In recent months, we’ve been keeping you up to date about the murder of Lauren Mann, a former CU student who was killed in Vienna, Austria, where she’d been working as a nanny. Now, a Gambian national identified as Abdou I. — Austrian law precludes his full name from being…
The Denver Post has far fewer subscribers than it once did — and if even more cut ties over its new arbitration policy, the paper seems okay with it. A document obtained by Westword includes talking points for staffers dealing with angry subscribers. In it, the call takers are told to stress…
The weird stuff you find on the Internet…. We recently stumbled upon a post shared this past February on the Colorado State Memes Facebook page entitled “The Completely Biased Map of Colorado Springs.” But taking a look at it proved trickier than anticipated, since the link was dead, as was everything…
The legalization of limited recreational marijuana sales hasn’t prevented police from staging cannabis-related raids — note the Pueblo County Sheriff’s war on allegedly illegal pot grows, which has resulted in the confiscation of at least confiscated 5,900 marijuana plans and 35 arrests in 25 homes since mid-March. But police agencies appear…
Folks reacted strongly to our post about Casey Nocket, who has pleaded guilty to defacing Rocky Mountain National Park, the Colorado National Monument and five other national parks in the west. As we noted, Nocket used acrylic paint rather than chalk to create her “artworks” — something she admitted in…
In case you missed it…. The Westword Food & Drink crew names the ten best brunch restaurants in Denver, 2016 edition. The Colorado Independent’s Corey Hutchins asks: “What Happens to Bernie Sanders’s Political Revolution in Colorado?” Mile High Report’s Laurie Lattimore-Volkmann reports that the two Broncos currently leading the quarterback competition are…
According to RTD, Civic Center Station, located on Broadway between Colfax and 16th Street, is among its most used transit centers. But just over two weeks from now, the 15,000 passengers who use it a day will be unable to use it — for a year. Why? RTD is embarking…
The local dance community is in mourning. Two promising young dancers — Sarah Ball, eighteen, and Peter Kim, nineteen — were killed during a highly unusual crash that took place in the Boulder foothills. The vehicle they were in is described by the Boulder Daily Camera as “Korean War-era truck” that…
Donovan Duran’s Facebook page still lists him as a “full-time MMA fighter.” But right now, his main battle is against the La Junta Police Department. Duran was paralyzed after being slammed to the ground by cops last December. He’s now filed a lawsuit against the police department over the incident,…
During the summer of 2014, we told you about the arrest of Kelsy Newell-Skinner. She told authorities she awoke after heavy drinking to find her baby daughter, Natalee Skinner-Hurst, horribly beaten. The baby, who was just two months old, died from her injuries. Now, Newell-Skinner has entered a guilty plea…
Whisper is a social networking app where anonymous users post messages over an image, meme-style. And because the site is searchable, visitors can focus on locations (like, for instance, Colorado) and check out conversations that are frequently as spicy — picking up and hooking up are frequent topics — as they…
At first, Carbondale’s Arturo Navarrete-Portillo said he didn’t know why he’d used a machete to kill his wife, Maria Carminda Portillo-Amaya. But he says he knows now. In court this week, Navarrete-Portillo maintained that jealousy over another man’s sexual superiority drove him to commit the horrific act. “She said the other…
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Good to Know Colorado campaign endeavors to educate folks about the effects of marijuana — although the focus is typically on its dangers. For instance, Good to Know’s latest effort sketches out the risks of cannabis use by pregnant and breastfeeding women. But…
We recently re-shared a vintage post featuring ten things you need to know before moving to Colorado Springs. It’s the kind of item that tends to inspire those with negative thoughts toward the state’s second largest city. As such, we figured that the following reader, who identifies himself as being…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Arts, Lauren Archuleta hips you to the ten best spots in Denver for Father’s Day gifts that won’t break the bank — including unusual picks such as Tymkovich Meats. Colorado Peak Politics is psyched about Donald Trump’s decision to address the Western Conservative Summit. Mile High…
Defensive coordinator Wade Phillips was as responsible as anyone for the Denver Broncos’ Super Bowl win this past February. So he richly deserved the Super Bowl ring he was awarded during a ceremony on Sunday. Too bad his name on it was misspelled. Actually, it would have been spelled correctly…
In October 2014, we reported not once but twice about allegations that Casey Nocket had defaced a Rocky Mountain National Park, the Colorado National Monument and a number of other federally protected locations. The evidence was at least partly provided by her. She shared images of her “art” on a now-deleted Instagram…
As we’ve reported, authorities arrested Tanner Flores, eighteen, after recovering a body that’s been positively identified as Ashley Doolittle, a Berthoud eighteen-year-old — and his former girlfriend. Now, an affidavit in the case is revealing new and disturbing details about the circumstances of Doolittle’s death. The document maintains that Flores…
Lately, we’ve reported about a slew of disturbing crimes, including a triple killing on an early June weekend that saw plenty of other violence, plus a series of sex assaults at DU. Against this backdrop comes Wallethub’s list of the safest states in the country — and Colorado’s ranking is pretty dispiriting…
According to the father of Jubal Dee Alexander, the murder of his son in Texas was horrific in and of itself. But the circumstances surrounding the crime have compounded the pain. Alexander’s body was found inside his truck, but not his head. He’d been decapitated — and at this writing, the…
Marijuana laws in America vary widely from state to state — and they shift so frequently that keeping up can be a challenge. That’s why a new marijuana policies map is so helpful. Developed by Frontier Financials and CannaRegs.com under the auspices of the National Cannabis Industry Association, the interactive online…
We recently shared a jeremiad from a Colorado transplant fed up with “elitist” natives. In it, he stressed that he didn’t move to the state for marijuana and said he’d like to feed the next native who gets up in his grill a “buffet of dicks.” This topic has been…
