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The Rockies’ wobbly bullpen received some much-needed support Friday. In the wake of their relievers’ workload and reoccurring meltdown, the club made a pair of roster moves ahead of its game against the Phillies. The Rockies called up right-hander John Curtiss and Matt Carasiti from Triple-A Albuquerque. To make room on the 26-man roster, they optioned right-hander Peter Lambert to Triple-A and designated right-hander Matt Koch for assignment.

Phone lines at Jefferson County’s emergency dispatch center are back online after a more than three-hour outage Friday night. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Jeffco Public Schools, teachers union strike deal for 5% cost-of-living raises Crime and Public Safety | More than a third of the state’s 32 largest municipalities lost population last year Crime and Public Safety | 1 killed in fiery tanker-truck crash that shut down I-70 near Morrison Crime and Public Safety | Second teen in Jeffco rock-throwing spree that killed Alexa Bartell pleads guilty to murder Crime and Public Safety | Kids living near Colorado airports have slightly elevated levels of lead in their blood, new study finds The communication center’s 911 lines went down around 4 p.m., officials said in a post on X.

The way this ended will stick with the Nuggets for much longer than one offseason. It’ll be remembered as one of the more painful what-if moments in Denver sports history. Whether the Nuggets would have repeated as champions will never be answered. It’s easy to conflate one climactic failure with the full body of work.

Cherry Creek used stellar pitching to set the tone for the Class 5A state baseball tournament. Starters Wyatt Rudden and Ryan Falke combined to allow one run while striking out 15 batters in the Bruins’ first- and second-round victories at All-Star Park in Lakewood on Friday. Rudden whiffed nine in an 8-0 win over Chaparral in the morning before Falke delivered a strong performance in Game 2 against Grandview.

Westbound Interstate 70 reopened near Loveland Pass after a crash closed the highway, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. The highway reopened at 4:14 p.m. The road was closed from exit 216 for U. S. 6 over Loveland Pass to exit 205 for Silverthorne at 3:37 p.m., the agency said in a travel alert. Related Articles Transportation | Eastbound U.

A 31-year-old man died in custody at the Douglas County Detention Center on Thursday, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. A deputy delivering dinner to the man’s cell found him unconscious and not breathing at 5:05 p.m. and started lifesaving efforts, Douglas County sheriff’s officials said Friday. The man was pronounced dead at 5:46 p.m. The man was booked into the jail less than 12 hours earlier, at 5:50 a.m., and was in a cell by himself, officials said.