We hooked yesterday’s collection of the five most memorable kid in trouble stories to the tale of Sean King, who got called to the principal’s office after wearing blackface for a Martin Luther King Jr. project. One reader thought someone else deserved to be there, too…
Last year, Littleton resident J.P. McDaniel’s push to name the east peak of Mount Sopris after singer John Denver made national headlines — but a story last week implied that the campaign might have reached its expiration date. Not so, says McDaniel, who stresses that her slow and steady approach…
In February, we told you about the arrest of former Basalt High school basketball coach Lauren Redfern, accused of having sex with a student. Now, however, a plea deal is reportedly in the works for a reduced charge that would keep her off the sex-offender registry. Was the age of…
Update:In an interview on view below, One Colorado executive director Brad Clark predicted that Dr. Robert Spitzer’s repudiation of his own 2001 study, which suggested that gays could be “cured,” wouldn’t dissuade Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family from continuing to support so-called reparative therapy. And he was right, as…
As of last year, there were more than 1,500 unsolved homicides in Colorado as tracked by Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons. On numerous entries, the group’s website includes photos and personal stories of victims. Below are ten from the Denver area. See them below, arranged from the most…
Yoga instructor Joan Zalk saved herself a few steps by running a chihuahua named Cooper from the window of a moving car. But the cost of this not-quite-brilliant idea, documented in a police report on view below, was high: an arrest and, ultimately, a guilty plea to misdemeanor animal cruelty…
Visit Denver, the city’s convention and visitors’ bureau, has a new mobile app designed to lure vacationers to Mile High hotspots through a series of “dares.” Complete a “Denver Dare” and you’ll earn a Facebook badge. So what are these terrifying tasks, these death-defying deeds? Here’s a hint: One of…
“Bad Company,” Melanie Asmar, May 17 Fostering Resentment As a former youth corrections officer at a branch of Rite of Passage, I could not agree more with this article. Ms. Asmar has hit the nail right on the coffin. The youth corrections system is messed up and needs to be…
The mass protest against the weekend’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit might be 1,000 miles from Denver, but its ties to the city are represented by at least 25 Occupy Denver protesters who traveled to attend. And when Occupy Wall Street placed a call for national action this weekend, the…
Visit Denver has a new mobile app designed to lure vacationers to Mile High City hotspots through a series of “dares:” Complete a “Denver Dare” and you’ll earn a Facebook badge. So what are these terrifying tasks, these death-defying deeds? Here’s a hint: One of them involves the Celestial Seasonings…
Denver blog posts work hard to satisfy your every desire. Mile High Report’s John Bena on the media scrum on hand to witness Peyton Manning’s first public practice as a Bronco. Big Media’s Jason Salzman searches for liberal media bias in Denver Post head honcho Dean Singleton’s introduction of Barack…
Update: The Wheat Ridge Police Department has now identified the principals in a Sunday murder suicide at the Wheatridge Manor nursing home as Donald Schaffer, 66, and Joyce Schaffer, 69, who’d been living at the facility for ten months. The couple were married for 43 years — and their loved…
Chris Utterback’s post about a Jared Polis event at which the rep decried the classification of pizza as a vegetable in school lunch programs inspired one of our readers to prove the point. You’ll be amazed by how healthy a pizza really is!…
On Friday, the Denver Wheel Club 404 hosted its second annual Bike Prom, this year featuring a Jocks v. Nerds theme. And judging by the photos brought back by our own Brandon Marshall, the nerds won! Look below to see a sampling of the shots — and for the entire…
The story of eight-year-old Sean King, who made news for delivering a Martin Luther King speech while wearing blackface, is hardly the first time a local kid found himself in the spotlight for strange reasons. We’ve collected five memorable moments from recent years. Count them down below…
At this writing, the Hewlett fire near Fort Collins is almost 90 percent contained, with the soggy weather over the weekend helping to give firefighters the upper hand. The sooner they mop up the destructive blaze, the more quickly the meter stops running for James Weber, who’ll be asked to…
When we put together our list of the top ten “You know you’re from Colorado when….” punchlines, we had no idea that there was a Facebook page devoted to a much more specific theme: You know you’re from Denver when…. And its visitors have come up with plenty of great…
When my family members tried to check out last night’s solar eclipse from a spot in Jefferson County, they saw…nothing, due to cloud cover. Those who gathered at CU-Boulder’s Folsom Field had better luck, and that’s a good thing — because there were a record-setting 10,000 of them. See video…
He looked shmucky enough at the end of the regularly scheduled session of the Colorado Legislature when he pointed the finger at Democrats for not pushing the civil unions bill earlier, then delivered his own lethal injection when he sent the proposal to a “kill committee.” And then whoops, House…
Today was a good day for Aurora tourism — and not for the same reason as on November 28, 1979, when a mysterious Hollywood stunt man showed up with a plan to build a massive amusement park called Science Fiction Land. Today’s good news came courtesy the Colorado Economic Development…
Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? Aqua Lab Technologies Mini Showerhead Vapor Tube…
On Monday, Denver City Council voted 9-4 to pass an urban camping ordinance, and the meeting wasn’t pretty: Opponents shouted “Shame!” at the councilmembers, turned their backs on the proceedings and launched a sit-in outside council chambers. From there, roughly fifty protesters followed the pro-ban council members to their cars,…
