Law-enforcement agencies in a lot of communities produce most-wanted lists. But Fort Collins has taken things a step further. Community reps have created a Fort Collins Police: Most Wanted Facebook page on which it features suspects on posters of the sort we associate with the Old West, but created with new…
The Denver Post has announced a new buyout offer intended to shrink the staff by 26 employees. If this reduction is realized, the Post’s newsroom will have lost more than a third of its workers in around a year. As we reported in June 2015, there were approximately 165 newsroom members…
How much was Timothy Gomez’s life worth? According to a jury, Charlie Brammeier valued it at $20 — the amount of a drug transaction prosecutors say led to Gomez being beaten to death by a Mag-Lite flashlight. But the cost to Brammeier will turn out to be infinitely higher than that. According…
Earlier this month, we posted about the ten most walkable Denver neighborhoods according to Walkscore.com. Now we’re going from micro to macro by looking at cities across the entire state — many of which aren’t very walkable at all. Below, see the ten Colorado cities with the site’s lowest walking…
Yesterday, in a post about a Peyton Manning tribute video, I wrote that it was “highly unlikely” that the Broncos would choose a quarterback with their first pick in last night’s NFL Draft since “all the marquee names should be gone by then.” I couldn’t have been more wrong. Paxton…
We recently wrote about a crackdown against illegal marijuana grows in Pueblo, known as one of Colorado’s most pot-friendly cities. Since mid-March, Pueblo law enforcers say they’ve seized 4,600 plants and arrested 22 people, many of them from out of state. Included in that number is Warren Radosti, seen above,…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Arts, Brad Weismann spotlights the ten best things about Elitch’s, old and new. Denver Egotist: “Berkeley Supply Is Expanding to Colfax.” The Colorado Independent’s Corey Hutchins: “Sure, the ‘Police Force’ in Green Mountain Falls Resigned. So What?”…
As we’ve noted, the annual NFL Draft gets underway tonight — and even though your Denver Broncos are highly unlikely to choose a quarterback with their first pick (all the marquee names should be gone by then), their signal-caller situation is dire. The only QBs currently on the squad are…
It was one of the strangest stories of 2015: The arrest of Julieane Jablonski after Austin Essig, her nineteen year old son, jumped out a window, allegedly under the influence of a marijuana edible she provided. Now, a jury has ruled on Jablonski’s case — and while she reportedly avoided…
The Colorado ski season is winding down. And while the vast majority of skiers and snowboarders who visited here in 2016 had a great time, the resorts were also the setting for a number of tragedies. Between January and April, we’ve told the stories about nine people who died at…
Unless you’ve been living in a sports-free zone lately, you know that tonight, the 2015 NFL draft will get underway in Chicago. Your Denver Broncos have the 28th overall pick, although rumors are rife they could move down in the pecking order — or up — or stay put. Basically, there’s…
In a post published yesterday about the decision not to charge the cop who gunned down Adrian Moya in December, we noted the high number of officer-involved shootings in Colorado of late — including one that killed a man in Lakewood on April 26. Add another incident to that number…
The first will be the last. Video One, at 600 Downing Street, was reportedly Denver’s first video store will now be its last. The venerable store, which opened in 1984, has announced that it will be closing in the next few weeks. Here’s the announcement, as shared on Video One’s Facebook…
We recently reported that the Colorado Supreme Court had declined to hear a case involving Masterpiece Cakeshop’s refusal to make a cake for a gay couple, Charlie Craig and David Mullins, back in 2012. This decision, which leaves standing a previous ruling in favor of Craig and Mullins, was a legal…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Food & Drink, Jonathan Shikes shares an impassioned essay by the owner of Grist Brewing, who thinks suburban Denver beer makers get no respect. Denver Infill’s Ken Schroeppel presents details about a new Jefferson Park project: Decatur Point. Predominantly Orange’s Cameron Parker weighs in on…
We wouldn’t advise messing with Grace Davis. Sixteen-year-old Davis recently helped organize a protest at Ponderosa High School, which she attends, and afterward, her claim of being bullied by two members of the Douglas County School Board — board president Meghann Silverthorn and director Judy Reynolds — has led to an…
Pueblo is perceived to be a marijuana-friendly city — so much so that in March, High Times attempted to move its Cannabis Cup there before eventually relocating it to California. But in recent weeks, a slew of arrests related to allegedly illegal marijuana grows have taken place in the community, including the…
The folks at Estately have a different way of looking at the world. Take the site’s latest list, which calculates how much it would cost to purchase an average-priced home in each state using both dollars and items/products/stuff appropriate for each place. In Colorado, for example, the price is also calculated…
Massage therapist Marcos Duran has been arrested on suspicion of two sex crimes for allegedly going way over the line. A woman maintains that during a massage, he touched her genitals in so deliberate a way that police in Fort Collins fear there may be additional victims. Most of the…
We thought we’d written the last memorial post of the season about a skier who died accidentally at a Colorado resort. After all, many ski areas had already closed for the season, and things have been winding down at those that remained open. But no: On Sunday, April 24, twenty-year-old…
Last month, as we reported, the United States Supreme Court decided not to hear a lawsuit filed by Oklahoma and Nebraska over Colorado’s marijuana laws — specifically Amendment 64, which legalized limited recreational marijuana sales here after its passage in November 2012. The court’s decision effectively snuffed out this avenue…
In recent weeks, we’ve been writing about violent incidents near the 16th Street Mall area. One recent example: Four people were shot at 10th and Market near Larimer Square. Plenty of our readers were troubled by episodes like this one, including the following correspondent, who has an interesting suggestion for…
