In 2016, attorney Mari Newman filed a lawsuit against the State of Colorado over reports of shocking abuse at the Pueblo Regional Center — claims that included strip searches and genital manipulation of mentally disabled residents. Now, the state has agreed to settle the case by way of a $1 million payment and significant alterations to policies that may have contributed to the abuse in the first place.
Here’s why Colorado was found to be the least obese state in America.
Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald talks about the most common urban wildlife seen in Denver and why sightings have been increasing of late. And while he brings plenty of data to the table, his most important sources tend to be found at ground level.
The Aurora Police Department answers questions about a disturbing rise in officer-involved shootings.
The number of High Activity Location Observation, or HALO, cameras monitored by the Denver Police Department has more than doubled in the past seven years, making it more likely than ever that authorities are monitoring your activities at some of the Mile High City’s busiest places. See where all 226 of them here.
In recent months, Colorado and a slew of other states have been hit with a historic number of enormously destructive wildfires.
Rio Grande County and the City of Monte Vista, in southeastern Colorado, have agreed to pay $290,000 plus several thousand dollars in additional costs to settle a lawsuit over a police home invasion two years ago that resulted in shoulder surgery for an elderly man who was body-slammed by two cops shortly after being tased by a third.
The Colorado Sun, a fledgling online news operation that’s making its official debut today, may be deploying an innovative blockchain funding model, but in many respects, its initial offerings are more about the past than the future.
The excitement over new Denver Broncos starting quarterback Case Keenum’s regular season debut against the Seattle Seahawks was transformed into equal amounts of glee and anxiety during the September 9 contest. Keenum helped create plenty of highlights en route to a 27-24 victory, but his three touchdown passes were offset by a trio of interceptions so unfathomably stupid that fans on Twitter were left to wonder whether their new signal-caller is a gridiron genius or a ham-handed surgeon who specializes in ripping hearts out of chests without anesthetic.
Denver is widely regarded to be among the more liberal major cities in the United States. But it’s also home to Colorado Christian University, which the research website Niche just ranked the seventh-most-conservative American college — and it’s among the fastest growing, too.
More often that not, those of us who live in Denver and other sizable communities in Colorado and beyond are being watched by cameras maintained by each municipality and mounted in busy public areas. Now, cops in one Front Range community want to expand the network by supplementing their own surveillance gadgets with privately owned ones.
“Denver is becoming more diverse, but that is not reflected on TV and in our TV news departments in front of the camera — and perception is reality.”
David Reid Ross became the official Republican nominee for state representative in House District 12 after winning the primary in June. But after Westword revealed racist and homophobic content from Ross’s personal blog, The House of David, the Colorado Republican Party has tried to distance the organization from him. That’s left Ross with intestinal distress.
The Denver District Attorney’s Office has announced that the fourteen-year-old suspect in the August 28 shooting of a student outside the DSST Cole Middle School has been charged with felony first-degree assault and a misdemeanor gun-possession count in juvenile court. But with the victim still in critical condition more than a week after the incident, a spokesperson for Denver DA Beth McCann is non-committal about a possible transfer to adult court should the situation change.
A new study ranks Colorado as the top state in the country for high earners and affluent families, also known as rich people.
The Colorado Republican Party now wants nothing to do with House District 12 candidate David Reid Ross after being informed by Westword about The House of David, a personal blog populated by well over a decade’s worth of posts that include rants and musings most sentient humans would regard as racist, homophobic, Islamophobic and more, more, more.
The first shot has been fired by the folks backing Representative Jared Polis, the Democratic Party nominee, who’ve launched Where Is Walker, a site that needles Republican Party selection Walker Stapleton for his dubious attendance record during his stint as Colorado Treasurer.
Over the summer, Identity Evropa and Patriot Front, a pair of fascist groups aligned with the white supremacist movement, have been waging a propaganda war in Denver, Colorado Springs, Fort Collins and other urban-corridor locations by way of stickers, banners and photos shared on Twitter accounts affiliated with their national organizations.
William Norris has filed a lawsuit against the University of Colorado Boulder, where he was a student and member of the Air Force ROTC program before being suspended in the wake of sexual assault allegations that were later rejected by a jury. He claims that CU Boulder administrators violated Title IX and his right to due process, among other things, by way of what his legal team calls “a profoundly flawed and intentionally biased sexual misconduct investigation.”
Yesterday, September 3, George Roloff and fellow inmate Luke Tanner escaped from the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City, prompting a statewide alert. But Tanner was soon recaptured, followed a short time later by Roloff, who’d earned a sentence of more than 150 years for a bizarre crime spree he said was prompted in part by a fear of witchcraft.
It’s not often that you can confirm the accuracy of a news story in real time. But that’s what happened during recent days in regard to a report about delays at Colorado Department of Motor Vehicles offices in regard to the issuing of permanent license plates.
The percentage increase of one-bedroom rent in Denver is greater on a year-to-year basis than in the U.S. of A.’s 25 priciest markets.
