Tag: thornton
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Danika Warren earns runner-up medal, Pine Creek places 8th at 5A state girls swimming and diving
Danika Warren nearly earned the Class 5A state diving championship. But she settled for second spot on the podium in Thornton. The Eagles sophomore finished as a runner-up Wednesday with 466.80 points in the finals at Veterans Memorial Aquatics Center and helped lead Pine Creek to an eighth-place finish at the 5A state swimming and…
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Cheyenne Mountain finishes second at state, Lewis-Palmer places fourth as Grace Perry breaks record
THORNTON — Cheyenne Mountain athletes beamed as they walked toward the podium to collect their trophy. The Red-Tailed Hawks scored 264 points and finished as runners-up Friday at Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center a year after winning the 4A championship. While the swimmers and divers were uncertain of how the two-day event would conclude, coach Kate…
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Cheyenne Mountain opens state swimming and diving with strong day, Lewis-Palmer shines in prelims
Cheyenne Mountain opened the 4A state swimming and diving meet with strong performances from its swath of competitors at Veterans Memorial Aquatics Center. Hailey Birkby led the defending champion Red-Tailed Hawks during Thursday’s prelims and finished first in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 57.72 seconds. Birkby finished second in the 50-yard freestyle at…
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Boys’ swimming and diving Peak Performer: Coronado’s Hudson Newsom built for this moment
No need to ask who placed first in the 4A 100-yard breaststroke at the state swimming and diving meet this season. Hudson Newsom is happy to share the results. Newsom entered the race at Veterans Memorial Aquatics Center in May as the top seed and that’s how the Coronado senior left the event. Newsom scorched…
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Appeals court invokes ‘drastic’ sanction, throws out multimillion-dollar claim in RTD rail construction project
Colorado’s second-highest court on Thursday determined the $5.7 million a trial judge awarded a subcontractor for its work on the Regional Transportation District’s commuter rail expansion is invalid because the company initially sought more than two times that amount without any basis for doing so. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals interpreted for…
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Thornton officer’s unlawful search prompts appeals court to overturn Adams County drug conviction
An Adams County judge wrongly allowed evidence from an unconstitutional search in a man’s trial, prompting Colorado’s second-highest court to overturn the drug conviction last month. Jurors convicted Thomas Sandoval of one count of drug possession, after a Thornton police officer discovered a small container of methamphetamine during a pat-down search for weapons. Sandoval appealed,…
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Colorado lawmakers begin to tackle major housing bills, including occupancy limitations
Major measures on housing are starting to move at the state Capitol this week, which saw the first hearings on some of the roughly 260 bills introduced in this session so far. Colorado faces an acute housing shortage. One study puts the deficit in metro Denver region alone at 45,025 to 115,012 housing units. As…
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VIDEO | A look inside Amazon’s fulfillment center in Thornton
The 2.5 million-square-foot facility prepares Amazon packages for delivery in Colorado and the surrounding areas.