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AN OPPORTUNITY TO END ON A HIGH NOTEColorado gets a chance to write a better ending to a storybook seasonwhenit faces No. 13 Oklahoma State (9-3) in the Alamo Bowl on Thursday. »1B

JONBENÉT RAMSEY CASE

Burkefiles$750Mlawsuit

Burke Ramseyis suing CBS,claiming that itslandered him in adocumentaryabout the slayingof his sister.

By Kirk MitchellThe Denver Post

The brother of JonBenét Ram-sey has filed a lawsuit seeking$750 million against CBS Corp.,saying the broadcast companyproduced a fraudulent documen-tary that slandered him by accus-ing him of striking and killing hissister with a flashlight in 1996.Burke Ramsey’s lawsuit was

filed Wednesday in 3rd CircuitCourt inWayneCounty,Mich., byAtlanta attorney Lin Wood onRamsey’s behalf. It claims CBSslandered him during a prime-time, four-hour documentarySept. 18 and 19.The defendants in the case also

include Critical Content LLC, aCalifornia programming studio;former FBI profilers Jim Clem-ente, James Fitzgerald and StanleyBurke; forensic expert LauraRichards; former Boulder districtattorney’s investigator A. JamesKolar; forensic scientist Dr. Wer-ner Spitz; and celebrity patholo-

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8,000 JOBS TO U.S.

Trump toutingplans by JapantechmogulByVivian Salamaand Josh BoakThe Associated Press

palm beach, fla.» DonaldTrump on Wednesday toutedplans by a Japanesemogul to bring8,000 jobs to the United States.They could be the first of the

50,000 jobs that tech billionaireMasayoshi Sonpromised to createafter meeting with the president-elect in December.In the grand scheme of the

economy, the jobs announcementis unlikely to have amajor impact.Still, it’s another example of howTrump is trying to stoke voters’belief that he is actively fightingfor their well-being.

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By Noelle PhillipsThe Denver Post

Denver Fire Capt. StevenHoltz stretched across atreatment table at theRocky Mountain FireAcademy as a physical

therapist wrapped a thick, red rubberband around his arm and began pull-ingHoltz’s armover his head andbackdown.The physical therapist, Casey

Stoneberger,worked to extendHoltz’srange of motion as he recovers fromsurgery to repair a torn rotator cuffand biceps tendon.“Theywear oxygen bottles and they

have to be able to reach really far be-hind their backs to turn that on,”Stoneberger said.Until he can do that, Holtz will stay

on desk duty— something he alreadyhas grown tired of.But those who run the Denver Fire

Department’s new health and well-ness program, which borrows its phi-losophy and exercise routines fromprofessional sports, hope they canhelp him climb back onto a firetruckmuch faster.In the first year, the department re-

ported that itsworkers’ compensationclaims from overexertion— the mostfrequent cause of injury in the profes-sion — dropped, as did the cost oftreating injuries to lower backs, shoul-ders and knees.The total cost for treating workers’

comp injuries to primary body partsaddressed by the programdropped 42percent to $253,184 in the first year, ac-cording to statistics provided by thedepartment.

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DENVER FIRE DEPARTMENT

An innovative program is treating firefighterslike pro athletes to get them back to work

Denver Fire Department Capt. Steven Holtz works out as Casey Stoneberger, director of physical therapy, looks on. Holtz isrecovering from rotator cuff surgery stemming from an injury sustained in the line of duty. Joe Amon, The Denver Post

DENVER &THE WESTTEEN POTUSE STEADYNo change inColorado teenagers’marijuana use afterrecreationallegalization, a studyfinds. »2A

NATION & WORLDFILM, SONGLEGEND DIESActress DebbieReynolds, left, a star ofthe 1952 classic film“Singin’ in the Rain,”dies one day after thedeath of her daughter,Carrie Fisher. »15A

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