At 4:30 a.m. today, Lakewood Police Department and West Metro SWAT reps took custody of Sean Wyles, a wanted fugitive linked to the 211 prison gang. Wyles didn’t go easily. According to LPD Detective Ryan McKone, he claimed law enforcers would never take him alive, prompting a standoff that lasted…
A lot of coverage devoted to the devastating floods in Colorado has looked at the impact of the rushing waters on communities. But state parks — among Colorado’s most cherished treasures — have suffered plenty of damage, too. Below, see photos from Colorado Parks and Wildlife focusing on locations such…
As we noted in a post yesterday, the best way to get a feel for the vast sweep of flooding in Colorado is to view it from the air. Understanding this, 7News, the local station that’s offered the most comprehensive coverage of this story to date (going wall-to-wall on Sunday…
Last week, opponents of Proposition AA, the measure to establish tax rates for recreational marijuana, staged a rally at Civic Center Park at which adults 21 and over who attended were given free joints. In the days that followed, board members of Colorado NORML came out against Prop AA, too…
Yesterday, we posted about Harvest Army, a ministry that claims it predicted Colorado flooding days ahead of time and sees it as evidence people need to repent. Dozens of commenters responded, not always positively. Here’s an example of someone who would have appreciated more of a heads-up…
Denver blog posts man up. Mile High Report’s Bronco Mike on offensive changes that may be necessitated by the injury to star guard Ryan Clady. Colorado Peak Politics on the epic flood of1965. Colorado Pols on the “return of Scooter McPlagiarist” — er, Scott McInnis…
The flooding that’s swamped so many communities would seem to provide plenty of repair work for people who specialize in flooring and landscaping — but not necessarily roofing. According to the Wheat Ridge Police Department, though, roofing scammers are leading the pack when it comes to potentially taking advantage of…
On the left side of the image above is a shot of the US 34 bypass east of Greeley before the incredible flooding that swamped much of Colorado. To the right is a shot of the damage done by the rushing waters, and no surprise: According to the Colorado Department…
At this hour, Environment Colorado is issuing “America’s Dirtiest Power Plants,” an eye-opening report (see it below) that includes the organization’s picks for the one-hundred most-polluting facilities in the country — and two from Colorado make the less-than-proud cut. An Environment Colorado rep notes that the data is timely given…
Update: Highway 7 into Estes Park has reopened to visitors. For more information, click here. Original post, 9:06 a.m. September 17: Estes Park is a favorite tourist destination of visitors to Colorado from across the country and the globe. And the town was likely to receive an onslaught of such…
The flooding in Colorado remains the biggest story in the state — or does it? To find out, we checked out current front pages of newspapers from around the state as collected by Newseum — and as you can see in the gallery below, many broadsheets continue to cover the…
Last month, we noted that longtime morning-show host Peter Boyles, who was fired at KHOW following an incident involving longtime producer Greg Hollenback, won the ratings race with his old station in July, his first month at new outlet KNUS. Granted, this achievement came with an asterisk: Mandy Connell, his…
Colorado Office of Emergency Management numbers have changed since our publication of a flooding update 24 hours ago — some for the better (648 people remain unaccounted for, as opposed to 1,253 yesterday), the most important one for the worse (confirmed fatalities have gone up from five to eight). But…
As you may have heard, 21-and-over adults can legally use and possess small amounts of marijuana in Colorado. But plenty of folks, including ones of age, continue to use incense typically marked “not for human consumption” as synthetic marijuana, with as many as 150 illnesses linked to the substance, popularly…
Last week, Patricia Calhoun wrote about the demise of Praxis Creative Art Space shortly after it was featured in the Westword cover story “Free for All.” In contrast to a commenter who saluted Praxis and hoped for its rebirth, this reader isn’t exactly shedding any tears…
Denver blog posts would like to see fewer clouds in the sky. Colorado Pols reports about Daily Kos blogger TX Sharon, who raises the possibility that our recent flooding could have unleashed contaminants from fracking sites. Denver Infill’s Ken Schroeppel updates us on the downtown Denver residential boom. Thirsty? On…
Today, we’ve already shared the latest videos of flooding in Boulder, as well as a gallery showing the Colorado National Guard responding to the crisis. But the following images, from Boulder County and Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith, provide some of the best looks yet at the damage caused by…
The flooding that’s swamped Colorado in recent days has resulted in loss of life, thousands of evacuations, enormous property damage and ministerial claims about prophecies and God’s wrath. But there have been relatively few reports about looting. Until now. The CU-Boulder campus is open today, but it’s been closed since…
As if last week’s NFL opener win over the Super Bowl champ Ravens wasn’t hype-filled enough, the latest Broncos game pitted ol’ Peyton against little bro Eli in the third, and possibly last, edition of what’s universally known as the Manning Bowl. Peyton had been 2-0 in previous matchups against…
Update: Last week, we told you about the search for Alexandra “Ali” Ponte, fourteen, who’d left home on September 4 after getting into a fight with her mom over a Facebook post and disappeared; see our previous coverage below. Such stories don’t always have happy endings — but this one…
As of yesterday, according to the Colorado National Guard Facebook page, more than 2,100 people and 500-plus pets had been rescued by the guardsman from the state and U.S. Army troops from Fort Carson — and the mission is scheduled to continue today thanks to a weather forecast that will…
The devastating flooding in Colorado over the past few days caught most of us by very unpleasant surprise. But according to EFG-BN U.S. Food Reserves, the folks at Harvest Army World Revival saw it coming — and interpret the disaster as a warning from God for “the Church and His…
