It was one of the most shocking stories of 2014 — one whose details seemed too terrible to be true. But apparently they were. Jena Harman and her boyfriend, Alexander Smith, have reportedly pleaded guilty to keeping her seven-year-old child in caged outdoors on their remote Wyoming property — even…
The ten best cities for single women include Denver, according to the NerdWallet website. According to one reader, that’s accurate in terms of quantity. Quality, though, is another matter, she writes. Here’s her take. c.burnett writes: If you can’t get a guy in Menver, then you have issues. Finding a…
Denver blog posts can get pretty freaky. At our Food & Restaurant blog, Jenn Wohletz lists five questionable new foodie products, including (and we’re not kidding) a baby-shaped flask that allows you to drink out of the infant’s head. At Mile High Report, Kyle Montgomery weighs in on the disputed…
The results of the last election resulted in shared power at the Colorado General Assembly. Democrats remain the majority party in the House, but Republicans gained control of the Senate. Will good ideas from one chamber face ignominious defeat in the other one? A new proposal making progress in the…
Last September and October, one of the biggest stories in the Denver metro area involved student protests in Jefferson County against the proposed assembling of a history curriculum committee tasked with emphasizing patriotism and downplaying civil disorder. After large walkouts at schools throughout the district, the Jeffco school board okayed the…
Shortly after posting about the death of CU Boulder student Jacob Kulton at Breckenridge, we learned about another death resulting from an accident on the Colorado ski slopes. The victim was Dr. Meir Wetzler, a nationally known cancer specialist based in Buffalo, New York. Thus far, the circumstances of the…
The latest survey from the folks at WalletHub lists “2015’s Cities with the Most and Least Ethno-Racial and Linguistic Diversity.” Spurred by Black History Month, the site looked at 350 communities across the country as a way of cataloging America’s increasing diversity, as epitomized by the photo above, spotlighting the…
The image most of us have of patients suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s — a brutal malady detailed in Still Alice, for which Julianne Moore just won a well-deserved Academy Award this past Sunday — is of an elderly person sitting in place, lost in his or her own baffling world…
Yesterday, we told you about a skier death near Aspen Mountain; he’s now been identified as John Gancsos, 64. Because Gancsos perished in an avalanche outside the boundaries of a resort, his death won’t be included in the official casualty figures for ski areas. However, an incident on Monday will. On…
Last year, we told you about charges against Hector Diaz related to gun possession and his complicity in allegedly dropping $500,000 in Colombian cash in the Colorado marijuana business. Now, Diaz has pleaded guilty to a couple of counts — fewer than the number he originally faced. In exchange, Diaz is…
William Breathes’s report about Gabriel Campbell, who was driving a car with Colorado plates when he was pulled over in Texas and found to have five pounds of marijuana in his trunk put one reader in mind of alleged marijuana profiling. In the case of someone she knows, however, the word…
Denver blogs are prepared rain or shine. At our Arts blog, Bree Davies lists the five things transplants need to know about Colorado weather. Denver Egotist on Alex Bogusky’s plan to launch a new social-good agency platform in Boulder. Mile High Hockey collects all the NHL trade rumors that may or…
Last year was a particularly brutal avalanche season in Colorado and beyond. As we reported at the time, one stretch in February 2014 saw six avalanche deaths in the American West over a stretch of less than a week. This season, the tragedies have been fewer so far, but the numbers…
Political reporters for Fox affiliates across the country often have a difficult time establishing themselves as objective and journalistically credible owing to the slant associated with the Fox News cable channel. But that’s never been a problem for Fox31’s Eli Stokols. From the beginning of his run in the Denver…
If you’re a single woman, what city is the right fit? According to the NerdWallet website, the following ten are tops — and Denver’s among them. Count down the photo-illustrated list below, complete with data in the major categories used to reach a conclusion: unmarried men per 100 unmarried women,…
At this hour, members of the Aurora Police Department are reportedly investigating a homicide at a quadplex on the 1400 block of Lima Street. If that address sounds familiar, it should. In September 2014, another murder took place in the same quadplex. The victim was Danielle Griego, who was killed after…
Last year, we told you about accusations that Idaho Springs’ Haley Stanfield had put a hit on her boyfriend after the death of her fifteen-month-old baby, Logan Burchik. Stanfield remains behind bars based on this charge. Now, however, she’s facing a new allegation — that she and the aforementioned boyfriend, Joshua…
Last month, we told you about Good to Know Colorado, a new marijuana-education campaign launched by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. As we pointed out, much of the messaging on the Good to Know Colorado website was more about what is and isn’t legal than it was about…
Denver blog posts know who’s in and who’s out. At our Food & Restaurant blog, Mark Antonation lists ten restaurants that aren’t participating in Denver Restaurant Week. Roundball Mining Company’s Jim Heskett notes that the answer to the question “Is Brian Shaw fired yet?” is still “no” — but he…
A recent Ask a Stoner column noted that some dispensaries are now scanning IDs. This policy is clearly troubling to many of our readers. Meanwhile, the conversation went off in a number of interesting directions. Here’s an exchange about when one reader buys at pot shops — and when he…
Of late, attorney David Lane has represented several inmates or their families in regard to alleged substandard care of prisoners in custody. Examples include the case of Christopher Lopez, whose jailers joked and laughed while he slowly died (the Colorado Department of Corrections agreed to pay $3 million to settle the…
Back in November 2013, 9News’ Kyle Clark became a hero on Buzzfeed and Reddit for his rant about viewers sending the station so many photos of snowy patios and backyards instead of actually venturing beyond their doors. Just over a year later, the station for which Clark toils seems to have turned…
