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The Denver Comic Con and Literacy Conference takes place at the Colorado Convention Center from June 13-15, 2014. The three-day pop culture convention features comics along with sci-fi and fantasy TV shows, movies, Japanese Animation, cosplay, toys, gaming and panel presentations. Celebrities and artists from film and television will also make appearances.

"The motion picture you are about to witness may startle you. It would not have been possible, otherwise, to sufficiently emphasize the frightful toll of the new drug menace which is destroying the youth of America in alarmingly-increasing numbers."

The Colorado High School State Wrestling Tournament takes place at the Pepsi Center, in Denver, Colorado, Feb. 20-22, 2014. The Denver Post’s Craig F. Walker was on the scene to shoot feature photographs today. 

See more photos from each class at the tournament:

Class 2A

Class 3A

Class 4A

Broncos Fans of Super Bowls Past

The Denver Post is getting ready for Super Bowl XLVIII. In preparation, the digital photo editors compiled archived Denver Post photographs from Broncos Super Bowl appearances of the past. From Florida to California, Broncos fans were there. Recognize anyone? 

See the galleries here:

XII January 15, 1978 Dallas Cowboys 27–10 Denver Broncos

XXI January 25, 1987 New York Giants 39–20 Denver Broncos

XXII January 31, 1988 Washington Redskins 42–10 Denver Broncos

XXIV January 28, 1990 San Francisco 49ers 55–10 Denver Broncos

XXXII January 25, 1998 Denver Broncos 31–24 Green Bay Packers

Portland, Oregon based Voodoo Doughnut held a grand opening for its new 1520 E. Colfax Ave location in Denver on Wednesday, January 15, 2014. Denver Councilwoman Jeanne Robb and Mayor Michael Hancock ceremoniously stuck pretzels into a Tom Brady voodoo doughnut effigy with Voodoo Doughnut co-founder  Kenneth “Cat Daddy” Pogson. Denver Post photographer Cyrus McCrimmon was on hand to document the festivities.

LAGOS, Nigeria — Planks serve as sidewalks, and raised wooden structures serve as homes, bars and beauty parlors here in Badia East, a slum built on marshy landfill in this West African city. A., four months pregnant and newly homeless, sat deep toward the back of this neighborhood. She was contemplating terminating her pregnancy.

While technically legal only to save the life of the mother, abortions are readily available in Lagos’ underground market. But the quality and safety of the procedures vary widely. A., 24, had no source of income and planned to borrow money from family whether she aborted or continued the pregnancy.

Her house had burned down days before, after a neighbor forgot about a pot of beans on the fire. In the cramped remnants of her home the walls were blackened, and charred boards were stacked in the corner; the air still had a tinge of charcoal. Ibrahim slept now in a roofed but otherwise open structure at the end of a plank walkway.

She spent most of her days there, lounging, waiting, surrounded by a shifting crew of young urbanites. Boys rolled thick joints of India hemp and debated their favorite rappers — Nigerian 2Face and American Lil Wayne. Most of the young women had small children on their hips.

The man A. called her husband was in prison. “Every day I ask myself, think to myself, ‘Will I have the abortion?’” she said. “I have been struggling to survive. That is why I am confused on what to do now … It would be very painful for me to raise the baby alone.”

Already A. had given birth to one baby, who died, and aborted an earlier pregnancy. She had no complications from the first abortion, which is lucky. Botched abortions kill 3,000 to 34,000 women every year in Nigeria, according to the Guttmacher Institute and the Nigerian government. The dangerous abortions are the cheap ones.

She was fostering her nephew, a disheveled 6-year-old with piercing eyes. All around her, friends were raising children in the very environment into which she was unsure she wanted to bring a child.

A. spoke of her abortion only in tense whispers. “There are some pregnancies that happen by mistake. You have to abort them. But there are some that teach you a lesson,” she said. “I don’t want the abortion, but I don’t have support for the baby.”