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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 15 PARIS (AP) — The lawyer for the only surviving attacker from the November 2015 terrorist massacre in Paris criticized her client's murder conviction and life prison sentence without the possibility of parole, saying Thursday the verdict “raises serious questions.” Salah Abdeslam, the chief suspect in the Islamic State attacks on the Bataclan theater, Paris cafes and France’s national stadium that killed 130 people, was found guilty Wednesday of murder and attempted murder in relation with a terrorist enterprise, among other charges. His lawyer, Olivia Ronen, argued throughout a marathon trial of Abdeslam and 19 other men that her client had not detonated his explosives-packed vest and hadn’t killed anyone the night of the deadliest peacetime attacks in French history, Abdeslam, a 32-year-old Belgian, was given … [Read more...] about Lawyer for convicted Paris attacker questions harsh sentence

When Simon Tran had to close his restaurant Botellón Spanish Tapas & Wine after nine months in City Park West last summer, he wasn’t ready to call it quits yet. “Why would I stop?” Tran said. “I’m the type of person who likes taking risks. Servers, bartenders and chefs have all been so complacent in our previous jobs that this is so exciting and new for us. We wanted some sort of adventure, and there’s no feeling like doing something new and creative.” Tran is getting ready to reopen Botellón in a new location at 2124 Larimer St. in the Ballpark neighborhood, targeting late August or early September. The space Tran previously operated Botellón in, at 1618 E. 17th Ave., was leased by local restaurateur Alex Gurevitch, who ran Peruvian eatery Limón there for nearly 10 years until 2015, then a Southern eatery called Bread N Butter for two years and finally a barbecue restaurant dubbed Smokehouse17 for a year. Tran said he bought the business assets from Gurevitch and … [Read more...] about Spanish restaurant that closed after 9 months reopening in Ballpark

The window to win remains open. Wide open. After winning its first Stanley Cup in 21 years, the Colorado Avalanche may just be getting started. “That’s a great team over there,” Tampa Bay captain Steven Stamkos said. “They deserve it as the champs.” The Avs now aim to follow the Lightning as the NHL’s next back-to-back champions. “They win two Cups and they’re back in the Final again. I have to tip my hat again because I don’t know how they did it,” Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said of the Lightning. “I’m just starting to figure it out now and I think our players have, too. There’s a tremendous amount of respect there; they’ve been the benchmark that we’ve been kind of eyeing as a team that we want to emulate.” Most of Colorado’s core players remain under contract for next season, and many are locked in well beyond that. Among the 13 players under contract for 2022-23 are forwards Mikko Rantanen, Nathan MacKinnon, Gabe Landeskog and defensemen Cale Makar, Devon Toews, Sam … [Read more...] about The future is now. The pieces are in place. The Avalanche will again be Stanley Cup-or-bust next season