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  • DENVER - NOVEMBER 22: Home health care patient Joseph Martinez (R), 73, plays a song for volunteer Judy Johnson after she delivered him an early Thanksgiving meal on November 22, 2009 in Denver, Colorado. Some 300 patients received meals today from Dominican Sisters Home Health Agency. The non-profit performs some 25,000 home visits each year in the Denver area. The agency provides free home nursing care to patients with chronic diseases, helps them to better manage their disabling illnesses and provides custodial services with the aim of keeping patients in their homes and out of more expensive nursing home care.

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  • Giants Q&A: Reaction to Pierce's injury

    ...don't have much time to enjoy this win, do they?Nope. They'll be on the practice field Monday preparing for Thursday's game in Denver . "It's tough to imagine right now that we have to play in four days," Chris Snee said. "I think everyone will live in the... |more

  • Analysis: Fed under fire as public anger mounts

    ...moment when it had to jump into the market," said David M. Jones, a former Fed economist and president of DMJ Advisors, a Denver -based consulting firm. "We still have to wait to see how effective the Fed is in its exit strategy and whether it can keep inflation... |more

  • Nets drop to 0-13 in 98-91 loss to Knicks

    ...17 straight losses to start a season, held by Miami and matched by the Los Angeles Clippers . They'll try to avoid it during a difficult four-game trip out West that starts with back-to-back games at Denver and Portland , capped by a visit to the Lakers.... |more

  • Colo. billboard links Obama with jihadists

    ...RIDGE, Colo. (AP) — A billboard showing President Barack Obama wearing a turban has sparked a lot of attention at the suburban Denver used car dealership that put it up.The sign, completed Friday by artist David Lee of Arvada, shows a grinning, cartoonish... |more

  • List of top 15 cable shows in Nielsen ratings

    ...compiled by the Nielsen Co. for the week of Nov. 9-15. Day and start time (EST) are in parentheses:1. NFL Football: Pittsburgh vs. Denver (Monday, 8:30 p.m.), ESPN , 11.35 million homes, 16 million viewers.2. "ICarly" (Saturday, 8 p.m.), Nickelodeon , 3.44... |more

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  • Once sitting at 6-0, defensive end Elvis Dumervil's Broncos are slumping at the worst time. (AP)
    Broncos let division lead slip away ... season's next

    ...running back gave Denver's star receiver a two-handed shove to back off. If only it was as simple getting San Diego out of Denver's collective grill. It didn't even matter that San Diego (7-3) for the first three-plus quarters kept sending out Nate Kaeding... 5 m ago |more

  • Orton relieves ineffective Simms

    ...Chargers take control of the AFC West with a dominant 32-3 win over the reeling Broncos. San Diego has turned its season around while Denver -- losers of four straight -- is free-falling rapidly, Lee Rasizer says. We're only at Week 11, but plenty of games... 19 m ago |more

  • McDaniels stirs Chargers with pregame shot

    ...— When you have lost three games in a row and you're about to play your division archrival with first place at stake, the last thing you need is to have your coach make an offhand comment that stokes the fire in the belly of the opponent. But that's exactly... 39 m ago |more

  • Chargers still going up, Broncos still heading down

    ...taken down in an efficient 17-of-22, 145-yard passing performance. He was especially effective early exploiting the middle of Denver's defense with his slot receivers, like on a 2-yard touchdown pass to Legedu Naanee on San Diego's opening series. Rivers also... 10:18 PM |more

  • Surging Chargers Stomp the Broncos in Denver

    ...us," he said. "We just keep getting better." The Chargers are now 7-3 and alone in first place in the AFC West. They also erased Denver's tiebreaker by splitting the season series. The next tiebreaker in line is divisional record; the Chargers are 4-1 in... 10:16 PM |more

About Denver

The City and County of Denver is the most populous city and the capital of the State of Colorado. Denver is located in the South Platte River Valley on the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Southern Rocky Mountains. The Denver downtown district is located immediately east of the confluence of Cherry Creek with the South Platte River, approximately 15 miles (24 kilometers) east of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Denver has a consolidated city and county government. Residents of Denver are known as Denverites.

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