When Denver’s thermometer hit -15 on December 5, we thought it would stand as the coldest day of the season. But no: At 5:53 a.m., the National Weather Service recorded the official Denver temp at -16. This mark is the second chilliest February low in Denver this century. But how’s…
We’re learning more about Don Pooley, who held a thirteen year old hostage in Arvada yesterday. A parolee with a long criminal history, Pooley appears to have been keenly aware of his own mortality: The profile pic on his Facebook page features a skeleton holding what’s known as the dead…
Super Bowl XLVIII gained a certain amount of infamy as the “pot bowl,” and while joints were certainly being sparked at parties around Denver and Seattle, no gathering fit the theme quite as well as the Bud Bowl at the Roxy Theatre. Held to commemorate Cannapages’ fourth anniversary, the event…
We’ve received a lot of feedback in regard to our recent post about proposed legislation making it harder to bust a driver for an open marijuana container. But this reader makes it clear that he didn’t sweat the rules before recreational pot was legal, and he’s not overly concerned about…
Denver blog posts know how to open wide. At our Cafe Society blog, Lori Midson offers a first look at Big Daddy Burger Bar — and the massive sandwiches served there. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels rips an SB Nation piece branding the Broncos “a bunch of assholes.” Here’s a…
In a booking photo provided to the press by the Eagle County District Attorney’s Office, Emily Anderson looks friendly, charming and benign. But she apparently has another side to her personality — one that came out last year, when she nearly beat her boyfriend to death using a table leg…
In December 2010, Karina Sartiaguin Vargas was shot while standing outside Aurora Central High School. Then sixteen, Karina was left paralyzed below the belly button. As we explained in our recent cover story, “Bullet. Proof.,” the teenager eventually began speaking out about gun violence — even testifying before Colorado lawmakers…
As of January 1, when recreational marijuana sales officially began, the City of Denver had licensed eighteen shops. The numbers have grown steadily since then. By our January 21 update, fifteen more shops had gotten the city’s blessing, and in the couple of weeks since then, another four have won…
According to our friends at Gawker, porn viewership during the Super Bowl went way down in Denver and Seattle — but after the Broncos’ brutal loss, the numbers in the Mile High City shot up by 10.8 percent over average. What were fans’ most-viewed flicks? Gawker doesn’t have that info,…
Imagine one identical twin trying to blame sex assaults on the other, because their DNA is virtually identical two — with the second one being arrested after the first pleads guilty for similar crimes. Sounds like fiction, but it’s a real story we told this past month, and we’ve got…
Back in 2012, we told you about the tragic deaths of William and Tyler Jensen, ages two and four, who succumbed in a running car while their mother, Heather Jensen, left them in a running car with the heat blasting as she smoked marijuana and had sex with a man…
President Barack Obama may be regretting his decision to talk marijuana in an interview last month. After telling the New Yorker that, in his opinion, pot is less risky than alcohol for the individual user, Obama was asked in a CNN followup if he’d consider rescheduling cannabis, currently listed by…
The Super Bowl is behind us, but the rivalry between the cities of Denver and Seattle continues. Example: We’re still getting comments after sharing a video in which CBS’ Mo Rocca argued for Denver’s supremacy. This reader agrees with Mo — not that he wants to throw out the welcome…
Denver blog posts deserve tips. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun shares one reader’s bad-service horror story. Colorado Peak Politics asks: Is dating off-limits during reelection campaigns? Mile High Mamas highlights the journey to Sochi from the perspective of one athlete’s mom…
The long, troubled effort to execute Edward Montour Jr. for the 2002 murder of Limon prison guard Eric Autobee, a prosecution already under fire from Autobee’s parents, who oppose the death penalty for their son’s killer, just got more complicated. A defense motion filed Monday morning contends that Montour was…
A new study on the health risks of fracking has found an increased risk of birth defects — including a startling 30 percent hike in the risk of congenital heart defects — among families living near oil and gas wells in rural Colorado. The report has been embraced by environmental…
After the Broncos’ humiliating defeat in the Super Bowl, a lot of us fans felt an apology was in order — and plenty of Twitter-using Denver players agreed. At this writing, none of our five most memorable Broncos on Twitter have weighed in, disappointingly enough. But a slew of other…
It’s the morning after the Broncos’ ugly Super Bowl defeat, and a lot of us are feeling pretty downbeat about now. But there’s a very big bright spot: We live in Denver, a great American city that’s got an incredible number of things going for it beyond whether our football…
Prior to Super Bowl Sunday, the Denver Police Department announced tactics to combat celebrations gone too far in the event of a Broncos victory. Unfortunately, a win wasn’t in the cards for Denver — yet cops deployed near the Metro State campus as part of the plan wound up responding…
It’s been a great season for the Broncos, but it ended in an extremely ugly way. Denver was crushed by the Seahawks in a 43-8 Super Bowl loss that will take longtime fans back to the worst big-game blow-outs of the past. This photo of Peyton Manning from the broadcast…
All bets are on as the Mile High City anxiously awaits today’s Super Bowl, when the Denver Broncos will face off against the Seattle Seahawks. Everyone from the mayors of the team’s home cities to local zoos to Seattle and Denver firefighters have placed wagers on the game — but…
After four days of closed-door hearings, Aurora theater shooting defendant James Holmes was back in open court today for a session about whether FBI crime scene analysts who collected data in the theater should be allowed to offer expert testimony at his trial. Brett Mills, an FBI forensic examiner, testified…
