Update: Yesterday, we told you about a shooting on the 1600 block of Yates in which a suspect was quizzed, then released; see our previous coverage below. Since then, the Denver coroner’s office has identified the man killed in the incident as Dwayne Kelly, 52. The cause of death: multiple…
At this writing, the CU Buffaloes are mere hours from tipping off against the Pitt Panthers during the first full day of the annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament, popularly known as March Madness. How to watch the action, and all of the hoops craziness that will follow in the days…
Update: The man killed last night at the Anschutz Medical Campus (see our previous coverage below) has not been officially ID’d yet. However, his brother tells us his name was Joe Gorden, and he worked at the University of Colorado Hospital. Tom Gorden says he and his siblings believe reports…
Coloradans have always loved our state’s flag. And in recent years, the image has become more iconic than ever, popping up on hipster T-shirts and products of every description as a shorthand way of declaring state pride. So we were shocked — shocked! — to discover that on Ranker’s list…
Meth suspects, like every other arrestee in these United States, is innocent until proven guilty, and that’s the way it should be. But most of us have noticed that in booking photos, those accused of such crimes tend to look, well, rough. That’s certainly the case for the fourteen people…
Our coverage of last week’s CannaSearch, touted as Denver’s first marijuana-industry job fair, got a lot of people talking. Many of our readers were enthusiastic about the event, including this one, whose reasoning isn’t the least bit smoky…
Denver blog posts can’t stop, won’t stop. At our Show & Tell blog, the Voice Media film critics split on Lars Van Triers’s controversial Nymphomaniac: Volume 1. Big Media’s Jason Salzman Obamacare attack ad fact-checking. At Mile High Mamas, Sydney Ayers and Lisa Cutter ask: “Do you think what the…
Since 2012, we’ve been reporting about DISH’s firing of Brandon Coats, a paralyzed medical marijuana patient, after he failed a drug test. Coats’s lawsuit over the issue has failed in Arapahoe District Court and the Colorado Court of Appeals. It’s now headed to the Colorado Supreme Court, where powerful forces…
Was marijuana a contributing factor in the death of two-year-old Levi Welton earlier this year? Expect this to be among the arguments made against his parents, Julia and Chris Welton. More than two months after Levi died following a fire in the family’s Sterling home, his mother and father have…
Is the Denver Public Library promoting bestiality? Not exactly — although there are plenty of beasts featured in the pics below, culled from the DPL’s amazing digital collection and regularly shared under the banner Weird Photo Wednesday. We first highlighted Weird Photo Wednesday in an August 2013 post. But thanks…
The Boulder home where six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in 1996 has been a tough sell. In 2011, as we reported at the time, the property was put on the market for a sale price of $2.3 million — but no one bought it. Three years later, the same owners…
At a press conference yesterday, the Denver Sheriff’s Office tried to explain how Sebastian Littlejohn, who was being held in Denver jail on charges related to violent felony beefs, was mistakenly set free, only to be recaptured a day later. This time, the sheriff’s office may not be at fault…
Last week, Fox News shared a piece suggesting that a jump in admissions at colleges across Colorado may be related to the passage of Amendment 64, which legalized retail pot sales. Of course, eighteen-year-old college freshmen couldn’t take advantage of this law anyhow, since it only pertains to adults ages…
Our recent post featuring videos showing Patricia Lucero being bloodied by a Denver cop inspired many readers to weigh in, with some castigating the officer and others taking a more nuanced view. As for this reader, he uses satire and an emoticon to make a stealthily sharp point…
Denver blog posts have animal attraction. At our Backbeat blog, Mark Sanders tries to figure out if his cat likes the new War on Drugs album — a challenge since he admits “I’m not a goddamned cat whisperer.” Denver Urbanism’s Ken Schroeppel offers an invite to Meetup #5. The Denver…
Update #2: This morning, we shared a video of a big gaffe from Fox31’s Good Day Colorado, which accidentally aired a (very NSFW) picture of a penis during its coverage of a news helicopter crash near Seattle’s Space Needle. While the original video is now gone from YouTube, sports site…
The Colorado Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a lower-court decision okaying Douglas County’s controversial school voucher plan, which allows parents to use taxpayer dollars to enroll their kids at religious schools. That’s great news for the ACLU of Colorado, which has been battling the Dougco vouchers…
Update: Yesterday, we told you about the arrest of Thomas Laperch after an arson call turned into a homicide investigation; see our previous coverage below. Now, the victim in the incident has been identified as William Burchett, a 54-year-old musician best known for his work with a local band called…
It was a Happy Halloween at Lightshade Labs, judging by this photo from the store’s Facebook page. But it’s probably an even happier March, since two Lightshade branches are among the latest shops licensed by the City of Denver to sell recreational marijuana. In the two-plus weeks since our last…
Last week, we updated you on the investigation into the murder of Nancy Pfister, a socialite whose body was discovered in a closet of her tony Aspen home; see our previous coverage below. Retired Denver-area doctor William Styler and his wife Nancy had previously been arrested in relation to the…
It started as a missing persons case. But well over a month later, Lafayette resident Nate Tallman’s body was discovered a long way from home — outside Lusk, a town in Wyoming. Now, two men — Russell Britton, 58, and Moises Mendez, 26 — have been arrested in connection with…
Not all that long ago, marijuana advocates tended to encounter more shut doors than open ones when dealing with lawmakers in Washington, D.C. But times are steadily changing. Last week, a group organized by the Denver-based National Cannabis Industry Association spent two days in the Nation’s Capitol, with members participating…
