As we’ve reported, the bankruptcy of Sports Authority meant that the company’s name would eventually have to come off Mile High Stadium — or Sports Authority Field at Mile High, as it’s been officially known since 2011, when the retailer secured the rights from Invesco, a financial firm. And while we still…
Longtime 9News morning personality Kyle Dyer has announced that she’s leaving the station on September 7 after twenty years on the job, joining what by now is a sizable crowd of longtime talents to have exited from Denver’s longtime news-ratings leader in recent years. Those who’ve left include entertainment reporter…
A federal lawsuit against Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and other city officials, filed by one of Hizzoner’s former best buds and top advisors, has been dismissed by U.S. District Court Judge John Kane — just when filings in the case were getting interesting. Ex-aide Wayne McDonald’s complaint of wrongful termination…
Slot houses, as they’ve been dubbed by CU Denver’s Christine Franck, are among the most controversial, and most hated, building styles currently on view in the Denver metro area. But there’s another approach that raises the hackles of Denver City Councilman Rafael Espinoza: garden court buildings, which are supposed to…
In recent weeks, three Denver Sheriff Department deputies — William Jackson, Steven Roybal and Monwell Fuller — have been fired for using excessive force against inmates at Denver County Jail. Afterward, Denver Sheriff Patrick Firman issued a tough statement in regard to these moves, saying, “The Denver Sheriff Department does…
After the Broncos’ 22-0 preseason-opening victory over the Chicago Bears on August 11, plenty of fans on Twitter were sufficiently reassured about the ongoing quarterback controversy to predict a return visit to the Super Bowl. Not anymore. On Saturday night, August 20, Denver lost 31-24 to the woeful San Francisco…
The tremendous popularity of Rocky Mountain National Park — it’s currently the third-most visited national park in the country — has brought with it a number of less positive developments, including isolated incidents of parking-lot rage and a high volume of human waste. While most of the latter is left in structures…
The presidential candidacy of Donald Trump has raised a lot of unexpected questions. Among the strangest: “Is there a difference between a politician saying he or she will vote for Trump and actually endorsing him?” The distinction isn’t merely academic. In recent days, New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte, a Republican, told CNN…
Among the greatest traditions of your Denver Broncos is the rookie haircut, in which veterans wreak shear havoc on the scalps of first-year players. And no one is immune — not even presumed quarterback-of-the-future Paxton Lynch, who proudly tweeted the photo of his new Munchin Land-ready look, seen above. Not…
When most of us make a mistake (especially a public one), we generally either avoid talking about it or do so in a manner that puts the best gloss on our actions. Not Jeremy Cadwell. The new Colorado resident is refreshingly candid about his rescue from Boulder’s Flatirons earlier this…
In the late spring of 2015, a home in Greenwood Village was utterly destroyed after Robert Seacat, a suspected Walmart shoplifter, took refuge inside and refused to come out for nearly twenty hours. In the wake of this bizarre episode, the trio that had been living in the residence — John Lech,…
It’s been a rough past few months for the venerable PT’s strip clubs in Denver — and things just got rougher. Early yesterday morning, a shooting took place outside PT’s II, 8315 East Colfax, following a promotion dubbed #selfiesaturday. One man died in the incident, and no suspect information has…
If you think the property in this photo, and the larger ones below, doesn’t look like a typical ranch, you’d be right. But its owner, rock singer Joe Cocker, isn’t a typical rancher. He is, however, downsizing — and that means he’s selling his spectacular spread near Crawford, on the…
A new private-sector security plan for the 16th Street Mall, which includes the hiring of guards who’ll be on duty as soon as this afternoon, has just been unveiled by the Downtown Denver Partnership and the Downtown Denver Business Improvement District. It’s the latest effort to address problems at one of the…
In July, we told you about the death of 23-month-old Jayvion Johnson, as well as the arrest of his mother, Candice Lampley, and her boyfriend, Delonta Crank, in the tragic incident. Early word suggest that the child had suffered serious burns, and a just-released autopsy report has confirmed it. Jayvion…
It’s hitching season for pro football players with Colorado connections. Last week, we shared wedding and honeymoon photos of Broncos receiver Eric Decker and singer Jessie James. Now we’ve got images, a wacky wedding video and more from the Colorado nuptials of Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III and Rebecca…
Earlier this year, Realtor.com named Denver one of the ten best U.S. cities for singles wanting to buy a home. But according to a new study by Zumper, a website focusing on housing and rentals, plenty of them won’t be able to afford such a purchase once they arrive here…
At first blush, a proposed amendment to the Denver city charter seems unlikely to stir passions. But including Denver’s Office of the Independent Monitor in that document is important to the Denver Justice Project, which is planning a rally in favor of such a proposal at 4:30 p.m. today at the…
Yesterday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced that, if elected, he will institute an ideological test for Muslim immigrants and visitors to the United States — or, in his words, “extreme, extreme vetting.” The uproar that followed was undoubtedly familiar to former Congressman Tom Tancredo, who previously ran for president, as…
The folks at O.penVAPE, a Colorado-based manufacturer of vaporizer devices, cartridges and other marijuana-related products, were disappointed when the Denver Broncos declined to consider their proposal to purchase naming rights for Mile High Stadium. But that doesn’t mean representatives of the firm are putting distance between them and the NFL —…
On July 29, we reported that sports columnist Woody Paige was leaving the Denver Post, his newspaper home for the lion’s share of 35 years. In the subsequent Sunday edition, the paper published Paige’s goodbye column, in which he cited memorable pieces (including one in which he revealed that he’d once…
The circumstances of the sexual assault committed by former University of Colorado Boulder student Austin Wilkerson are unique (and distressing). But the outcome — Wilkerson will spend no time in prison for his crime — was all too familiar. An example: In speaking about the sex assault case against Air…
