Most burglaries are committed with a motive of stealing things. But that apparently wasn’t the case when it came to a home in Jefferson County. According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, the burglars who broke into a residence on the 8700 block of South Jellison Court sometime between April…
At first, the cause of death for Oklahoma’s Joshua Foster and Zach Moore in northern Colorado last year appeared to be a vehicle fire. But further investigation suggested that they’d been murdered, with the fire presumably set to cover up evidence of the crime. And now, months after their passing,…
Our readers had a lot to say about the fatal police shooting of Dion Damon, a bank robbery suspect who wasn’t armed when an officer fired seven shots into his body near the Denver Art Museum earlier this week. The cop maintains that Damon ignored orders to leave his car with…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Music, Art Tavana notes that Guns N’ Roses gave Coachella its most epic rock set ever. According to Colorado Pols, the Trumpmageddon protest fizzled. Denver Urbanism’s Ryan Dravitz continues the countdown to the opening of RTD’s A-Line operation…
On the day after Christmas in 2011, as we reported, father-of-five Youn Malual was murdered in an incident that shattered the local Sudanese community. More than four years later, Brandon Jackson — the first of five men thought to have been responsible for the slaying — has been found guilty…
At this writing, we’re ten days away from the April 28 start of the 2016 NFL draft, and the Denver Broncos’ quarterback situation remains unresolved. With Peyton Manning’s retirement and the mutiny of Brock Osweiler, who signed a big-money deal with the Houston Texans, the most senior signal-caller on the…
We recently re-shared a 2013 post highlighting Denver’s five most walkable neighborhoods. Afterward, we checked Walkscore.com, our source for the information, to see if any of the site’s rankings had changed — and they had. In the nearly three years since the original item’s publication, two new neighborhoods entered the…
A lot of frustration was generated by our post about a bill that would require schools to allow authorized patients access to medical marijuana. One big reason was the story of Addelyn Patrick, a three-year-old with epilepsy. Even though MMJ has proven to be the most effective treatment for her…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Music, Jon Solomon reports that the Monkey Barrel is closing its Platte Street location, but it will open in a new spot this summer — hopefully in a place with room for iconic murals like the ones seen above. Coyote Gulch shares a Kim…
We’ve been reporting about the murder of Pam Candelario in Walsenburg, a small community in southeastern Colorado. Her husband, Ralph Candelario, was charged with the crime despite an elaborate tale in which he claimed that intruders had broken into the couple’s home, killed Pam and roughed him up before he could…
The Colorado Department of Transportation has just released its 2016 Problem Identification Report. And unfortunately, there are problems aplenty. The statistics are from 2014 — the most recent year for which data is final. And during that span, the number of fatal crashes rose substantially from the year before, as…
Just about the time even longtime Denver-area residents had just about convinced ourselves that warm weather was here to stay, a new Spring storm is on the horizon. And, of course, it’s a baffling one. Forecasters don’t seem to know whether it’ll produce rain, sleet or a snowpocalypse, or what…
It was one of the most shocking and brutal allegations of early 2015. And now, Joseph Romero, the man at whom the finger was pointed, has admitted it was true. Romero has admitted guilt in the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend, Phenia Martinez, when she was eight months pregnant. The acknowledgment…
Denver Public Schools is in damage control mode in the wake of revelations that newly appointed board member MiDian Holmes has a past conviction for child abuse. Making the case even more interesting are reports that board members knew about this aspect of Holmes’s past before appointing her. DPS certainly seems…
Chris Walker’s latest post about Denver’s homeless sweep in March features documents that show the City of Denver questioning its own protocol. The report prompted one reader who says he used to be homeless to take a controversial position on the issue. Among those who responded was a commenter who rejected…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Arts, Bree Davies argues that we should just say no to RiNo and other inaccurate Denver neighborhood names. The provocative headline on Sam Schanfarber’s latest story for the Colorado Independent: “Aurora’s heavily white police force is firing at blacks.” Denver Stiffs’ Zach Mikash on the…
Last month, we told you about the death of Sammy Pickel, who died a couple of days after being put in a chokehold by a bouncer at Lodo’s Bar & Grill in Westminster. Then, last week, we noted that 17th Judicial District DA Dave Young had decided against criminal charges…
A strange child custody case that originated in Massachusetts ended, at least temporarily, in Colorado. The child, a ten-month-old girl, is currently with family living in our fair state. But we don’t yet know the legal fates of her parents: Katelyn Monteiro, whose arrest for assaulting a police officer prompted a…
One of the most entertaining things about dating websites — aside from finding a special someone to entertain — involves the handles people choose for themselves. Many are quite straight-forward. But others are weird or funny or baffling — or a combination of all three. We recently searched a major…
Last night, a vigil was held for Dion Damon, who was killed by a Denver police officer on Tuesday, April 12. A Denver Police Department spokesman now acknowledges that Damon wasn’t armed at the time he was shot to death by Officer Jeff Motz, a 22-year law-enforcement veteran. DPD maintains…
Alan Prendergast’s update on a new Denver stormwater plan generated some interesting responses. As Prendergast wrote, city planners “settled on Denver’s City Park Golf Course as the logical place to build a thirty-acre ‘detention area’ for stormwater runoff — a move that will involve closing the course for more than a…
In case you missed it…. Westword Music shares conflicting opinions about 4/20 concerts: Isa Jones thinks they suck, while Lindsey Bartlett offers seven reasons why they’re awesome. Colorado Peak Politics asks: “Why doesn’t Colorado have a straw poll anymore?” Mile High Report’s Tim Lynch thinks the Broncos should re-sign Ronnie Hillman…
