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/7e0f9ca472a0e6fe43db4bd94f576aa37c64366dbfc82cda9891f43c3cf052e1.json |
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"Nick Kosmider"
] | 2016-08-27T22:46:09 | null | 2016-08-27T22:29:36 | As the Buffs prepare to begin their fourth season under MacIntyre with Friday's Rocky Mountain Showdown against Colorado State, there is little doubt an experienced and even deeper CU team will once again find itself in similar late-game fights. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fcolorado-buffaloes-football-sefo-liufau%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sefo-liufau1.jpg?w=1024&h=822 | en | null | Can the Colorado Buffaloes finally turn near misses into satisfying victories? | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Play No. 114 on a sweltering afternoon late in October was supposed to keep hope alive.
There Colorado was inside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., last season, trailing No. 24 UCLA 35-31 and staring at a chance to steal a landmark victory the program so desperately craved.
With about a minute left in the game, Sefo Liufau looked to his right and spotted his favorite receiver, cutting his seam route toward the sideline. But by the time the Buffs quarterback let the last lace spin off his finger, it was too late. UCLA freshman cornerback Nate Meadors jumped in front of Nelson Spruce and intercepted the tardy pass. Game over.
The Buffs afterward looked at the near miss — “an unfortunate turnover,” coach Mike MacIntyre called it then — as a chance to learn, a blueprint for how to compete with anyone in the Pac-12. All they had to do next was apply a winning signature.
Only it never came. Week after week, the Buffs found themselves within an arm’s reach of victory late in games only to author more heartbreak with crippling mistakes that led to the same, predictable outcome. Namely, a 1-8 Pac-12 record.
As the Buffs prepare to begin their fourth season under MacIntyre with Friday’s Rocky Mountain Showdown against Colorado State, there is little doubt an experienced and even deeper CU team will once again find itself in similar late-game fights. They have closed the talent gap, finally resembling a Pac-12 team.
But at the heart of what feels like a make-or-break season, the Buffs are faced with a question that will define it: How can a team that has fallen apart when the pressure is dialed up the most learn how to answer the bell?
“What I’m banking on is that those young men have been in those situations a lot,” MacIntyre said last week, rain pelting the practice field following a practice in Boulder. “They’ve just got to keep relaxing in those situations. We keep talking about, ‘Players make plays and players win games.’ Just do your job in those situations and I believe we’ll come out on top there.”
Keeping it simple
It wasn’t always an interception that dealt the crushing blow.
There was the 18-yard sack the Buffs surrendered in the fourth quarter of a 38-31 loss to Arizona, a blown-up play that spoiled a would-be game-tying drive. There was an incomplete pass near midfield with CU trailing USC by three late in the fourth quarter. There was the soul-crushing fumble near midfield following a sack of backup quarterback Jordan Gehrke with two minutes left in a 20-14, season-ending loss to Utah.
When smoke cleared on a 4-8 season, MacIntyre began dissecting the damage. The coaching staff knew it was putting too much on the quarterback in some of those late-game moments, with plays taking too long to develop and limiting the pressure on defenses.
“Some of our play-calling in those situations, it’s about ways to get the ball in our playmakers’ hands in a little bit more,” MacIntyre said. “Also, there are certain things that we might bring out at the end of a game or in critical situations that a team hasn’t seen, where if you execute it right it might surprise them. Every team does that, but we looked at where we hadn’t executed some of those maybe as well as we’d like, so we’ve put more emphasis in that area.”
As part of his self-evaluation heading into his fourth season, the most important of his tenure to date, MacIntyre said trusting his assistants with more responsibility was paramount. That means new co-offensive coordinator Darrin Chiaverini will play a key role in finding ways for the Buffs to get their playmakers loose. Working with Texas Tech’s offensive last season, particularly its cadre of talented and versatile wide receivers, Chiaverini helped the Red Raiders produce the nation’s second-most efficient offense while setting a school record with 596 points.
“He loves coaching receivers,” MacIntyre said. “He’s very hungry and passionate about it. He brings a lot of expertise in that area for us. He brings a lot of expertise in that area for us.”
Liufau said alterations to the Buffs offense led to quicker movement during preseason camp.
“We’re a lot further along than in past years since I’ve been here,” said the senior quarterback, who says he is fully recovered from the foot injury that prematurely ended his junior season. “The big thing is being able to translate that, turn it on and get to that next level when the game starts. You can only do so much in practice. You can know your assignments and execute, but when you get in a game it’s a little different. You expect the guys to be ready and execute.”
Building a stronger front
Liufau saw the opening and took off. Early in the fourth quarter against mighty Oregon last season, the quarterback sprinted into the end zone from 7 yards out, bringing the Buffs to within a touchdown.
But the Ducks simply turned on the gas. Five big runs and a long scoring pass later, Oregon was back up by two scores and in control, accelerating past a defense that couldn’t keep up.
It was a common theme. The Buffs would go on a long drive to tie the game or take the lead, and a gassed defense could not produce an answer. The unit certainly made big strides last season, particularly in the passing game, but late-game lapses — such as a 21-point fourth quarter it yielded in the Arizona loss — were crippling.
MacIntyre looked back at a front seven last season that was depleted and thin. This season, the Buffs return linebacker Addison Gillam, who was the Buffs’ leading tackler in 2013 before missing much of the last two seasons with injury and illness. On the defensive line, CU should benefit greatly from the return of 6-foot-3, 325-pound tackle Josh Tupou, who was suspended during the 2015 season for violating team rules.
MacIntyre believes adding those talents to an experienced defense should give the Buffs the depth and talent they need to win late-game battles at the line of scrimmage that rarely went in CU’s favor last season.
“We have more D-linemen, so they can get fresh if (the opponent) has a drive going, which helps,” MacIntyre said. “Hopefully, Addison and Kenneth (Olugbode) and (Rick) Gamboa all stay healthy, you’ve got three good linebackers who all have a nose for the football. That way we can keep those guys fresh, and hopefully that can help with our run defense.”
The Buffs know plans, for a simpler offensive execution and improved personnel on defense, won’t turn losses into wins.
They will be back in close games, faced with weekly flip-of-the-coin moments that will determine the fate of a season with so much on the line. The Buffs believe they are finally ready to turn the odds.
“We know how good we can be, because we’ve been right there,” CU safety Tedric Thompson said. “We trust each other a lot. If we go out there, trust each other, do our jobs and not try to do too much, we’ll be good.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/colorado-buffaloes-football-sefo-liufau/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/3245ef08f05eb24fafc12ebb597398cbafec5be5b2327b0d1a3c4307968db5b6.json |
[
"The Aspen Times"
] | 2016-08-30T14:46:45 | null | 2016-08-30T14:01:53 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fpitkin-county-inmate-causes-50000-worth-of-flooding-damage-at-jail%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/benjamin-garrett.jpg?w=468&h=620 | en | null | Pitkin County inmate causes $50,000 worth of flooding damage at jail | null | null | www.denverpost.com | A Pitkin County jail inmate allegedly broke off a sprinkler head at the jail causing flooding that that knocked out law enforcement communications and caused at least $50,000 in damage.
Benjamin Garrett, 32, who is unemployed but previously worked as a chef at two Carbondale restaurants, was arrested last week after he called emergency dispatchers and reported that a group of 30 people representing a “crime ring” were trying to illegally tow his car, the Aspen Times reported. An Aspen police officer who responded wrote in the police report that Garrett’s story had no merit “and that he either had a mental-health issue or was on something.” Garrett was arrested on a drug charge after he told the officer he had methamphetamine and a meth pipe in his pocket.
Water from the sprinkler knocked out servers in the jail basement that control 911 communications, law enforcement communications and law enforcement records-management systems. Vail 911 dispatchers handled calls for about an hour until Aspen dispatchers were able to move to a temporary location. Pitkin County experienced no interruption in 911 service, officials have said. County officials spent $50,000 to procure a new server to bring the records-management system back online.
District Judge Denise Lynch on Monday released Garrett on a $3,000 personal recognizance bond saying he has no prior criminal history and plans to remain in the Roaring Fork Valley.
Read the full story on AspenTimes.com. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/pitkin-county-inmate-causes-50000-worth-of-flooding-damage-at-jail/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/8a0934e8d3018d98bc4a45e14521a037567cedd1dcd8c933815b8ddab3f367e4.json |
[
"Joey Bunch"
] | 2016-08-26T20:45:59 | null | 2016-08-26T19:39:37 | As the campaign season kicks into high gear after Labor Day, there are no debates yet scheduled in one of the most-watched U.S. House races in the country. east metro's 6th Congressional District. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fmike-coffman-morgan-carroll-debates-yet-to-take-shape-6th-congressional-district%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/morgan-carroll-mike-coffman.jpg?w=1024&h=666 | en | null | Mike Coffman-Morgan Carroll debates yet to take shape in 6th Congressional District | null | null | www.denverpost.com | As the campaign season kicks into high gear after Labor Day, there are no debates yet scheduled in one of the most-watched U.S. House races in the country. east metro Denver’s 6th Congressional District.
The campaign for incumbent Republican Mike Coffman has signaled to various debate organizers that he’s eager to set dates. His challenger, state Sen. Morgan Carroll of Aurora, is still trying to “hammer out details,” but Coffman hasn’t returned their messages, said Drew Godinich, Carroll’s campaign spokesman.
Godinich said Carroll wants to do three debates but hasn’t yet made a final decision on which ones. Carroll’s campaign declined an invitation to participate in a debate put on by The Denver Post.
“With the limited time that we have between now and Election Day, we’re going to do the debates that give us the farthest reach,” he said in an e-mail.
Coffman campaign spokesman Cinamon Watson said she was surprised by Carroll’s hesitance to debate as often as possible.
“Morgan Carroll is a personal injury lawyer,” Watson said. “You would think she would want to debate badly. But, if I were Morgan Carroll running on a platform of ‘vote for me because I like Hillary,’ I probably wouldn’t want to debate either.”
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July 5, 2016 Koch brothers-backed political group AFP brings new firepower to Coffman-Carroll race Godinich explained, “The people of the 6th District deserve an open and honest forum to hear from both candidates about their plans to tackle the issues that matter most to our community: access to good-paying jobs and affordable high-quality education, safeguarding our personal rights and freedoms, and ensuring that our veterans get the benefits that they deserve.
“In the weeks ahead, we look forward to engaging in a number of these debates with Rep. Coffman, and holding him accountable for his failure to deliver for the people of the 6th District during his time in Washington.”
Watson said she did not know of anyone on the campaign who had been contacted by Carroll’s camp to plan a debate but said such a request would be unusual.
“You can be sure I won’t be calling Team Carroll for campaign strategy tips,” she said. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/mike-coffman-morgan-carroll-debates-yet-to-take-shape-6th-congressional-district/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/2d882ed59cd76875a78e6a6d7fce7bc8e7aac3e18d25732c7909cfa413f43dab.json |
[
"Cohen Peart"
] | 2016-08-31T00:46:45 | null | 2016-08-30T22:51:05 | Colorado Parks and Wildlife is considering a plan that would double the cost of in-state hunting and fishing licenses to deter cuts to access, fisheries, invasive species programs and conservation. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fpoll-colorado-fishing-and-hunting-licenses%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cd27fishinglicense_ac30004x.jpg?w=1024&h=756 | en | null | Poll: Colorado fishing and hunting licenses | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Colorado Parks and Wildlife is considering a plan that would double the cost of in-state hunting and fishing licenses. The division says it needs the funds to deter cuts to access, fisheries, invasive species programs and conservation.
Parks and Wildlife has cut $40 million from its budget since 2009, and even if it keeps cutting services, costs and maintenance schedules, the budget will be short $15 million to $20 million by 2023.
The division, which receives no taxpayer money, counts on licenses to meet more than 60 percent of its annual $151 million budget.
Wildlife manager Lyle Sidener said during a recent public presentation that if Colorado is “going to remain a premier destination for hunting and fishing, we have to make a choice about funding the future of our wildlife management and conservation.”
State Sen. Leroy Garcia, D-Pueblo, argued against the fee hikes in a Denver Post op-ed, saying that “the department concluding that the only way to preserve our outdoors industry is to increase fees by 100 percent on our in-state hunters and fishers is not acceptable.” Garcia believes the fees would reduce access and speed a recent decline in the number of people who hunt and fish.
What do you think? Should Parks and Wildlife move ahead with its fee increase? Vote in our poll. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/poll-colorado-fishing-and-hunting-licenses/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/c0be90038da954eb10c7b4e964f3529f2094b7f94d56abf440fa8591c78f076a.json |
[
"Nick Groke"
] | 2016-08-30T00:46:42 | null | 2016-08-29T23:02:45 | Broncos coach Gary Kubiak turned personal Monday when asked about the swirling controversy around San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and his decision to sit during the national anthem. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fgary-kubiak-on-the-broncos-approach-to-the-national-anthem-i-dont-babysit-guys%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/461838108.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | "I don't babysit guys" | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Broncos coach Gary Kubiak turned personal Monday when asked about the swirling controversy around San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick and his decision to sit during the national anthem.
“My dad taught me two things that I believe in strongly,” Kubiak said. “He told me to believe in my values and those types of things in life and obviously I believe in our country and the national anthem very strongly. But at the same time, he taught me to respect other people’s beliefs and values, so I do that.”
Kubiak said that he would like Broncos players to stand for the national anthem, but he doesn’t mandate it.
“Our guys do a great job. But I don’t babysit guys,” Kubiak said. “I let them handle themselves. We tell our guys: ‘Be yourself. Be your best self.’ ”
Kaepernick on Monday explained his decision to sit during the pregame playing of the national anthem, saying he will not let up in his protest.
“To be honest, it’s not something I’m going to be quiet about,” Kaepernick told reporters. “I’m going to speak the truth when I’m asked about it. This isn’t for look. This isn’t for publicity or anything like that. This is for people that don’t have the voice.”
Kaepernick cited, among other issues, police brutality in several cities that led to the killing of black men.
“It’s to bring awareness and make people realize what’s going on in this country,” he said. “There are a lot of things going on that are unjust. And that’s something that needs to change. That’s something that this country stands for, freedom, liberty and justice for all.”
Looking ahead. The Broncos, despite having one more game on their preseason schedule, on Monday began preparing for their season opener Sept. 8 against the Carolina Panthers.
“We have our younger guys playing this week against Arizona,” quarterback Trevor Siemian said. “And we have a big one against Carolina. That’s what our focus is going forward.”
The Broncos on Monday practiced in the rain at Dove Valley until lightning forced them inside their fieldhouse.
Wide receiver Cody Latimer, who injured his left knee Saturday against the Los Angeles Rams, underwent an magnetic resonance imaging exam, then returned to the field in limited participation. Fullback Andy Janovich (shoulder) also performed light work. And tight end Jeff Heuerman (hamstring) and offensive lineman Darrion Weems (concussion) also returned to practice.
Footnotes. The Oakland Raiders, in their first round of roster cuts, released wide receiver Max McCaffrey. The former Duke and Valor Christian High School standout is the oldest son of former Broncos receiver Ed McCaffrey and older brother of Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/gary-kubiak-on-the-broncos-approach-to-the-national-anthem-i-dont-babysit-guys/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/b1aa6b8d589b8b8ccf4ebfde85309ff58155d52943e4b9ef94e15923ed11df69.json |
[
"Cameron Wolfe"
] | 2016-08-28T20:46:15 | null | 2016-08-28T19:53:50 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fdekoda-watson-vontarrius-dora-sadat-sulleyman-broncos-pass-rushers%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/596734830.jpg?w=1024&h=623 | en | null | Dekoda Watson, Vontarrius Dora, Sadat Sulleyman show Broncos have more talented pass rushers than they can keep | null | null | www.denverpost.com | A Broncos outside linebacker unleashes a speed rush around the edge blowing past the left tackle and sacking an unsuspecting quarterback. He immediately leaps up and unveils a sack dance. Denver fans saw that a lot last season.
The immediate thought comes – was that Von Miller or Shane Ray? Neither. The numbers were close, but it’s a new addition to the Broncos pass rush family, Dekoda Watson, who took down Rams quarterback Jared Goff in the third quarter Saturday.
Watson’s story is unique. He’s a journeyman linebacker on his fifth NFL team headed into his seventh season. The Broncos saw an opportunity to transition him from an inside linebacker to an outside linebacker to show off his speed. He’s capitalized.
“I’ve been waiting and wishing for an opportunity, like, ‘Why can’t I be just like Von,’” Watson said. “I remember being in Tampa and thinking, ‘why can’t you let me go? Von goes. He doesn’t have to think. He just goes. When can I have that opportunity?’ I never got there. Now that I’m here and they’re telling me that I can go, it’s lovely.”
Watson also took down Rams quarterback Sean Mannion for an additional sack and a half in the fourth quarter for 2 ½ total sacks Saturday. He’s had at least a ½ sack in every game this preseason and four sacks total, tied for most in the NFL.
Denver kept five outside linebackers last season and appear to be in position to do the same this season.
Miller, Ray, DeMarcus Ware and Shaquil Barrett appear to be locks. Watson is in a tight competition with a host of college free agents including Vontarrius Dora and Sadat Sulleyman.
Dora had two sacks in the preseason opener against Chicago and also landed a hard hit on Goff that ended his day early Saturday. He has to continue to make plays every game if he hopes to have a chance at making the team.
John Leyba, The Denver Post Denver Broncos quarterback Trevor Siemian (13) warms up during pregame versus the Los Angeles Rams on Aug. 27, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium.
Steve Nehf, The Denver Post Alexys Graff of Colorado Springs had a birthday request of Denver Broncos linebacker Shane Ray prior to the preseason game with the Los Angeles Rams at Sports Authority Field at Mile High on Saturday, August 27, 2016.
Steve Nehf, The Denver Post Denver Broncos linebacker Shane Ray takes a selfie with Alexys Graff, 9, of Colorado Springs before the preseason game agains the Los Angeles Rams at Sports Authority Field at Mile High on Saturday, August 27, 2016.
John Leyba, The Denver Post The Denver Broncos versus the Los Angeles Rams August 27, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium.
John Leyba, The Denver Post Denver Broncos outside linebacker Von Miller (58) does his dance after a sack in the first quarter on Los Angeles Rams quarterback Case Keenum (17) August 27, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium.
John Leyba, The Denver Post Denver Broncos inside linebacker Brandon Marshall (54) Denver Broncos middle linebacker Todd Davis (51) and Denver Broncos nose tackle Darius Kilgo (98) wrap up Los Angeles Rams running back Benny Cunningham (23) for a loss during the first quarter August 27, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium.
John Leyba, The Denver Post Denver Broncos running back C.J. Anderson (22) runs the ball to the outside against the Los Angeles Rams August 27, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium.
John Leyba, The Denver Post Los Angeles Rams quarterback Case Keenum (17) throws a pass against the Los Angeles Rams quarterback Case Keenum (17) during the first quarter August 27, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium.
John Leyba, The Denver Post Denver Broncos wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders (10) turns up field after a catch as Los Angeles Rams Joran Kovacs (42) comes in for the tackle during the second quarter August 27, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium.
John Leyba, The Denver Post Denver Broncos quarterback Trevor Siemian (13) looks downfield during the second quarter against the Los Angeles Rams August 27, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium.
John Leyba, The Denver Post Los Angeles Rams cornerback Lamarcus Joyner (20) puts a hit on Denver Broncos wide receiver Demaryius Thomas (88) after a catch during the second quarter August 27, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium.
John Leyba, The Denver Post Denver Broncos wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders (10) gets hit early by Los Angeles Rams cornerback Lamarcus Joyner (20) during the second quarter August 27, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium. Joyner was called for interference on the play.
John Leyba, The Denver Post Denver Broncos outside linebacker Von Miller (58) fights to get past Los Angeles Rams offensive guard Garrett Reynolds (71) during the second quarter August 27, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium.
John Leyba, The Denver Post Denver Broncos free safety Darian Stewart (26) can't hang on to a potential interception on a pass intended for Los Angeles Rams tight end Tyler Higbee (89) during the second quarter August 27, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium.
John Leyba, The Denver Post Denver Broncos free safety Darian Stewart (26) can't hang on to a potential interception on a pass intended for Los Angeles Rams tight end Tyler Higbee (89) during the second quarter August 27, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium.
Steve Nehf, The Denver Post Denver Broncos quarterback Trevor Simian gets a pass off out of the pocket in the second quarter at Sports Authority Field at Mile High on Saturday, August 27, 2016.
Steve Nehf, The Denver Post Denver Broncos quarterback Trevor Simian gets a pass off out of the pocket in the second quarter at Sports Authority Field at Mile High on Saturday, August 27, 2016.
John Leyba, The Denver Post Denver Broncos running back Ronnie Hillman (23) rushes in for a touchdown during the fourth quarter against the Los Angeles Rams August 27, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium.
John Leyba, The Denver Post Denver Broncos Los Angeles Rams August 27, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium.
John Leyba, The Denver Post Denver Broncos quarterback Paxton Lynch (12) handoff to Denver Broncos running back Kapri Bibbs (35) during the fourth quarter against the Los Angeles Rams August 27, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium.
John Leyba, The Denver Post Denver Broncos defensive back Ryan Murphy (36) breaks up a pass intended for Los Angeles Rams wide receiver David Richards (12) during the fourth quarter August 27, 2016 at Sports Authority Field at Mile High Stadium.
“It’s tough,” Dora said. “It’s in their hands. I just want to play my heart out for that last game. I know it’s my last interview. I want the coaches to look at the film and say ‘I need that guy on my football team.’”
Sulleyman also made a late push Saturday by notching two sacks, but he may be a victim to the numbers game. Dora and Sulleyman are both practice squad eligible, but it may be difficult to get them through waivers without another team picking them up, particularly the former.
There’s no such thing as too many pass rushers, but the Broncos won’t be able to fit them all on their 53-man roster. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/dekoda-watson-vontarrius-dora-sadat-sulleyman-broncos-pass-rushers/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/1b90a1236e2250dd2f22953b96efcbccf114c7bc9566add7ebae73fe01f33099.json |
[
"Cohen Peart"
] | 2016-08-27T02:46:04 | null | 2016-08-27T01:49:39 | Gov. John Hickenlooper says climate change is hurting the state economy, and he is poised to order a 35 percent cut by 2030 in greenhouse gas pollution from power plants. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fpoll-reducing-colorado-carbon-emissions%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/545227160.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Poll: Reducing Colorado carbon emissions | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Gov. John Hickenlooper says climate change is hurting the state economy, and he is poised to order a 35 percent cut by 2030 in greenhouse gas pollution from power plants.
His order, which is in the draft stage, would direct state agencies to compel utilities to cut pollution, while keeping energy affordable.
The federal Clean Power Plan already commits states including Colorado to cut carbon emissions, and Colorado plans to close or upgrade coal-fired power plants are considered a long step toward compliance. That plan is on hold pending judicial review.
Conservation leaders applaud Hickenlooper’s plan, saying Colorado should focus on renewable energy sources, while the state’s traditional energy industry has strong reservations.
Colorado Mining Association president-elect Stan Dempsey said current policies discouraging coal production are hurting rural Coloradans, and fears what could happen if Hickenlooper’s order goes into effect.
What do you think? Should Hickenlooper move forward with the plan? Vote in our poll. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/poll-reducing-colorado-carbon-emissions/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/b683a1c2e32e2ed9f0450366b6d05b4c07d9f340f977969bf2517892cadd6830.json |
[
"The Washington Post"
] | 2016-08-29T04:46:21 | null | 2016-08-29T04:04:18 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fenrollment-affordable-care-act-insurance-exchanges-half-initial-forecast%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/affordable-care-act.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Enrollment in Affordable Care Act insurance exchanges half of initial forecast | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Washington Post
Enrollment in the insurance exchanges for President Barack Obama’s signature health-care law is at less than half the initial forecast, pushing several major insurance companies to stop offering health plans in certain markets because of significant financial losses.
As a result, the administration’s promise of a menu of health-plan choices has been replaced by a grim, though preliminary, forecast: Next year, more than 1 in 4 counties is at risk of having a single insurer on its exchange, said Cynthia Cox, who studies health reform for the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Debate over how perilous the predicament is for the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, is nearly as partisan as the divide over the law itself. But at the root of the problem is this: The success of the law depends fundamentally on the exchanges being profitable for insurers — and that requires more people to sign up.
In February 2013, the Congressional Budget Office predicted that 24 million people would buy health coverage through the federally and state-operated online exchanges by this year. Just 11.1 million people were signed up as of late March.
Exchanges are marketplaces where people who do not receive health benefits through a job can buy private insurance, often with government subsidies.
“Enrollment is key, first and foremost,” said Sara Collins, a vice president at the Commonwealth Fund, a nonpartisan foundation that funds health-care research. “They have to have this critical mass of people so that, by the law of averages, you’re going to get a mix of healthy and less healthy people.”
A big reason the CBO projections were so far off is that the agency overestimated how many people would lose insurance through their employers, which would force them into the exchanges. But there have been challenges getting the uninsured to sign up, too.
The law requires every American to get health coverage or pay a penalty, but the penalty hasn’t been high enough to persuade many Americans to buy into the health plans. Even those who qualify for subsidized premiums sometimes balk at the high deductibles on some plans.
And people who do outreach to the uninsured say the enrollment process itself has been more complex and confusing than Obama’s initial comparison to buying a plane ticket.
“This exchange will allow you to one-stop shop for a health-care plan, compare benefits and prices, and choose a plan that’s best for you and your family,” Obama said in a speech in 2009. “You will have your choice of a number of plans that offer a few different packages, but every plan would offer an affordable, basic package.”
In some markets, a shortfall in enrollment is testing insurers’ ability to balance the medical claims they pay out with income from premiums. In an announcement curtailing its involvement in the exchanges this month, Aetna cited financial losses traced to too many sick people signing up for care and not enough healthy ones.
The health-care law has been a political lightning rod from the beginning and Obama has used the health-care law’s challenges to issue a new call for a public insurance option.
“Congress should revisit a public plan to compete alongside private insurers in areas of the country where competition is limited,” he wrote in an essay published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
24 million
The 2013 estimate of how many people would buy coverage through federally and state- operated online exchanges by this year.
11.1 million
The actual number of people who signed up by the end of the last enrollment period in January. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/enrollment-affordable-care-act-insurance-exchanges-half-initial-forecast/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/02a16b6e7646e828a1bf52e55daaaa29553e467b44932a280503ac361d96a5ae.json |
[
"Nicki Jhabvala"
] | 2016-08-30T22:46:45 | null | 2016-08-30T22:23:14 | Mark Sanchez doesn’t know what his long-term future holds in Denver. He doesn’t know what his future holds this week, even. But the veteran quarterback wants to make one thing clear: He wants to stay in Denver. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fmark-sanchez-i-want-to-be-here%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/mark-sanchez8.jpg?w=1024&h=636 | en | null | 'I want to be here. I love being here.' | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Mark Sanchez doesn’t know what his long-term future holds in Denver. He doesn’t know what his future holds this week, even. But the veteran quarterback wants to make one thing clear: He wants to stay in Denver.
A day after Trevor Siemian was appointed the team’s starting quarterback for its season-opening Super Bowl rematch with Carolina, Sanchez stood in front of the media at the Broncos’ practice facility to address his uncertain status.
“I want to be here. I love being here,” he said. “I’ve gotten to know these guys and embrace this community. I’ve had a great time here. Who knows about anything on the outside; I’m focused on getting ready for Carolina. All that stuff — I’ve been hit up a lot about contracts and trades — there is a business side to this thing. But I’m focused on playing. That’s why you hire an agent. They handle all that stuff. They’ll let me know. I’m not going to get into that stuff.”
Although he’s listed on the depth chart as the team’s No. 2 quarterback, Sanchez understands his position beyond Saturday, when final roster cuts are made, is not guaranteed. And the market for quarterbacks is suddenly expanding. The Cowboys recently lost Tony Romo to a back injury and the Vikings lost Teddy Bridgewater to a serious knee injury during practice Tuesday.
The Broncos acquired Sanchez in a trade with Philadelphia in March. Sanchez arrived with optimism and a commitment to vying for the starting job. But after six months of competing in organized team activities and training camp, and after a pair of fumbles in a preseason game against San Francisco, Kubiak handed the reins to Siemian.
“If things don’t work out the way you want, you can’t just act like a crybaby and cause a problem,” Sanchez said. “That’s not right. That’s not a professional way to do it. So I’ll help Trevor any way I can. It’s a good thing. He’s a likable guy. It could be a lot worse.
“As a competitor, you’re disappointed that things went the way they did. But you also understand that there’s an emotional side and a competitor side, but also a teammate side,” he added. “Me, enjoying my time here, and really respecting this organization and respecting Trevor as a friend and a player and a teammate, the most important thing to do is move forward and help this team. Whatever that means. I have to prepare like I’ll start, prepare like I’ll take every rep, then help Trevor in any way that I can and continue to help this team. But as a competitor, you want to play.”
If Sanchez makes the Broncos’ final roster, the team would owe Philadelphia a conditional draft pick. Should the Broncos opt to waive him, they would save the draft pick and $3.5 million in cap space. The Broncos could approach Sanchez about a pay cut, but they haven’t yet. If he makes the team he will draw a $4.5 million salary.
There is merit to keeping Sanchez. Playing the season with only Siemian, who has taken one NFL snap in the regular season, and rookie Paxton Lynch would be a gamble, and the market for a cheaper but reliable veteran alternative to Sanchez is thin.
Lynch is scheduled to play the entirety of the Broncos’ final preseason game Thursday, at Arizona. But coach Gary Kubiak said he expects Sanchez to be available should anything happen to Lynch.
“This organization has been first class. Nobody tricked anybody into anything,” Sanchez said. “It was totally straightforward and man-to-man. ‘Hey, this is the direction we’re going to head.’ (Kubiak) explained everything. I really appreciate that. That was professional and first class.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/mark-sanchez-i-want-to-be-here/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/285f75742794313f964b5c2eab73360de59f35320eea9a70a6c26867100ae67f.json |
[
"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T08:46:21 | null | 2016-08-29T07:11:26 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fbackers-opponents-spar-over-ethics-surrounding-clinton-foundation%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ap16235567268050.jpg?w=1024&h=682 | en | null | Backers, opponents spar over ethics surrounding Clinton Foundation | null | null | www.denverpost.com | WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and Democrats sparred Sunday over whether Hillary Clinton crossed ethical lines during her tenure as secretary of state by talking with people outside the government who had contributed to her family’s philanthropy foundation.
Donna Brazile, the interim head of the Democratic National Committee, said it’s not unusual for supporters and activists to seek out private meetings and that there’s no evidence Clinton did any favors on behalf of foundation donors.
“When Republicans meet with their donors, with their supporters, they call it a meeting,” she told CBS’ “Face the Nation.” ”When Democrats do that, they call it a conflict. It’s not pay-to-play, unless somebody actually gave someone 50 cents to say, ‘I need a meeting.'”
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“This (foundation) becomes a conduit for people to gain access, and gaining access is a favor,” Pence told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
The State Department has released all Clinton’s calendars and about half her detailed daily schedules as secretary of state, after The Associated Press sued for access in federal court.
Based on the records released so far, the AP found that more than half the people outside the government who met or spoke by telephone with Clinton during her tenure as a Cabinet secretary had given money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. The AP’s analysis focused on people with private interests and excluded her meetings or calls with U.S. federal employees or foreign government representatives.
The government said Friday it probably won’t release the remainder of the detailed schedules until Dec. 30, weeks after the national election.
Clinton has said the AP’s analysis was flawed because it did not account fully for all meetings and phone calls during her entire term as secretary. She also said the analysis should have included meetings with federal employees and foreign diplomats. The AP said it focused on her meetings with outsiders because those were more discretionary, as Clinton would normally meet with federal officials and foreign officials as part of her job.
Her campaign also objected to an AP tweet that stated “more than half those who met Clinton as Cabinet secretary gave money to Clinton Foundation” and linked to the analysis. The tweet didn’t note what was in the story: that the records only covered part of her tenure and excluded meetings or calls with federal employees or foreign government representatives.
AP Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll told CNN’s “Reliable Sources” on Sunday that the tweet was “sloppy” and “could have used some more precision.” But she said the story linked to the tweet was “completely rock solid.”
“I think the issue about conflict with interest is not whether there’s an actual quid pro quo, it’s the proximity,” she said. “It’s the impression that people have of maybe they got the meeting because they donated, maybe they didn’t.”
She added: “All of us can’t be held responsible for the way that everybody thinks about and responds to and talks about the coverage. Our responsibility is just to give them fair and balanced, rock-solid reporting and let them agree with it, disagree with it, talk about it, think what they might about it.”
Clinton said Friday she would take “additional steps” to ensure there wasn’t a conflict of interest with the foundation if she is elected president. Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had already said the foundation would no longer accept foreign or corporate donations and that he would no longer raise money for the organization if she became president. The Clintons’ daughter, Chelsea, would remain on the foundation’s board. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/backers-opponents-spar-over-ethics-surrounding-clinton-foundation/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/3293db5dd51324b6986a37ad95880d20a9130238bd4a85eed19020d5f77730b8.json |
[
"Dp Opinion"
] | 2016-08-29T20:46:39 | null | 2016-08-29T19:37:18 | One wonders if eminent domain laws should be applied to terminate the patents of greedy companies in order to benefit society. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fhow-about-eminent-domain-for-patents-on-products-like-epipen%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ap16238410648858.jpg?w=1024&h=705 | en | null | How about "eminent domain" for patents on products like EpiPen? | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Re: “Lawmakers demand information on EpiPen price increase,” Aug. 23 news story.
One wonders if eminent domain laws should be applied to terminate the patents of greedy companies in order to benefit society. We use this law to take private property for far less important public needs all the time. Of course, we’d pay the chemical companies a fair market price based on world wide prices and actual production costs, but not their obvious greed.
I guess health care in America is defined: “If you can’t afford to get sick, then you better stay healthy. If you do get sick, oh bummer.”
Mark Parsons, Berthoud
Submit a letter to the editor via this form or check out our guidelines for how to submit by e-mail or mail. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/how-about-eminent-domain-for-patents-on-products-like-epipen/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/2a10cacc4cea3aee91ec25706919a36805f311d07c2f3b5be3b42c62b1ccc166.json |
[
"Nicki Jhabvala"
] | 2016-08-28T04:46:09 | null | 2016-08-28T03:21:06 | Trevor Siemian, the second-year quarterback who has been arguably the biggest story of the NFL offseason, appeared to solidify his victory in the race to be the Broncos’ next starting quarterback Saturday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fdenver-broncos-los-angeles-rams-preseason-trevor-siemian%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/broncos_91.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Trevor Siemian likely seals spot as Broncos' starter with preseason win vs. Rams | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The Broncos might have found their heir to Peyton Manning.
Trevor Siemian, the second-year quarterback who has been arguably the biggest story of the NFL offseason, on Saturday night appeared to solidify his victory in the race to be the Broncos’ next starting quarterback Saturday.
In only his second start as a pro, Siemian helped the Broncos to a 17-9 victory over the Los Angeles Rams in their third preseason game, one that is annually the most significant but one that, this year, is more so.
Eager to establish the run game early, Siemian handed the ball off for the first two drives, both of which were three-and-outs and totaled only 12 yards.
Siemian started airing it out on the Broncos’ third drive and, after two failed attempts to Demaryius Thomas up the middle, he connected with Emmanuel Sanders for an 11-yard gain and a first down. The series carried over into the second quarter but ended at seven plays and 19 yards, after an Anderson carry on fourth down fell short of a first down.
On the ensuing drive, Siemian quickly got to work, finding Thomas on the left sideline for a 10-yard completion and then Sanders on the right for 17 yards. A deep pass slightly underthrown to Cody Latimer was batted by Los Angeles cornerback Trumaine Johnson into the hands of safety Cody Davis at the Rams’ 1-yard line, and the interception was upheld after review.
Ball security has been a priority for coach Gary Kubiak as he evaluates the quarterbacks, but Siemian’s response to the turnover might carry more weight. A little more than two minutes later, Siemian led his troops on a seven-play, 67-yard scoring drive, punctuated by two runs by Anderson that earned first downs and capped by a touchdown pass to tight end Virgil Green that gave the Broncos their first lead, 7-6.
Siemian had time for one more drive as the seconds ticked away in the first half, and tossed a 43-yard spiral that was caught by Thomas with one hand as he sprinted down the right sideline. Siemian nearly threw his second pick of the night in the final seconds, but Brandon McManus closed the drive with a 50-yard field goal to give Denver a 10-9 lead at the break.
Siemian’s night ended there, with a final line of 10-of-17 passing for 122 yards, one touchdown, one interception and a 76.1 passer rating.
“We didn’t run the ball well,” Kubiak said at the break. “We came out early in the game and wanted to run the ball. We did not. We made some plays in the passing game. Trevor did some good stuff and we finished up better.”
Rookie Paxton Lynch took over at the start of the third quarter, a move that says a lot about the quarterback standings. Lynch took reps with the first-team offense on the scout team in practices this past week, but had been limited to play with primarily the third-string offense in the Broncos’ first two preseason games. He began the second half Saturday with the second team and led them on an eight-play, 41-yard scoring drive that gave the Broncos a 17-9 lead. Lynch played the entire second half, completing 6-of-13 passes for 57 yards, with five three-and-outs.
The Broncos must trim their roster from 90 to 75 players by Tuesday, and Mark Sanchez’s spot is suddenly in jeopardy. The seven-year veteran is a $4.5 million cap hit for 2016. Should he fail to make the final 53-man roster, the Broncos would face a cap charge of $1 million of that but retain a conditional draft pick that was offered to Philadelphia in the March trade.
On Monday, following the Broncos’ loss to the 49ers, Kubiak appointed Siemian the starter for the second-consecutive week, indicating his leg up in what has been a close race with Sanchez.
“Bottom line, I got a lot to go off of on Mark (Sanchez). He’s played a lot of football,” Kubiak said. “But I needed to see these two kids play again, so that was a decision I made and I talk to Mark about it this morning, explained it to him and he was great and we went from there.”
Sanchez said after the Broncos’ loss to the 49ers that he “squandered an opportunity” to take a job that became available in March, when Manning retired and Brock Osweiler defected to Houston.
On Saturday, Siemian, the player least expected take the reins just six months ago, capitalized and might have made the unthinkable a reality. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/denver-broncos-los-angeles-rams-preseason-trevor-siemian/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/d2d4aaf15401921e651cb6434efa8991be061f13a5508e9ddaa57fbe8d3565c4.json |
[
"Boulder Daily Camera"
] | 2016-08-29T14:46:36 | null | 2016-08-29T14:21:18 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fman-sex-assault-burglary-cases-conviction%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/dailycamera-com-20160827_093505_martinez_200.jpg?w=200&h=231 | en | null | Boulder County jury convicts man in sex assault burglary cases from 2013 | null | null | www.denverpost.com | A Boulder County jury convicted a man of sexual assault and burglary charges Friday following a two-week trial in connection with several incidents that happened in October 2013.
Deputy District Attorney Caryn Datz said that Eugene Martinez, 51, was convicted of three counts of sexual assault of a physically helpless person, three counts of second-degree burglary and one count each of first-degree burglary, attempted assault on a peace officer, criminal mischief, theft, resisting arrest and obstructing a police officer. He’s scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 31.
Datz said the convictions stem from incidents that happened between Oct. 13 and Oct. 19, 2013.
Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett said the case took nearly three years to resolve because Martinez at first claimed incompetence and then pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. He added that the trial was likely the first insanity trial in about 25 years in Boulder County.
Read the full story on DailyCamera.com. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/man-sex-assault-burglary-cases-conviction/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/0cbb2bb0407c15f90431fef7f3a87fb59265bc074dee1b7988ef3024f7290d45.json |
[
"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-30T08:46:42 | null | 2016-08-30T07:46:52 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fjustice-department-focuses-police-treatment-mentally-ill%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/private-prisons-vanden-heuvel1.jpg?w=800&h=531 | en | null | Justice Department focuses on police treatment of mentally ill | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Eric Tucker, The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Justice Department lawyers investigating police agencies for claims of racial discrimination and excessive force are increasingly turning up a different problem: officers’ interactions with the mentally ill.
The latest example came in Baltimore, where a critical report on that department’s policies found that officers end up in unnecessarily violent confrontations with mentally disabled people who in many instances haven’t even committed crimes.
The report cited instances of officers using a stun gun to subdue an agitated man who refused to leave a vacant building and of spraying mace to force a troubled person — said by his father to be unarmed and off his medications — out of an apartment.
Though past federal investigations have addressed the problem, the Baltimore report went a step further: It was the first time the Justice Department has explicitly found that a police department’s policies violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. The finding is intended to chart a path to what federal officials hope will be far-reaching improvements, including better training for dispatchers and officers, diversion of more people to treatment rather than jail and stronger relationships with mental health specialists.
“Through the course of our work in the last several years on this bucket of issues, we’ve seen how important it is to get at the mental health issues as early in the system as possible,” Vanita Gupta, head of the department’s Civil Rights Division, said in an interview.
Civil rights officials say the Baltimore report builds on work they’ve done in investigating the treatment of the mentally ill in various settings. In Mississippi, the Hinds County jail in June agreed to better screening for mental illness as part of a settlement, and the Justice Department sued the state as a whole this month, saying it was illegally making mentally ill people go into state-run psychiatric hospitals.
But it’s the work with police departments that often attracts the most attention. Even as police forces improve training and develop intervention teams to respond to individuals in the throes of a crisis, concerns remain that officers aren’t adequately equipped for the situations and are being forced to fill the void of a resource-starved mental health infrastructure.
More than 14 percent of male jail inmates and 31 percent of female inmates are affected by serious mental illness, according to a July speech by Justice Department official Eve Hill, who said society has for too long relied on arrests and jail rather than treatment for the mentally ill.
“From the standpoint of police, they are somewhat frustrated because many of the people who are walking the streets and who are in need of help are not getting it,” said Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum. “They have been out on the streets, they can’t afford medication, and so the police wind up being the only one they come in contact with.”
The Justice Department has incorporated treatment of the mentally ill into several of its wide-ranging civil rights investigations of troubled police departments.
“I think some police departments have really made it a priority and are doing quite a bit. I don’t know that that’s consistent across all the departments,” said Amy Watson, a mental health policy professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
A 2011 Justice Department report on Seattle criticized officers for too quickly resorting to force when encountering people with mental illness or under the influence of drugs.
In Cleveland, officers were found to use stun guns against people with limited cognitive abilities, and in one case used one on a suicidal deaf man who may not have understood their commands, according to a 2014 report.
Albuquerque, New Mexico officers responding to a domestic violence complaint used the same tactic on a man who had doused himself with gasoline, the Justice Department said.
Those cities have since reached court-enforceable consent decrees aimed at overhauling practices.
The Portland police department, which also came under investigation, agreed to new training and accountability measures under a settlement. A federal monitor in February found the Seattle police department was sending trained crisis intervention officers to “crisis events in the great majority of instances” and had given some level of training to all officers in the last two years.
Federal officials hope for a similar resolution in Baltimore, where the Justice Department says police have provided minimal training on responding to mental health crises. Under an agreement in principle, Baltimore has pledged to work more closely with disability organizations and mental health providers.
But, Gupta said, improvements can occur only if there’s a system with resources in place to help the police.
“It’s not about casting blame on specific actors. It’s about making sure that there is adequate support for community-based mental health services in compliance with federal law,” she said.
Ray Kelly, a leader of the No Boundaries Coalition, a Baltimore advocacy group, said he didn’t believe Baltimore police have succeeded in separating law-abiding citizens from criminal suspects, “so they definitely don’t take the time to separate the mentally ill from the criminal element or the average Joe buying drugs on one of our corners.”
He said he hoped the report would foster better collaboration between police and mental health experts, so that if there’s a possibility that officers are dealing with someone who’s disabled, they “would call a professional that’s prepared to work with this instead of using aggressive manhandling tactics like they’ve used in the past.”
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-30T22:46:49 | null | 2016-08-30T22:08:00 | Tim Tebow has taken his first big swing at a baseball career, showing off a powerful bat and a few areas of needed improvement in a workout for dozens of major league scouts. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Ftim-tebow-mlb-workout%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/tebow-hitting.jpg?w=1024&h=728 | en | null | Tim Tebow shows solid power, speed and shaky skills in MLB workout | null | null | www.denverpost.com | LOS ANGELES — Tim Tebow has taken his first big swing at a baseball career, showing off a powerful bat and a few areas of needed improvement in a workout for dozens of major league scouts.
The Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback worked out at the University of Southern California’s Dedeaux Field on Tuesday. Scouts and reporters tracked, timed and recorded his every move.
Tebow’s 255-pound muscled physique and 6.70-ish time in the 60-yard dash were impressive. So was a series of long homers into the trees and off the scoreboard.
The 29-year-old outfield hopeful also showed he still needs baseball seasoning. Former major-leaguers David Aardsma and Chad Smith repeatedly fooled him with off-speed pitches later in the hitting drills.
Tebow’s representative would like to see him in instructional league play starting in September.
Rockies Mailbag: Pose a question for Patrick Saunders | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/tim-tebow-mlb-workout/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/ec3e08c2b7d3a57c5bb395e914011282e552caa69e57cb20c21b770a5a88680f.json |
[
"Dp Opinion"
] | 2016-08-26T20:45:54 | null | 2016-08-26T20:17:08 | When we heard of the closing of Patsy’s Inn, our hearts broke. We met Chubby Aeillo in the summer of 1997 and quickly fell in love with him and his charming restaurant. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fthe-heartbreaking-closure-of-denvers-patsys-inn%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/patsysrj2_5846.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | The heartbreaking closure of Denver's Patsy's Inn | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Re: “Patsy’s Inn closes after 95 years of Italian cuisine in Denver,” Aug. 23 news story.
When we heard of the closing of Patsy’s Inn, our hearts broke. We met Chubby Aeillo in the summer of 1997 and quickly fell in love with him and his charming restaurant. We took the reins from him in November of that year and adopted him as our “Italian” grandfather. He was 93 years young at that time and lived another five years. We were at his bedside the day he passed. We enjoyed knowing him and cherished his wisdom and wit. When Ron Cito and Kim DeLancey purchased the restaurant from us in October of 2008, we had hoped it would continue to be one of Denver’s remaining Northside landmarks. It was truly a one-of-a-kind place. RIP, Patsy’s!
Cindy Knipple and Bil Taylor, Denver
Submit a letter to the editor via this form or check out our guidelines for how to submit by e-mail or mail. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/the-heartbreaking-closure-of-denvers-patsys-inn/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/9a821843c3dbec9eb7b8a94ab685df613e8307153fca4f3e0355b38d3a975a27.json |
[
"Joey Bunch"
] | 2016-08-26T18:46:10 | null | 2016-08-26T16:55:52 | Donald Trump's Colorado ground game picked up key players, some of them well-known, on Thursday. The campaign announced state co-chairs over specific issues and advocacy groups. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Ftrump-colorado-republican-coalition%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/donald-trump-campaign-081116.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Trump ground game grows with Colorado Republican politicos to head coalitions | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Donald Trump’s Colorado ground game picked up key players, some of them well-known in Republican circles, to oversee respective issue and advocacy groups this week.
While the list does not include former governors or current office holders, which presidential campaigns often turn to, they do include such Colorado leaders as former state Senate President John Andrews and former Sen. Greg Brophy, a former GOP gubernatorial candidate who previously served as chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Ken Buck.
Brophy, a fourth-generation Eastern Plains farmer, will lead Trump’s Agricultural Coalition. Andrews, who recently retired as director the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, will lead the campaign’s Colorado Faith Coalition.
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August 25, 2016 Donald Trump rebukes racism claims as Hillary Clinton warns of radicalism “These leaders are contributing valuable time and energy in order to advance Mr. Trump’s conservative message to a range of important groups and organizations throughout the state,” Patrick Davis, Trump’s Colorado director, said in a statement. “With their help, Coloradans will reject the third Obama term that Hillary Clinton represents and will vote for change in November.”
The rest of the new Trump team members are: | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/trump-colorado-republican-coalition/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/94e883958d7378ed4f1106a0c96669d5db9edf8e86e2be3a5866b5b980e3d907.json |
[
"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T18:46:36 | null | 2016-08-29T18:18:25 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Ffaa-forecast-commercial-drones%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/487540678.jpg?w=1024&h=689 | en | null | FAA forecast: 600,000 commercial drones within the year | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Joan Lowy, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — There will be 600,000 commercial drone aircraft operating in the U.S. within the year as the result of new safety rules that opened the skies to them on Monday, according to a Federal Aviation Administration estimate.
The rules governing the operation of small commercial drones were designed to protect safety without stifling innovation, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta told a news conference.
Commercial operators initially complained that the new rules would be too rigid. The agency responded by creating a system to grant exemptions to some of the rules for companies that show they can operate safely, Huerta said.
On the first day the rules were in effect the FAA had already granted 76 exemptions, most of them to companies that want to fly drones at night, Huerta said.
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Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said people are “captivated by the limitless possibilities unmanned aircraft offer.” The few thousand commercial drones that had been granted waivers to operate before Monday have been used to monitor crops, inspect bridges and transmission lines, assist firefighters, film movies, and create real estate and wedding videos, among dozens of other uses.
In general, the new rules apply to drones weighing 55 pounds or less, and require commercial operators to:
Keep the drone within sight at all times.
Keep drones from flying over people not involved in their operation.
Limit drone operations to the hours from a half-hour before sunrise to a half-hour after sunset.
Limit speed to no more than 100 mph.
Fly no higher than 400 feet.
Drone operators must also pass a test of their aeronautical knowledge administered by the FAA. More than 3,000 people had registered with the FAA to take the test as of Monday. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/faa-forecast-commercial-drones/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/0f10e74b18e5dc26b52472b394356ecaa6dc57c6f8bea41d2cfc805d5dfa5bf2.json |
[
"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T12:46:22 | null | 2016-08-29T12:36:48 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fgunman-los-angeles-airport-false-reports%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ap16242251448688.jpg?w=1024&h=672 | en | null | False report of gunman at Los Angeles airport causes panic | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Andrew Dalton, Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Reports of a gunman opening fire that turned out to be false caused panicked evacuations at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday night, while flights to and from the airport saw major delays.
A search through terminals brought no evidence of a gunman or shots fired, Los Angeles police spokesman Andy Neiman said. The reports were spurred by loud noises only, and police were still investigating to find the source of them, Neiman said.
Airport officials said that a person wearing a Zorro costume was detained during the incident, but it wasn’t yet clear whether the person had any connection to the evacuation.
The incident stirred chaos as hundreds of people rushed from terminals on to sidewalks or the tarmac. And it left a mess with three terminals shut down, roads closed and flights held in the air and on the ground.
All terminals and roads into the airport had been reopened by 11 p.m. PDT, about two hours after the initial reports, officials said. But massive backup faced travelers in their cars and in security lines. Passengers who fled had to be rescreened through security.
When the incident began, scores of people could be seen on social media and on TV news running from the terminal out on to the sidewalks and streets as police with rifles out stormed terminals. Many other evacuees were standing on the airport tarmac, and abandoned bags littered some sidewalks.
“We were on the jetway and someone starts pushing behind us,” Jon Landis, a sales representative from Boston who was boarding a flight home, told The Associated Press. “One man was frantic saying there was a shooter.”
Police officers, including one with a shotgun, eventually led passengers out of the terminal, through a security gate, and into a parking lot — where several hundred waited for the terminal to reopen. Ninety minutes after the scare, Landis said he was still waiting for word on his flight.
Passenger Scott McDonald said he was getting off a plane in the middle of the incident and was told by the crew to get back on. He said looking out the window he could see many evacuees gathered out on the tarmac, a strange sight even for someone who travels almost constantly.
“I’ve never seen passengers, just normal people, on the tarmac anywhere in the United States,” McDonald told KCAL-TV.
Douglas Lee, who was traveling home to Albuquerque with his wife and son, said the greatest danger was being trampled.
“You can imagine hundreds of adults trying to go through an exit door,” he explained. At one point, he said he picked up his young son left their luggage.
Corey Rosenbusch was relaxing inside a terminal club on a layover flight from his home in Washington, D.C., to Sydney, Australia, when the lights went off and the staff told everyone to shelter in place.
“People immediately started looking at social media, where they saw reports that there was an active shooter,” Rosenbusch told the AP.
He said several officers, including some with assault rifles, led the group out of the area.
The incident came just days after another false alarm led to a panicked evacuation of Kennedy Airport in New York.
In that incident, police were investigating whether an overly boisterous celebration of the Olympics on Aug. 14 led to noises that were misinterpreted as gunfire, with the ensuing chain reaction turning into a panic as crowds ran to evacuate.
The Los Angeles airport had an actual shooting in November 2013, when a man opened fire in the terminal, killing a security agent and wounding three other people. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/gunman-los-angeles-airport-false-reports/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/62431864e966b51636e3b6b5e23ba06c83b71510733fdd55f7f227781d055b8f.json |
[
"Nick Kosmider"
] | 2016-08-27T22:46:07 | null | 2016-08-27T22:08:27 | Charlie Blackmon and Carlos Gonzalez each hit two-run home runs in the 11th inning, delivering the Rockies to a 9-4 victory over the Nationals that snapped a four-game losing streak. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Frockies-beat-nationals-charlie-blackmon-homers%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/charlie-blackmon3.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Rockies provide late power to back bullpen in 11-inning victory over Nationals | null | null | www.denverpost.com | WASHINGTON — The sinking feeling that the Rockies were about to waste one of their finest bullpen performances of the season was beginning to set in.
Then came the power.
Charlie Blackmon and Carlos Gonzalez each hit two-run home runs in the 11th inning, delivering the Rockies to a 9-4 victory over the Nationals that snapped a four-game losing streak.
The Rockies’ sluggers put the loud stamp on the victory, but it wouldn’t have been possible without the work of the team’s beleaguered bullpen. Six relievers combined to allow just one run in six innings.
Still, that outing was nearly wasted. Down to their last strike against Adam Ottavino, the Nationals tied the game on Jayson Werth’s single in the ninth inning. Ottavino, who had his franchise-record streak of 37 games without allowing a run snapped, was angling for a four-out save. After pinch-hitter Ben Revere drew a one-out walk and stole second base, Blackmon made a sliding catch on Trea Turner’s soft liner to shallow center field for the second out in the ninth. But Werth drilled an 0-2 slider to bring home Revere and tie the game 4-4.
But a bullpen that has been battered and bruised during the Rockies’ miserable August swoon kept answering the bell. Jake McGee pitched a perfect 10th inning with two strikeouts to set the stage for the Rockies’ late offensive outburst. Matt Carasiti, who gave up four runs in the Rockies’ loss on Friday, bounced back to pitch a scoreless 11th inning.
Blackmon’s go-ahead blast, his career-high 23rd of the season, was his second of the game. He also hit a solo shot off Washington starter A.J. Cole in the third. Gonzalez, who was 0-for-5 before his at-bat in the 11th, blasted his 200th career home run to center field to give the Rockies breathing room.
After five workmanlike innings from Jorge De La Rosa, Jordan Lyles, Boone Logan and Carlos Estevez set up Ottavino, who had not given up a run since Sept. 6, 2014. The feat spanned 31 1/3 scoreless innings, which was the longest active streak in the majors. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/rockies-beat-nationals-charlie-blackmon-homers/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/f3bff35c93c5fb6e9f213f3f155825b751351ded46dc981c9a2bc8dcb8ab0d93.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-31T14:46:50 | null | 2016-08-31T14:00:16 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2Fus-cuba-commercial-flight%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ap16244115848595.jpg?w=1024&h=756 | en | null | Historic commercial flight from U.S. to Cuba set to take off | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Michael Weissenstein, Associated Press
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The first commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than a half century is scheduled to fly from Fort Lauderdale to the central city of Santa Clara on Wednesday morning, re-establishing regular air service severed at the height of the Cold War.
JetBlue Flight 387 was set to take off at 9:45 a.m. EDT for a 72-minute journey that will open a new era of U.S.-Cuba travel, with about 300 flights a week connecting the U.S. with an island cut off from most Americans by the 55-year-old trade embargo on Cuba and formal ban on U.S. citizens engaging in tourism on the island.
“Seeing the American airlines landing routinely around the island will drive a sense of openness, integration and normality. That has a huge psychological impact,” said Richard Feinberg, author of the new book “Open for Business: Building the New Cuban Economy.”
The restart of commercial travel between the two countries is one of the most important steps in President Barack Obama’s two-year-old policy of normalizing relations with the island. Historians disagree on the exact date of the last commercial flight but it appears to have been after Cuba banned incoming flights during the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Secretary of State John Kerry said on Twitter that the last commercial flight was in 1961.
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes and a specially selected five-member crew of Cuban-Americans were slated to be on board the 150-seat Airbus A320.
“It’s a positive step and a concrete contribution to the process of improving relations between the two countries,” Cuba’s vice minister of transportation Eduardo Rodriguez told journalists Monday.
U.S. travel to Cuba is on track to triple this year to more than 300,000 visitors in the wake of the 2014 declaration of detente. Cuba’s cash-starved centrally planned economy has been bolstered by the boom in U.S. visitors, along with hundreds of thousands of travelers from other nations hoping to see Cuba before more Americans arrive.
Wednesday’s first commercial flight “will be a positive step and a concrete contribution to the process of improving
Commercial flights are expected to significantly increase the number of American visitors, although it’s not clear by how much. Many of the air routes are currently used by expensive charter flights that are largely expected to go out of business with the advent of regularly scheduled service from the U.S.
Hundreds of thousands of Cuban-born Americans fly to the island each year with the chaotic, understaffed charter companies, which require four-hour check-in waits and charge high rates for any luggage in excess of restrictive baggage allowances. Americans without ties to Cuba have found it hard to negotiate the charters, most of which don’t accept online bookings or help travelers navigate the federal affidavit still required for U.S. travelers to Cuba.
Cuban officials insist the continuing U.S. ban on tourism will limit the impact of commercial flights to Cuba, but some experts believe the drastic reduction in the difficulty of flying to Cuba could turn the surge in U.S. visitors into a tidal wave. Americans are allowed to visit the island on “people-to-people” cultural and educational visits, among other reasons.
Americans who fit one of 12 categories will now be able to fill out a federal affidavit by clicking a box on an online form and, in many cases, buy their Cuban tourist visa near the check-in counters of U.S. airports. Within weeks, Americans will be able to fly direct from cities including Chicago, Philadelphia and Minneapolis, Miami and Fort Lauderdale to eight Cuban cities and two beach resorts.
The final announcement of routes to Havana, which could be announced Wednesday and start before December, is slated to include flights from Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles and Houston, among others. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/31/us-cuba-commercial-flight/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/a22acd926e067527b9ef150008f89fea2826eb212a18cc0331b6ed658f66c277.json |
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"The Post Independent"
] | 2016-08-28T02:46:10 | null | 2016-08-28T02:08:17 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fprofessional-cuddling-business-rifle%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Professional cuddling business works to create niche in Rifle | null | null | www.denverpost.com | One of Rifle’s newest businesses is still trying to get its arms around the local market.
Touched, a professional cuddling company based in south Rifle, opened its doors two weeks ago. Since then it has been a slow slog to market not only the business but the concept of professional cuddling, said Aimee Wilshire, owner and founder of Touched and a Rifle resident for 16 years.
The business is centered on the concept that physical, platonic touching is beneficial in a number of ways, and that nonsexual touching is deficient in many adults’ lives.
Services offered at Touched include: companioning, which offers little to no physical contact; single cuddling, which comes down to “platonic touch in all areas except those which would be covered by a bathing suit”; and couples cuddling.
Unlike other professional cuddlers, Wilshire set up a by-the-minute fee structure — $1 per minute. However, Touched offers several discounts, including a special rate for the first responders in Garfield County.
Read the full story on PostIndependent.com. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/professional-cuddling-business-rifle/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/14b131128236265bc35ca128e5c08555998b42dff9383cd83ff196859c5f4161.json |
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"John Aguilar"
] | 2016-08-31T02:46:42 | null | 2016-08-31T02:31:55 | Arvada city leaders this week decided to place two questions on the Nov. 8 ballot for voters to consider. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Farvada-voters-to-decide-tax-hike-street-repairs%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/20160524__dp_ngps_typesetexport20160526_l4_zll26roads-p1.jpg?w=654&h=435 | en | null | Arvada voters to decide on tax hike for street repairs, opening municipal internet | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Arvada city leaders this week decided to place two questions on the Nov. 8 ballot for voters to consider.
The first ballot question proposes a half-cent sales-and-use tax increase, the proceeds of which will be used for street maintenance and improvement projects in the city. The increase would amount to 5 cents on a $10 purchase and would increase street maintenance funding — to repair potholes and sidewalks — by as much as $10 million per year.
The second ballot question proposes that Arvada opt out of a state law that prohibits municipal governments from providing high-speed internet services. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/arvada-voters-to-decide-tax-hike-street-repairs/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/4941455862381e2954ee09b26d137fb8b04c17ff43e4645a74ae833d3d7e8909.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T16:46:29 | null | 2016-08-29T16:21:11 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fanthony-weiners-huma-abedin-is-leaving-him-amid-a-new-sexting-scandal%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/583536772.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Anthony Weiner’s wife is leaving him amid a new sexting scandal | null | null | www.denverpost.com | NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin said Monday that she is separating from her husband, Anthony Weiner, after the former congressman was accused in yet another sexting scandal.
“After long and painful consideration and work on my marriage, I have made the decision to separate from my husband,” she said in a statement issued by Clinton’s presidential campaign. “Anthony and I remain devoted to doing what is best for our son, who is the light of our life. During this difficult time, I ask for respect for our privacy.”
The New York Post published photos late Sunday that it said Weiner had sent last year to a woman, whom it identified only as a “40-something divorcee” who lives “out West” and is a supporter of Donald Trump.
The photos included several shots of Weiner bare-chested and two close-ups of his bulging underwear. In one of the pictures, Weiner is in bed with his toddler son while he is texting the woman, according to the Post.
Weiner told the Post that he and the woman “have been friends for some time.”
“She has asked me not to comment except to say that our conversations were private, often included pictures of her nieces and nephews and my son and were always appropriate,” he told the newspaper.
Weiner didn’t return a phone call, text or email from The Associated Press. Weiner deleted his Twitter account Monday.
The Post didn’t say how it had obtained the photographs and messages.
Weiner, a Democrat from New York City, quit Congress in 2011 after it discovered that he was sending women sexually explicit messages. Weiner ran for mayor of New York in 2013, but that bid collapsed after it was reported that he was continuing to sext women.
Since then, Weiner has remained in the public eye, commenting on politics on a local cable news show. A documentary offering a cringe-inducing inside view of his mayoral campaign and its unraveling played in theaters earlier this year and is set to air on Showtime this fall. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/anthony-weiners-huma-abedin-is-leaving-him-amid-a-new-sexting-scandal/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/d8deaac57d4f27bba416a5f9fb4d6c7b5c9909c062da425752b653222185e3cc.json |
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"Nicki Jhabvala"
] | 2016-08-27T20:46:05 | null | 2016-08-27T20:00:40 | Despite being the longest-tenured Broncos player/coach on staff (25 years!), Dennison is a mystery, often described as a quiet genius. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Frick-dennison-helped-to-engineer-broncos-history-future%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/594874610.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | How Rick Dennison has quietly helped to engineer Broncos history, future | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Cut and fill.
“That’s what civil engineering used to say,” said Rick Dennison as he trudged off the Broncos practice field recently.
As some 200 men saunter off the field behind him, the Broncos’ offensive coordinator takes a seat on a metal bench at the team headquarters. Shortly, he’ll have to give his weekly address to local reporters and whoever else has infiltrated practice to learn more about Denver’s offense without Peyton Manning (How different will this year’s offense be, coach?) and its offensive line that already has been rattled by injuries (How concerned are you, coach?) and its young running backs (Will they run more, coach?) and, oh yes, the monumental task of picking a starting quarterback.
“I try to answer it and just move on,” Dennison said. “I try to get to my next job. That’s one of the things that engineering teaches you, is to be time efficient. So you’re always trying to keep busy.”
But for 15 minutes he sits. And he reflects on an interesting start to another season.
“Peaks and valleys,” he said. “Hopefully we’ve got more peaks and we level out the valleys. Cut and fill. The grind is the grind. But it’s a necessary thing that has to get done so that we can get to a point where we can go out and play games and be successful.”
Dennison, or “Rico” as he’s known, is a man of few words. The former Colorado State tight end and Broncos linebacker owns bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil engineering but is a football player and coach through and through. An Alex Gibbs protege, Dennison has spent the better part of the past three decades working alongside coach Gary Kubiak, from Denver to Houston to Baltimore and back again, often hiding on the sidelines or in the booth as they together employ an offense they know, perhaps, better than any staff in professional football.
Despite being the longest-tenured Broncos player/coach on staff (25 years!), Dennison is a mystery, often described as a quiet genius. But while his tone is soft and his words carefully selected, his voice is always heard within the Broncos.
For good reason.
TEACHER WITH MILE HIGH ROOTS
A return to Colorado always was in the plans, even if it was penciled in for a date to-be-determined.
“I’m a Colorado guy,” said Dennison, who grew up in Fort Collins a Rams fan. “We always spent a lot of summers here, we have family here. I’ll probably stay here whenever I’m done, whenever that is. I was going to come back whether I’m working or retired.”
When Kubiak was hired as Broncos head coach in January 2015, it seemed inevitable he would bring Dennison with him.
“Rico is a very loyal person, and he’s extremely loyal to the Denver Broncos, I can tell you that,” Kubiak said. “And he’s extremely bright — a great teacher, understands how to teach players. That’s what he is by trade. He’s a teacher.”
The son of a former University of Montana president, Dennison believed he was done with football when he retired as a player in 1990. But after three years coaching basketball and football and teaching mathematics at the prestigious Suffield Academy prep school in Connecticut, he returned to the Broncos in 1995 as an offensive assistant, beginning a coaching career that has spanned special teams, the offensive line, quarterbacks and multiple stints as an offensive coordinator.
“The one thing that made Rico a good football coach is he played for a long time as a linebacker so he understands defense,” said Tyler Polumbus, the former Broncos tackle who began (2008-10) and ended (2015) his career with Dennison as his coach. “He coached on the defensive side and then he coached on the offensive side, and I always thought that coaches that have experience on both sides make the best coaches because they truly understand the ins and outs and what’s going to work against another team.”
The resume, the big names (14 Pro Bowlers coached), and stats belie the fact that few people know Dennison and he’s OK with that. He thinks first, teaches second and responds to questions later. Sort of. Kind of.
Dennison picks his moments and vocabulary as carefully as he does his plays.
“He’s a thinker. He’s a math guy,” said Ring of Fame center Tom Nalen, who finished his career with Dennison after starting it with zone-blocking guru Alex Gibbs and his affinity for four-letter words. “He wouldn’t just fly off the handle. If he were to yell at us, there was a reason for it. I mean, I spent a whole season and I didn’t talk to the man. He yelled and I took it personally and I did not talk to him for about four months, despite him being three feet from me in the meeting room.”
Tight end Virgil Green is going into only his second year with Dennison as his offensive coordinator, but already has picked up as much.
“I’ve probably have only heard him curse three or four times,” Green said. “You can tell something’s always on his mind. He’s always thinking about something.”
ENGINEERING BRONCOS’ FUTURE
Dennison said he took to engineering because he likes concepts. He likes problems that have black-and-white answers and he likes structures that need building.
The irony, of course, is that football is about the furtherest thing from being cut-and-dry.
“Not at all. There are many answers,” Dennison said. “And there are many answers in engineering, too, it’s just the solutions are a little bit more definitive. Here there are a lot of variables that happen. It’s a bit different than a couple of steel structures and some blocks.”
Which, in a weird twist, makes him a good fit for the job and a perfect wingman to Kubiak. While few know how they come to their conclusions, they seem to think alike,
Remember Emmanuel Sanders’ 75-yard touchdown play — the longest of his career — at Cleveland last October that put Denver ahead with just less than eight minutes remaining?
“It’s something Kubiak and Rico discussed via headsets on the sideline that we were going to come back after that with a play that had Emmanuel on a go route, and we talked about alerting Emmanuel,” Manning explained after the Broncos’ overtime victory. “That’s sort of the communication. You’ve got a good look to him and we can take a shot. We had a look and got him in a bump-and-run coverage with a single safety. We got the ball over in the corner, and anytime you can hit it in stride and you get him a chance to separate from the safety and the corner, he’s as good as anybody in the league.”
Remember C.J. Anderson’s game-winning overtime touchdown run against the Patriots in Denver last November? Another back-and-forth decision between Kubiak and his trusted coordinator.
“Rick was an offensive line coach by trade, but he’s exceptional in understanding what defenses are trying to do to you, how to protect what to get down in the run game and how to counter. Rico’s been going against the coaches, with the likes of Belichick and people like that his whole career.”
Remember the overall ups-and-downs last season in trying to blend Kubiak’s zone system with Manning’s strengths as a pocket passer? And now this offseason, with a trio of quarterbacks of varying experience and knowledge all vying for the starting job? Dennison is in the thick of it
“He’s my voice down there,” Kubiak said. “As a head coach, you can’t be there all the time. He and I have been together for so long, he knows how to teach something, he knows how I may say something, so he’s also echoing those things.”
Quietly, the teacher at heart and coach by trade is engineering the next era in Broncos history, calculating and reshaping the path one step at a time.
Cut and fill.
Rick Dennison, 58
Offensive coordinator
— Longest-tenured Broncos player/coach at 25 years. Nine seasons as linebacker (1982-90) and 16 on coaching staff (1995-2009, 2015-present)
— Started as offensive assistant, moved to special teams, offensive line the offensive coordinator.
— Previously quarterbacks coach in Baltimore (2014) and offensive coordinator in Houston (2010-13)
–Helped Ravens QB Joe Flacco reach career highs in passing yards (3,986 yards) and touchdowns (27) in ’14.
— Has coached 14 different Pro Bowl players.
— Appeared in six Super Bowls with Broncos. Lost three as a player (XXI, XXII, XXIV) and won three as a coach (XXXII, XXXIII, 50).
— Entered NFL as college free agent out of Colorado State.
— Played in 128 games for 514 tackles (316 solo), 6.5 sacks four interceptions, 10 pass breakups, six forced fumbles, three recoveries.
— Second-team Academic All-American at CSU as senior.
— Received bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from CSU in 1979. Received master’s in same field from CSU in ’82.
— Attended Rocky Mountain High in Fort Collins; lettered in football, basketball and baseball. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/rick-dennison-helped-to-engineer-broncos-history-future/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/240df649657e400686c5969284bc13a06527d89f622f1c63062dd393d7f75d5b.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-28T04:46:08 | null | 2016-08-28T03:07:34 | The PGA Tour playoff opener is called The Barclays, but it’s starting to resemble a U.S. Open like the ones held at Bethpage Black in 2002 and 2009. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Frickie-fowler-seizes-lead-with-third-round-68-at-the-barclays%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/596417386.jpg?w=1024&h=616 | en | null | Rickie Fowler seizes lead with third-round 68 at The Barclays | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The PGA Tour playoff opener is called The Barclays, but it’s starting to resemble a U.S. Open like the ones held at Bethpage Black in 2002 and 2009. Australian Adam Scott caught fire early in the third round on Saturday to shoot 65, falling one stroke short of the course record, and Rickie Fowler came down the stretch late with a bogey-free 68 to seize the 54-hole lead at 9-under-par 204, one ahead of Patrick Reed and two in front of Scott.
Despite spongy greens early in the week, the Black Course has grown progressively tougher and its backbreaking length of 7,468 yards has kept anyone from running away with it. World No. 1 Jason Day shot a 1 under 70 and is in the group at 5 under, while No. 2 Dustin Johnson shot 67 to get to 4 under and No. 3 Jordan Speith birdied the last to salvage a 72 and finish at 3 under.
It sets up a promising final round that will compare to any major championship. “It’s definitely a true test of golf out here,” said Fowler, who has made just one bogey in 54 holes. “It’s a major venue, and it’s one of the biggest we play at. You can’t fake it around here. You’re going to have to pull off some magic here and there to save some pars like I’ve been able to, and then, you’re also going to have to ball-strike your way around here.
“With everyone basically being in single digits, this is a real test, and yeah, pars a lot of times are good.”
At the same time, Fowler couldn’t rule out the possibility of someone going low in the final round after what Scott did on Saturday. The former Masters champion won twice in the spring and stands No. 7 in the world, but he has struggled to find a comfort level on the greens since anchored putting was banned this year.
Scott said he decided on the 15th hole of the second round to flush all the technical thoughts from his mind and rely on gut instinct. Presto, everything clicked. “If any thoughts creep in the head, nothing works very good in golf,” Scott said. “Once a few go in, it changes everything. Hopefully, I can keep the mind clear and free and the putts rolling (today).”
Scott didn’t have to use his putter at the par-4 first hole after hitting a 98-yard pitching wedge into the cup for eagle on his way to a 4 under par 32 on the front nine that made him feel he was “flying.” But it was his play on the brutal three-hole stretch from Nos. 10 through 12 that made his round truly special.
Scott’s approach on the 502-yard par-4 10th stopped two feet from the cup for a tap-in birdie. At the 435-yard par-4 11th, he made a 14-foot downhill putt that broke more than two feet to save par. Then he birdied the 501-yard par-4 12th with a 45-foot bomb. He made another 45-foot birdie at the 478-yard par-4 15th to reach 7 under par for the day.
That meant Scott needed three pars to tie the record of 64 set by Long Island pro Craig Thomas at the 2007 New York State Open. It was tied at the 2009 U.S. Open by winner Lucas Glover and Mike Weir, and Padraig Harrington shot it at the 2012 Barclays.
“This is how these rounds come about on tough courses,” Scott said. “You need some good stuff to happen and momentum going your way.”
A bogey at the par-4 16th ultimately cost Scott the record as he narrowly missed birdie putts on the final two holes. “No. 16 was disappointing to drop a shot when, if I somehow birdied one of the last three, it’s a new course record,” Scott said. “I was well aware of that. Around a golf course like this, it would have been very cool to have, but I’ve got another chance (today).” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/rickie-fowler-seizes-lead-with-third-round-68-at-the-barclays/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/59ebe14045353a293e597e31a35e2648df9490977798c6df048f9f6915ad4ee5.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-26T12:46:59 | null | 2016-08-26T06:01:47 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fdont-breathe-movie-review%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/dontbreathe.jpg?w=1024&h=690 | en | null | “Don’t Breathe” is a well-plotted, thrilling trap | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Three stars. Rated R. 88 minutes.
By Mark Kennedy, The Associated Press
To all you Detroit-area robbery crews, we should probably warn you right away: It’s just not a good idea to pick 1837 Buena Vista Street for your big — and final — score. Take our word for it, walk away.
Sure, it sounds like an easy hit. The address is a home in a run-down section of the city, so there’s nobody around. The house is kind of moldering, too. And, yes, the owner is an old blind man living alone who apparently has a fortune stashed somewhere. But, listen, let this one go.
You won’t? Fine. Then beware, you are walking into the well-plotted trap of Fede Alvarez, who made his Hollywood debut with the reboot of the horror classic “Evil Dead,” and returns this month with “Don’t Breathe .” It pits a team of inept burglars against a homeowner who fights back. In that sense, it’s kind of like a twisted “Home Alone” for millennials.
This isn’t a gore-fest or a flick that relies on the supernatural. It’s more a thriller wedded to a horror film. Our trio of would-be predators quickly becomes hunted by the surprisingly spry old man, who happens to be a military veteran and comfortable with all sorts of weapons. Oh, did we mention his rather nasty dog?
Written by Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues, “Don’t Breathe” is almost a throw-back to older horror films. It’s meticulously planned and thrillingly satisfying with a camera always a step ahead — if you see an array of sharp tools near the beginning, bet on them being used at some point. Roque Baños’ discordant soundtrack manages to capture dread beautifully.
The set-up stars three young Detroiters — a brutish Daniel Zovatto, his lovely girlfriend Jane Levy and their smart friend Dylan Minnette. They have bought into that cliche that somehow makes robbers less villainous — one last job and they’re out.
“If we do it right, we never have to do it again,” the young woman promises. That turns out to be correct, but not in the way she means.
In their way is Stephen Lang, playing the blind guy. He harbors a dirty little secret that the trio soon uncovers and most of the film is spent with everyone rushing about in his claustrophobic home, filled with creaky floorboards and more locks than a Lowe’s. Everyone seems to die multiple times, even the dog.
The plot gets sort of ludicrous by the end — right around the time Lang gets to start talking — but there were moments at a recent preview where a pin could drop and make more noise than one of the poor burglars trying to do what the movie title demands. You try standing perfectly still while an annoyed vet aims a pistol in your general direction.
So again, robbery crews are strongly advised to avoid 1837 Buena Vista, but movie-goers hoping for a thrill might like to visit. But don’t linger. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/dont-breathe-movie-review/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/f21351459d75595594fe5c1069bea77114331f2c42812e22b751c765f6ca9a03.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T06:46:28 | null | 2016-08-29T05:50:22 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fgermanys-merkel-stands-firm-in-allowing-muslim-refugees%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Germany’s Merkel stands firm in allowing Muslim refugees | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Frank Jordans, The Associated Press
BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday slammed those countries in Europe who say they won’t take in Muslim refugees, a position that several eastern European governments have taken in response to the influx of migrants from the Islamic world.
Merkel said she was hopeful that European Union members would reach an agreement on outstanding questions arising from the migrant crisis, one of which is how to fairly distribute asylum-seekers among all the bloc’s 28 member states.
She told German public broadcaster ARD that “everybody has to do their bit” and didn’t rule out the possibility of letting some countries take in fewer migrants if they contribute more financially instead.
“How the individual components are weighted will have to be seen,” said Merkel.
But she reiterated her stance that blocking refugees based on their religion was misguided.
“What I continue to think is wrong is that some say ‘we generally don’t want Muslims in our country, regardless of whether there’s a humanitarian need or not,’ ” she said. “We’re going to have to keep discussing that.”
Her comments come almost a year after Merkel’s decision to allow hundreds of thousands of migrants stuck in other European countries to come to Germany.
That move prompted a further wave of migration through the Balkans that culminated in the daily arrival of more than 10,000 asylum-seekers at German borders at one point.
Officials have spoken of more than a million arrivals in 2015, but Germany’s top migration official said the actual figure was likely lower once duplicate registrations and people who traveled on to other countries are excluded.
Frank-Juergen Weise, the head of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, said in an interview in the German weekly Bild am Sonntag that he expects a sharp drop in numbers in 2016 compared with last year.
Weise told German weekly Bild am Sonntag that his agency is planning for between 250,000 and 300,000 new arrivals this year.
The influx prompted countries such as Hungary to sharply criticize Merkel, and even accuse her of threatening Europe’s stability. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/germanys-merkel-stands-firm-in-allowing-muslim-refugees/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/f2363a30dadeef4ccf28eb899bc439e22b1aa676763946dbb5996d85ad67f3c0.json |
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"Boulder Daily Camera"
] | 2016-08-30T14:46:44 | null | 2016-08-30T14:36:07 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fjury-convicts-former-boulder-school-employee-embezzlement%2F.json | en | null | Jury convicts former Boulder Waldorf school employee accused of embezzling nearly $80,000 | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The former business director of Boulder’s Shining Mountain Waldorf School accused of embezzling almost $80,000 — including $30,000 she claimed was reimbursement for expenses related to the 2013 flood — from the school was convicted on two counts of forgery Monday.
Laurie Beth Ireland-Ashley, 55, was arrested in November on suspicion of theft between $20,000 and $100,000, forgery and insurance fraud. An internal audit of the school’s finances by a forensic accounting firm found that Ireland-Ashley had received $79,793.20 in “suspicious” payments, including a check for $30,342.12 that was “especially questionable,” according to the arrest affidavit.
Employees of the school told investigators that Ireland-Ashley claimed the $30,000 check — issued on Dec. 19, 2014 — was to reimburse her for repair expenses related to the September 2013 floods. But when shown two invoices for flood work, the company that did the flood repairs, ServPro, said the invoice provided by Ireland-Ashley was not theirs and appeared to be forged.
After deliberating for two days, the jury came back Monday with a conviction of two counts of forgery — Class 5 felonies. The forgery convictions each carry a potential prison sentence of one to three years, according to Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett.
The jury was hung, however, on one count of theft and one count of insurance fraud, according to the Boulder District Attorney’s Office.
Read the full story on DailyCamera.com. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/jury-convicts-former-boulder-school-employee-embezzlement/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/eb5ccc80e079a3a2fab2590d5d8a42067485dde7a1594c3a2214184f4176a03e.json | |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-30T16:46:42 | null | 2016-08-30T15:32:13 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fdogs-understand-speech-study-suggests%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ap16243337962281.jpg?w=1024&h=682 | en | null | Good boy! Dogs know what you’re saying, study suggests | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Frank Jordans and Alicia Chang, Associated Press
BERLIN — Scientists have found evidence to support what many dog owners have long believed: man’s best friend really does understand some of what we’re saying.
Researchers in Hungary scanned the brains of dogs as they were listening to their trainer speaking to determine which parts of the brain they were using.
They found that dogs processed words with the left hemisphere, while intonation was processed with the right hemisphere — just like humans.
What’s more, the dogs only registered that they were being praised if the words and intonation were positive; meaningless words spoken in an encouraging voice, or meaningful words in a neutral tone, didn’t have the same effect.
“Dog brains care about both what we say and how we say it,” said lead researcher Attila Andics, a neuroscientist at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest. “Praise can work as a reward only if both word meaning and intonation match.”
Andics said the findings suggest that the mental ability to process language evolved earlier than previously believed and that what sets humans apart from other species is the invention of words.
“The neural capacities to process words that were thought by many to be uniquely human are actually shared with other species,” he said. “This suggests that the big change that made humans able to start using words was not a big change in neural capacity.”
While other species probably also have the mental ability to understand language like dogs do, their lack of interest in human speech makes it difficult to test, said Andics.
Dogs, on the other hand, have socialized with humans for thousands of years, meaning they are more attentive to what people say to them and how.
The study was published in the journal Science.
Andics also noted that all of the dogs were awake, unrestrained and happy during the tests. “They participated voluntarily,” he said. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/dogs-understand-speech-study-suggests/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/177873a48222c4619d5dbccae7a2784551905e9cf73b8cf6210ffa9e312ed330.json |
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"The Washington Post"
] | 2016-08-30T00:46:43 | null | 2016-08-30T00:00:15 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Frussian-hackers-breached-computer-used-by-county-elections-officials-arizona-state-official-said%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/hacking-letter.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Russian hackers breached a computer used by county elections officials in Arizona, a state official said | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post
Hackers targeted voter registration systems in Illinois and Arizona, and the FBI alerted Arizona officials in June that Russian hackers were behind the assault on the election system in that state.
The bureau told Arizona officials that the threat was “credible” and severe, ranking as “an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10,” said Matt Roberts, a spokesman for the secretary of state’s office.
As a result, Secretary of State Michele Reagan shut down the state voter registration system for almost a week.
It turned out that the hackers did not succeed in compromising the state system or even any county system, but rather had managed to steal the user name and password for one Gila County elections official.
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August 14, 2016 Pelosi warns colleagues of harassing calls and messages Nonetheless, the revelation comes amid news that the FBI is investigating suspected foreign hacks of state election computer systems, and earlier this month warned states to be on the alert for intrusions.
In Illinois, officials discovered an intrusion into their state voter registration system in July.
The FBI’s Aug. 18 warning follows heightened concern over Russian hacks of Democratic Party organizations and possible meddling in the presidential election.
Although the hackers did not alter any data, the intrusion into the Illinois database marks the first succesful compromise of a state election database, federal officials said.
Until now, countries such as Russia and China have shown little interest in voting systems in the United States. But experts said that if a foreign government gains the ability to tamper with voter data, for instance by deleting registration records, such a hack could cast doubt on the legitimacy of U.S. elections.
Meanwhile, the recently discovered hacks have state officials across the country scrambling to ensure that their systems have not been compromised. At least two other states are looking into potential breaches, officials said.
“This was a highly sophisticated attack most likely from a foreign (international) entity,” said Kyle Thomas, director of voting and registration systems for the Illinois State Board of Elections, in a message that was sent to all election authorities in the state.
In July, officials in that state discovered the intrusion, in which hackers were able to retrieve voter records. The amount accessed was “a fairly small percentage of the total,” said Ken Menzel, general counsel for the Illinois elections board.
State officials alerted the FBI, he said. The Department of Homeland Security also got involved, he said. The intrusion led the state election board to shut down the voter registration system for a week.
In June, the Arizona Secretary of State’s office shut down part of its website after the FBI found a potential threat to its state voter registration system, according to the Arizona Republic.
Following those breaches, the FBI issued its “flash” alert, which listed Internet protocol addresses and other technical fingerprints associated with the hacks.
“The FBI is requesting that states contact their Board of Elections and determine if any similar activity to their logs, both inbound and outbound, has been detected,” said the FBI alert, which was first reported by Yahoo News.
The FBI declined official comment other than to note it “routinely advises private industry of various cyber threat indicators” it turns up in investigations.
The bureau has told Illinois officials that they’re looking at possible foreign government agencies as well as criminal hackers, Menzel said.
The technical details in the alert were gathered by the MS-ISAC, a multi-state information-sharing center that helps state, local and tribal government agencies combat cyber threats and that works with federal law enforcement agencies.
“I’m less concerned about the attackers getting access to and downloading the information,” said Brian Kalkin, vice president of operations for the Center for Internet Security, which operates the MS-ISAC. “I’m more concerned about the information being altered, modified or deleted. That’s where the real potential is for any sort of meddling in the election.”
And James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, has told Congress that manipulation or deletion of data is the next big cyber threat–”the next push on the envelope.”
But Tom Hicks, chairman of the federal Election Assistance Commission, an agency set up by Congress after the 2000 Florida recount to maintain election integrity, said he is confident that states have sufficient safeguards in place to ensure efforts at manipulation will be unsuccesful.
For one, he said, if a voter’s name does not show up on the list, the individual can still cast a provision ballot and once his or her status is confirmed, the ballot will be counted. Also, he said, in general the voting systems themselves “are not hooked up to the Internet” and so “there’s not going to be any manipulation of data.”
Nonetheless, more than 30 states have some provisions for online voting, primarily for voters living overseas of serving in the military. An official at the Department of Homeland Security cautioned this spring that online voting is not yet secure.
“We believe that online voting, especially online voting in large scale, introduces great risk into the election system by threatening voters’ expectations of confidentiality, accountability and security of their votes and provides an avenue for malicious actors to manipulate the voting results,” Neil Jenkins, an official in the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications at the Department of Homeland Security,
Some private-sector researchers say some of the information released by the FBI points to a potential Russian link, but they caution that their work is preliminary. Rich Barger, chief information officer at ThreatConnect, said that several of the IP addresses trace back to a website-hosting service called King Servers that offers Russia-based technical support. He also said that one of the methods used was similar to a tactic in other intrusions suspected of being carried out by the Russian government, including one this month on the World Anti-Doping Agency.
“The very fact that [someone] has rattled the doorknobs, the very fact that the state election commissions are in the cross-hairs gives grounds to the average American voter to wonder: Can they really trust the results?” said Barger.
On Aug. 15, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson held a conference call with state election officials, offering the Department of Homeland Security’s assistance in protecting against cyberattacks.
He said that DHS was “not aware of any specific or credible cybersecurity threats relating to the upcoming general election systems,” according to a readout of the call. It was not clear whether he was aware at the time of the FBI’s investigation into the Arizona and Illinois intrusions. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/russian-hackers-breached-computer-used-by-county-elections-officials-arizona-state-official-said/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/6134df5dcc8dfc9880a3edf481e42affb512297b7f38f0fb726a8c606824b669.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-27T20:46:08 | null | 2016-08-27T18:58:17 | The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia are announcing a final conference of its guerrillas to ratify peace accord reached this week with the government and prepare to make the transition to an unarmed political movement. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fcolombian-farc-rebels-announce-final-conference-of-peace-talks%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Colombian FARC rebels announce final conference of peace talks | null | null | www.denverpost.com | BOGOTA, Colombia — The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia are announcing a final conference of its guerrillas to ratify peace accord reached this week with the government and prepare to make the transition to an unarmed political movement.
The FARC said in a statement Saturday that its 10th and final conference as an armed group will take place Sept 13-19 in the eastern jungles of Colombia where they have traditionally been dominant.
It said top FARC commanders as well as 50 invited guests would attend. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/colombian-farc-rebels-announce-final-conference-of-peace-talks/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/db1a3e1dd1f320a0bccf530ad543a15583c161b3d4e22d034697fb4ac6a2b9d1.json |
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"Dp Opinion"
] | 2016-08-28T00:46:15 | null | 2016-08-27T23:00:53 | I enjoyed your recent article on the Air Force Academy's new Center for Character and Leadership Development -- a beautiful and worthwhile facility. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fnew-afa-building-and-the-cadets-code-of-honor%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fe21airforce1.jpg?w=1024&h=690 | en | null | New AFA building and the cadets' code of honor | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Re: “New Air Force Academy building an architectural marvel,” Aug. 20 arts and entertainment story.
I enjoyed your recent article on the Air Force Academy’s new Center for Character and Leadership Development — a beautiful and worthwhile facility. But I paused at the reference to the cadets’ code of honor: “We will not lie, steal or cheat, nor tolerate among us anyone who does.” How sad it is that these admirable young Americans may soon be forced to not only tolerate, but salute, a commander and chief who does.
Jim Schirmer, Littleton
Submit a letter to the editor via this form or check out our guidelines for how to submit by e-mail or mail. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/new-afa-building-and-the-cadets-code-of-honor/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/a630779061a2fd143792c4c4b60742300283bc4661d8bc7b8c1a6dda7b5b43c9.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T04:46:17 | null | 2016-08-29T04:15:39 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fturkey-backed-rebels-expel-kurdish-forces-from-syrian-towns%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/03130a919e4f47858173cbffc2dd9584.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Turkey-backed rebels expel Kurdish forces from Syrian towns | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Sarah El Deeb, The Associated Press
BEIRUT — Rebels backed by Turkey made major gains Sunday in northern Syria, expelling Kurdish-led forces from towns and villages as part of a determined campaign by Ankara to push the militants east of the Euphrates River.
At least 35 civilians were killed, according to activists. The dramatic escalation of Turkey’s involvement in the Syrian civil war last week aimed to help the Syrian rebels drive the Islamic State group out of the border town of Jarablus. But it also is aimed at U.S.-allied Kurdish forces that have gained control in recent months of most of the territory along the Turkey-Syria border.
The fighting pits Turkey, a NATO ally, against a U.S.-backed proxy that is the most effective ground force battling IS militants in Syria in the 5-year-old civil war. It leaves Washington in the tough spot of having to choose between its two of its allied forces, and is likely to divert resources from the fight against IS.
A Turkish soldier was killed by a Kurdish rocket attack late Saturday, the first such fatality in Turkey’s ground offensive dubbed Euphrates Shield that began Aug. 24.
Speaking at a rally in the border town of Gaziantep, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his military is committed to fighting terrorism in Syria and Iraq.
Turkey, he said, also is determined to “uproot” the Syrian Kurdish group, calling it a terrorist organization. But he didn’t specify a goal for the fight against the Kurdish forces.
Turkey is part of the U.S.-led coalition fighting the militants of the Islamic State group, but the airstrikes that began Saturday marked the first time it has targeted Kurdish-led forces in Syria.
“We will support all work to clean Syria and Iraq of Daesh,” Erdogan told the rally, using an Arabic acronym for the IS group. “That’s why we are in Jarablus, that’s why we are in Bashiqa (in Iraq). If necessary, we will not shy away from taking responsibility in the same way in other areas.”
Turkey has troops stationed in Bashiqa in northern Iraq, and it was not clear if his reference to Jarablus means he intends to base his troops there.
Erdogan then turned his focus to the main Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party, known as the PYD.
“We are as determined about the PYD, the separatist terror organization’s Syrian wing,” he said. Ankara views the PYD and the militia affiliated with it, which forms the backbone of the U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces, or SDF, as an extension of the Kurdish insurgency that is raging in southeastern Turkey.
“We will continue until we uproot this terror organization,” Erdogan told the rally.
A spokesman for a Syrian rebel group said the Turkish-backed offensive will continue south of Jarablus to clear IS and Kurdish forces from northeastern Aleppo. Turkish leaders have vowed to drive both IS and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, away from the border.
Turkey’s military said Sunday its warplanes killed 25 Kurdish “terrorists” and destroyed five buildings used by the fighters in response to attacks on advancing Turkish-backed rebels in the Jarablus area.
Various factions of the Turkey-backed Syrian rebels said they had seized several villages and towns from Kurdish-led forces south of Jarablus, including Amarneh, where fighting was fiercest in recent days.
The Kurdish-led forces “must pull back to the east of the Euphrates. We will fight all terrorist groups, including (the Kurdish-led fighters) … in all of northeast Aleppo,” said Capt. Abdel-Salam Abdel-Razzak, a spokesman for the Nour el-Din el-Zinki group.
Turkish-backed fighters will move south of Jarablus, toward Manbij and beyond, he said.
Earlier this month, the Kurdish-led SDF crossed the Euphrates and drove IS militants out of Manbij, a key supply hub south of Jarablus, after a 10-week campaign. Both Turkey and the United States have ordered the YPG militia to withdraw to the east bank of the river. YPG leaders say they have, but their units advise the Syrian Democratic Forces, and it is not clear if any remain west of the Euphrates.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the bombing killed at least 20 civilians and four Kurdish-led fighters in Beir Koussa, a village about nine miles (15 kilometers) south of Jarablus, and left another 15 dead in a village to the west.
SDF spokesman Shervan Darwish said the airstrikes and shelling began overnight and continued Sunday along the front line, killing many civilians in Beir Koussa and nearby areas. He said the bombing also targeted the village of Amarneh. He said 50 Turkish tanks were taking part.
The Kurdish Democratic Union Party condemned the attack on the village. It also condemned what it said was international silence regarding “Turkish occupation” of Syria.
The Syrian state news agency SANA reported that 20 civilians were killed and 50 wounded by Turkish artillery and airstrikes, calling it “encroachment” on Syrian sovereignty under the pretext of fighting IS. Turkey is a leading backer of the rebels fighting to overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad, but both Ankara and Damascus share concerns over Kurdish ambitions for autonomy.
Syrian warplanes renewed their bombing of the besieged al-Waer neighborhood in the central city of Homs. An activist in the neighborhood of Bebars al-Talawy said there were at least a dozen airstrikes, killing one person.
The neighborhood came under attack Saturday, including incendiary bombs that killed two children, a brother and sister. Images of doctors treating other children for their burns were posted on social media sites. The district’s hospital was bombed and taken out of operation earlier this month.
Human Rights Watch said it had documented the use of incendiary weapons in at least 18 different instances between June and August in rebel-held areas. The group blamed Russian and Syrian joint military operations room for the use of such weapons in violation of international law.
The al-Waer neighborhood of nearly 75,000 people has been under siege since March and has been one area that U.N agencies have reported difficult to access. An aid convoy reached the area Aug. 25.
According to residents, the escalation followed recent threats by soldiers at checkpoints that the Syrian government’s patience was running out with the district, the last rebel holdout in the city.
It also follows the evacuation of Daraya, a Damascus suburb, as part of a deal struck between the government and rebels after a bombing campaign and siege.
The Homs Local Council appealed to the U.N. envoy to Syria to negotiate a truce for al-Waer, condemning the government’s “siege policy” that aims to force residents and fighters to surrender.
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Associated Press writer Zeynep Bilginsoy in Istanbul and Mucahit Ceylan in Karkamis, Turkey, contributed to this report. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/turkey-backed-rebels-expel-kurdish-forces-from-syrian-towns/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/2d027255a615071429c54e1550875a71f8212e073c4df4da54c837bf53e5c979.json |
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"Nick Kosmider"
] | 2016-08-28T22:46:14 | null | 2016-08-28T22:42:45 | Lost in the power show that was the Rockies' third inning Sunday, when Nolan Arenado and David Dahl hit back-to-back home runs, was a quiet, 90-foot stroll by Gerardo Parra. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Frockies-gerardo-parra-slowly-finding-rhythm%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/587845462.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Rockies hope Gerardo Parra slowly finding rhythm at the plate, first base | null | null | www.denverpost.com | WASHINGTON — Lost in the power show that was the Rockies’ third inning Sunday, when Nolan Arenado and David Dahl hit back-to-back home runs, was a quiet, 90-foot stroll by Gerardo Parra.
Yes, Parra drew another walk in the series finale against the Washington Nationals, his third in two games. It’s a notable statistic because entering Saturday, Parra had only four walks in 312 plate appearances during what has been a rough first season in Colorado.
But Parra’s recent ability to get on base during this atom-size sample — he also singled Sunday — comes at a key time. He made his third start at first base, where Rockies manager Walt Weiss said the veteran has impressed during his short stint at the position.
“He looks comfortable to me,” Weiss said. “You watch for things. The awareness, the body language. He just looks comfortable over there. That’s kind of who he is. He loves playing. He’s been able to take that over there to first base. He hasn’t changed the way he approaches the game, which is a good thing. It helps him keep things simple over there and not get overwhelmed.”
The Rockies have started five different players at first base since Mark Reynolds went on the disabled list Aug. 12 with a broken hamate bone in his left hand. Production at the position has hard to come by since Reynolds’ injury, leaving Weiss hopeful that Parra’s three walks at Nationals Park mean he’s slowly beginning to find his way.
“It’s usually a good sign when guys are working counts and having deeper at-bats, drawing walks,” Weiss said. “It usually tells you that the pitch recognition is getting better. So hopefully it’s a good sign for (Parra).”
Arenado on a tear. The slump that plagued Arenado for much of the past couple of months certainly appears to be a thing of the past.
After collecting four hits Sunday, Arenado is hitting .552 (16-for-29) with five home runs and 13 RBIs over his last seven games. The 32 runs ha has driven in since Aug. 1 are the most by a Rockies player during the month of August since Andres Galarraga drove in 33 in 1996.
Also, Arenado’s 4-for-4 performance in the win over the Nationals raised his batting average to .291. His career high for a season is .287 (twice). Arenado could also challenge his career marks for home runs (42) and RBIs (130) that he established last season. He has 35 home runs and 111 RBIs with 32 games remaining.
Chatwood to make rehab start. Right-hander Tyler Chatwood, on the 15-day disabled list with a midback strain, will make a rehab start with Double-A Hartford at Richmond on Monday.
Chatwood said he will be on a restriction of 75 pitches or five innings. He went on the disabled list Aug. 16, two days after his back spasms flared up during a loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. Chatwood was previously on the DL in the middle of June after back issues forced him out of a start against the Miami Marlins.
“This is the first time I haven’t really had back pain in a while, so I feel good,” Chatwood said. “I’ve just got to keep it that way.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/rockies-gerardo-parra-slowly-finding-rhythm/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/a1c40d2c903370cda2038f6038c3c7663872cbbdc7b5ace17678018332f26dbc.json |
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"Hugh Johnson"
] | 2016-08-29T06:46:22 | null | 2016-08-29T06:45:57 | Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall voiced his support for former Nevada teammate Colin Kaepernick. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fbroncos-linebacker-brandon-marshall-colin-kaepernick%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/536180382.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall supports former teammate Colin Kaepernick | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall voiced his support for former Nevada teammate Colin Kaepernick. The 49ers quarterback recently made headlines for refusing to stand during the national anthem, saying he was protesting because he believes America oppresses minorities.
While Kaepernick has come under fire for his comments, Marshall is standing by him. The news was first reported by The Gazette’s Paul Klee. Klee spoke to Marshall after the Broncos’ preseason victory over the Rams Satudray. The linebacker said he wasn’t upset with Kaepernick.
“I support Colin. I support ‘Kaep.’ I understand where he’s coming from,” Marshall told Klee. “I definitely see what he’s saying. I support him on that. I’m not mad at him for that. Some people are bashing him on the Internet, but I’m not bashing him at all. I support him.”
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Read the rest here | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/broncos-linebacker-brandon-marshall-colin-kaepernick/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/177c2b132e36be0350a508964e1db4f1388f895030b055e4ae14b954ff53b5e7.json |
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"Jesse Paul"
] | 2016-08-30T16:46:39 | null | 2016-08-30T15:54:39 | The U.S. Forest Service's office in Fort Collins has been closed on Tuesday because of unspecified safety concerns as anonymous threats have closed federal agriculture offices nationwide. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fforest-service-office-fort-collins-closed-threats-department-of-agriculture%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Forest Service office in Fort Collins closed due to “safety concerns”; threats prompt USDA closures nationally | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The U.S. Forest Service’s office in Fort Collins was closed Tuesday because of unspecified safety concerns as anonymous threats have closed federal agriculture offices nationwide.
The Forest Service says their building at 2150 Centre Ave., which included the Canyon Lakes Ranger District office for the Arapaho and Roosevelt national forests, has been shuttered.
A spokesman for the service’s Rocky Mountain region directed questions on the situation to a national office, which did not immediately return Denver Post messages seeking comment.
Our office is closed today for safety concerns, including our Info Center. Check our website for recreation info: https://t.co/GqpUfOICgB — Canyon Lakes RD (@usfsclrd) August 30, 2016
The Associated Press reports the U.S. Department of Agriculture says it has closed offices in five states after receiving anonymous threats. The Forest Service is a USDA agency.
USDA spokesman Matthew Herrick says in a statement Tuesday to the AP that the department had received “several anonymous messages” that raised concerns about the safety of USDA personnel and facilities. He said six offices are closed until further notice.
Herrick said the department is working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and federal and local law enforcement to determine whether the threats are credible. The closed offices are in Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina and West Virginia.
Our Fort Collins Office, located at 2150 Centre Ave., Building E, is closed today for safety concerns. We are sorry for any inconvenience. — Forest Service, ARP (@usfsarp) August 30, 2016
It was not immediately clear if other offices in Colorado outside of Fort Collins had been closed.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/forest-service-office-fort-collins-closed-threats-department-of-agriculture/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/445a0476bf03af9e34e6150a55f2eead616d0dbae2003fb1a81e7728ebe2fa9b.json |
[
"Dp Opinion"
] | 2016-08-26T18:46:08 | null | 2016-08-26T18:16:25 | Sen. Michael Bennet’s support for the Iranian nuclear agreement should be a major boost to his re-election, not a detriment. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fsen-michael-bennet-was-right-to-support-iran-deal%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/senator-michael-bennet-colorado.jpg?w=1024&h=755 | en | null | Sen. Michael Bennet was right to support Iran deal | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Re: “Q&A: Michael Bennet on Iran nuclear deal, $400 million payment tied to hostages,” Aug. 25 news story.
Sen. Michael Bennet’s support for the Iranian nuclear agreement should be a major boost to his re-election, not a detriment. The deal is the most significant nuclear non-proliferation agreement of this century, reducing the risk others in the region, notably Saudi Arabia, will seek their own nuclear weapons, and lessening the risk of nuclear conflict in the most volatile region of the world. Through intense on-site monitoring and verification, the International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed Iran has complied with the provisions of the agreement: 97 percent of its enriched uranium stockpile has been eliminated; 13,000 centrifuges used to enrich uranium have been eliminated; and its plutonium-producing reactor has been removed and destroyed. Overall, Iran’s ability to develop and deploy a nuclear weapon has been severely diminished.
Those critical of the Iran deal and Bennet’s vote for it have proposed no credible alternative that would have achieved the same laudable results. Kudos to Senator Bennet for making the Middle East and world a safer place.
Ronald L. Rudolph, Golden
Submit a letter to the editor via this form or check out our guidelines for how to submit by e-mail or mail. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/sen-michael-bennet-was-right-to-support-iran-deal/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/331c91ebc95c098720a99c51a58951ecd892bc0f0156275f365495b1fc961dd4.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T06:46:34 | null | 2016-08-29T05:54:21 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fexplosion-rocks-belgiums-criminology-institute-no-injuries-reported%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Explosion rocks Belgium’s criminology institute; no injuries reported | null | null | www.denverpost.com | BRUSSELS — An explosion has rocked Belgium’s criminology institute in the capital Brussels, but there were no injuries reported, local media said.
State broadcaster RTBF reported Monday that a car forced its way into the site “before exploding a bomb” about 2 a.m. (0000 GMT). No source for the information was given.
RTBF says no one was injured but that damage at the site is significant.
Police have deployed in force and sealed off the area.
The institute assists and advises Belgium’s justice authorities in carrying out their inquiries.
Belgium has been on high alert since a March 22 attack on the Brussels airport and subway killed 32 people. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/explosion-rocks-belgiums-criminology-institute-no-injuries-reported/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/fa615ea2d662a2f8df822edc9ecf6e1ec96f4c228d34e017c56cc3853136d991.json |
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"Kirk Mitchell"
] | 2016-08-27T16:46:03 | null | 2016-08-27T16:30:57 | A former Vail neurologist runs a thriving medical practice in Florida caring for patients suffering from multiple sclerosis even though he surrendered his Colorado medical license two years ago. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fvail-doctor-accused-falsely-diagnosing-treating-ms-patients-practices-florida%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/garyweiss.jpeg?w=413&h=620 | en | null | Former Vail doctor accused of falsely diagnosing and treating patients for MS, practicing in Florida | null | null | www.denverpost.com | A former Vail neurologist surrendered his Colorado medical license amid allegations that he misdiagnosed a multiple sclerosis patient and botched her treatment before she died of complications.
But the doctor, who now is accused of falsely diagnosing nearly two dozen others in Colorado with MS — using an MRI machine he owned but whose results he allegedly was unqualified to interpret — continues to run a thriving medical practice in Florida caring for patients suffering with MS.
Two federal malpractice lawsuits were filed in Denver U.S. District Court on Aug. 19 against Dr. Gary M. Weiss, both accusing him of diagnosing patients with MS even though they didn’t have the incurable disease. Two women claimed they suffered depression and side effects, including debilitating pain, over of a span of several years because of what they described as sub-standard care.
A 2015 lawsuit filed in Summit County District Court by Dr. Mark Pithan, who bought Weiss’ Colorado practice for $1.3 million, said a large percentage of the doctor’s profits had been for MRI and EEG tests prescribed by him that were not “medically needed.”
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“In fact, (Dr. Pithan) discovered through investigation that many of Dr. Weiss’ former patients were misdiagnosed and not even afflicted with MS,” the lawsuit says. “Dr. Pithan has personally overturned approximately 20 patients’ diagnoses of MS previously diagnosed by Dr. Weiss.”
Weiss began practicing in Colorado in 1996 and treated patients at eight Colorado clinics from Arvada to Gypsum before surrendering his license. Now he’s accepting new MS patients in his Florida offices in Palm Bay, Merritt Island, Sebastian and Melbourne.
Weiss did not return multiple phone messages left with his main office in Palm Bay last week. Weiss’ Denver attorney Victoria Lovato said Friday she could not comment on the Colorado Medical Board action.
Brad Dalton, spokesman for the Florida Department of Health, said he couldn’t comment about the status of Weiss’ license because no formal administrative action has been taken in Florida — nearly two years after Weiss surrendered his Colorado medical license.
Dalton said the Florida board usually acts swiftly when licensing action is taken by another state’s medical board. In every instance that he is aware of in which a physician has surrendered his medical license in another state, Dalton said the Florida board has taken the identical action.
Weiss voluntarily gave up his Colorado medical license by signing a stipulation order with the Colorado Medical Board on Sept. 22, 2014. The six-page stipulation says Weiss was accused of providing substandard care that led to the death of a woman identified in the documents only by her initials, “D.E.”
“This order and all its terms shall have the same force and effect as an order entered after a formal disciplinary hearing…,” says the document signed by Weiss and Dr. Eric Groce, chairman of Inquiry Panel B of the Colorado Medical Board.
By signing the stipulation, Weiss gave up his right to defend himself against allegations that “constitute unprofessional conduct.” But in the same document, Weiss denied providing substandard care.
Weiss continues to practice without limitations on his medical license in Florida, even though the Colorado action was reported to the Federation of State Medical Board, a national database used by medical boards in Florida and across the country to track physician disciplinary actions.
Weiss’ medical license is listed as “clear/active” on the Florida Department of Health’s website. Under the category of “discipline on file,” his license is spotless.
Weiss, 62, was born in Denver. He attended Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, did a residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and obtained his medical licenses in Florida in 1982. The Florida Medicine Association has granted Weiss the “Distinguished Physician” award the past four years. In 2006, Consumers’ Research Council of America named him one of “America’s Top Physicians.”
A complaint was filed against Weiss with the Colorado Medical Board in 2012. D.E. had been diagnosed with secondary progressive MS in 1996 with a history of seizures following a car accident. Weiss began treating her in his Gypsum office, “Next Step Institute,” in 2009. Weiss diagnosed her with relapsing and remitting MS and within three months ruled out secondary MS, according to state records.
He began treating her with Tysabri, a drug approved for patients with relapsing MS but not at the time for secondary MS, the board complaint says. One of the side effects of Tysabri is a life-threatening condition in which brain lesions form called progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, or “PML.” Doctors must closely watch for signs of PML, including deterioration of language, motor skills and appearance, the complaint says.
Under the Tysabri treatment, D.E.’s condition improved at first. But nine months later, D.E.’s daughter told Weiss she feared she was suffering symptoms of PML, including forgetfulness and poor motor control, the complaint says.
Weiss performed two MRIs on D.E. in February and May of 2011 and failed to diagnose “a subtle new brain lesion … possibly indicative of PML,” the complaint says. Weiss, who interpreted his own MRI studies, is not a radiologist or board certified in neuroradiology and is not qualified to interpret MRIs, the document says.
When D.E. complained of balance problems, Weiss prescribed Ampyra, even though the drug should not be used on patients with a history of seizures, the report says. He failed to diagnose PML even after D.E. had become dependent on a wheelchair, the report says. Weiss even increased the Tysabri treatments, it says.
When Weiss performed a third test of D.E.’s brain in June 2011, after D.E. struggled to speak, he found the lesion and diagnosed D.E. with PML, documents say. Her care was then transferred to the University of Colorado Hospital, where plasma exchange therapy was performed to remove the Tysabri from her system, but D.E. died two months later in September, the report says.
On March 19, 2014, Weiss was charged with two counts of unprofessional conduct, which encompassed 23 breaches in care, including misdiagnosis, treating D.E. with Tysabri, prescribing Ampyra, giving unqualified interpretations of MRIs and failing to document her mental status.
There were no hearings on the allegations because Weiss waived his right to a hearing by surrendering his license, according to records. Weiss sold his Colorado practice in July 2013 to Pithan.
On Aug. 19, Mercedes Aragon and Brenda Culhane sued Weiss in separate lawsuits alleging malpractice in Denver U.S. District Court.
In 2007, Culhane came to Weiss complaining of “upper extremity weakness.” Two years later, Aragon saw Weiss for neck pain and dizziness, the lawsuit says. In each case, Weiss diagnosed the women with relapsing remitting MS and prescribed Tysabri treatments for up to seven years. Culhane would get more than 100 Tysabri treatments.
Both experienced side effects including depression, the lawsuit says. Aragon suffered “full-body” pain. Weiss ordered 23 MRIs for Aragon and seven for Culhane on his MRI machine. After he bought Weiss’ practice, Pithan recommended that both women get second opinions about their diagnoses of MS and in both cases doctors found no evidence of MS, the lawsuit says.
A doctor determined that Aragon’s condition was related to aging, the lawsuit says.
According to Pithan’s lawsuit, Weiss knew or should have known that his patients were not suffering from MS.
“The MRI tests he prescribed for a condition that did not even exist were not medically acceptable or necessary,” Pithan’s lawsuit says. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/vail-doctor-accused-falsely-diagnosing-treating-ms-patients-practices-florida/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/b64b148d0460579cb04bc152960daa5838b2c1b533d0e330c6971e85d65425a8.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T16:46:33 | null | 2016-08-29T15:01:50 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Frepublican-river-agreement-nebraska-kansas-colorado%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado reach Republican River agreement | null | null | www.denverpost.com | LINCOLN, Neb. — Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska have reached a new agreement in their longstanding conflict over water in the Republican River basin, the states announced Friday.
State leaders signed resolutions following monthly negotiations that stretched over two years. The resolutions are intended to provide greater flexibility and certainty for all water users in the region.
Nebraska and Kansas fought for decades over water entitlements provided under the Republican River Compact, an agreement between the two states and Colorado. The compact has triggered lawsuits among the states, as well as from local farmers who say they were cheated out of water they should have received.
“These resolutions represent a long-term strategy for representing each state and ultimately improving water management for water users,” said Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts.
The 1943 compact entitles Nebraska to 49 percent of the river’s water, while Kansas receives 40 percent and Colorado gets 11 percent. The Republican River originates in Colorado, crosses the northwestern tip of Kansas into Nebraska, then runs through Nebraska before re-entering Kansas in its northeastern corner.
In February 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered Nebraska to pay Kansas $5.5 million for using more water than it was entitled to in previous years. Nebraska officials hailed the decision, noting that the award was far less than the $80 million Kansas originally sought.
Shortly after the 2015 decision, Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska began looking for ways to cooperate more. At one point, the states struck a one-year agreement allowing Nebraska to pump more while ensuring that Kansas eventually gets the water it is due.
In a statement, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said the agreement “will ultimately improve water management for water users” in all three states.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper called the agreement “historic” and shows the states can resolve their issues without litigation. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/republican-river-agreement-nebraska-kansas-colorado/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/e17e8af41c3dbba9b8a6a92780a3e37dc160cec63014526e041ed626a931de67.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-29T14:46:37 | null | 2016-08-29T14:03:43 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fdonald-trump-major-ad-buy%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/595416826.jpg?w=1024&h=771 | en | null | Donald Trump plans major ad buy after weeks of being outspent | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Jill Colvin, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s campaign is making its biggest ad buy to date, with plans to spend upward of $10 million on commercials airing over the next week or so.
The campaign is expecting to air a new ad focused on the economy as soon as Monday in nine states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Florida, where the campaign has already been on the air, along with New Hampshire, Virginia, Iowa, Colorado and Nevada — all battleground states.
Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has so far been badly outspent by his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, and groups supporting her. Since clinching her party’s nomination in early June, Clinton has spent more than $77 million on television and radio advertising, largely targeting voters in battleground states, according to Kantar Media’s political ad tracker.
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Clinton has reserved about $9.2 million in airtime this week.
The new investment comes amid signs that Trump’s lagging poll numbers may be improving against Clinton’s following a campaign reboot.
Trump senior communications adviser Jason Miller said in a statement that the billionaire businessman’s “positive message of economic opportunity is working and we see the national and battleground state polls all moving in the right direction.”
“With Hillary Clinton off the campaign trail yet again this week and continuing to take many communities’ votes for granted, we see this as the right time to show voters the benefits of an American economy under the leadership of Mr. Trump,” he added.
Clinton will be spending much of the week in private fundraisers in the Hamptons, the wealthy enclaves of eastern Long Island, New York.
Trump is also expected to unveil on Monday his second ad of the general election. It will focus on his economic message, contrasting his approach with Clinton’s.
“In Hillary Clinton’s America, the middle class get crushed. Spending goes up, taxes go up. Hundreds of thousands of jobs disappear. It’s more of the same, but worse,” says a narrator.
The narrator continues that, in “Donald Trump’s America, working families get tax relief. Millions of new jobs created, wages go up. Small businesses thrive.”
In fact, neither Trump nor Clinton’s tax plans would have any major impact on how much the middle class pays, analysts say.
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Associated press writer Chad Day contributed to this report from Washington. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/donald-trump-major-ad-buy/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/37b64f3bbcbc7fb763ba9ee80b734a17235063fab96f336620ca17eebf8e477a.json |
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"Bruce Finley"
] | 2016-08-29T00:46:15 | null | 2016-08-28T23:09:22 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fhundreds-of-topless-people-parade-through-central-denver-urging-equality%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/topless-day-denver.jpg?w=1024&h=768 | en | null | Hundreds of topless people parade through central Denver urging equality | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Hundreds of topless women and men paraded down Denver’s central mall and rallied in Civic Center Sunday afternoon — welcoming some bystanders who spontaneously joined in – as part of international Go Topless Day to promote gender equality.
“We are protesting for equal rights for women. We want for women to not be objectified,” Connie Fitzgerald, 51, of Boulder said in the park with a sign.
“We want to be able to take our tops off just like men. On a deeper level, we’d like to see this bring in equality for women at all levels,” she said.
The Denver Go Topless Day gathering was among several staged Sunday in cities around the globe, including New York and Los Angeles.
And Denver organizers said they had an easier time this year, the fourth event in Denver, with greater acceptance, less gawking and groping and fewer lewd comments. The primary organizer, Matthew Wilson, praised Denver Police for their smart support.
Denver municipal ordinances allow toplessness as long as participants avoid indecency. In Fort Collins, an ordinance that bars women from exposing their breasts in public faces a legal challenge. A Free the Nipple association of Colorado residents argues the ordinance is unconstitutional and sexist.
“As long as we’re not being sexual, or engaging in lewd conduct, or accepting tips, then we are totally with our legal rights,” Wilson said in Denver.
A Denver Parks and Recreation ranger patrolling on bicycle confirmed this assessment and reported no incidents involving the rally. The ranger’s main concern, he said, was that celebration in Civic Center could lead to open public smoking of marijuana, which would violate a different ordinance.
Some participants contend the push for women to go topless matters as much as women’s struggle to vote in Saudi Arabia.
Body painters enhanced the Denver display.
“To still define women’s bodies as inherently sexual is wrong,” Wilson said, making his case that nudity is not necessarily sexual.
“Americans sometimes forget that,” he said. “Confusing the two is the foundation of objectification and rape culture.”
Go Topless Day events happen on the Sunday closest to Women’s Equality Day – which was on Aug. 26 this year. Women’s Equality Day marks the day in 1920 that U.S. women gained the right to vote. Organizers encourage people in cities worldwide to stand up for women’s rights by going topless in public. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/hundreds-of-topless-people-parade-through-central-denver-urging-equality/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/702db39bfe910bcd6d5d7958c778817cd27ebe8bd589a01338e32ac932cda9a8.json |
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"John Frank"
] | 2016-08-30T20:46:49 | null | 2016-08-30T19:39:09 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fmeg-whitman-makes-campaign-debut-hillary-clinton-colorado%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/meg-whitman-bernstein.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Republican Meg Whitman makes campaign debut for Hillary Clinton in Colorado | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Meg Whitman made her debut on the campaign trail as Hillary Clinton’s most vocal Republican supporter at a Tuesday event in Denver and didn’t mention Donald Trump’s name once.
The Hewlett-Packard executive and former California gubernatorial candidate declared she is “all in” for Clinton. And she made clear in her remarks at Union Station that she doesn’t think Trump is qualified to be president, repeatedly mentioning “temperament” as an important factor.
“If you are a lifelong Republican, it’s hard to come across (the partisan divide),” she said. “But I decided that this year it was clear to me that Secretary Clinton’s temperament, leadership experience and commitment to America’s foundational values make her the far better choice for president.”
The softer tone contrasted with her eye-catching remarks about Trump at a private event in June, in which she compared him to Hitler and Mussolini, and earlier this month when she announced her support for Clinton and called Trump “a dishonest demagogue.”
In an interview after the event, Whitman said she wanted business leaders in the room to know why she is supporting Clinton and why she believes the former secretary of state is better for business. Through the primary, Whitman said she was “against Trump,” and now on the economy, she supports Clinton.
“I do not feel confident with his business record,” she said of Trump. “He has gone bankrupt four times. Usually in business the sign of success is not having to declare bankruptcy four times.”
Asked why Republicans should trust the Democratic candidate, Whitman acknowledged the questions about the email server and Clinton foundation are an issue.
“I think you have to decide what you think is the best choice for president,” she said. “My view on the email thing: She said she made a mistake, she wishes she hadn’t done it — listen we all make mistakes. … I got comfortable with that element of her personality and her rationale for being president.”
Clinton is the first Democrat for president that Whitman endorsed. She supported Al Gore in 2000 and has donated to various other Democratic politicians in recent years.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper introduced Whitman and suggested her endorsement of Clinton is “one of the most significant moments” in the effort to recruit support across the aisle.
“The business community has really turned out in force, again and again” for Clinton, he said. “It’s not surprising … there’s not much of a choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. What’s perplexing for some of us is there are still some business people out there who haven’t followed through on that.”
The visit comes as the Clinton campaign feels confident in its chances in Colorado. The campaign and a supporter super PAC removed all commitments to buy television advertising in the state.
Meanwhile, Trump announced his first TV ad buy in the state as part of a larger $10 million effort. It’s unclear whether the TV ad will make a difference in Colorado, as the size of the buy has not been announced. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/meg-whitman-makes-campaign-debut-hillary-clinton-colorado/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/d67c4854957d778adac2895aa81a3c95b6e83218b1bd2bc334b3258e427a1927.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-30T08:46:39 | null | 2016-08-30T07:30:59 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fthousands-migrants-rescued-off-libyan-coast%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/9dab5473ac3d4111a855219db5507e66.jpg?w=1024&h=682 | en | null | Thousands of migrants rescued off Libyan coast | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Emilio Morenatti, The Associated Press
OFF THE COAST OF LIBYA — Italian naval ships and vessels from non-government groups rescued thousands of migrants off the Libyan coast Monday, the latest surge in desperate attempts to flee to Europe driven by war, poverty and human traffickers.
The dramatic operation took place just 13 miles north of the town of Sabratha, Libya. Groups such as Proactiva Open Arms and Doctors Without Borders helped take on 3,000 people who had been traveling in about 20 small wooden boats.
Migrants from Eritrea and Somalia cheered as the rescue boats arrived, with some jumping into the water and swimming toward them while others carefully carried babies onto the rescue ships.
Their boats too weak and technically unequipped for a voyage across the stretch of the Mediterranean to the shores of Italy, the migrants had set off with a bit of gasoline in the crowded vessels, hoping to make it at least 15-20 miles out to sea and reach awaiting rescuers.
Tens of thousands of Africans take the dangerous Mediterranean Sea route as a gateway to a better life in Europe, alongside those fleeing wars from Syria to Afghanistan.
Libya’s chaos and lack of border controls have made it into a transit route. Since the 2011 ouster and killing of longtime Libyan dictator Moammar Khadafy, the country has sunk into lawlessness, facing myriad militias vying for influence and an emerging Islamic State affiliate.
In June, the European Union expanded its anti-smuggling operation in the central Mediterranean to include training Libyan coastal and naval forces. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/thousands-migrants-rescued-off-libyan-coast/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/e5940e68e962b47c31ea4a73dd427a44900cb999d7dfbe50ba0fc47b1e9ad8e9.json |
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"The Washington Post"
] | 2016-08-30T04:46:39 | null | 2016-08-30T04:00:19 | In constructing his U.S. national team roster for the approaching World Cup qualifiers, Jurgen Klinsmann retained most of the group that propelled the squad to the Copa America Centenario semifinals this summer. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fu-s-soccer-world-cup-qualifying-roster%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/497597138.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Jermaine Jones, Tim Howard named to U.S. soccer’s World Cup qualifying roster | null | null | www.denverpost.com | In constructing his U.S. national team roster for the approaching World Cup qualifiers, Jurgen Klinsmann retained most of the group that propelled the squad to the Copa America Centenario semifinals this summer.
He also had to make adjustments because of injuries to two regulars – Clint Dempsey and Gyasi Zardes – and invited three young players to gain training camp experience.
Colorado Rapids midfielder Jermaine Jones received a spot despite being sidelined since July 4 with a knee injury. Klinsmann wants to evaluate him first-hand. “We will take it one day at a time with him,” Klinsmann said.
Rapids goalkeeper Tim Howard and 21-year-old goalkeeper Ethan Horvath of Highlands Ranch were also selected.
The Americans will close the CONCACAF semifinal round at St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Friday and against Trinidad and Tobago on Sept. 6 in Jacksonville, Fla.
“We definitely think the group that got fourth in the Copa America deserves a certain priority going on to the next World Cup qualifiers,” Klinsmann said, “because they did tremendously well.”
With a 2-1-1 record in the qualifiers, the Americans are three points behind T&T (3-0-1) and one ahead of Guatemala (2-2-0). St. Vincent (0-4-0) has been eliminated from contention. Two teams will advance to the six-nation final round this fall.
The only scenario for the Americans to secure passage Friday is if both they and Trinidad win. T&T will host Guatemala. Otherwise, the Sept. 6 games will decide the group order and seeds for final-round scheduling purposes.
Dempsey, who is five goals behind Landon Donovan for the U.S. career record, is sidelined indefinitely with an irregular heartbeat.
Zardes is scheduled to undergo an MRI exam after suffering an undisclosed injury in the Los Angeles Galaxy’s 0-0 draw with the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday.
The other Copa omissions were midfielder Perry Kitchen and injured defender Edgar Castillo. In all, Klinsmann selected 26 players. Midfielder Michael Bradley and defender Michael Orozco are ineligible for Friday’s match because of a yellow card and red card suspension, respectively.
Midfielders Paul Arriola (Tijuana) and Caleb Stanko (Swiss club Vaduz on loan from Freiburg) and forward Rubio Rubin (Utrecht) were named to the squad for long-term integration purposes and are unlikely to play. Their average age is 22.
“They are players that are knocking at the door and are doing well in their club environment,” Klinsmann said.
FC Dallas’s Kellyn Acosta, 21, also was chosen, but because he plays a position without a lot of depth (left back), he might see time.
World Cup center back Omar Gonzalez returns after being left off the Copa roster.
Bayern Munich attacker Julian Green, who enjoyed a preseason resurgence with the Bundesliga champions, was left out.
The corps of forwards includes Jozy Altidore, who missed Copa America with a hamstring injury but has scored five goals in his past seven Toronto FC appearances; Bobby Wood, who scored in his Bundesliga debut for Hamburg on Saturday; and Jordan Morris, 21, Dempsey’s Seattle Sounders teammate with eight goals in his MLS rookie campaign.
Training camp will begin Monday morning in Jacksonville. The delegation will travel to St. Vincent and the Grenadines on Wednesday, but the trip is complicated.
Typically, the Americans charter to the site of World Cup qualifiers. But because the runway in Kingstown cannot accommodate its large jet, the team will fly a charter to Barbados and then board several 19-passenger planes. One is needed exclusively for team gear, though much of the belongings and equipment will remain behind in Jacksonville awaiting the team’s return for the second match.
The Denver Post contributed to this report.
Full U.S. roster
Goalkeepers: Brad Guzan (Middlesbrough), Ethan Horvath (Molde, Norway), Tim Howard (Colorado Rapids).
Defenders: Kellyn Acosta (FC Dallas), Matt Besler (Sporting Kansas City), Steve Birnbaum (D.C. United), Geoff Cameron (Stoke City), Omar Gonzalez (Pachuca), Fabian Johnson (Moenchengladbach), Michael Orozco (Tijuana), DeAndre Yedlin (Newcastle).
Midfielders: Paul Arriola (Tijuana), Kyle Beckerman (Real Salt Lake), Alejandro Bedoya (Philadelphia Union), Michael Bradley (Toronto FC), Jermaine Jones (Colorado Rapids), Darlington Nagbe (Portland Timbers), Christian Pulisic (Borussia Dortmund), Caleb Stanko (Vaduz, Switzerland), Graham Zusi (Sporting Kansas City).
Forwards: Jozy Altidore (Toronto FC), Jordan Morris (Seattle Sounders), Rubio Rubin (Utrecht), Chris Wondolowski (San Jose Earthquakes), Bobby Wood (Hamburg). | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/u-s-soccer-world-cup-qualifying-roster/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/0e04dc7d22e17e95ea20822c7282dc96aa3bd32c3c7b2468718ecd5df71419d9.json |
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"Joey Bunch"
] | 2016-08-29T00:46:18 | null | 2016-08-28T23:35:08 | Gov. John Hickenlooper was among the celebrity competitors at Friday night's at the Colorado Farm Bureau's Governor's Beef Show at the State Fair in Pueblo Friday night. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fhickenlooper-cant-steer-his-way-to-victory-at-the-state-fair-cattle-show%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/john-hickenlooper-cal-sidwell1.jpg?w=1024&h=785 | en | null | Hickenlooper can't steer his way to victory at the State Fair cattle show | null | null | www.denverpost.com | PUEBLO — Gov. John Hickenlooper had the best adviser he could hope to find, 10-year-old Cal Sidwell from Kersey, “up in Weld County,” the governor added later.
Cal gave Hickenlooper instructions in how to show a steer in competition and escorted the state’s chief officer around the sawdust ring of the Beef Barn at the Colorado State Fair Friday night. And the governor seemed like he had it, “itching” the steer gently at its heart girth to keep the animal calm before prancing the bovine before the judge like it was a half-baked ballot measure.
Hickenlooper has never lost a political race, not for governor or as Denver’s mayor, but he’s not as lucky in livestock. He lost Friday night. His wife, Robin, tried, and she lost, too. State Agriculture Commissioner Don Brown beat out the field of more than dozen state politicians and dignitaries.
Hickenlooper has competed in the Governor’s Beef Show four of the seven years its been put on at the State Fair by the Colorado Farm Bureau, He won in 2012, “the year they fixed it,” he joked.
The governor has two more tries, next year and in 2018 before term limits put him out to pasture. “I will win again, I guarantee you,” Hickenlooper vowed.
“It’s great about the State Fair and the quality of cattle we have here,” Hickenlooper said, just outside the pen. “But the real value is in these kids. I was just talking to this kid, Cal, and he knew everything, not just about the animal, but he knew everything about breeding, cross-breeding, and he knew genetics — the kid is 10 years old.”
The purpose of the annual show, besides being fun, is to acquaint big shots with youth market exhibitors. The children put a lot of dedication and skill into caring for their animals and preparing for the shows that are often a farm family tradition that goes back generations, said Chad Vorthman, the Colorado Farm Bureau’s executive vice president, who grew up showing livestock.
“There’s a lot of importance to raising our youth that you can’t put a price on,” he said of the competitions. “They work all year long. We put our cows in the barn at 5 in the morning and sometimes they don’t take them out until 8 or 9 at night until it cools down this time of year. You do that all year long just leading up to this event, because this is where you want to be. The work ethic that’s built up is tremendous.”
Beth Alessio, executive director of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern Colorado, competed in the show and failed to get a ribbon. She didn’t leave the Beef Barn empty-handed, however. The Colorado Farm Bureau Women’s Leadership Committee gave her check for $5,000 to share with Ronald McDonald Houses across Colorado.
The charity provides a place to stay and other support for the families of seriously ill children in a nearby hospital. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/hickenlooper-cant-steer-his-way-to-victory-at-the-state-fair-cattle-show/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/dbc0d1a0b2b5b22c3a5a446f4f12fa1db75768e3c23d1908d384829d26c4a0ef.json |
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"Betty Cahill"
] | 2016-08-26T12:52:38 | null | 2016-08-26T06:01:13 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fhow-to-harvest-and-preserve-tomatoes%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/tomatob2016.jpg?w=1024&h=768 | en | null | Punch List: How to harvest and preserve tomatoes | null | null | www.denverpost.com | null | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/how-to-harvest-and-preserve-tomatoes/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/315e50d419564ed635bd0e96a7657439b29037e5dccef0a4d680339ce2000485.json |
[
"Kieran Nicholson"
] | 2016-08-31T04:46:51 | null | 2016-08-31T04:07:21 | The annual Junior Livestock Sale at the Colorado State Fair raised more than $500,000 Tuesday afternoon in Pueblo. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fjunior-livestock-sale-state-fair-500000-youth-exhibitors%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/fairrj2_9872.jpg?w=1024&h=768 | en | null | Junior livestock sale at state fair nets about $500,000 for youth exhibitors | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The annual Junior Livestock Sale at the Colorado State Fair raised more than $500,000 Tuesday afternoon in Pueblo.
Livestock exhibits auctioned at the fair included champion steer, lamb, goats, hogs, goats turkey and rabbits.
The highest price paid Tuesday was $62,000 to Julia Frye of Johnstown for her grand champion market steer.
The 2016 junior sale, the championship event for Colorado Ag Youth involved in 4-H and FFA, is the largest event of its kind in Colorado, according to Fair organizers.
The junior tradition draws hundreds of business and community leaders to Pueblo to “bid on the best of the best” while supporting Ag Youth.
“Over the past 37 years, the Colorado State Fair Junior Livestock Sale has raised $9,794,289 for the youths involved in Colorado’s 4-H and FFA programs. This sale is a reflection of their dedication to the animals and the agricultural community,” state fair general manager Sarah Cummings said in a news release. “I’d also like to thank the generous philanthropists who come out to support these amazing kids; the sale would not be possible without them.”
The Grand Champion Market Hog, purchased Tuesday by Denver Rustlers, a junior livestock booster group including Denver Post Chairman William Dean Singleton and furniture mogul Jake Jabs, fetched $33,000 for Rayna Hodgson of Greeley. The Reserve Champion Hog brought in $32,000 for Ty Piper of Fowler.
This year’s sale brought in $524,700, according to preliminary figures.
This year’s grand champion market beef price of $62,000 set a record for the category.
The 2015 Revised Junior Livestock Sale raised $534,650. Sale proceeds go directly to the youth exhibitors. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/junior-livestock-sale-state-fair-500000-youth-exhibitors/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/3837d365cd0970882136c6b3009d1859a73b86362c0086118fcbdc275b2445dc.json |
[
"Yesenia Robles"
] | 2016-08-27T16:46:06 | null | 2016-08-27T15:16:34 | One man was transported to the hospital early Saturday morning with an apparent gunshot wound after an officer-involved shooting with Denver police. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fdenver-police-investigate-early-morning-officer-involved-shooting%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/officer-involved-shooting-denver-aug-27.jpg?w=1024&h=576 | en | null | Denver Police investigate early morning officer involved shooting | null | null | www.denverpost.com | One man was transported to the hospital early Saturday morning with an apparent gunshot wound after an officer-involved shooting with Denver police.
The Denver Police Department reported the shooting at 4 a.m. through a message on Twitter stating it happened on the corner of West Ellsworth Avenue and Fox Street in the Baker neighborhood.
At mid-morning, detectives were walking in and out of a corner house at the location and pointing at open windows on the second floor of the house. Directly across the street, industrial lots labeled Gates Steel were quiet, while a train whistled on the railroad tracks two blocks away.
No officers were injured. Police have not provided more details about the shooting. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/denver-police-investigate-early-morning-officer-involved-shooting/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/59a44a75e037bef431f99debd22e0be5609de5ee9a2587507f4ab283aac9bfca.json |
[
"Joe Murphy"
] | 2016-08-30T14:46:41 | null | 2016-08-30T13:20:57 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fpoll-picks-the-new-mile-high-stadium-sponsor%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/sports-authority-your-name-here.jpg?w=690&h=286 | en | null | Poll: Your picks for the new Mile High Stadium sponsor | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Sure, ask a Denver Broncos fan which company should take over Mile High Stadium sponsorship and you’ve got a good chance getting “None of the above” for an answer. We get that.
In last week’s Roundup email newsletter (don’t know what that is? Find out!) we asked readers to pitch us which company, any company they’d like to see take the naming rights now that Sports Authority’s days on the signage at 1701 Bryant Street are numbered.
Yes, the deadline for submitting an official bid has long since passed, but that doesn’t mean we can’t dream. And who knows, maybe there will be a new deadline, anything can happen, who knows.
Now we get to the point in the article where we ask you, dear reader, which of these companies you would prefer to see earn the naming-rights sponsorship of Mile High Stadium. Vote for as many as you’d like. The only option you won’t see here: None of the above.
If money and good taste and NFL naming policies were not a factor, which of these companies / brands would you like to see sponsor Mile High Stadium? | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/poll-picks-the-new-mile-high-stadium-sponsor/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/84cc3f1f783f1cf10a67018a9c37cef06511aafcf140201aa4595ff80d7123b9.json |
[
"Terry Frei"
] | 2016-08-31T04:46:46 | null | 2016-08-31T02:49:24 | After one season of playing the 4-3 as a base defense under Tyson Summers, the Rams have returned to the 3-4 base they previously played under Marty English. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fmarty-english-colorado-state-coordinator%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/marty-english.jpg?w=1024&h=769 | en | null | Colorado State's Marty English brings Rams back to 3-4 defense | null | null | www.denverpost.com | FORT COLLINS — Marty English was raised in Lakewood and starred at Alameda High School before playing collegiately at Idaho State and Northern Colorado. He coached 16 seasons at UNC and nine at Wyoming before joining Jim McElwain’s new staff at Colorado State in 2012.
He was CSU’s co-defensive coordinator with Al Simmons under McElwain before being retained as linebackers coach by McElwain’s replacement, Mike Bobo. But after defensive coordinator Tyson Summers’ departure to take the head coaching job at Georgia Southern following last season, English is back in the coordinator’s role for 2016.
As a Denver-area native who hasn’t coached outside the region, and as a recruiter who has worked the territory for several schools for 29 years, he has a unique perspective on the Rocky Mountain Showdown — Friday’s Colorado-Colorado State matchup in Denver.
“I’m pretty excited about it,” English said. “It’s the in-state rivalry. … It’s fun for me because I know the kids on both sides, both teams, and it’s always easier to talk after the game and not so easy to talk before the game. I know a lot of the coaches, and it’s like playing neighborhood football. You want your neighborhood to be a little better than the other neighborhood.”
After one season of playing the 4-3 as a base defense under Summers, the Rams have returned to the 3-4 base they previously played under English and Simmons, now at New Mexico.
“We’re very multiple defensively, so we can say 3-4,” English said. “But there’s going to be times you’re in the nickle and everything else and you’re in a four-man front.”
Bobo said the transition back to English has been “pretty smooth,” and added, “One, he was deserving of it after interviewing, but two, I liked the fact that I was keeping continuity on the coaching staff.”
And the move to the base 3-4?
“I think it’s helped us a little bit to be able to get some athletic bodies on the field,” Bobo said. “Now, we need some more of those bodies, and we still have to play with three D-linemen. We need more D-linemen, which everybody does. I think it’s good schematically what we do, and I think it’s good for us offensively that we go against a 3-4 that blends to a 4-3 and you have to make adjustments.”
The Rams’ defense returns only three starters from 2015: linebackers Kevin Davis and Kiel Robinson and cornerback Tyree Simmons.
“I think we have the ability sometimes to ride really high and be really good, and then we also have the inexperience enough to sink fast at times,” English said. “There’d be a great middle ground to find in there somewhere. I think that’s where we’re at.”
Simmons, a senior from Gardena, Calif., said English “has shown how fun the defense can be. With our last defensive coordinator, it was all business. … Now we celebrate, we get a little cocky at times. It’s fun now. That’s the difference.”
Of course, that comes before the Rams have played a game.
Davis, a senior from Fountain, led the Rams with 101 tackles a year ago.
“It hasn’t changed much for us as a position group, because we’ve been with (English) since we got here. But it’s good, it’s exciting,” Davis said. The move to the 3-4, he said, “isn’t a big difference for us. It was pretty easy, too, because I’ve been in that system before and it came back really quick, and I think it was the same for a lot of older guys.”
Former walk-on Jakob Buys, from Arvada’s Ralston Valley High, has earned both a scholarship and a starting defensive tackle spot heading into his redshirt junior season.
“I came in when he was defensive coordinator, and we adjusted to what he wanted my freshman year,” Buys said of English. “Having him stay around last year, he still was the same guy, and having him back as coordinator, we already knew what he wanted and knew how we practiced and how we have to get after it each day. So I don’t think anything really changed for us.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/marty-english-colorado-state-coordinator/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/7c1932578d6ed144b4c2ad27d567e81c3c94a28090e36d38de1d58386675c566.json |
[
"Yesenia Robles"
] | 2016-08-27T16:46:07 | null | 2016-08-27T15:19:59 | The Larimer County Sheriff's Office was asking some residents early Saturday to shelter in place while they searched for a shooting suspect. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Flarimer-county-deputies-searching-for-teen-suspected-of-shooting-brother%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | Larimer County deputies searching for teen suspected of shooting brother | null | null | www.denverpost.com | The Larimer County Sheriff’s deputies are continuing to search Saturday morning for a teenage suspect in connection with a shooting, but now say residents can go about their usual business during the manhunt.
Earlier, authorities had asked some residents to shelter in place while they searched for the suspect.
According to a news release from the sheriff’s office, deputies responded at about 2 a.m. to the area of 400 South Overland Trail on a report of a shooting.
“Two brothers had gotten into an argument, and one had shot the other and then left the scene,” the news release states. “The victim was transported to an area hospital, and deputies are actively searching for the suspect in the area bordered by Overland Trail, Taft Hill Road, Mulberry Street, and Laporte Avenue.”
The suspect is described as a 17-year-old Hispanic male standing 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing about 140 pounds. He was last seen wearing a white t-shirt stained with blood and white shorts. He is believed to be armed.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Larimer County Sheriff’s Office at 970-416-1985 or Crime Stoppers at 970-221-6868 where callers can remain anonymous and may be eligible for a cash reward.
Anyone who sees the suspect is asked to call 911. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/larimer-county-deputies-searching-for-teen-suspected-of-shooting-brother/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/67856d619c8698c8d5bd2597de7c9d8e2dd88ffadedaf2163a43bd8de4ceca55.json |
[
"Tom Mcghee"
] | 2016-08-29T02:46:19 | null | 2016-08-29T00:55:36 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fgreen-partys-jill-stein-says-colorado-leading-way-to-future%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/cd29stein_hhr_0409.jpg?w=1024&h=683 | en | null | Green Party’s Jill Stein says Colorado leading the way to the future | null | null | www.denverpost.com | With ballot proposals that would revamp the state’s health care system, raise the minimum wage, and allow local governments to regulate fracking, Colorado is blazing a path that the rest of the country should follow, Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate told a crowd in Denver.
“Colorado is leading the charge. These are the things we need to do at the national level,” Stein, a 66-year-old physician, told a packed house at the Mercury Cafe on Sunday.
Stein said providing Medicare for all U.S. citizens would revitalize the poorly working health care system by redirecting funds into services that now are spent on administration, bloated salaries for executives, and other costs.
“Ultimately, we want to go to a single-payer system. Amendment 69 (the Colorado “Medicare for all” proposal) gets us started,” she said.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Green party candidate Jill Stein speaks to a standing room only crowd at the Mercury Cafe on August 28, 2016 in Denver, Colorado.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Supporters from left to right Dome Betz, Michele Zampillo, Connor Ryan and Erin Dougherty listen to Green party candidate Jill Stein, reflected in a mirror, as she speaks to a standing room only crowd at the Mercury Cafe on August 28, 2016 in Denver, Colorado.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Supporters listen to Green party candidate Jill Stein, reflected in a mirror, as she speaks to a standing room only crowd at the Mercury Cafe on August 28, 2016 in Denver, Colorado.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Supporters listen to Green party candidate Jill Stein as she speaks to a standing room only crowd at the Mercury Cafe on August 28, 2016 in Denver, Colorado.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Green party candidate Jill Stein speaks to a standing room only crowd at the Mercury Cafe on August 28, 2016 in Denver, Colorado.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Green party candidate Jill Stein speaks to a standing room only crowd at the Mercury Cafe on August 28, 2016 in Denver, Colorado.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Green party candidate Jill Stein speaks to a standing room only crowd at the Mercury Cafe on August 28, 2016 in Denver, Colorado.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Supporters listen to Green party candidate Jill Stein, reflected in a mirror, as she speaks to a standing room only crowd at the Mercury Cafe on August 28, 2016 in Denver, Colorado.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Green party candidate Jill Stein speaks to a standing room only crowd at the Mercury Cafe on August 28, 2016 in Denver, Colorado.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Buttons for Green party candidate Jill Stein are for sale on a table at the Mercury Cafe on August 28, 2016 in Denver, Colorado. Stein spoke to a packed audience at the cafe as one of her campaign stops in Colorado.
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Green party candidate Jill Stein, right, holds up her hands with Arn Menconi, left, after speaking to a standing room only crowd at the Mercury Cafe on August 28, 2016 in Denver, Colorado. Menconi is running as the Green party candidate for US Senate.
Also on Colorado’s Nov. 8 ballot is an amendment to raise the minimum wage to $12-an-hour by 2020.
The governors of both New York and California have signed bills that will raise the hourly minimum to $15. But even that boost will barely bring low-wage workers out of poverty, Stein said.
“But the $12 minimum is a start,” Stein said. “I applaud you for making a big step forward.”
Ballot initiative 75 would allow local governments to regulate fracking within their borders, and another initiative, 78, would require new oil and gas wells to be at least 2,500 feet from homes and schools.
The measures were put on the ballot after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled in May that bans by Fort Collins and Loveland on hydraulic fracturing, commonly called fracking, were pre-empted by state law.
Stein said the two fracking ballot measures would give communities the ability to protect their residents.
While the oil and gas industry says that fracking, which involves injecting sand, water and chemicals into the ground to free natural gas deposits, is safe, environmental advocates say the chemicals can leach into groundwater, and cause health problems.
“Colorado is ground zero in fracking,” Stein said.
Stein also addressed what she called a crisis of police violence. Every community should have a civilian review board that would have subpoena power to investigate police, she said.
“The violence isn’t new, what is new is the video cameras in our cell phones,” she said.
She also suggested creating a national commission to start a series of conversations about racism and other social ills.
A Green Party administration would rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, to make it a “fair trade agreement, not a free trade agreement.”
The unrest in the Middle East and the resulting refugee crisis were caused by U.S. military actions, Stein said. “What created ISIS grew out of the catastrophes of Iraq and Libya.”
The U.S. needs to launch a weapons embargo that would cut off the sale of arms in war-torn regions, she said.
“We have been a major supplier of weapons in the mideast and all around the world. These wars are making us less secure and at the same time damaging our budget.”
She also called for a green jobs program that would create 20 million well-paying jobs in the renewable energy sector. Climate change threatens the planet, and “the only future we have is a green, just and sustainable future.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/28/green-partys-jill-stein-says-colorado-leading-way-to-future/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/ec14310887512e1244825fc61c1f392b1ae988cb19a7a890db45b4416bbf1c02.json |
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"Bloomberg News"
] | 2016-08-30T08:46:35 | null | 2016-08-30T07:36:23 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fj-crew-sell-womens-clothes-via-nordstrom%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/themes/denverpost/static/images/thedenverpost.png?w=1200&h=630 | en | null | J. Crew to sell women’s clothes via Nordstrom | null | null | www.denverpost.com | By Lindsey Rupp, Bloomberg News
J. Crew Group’s flagship chain will start selling an assortment of women’s clothes at Nordstrom Inc. stores, part of a push to revive growth at the moribund apparel brand.
J. Crew will introduce the collection Sept. 12 in 16 Nordstrom locations, as well as the department store’s website, according to a statement Monday. The move builds on an existing partnership with Nordstrom, which already sells J. Crew’s Madewell brand in 76 stores and online.
“This was an easy decision,” J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler said in the statement. “We both share the same high standards of customer service and store experience. Additionally, we are known for exceptional design, quality and style, which we know will appeal to the Nordstrom customer.”
J. Crew is looking for ways to win back shoppers — especially women — after price increases and a shift away from classic styles alienated customers. The retailer has revamped its merchandise, but same-store sales have slid during the past seven straight quarters. As part of his turnaround plan, Drexler also has opened more off-price stores and expanded Madewell, New York-based J. Crew’s younger, hipper brand.
J. Crew’s slow comeback has brought headaches to its private equity backers. TPG, which led a 2011 leveraged buyout of the company, cut the value of its stake in J. Crew by 84 percent at the end of last year. The firm told investors that its $478.6 million equity holding in J. Crew had fallen to $76 million. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/30/j-crew-sell-womens-clothes-via-nordstrom/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/d438bb85c60f1d7563091b583294a443712a626110dcab5f545854d346801f6f.json |
[
"Joe Murphy"
] | 2016-08-30T16:46:43 | null | 2016-08-30T15:47:21 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Froundup-failed-ballot-measures-mile-high-stadium-august-30-2016%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/colorado-email-newsletter.png?w=1024&h=382 | en | null | Roundup: Failed ballot measures, Mile High Stadium, parking tickets and more | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Day 243, 2016. 69 days until November’s election. 233 days since David Bowie died, 131 days since Prince did, and two since Gene Wilder.
But today, day 243, it’s no day to be morbid. Nope. It’s another day of the Roundup.
The Big Stuff
Colorado voters will not make any fracking decisions after two proposed ballot measures failed to get enough signatures to make the ballot. Colorado’s Secretary of State said some petition signatures looked forged, though one of the anti-fracking organizations challenges that assertion and may also file a legal challenge over the ballot denial, which means there’s a chance that this story is not over. Reporters Mark Matthews in D.C. and Joey Bunch in Denver have all the details.
Denver voters won’t vote on private marijuana clubs. More than 7,500 signatures were turned in supporting this measure (for Denver ballot measures, 4,726 valid signatures are required) but only 2,987 signatures were deemed valid. Reporter Jon Murray put together the pieces on this one.
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The Rundown
* Today’s Weather: Roving afternoon rain ‘n’ thunder, also, the five-day forecast
* Today’s Editorial: Workers’ comp fines could use a reality adjustment
* Today’s Poll: Do you support San Francisco 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for the national anthem?
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* Articles: Every article we published yesterday, and (announced in yesterday’s roundup), denverpost.com/today will take you to today’s list of articles, no matter the day. Today. Always today.
By The Numbers
1,391
That’s 1,391 parking tickets, written by one volunteer in one year, all for disability parking violations. That’s more tickets for disability parking than all of the Denver Police Department wrote last year. And that’s something advocates for disabled people say needs to change.
Quick Hits
+ Maybe you heard: Gene Wilder’s dead. I listened to this personal 1979 interview of Gene Wilder last night, and you can, too.
+ Remember when I wrote last week that if enough of you emailed me the company you’d like to see sponsor Mile High Stadium, that I would publish a list of all your picks? Well I lied: I’m only publishing the best picks (sorry Dennis, Chong’s Bongs Field at Mile High did not make the cut). But on the bright side, that list of sponsors is a poll, and that’s fun, and you can vote on that poll here. Early and often, people, early and often.
+ Hillary Clinton is rolling out a comprehensive plan to address millions of Americans coping with mental illness, while in tangential news Justice Department lawyers investigating police agencies for claims of racial discrimination and excessive force are increasingly turning up a different problem: officers’ interactions with the mentally ill.
+ A top Republican fund-raiser is in town today to campaign for Hillary Clinton.
+ R.I.P, Sniagrab.
+ Authorities in Adams County are investigating the death Monday morning of a 6-month-old infant at the Primrose Motel.
+ “We used to be a very big apple producer, once on par with Washington state.”
+ A man told Arapahoe County investigators he crashed his car in an effort to kill his 2-year-old son, he said “being a father was a big responsibility and he did not think he was man enough to raise a child.”
+ The University of Colorado was ranked 19th.
+ Used-car sales surpass new-car sales in Colorado.
+ A fatal dog attack in Conifer leaves a mother dead and her son injured.
+ The most famous heavy-metal band to hail from Des Moines is (tangentially) in the news again, after the FBI put out a APB on a woman who robbed a Denver bank while wearing a Slipknot T-shirt.
+ A 17-year-old driver who had only a learner’s permit was arrested in connection with a fatal drag-racing hit-and-run that killed a 26-year-old pedestrian Sunday night.
+ At least six officers confront and then detain a man dressed as Zorro at LAX.
+ I bet you didn’t even realize that we had been living in the “pre-crappy-weed-sitcoms” era.
+ This morning we re-launched crime.denverpost.com, a site that carves up the Denver Police Department’s reported crime data and gives you details about what’s going on in your neighborhood, or, say, how bad are bike thefts in the city, or reported crimes per hour on Denver’s 16th Street Mall. If you’re devoted to the map that used to be the entire site, don’t worry, it’s still there. Note: If you have questions or suggestions about the site, I built everything but that map there, drop me an email and let me know.
What We’re Reading
+ Taylor Swift, juror.
+ Goat Yoga Yoga Goat Goat Yoga Yoga Yoga Goat Goat Goat Yoga Goat Yoga Yoga (try saying that five times fast)
+ With this phone number, one could talk to / text a Frenchie about anything.
+ It pays to be a Trump child.
+ From July: Judges Can Consider Predictive Algorithms in Sentencing.
+ The history of …
+ Maybe you’ve heard of these… forest clowns.
+ A 25-year-old figured out he could (legally) set up a website, a PAC, and (absolutely unethically) take donations from Trump supporters. He’s collected more than $1 million, none of which has gone to Trump.
+ For the tinfoil-heads amongst us: Seven signs your phone is tapped.
+ So, there’s this article about an unusual interstellar signal originating from a galaxy 95 light years away, which sounds nuts, but also sound click-baity, but also sounds nuts. These are confusing times we live in. Note that this is not the first time that such things have happened. My favorite comment on this story so far: “[The] idea that if aliens exists they’d expend huge amounts of energy signaling to us seems the height of human narcissism.”
Song of the Day
This song may be more than 12 years old but if you’re like me and it played in your earphones while you were jogging over the weekend then you probably set a landspeed record yourself. Bless you, bless your beats, bless your rhymes, Jay Z.
Head over to our Spotify playlist, or, if you don’t have a Spotify account, we made you your own special page where you non-Spotify people can listen to the playlist.
Hat Tips and Corrections
Remember, if you see something that doesn’t look right or just have a comment, thought or suggestion, email me at jmurphy@denverpost.com or tweet me on the Twitters.
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[
"Nick Groke"
] | 2016-08-28T00:46:10 | null | 2016-08-28T00:01:51 | Rookie quarterback Paxton Lynch likely will jump up the Broncos' depth chart Saturday in a preseason dress rehearsal against the Los Angeles Rams in Denver, playing as Denver's No. 2 behind starter Trevor Siemian. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fpaxton-lynch-up-broncos-quarterback-depth-chart%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/593241652.jpg?w=1024&h=614 | en | null | Paxton Lynch is about to jump up Broncos’ quarterback depth chart with third preseason game on tap | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Rookie quarterback Paxton Lynch likely will jump up the Broncos’ depth chart Saturday in a preseason dress rehearsal against the Los Angeles Rams in Denver, playing as Denver’s No. 2 behind starter Trevor Siemian.
The Broncos are interested in testing Lynch with their second-team offense. If he passes, and Siemian holds down the top spot, it would allow the Broncos to consider cutting former co-starter Mark Sanchez.
Denver’s preseason quarterback battle seems to be nearing an end. Despite four combined turnovers between quarterbacks last week in a preseason loss to the San Francisco 49ers (one interception from Siemian, two fumbles from Sanchez, and an interception from Lynch), Broncos coach Gary Kubiak seemed to solidify Siemian’s place atop the order by naming him Saturday’s starter earlier in the week.
But Sanchez’s drop to No. 3 is a move toward the future. If he does not make Denver’s roster, Sanchez would walk away with $1 million guaranteed. But if he sticks into the regular season, they would owe him $4.5 million.
Quarterbacks did not have a monopoly on roster movement. The Broncos can practice just as easily inside a 76,000-seat stadium as they can at Dove Valley. So before the gates opened to fans Saturday at Sports Authority Field, an group of players got to work.
A bevy of busted Broncos practiced and drilled before the team’s third preseason game. The list was as distinguished as it is worrisome.
DeMarcus Ware, a nine-time Pro Bowler and Denver’s go-to weakside linebacker, still is not at full-strength while he recovers from an offseason back injury (even if he can run well). Instead, he worked with an assistant coach doing hand-blocking drills in the north end zone. Ware’s 7 ½ sacks ranked second on the team last season, behind only Von Miller. But he played at about 70 percent of health in February’s Super Bowl.
“I feel better than I did at the end of last season,” Ware said earlier this week. “Now, I feel like I’m 94 percent and I really feel like I can go out there and play a little bit.”
But Ware will not play. The Broncos are still ramping him toward their opening game against Carolina, on Sept. 8. So Ware sat Saturday.
So did Derek Wolfe, the Broncos’ starting defensive end, who missed two practices this week while dealing with a family issue. He rolled an ankle last week that forced him to miss practice time, but he’s healthy and seemingly in game shape, so the Broncos held him out of Saturday’s game. He also practiced in the north end zone.
Tight end Jeff Heuerman, who came back from a torn knee ligament that forced him to miss all of last season, strained a hamstring last week and is sidelined again. He drilled with the injured player and also won’t play, as expected. That leaves Virgil Green, Garrett Graham, John Phillips and Henry Krieger-Coble to split plays at tight end.
Most worrisome, perhaps, is the prolonged elbow injury suffered by presumptive starting right guard Ty Sambrailo. He worked out pre-game in the same arm brace that he has worn most of training camp and the preseason. After he hyper-extended it earlier this month, Sambrailo has not been able to block at full strength. Broncos coach Gary Kubiak said they are aiming for his return by opening day, but Sambrailo still has not played in the preseason.
And one of Sambrailo’s potential backups, Darrion Weems, also practiced pre-game with the inactives. He suffered a concussion that pushed him out of practice this week. In the place of Sambrailo and Weems, the Broncos will lean on a rotation of Michael Schofield and rookie Connor McGovern at right guard.
Also out for the Broncos: wide receiver Bennie Fowler, who injured his elbow against the Chicago Bears in the first preseason game. But his brace is off and his return is nearing. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/27/paxton-lynch-up-broncos-quarterback-depth-chart/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/c9dfcb0bbd9926d4963e4bdae97143db11b0d3478f4d2de3a6adc740990c3dbf.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-27T02:46:07 | null | 2016-08-27T02:13:12 | The AP's lawyers late Friday formally asked the State Department to hasten that effort so that the department could provide all Clinton's minute-by-minute schedules by Oct. 15. The agency did not immediately respond. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fhillary-clinton-calendars-wont-be-released-until-after-election%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/ap16235841605788.jpg?w=1024&h=663 | en | null | Hillary Clinton calendars won’t be released until after election | null | null | www.denverpost.com | WASHINGTON — Seven months after a federal judge ordered the State Department to begin releasing monthly batches of the detailed daily schedules showing meetings by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, the government told The Associated Press it won’t finish the job before Election Day.
The department has so far released about half of the schedules. Its lawyers said in a phone conference with the AP’s lawyers that the department now expects to release the last of the detailed schedules around Dec. 30, weeks before the next president is inaugurated.
The AP’s lawyers late Friday formally asked the State Department to hasten that effort so that the department could provide all Clinton’s minute-by-minute schedules by Oct. 15. The agency did not immediately respond.
The schedules drew new attention this week after the AP analyzed the ones released so far. The news agency found that more than half the people outside the government who met or spoke by telephone with Clinton while she was secretary of state had given money — either personally or through companies or groups — to the Clinton Foundation. The AP’s analysis focused on people with private interests and excluded her meetings or calls with U.S. federal employees or foreign government representatives.
The AP’s reporting was based on official calendars covering Clinton’s entire term plus the more-detailed daily schedules covering roughly half her time as secretary of state. The AP first asked for Clinton’s calendars in 2010 and again in 2013. It then sued the State Department in federal court to obtain the detailed schedules, and the department so far has provided about half of them under court order.
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Clinton has said the AP’s analysis was flawed because it did not account fully for all meetings and phone calls during her entire term as secretary. She also said the analysis should have included meetings with federal employees and foreign diplomats. The AP said it focused on her meetings with outsiders because those were more discretionary, as Clinton would normally meet with federal officials and foreign officials as part of her job.
Clinton said she met with people outside government regardless of whether they gave money or charitable commitments to her family’s charity.
“These are people I would be proud to meet with, as any secretary of state would have been proud to meet with, to hear about their work and their insights,” Clinton said this week on CNN.
With the foundation drawing continued attention, Clinton promised Friday to put in place additional safeguards to prevent conflicts of interest with the charity should she win the White House.
The foundation issue, along with continued focus on her use of a private email server, has dogged Clinton politically throughout the week, drawing strong criticism from opponent Donald Trump.
Trump spokesman Jason Miller released a statement Friday night saying: “It is unacceptable that the State Department is now refusing to release her official schedule before the election in full. Voters deserve to know the truth before they cast their ballots.”
Former President Bill Clinton said last week that if she is elected president, the foundation will no longer accept foreign or corporate donations.
The State Department is now estimating there are about 2,700 pages of schedules left. Under its process, it is reviewing and censoring them page-by-page to remove personal details such as private phone numbers or email addresses. In some cases it has censored names of people who met privately with Clinton or the subjects they discussed.
A State Department spokeswoman, Elizabeth Trudeau, declined to discuss the ongoing case and noted the agency is struggling with thousands of public records requests.
In court, the AP in December had asked U.S. District Judge Richard Leon to order the State Department to produce specific percentages of the remaining schedules every 30 days under a formula so that all would be released before the presidential primary elections were complete.
Instead, because the State Department said it did not know how many pages were left, Leon ordered it in January to release at least 600 pages of schedules every 30 days. Each 600-page group covers about three months of Clinton’s tenure.
Under the present rate, a government attorney working on behalf of the State Department notified the AP’s lawyers, it will take about four and one-half months — or until Dec. 30 — to release all the remaining schedules through the end of Clinton’s term, in February 2013. The government’s notice late Thursday was the first time the State Department has provided the AP with a measure of how many pages were remaining and when it expected to complete the job.
It was unclear whether the judge will reconsider his earlier decision and order faster results. In the AP’s lawsuit over other Clinton-related files, Leon has said it would be “ridiculous” to allow the State Department to delay until even weeks before the election. He also cited “mounting frustration that this is a project where the State Department may be running out the clock.” | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/26/hillary-clinton-calendars-wont-be-released-until-after-election/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/0c4bd612d096b40eb1957b13de2b8b448317381d2790f6647be1f4673a24ad16.json |
[
"Joey Bunch"
] | 2016-08-30T00:46:31 | null | 2016-08-29T23:43:12 | Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval will lauded for their conservation leadership by Boulder-based Western Resource Advocates Sept. 8 at the History Colorado Center in Denver. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.denverpost.com%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fgov-john-hickenlooper-gov-brian-sandoval-to-receive-leadership-award-from-western-resource-advocates%2F.json | http://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/john-hickenlooper.jpg?w=351&h=434 | en | null | Gov. John Hickenlooper, Gov. Brian Sandoval to receive leadership award from Western Resource Advocates | null | null | www.denverpost.com | Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval will lauded for their conservation leadership by Boulder-based Western Resource Advocates Sept. 8 at the History Colorado Center in Denver.
Tickets to the fund-raiser are still available by clicking here.
The two sitting governors will share the Kelley Green Conservation Leadership Award for their support for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Power Plan.
Hickenlooper has vigorously defended the plan’s goal to cut 35 percent of greenhouse gas pollution from power plants by 2030.
“Both governors have demonstrated a cooperative bipartisan spirit in their support of the Clean Power Plan and advancing smart approaches, conversations, and conservation strategies to address water and drought in our arid region,” said Jon Goldin-Dubois, Western Resource Advocates’ president.
The award is named for the late founder of Western Resource Advocates. | http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/29/gov-john-hickenlooper-gov-brian-sandoval-to-receive-leadership-award-from-western-resource-advocates/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.denverpost.com/f5ba86383941235f4dedfe98d8415a176b396b88375eb5e4c14a556cb8f97bac.json |
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