Fox News reporter Jana Winter won’t face such a tough decision tomorrow after all. The judge in the Aurora theater shooting case has delayed a ruling on whether to compel Winter to testify about her confidential sources until after he decides whether to allow a notebook that suspect James Holmes…
Last week, Denver Manager of Safety Alex Martinez announced that there would be no charges against the three Denver police officers who nearly beat college student Alex Landau to death in 2009. Afterward, Independent Monitor Nicholas Mitchell said Landau’s claim that an Internal Affairs officer tried to dissuade him from…
Anyone would feel uncomfortable posing for a mug shot after a DUI and reckless driving arrest — particularly one that showed off a battered nose and a blood-stained undershirt. But presumably, the discomfort is even higher for Jose Guadalupe Luna. After all, he’s an Adams County Deputy. Get the details…
Last month, the governor-appointed Amendment 64 task force recommended that retailers taking part in the recreational marijuana industry be required to grow 70 percent of their product under a business model known as vertical integration that’s currently imposed on medical marijuana outlets. Yesterday, though, members of the legislature’s A64 joint…
Today’s snowfall has certainly been a pain from a commuting standpoint. But it’s nothing special in the history of Denver weather (so far), especially considering how often the city is clobbered by spring storms. According to data shared by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ten of the twenty largest-ever…
Grabbing a woman’s butt in a bar could earn the asshole in question a well-deserved slap or a drink tossed in his face. But doing the same thing on an airplane might result in two years behind bars. That’s the lesson being learned right now by Thornton’s Evan Castle, who’s…
Forecasters throughout the city spent much of yesterday readying Denverites for Snowpacalyse, Snowmagedon, Snowcastrophe, Snowlocaust — hence, a rash of school closures announced last night rather than this morning. Yet thus far, in the metro area at least, the massive snow totals we were led to expect haven’t materialized. That…
It’s now been approximately five months since voters approved Amendment 64, which allows adults 21 and over in Colorado to use and possess small amounts of marijuana. Moreover, almost four months have passed since John Hickenlooper signed it into law, and four weeks-plus since U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said…
Last week, Patricia Calhoun wrote about the apparent decision by University of Denver officials to exclude the controversial Denver Boone mascot from future affiliation with DU. The move frustrated a number of our readers, including this one…
Denver blog posts know that want-to-punch-someone-in-the-face feeling, too. Denver Stiffs’ Jeffrey Morton on Danilo Gallinari’s reaction to tearing his ACL in a season-ending injury. Mile High Mamas’ Amber Johnson: Five Mile High restaurants you and your family will love. Denver Infill’s Ryan Dravitz shares the latest One City Block update…
Friday afternoon, the office of Denver Manager of Safety Alex Martinez announced that there would be no charges against the three Denver police officers who nearly beat college student Alex Landau to death in 2009. In Martinez’s mind, the case should be over at this point. But Independent Monitor Nicholas…
We admit it. After taking one look at the pitching staff of the 2013 Colorado Rockies, we thought the team would set records — for ineptitude. But thus far, we’ve been happily surprised — no, thrilled — by all aspects of the team, which currently has a 5-1 record and…
Capitol punishment has made plenty of news in Colorado lately, thanks to a failed attempt to ban the practice and 18th Judicial District DA George Brauchler’s pledge to seek seek the death penalty against accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes. But what about when executions go wrong? CU Professor Michael…
Earlier this year, we told you about the search for Raven Furlong, a missing seventeen-year-old from Aurora. Like Kara Nichols, nineteen, and Kelsie Jean Schelling, 21, two other women whose whereabouts remain unknown, she had a profile on a modeling-related website. Furlong’s car was found in L.A. last month –…
Back in 2010, we published a story in which a veterinarian warned that dogs shouldn’t be given marijuana. Shortly thereafter, Fox31 did a lurid version of the same story, complete with imagery straight out of a ’60s-era psychedelic flick. Then, last year, CBS4 reported about a vet who’d conducted a…
This 1884 cannabis-related news nugget is the oldest we’ve managed to dig up from the mines of Colorado’s past so far. Though it was clearly syndicated from another source, the piece, “A TERRIBLE OPIATE,” ran pretty prominently in the Leadville Daily Herald in March of that year, running across one…
Update below: In February, the Justice Department decided not to charge the officers who beat Alex Landau to a pulp with federal civil rights violations. Then, days later, a cop who pummeled him was reinstated at the conclusion of a separate excessive-force investigation. Although Landau was frustrated by this turn…
This week, Patricia Calhoun wrote about a good-natured competition between Denver and Portland for bike-city supremacy — and Denver came out on top! But even though one reader who has experience cycling in both places loves D-Town, he thinks local drivers could learn from those in a certain Pacific Northwest…
Denver blog posts are moving gingerly. Denver Stiffs’ Colin Neilson looks at ways the Nugs can compensate for the likely loss of Danilo Gallinari, whose knee popped in last night’s victory over the Mavs. The Grazing Mind’s Krista Torvik on Bill Gates’s call for food innovation. Colorado Pols: Meet the…
In some ways, it’s appropriate that Richard Howard Craft, a disgraced former Greeley pastor, was sentenced to federal prison on April Fools’ Day. Then again, “fool” is too mild a term for Craft given what he’s admitted to doing. And frankly, “schmuck” doesn’t really cut it, either, although it’ll do…
Among the documents released yesterday in the Aurora theater shooting case was a wide-ranging inventory of the contents found in accused killer James Holmes’s apartment. We’ve got the complete list below. But among the more interesting items are three video games, none of which are the sort of realistic first-person…
When he died of cancer yesterday, Roger Ebert was the best-known practitioner of a dying art: newspaper film criticism. Few papers can afford to have a movie reviewer of their own these days, choosing instead to run syndicated pieces by folks like Ebert, who became the unlikeliest of TV personalities…
