Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons is an organization devoted to making sure no case or loved one is forgotten — and its website features many personal stories of victims whose killers have not yet been brought to justice. We’ve featured two previous posts based on the site (one…
Broncos players and coaches talked up the 1-9 Kansas City Chiefs prior to meeting them at Arrowhead Stadium yesterday, as they stressed in post-game interviews following a 17-9 victory. But anyone who sat through the brutally ugly contest knows better. It was clear from the earliest moments that Denver hadn’t…
Yesterday, CU students enjoying the last hours of their Thanksgiving break received a university e-mail informing them that Buffs football coach Jon Embree had been sacked; see it below. We predicted this move last week — not that the mysticism of Nostradamus was required to see this one coming. Still,…
This should have been a banner week for Hani “Henry” Sawaged, the owner of Daveco Liquors in Thornton, which in 2008 earned a nod as the world’s largest liquor store from the Guinness World Records organization. After all, people were, and still are, buying booze by the barrelful in advance…
In June, Bill Lee lost all of his reindeer — a tale told in this week’s cover story, “Santa is Grounded.” But the mall Santa from Idaho Springs has a reason to be grateful this week: Two of his reindeer are back, thanks to a friend who purchased them from…
Usually, Thanksgiving day means eating so much turkey we eventually feel like a turkey — and then fall asleep and have dreams about turkeys. But for the runners at the 2012 Mile High United Way Turkey Trot, yesterday involved actually dressing up as one (and also running to raise money…
In doing research for our feature on the history of cannabis in Colorado, we came across some amazing old news stories from local papers about marijuana arrests and more. We’ll share the most memorable of them in our quasi-regular feature, Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule. Today’s item, from November 24, 1939:…
Tensions between cyclists and motorists on the road seem to be at an all-time high in Colorado given several recent incidents where drivers and bikers have clashed dramatically. Now, three cyclists have taken one fight all the way to the Colorado Supreme Court to protest a controversial ban on biking…
The University of Colorado has released four documents in response to more than thirty open records requests filed by the media. Three are heavily redacted and the fourth is a log of which buildings accused Aurora theater shooter and former student James Holmes entered using his campus ID. That record…
Who says El Paso County isn’t pro-marijuana? The official tally is in and Amendment 64 passed by a whopping ten votes. In total, 292,698 people in the county voted in the election. Of that number, 141,701 people voted for Amendment 64. Officials in El Paso County said that the slim…
Colorado’s Secretary of State Scott Gessler maintains that voter fraud is a serious problem — and after launching initiatives to prevent illegal ballots from being cast, his office says that exactly 518 voters were removed from the rolls due to non-citizenship — more than expected. Some may have taken themselves…
Is this state big enough for both cyclists and automobiles? it doesn’t seem that way on some mountain roads. Byron Nix was riding through Deer Creek Canyon with a group of other cyclists earlier this month when a truck hit his bike, knocking him off, pulling the bike under and…
On Sunday, the Denver Broncos take on the Kansas City Chiefs — but no matter how badly Peyton Manning and company pummel KC (we hope), they won’t be able to do any more damage to Loren G. “Sam” Lickteig. That’s because Lickteig is already dead, and according to the obituary…
Sex is fun. In all its various forms and wild positions, it’s the single greatest thing you can share with another human being (or multiple human beings, if that’s your bag). But you can share more than fun. So that’s why I decided to go to the Denver Metro Health…
For a time, the North Pole existed in the Colorado mountains. On a ranch in Idaho Springs, a man with a white beard and twinkling blue eyes kept twelve reindeer. There was a Dasher and a Dancer, a Prancer and a Vixen. At Christmastime, the man donned a plush red…
“The New Cold War,” Caleb Hannan, November 8 God’s Gift Great article by Caleb. Have you ever considered that the more people patent ideas, the more worthless they seem to be? I mean, the Bible, Shakespeare and countless other classics were never copyrighted. Today everything is copyrighted. I think ideas…
The Denver Rescue Mission collects thousands of turkeys every November to help feed the homeless and provide Thanksgiving dinners for families who have trouble affording them on their own. This year, as usual, the organization sent out a panicked alert in mid-November that it had only received a fraction of…
This dispensary has closed. Jane Medicals has been a dispensary fixture on East Colfax Avenue for the last three years. But I have no idea what it used to look like — or what it soon will look like, for that matter. My first and, so far, only visit to…
The Denver Egotist passes along the perfect video guide to holiday etiquette — just in time to brush up for Thanksgiving with the in-laws. Denver Stiffs’ Jeffrey Morton unleashes the word manimal in a look at Kenneth Faried, the capital-letter Manimal whom Morton praises as the Nuggets’ most welcome surprise,…
This week’s cover story, “Santa is Grounded,” tells the tale of Bill Lee, a mall Santa from Idaho Springs whose twelve reindeer were seized as part of an animal cruelty investigation. A judge has since ruled the law under which Lee’s animals were taken unconstitutional, and some wonder whether they…
November has been a violent month in Capitol Hill. To start, there was the stabbing death of Ryan Haldeman, 28, near Pub on Penn on November 2. Two days later, 47-year-old Ronald Smith was shot to death outside The Hive. And on November 16, 30-year-old Jonathan Michael Hammond was shot…
In light of Amendment 64’s passage, district attorneys and city attorneys across the state have announced that they will be dropping possession and paraphernalia charges. And even though the ballot measure has not yet been signed into law by the governor, local police departments are already re-examing their own approach…
