Vehicular homicide allegations don’t get much more bizarre than the one aimed at 21-year-old Jess Plouvier. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office believes Plouvier is responsible for the death of Ian Saj, 33. However, a separate accident involving Saj and two friends preceded the fatal one — and it appears…
The CU Boulder Confessions Facebook page is a font of weirdness all year long, but especially around a holiday, as we found out earlier this year for our post spotlighting the top ten St. Patrick’s Day posts. As evidence, we offer the following examples, which include a rant about poor…
Last week, we shared an excerpt from Ron Burgundy’s grilling of Peyton Manning. Now, just in time for the Broncos’ Thursday night matchup with the Chargers, we bring you the extended cut, in which Burgundy/Will Ferrell, in Anchorman 2 hype overload, gets Manning to confess that he yells random words…
Jade Masters-Ownbey, mom of the little Canon City girl who six-year-old Hunter Yelton was suspended for kissing a few days back, initially said she wouldn’t talk with the media. She thought the international publicity given to the story as a result of Hunter’s behavior being tagged sexual harassment was way…
“Giving Thanks,” Josiah Hesse, November 28 Answered Prayers What an inspiring story. I’ve never been really religious, partly because I’ve seen the division engendered by the church. It was always confusing and frustrating to me, because I thought Jesus was supposed to be about love: How could people spread hate…
From where Karina Sartiaguin Vargas is sitting, at a scenic overlook near the entrance of the expansive Bluff Lake Nature Center in northeast Denver, she can see the dirt path that she used to run every night before dinner. It’s a warm day in November, and the nineteen-year-old is wearing…
Dear Stoner: In the song “Legalize It,” Peter Tosh says herb is good for glaucoma and asthma. Was marijuana being used for those things back then, or was he just full of it? S. K. Eptical Dear S.K.: Peter Tosh’s claim that ganja is the only cure for either condition…
Legal cannabis sales start January 1, and a handful of dispensaries will be opening their doors at 8 a.m. to help kick off a green new year. But will there be enough to keep up with demand? Denver City Council mulled that question on Monday night, with Councilman Charlie Brown…
After the Denver City Council passed an amendment allowing pot smoking on front porches and front lawns, most of the comments that followed were supportive of the move — but not all. Here’s the post from someone whose own bitter experiences with a pot-smoking neighbor has left him at wit’s…
Denver blog posts want to eat, drink and be merry. At our Show & Tel blog, Bree Davies offers five holiday party etiquette tips to prevent Social Jerk Face syndrome. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels thinks the Broncos are done if they don’t secure the top playoffs seed in the…
Update: In our post yesterday about the fourth annual Colorado Gives Day, we wondered whether Coloradans would be more generous than last year, when the 24-hour online fundraising bonanza raised more than $15 million. We now know that the answer is yes. According to the Community First Foundation, which founded…
Beginning in October, the Got Insurance? campaign, intended to get uinsured millennials to sign up for health care coverage, has generated controversy. Obamacare critics branded the first batch of images “brosurance,” because one shot featured a keg stand, while the second was dubbed “hosurance” due to references to birth-control access…
Cops on bicycles aren’t always taken as seriously as their brethren in police cruisers, probably because they don’t look as cool pedaling and wearing bike helmets. But they’re every bit as tough as colleagues who travel with the help of four wheels instead of two — and in Aurora, they…
At 10:30 a.m., state officials will unveil the Marijuana Inventory Tracking Solution, or MITS, a system intended to keep tabs pot for sale in Colorado. But while the press is invited to the event, a number of medical marijuana patients coordinated by the Cannabis Therapy Institute have invited themselves –…
Back in October, we told you about the the death of a three year old who apparently shot himself in a Frederick home; see our previous coverage below. Now, around six weeks later, Dione Warren, mother of the boy, Sheine Steine, has been arrested for criminally negligent child abuse resulting…
Featuring threesome seekers, cokehead judges, hockey dads from hell and, quite naturally, Wells Fargo…
For each of the past three years, we’ve spotlighted the top ten White Elephant gifts as chosen by the folks at ARC Thrift Stores; click for picks from 2010, 2011 and 2012. This year, however, there’s a twist: ARC has supplemented the choices with a video that should get you…
Update: Yesterday, in our first post about a homicide at the Denver West Inn (see our previous coverage below), Lakewood Police Department spokesman Steve Davis told us that a suspect was in custody, but no arrest had been made. By late afternoon, however, Cody Sewick, 21, had been booked on…
In 2010, California was the U.S. leader when it came to medical marijuana reform — and with that year’s Proposition 19, the state was poised to take the first steps toward broader legalization. But support for the measure faded as election day neared, and after it was voted down, Mason…
After Peyton Manning and the Broncos blew out the Titans in ultra-chilly temperatures on Sunday, we shared tweets from those who felt Denver’s QB proved he can play in the cold. But not of our readers were convinced, with several believing that the New England Patriots and quarterback Tom Brady…
Denver blog posts raise the roof. At our Backbeat blog, Noah Hubbell thinks the Grammy best hip-hop album nominations are a joke thanks to their inclusion of Macklemore’s disc and the latest from Jay-Z. Predominantly Orange’s Kim Constantinesco thinks Wes Welker should sit out Thursday’s game for the Broncos after…
No denying that Canon City six-year-old Hunter Yelton is a charmer. But charm didn’t get him out of trouble this week, and may have actually gotten him into it. That’s because he was suspended after kissing a classmate on the hand — an act the boy’s school branded sexual harassment…
