Tom Upah says he’s been told by his son and at least one person involved in his case that after being diagnosed as mentally ill, Jonathan was kept in solitary confinement at Denver’s downtown detention center for 23 out of 24 hours each day.
A recent study reveals how much money is required to break into the top 1 percent by income in cities and counties across Colorado, and the numbers at the top of the charts are eye-popping.
The Denver District Attorney’s office has announced that it will file murder and child abuse accusations in the death of Jordan Vong, a seven-year-old Montbello resident, against his sixteen-year-old aunt. Moreover, the teen will be charged as an adult.
Alleged marijuana fraudster Scott Pack’s attorneys argue that he shouldn’t have to face a lawsuit accusing him of fraud until the conclusion of a criminal case that was originally scheduled to take place in June but has now been put off until May 20, 2019.
The vulnerability of motorcyclists on Colorado roads was underscored last week by a single tragic day in Aurora. On July 30, authorities responded to two accidents involving motorcycles in the area. They took place just five hours apart, and in both cases, the motorcyclists were killed.
A recent study determined that home affordability in Denver was the second-worst in the country. But new data shows that consumers who otherwise might not be able to purchase a home in the area can still do so if they look in one of nine Denver neighborhoods that offer the best bang for the buck.
At a press conference this morning, representatives of the Aurora Police Department and other local law enforcement agencies confirmed that Alex Christopher Ewing, a 57-year-old prisoner in Nevada, where he’s serving time for brutally beating a couple with an ax handle, has been named in arrest warrants related to the 1984 hammer killings of Bruce, Debra and Melissa Bennett and the severe wounding of Vanessa Bennett, then age three, as well as the murder of Lakewood resident Patricia Louise Smith six days earlier.
On August 10, an organization called FASTER Colorado is sponsoring a three-day class to instruct teachers, administrators and other school personnel interested in carrying a gun on the job how to stop an active shooter. The idea of armed teachers in classrooms remains controversial, but FASTER Colorado executive director Laura Carno sees the concept as common sense, pure and simple.
9News’ TaRhonda Thomas has been the most prominent African-American personality on Denver TV news over the past several years, and her departure will leave the Mile High City with no African-American anchors at present and just three black reporters at four stations, all of whom currently have significantly smaller on-air roles than she did.
This morning, the Tribune Media Company announced that it has terminated its merger agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group and filed a lawsuit against the latter firm for breach of contract. The collapse of the deal means that Denver’s KWGN, a Tribune property popularly known as Channel 2, won’t fall under the Sinclair umbrella, where insiders feared it would become a right-wing screed machine.
At first, the Denver Police Department inquiry into the passing of seven-year-old Montbello resident Jordan Vong was termed a “death investigation.” But now, the DPD is revealing that a sixteen-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder.
On Friday, August 10, a news conference has been scheduled to discuss new developments in one of the metro area’s most tragic homicide cases: the 1984 hammer murders of parents Bruce and Debra Bennett and seven-year-old daughter Melissa, as well as horrific injuries sustained by the Bennetts’ three-year-old, Vanessa, who survived.
Late August 7, Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen confirmed that the body of seven-year-old Jordan Vong had been found.
Tonight, August 8, Boulder County Democratic Socialists of America members are sponsoring “What Is Socialism?,” an event intended to teach folks in the community what socialism means, as well as to offer a vision of what a socialist Boulder County might look like.
Last month, metro Denver rent prices hit new heights, with no end in sight. So it’s a pleasant surprise that the latest data shows a moderating of rates across the Mile High City and its closest neighbors. Indeed, the costs in several places are actually lower now than they were at this time last year, making them relative bargains by comparison with the communities nearest them.
The office of Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, who earlier this year was accused of sexual harassment by a Denver police detective who’d worked for him, dodged an investigation by the Denver City Council for his behavior even though it appeared to violate city rules. Now, new policies put forward by Hancock’s office say that he will face a non-Council third-party inquiry, but only if he sexually harasses in the future.
The recently issued Denver Opioid Strategic Response Plan is an attempt to stem the opiate epidemic, and Lisa Raville, executive director of the Harm Reduction Action Center, who participated in the report, sees it as a step toward helping those with addictions rather than demeaning them.
A recent study demonstrates how enormous the gap is between those with incomes in the top 1 percent and the other 99 percent in cities and counties across Colorado.
When Jolon Clark proposed a new sales tax to improve and expand parks in the Mile High City, he was a Denver City Council member. Now, he’s the council’s president, and he’s thrilled that his colleagues have voted to place the measure on the November ballot.
According to one real estate expert, a rising number of Denver metro-area entrepreneurs have moved beyond house-flips to tear-downs, an increasingly lucrative practice that entails purchasing a home, destroying it and building a new, higher-priced structure in its place.
Ground has finally been broken on the massive Central 70 project, which the Colorado Department of Transportation expects to take four-to-five years to complete. Here’s a timeline of CDOT predictions about where, when and how the undertaking will spool out.
During a startling news conference yesterday, Aurora Police Chief Nick Metz essentially argued that the actions of Richard “Gary” Black, Jr., who had just gunned down a naked home intruder trying to kill his grandson, caused an officer to fatally shoot him.
