A medical examiner has determined that the cause of CorePower Yoga founder and Denver business legend Trevor Tice’s mysterious December death inside his San Diego home was accidental. It’s believed that the bloody head trauma that killed him came as a result of falls that took place while he was under the influence of alcohol and assorted anti-depressants.
The Colorado the Beautiful initiative, launched under the auspices of the state’s Department of Natural Resources, has what project manager Chris Kehmeier calls “an overarching goal: to have every citizen of Colorado live within ten minutes of a trail, park, greenway or open space that they can get out and recreate in.” And the first sixteen trails planned for construction under the program will go a long way toward turning this vision into reality.
Police at the University of Colorado Boulder continue to look into reports about an e-mail sent to ticket holders for a Wednesday night address by alt-right shit-stirrer Milo Yiannopoulos threatening that “the identifies of attendees will be released to the public on a list of known Neo-Nazi sympathizers.” But while the inquiry is ongoing, investigators have already concluded that the e-mail wasn’t sent out as a result of an online hack. Rather, they believe that the culprit was one of the attendees.
We take a closer look at five additional Denver zip codes, including ones that correspond to Cherry Creek, Baker and Green Valley Ranch. On top of that, we compare and contrast Capitol Hill and Five Points, which are just two digits away from each other zip-wise, but with plenty of other differences.
Michael Sura, the defendant in a lawsuit over a ski accidet at Snowmass, is 72-years-old. Yet the complaint filed on behalf of Stuart Pendleton, a resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, contends that Sura was racing another skier at the time of the crash at what the complaint, on view below, describes as a “fast and uncontrolled speed.”
Less than a month after the start of 2017, we’ve already got a candidate for Colorado’s race for governor in 2018. Last week, former state senator Mike Johnston, a Democrat, formally launched his campaign, and he’s already running hard to succeed John Hickenlooper as the state’s chief executive.
Hiking in Colorado during the winter can be absolutely spectacular, but unexpected events that take place in a challenging, high-altitude environment can have dangerous or even deadly consequences. Here are seven tips to avoid making fatal mistakes at this time of year.
The death of John Patrick Walter in Fremont County jail was absolutely unnecessary, according to a lawsuit filed by his family. The complaint contends that Walter was allowed to slowly, painfully expire due to withdrawal from a prescription medication by representatives of a private, for-profit company under contract to provide health-care services for inmates.
It’s taken nearly eight years, but members of the Martinez family, who perform together in a mariachi band, have finally won their lawsuit against the City of Denver over a wrong-house police raid during which they were beaten by mistake, then wrongly charged with assault against the officers who’d attacked them.
Just shy of two years after a pair of Denver police officers shot and killed seventeen-year-old Jessie Hernandez while she was behind the wheel of a stolen car, the department for which they work has announced that they will face no discipline in the controversial case, since their actions didn’t violate policy about firing into a moving vehicle in place at the time of the incident.
Nearly three years ago, the first of three marijuana amnesty boxes was installed at Aspen-Pitkin County Airport. The idea behind the boxes was to give fliers a way to dispose of legal cannabis before they boarded a plane bound for a destination where the substance might be against the law, and Pitkin County Undersheriff Ron Ryan considers the containers to be a success, even though weed isn’t the only aromatic thing sometimes being left in them.
Courtney Plante has taken a plea agreement in regard to attempted murder allegations against her significant other Sean Overstreet dating back to January 2016, when she was nineteen and he was 37. The deal trims time off her possible sentence but doesn’t let her off the hook for a crime against her former teacher that was as violent as it was bizarre.
Over recent weeks, there have been a series of high-profile crimes on Regional Transportation District buses in the Denver metro area, including a stabbing, an assault and a case of indecent exposure. Yet an RTD spokesman argues that despite such regrettable incidents, the district’s buses, trains and assorted properties are safe — and getting safer all the time.
President Donald Trump isn’t the only person to question attendance estimates at a big event over the past few days. I do, too. The audience-size figures most frequently floated after the Women’s March on Denver, which took place on Saturday, January 21, was “more than 100,000.” But to me, the Civic Center Park area seemed just as it packed as it did during the Broncos’ Super Bowl 50 Victory rally in February 2016 — and the crowd at that gathering was supposed to be one-million strong.
Is the solution to reducing or eliminating Interstate 25 traffic jams along the northern corridor a high-tech tube called Hyperloop One, through which passengers and cargo can travel at speeds up to 700 miles per hour? The folks at the Colorado Department of Transportation hope so, and while the concept sounds like science fiction, they believe it’s on the verge of becoming fact.
A lawsuit inspired by a video in which Greg Heard, a homeless man, is tased while giving himself up to a Denver police officer is currently in the works. But Heard’s attorney, John Holland, is releasing the video prior to the suit’s filing (see it below) because “it’s a matter of public concern. It should be out there, so people can understand that they should be very, very careful when confronting police officers armed with tasers. Because they will be tased — and many people have died from tasing. It can be deadly.”
On Friday, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. And while Trump clearly has plenty of supporters with high hopes for his time in office, many critics already fear that he’ll join the ranks of the most ineffective, incompetent chief executives we’ve ever had. What are the chances The Donald will sink to such depths?
Yesterday, we shared disturbing new details about past sexual assault accusations made against new Denver Broncos head coach Vance Joseph, including an assertion by a woman who told police in 2004 that Joseph, then an assistant coach at the University of Colorado Boulder, had disrobed, climbed into her bed uninvited and pressed his erect penis against her. Our piece noted that Joseph had not yet publicly addressed the allegations, adding, “It will be interesting to see how much longer he’ll be able to remain silent.” Turns out Joseph’s silence on the topic lasted less than 24 hours longer. But rather than holding a press conference or speaking on video, Joseph chose an interview with the Denver Post’s Nicki Jhabvala. The result was a clever bit of spin control, albeit one that hardly lays the story to rest permanently.
The tragic death of San Antonio mom Kelly Huber on a Granby ski lift demonstrates that such devices aren’t risk-free, as a skier named Richard found out personally. Earlier this month, his backpack got tangled on an Arapahoe Basin lift, leaving him dangling from the chair by his neck. He almost certainly would have died were it not for the heroics of professional slackliner Mickey Wilson, who joined Richard to talk about the rescue on yesterday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
The controversy over a new Denver Police Department draft policy about the use of force flared up again last night at a contentious community forum at the Shorter Community AME Church, with activists, faith leaders and other community members letting Denver Police Chief Robert White and other officials how unhappy they are with the way the document was assembled and presented.
What did each state, including Colorado, Google most in 2016? The answers can be hilarious, strange, embarrassing and telling.
In our coverage earlier this week of revelations about past sexual assault allegations against new Broncos coach Vance Joseph, which were originally made public as part of the investigation into the CU recruiting scandal, we noted that the team would apparently try to “ride out” the negative publicity that might result from the incident, which dated back to the period when Joseph served as an assistant coach for the Buffs.
