Good afternoon! Here are the top stories from for Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, including some you may have missed over the weekend.
Colorado’s low unemployment rate — 4.2 percent — is good news, of course, but retailers and shipping companies looking to staff up for the holidays are finding it hard to get workers. Recruiters are going so far as to get out to churches, community groups and colleges while offering .
It’s a familiar refrain: The Broncos’ offense looked weak compared to last year ( ), but appeared improved in Week 3 and delivered when it counted against Detroit. Once again, though, the defense starred, . The win came : safety David Bruton, outside linebacker Shaquil Barrett and receiver Bennie Fowler. Quarterback Peyton Manning found himself more often in a pistol formation, which seemed to work, . Unfortunately, Von Miller and Demaryius Thomas .
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Lone Tree’s Peter Jennings is just like that guy you’re seeing on all the Draft Kings and Fan Duel TV commercials: . “It’s just like investing, but instead of stocks you’re trading in athletes,” said Jennings, a former stock trader who was the game’s first six-figure winner on a $10 entry fee in 2012. But is it a game of skill, or gambling?
They thought this only happened in ultra-liberal families, that transgender children were influenced by wayward parents. But a teenager’s announcement that she is transgender sent her family on a journey of faith . Jennifer Brown and Mahala Gaylord bring the story of Alison.
In 2008, scientists confirmed the existence of frozen water on Mars. But the latest data show that salt water — in liquid form — . Images from the Mars Reconassiance Orbiter’s camera — built at Boulder-based Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. — have repeatedly documented this.
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Colorado’s hospital chains are increasingly building stand-alone emergency rooms near suburban shopping malls (20 have opened in Colorado since 2014). Hospitals argue it brings them closer to patients, where they live and work, which can save lives. But in the process, . And in reality, do they actually save lives, or just drive up insurance costs?
A bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., could jeopardize funding for a project that — as you might know — is way overbudget. It would allow the Department of Veterans Affiars to spend another $625 million — but .
The expiration of the current contract between KUSA’s parent company TEGNA and DISH
The Denver coroner ruled that the high-profile death of 23-month-old Jayvion Johnson, which resulted in changes at the city’s human services department, , an autopsy released Monday showed.
Authorities in southwest Colorado say the pilot of a small plane that crashed Friday near Pagosa Springs, killing both people aboard, reported mechanical problems .
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Compiled by Daniel Petty: dpetty@denverpost.com or
