Earlier this week, we reported about a motion filed by the defense team representing accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes asking for the current December 8 trial start date to be pushed back. Prosecutors have now responded, and they raise no objections to the request, making it likely that the…
Did marijuana contribute to — and perhaps even cause — the death of Michael Brown, whose shooting by a police officer caused weeks of rioting in Ferguson, Missouri? That’s the implication of a blog post by Dr. Christian Thurstone, an addiction specialist who’s also a major player in Project SAM,…
To mark the Halloween season, USA Today assembled its picks for the country’s top haunted houses — and one from Denver made the cut. Count down all ten below, featuring images and text from each of the attractions — and be sure to click on the links to learn more…
Remember Luke Chrisco, the guy who was arrested back in 2011 for hiding inside the tank of a porta-potty in order to scope the underside of users at a Boulder-area yoga festival? Well, he’s back with another memorable gambit. Even as he faces a possible return to a cell for…
One of the most enjoyable things about the Broncos’ 35-21 win over the Chargers last night (and there were many of them) was the sight of San Diego QB Philip Rivers’s frequent temper tantrums. Ranting, complaining, yelling into his own helmet: He put on quite a show in defeat, and…
Our post about Children’s Hospital tips about how to talk to kids about marijuana didn’t garner a lot of compliments about the advice from our readers. Here’s one example. See also: Marijuana Makes You Feel Fuzzy and Other Pot Facts From Children’s Hospital…
Denver blog posts are on the cyber-road again. At our Backbeat blog, Drew Ailes counts down six ways to avoid being robbed on tour. Colorado Pols thinks pollsters are still getting the Latino vote wrong. Denver Frank wants Aurora overturn its pit-bull ban. See also: Denver’s Five Best Restaurant Walk-Up…
Does a new Colorado law invite voting fraud by allowing pretty much anyone the ability to print out legal ballots from home computers? That was the argument made by Fox News’ Megyn Kelly this week in a video on view below. Only problem: It’s not true — and the person…
Accidents happen in school science labs — but they hardly ever result in criminal accusations. Daniel Powell is an exception to this rule. He’s been charged with multiple assault beefs for a methanol explosion that injured four students, including one who spent weeks in the hospital for burns that initially…
Update: National and even international attention continues to focus on three Denver-area girls who were taken into custody because of suspicions that they planned to join the ISIS terror group in Syria (see our previous coverage below). But even as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was thanking Germany for…
The folks at the Movoto real-estate blog have just come up with their list of the ten best zip codes in the country — and no, none of those in the Denver area made the cut. However, the site also ranked a whopping 28,061 zip codes nationwide, including plenty from…
Timothy Heckler has made his mark on the Denver Police Department — and more. Heckler’s bust for alleged tagging while wearing a Tigger costume — just in time for Halloween! — has inspired a new DPD Facebook feature entitled “What in the Wednesday.” But his own Facebook posts are stranger…
Update: Roderick Penny, who was the only person indicted in the Rollin 60s sweep described below, had been at large when our original post was published. He has now turned himself in to police. See our previous coverage below. Original post: Yesterday morning, members of the Aurora Police Department and…
Our post about a Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment official’s recommendation that almost all marijuana edibles be banned revved up our readers — and also caused the department’s head to walk back the suggestion to some degree. So today, we’ve got a Comment of the Day bonus: several…
Denver blog posts walk the walk and talk the talk. At our Cafe Society blog, Mark Antonation highlights five walk-up windows to hoof it to when you’re hungry in Denver. Coyote Gulch shares the weekly climate, water and drought assessment of the upper Colorado River basin. At Mile High Mamas,…
Against the backdrop of a Colorado health department official formally recommending that almost all marijuana edibles be banned, the Children’s Hospital of Colorado staged a weed-related Twitter chat this morning, with one of its focuses being how to talk pot with children under the age of ten. Among the pieces…
The story of Trucker the pit bull would be weird under any circumstances. After all, he disappeared in Arkansas in June only to turn up almost four months later in Central City, Colorado. But the tale becomes that much stranger given the circumstances of his rescue: A Good Samaritan bought…
The trial of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes has already been postponed twice — and now, Holmes’s defense team is hoping to convince the judge in the case to push it back a third time. The reason, according to a document filed yesterday and on view below, is the…
Think Boulder’s the ultimate destination for liberals in America? Livability.com disagrees. Yes, Boulder made the site’s list of ten best cities for liberals, but several places finished ahead of it. Do you agree with the picks? Find out by counting down the photo-illustrated top ten, featuring excerpts from Livability text…
Plenty of Colorado sports fans know ESPN’s Skip Bayless as an idiot if only for his advocacy of Tim Tebow as an NFL quarterback even when he wasn’t guiding the Broncos to still-inexplicable victories. But Bayless took his usual meatheadedness to heretofore unforeseen levels when he recently suggested during an…
The latest entry in our marijuana edibles video series arrives at a propitious moment: This week, a Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment official formally recommended that almost all such products be banned. Among the arguments against a change of this magnitude is the demand described by Incredibles owner…
Our coverage of Frontier Airlines’ response to its planes having been used by a woman subsequently diagnosed with Ebola continues to spur sharp commentary. Here’s a post by a reader who feels the media and the government are frightening the public with stories about Ebola and terrorism in a very…
