In some ways, the Denver Broncos were lucky yesterday, despite the unlucky final results of their game against the Tennessee Titans. The Broncos lost the contest 13-10 — a defeat that exposed the offense, even under returning starter Trevor Siemian, as being incapable of making big plays when they count…
“Dear Trump. I feel sad because you are saying you want to send the Mexicans back. I am Mexican. Plz don’t send my family back. I am really mad. Plz think before you say. I was really scared about what you said on the TV.” So reads a letter to…
Earlier this week, we wrote about the tragic death of Rashaan Salaam, the first Heisman Trophy winner ever for the University of Colorado Buffaloes. Salaam was found dead in a Boulder park on Monday night of a suspected suicide; his funeral service is scheduled for today. Now, ex-Buffs quarterback (and…
For a country rooted in a rebellion, America’s got no shortage of castles. And some spectacular ones can be yours — including one in Denver. Estately recently compiled a list of the most whimsical American castles for sale right now. Among the classically inspired structures highlighted is a Denver-area property…
Since February 2013, we’ve been reporting about the disappearance of Kelsie Jean Schelling, a onetime resident of Denver (she lived in the Larimer Square area) who vanished in Pueblo. She’d headed south to see her boyfriend shortly after learning she was pregnant. In the intervening three-years-plus, the case has gotten…
The election of Donald Trump and his nomination of marijuana-hating Senator Jeff Sessions as attorney general has raised concern among members of the cannabis community about a crackdown on the pot laws in states such as Colorado. Such worries aren’t without merit. University of Denver law professor Sam Kamin recently outlined…
We’ve previously posted about the theory that Colorado drivers are terrible — an extremely important consideration on a day like today, when roads are icy and often treacherous owing to the impact of yesterday’s steady snowfall and bitterly cold temperatures that continue to linger at this writing. Now come facts and…
Yesterday, we reported about longtime 9News anchor Adele Arakawa revealing that she would retire from the station in June 2017 — an announcement she made before she’d planned after the media website FTVLive quoted sources as saying that she was being pressured to take a buyout. She dubbed the piece…
Thus far, Burke Ramsey, brother of JonBenét Ramsey, who was murdered in her Boulder home on December 25, 1996, nearly twenty years ago, hasn’t filed a promised lawsuit against CBS for a docuseries that essentially accused him of murder. But his attorney is shrugging off a dismissal motion from an expert…
The initial report about a death in Boulder’s Eben G. Fine Park was sad but unremarkable. Boulder police announced that the body of a middle-aged man had been found just shy of 9 p.m. on Monday, December 5, but there were no signs of either foul play or an overt threat…
Yesterday, longtime 9News anchor Adele Arakawa revealed that she’ll be retiring from the station in June 2017 — an announcement prompted by what she decried as a “Fake News” story about her impending departure. But the report about Arakawa, published yesterday morning on the media-gossip site FTVLive, doesn’t fit the definition…
‘Tis the season for American Atheists to put up billboards in Colorado Springs, one of the most heavily Christian communities in the country, encouraging residents to skip church for Christmas — and so it has come to pass. Billboards were scheduled to be erected in the Springs this week, and they’re…
Today, December 6, is the seventh annual Colorado Gives Day, when folks are encouraged to donate to nonprofits in the state — and there are at least a million reasons to dig deep. Community First Foundation and FirstBank have each donated $500,000 to create a $1 million incentive fund. This…
Although Tomas Beauford was 24 at the time of his death, he suffered from intellectual and developmental disabilities that caused him to function on the level of a six-year-old — a fact that makes the tragedy that befell him even more heartbreaking. Beauford died from a seizure while in custody…
Update: Since last year, we’ve been covering the dueling lawsuits between former Denver DJ David Mueller and pop star Taylor Swift over allegations that he touched her inappropriately during a meet-and-greet prior to a June 2013 concert at the Pepsi Center. In his lawsuit (which mentions Westword’s inquiries into the matter), Mueller…
Our first post about Paxton Lynch, published in April shortly after your Denver Broncos spent a first-round draft pick on him, sports the headline, “Meet Paxton Lynch: Broncos QB of the Future or the Next Tim Tebow?” And while the Broncos earned a 20-10 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars yesterday…
“I know my rights,” Darsean Kelley announced to Aurora police officers during a February stop. As he spoke these words, Kelley was facing away from the cops with his hands up — a pose that clearly made him no danger to anyone in the vicinity. But an instant later, he…
In a recent interview, University of Denver law professor Sam Kamin outlined three ways Donald Trump could shut down state-legal marijuana — a prospect that has raised increasing levels of concern among cannabis reformers since the president-elect’s nomination of pot-hating Senator Jeff Sessions as U.S. Attorney General. Erik Altieri, executive director…
Last week, we shared the latest Denver rent data from Zumper by way of counting down the metro-area cities with the lowest-to-highest rent for a one-bedroom apartment. As we noted, the median prices for rent varied by more than $300 from the top of the roster to the bottom. Today,…
Update: Earlier this fall, as we’ve reported (see our previous coverage below), Christopher Gebers was found guilty for his role in a 2015 crash that caused the death of Colorado State Patrol Cadet Taylor Thyfault, 21, and the serious injury of Trooper Clinton Rushing, 37. Now, Gebers has been handed a stunning…
Ever since the nomination of hardcore pot prohibitionist Senator Jeff Sessions for the position of United States Attorney General, numerous members of the cannabis community have expressed increasing concern that the incoming Donald Trump administration might crack down on state-legal marijuana businesses in Colorado and beyond. At this writing, neither…
In our recent interview with The Fox’s Rick Lewis, published two years after longtime partner Michael Floorwax announced that he wouldn’t be returning to the Lewis & Floorwax show for health reasons, the man who’s arguably the biggest star on current Denver radio talked about new opportunities ahead of him, particularly…
