Sometimes Colorado seems like its own country. And there’s a reason for that. Colorado is actually larger than some of the most famous countries in the world — so much so that several of those nations and others could actually fit inside our state with room to spare. This fact…
A lawsuit has been filed against the University of Colorado Boulder by a male student who was expelled after being accused of sexually assaulting two fellow students — claims he says are false. According to the complaint, the student, referred to as John Doe, “was subjected to a biased and…
At this writing, a search is ongoing for nineteen-year-old Darius Ratcliff. The reason: He’s suspected of killing one person, Cristian Martinez, 21, and wounding three others at a house party at a house party in the Baker neighborhood. The incident reportedly took place at around 11 p.m. on Friday, November…
The weekend shooting at 18th and Market, which killed one person and injured another, took place in a parking lot that’s long been known by Denver police as the worst place to be during let-out for area bars and clubs. Plenty of drivers would agree. Multiple cars in the lot were…
It’s Colorado Day — a perfect opportunity to celebrate the state we’re in. Not that the folks at the Fuck Yeah Colorado! Tumblr need a calendrical excuse. We saluted the site in our first Fuck Yeah Colorado! collection circa 2012, and created a 2014 sequel highlighting the page’s predilection for capturing the funny, strange and/or wonderful…
A month ago today, when Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump visited Colorado to attend the Western Conservative Summit, our Ana Campbell wrote that he had a no good, very bad day. But if anything, his latest trip to our fair state was even worse. The Donald was almost an hour…
As Friday night, July 29, was giving way to Saturday morning, July 30, the Denver Police Department responded to the latest shooting in Lower Downtown — one that left one man dead and another one injured. The location — a parking lot near 18th and Market — was no doubt…
Right now, there are rumors aplenty in the local journalism community that sports columnist Woody Paige, arguably the best known writer for the Denver Post, has left the newspaper over a pay dispute. If true, the story would represent the latest public-relations hit for a publication that recently followed a buyout offer…
Longtime 9News personality Gregg Moss is leaving the station. And while he’s done so in the past, only to subsequently return, he writes in a Facebook post announcement that “this one feels like the last.” As we noted in a 2009 post, the self-proclaimed “business boy” cut back on his…
On June 14, authorities at the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park recovered the body of 23-year-old University of Colorado-Colorado Springs student Ryan Wood Moss, a nature lover originally from North Carolina who’d been reported missing three days earlier. Moss’s family believes he died on June 9 after falling…
Training camp has opened for your Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos, and the truest, orange-and-bluest fans are optimistic about another fantastic season. Not Colin Cowherd, though. The ESPN star turned Fox Sports personality, who hosts The Herd on FS1 and Fox Sports Radio (heard locally on Denver Sports 760), thinks anyone who…
Plenty of Denverites are up in arms about the current state of the 16th Street Mall, which they see as a setting for random violent crime and an aggressive, drug-using homeless population that’s keeping visitors away. In the view of Annie Levinsky, executive director of Historic Denver, such factors, which are…
Stephanie Anderson died in Boulder County Jail of what an autopsy maintains were natural causes. But attorney David Lane, who’s representing Anderson’s family, suspects that there was nothing natural about some of the events that took place prior to her passing — and he’s conducting an investigation with an eye toward…
Today, a federal judge ordered that former Evergreen resident John Hinckley be released from the Washington, D.C.-area hospital that’s been his official home since he who was found not guilty by reason of insanity for trying to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981. More than three-and-a-half-decades after Hinckley’s failed murder bid, most people…
Attorney Matt Buck speaks bluntly about the death of Paul Castaway, a homeless Native American who had bouts with mental illness. “On July 12, 2015, Denver police officer Michael Traudt killed Paul Castaway,” Buck says. “He had the ability to use less-than-lethal force, but instead, he made a different choice. He…
The recently published post Denver Development and Controversial Impact of “Slot Houses” draws upon “Documenting Change in Denver,” part of an analysis being conducted by CU Denver’s Center for Advanced Research and Traditional Architecture. In tracking the building boom in Denver, CARTA director Christine Franck spotlights the West Colfax neighborhood (and a…
Back in January, our Chris Walker reported about snowboarder Seth Beckton’s claim that someone had pushed him off a chairlift at Aspen Highlands ski area. The following month, Thomas Proesel was arrested in the incident. But there’s been an unexpected twist in the case. Pamela Mackey, Proesel’s Denver-based attorney, says that…
Last week, 104.3 The Fan issued a press release revealing that “thirty-seven year radio veteran Sandy Clough will host a self-titled show, weekdays from 10 a.m.-12 p.m., beginning Monday, July 25, 2016.” Such an announcement typically means that a media outlet is courting additional publicity. But when we requested an interview with Clough,…
It was a tragedy that had already resulted in one death when it was compounded by another. On July 13, Cole Sukle, fourteen, and a friend were riding bicycles in a designated lane near a park near East Yale Avenue and East Nielsen Way when they were struck by a car…
The topic of development in Denver raises passions among plenty of locals — particularly those who don’t like the looks of many new buildings being erected across the Mile High City. Take the comment of one reader, who likened the structures to 1950s prison complexes. Such reactions are of particular interest…
In November 2015, two female deputies with the Denver Sheriff Department filed a lawsuit alleging that Denver County Jail is a house of horrors for female guards. The complaint suggested that profane verbal abuse, sexual harassment and intentional masturbation are common occurrences at the facility and argued that female deputies are “discouraged…
“Please Read! Do not erase. Your life may depend on it!” So begins “They Are Taking Over!,” one of the featured items on ConspiracyMadLibz.com, a new website launched the week of the Republican National Convention (and just in time for the Democratic confab that gets underway next week) by Krista…
