MAN’S BODY RECOVERED FROM CREEK

Crews from two fire departments and the Colorado State Patrol recovered a man’s body found Monday in Clear Creek.

The body was found as workers were preparing to move a vehicle that had crashed into the creek off U.S. 6 near Golden, said Colorado State Patrol spokesman Trooper Nate Reid.

The wreck happened Thursday night, but the aftermath was not found until Friday. No body was in the vehicle when it was discovered, Reid said.

Fire crews decided to sweep the area before trying to remove the car and found a body about threequarters of a mile from the wreck, Reid said. It is unknown whether the body in the creek is connected to the crash, he said.

The Jefferson County coroner will seek to identify the body. The Golden and Arvada fire departments aided in the recovery.

City Council OKs lease deal for Post space.

The Denver City Council signed off Monday night on a lease deal that would add nearly 47,000 square feet in The Denver Post building.

City government offices now are on portions of the first and seventh floors of the private office building under a sublease with the newspaper. Under the terms of an 87-month, $11.2 million sublease amendment, the city also will occupy the entire eighth floor as soon as Dec. 1 when The Post’s newsroom and remaining advertising employees move out.

Most of the affected Post employees will work out of County. The newspaper is seeking a smaller downtown office space for a portion of its staff.

Man gets 30 years in prison for luring teens. A

South Carolina man who used Facebook to lure Colorado teens into committing sex acts for his own personal pleasure has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison.

Christopher George White, 38, of McCormick, S.C., pleaded guilty in September to six counts of coercion and enticement of a minor.

After he is released from prison, White, who pleaded guilty to victimizing six Colorado teenagers, will be supervised for the rest of his life, according to the sentence handed down last week in Denver by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson.

Jury convicts Denver man who shot at cops. A Denver

jury convicted a 20year-old of first-degree assault of a peace officer after he shot at police while fleeing arrest in July 2016.

The jury acquitted Darius E. Ratcliff of attempted murder of a police officer, according to a news release from the District Attorney’s Office. He is awaiting sentencing on the assault charge.

Ratcliff was shot in the abdomen during the shootout with police in the 3300 block of North Olive Street. Police had tried to stop Ratcliff ’s car because it matched the description of a vehicle in an earlier shooting, according to police reports.

At the time, the police gang unit was working overtime because of an increase in shootings in northeast Denver. The DA declined to file charges against the officer who