Chargers Have Leverage In Stadium Negotiations

Thornton police shot and killed a man who officials say fired at an officer near the Margaret Carpenter Recreation Center on Tuesday morning. A little before 8 a.m. Tuesday, a police officer tried to pull over a car driving erratically near the East 112th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard intersection in Thornton, according to a news release from the Thornton Police Department. The driver, an adult male, fled on foot, officials said. A different police officer found the man in a parking lot near the recreation center in the 11100 block of Colorado Boulevard, according to the department.

With an estimated 220 proposed housing projects still in the planning department’s review queue after an unprecedented rush to beat new affordability regulations in 2022, the Denver City Council on Monday voted to extend approval deadlines for those projects into next year. The deadline for all project plans that still qualify for the city’s Expanding Housing Affordability program grace period to receive final approval is now April 18, 2025.

Police cited 10 more pro-Palestine demonstrators on charges of trespassing, interference and disturbing the peace Monday after the group refused to leave an Auraria Campus building, according to school officials. Around 4 p.m. Monday, more than a dozen protesters marched from the 19-day-old Gaza solidarity encampment on the Tivoli Quad to the University of Colorado Denver Student Commons and entered the Bursar’s Office on the fifth floor, according to an Auraria Campus news release. Officials told protesters to leave and the campus was put on lockdown around 4:45 p.m.

A U. S. appeals court in Denver is set to hear arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by six members of a University of Wyoming sorority who are challenging the admission of a transgender woman into their local chapter. A judge in Wyoming threw out the lawsuit last year, ruling that he could not override how the private, voluntary organization defined a woman and order that she not belong. The case at Wyoming’s only four-year public university has drawn widespread attention as transgender people fight for more acceptance in schools, athletics, workplaces and elsewhere, while others push back. In their lawsuit, six members of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority chapter challenge Artemis Langford’s admission by casting doubt on whether sorority rules allowed a transgender woman. The lawsuit and appeal describe in detail how Langford’s presence made the women feel uncomfortable in the sorority house in Laramie, Wyoming, yet sorority leaders overrode their concerns after a vote by the local chapter members to admit Langford. Last summer, Wyoming U.

Scattered showers and storms are expected to continue across the state, according to the National Weather Service. The mountains will see light showers this morning, with scattered showers and storms spreading to the urban corridor, plains and valleys this afternoon. Today will be partly sunny and breezy in the Denver metro area with a high of 77 degrees and a 40% chance of precipitation, mainly after 2 p.m.

By DAVID BAUDER (AP Media Writer) NEW YORK (AP) — At first glance, Jed Rosenzweig’s new venture would seem like a fool’s errand: launching a digital news site during brutal economic times for the media to cover an industry that, by traditional measures, is waning in influence. That didn’t dissuade him. LateNighter, a website and newsletter that follows late-night television comedy, began operations in February. There’s been plenty to chew on since then, including Jon Stewart’s return to “The Daily Show,” John Mulaney’s new Netflix show, Jimmy Kimmel’s feud with Donald Trump,Conan O’Brien resurfacing online and South Dakota Gov.