When women are charged along with men accused of sexual assaults, it’s often because they allegedly knew about the crimes but did nothing to stop them. That’s not the case with Theresa Carothers, though. According to an arrest affidavit on view below, she’s believed to have actively participated with stepfather…
Since May, after Represntative Mike Coffman made his controversial birther statements and then tried dodging them, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow beat him like a filthy rug. She returned to this theme last night in a video on view below, but upped the stakes by linking him to Republican veep choice Paul…
“Trouble in the Rubble,” Alan Prendergast, August 16 SMACK DOWN I was born and raised in Denver and have just entered my sixties so, yes, I remember the Gates abortion from the ’50s, the ’60s, the ’70s, the ’80s — well, you get the point. In the ’50s, this structure…
The first sign of fall is not that overnight chill in the air, nor is it the hint of gold in high-altitude aspen. No, it’s when some guy drags a ratty old sofa to the sidewalk outside of the Sports Castle — now home to Sports Authority — at Tenth…
Dan Beeck knows how expensive it is to get a DUI. As the owner of one of Colorado’s biggest private probation companies, Rocky Mountain Offender Management Systems, he contracts with six of the state’s 22 judicial districts to monitor mostly first-time DUI offenders. In addition to fines, each one is…
As Republicans prepared to re-nominate Richard Nixon for president, gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson had a crank-fueled moment of clarity inside his Miami Beach hotel room. “This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves,” Thompson wrote in his classic Fear and Loathing: On the…
Scene and herd: Is America great, or what? We’ve watched with awe as the careers of Trey Parker and Matt Stone have taken off — from their days at the University of Colorado writing a musical about Alfred Packer to the debut of South Park to the movie Team America…
The Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division of the Department of Revenue is strapped for cash, and the bare-bones staff is just barely keeping up with the task the division was given in July 2010: to license dispensaries in the state…
Cycling just got a lot easier for students and professors who pedal to the downtown Auraria campus — and for Denver bikers trying to make their way around it. This week, officials unveiled a new bike lane that goes straight through the downtown campus, eliminating what bike advocates call a…
Denver blog posts are wanted. As Colorado Pols notes, Dem opponents of Joe Coors and Mike Coffman are busily linking them to Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin. WhoSaidYouSaid shares a vintage clip of John “The Hick” Hickenlooper “glorifying” Barack Obama. Bronco Talk’s Jon Heath shares DirecTV outtakes of Peyton and Eli…
Update:A Colorado Center on Law and Policy study predicting the economic impact of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, has become a political football for proponents and opponents. Now, CCLP reps are defending the methodology of the report, whose totals differ from those of state officials…
Mitt Romney will win key swing states like Colorado and become the next president of the United States. So says a new study released this morning by the University of Colorado — and the researchers behind the forecast say they have a solid methodology that ensures their predictions will probably…
In January, Jenna Breen was killed in a hit and run, allegedly by three-time DUI offender Viet Nguyen. The case is still winding its way through the court system, and its slow pace is frustrating for Gail Parrish, Jenna’s mom, who continues to struggle with the terrible loss…
Yesterday, our Sam Levin wrote about Zen Magnets, a company being targeted by the Consumer Product Safety Commission despite there being no history of anyone being injured by any of its products. The post brought this response from a reader who sees the action as a step too far…
Approximately fifty people gathered last night at La Alma Park to protest against police aggression. This is the latest in a string of anti-brutality rallies in recent months, though this march focused predominantly on the death of Kevin Ryberg, who was shot by police while in custody on July 31,…
There’s plenty of cool Colorado stuff up for auction on eBay, and lots of cheesy oddities, too. Are you shocked that we were drawn to the latter? Here are the ten dorkiest Colorado items we found, complete with links for your bidding pleasure. But looking (and eye-rolling) is free…
The latest edition of the Princeton Review’s top colleges tome, released this week, is an irony bonanza for CU-Boulder. The school, which topped Playboy’s party school list last year, and finished third in Daily Beast party school rankings two weeks ago, is entirely absent from the Princeton Review top twenty…
Earlier this week, we told you about CU-Boulder’s new regs concerning concealed-carry permits — changes necessitated by a Colorado Supreme Court ruling allowing them on campus two years after the university added Nerf guns to its banned weapons list. Shortly thereafter, one professor said he’d cancel class if he learned…
There’s no shortage of manufacturers creating medical marijuana edibles, but sometimes the best medicated food comes out of your own kitchen. To help get you cooking, I’ve compiled some basic formulas for making infused oil, butter and tinctures, and also collected a few recipes from people in the local cannabis…
Denver blog posts know what’s up. Colorado Pols discusses a robocall, heard by 6,000 residents of House District 54, that calls out candidate Jared Wright as dishonest, tardy and significantly in debt. EdNews Voices’ Jessica Keigan steps into her students’ shoes — and teaches herself a lesson. Mile High Report…
After a voter advocacy group offered proof that county clerks and other election officials could identify how specific people voted — which would violate a citizen’s basic right to a secret ballot — Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler announced an “emergency rule” effective immediately that will prevent officials from…
The law firm of Anderson, Hemmat & Levine doesn’t keep its light under a bushel. Commercials and billboards across the Front Range boast of how hard the personal-injury firm fights for its clients. The AHL website proclaims that “Justice for Victims Begins Here.” But a disgruntled former client is seeking…
