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Biden focuses on climate, families in trimmed $2T plan

By: The Associated Press

By LISA MASCARO, ALAN FRAM and MATTHEW DALY WASHINGTON (AP) — Scaling down his “build back better” plans, President Joe Biden on Tuesday described a more limited vision to Democratic lawmakers of a $2 trillion government-overhaul package with at least $500 billion to tackle climate change and money for middle-class...

By: Mike Chambers

WASHINGTON — Nathan MacKinnon was expected to spark the shorthanded Avalanche in his season debut on Tuesday. Instead, Colorado fell to 1-2 on the season in a game its superstar center might not have been prepared to play. MacKinnon, who missed the Avs’ first two games while in COVID protocol,...

By: The New York Times News Service Syndicate

In 2010, after he and his wife lost their house in suburban Denver in the wake of the recession, Jonathan Toebbe began repeatedly telling friends he needed to “provide for his family.” A talented graduate student with a Ph.D. project that would have taken him to a career working with...

By: Mark Kiszla

If Nikola Jokic plays like the MVP and Tim Connelly’s big $250 million bet on Michael Porter Jr. and Aaron Gordon pays off, you will have a better chance of watching the Nuggets on Comcast than seeing injured Jamal Murray on the court before March 1. And that could be...

By: Mary Clare Jalonick, Farnoush Amiri

WASHINGTON — A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection voted unanimously Tuesday to hold former White House aide Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress after the longtime ally of former President Donald Trump defied a subpoena for documents and testimony. Still defending his supporters who broke into the...

By: Mary Clare Jalonick, Jill Colvin, Colleen Long

By MARY CLARE JALONICK and FARNOUSH AMIRI WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection voted unanimously Tuesday to hold former White House aide Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress after the longtime ally of former President Donald Trump defied a subpoena for documents and testimony....

By: Joe Nguyen

The Nuggets kick off their 2021-22 campaign with much optimism and plenty of hurdles. The team doubled down on the belief in its talent after re-signing Will Barton, Aaron Gordon and JaMychal Green and extending Michael Porter Jr.’s contract. But is this team strong enough to contend for a title,...

By: Kim Chandler

PHENIX CITY, Ala. — Sometimes when she’s feeding her infant daughter, Amanda Harrison is overcome with emotion and has to wipe away tears of gratitude. She is lucky to be here, holding her baby. Harrison was 29 weeks pregnant and unvaccinated when she got sick with COVID-19 in August. Her...

By: John Aguilar

The Tri-County Health Department is set to lose a second member next year, with Adams County on Tuesday announcing that it will vote on a resolution next week declaring its intention to depart a health agency that until last month served 1.5 million people across a broad sweep of the...

By: Sam Tabachnik

Lakewood Police DepartmentPatricia Smith “Semen and similarities.” With those words, the prosecution opened its case Tuesday afternoon against Alex Ewing, the man standing trial in Jefferson County in connection with the gruesome killing of 50-year-old Patricia Smith in her Lakewood home 37 years ago. Prosecutors made clear that they intend...

By: Kieran Nicholson

Flair Airlines, a Canadian “low-cost” carrier, is expanding and it will provide service between Denver International Airport and Toronto starting next spring. Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, Flair will fly from DIA to Toronto Pearson International Airport three times weekly beginning April 15, the airline announced Tuesday. “Expanding Denver’s global connectivity...

By: The Associated Press

By LISA MASCARO and MATTHEW DALY WASHINGTON (AP) — With a centerpiece of President Joe Biden’s climate change strategy all but dashed, Democratic lawmakers headed to the White House Tuesday searching for new ways to narrow, reshape and swiftly wrap up negotiations on what had been his sweeping $3.5 trillion...

By: Kieran Nicholson

Four Colorado Springs police officers involved in the shooting of an armed bank robbery suspect have been identified. The police shooting happened at about 4 p.m. Oct. 7 at Maizeland Road and North Academy Boulevard, police said. Related Articles Man who shot Cherry Hills Village officer is sentenced to 44...

By: Mike Singer, Matt Schubert

NBA history is littered with examples of teams being derailed by an injury to a star player. One of the best books written on the league — David Halberstam’s “Breaks of the Game” — centers around one such instance. Hint: It didn’t end well. With the Nuggets looking to clear a...

By: Meg Wingerter

Denver-area residents who buy their health insurance on the individual marketplace will once again have an option that includes UCHealth in its network, making it cheaper for them to get care within the health system. Last year, UCHealth and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield failed to reach an agreement...

By: Kieran Nicholson

Eight stolen vehicles and more than $140,000 in tools and other items stolen from throughout the metro area have been recovered as part of an ongoing investigation, according to the Weld County Sheriff’s Office. Two suspects have been arrested in the case which began on Sept. 1 when deputies responded...

By: Jeffrey Collins

By JEFFREY COLLINS COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge denied bond Tuesday for a prominent South Carolina attorney who has become embroiled in two multimillion-dollar insurance fraud cases months after he found his wife and son dead in their home. The judge said Alex Murdaugh’s considerable financial resources and mental...

By: Sean Keeler

BOULDER — The bean-counters at CU might have enjoyed the financial windfall from all those Nebraska Cornhuskers fans taking over Folsom Field in September 2019. Buffs men’s basketball coach Tad Boyle didn’t enjoy it. At all. “That was embarrassing to me,” the longtime CU coach said of seeing a Buffs...