Recalls This Week: Flashlights, Bicycle Shocks

Longtime Denver journalist Marilyn Robinson, who broke into a male-dominated news industry and set a standard for tenacious and accurate police reporting over 45 years, died on Saturday at the age of 89. Former colleagues remembered her as a 5-foot-3, Keds tennis shoe-clad woman with enormous grit. Through multiple casts of owners and editors at The Denver Post, Robinson carefully gathered information on law enforcement and crime, then produced thousands of reports conveying the hard side of a rapidly expanding city. Robinson relied on relentless questioning, modeling the methods and core values of journalism to inform the public — even when the news was horrific and unwelcome, such as the murder of JonBenet Ramsey and the Columbine High School tragedy, for which The Post won a Pulitzer Prize. She worked mostly in the newsroom beneath towering stacks of old newspapers and her notes, making countless calls to dispatchers, desk sergeants and frontline officers from the old landline telephones, sometimes with a phone on each ear, sustaining herself on coffee, Pepsi, popcorn and yogurt.

Four Red Lobster restaurants in metro Denver appear to have closed as the company shutters locations nationwide. On Monday, local and national news outlets reported dozens of Red Lobster closures, from Watertown, N. Y to Sacramento, Calif. Related Articles Restaurants, Food and Drink | Sushi Den reopens for lunch service four years after start of pandemic Restaurants, Food and Drink | Misfit Snack Bar will close its East Colfax spot at Middleman Restaurants, Food and Drink | In-N-Out opening next Colorado location in Arvada Restaurants, Food and Drink | Snooze spending $3.5 million to update original Ballpark location and move Union Station restaurant Restaurants, Food and Drink | Gastamo plans new restaurants in Central Park, Westminster, Parker In Colorado, restaurants in Denver (8268 E.

Eastbound Interstate 70 reopened at Quebec Street after a crash closed the highway Monday afternoon, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation. Eastbound I-70 reopened at 5:51 p.m., approximately 90 minutes after CDOT announced the closure and said drivers in the area should expect delays. The Denver Police Department said on social media that the injury crash involved three motorists, with one person taken to a local hospital. No further information about the crash was immediately available. This is a developing story and will be updated. Get more Colorado news by signing up for our Mile High Roundup email newsletter.

1st Lt. Zachary Galli (Photo via U. S. Army) A 23-year-old Fort Carson soldier was killed in a training accident in Louisiana, Army officials announced Monday. First Lt. Zachary Galli, an explosive ordnance disposal officer, was killed in a “non-combat related training accident” at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Johnson in Vernon Parish, Louisiana. Army officials provided few details about the accident in a news release Monday afternoon, only stating it was under investigation.

The Colorado Avalanche has been the NHL’s best offense in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but it might get a needed boost against the stingy Dallas Stars. Jonathan Drouin skated in his normal spot with the first power-play unit Monday morning and could return to the Avs lineup in Game 4 against the Stars at Ball Arena. “He’s a good player — really good player,” Avs coach Jared Bednar said.

As the spring semester comes to a close, protests demanding an end to the Israel-Hamas war continue to spread at Colorado colleges, with a new encampment at the University of Denver and disturbances reported at graduation ceremonies last weekend for the University of Colorado Denver and Metropolitan State University of Denver. A group called DU for Palestine set up a Gaza solidarity encampment at DU’s Carnegie Green on Thursday, mirroring the efforts of the Denver Students for a Democratic Society and Colorado Palestine Coalition, who began an encampment at the Auraria Campus on April 25. DU administrators shared a new interim policy on protests and demonstrations that day, creating guidelines for acceptable demonstrations and prohibiting those that disrupt meetings or events, impede other DU community members from engaging in free expression, or harm people or property.