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Thanks to a statewide fireworks ban, Independence Day could be a real downer for most of Colorado’s children and pyromaniacs. Luckily, there are options — some of which can be made at home in your kitchen! Searching for homemade explosives is a good way to get a virus on your…

Update: The High Park fire near Fort Collins is 100 percent contained, and while it’s not officially dead yet, the blaze is no longer the threat it was to life, limb and property. A symbol of its de facto defeat? The reopening tomorrow of the Mishawaka Amphitheatre, a beloved landmark…

“The Beetle and the Damage Done,” Alan Prendergast, June 28 Meet the BeEtles Although I liked the article about the beetle, I was wondering something. A few years back, they did fire testing on entire trees that were dead from these bugs. What they found was surprising in that the…

Where there’s smoke, there’s ire! Last month Kirsten Hamling, the former head of Fired Up for Kids, was charged with thirteen counts of theft and four counts of charitable fraud in connection with the Colorado Firefighter Calendar. Since 2004, Fired Up for Kids had sold calendars filled with pictures of…

Scene and herd: Former staffer Joel Warner’s January 2011 cover story “Black and Blue,” which told how then-nineteen-year-old Alex Landau was beaten by Denver cops after making a wrong turn, has been awarded first place in News — Best Single Story for newspapers under 150,000 circulation by the National Association…

James Chapman was in the back of his T-shirt shop in northeast Park Hill, finishing up a custom airbrush job, when he heard gunshots. Seconds later, a young man came stumbling through the front door, dripping blood on the yellowing linoleum floor. “I said, ‘Are you shot?'” Chapman recalls. He…

Six young men. That’s how many have lost their lives in gang-related murders this year between January and May, according to the Denver Police Department. Though there’s been much speculation that 21-year-old Rollin Oliver, who was arrested in connection with the murder of Denver police officer Celena Hollis on June…

Denver blog posts are fire-resistant. Denver Stiffs’ Nate Timmons on the Nuggets signing Andre Miller to a three-year deal for what he sees as a reasonable price. Colorado Pols: If Obamacare survives, could one of Jon Caldara’s future children die? The Redheaded Slut: I pierced a girl (and I liked…

After weeks without any news of her whereabouts, friends and family of Kim Remmel, a 47-year-old Arvada woman active in animal welfare causes, are appealing to the public for information that might help solve the mystery of her disappearance. Remmel was last seen on May 25 and is believed to…

Earlier today, Kelsey Whipple shared her account of City Park Jazz’s tribute to Celena Hollis, the Denver police officer murdered at the event the previous week. Westword’s Nathan Federico also attended, and he tells the story in vivid, often emotional photos featuring the likes of Denver Police Chief Robert White,…

The debate about bicycles, cars and road safety that began with Sam Levin’s post about Doug Linkhart’s Bike to Work Day accident rolled over into a Comment of the Day from a reader who thinks bicyclists should lose license points when they break traffic laws. Today, we hear from someone…

Update: The Boulder Office of Emergency Management was so confident the Flagstaff fire outside of town was a thing of the past that a so-called “final update” was posted on Saturday afternoon. But despite predictions of 100 percent containment before the weekend was done, Flagstaff (the lesser of three Front…

Last week marked the end of the long-running Caplis & Silverman show on KHOW. Shortly thereafter, we started hearing rumors about a new pairing — one that would team a conservative KOA personality with a progressive from AM 760. Turns out the buzz was true. Meet your new KHOW afternoon-drive…