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Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Natalie Hudson to make history as state’s next chief justice

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:36 GMT

Minnesota Supreme Court Associate Justice Natalie Hudson will be the state’s next chief justice, and the first person of color in the role, Gov. Tim Walz announced Wednesday.Minnesota Supreme Court Associate Justice Natalie Hudson. (Courtesy of the governor’s office)Hudson was St. Paul City Attorney from 1992 to 1994. She went on to practice criminal appellate law in the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office for eight years and she served as a Minnesota Court of Appeals judge for 13 years.In 2015, Gov. Mark Dayton appointed Hudson to the Minnesota Supreme Court.Hudson will take over as chief justice when Lorie Gildea retires in October.Walz announced Wednesday that Karl Procaccini will serve as Supreme Court associate justice, filling the vacancy that will occur when Hudson becomes chief justice.Procaccini teaches law at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, and previously served as general counsel in Walz and Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan’s offices. Before...

26-year-old rescued in Greene County water rescue

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:36 GMT

HUNTER, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- A 26-year-old was rescued after being stuck in a crevasse in the water in Moore's Bridge Falls. The rescue happened around 6 p.m. on Saturday. Get the latest news, weather, sports and entertainment delivered right to your inbox! Forest rangers responded to Moore's Bridge Falls around 4:35 p.m. for a report of someone stuck in the water. Twin Cloves Technical Rescue Team and forest rangers found the 26-year-old from Bayside around 6 p.m.Images via DECRescuers were able to free her from the crevasse and rigger her to a high-angle rope system to help her walk upstream. She was taken by ambulance to the hospital around 7:20 p.m. for evaluation.

Aurora officers shoot, kill man after alleged armed confrontation at bus stop

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:36 GMT

A man is dead after an Aurora police officer shot and killed him after the man allegedly produced a firearm during a confrontation with another person at a bus stop.The shooting happened just after 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aurora Police Chief Art Acevedo said in a news conference, at the bus stop near Colfax Avenue and Havana Street. Two officers were monitoring activity at the bus stop and noticed the man get into a confrontation with another person and produce a firearm, Acevedo said.Once the man showed the firearm, which appeared to be a semi-automatic handgun, the officers engaged with the man. He began running away, Acevedo said, and the officers began yelling commands to drop his weapon and raise his hands.One of the officers then fired shots and hit the man. Acevedo could not answer if the man had fired shots as well, but said no officers were injured.“You can see the individual running away, the individual who was armed that they knew to be armed because they witnessed him...

15,000-square-foot chicken-and-waffles palace opens in RiNo

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:36 GMT

From its whole fried chicken that comes in a chicken-shaped basket to homemade ice cream sandwiches that are served out of a rolling cooler, Yardbird’s newest and largest restaurant to date is ready to wow Denver diners.The Miami-based chicken chain debuted its sprawling, 14,950-square-foot restaurant, at 2743 Blake St., on Monday. It’s the eighth location for parent company, 50 Eggs; the others are in  Miami, Las Vegas, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Singapore and Chicago. When the Southern comfort-food restaurant first opened in Miami in 2011 it earned plenty of praise, such as the country’s best new restaurant from the James Beard Foundation and Bon Appétit.“I have a special talent to talk myself and everyone else into things,” 50 Eggs restaurateur John Kunkel said, while in Denver for the opening, of the restaurant’s size.Bartenders use ladders to navigate Yardbird's front bar, which has a liquor selection (full of plenty of bourbon) that nearly reaches the ce...

The Nazis plundered scores of artworks from Jewish families. This Colorado program wants to unspool the web.

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:36 GMT

Sarah Malcolm stood in the Nuremberg archives in Germany this summer, looking for clues to her partner’s past.A man behind a tall desk produced a scanned copy of her boyfriend’s great-grandfather’s resident card. It had two addresses. The archive worker told the couple that it looked like the family had left Germany because of the Nazis.How did he know?The residence card, the man answered, sported the letters “ISR,” indicating the family was Jewish. It also included a note. If the family left, the Nazis needed to be notified.“It was a super meaningful day for the both of us,” Malcolm, 35, said. “I was so excited that my boyfriend got to learn more about this part of his family history.”It’s this longing to reconstruct the circuitous path of people and culture during the Holocaust period that drove Malcolm to a certificate program at the University of Denver unlike any other in the country.The Nazi-Era Art Provenance Researc...

Housing Authority closes on $26M hotel purchase for city homeless shelter

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:36 GMT

The Denver Housing Authority has closed on the purchase of a northeast Denver hotel that the city plans to lease for use as a homeless shelter.The organization’s $25.95 million purchase of the 194-unit former Best Western at 4595 Quebec St., which it announced in late July, closed on Wednesday, records show.The city said in a news release last month that it would lease the property from the Denver Housing Authority and contract with an organization to operate as a non-congregate shelter with supportive services. In a few years, the property will be converted to supportive housing; more than half the units already have kitchenettes.Mayor Mike Johnston touted the deal last month as a critical part of his effort to house 1,000 homeless individuals by the end of the year.“This acquisition is the first key piece of that puzzle and puts us on a solid path to achieving our goal, connecting our unhoused neighbors to housing and low-barrier shelter, and improving quality of life in neighborh...

Here’s how chefs at one of Denver’s best restaurants shop at the farmers market

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:36 GMT

Coperta’s chef de cuisine Kenny Minton could be using his Saturday morning to sleep in after a long week. Instead, he spends Friday nights prepping for the weekend, gets up at 8 or 9 a.m. the next day and drives nearly 40 minutes with his sous chef, Cam Lee, to Boulder where the two of them shop for planned restaurant dishes at the Boulder County Farmers Market.“We’ve only missed three so far,” Minton said.On Saturday, Aug. 12, a particularly cloudy and humid day, the pair strolled through the market with a produce cart in tow and a mission in mind. Next month, they will introduce a new menu, highlighting fruits and vegetables ripe for the picking at the end of the summer harvest.Minton and Lee like to collaborate with the farmers themselves, figuring out what produce will be in season or pre-ordering special items that the growers introduce to them. On most days, 90% of Coperta’s menu is sourced from local farmers, and the chefs like to keep menu descriptions vague in case they fin...

Ouray Sportswear hanging up its hat in Colorado after 58 years

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:36 GMT

Ouray Sportswear has informed the state that it will close its Englewood plant and let go of 154 workers who printed T-shirts, headwear and other customized apparel for college, resort, golf and corporate customers.“Changing business needs require us to close this facility permanently and, therefore, we are providing you with this notice in accordance with the Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act,” President Connor Knutson wrote in a letter filed with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment. The letter, dated Aug. 18, said 154 employees had been told of their permanent dismissal starting on Oct. 17 and through the end of the year, excluding a few positions that might continue into the first quarter of 2024.Ouray Sportswear’s facility, 1201 W. Mansfield Ave., covers 114,000 square feet and contained 13 automatic screen print presses with 176 embroidery heads, according to the company’s website.L2 Brands, based in Pennsylvania, acqu...

Denver poised to buy 200 pallet houses for the homeless — but where they’ll go is still unknown

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:36 GMT

The city of Denver is poised to spend more than $5 million on 200 prefabricated Pallet shelter homes toward Mayor Mike Johnston’s goal of providing shelter for 1,000 people living homeless on the city’s streets by the end of the year.The administration is eyeing paved lots as the future landing places for the easy-to-assemble, temporary shelters, Cole Chandler, the mayor’s top homelessness advisor, told a City Council committee Tuesday.But just where those paved lots — and undeveloped “raw dirt” lots that Chandler said are being considered for villages of manufactured tiny homes — will be located remains unknown outside of executive sessions and private talks between city officials and property owners.The council’s finance and governance committee on Tuesday signed off on a $7 million master purchase order with Everett, Washington-based Pallet. The public benefit corporation has emerged as a leading provider of temporary shelters for p...

Olde Town Arvada takes step toward common consumption area

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:50:36 GMT

Olde Town Arvada is the latest suburban neighborhood in the metro area to take a step toward allowing visitors to wander around with an alcoholic beverage, while Denver continues to see no takers on the concept.The Arvada City Council voted 6-0 earlier this month, with one member absent, to approve an entertainment district application for Olde Town Arvada.Becoming an entertainment district allows businesses that are in areas closed off to vehicle traffic to create an association and apply for a common consumption area, which then allows customers to drink and roam. The setup is the result of a state law passed in 2011.The district approved last week encompasses all 41.5 acres of Olde Town Arvada, which spans from Ralston Road to Grandview Avenue and Yukon Street to Upham Street.For Olde Town, that means just under 30 businesses with liquor licenses in the pedestrian mall area between Grandview Avenue, Webster Street and Olde Wadsworth Boulevard would be able to serve to-go alcoholi...