Denver Police Department statistics reveal the ten Denver neighborhoods with the most crimes per square mile during the early months of 2017. But while the numbers are higher than residents would wish, they’ve actually declined over the past two years in many, if not all, of the areas.
Has flying with marijuana become routine in the U.S.? A new survey from MissTravel.com, which calls itself “the world’s first travel dating website,” shows that more than half the respondents have taken cannabis with them on a domestic flight. But that number tumbles for people traveling internationally.
Ignacio Luque-Verdugo has been found guilty of murder and more over a triple shooting at Aurora’s Bronco Bar that forever changed the life of Sergio Cinto-Duran. Sergio’s younger brother, Andres Cinto-Duran, was killed in the incident, and Sergio suffered horrific injuries that have left him paralyzed from the chest down.
All too often these days, we hear about police violence against suspects, as in the 2015 fatal officer-involved shooting of seventeen-year-old Jessie Hernandez, which recently led to a City of Denver settlement of just under $1 million. But there are plenty of times when cops are the victims of violence from individuals they encounter, as is made clear by some startling statistics assembled by the Colorado Springs Police Department. According to FBI data detailed in a series of graphics on view below, more than 1,000 Colorado police officers have been assaulted annually in recent years, with most of those attacks taking place late at night or early in the morning.
Jim Bell, a 44-year-old firefighter from Kansas, died following a skiing accident at Crested Butte resort. He is the thirteenth person to lose his life due to injuries sustained at a Colorado ski area during the 2016-17 season, but he was not previously identified because of the controversial way in which such fatalities are tracked in the state.
Three Colorado-related proposals are among eleven U.S. finalists in a global challenge being staged by Hyperloop One, a project associated with billionaire Elon Musk that aims to produce high-tech tubes through which passengers and cargo can travel at speeds up to 700 miles per hour.
Caroline Zarate Boyle has been indicted on allegations that she pretended to have cancer, and she’s not alone. Indeed, she’s the seventh Colorado woman in recent years to have been publicly accused of faking cancer.
Indivisible Denver, under the auspices of local artist Eric Shumake, is staging weekly rallies at the Denver offices of Senator Cory Gardner. Dubbed the Sunday Gardner, the gatherings blast the state’s highest-ranking Republican official for his unblinking support of President Donald Trump, not to mention his efforts to denigrate demonstrators by suggesting that they’re being paid to protest.
A new survey lists Denver among the top ten U.S. cities for job seekers owing to the area’s strong economy, low unemployment rate and plenitude of high-tech industries. But the man behind one of the city’s most popular job sites feels that these factors mask the difficulties many people in Denver are having when it comes to making a comfortable living.
Frontier Airlines finished dead last among the twelve carriers analyzed in the 2017 Airline Quality Rating, just as it did in 2014. According to the report’s co-author, Frontier sunk to the bottom of the rankings again after finishing in eighth and eleventh place during 2015 and 2016, respectively, due largely to customer anger over a series of delays and cancellations last December at Denver International Airport and other facilities around the country. But he also feels the airline may be suffering from something of an identity crisis.
In a wide-ranging conversation with Westword about her new role as Colorado Democratic Party chair, former state senate president Morgan Carroll acknowledges mistakes made at the local, state and national level and talks about the need for innovation and fresh thinking during a period when cynicism about the political system is rising at a rapid rate. But she also exhibits enthusiasm and optimism about channeling anti-Trump energy into practical action.
Brittney Westphal, who was at the center of a startling November 2016 exposé revealing that seven of ten sexual assault reports in Denver during the previous two years weren’t prosecuted, and Kendra Heuer, whose attacker, former CU Boulder student Austin Wilkerson, received no jail time despite being convicted of unlawful sexual assault against her, have joined with Lizzie Stelten, another sexual assault survivor, to create a new and novel support group that will be meeting for the first time on April 18 in Niwot.
Approximately 1,600 people, and perhaps many more, have gone missing on public lands, according to sources cited in a fascinating new article from Outside magazine. The piece prominently highlights two tragic Colorado cases covered in this space, involving Joe Keller and Dale Stehling. Regis University instructor Heidi Streetman, also took part in the article, and she tells us that progress is being made toward her goal of creating a national database that could help solve such mysteries.
At this hour, Denver officials are announcing their decision to pay $999,900 to the family of seventeen-year-old Jessica “Jessie” Hernandez, who was killed by police while she was behind the wheel of a stolen car two years ago in an incident that led to widespread protests and calls for a federal investigation of officer-involved shootings in the city. But equally important to Qusair Mohamedbhai, the attorney representing Hernandez’s loved ones, are two additional actions Denver has agreed to take.
The Denver 4/20 Rally, scheduled to take place on April 20, is offering something new this year. Each attendee will receive a black bag containing tons of swag from marijuana businesses that were unable to legally give away such items at big public events in the past because of restrictive advertising rules related to cannabis.
According to the first installment in a groundbreaking series, at least 137 people have died skiing at Colorado resorts over the past decade. The number doesn’t include 25 or more on-mountain deaths from heart attacks and other cardiac issues related to high altitudes.
The Denver-based Center for Western Priorities has launched a national ad campaign aimed at preventing national monuments from being stripped of their protected status by the Trump administration. The threat is exemplified by the efforts of numerous Utah legislators, who are currently lobbying Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to wipe out Bear Ears National Monument — a prospect that recently led Boulder’s Outdoor Retailer Association to announce that its annual Outdoor Retailer shows will pull out of Salt Lake City and seek a new home, perhaps in Colorado.
Four years after the brutal murder of 22-year-old Christopher Bryant Jr. outside an Aurora sports bar and the serious wounding of his friend, Demetrey Adams, the last of three people charged in the shooting has finally been sentenced. Daeshaun Howard, who is now 22, is the second conspirator to be given life without the possibility of parole for a crime that prosecutors say took place after Bryant danced with a woman who’d been with Howard and company.
Logan Goodwin, a twelve-year-old from Hermosa Beach, California, died from injuries sustained while skiing at Breckenridge resort on Saturday, April 8. He is the fifth skier to die at Breckenridge during the 2016-2017 ski season and the thirteenth person to perish at a Colorado ski resort during that span. The tragedy makes this season the deadliest in five years.
Neil Gorsuch has just been sworn in as the latest justice on the U.S. Supreme Court at a White House ceremony today, April 10, following a rambling introduction by President Donald Trump, whose many shout-outs included Colorado Senator Cory Gardner. Gorsuch is the second Coloradan to serve on the country’s highest court. The previous Colorado product on the court was the late Byron “Whizzer” White.
The City of Denver hasn’t dropped efforts to prosecute eighteen disability-rights activists who were cited for trespassing in a downtown Denver building that houses the office of Senator Cory Gardner when they tried to protest against repealing the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare.
A new survey lists Denver as one of the ten best cities in the country for job seekers. And the city’s status in this area just keeps improving.
