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  • Nuggets sit out Spencer Jones, play without a power forward in loss to Pistons

    DETROIT — Both teams playing in the Motor City on Tuesday were maneuvering their rosters as the trade deadline loomed — one of them more quietly than the other.

    The Pistons were hosting, just a few hours after they sent Jaden Ivey to Chicago in a three-team deal that brought back Kevin Huerter, ex-Nugget Dario Saric and a pick swap. The Nuggets had not completed any trades, but they did have a business decision to make. Spencer Jones embarked on their three-game road trip this week with one game of eligibility remaining on his two-way contract and a back-to-back against two of the East’s best awaiting Denver.

    With Christian Braun returning from an ankle injury and supplying David Adelman with another body to work with in Detroit, the Nuggets elected to rest Jones on Tuesday and delay his last game 24 hours until New York, sources said. Jones told The Denver Post last week that the Nuggets’ front office has told him he might have to sit out games even if he ends up joining the 15-man roster on a standard contract this month.

    Without him, the Nuggets clawed back from a 20-point deficit to get within two late in the fourth quarter, but the Pistons held on for a 124-121 win at Little Caesar’s Arena. A fortuitous shooter’s bounce for Tobias Harris with 1:46 left stretched Detroit’s lead to 115-110 as Denver struggled to land the comeback’s final punch. Moments later, Peyton Watson was a millisecond late to block a Cade Cunningham layup off the backboard, a play that would’ve given Denver a chance to tie while down three.

    “The challenge for us right now is with all the things that are happening — people coming back, the minute restrictions — we have to avoid paying attention to that, and we just have to play,” Adelman said. “And deal with it as we go. We’re going to have some clunky moments. The rotation is different. We tried different things tonight. Just trying to fit people into the minutes that can play.”

    “It’s a little bit different for us right now,” Nikola Jokic said, “but I think it’s part of the (league).”

    The healthy scratch of Jones was essentially a money-saving tactic for Nuggets ownership. Players on two-way deals can be active for up to 50 NBA games in a regular season. Jones may be on the verge of a promotion that would dispense with that limit if the Nuggets can balance their books with a trade by Thursday afternoon. But their primary goal, to get under the luxury tax, is evident in that they’ve gone through half of the season with an open roster spot. Nothing in a rulebook would’ve prevented them from converting Jones’ contract on Tuesday (or earlier) if they wanted him available for Detroit.

    Instead, they were operating without a power forward. Aaron Gordon is also sidelined as he recovers from a hamstring strain. Adelman rolled out Braun, Peyton Watson and Jalen Pickett in the starting unit alongside his two stars, foreshadowing a night of finagling. He tried everything from four-guard lineups to a jumbo package.

    “I am feeling it out, man. Like, I’m feeling it out every game,” Adelman said. “We walk through stuff in a hotel room, and I pre-suppose lineups and put them out there in their sandals. And then we go play. Then you have to react during the game. And that’s part of the NBA, so there’s no excuses there, either. It’s just, I was trying to find a group that had some rhythm. We found a couple, but the end of the first half just killed us.”

    The Pistons (37-12) swept the season series and got under Denver’s skin in the process. Their frontcourt played its usual chippy style, and Nuggets center Jonas Valanciunas caused a brief skirmish in the first quarter by putting Isaiah Stewart in a headlock under the basket. Newly minted Pistons All-Star Jalen Duren exchanged shoves with Valanciunas. Both received technical fouls. Valanciunas also picked up a flagrant for the play on Stewart.

    By halftime, both head coaches and Pistons guard Duncan Robinson had been handed technicals as well. Jamal Murray and Stewart jawed back and forth a couple of times. Cade Cunningham got into foul trouble in the third frame but also earned 11 free throws himself — a stat that agitated Adelman after the game in contrast to Jokic’s three. In search of a bigger power forward, the first-year head coach started playing Jokic at the four in a double-big lineup with Valanciunas to match Detroit’s size and physicality.

    Both centers started the fourth quarter after Denver had trimmed a 20-point deficit back to 13. Julian Strawther chipped in as the rally intensified, lending support on the glass and pushing the pace.

    “He was playing aggressive and trying to force the issue a little bit,” Murray. “It was good to see him just get a flow.”

    The Nuggets couldn’t buy a bucket early. They missed their first seven 3s while falling behind by double digits and shot 31.8% from the field in the first half. But they were able to linger despite a “weird energy” that Adelman wasn’t pleased with, until a disastrous two-minute stretch to end the half. Three consecutive turnovers — two by Jokic — fueled a 10-0 Pistons run that pushed the lead to 69-50. Detroit scored 26 fast break points on the night, a “ridiculous” number, Adelman said.

    “They’re handsy,” said Jokic, who was visibly frustrated by non-calls throughout the night. “They have some really good personnel. … I think the second half was much better for us.

    “We had, I’m gonna say, like a good half of basketball.”

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  • Former Jeffco school social worker pleads guilty to child sex assault

    A former Jefferson County Public Schools social worker took a deal and pleaded guilty Monday to sexually assaulting a child, court records show.

    Chloe Rose Castro, 29, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault on a child by one in a position of trust, a felony, according to Jefferson County court records. The plea deal dropped a second child sex assault charge and one count of internet luring of a child from her case, court records show.

    Castro faces an open-ended, or “indeterminate,” sentence that will last from a minimum of four years to a maximum of life in prison when she is sentenced on April 2, according to a news release from the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

    The woman was arrested in November 2024 after the victim’s parents found “evidence of a sexual relationship” and reported Castro to the Arvada Police Department, prosecutors said in the release.

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  • Power restored to thousands in Denver area after Sunday outages

    UPDATE: Widespread power outages caused by failed Xcel Energy transformer

    More than 185,000 customers were left in the dark on Sunday as widespread power outages hit the Denver area, according to energy utility officials.

    During the peak of Sunday’s outages, roughly 44,000 Core Electric Cooperative customers and 145,000 Xcel Energy customers were without power, according to the two utilities.

    The widespread power outages also caused disruptions at Denver International Airport and law enforcement agencies across the southeast metro area.

    As of 5:15 p.m. Sunday, all but a handful of Core Electric‘s power outages had been resolved, according to the utility’s outage map. Just 30 minutes earlier, reported outages included:

    • 23,416 customers in Arapahoe County,
    • 20,242 customers in Douglas County,
    • 692 customers in Elbert County,
    • And 1 customer in Adams County.

    The cause of the outages remained under investigation Sunday evening, Core Electric spokesperson Amber King said.

    Xcel Energy spokesperson Michelle Aguayo confirmed in an email to The Denver Post that “a large outage” also impacted as many as 145,000 of that utility’s customers in the southeast metro area.

    As of 5:47 p.m. Sunday, power had been restored to all Xcel Energy customers, Aguayo said.

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  • Two Denver suburbs eye new oversight of their police departments

    Two Front Range cities are eyeing more oversight for their police departments.

    Lakewood’s City Council voted last week to “work toward the establishment” of an independent civilian oversight board for the city’s police department. And in Aurora, the city set aside about $330,000 this year to fund an Office of Police Accountability — even as city officials say they are still considering how oversight should be structured.

    The creation of an independent oversight board in Lakewood would put the city into the company of just a handful of Front Range cities with such boards, including Denver and Boulder. The push for more oversight came to a head in Lakewood after the death of Jax Gratton, a 34-year-old transgender woman who disappeared in April and was found dead in June.

    Lakewood police faced criticism for their handling of the case, including for announcing Gratton’s death by using her deadname and, later, for a lack of transparency about the investigation. Gratton’s case spurred the move toward an oversight committee, but the push is also rooted in wider issues around trust between police and community, Lakewood Councilwoman Isabel Cruz said.

    “Although this specific incident really brought this to the fore, and the demands of community activists really pushed us, it is rooted in a lot of different conversations,” she said.

    City Council members overwhelmingly voted Jan. 26 to create a 12-month committee to work toward the creation of a permanent oversight board. The temporary committee will have access to police records, completed internal affairs investigations and body-worn camera footage, and will be able to review complaints submitted to the police department.

    At the end of the 12-month period, the committee will report to the City Council about how a permanent police oversight committee would be staffed and structured, among other recommendations.

    Council members will then have the power to move forward with the permanent board or end the oversight effort.

    Lakewood Police Department spokesman John Romero declined to comment on the push for oversight. About three dozen police officers packed last week’s council meeting, where Lakewood police Agent Quinn Pratt-Cordova, an executive board member of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 21, spoke against independent oversight.

    An oversight board would be redundant, he said, and could damage officers’ trust in the city. Such oversight might “deter top talent,” from the police department, Pratt-Cordova said.

    “Civilian oversight boards are rare and often follow severe systemic issues like those in other cities, issues that the majority of you don’t agree exist in the local police department,” Pratt-Cordova told council members. “The unnecessary creation of an oversight board attempts to apply an unwarranted national narrative to Lakewood PD.”

    Lakewood Mayor Wendi Strom said she hopes any permanent effort will be aimed at improving police-community relations in ways that go beyond traditional independent oversight.

    “The oversight word, I think, it is a big sticking point and one that — especially for folks within the public safety realm — has a very specific meaning,” she said in an interview. “So what we end up with, it is hard to tell. But for me, and I think City Council has been pretty clear on this in multiple conversations over the last month, the end goal is ultimately to help our community members feel more comfortable reaching out when there is a need.”

    In Denver, city officials created a citizen oversight board in 2004 after a Denver police officer shot and killed Paul Childs, a developmentally disabled 15-year-old boy. Boulder’s citizen oversight panel — which recently saw its reach curtailed — followed a 2019 incident in which an officer pulled a gun on a Black student who was picking up trash outside his home.

    In Aurora, the police department entered into a consent decree — court-ordered reforms overseen by an independent monitor — after the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after Aurora police officers violently restrained him and paramedics injected him with a too-large dose of a powerful sedative.

    McClain’s death was part of a pattern of racial bias and excessive force within the Aurora Police Department, state officials later found.

    Aurora City Manager Jason Batchelor hopes the city’s two-person Office of Police Accountability will serve as an independent monitor for the police department when police exit the consent decree and are no longer under the supervision of the court-ordered monitor. The creation of such a position is a requirement of the consent decree.

    The new office would report to the city manager, Batchelor said, but would be created with built-in protections aimed at ensuring its independence, including putting into city ordinance the office’s right to have free and unfettered access to information and budgetary safeguards to ensure it could not be defunded by the city manager. The protections would mirror Aurora’s approach to its internal auditor, which operates independently and would work in tandem with the new office, Batchelor said.

    “I don’t get to tell the internal auditor, ‘That might make me look bad, don’t publish that,’” Batchelor said. “That can’t happen.”

    The Office of Police Accountability, which Batchelor hopes to be ready to hire for in a few months, would have “contemporaneous oversight” of any city investigation, he said. The office would not oversee police discipline and would not conduct its own investigations into police misconduct. Instead, the employees would be able to flag problems or concerns about such investigations to Batchelor, the City Council or to the public.

    Aurora Councilwoman Amy Wiles, who has helped to organize community meetings to discuss police oversight as recently as this week, said residents need a neutral place to report police misconduct.

    “Right now, if you want to report something — you had a poor interaction with a police officer or you feel something wasn’t right — to call and report that is a bit invasive. You have to call the police department,” she said. “…So we are hoping this provides that level of security to community to say, ‘Hey if something went wrong, here is this neutral person you can reach out to.’”

    The Office of Police Accountability could receive complaints of police misconduct directly from the public, Batchelor said, and then would “partner with the (police) department to make sure that any complaints are fully investigated.”

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  • Three people charged in connection with fatal Thornton home invasion, shooting

    Three people were charged in connection with a fatal home invasion shooting that happened last month in Thornton, the Thornton Police Department announced Monday on social media.

    Thornton Police arrested three suspects on Jan. 14 after a burglary in the 9600 block of Huron Street resulted in a shooting that killed one person, according to Thornton police.

    The case was presented to the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, which filed the following charges:

    Vincent Rios was charged with possession with intent to manufacture or distribute a controlled substance. Leo Bonavich was charged with first-degree burglary and a crime of violence. Richard Hernandez was charged with first-degree burglary, vehicular eluding and a crime of violence.

    Police responded to the situation after a 911 call came in about gunshots in the 9600 block of Huron Street around 4:30 a.m.

    The caller described a “suspect vehicle. Police saw the vehicle leaving the area and started chasing it. Police stopped the vehicle by hitting it near West 56th Avenue and Federal Boulevard, just off of Interstate 76

    Four people were inside the vehicle, including one man who had been fatally shot. The remaining three suspects were arrested, including one who tried to flee the scene on foot.

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  • Colorado Springs officer, suspect injured in shooting, police say

    An officer and a suspect were injured Monday afternoon in a Colorado Springs shooting involving police, according to the department.

    The Colorado Springs Police Department first posted about the shooting in the 2600 block of East Bijou Street in East Colorado Springs at 2:48 p.m. Monday.

    Around 1:30 p.m. Monday, CSPD Tactical Enforcement Unit and the Colorado Parole Fugitive Apprehension Unit were in the area of East Bijou Street and Balfour Avenue conducting a “fugitive apprehension operation,” CSPD said. After the operation, CSPD officers contacted a suspicious man in the same area, CSPD said. The man ran away, took out a handgun and a shot a CSPD officer, police said. Two CSPD officers then returned fire, shooting the suspect.

    The suspect and the officer were taken to a local hospital. The officer sustained “serious but non-life-threatening” gunshot wound, police said. The suspect is in critical condition.

    The identity of the injured officer and the suspect are not being released at this time, CSPD said. The El Paso County Sheriff’s office is assuming responsibility for the investigation.

    This is the second Colorado Springs police shooting in three days.

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  • Skier injured, airlifted to hospital from Eldora Mountain in Boulder County

    A skier sustained a head injury at Eldora Mountain Resort and was taken to the hospital by helicopter on Monday afternoon.

    About 1:08 p.m., the Boulder County Communications center received a report that a skier had a head injury, according to Carrie Haverfield, a Boulder County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson. The skier, a 24-year-old man, was seen sliding down one of the runs and was believed to have a head injury, Haverfield said.

    No one saw the man hit his head, and there was no visible trauma to the man or his helmet, she said.

    The man was taken to the hospital by a Med Evac helicopter.

    Eldora’s ski patrol, the Nederland Fire Protection District, American Medical Response and the sheriff’s office responded to the call.

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  • Ice resurfacing driver dies after collision on northern Colorado rink

    An ice resurfacing machine driver died last week in northern Colorado after colliding with an overhead door at a Fort Collins ice rink, city officials said.

    The fatal collision happened shortly after noon on Tuesday at the Edora Pool Ice Center (EPIC), according to a news release from the city of Fort Collins.

    Ice resurfacing machines are often referred to as Zambonis, but the details of the exact machine being driven at the time of the crash remained unknown Sunday.

    City officials said the driver was injured when the resurfacing machine backed into a partially open overhead door at the rink. Paramedics took the driver to the hospital, where the driver later died, according to the release.

    No other staff or EPIC visitors were injured, Fort Collins officials said.

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  • Colorado snowplow driver on administrative leave after fatal I-70 crash

    The snowplow driver who lost control last week on Interstate 70 and swerved into oncoming traffic has been placed on administrative leave amid the fatal crash investigation, state officials said.

    State patrol officials hope to complete the crash investigation within four weeks, but “many factors play into that timeframe,” Colorado State Patrol spokesperson Ivan Alvarado said Monday.

    The driver of a van carrying a youth hockey team headed to Denver for the Western Girls Hockey League weekend died in the Thursday morning crash on I-70 near Herman Gulch, and eight people in the van were injured, according to state patrol officials.

    The Clear Creek County Coroner’s Office identified the driver killed in the crash as 38-year-old Manuel Alejandro Lorenzana Villegas from Chatsworth, California. His cause of death remained under investigation on Monday, Chief Deputy Coroner Nichol Nelson said.

    Lorenzana Villegas was the father of one of the players on the youth hockey team, the Santa Clarita Lady Flyers, according to reporting from Denver7.

    A snowplow on westbound I-70 lost control in the snow shortly before 9 a.m. Thursday, crashing through the median and hitting a Toyota Tacoma in the eastbound lanes, state patrol officials said. The impact sent the Tacoma back across the median, where it hit a westbound BMW.

    State investigators said the snow plow then hit the Ford Transit van carrying the girls’ hockey team from California, sending the van down an embankment. The agency previously identified the vehicle as a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van.

    Three adults and four juveniles in the van were taken to Denver Health by ambulance, hospital officials said in a statement.

    A fifth juvenile passenger was airlifted to a separate trauma center with critical injuries, according to the state patrol. No other injuries were reported.

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  • One man dead after domestic disturbance in Brighton on Sunday

    The Brighton Police Department is investigating a fatal domestic disturbance that happened on Sunday night.

    The incident happened in the area of Beldock Street and Chavez Street, according to Brighton Police Department.

    Police responded to a disturbance in which a 48-year-old man fired a gun inside a home, BPD said. The suspect barricaded himself inside the home, police said, while police tried to communicate with him.

    Commerce City-Brighton SWAT team and crisis negotiators tried to communicate with the suspect, police said, but the man fired “several shots” at police. BPD said the officers did not return fire. No officers were injured during the incident, BPD said.

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  • Colorado staple Applejack Wine & Spirits sells to Florida company

    Applejack Wine & Spirits, a staple of the Denver area since the 1960s, has been sold to ABC Fine Wine & Spirits in Orlando, Florida.

    ABC, one of the country’s largest family-owned and operated alcohol beverage retailers, announced the purchase Friday. The company said in a statement that the sale marks its first out-of-state acquisition in 90 years and is the start of plans to expand nationwide.

    “This is a milestone in ABC’s history and a major step toward our overall expansion plans,” said Charles Bailes III, ABC chairman and CEO. “Applejack has an exceptional reputation in the industry and is an iconic beverage retailer in Colorado.”

    Applejack was founded in 1961 in Wheat Ridge. It also has stores in Thornton and Colorado Springs.

    Former Applejack CEO and owner Jim Shpall said he has known Bailes for about 30 years and called ABC “great, great operators.”

    Shpall said Herb Becker was Applejack’s original owner. The store opened in the Applewood shopping center in Wheat Ridge. At that time, Interstate 70 didn’t reach past Wadsworth Boulevard or Kipling Street, Sphall said.

    Alan Freis, Shpall’s father-in-law, bought the business in 1980.

    “I had been practicing law. An opportunity arose to go into the business and I started at Applejack in 1994,” Shpall said. “Effectively, until just now, in 65 years of history, it has been run by just three people.”

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  • 18-year-old pedestrian dies after Aurora hit-and-run, police say

    An 18-year-old pedestrian died Saturday after being injured in an Aurora hit-and-run 11 days earlier, police said.

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  • Suspect arrested on suspicion of sexual assault at Aurora park

    A 21-year-old Aurora man was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault after police say he attacked a woman walking on the High Line Canal Trail in Expo Park in May.

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  • PHOTOS: Immigration protests in Denver as part of nationwide protests in opposition of the Trump administration’s policies.

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Students march down 16th Street Mall as part of nationwide protests in opposition to the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement actions in Minnesota, on Friday, Jan. 30, 2026, in Denver. (Photo by Timothy Hurst/The Denver Post)

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  • Latino trailblazer Manuel Martinez mourned in Denver

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    He served under Mayor Federico Peña in two different roles and was one of the first Latinos to graduate from Colorado College

    Manuel Martinez memorial illustration

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    Manuel L. Martinez, a trailblazing Latino leader in Denver’s government, died earlier this month.

    Martinez was the first Latino manager of safety for the city Denver, as well as the first Latino director of the licensing department. He died Jan. 7 at age 74.

    Martinez moved to Colorado from Utah when he was a child. He became one of the first Latinos to graduate from Colorado College in 1974, where he studied history. While in undergrad, he took a leave of absence to work with César Chávez and the United Farm Workers on their campaign for labor rights for agricultural workers. He got his law degree from UCLA in 1978.

    Martinez worked as a public defender and later served as manager of safety for the city and county of Denver, overseeing the Denver Police Department, as well as the fire and sheriff departments.

    He was also the director of the Department of Excise and Licenses, now known as the Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection. He was appointed to both roles by Mayor Federico Peña.

    After his time in city government, he became a partner at the law firm Holme Roberts & Owen and eventually Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. He continued to focus on licensing, as well as gaming and land laws.

    Martinez was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association in 2013.

    He was a board member of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fun, served on the National Board of Directors for the Volunteers of America, was a trustee of The Denver Foundation and was a trustee of the Children’s Hospital Foundation.

    Martinez was the chairman of the Denver chapter of the Colorado Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in the ‘90s, a board member of the Denver Chamber of Commerce and senior vice president for the Colorado Bar Association.

    He is survived by his wife, Pat Cortez, his children, Leticia Martinez, Manuel E. Martinez, Jovan Muniz, and Devin Muniz — as well as seven grandchildren, one great-grandchild, his brother, Christopher Martinez, and his sisters, Christine Resendez and Marietta Ziobron.

    His family held two memorial services on Thursday and requested donations to the Denver Art Museum in lieu of flowers. A press release did not disclose a cause of death but said that he died peacefully.

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  • Colorado has the most Olympic Games athletes on Team USA for Milan Cortina

    The Centennial State is fueling Team USA’s hopes for Olympic glory.

    Colorado has the most representatives on the Team USA roster for the 2026 Milan Cortina Games that begin next week. Of the 232 athletes on Team USA, the largest American Winter Olympics team ever, 32 are from Colorado.

    Colorado athletes comprise 13.8% of the total Team USA roster. The other states most heavily represented are Minnesota (26 athletes), California (21), Utah (17), Michigan (15), Massachusetts (15), New York (14) and Wisconsin (11). In total, Team USA draws from 32 states.

    Notable local headliners for the Milano Cortina Games include record-setting Alpine skiers Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn, Carolina Hurricanes defenseman and Colorado College alum Jaccob Slavin, snowboarder Red Gerard, the figure skating pair of Danny O’Shea and Ellie Kam, and freestyle skiing siblings Birk Irving and Svea Irving.

    Colorado is most well represented in skiing, with 18 skiers total: eight freestyle skiers, four Alpine skiers, two ski jumpers, two Nordic skiers, one Nordic combined skier and one ski mountaineer.

    In addition to the 32 Coloradans on Team USA, the Avalanche also have eight representatives in the Olympics: Brock Nelson for the U.S., Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar and Devon Toews for Canada, Artturi Lehkonen and Joel Kiviranta for Finland, Martin Necas for Czechia and Gabriel Landeskog (who has been injured) for Sweden.

    Here is the list of the Coloradans headed to the Olympics, according to Team USA’s official roster. This list includes a Paralympian, sled hockey player Malik Jones, though the U.S. Paralympic roster won’t be set until March 2. It also includes some athletes who are not native to Colorado but currently live here, and also does not include some Olympians who reside here but do not identify Colorado as their home state.

    Coloradans in the 2026 Winter Olympics

    Jaccob Slavin of the United States takes questions during media day ahead of the 2025 NHL 4 Nations Face-Off at the Bell Centre on February 11, 2025 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images)

    Annika Belshaw, Steamboat Springs — Ski jumping

    Chase Blackwell, Longmont — Snowboarding

    Jake Canter, Silverthorne — Snowboarding

    Jason Colby, Steamboat Springs — Ski jumping

    Lily Dhawornvej, Copper Mountain — Snowboarding

    Alex Ferreira, Aspen — Freestyle skiing

    Stacy Gaskill, Golden — Snowboarding

    Red Gerard, Silverthorne — Snowboarding

    Birk Irving, Winter Park — Freestyle skiing

    Svea Irving, Winter Park — Freestyle skiing

    Riley Jacobs, Oak Creek — Freestyle skiing

    Tess Johnson, Vail — Freestyle skiing

    Malik Jones, Aurora — Sled hockey

    Lauren Jortberg, Boulder — Nordic skiing

    Ellie Kam, Colorado Springs — Figure skating

    Elizabeth Lemley, Vail — Freestyle skiing

    Niklas Malacinski, Steamboat Springs — Nordic combined skiing

    Oliver Martin, Vail — Snowboarding

    Charlie Mickel, Durango — Freestyle skiing

    Kyle Negomir, Littleton — Alpine skiing

    Danny O’Shea, Colorado Springs — Figure skating

    Jake Pates, Eagle — Snowboarding

    Hunter Powell, Fort Collins — Bobsled

    River Radamus, Edwards — Alpine skiing

    Madeline Schaffrick, Steamboat Springs — Snowboarding

    Mikaela Shiffrin, Edwards — Alpine skiing

    Jaccob Slavin, Erie — Hockey

    Cam Smith, Crested Butte — Ski mountaineering

    Hailey Swirbul, El Jebel — Nordic skiing

    Lindsey Vonn, Vail — Alpine skiing

    Landon Wendler, Steamboat Springs — Freestyle skiing

    Cody Winters, Steamboat Springs — Snowboarding

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  • Man dies in custody at Denver’s Downtown Detention Center

    A man died after he was found unresponsive in a housing unit at the Downtown Detention Center early Tuesday morning, the Denver Sheriff Department said in a news release.

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  • Nuggets’ David Adelman reacts to Minneapolis unrest, shooting of Alex Pretti: ‘Let’s not shoot each other’

    David Adelman couldn’t make sense of what he was watching, but he could make out the neighborhood. Minneapolis was his first NBA home. He knew the city well. Just not in this ravaged state.

    “That’s a great community of people,” the first-year head coach of the Nuggets said. “I lived there for five years. And it was just so weird to see exactly where it was in the city, because I knew exactly where it was. And from the drone shot, it looked like a war zone. And that’s the country we live in.”

    Before the Nuggets hosted the Pistons on Tuesday night, Adelman took a moment to reflect on the unrest in Minneapolis and the death of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse who was fatally shot by federal agents last Saturday.

    “Just as a human being, that’s really hard to watch,” he said. “I’d say beyond that, if you want to look at this in layers, how do you explain it to your kids? It’s tough. My kids are of an age where they know what’s going on. Watching that video and trying to explain it to them makes you realize that I don’t know what the hell is going on either.”

    The NBA postponed last Saturday’s game between the Timberwolves and Warriors “to prioritize the safety and security of the Minneapolis community” after the shooting of Pretti, according to a statement from the league.

    The game was made up on Sunday, with anti-ICE chants echoing through Target Center at the end of a pregame moment of silence for Pretti. The day before Pretti’s death, mass protests had been held in Minneapolis speaking out against the federal government’s deployment of ICE to enforce Donald Trump’s immigration policy. Renee Good was shot and killed on Jan. 7 in Minneapolis amid the crackdown.

    “For the second time in less than three weeks, we’ve lost another beloved member of our community in the most unimaginable way,” Timberwolves coach Chris Finch said through tears on Sunday. “As an organization, we are heartbroken for what we are having to witness and endure and watch. We just want to extend our thoughts, prayers and concern for Mr. Pretti, family, all the loved ones and everyone involved in such an unconscionable situation in a community that we really love, full of people who are, by nature, peaceful and prideful. We just stand in support of our great community here.”

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  • University of Denver creates professorship in Holocaust and antisemitism studies

    The University of Denver is aiming to become a global hub for scholarship on the Holocaust, abuses of power, racism, hatred and antisemitism, with a goal of spurring other universities to do the same.

    DU leaders said they’ll announce the school’s first endowed professorship in Holocaust and antisemitism studies at a gathering in the state Capitol with Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday, which is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

    The professorship represents “a permanent commitment not only to remembrance but to making Denver a global hub for thoughtful Holocaust education and applied scholarship that helps future generations foster social change,” DU Provost Elizabeth Loboa said in a statement.

    Polis and survivors of the Holocaust — Colorado residents Osi Sladek and Barbara Steinmetz — will commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a Nazi death camp.

    At the noon event, Sladek is expected to read from his memoir, which recounts his escape from persecution into the Tatra mountains along Slovakia’s border with Poland. He later served in the Israeli Army and became a folk singer in California before settling in Denver. The Denver Young Artists Orchestra and DeVotchKa’sTom Hagerman will perform music by Sladek’s father using his violin.

    Steinmetz fled Europe on a boat that carried her to the Dominican Republic, where she found refuge. She’ll share a “Letter to the Future.”

    DU officials over the past two years have been working on this project, said Adam Rovner, an English professor who directs DU’s Center for Judaic Studies, within the College of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

    “We just think it is simply important that we remain vigilant in our society to guard against abuses of power and racism, hatred, and antisemitism,” Rovner said. “We think this position is much-needed at DU and in higher education.”

    One purpose of studying manifestations of antisemitism in the 20th century “is so that people can consider the contemporary manifestations of antisemitism, and decide based on scholarly rigor whether there are threats to Jewish people and other groups,” Rovner said.

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  • RTD agrees to share camera feeds with Aurora police

    AURORA, Colo. — The Aurora City Council on Monday night approved an agreement between the Regional Transportation District (RTD) and Aurora police, which will allow APD access to RTD’s camera feeds in the city.

    Those cameras are placed on RTD property, including dozens of bus and rail stations.

    “We’ve never had to clear any hurdles with them providing that footage to us,” Aurora Sgt. Matthew Longshore told Denver7. “This is just one of those elements now that we actually have footage readily available to our investigators or our officers, in that real time… We would be able to view it live. We’d be able to go back 12, 24 hours to kind of view what happened previously.”

    Longshore called the agreement an expansion of the agencies’ already strong partnership.”

    “This is about public safety,” he said. “The more eyes we have in the community, the better.”

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    A passenger moves across an RTD light rail platform.

    This is the latest example of Aurora police promoting technology as a potential solution to fight crime. In the fall, the department gained approval to use artificial intelligence facial recognition technology.

    But that move and others, including the use of drones and automated license plate cameras known as Flock cameras, have sparked privacy and transparency concerns in Aurora and around the Denver metro.

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    A public commenter from the Denver Aurora Community Action Committee spoke out against the AI facial technology and increased surveillance in general during Monday’s Aurora City Council meeting.

    “You cannot impose surveillance technology on a community that does not trust you, and that distrust is earned,” she said. “How can we possibly trust APD with this tool when there is a non-zero chance they will share our faces and data with agencies like ICE?”

    “You ask us to trust a pipeline of surveillance that leads directly to deportation and death.”

    APD says the cameras are only meant to respond to 911 calls or to address broader crime trends.

    “If you know, we have an increase in crime, or if there’s something suspicious happening in the area,” Longshore said. “There’s typically an audit log that’s available on all of our cameras, so we can see who’s viewing it and when. There are certain things in place to be able to make sure that officers are doing things specifically for certain reasons.

    Denver7 reached out to RTD for comment on the agreement and is waiting to hear back.

    RTD agrees to share camera feeds with Aurora Police

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