Teen Drug Use Rises, Alcohol Use Declines, Survey Says

The Colorado Avalanche have flipped the script on the Winnipeg Jets in this opening-round playoff series, and now it’s time to finish the job. After losing all three matchups in the regular season, two in decisive fashion, the Avs have roared to three consecutive victories and grabbed a 3-1 lead in the series.

A former National Security Agency employee from Colorado was sentenced Monday to nearly 22 years in federal prison in connection with his attempt to sell American secrets to the Russians. Jareh Sebastian Dalke, 32, of Colorado Springs, pleaded guilty in October to six counts of attempting to transmit national defense information to a foreign government.

One of only two Byzantine Catholic congregations in Denver is looking to upgrade. Holy Protection of the Mother of God has listed its existing church building at 1201 S. Elizabeth St. with an asking price of $1.1 million. That’s $435 a square foot for the 2,600-square-foot structure, which listing agent Matt Harper said a buyer could use as a day care or residence. “It’s a very interesting architectural building,” Harper said.

Englewood police shot at an individual Monday, authorities said on X. Police did not say whether officers hit the unnamed person or whether the individual was injured. Related Articles Crime and Public Safety | Greeley officer attempting traffic stop fires gun during fight with suspect Crime and Public Safety | Jury deadlocks on murder charge for sheriff’s deputy who killed Christian Glass, convicts on lesser count Crime and Public Safety | Armed man killed in shooting with Pueblo police Crime and Public Safety | Family of man killed in Manitou Springs police shooting files civil rights lawsuit Crime and Public Safety | Trial begins for Clear Creek County sheriff’s deputy who killed Christian Glass The suspect led police on a pursuit on Santa Fe Drive before crashing at West Mineral Avenue, authorities said. The crash led to road closures on West Mineral Road. At 11:12 a.m., EPD was involved in an OIS in the area of 3325 S Santa Fe Dr.

CNN is reporting that Hunter Biden's legal team sent a cease-and-desist letter to Fox News for continuing to push the claims that Hunter Biden and his presidential father took bribes from the now disgraced Alexander Smirnov who was indicted for lying to the FBI. Now a first on CNN report, Hunter Biden's new strategy to push back against the years-long onslaught of attacks against him by conservative media. Lawyers for Hunter Biden are telling Fox News to correct the record on bribery allegations made by a discredited FBI informant or face a defamation lawsuit. CNN obtained a cease and desist letter sent to Fox last week. In it, Biden's legal team points to Fox hosts like Maria Bartiromo continuing to push claims that Hunter Biden and his father took bribes from Alexander Smirnoff, even after Smirnoff was indicted for lying to the FBI. [FOX CLIP] Bartiromo: Cheryl, you know, the issue around this charge against Smirnoff is that it may very well stop other whistleblowers from coming forward. This is an intimidation tactic.

She's baaaaack! Former crackpot Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann claims the World Health Organization has a satanic plan to create global governance. It appears Bachmann is a big Rothschild conspiracy theorist that comes from the dregs of QAnon. In my remarks, I'm going to have a chance to talk a little bit about that. If there's time to talk about the World Health Organization that is the health care arm of the United Nations, they're meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, the end of May. And they have a plan. They have a satanic plan. And that plan is to create a platform for global governance. So we'll probably be talking about that. But here's the greatest thing. In the last few weeks, as maybe you felt the same thing, as despair has come upon your mind and been on your shoulders and weighted us down to the point where we thought we could never see it get as bad as what we've seen in these last few weeks, I have to tell you, the Holy Spirit has been speaking. And the still, small voice in my spiritual mind has been fluttering. It's like a fluttering, a fluttering that goes along with springtime, that says that there is a new thing that God is doing in our midst.read more