Fort Collins is appealing a temporary restraining order issued last month against the enforcement of a public-indecency ordinance that includes the words “the breast or breasts of a female,” despite a statement from the ruling judge that he would likely rule against the community on constitutional grounds.
For evidence that the 2017 Libertarian Party of Colorado State Convention, which takes place March 24-26 in Westminster, is very different from the annual gatherings sponsored by Democrats and Republicans, look no further than the prominent speaking role reserved for Sarah “Daggers” Stewart, a prominent advocate for the decriminalization of prostitution.
Jessica Rabbit, the provocatively titled new offering by Sleigh Bells, is both an aural blast and a declaration of independence for musical partners Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller, who headline at the Gothic Theater on March 24.
The Denver-area housing market remains so hot that bidding wars and above-list sales have become commonplace not just here but in other parts of the state, too. These factors and others help explain why a recent survey deemed Colorado to be among the worst places in the country for first-time home buyers.
Adam Ruiz, 23, has been found guilty of strangling his half-sister, Samantha Welch, and her girlfriend, Celia Reyes, and setting fire to their apartment in a cover-up attempt. The crime took place in Chicago circa October 2014, and Ruiz confessed to the crime in Denver the following July.
A prominent Denver civil-rights law firm has announced that it is preparing a lawsuit on behalf of Greg Heard, a homeless man who says he was trying to surrender to a Denver police officer when he was tased in an episode caught on a body-camera video . A former SWAT team leader believes Heard’s tasing represented “a textbook use of force,” but Michael Berry, a retired police officer who currently trains law enforcers, strongly disagrees. He breaks down the clip, on view below, and notes that the officer’s use of unprovoked profanity before pulling his taser’s trigger helps explain how incidents like this one can result in excessive force against a suspect and injury or worse to police.
Forbes has just released its list of the world’s billionaires, and of the 2,043 individuals who’ve achieved this benchmark, ten of them live in Colorado.
Rachel Dewey, a 48-year-old middle-school teacher, part-time professor and mother of three teenage boys, was killed skiing on Pikes Peak’s Little Italy couloir on Sunday, March 19. However, her death will not add to the number of skiing casualties in Colorado during the 2016-2017 season, which has already surpassed last year’s total.
CBS has formally asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit filed on behalf of Burke Ramsey over a 2016 docuseries in which a team of analysts concluded that he’d murdered his sister, JonBenét Ramsey, in their Boulder home on Christmas Day 1996. In response, Ramsey family attorney Lin Wood summarily rejects the arguments made by CBS and Dr. Werner Spitz, a participant in the docuseries being sued separately for comments he made last September during a WWJ-AM/CBS Detroit interview publicizing the program.
This week, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that 24 million people would lose their insurance by 2026 under a new House health-care plan intended to replace Obamacare. That number will likely include many poor people and seniors in Denver, whose tax credits will be significantly smaller according to figures collected by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Rocky Pedersen, who has been charged with 35 criminal counts, including attempted first-degree murder, for a series of robberies at marijuana businesses over the past five months, once owned a medical marijuana dispensary that was itself the target of a high-profile robbery back in 2013.
Seven Denver deputies face possible discipline in the November 2015 jail death of Michael Lee Marshall, a mentally ill inmate whose slow, agonizing death was captured on video.
For at least the past couple of years, home buyers in the Denver area have often had to offer more than list price if they really wanted a property. And this scenario isn’t fading from the scene. A recent survey of U.S. cities with the most homes sold over list includes two from Colorado, Denver and Aurora, among the top fifteen.
A lawsuit filed against companies that own five of Denver’s most prominent strip clubs, as well as similar venues in seven states beyond Colorado, claims that exotic dancers are being ripped off by an illegal system that charges them to perform and forces them to help cover other employees’ earnings out of tips they receive, whether they made enough to do so or not.
Julian Archuleta resigned as a Denver police officer after pleading guilty to stealing money from the scene of a car crash, a crime documented by his own body camera. But his punishment is a relative wrist-slap.
Figuring out the Denver streets where drivers are most likely to get speeding tickets right now turned out to be more complicated than expected.
The Colorado Springs Police Department has released data revealing the number of local homicides linked by a so-called “marijuana nexus” during the past three years, with the 2016 numbers showing that weed was a factor in more than a third of the killings. However, a spokesperson for the CSPD insists that the release of these figures doesn’t represent a departmental position on the issue and says the numbers were issued following a barrage of requests from news organizations apparently looking for bombshell evidence that marijuana has played a big role in boosting the Springs murder rate.
Senator Michael Bennet is set to take part in his first town hall in more than two years, and rather than scheduling it in a majority Democratic area, he’s venturing into the Republican stronghold of Colorado Springs.
Last night, March 13, the Cherry Creek School District voted unanimously to move start times later for middle- and high-school students and earlier for children in elementary schools. The change has broad but not universal support from older students and their folks. However, a group of elementary-school parents were unhappy enough with them to have started a change.org petition that rejected alterations for their kids with extreme prejudice.
Zachary Mueller has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Greeley’s Pedro Adrian Dominguez, whose body was stuffed inside a barrel found floating in a creek at a remote location in Nebraska.
Heroin deaths in Denver are up 933 percent over fourteen years, and the heroin fatality numbers for Colorado as a whole are nearly as shocking, with a 756 percent rise since 2001 and a recent rate of increase that outpaces the one in the Mile High City. But considerably more people in Denver and Colorado are dying each year from other opioids, including methadone and prescription drugs such as Oxycontin and Fentanyl, than perish because of heroin use. And while the upticks in fatalities aren’t as sharp as the ones related to heroin, they’re still substantial. In Colorado, deaths from opioids other than heroin are up 128 percent from fifteen years ago, while Denver’s fatality total has risen by 372 percent.
The Denver Zoo is laughing off a Saturday Night Live skit about the facility, even though the focus of the routine was a fictional “animal pornographer” whose seemingly benign responses to a reporter played by host Scarlett Johansson were graphically depicted as describing acts of bestiality.
