The Memorial Day weekend stabbing of a gay couple on 11th Avenue near Lincoln in the Golden Triangle, which led to the arrest of 24-year-old Dylan Payne, appears to be a bias-motivated crime, since the assailant allegedly called the victims “faggots” during the attack.
The Colorado Department of Transportation is outlining improvements it would like to make to the I-70 mountain corridor from Floyd Hill to the Veterans Memorial Tunnels outside of Idaho Springs.
Transgender inmate Lindsay Saunders-Velez reported that she’d been threatened by fellow inmates in the section of the prison where she’s currently confined. Her jailers allegedly reacted by placing her in solitary confinement even though she’d done nothing wrong.
Based on the experiences of one local expert, it could take a bid of more than $150 million for the Denver Post and in excess of $200 million for all the Colorado properties to even get the attention of hedge fund owner Alden Global Capital.
The Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against Boulder’s recently enacted assault weapons ban. But in talking about the suit, he goes well beyond a traditional defense of the Second Amendment, arguing that the measure discriminates against gun owners in ways Boulderites would never permit if the persons targeted were homosexuals.
Marijuana researcher Elizabeth D’Amico is the mother of two teenagers, and she’s built a national reputation when it comes to advice about how parents should talk to their kids about pot.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a withering preliminary report about the late 2017 death of forty-year-old Loveland Ski Area employee Adam Lee, who suffered crushing chest injuries while working on the Magic Carpet, a motorized beltway used to teach kids how to ski.
The City of Aurora has agreed to pony up $335,000 to settle a lawsuit filed against three members of the Aurora Police Department by OyZhana Williams over a 2015 incident during which she was roughed up and had her head stomped in the parking lot of a hospital where her boyfriend was being treated for a gunshot wound.
The average starting salary for a 2018 college graduate who lands a job in Denver is just over $53,000, according to a new study. The total is a bit higher than the national average, and that’s also the case for average salaries in ten specific professions. However, wages are currently higher in seven of nine other major cities analyzed as part of the report, as seen by data shared here.
Plenty of underage tourists who come to Colorado seem to think a bogus identification card will work just as well at a pot shop as it will at a bar. But according to Haley Littleton, spokesperson for the Town of Breckenridge, which has cataloged at least 428 fake ID cases since February 2015 with no end in sight, they’re wrong.
Former Parker mayor Greg Lopez and Colorado 2018 gubernatorial candidate shocked the political establishment when he guaranteed his place on the Colorado Republican Party primary ballot by earning more than 30 percent support at the April 14 state assembly. He describes his surprising victory and the policies he sees as setting him apart from the still-sizable pack in the wide ranging conversation below.
“Denver Needs Assessment on Opioid Use,” a new report from Denver Public Health & Environment, is filled with revelations about the scope of a growing problem in the Mile High City. And plenty of them qualify as genuinely startling.
After the May 18 assault at Santa Fe High School in Santa Fe, Texas, in which eight students and two teachers were killed and thirteen wounded, Sandy and Lonnie Phillips, who became gun law reform activists following the murder of their daughter, Jessica Ghawi, during the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, traveled to the scene with the goal of using their experience to help prepare those who lost loved ones for the many traumas to come.
First, CSU student Michaella Surat was prosecuted for alleged obstruction and resisting arrest even though viral cell-phone video from last year showed her being body slammed by a Fort Collins police officer. Then, after a mistrial was declared, delaying the the case until August, Surat’s attorney, David Lane, released the cops’ body camera footage in an effort to prove that she was the victim of excessive force. And now, the district attorney’s office that’s going after Surat wants Lane to be sanctioned for sharing the images with the media.
Many of the traffic signals in Denver seem so long that drivers may be tempted to time them with an hour glass. And Michael Finochio, traffic engineering manager for Denver Public Works, acknowledges that signal time lag has lengthened over the past ten to twenty years in many locations in response to an increase in volume.
Members of the Topeka, Kansas-based hate brigade known as the Westboro Baptist Church have announced a series of seven protests along Colorado’s Front Range beginning today and running through Sunday, May 27. And while the group doesn’t always show up as planned/threatened, a large counter-protest is planned for this afternoon at Broomfield High School, with the weapon of choice being a group hug.
Kris McDaniel-Miccio, one of the seven intervenors named in the consent decree between DU and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which brought suit against the university on the female full professors’ behalf, has written a letter to Chopp that she’s given Westword permission to share. And it pulls no punches.
From 2012 through last month, more than 3,000 pedestrians were hit by cars in Denver.
Injection drug users appear to have contributed to at least one downtown grocer restricting restrooms to employee-use only and a major supermarket chain to install keypad entries for toilet facilities at multiple branches in the area.
Rattlesnake season in Colorado is back with a vengeance, and it can be dangerous. But our expert offers six tips to keep you safe.
The downtown Denver population is overwhelmingly white, smart, youthful and so well off that 81 percent of those who call the area home can afford to live alone despite the hefty housing costs.
The University of Denver has agreed to pay $2.66 million to resolve a lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which accused DU of paying not just one or some of its female full law professors less than the mean average salary of male full profs at the law school, but all of them.
