Denver may be landlocked, but the town was hit by a hurricane two years ago — and its name was Tim Tebow. Now that Peyton Manning has signed with the Broncos and Tebow’s trade to the New York Jets is offical, the time is right to look back on Tebowmania,…
Update: The Denver Post’s decisions to lay off newsroom stars Penny Parker and Mike Littwin, and end Chuck Murphy’s metro column, have gotten a lot of attention from folks tracking changes at the paper; get details below. But another person lost her job, too: Dacia Johnson, 23, who worked for…
Update:Denver Police have busted Anthony Escobedo, 31, in the March 18 slaying of Billy Newson in the vicinity of Colfax and Pearl. Escobedo reportedly has at least one major conviction in his past. As for Newson, his arrest history suggests to Denver District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough that he…
I’ve been eyeing the CCF sign on Colfax for years now. It’s one of the most prominent MMJ signs on Colfax, while at the same time being relatively modest. Just three big letters on an old neon marquee. I always assumed the sign was probably the best part about the…
Sue Weinroth describes it best: “This goat story got legs and ran,” says the mom, shaking her head. Last summer, she watched her two children, nineteen-year-old Maggie and fourteen-year-old Ben, lose their titles, reputations and hobbies when they were banned from the Colorado State Fair on allegations that they drugged…
Denver blog posts welcome your scrutiny. Big Media’s Jason Salzman worries the Denver Post’s editorial page will be less balanced with the departure of columnist Mike Littwin. The Redheaded Slut shares her struggles after a relationship split. Denver Frank: What would Earth look like with rings like Saturn? Amazing!…
Tomorrow, Occupy Denver turns six months old — and sometimes it feels as though protest years are like dog years. In the first in two posts marking the date, we look back through our notebooks to track the relationship between police and protesters, which has gone from overwhelmingly supportive (on…
Cranbeary the polar bear is no stranger to loss or heartbreak. Two years ago, she lost her mate, Frosty, who died of liver cancer at the age of 25, just one month after Cranbeary arrived at the zoo to er, become acquainted with him. And last week, Cranbeary’s aunt, 25-year-old…
This week’s feature, “The Columbine Effect,” reports on the controversy over a proposed miniseries about the shootings at Columbine — and the way filmmakers have made use of the tragedy to advance various agendas of their own. But references to Columbine in indie films and documentaries, however upsetting to survivors…
U.S. Attorney John Walsh’s response to Boulder DA Stan Garnett, who publicly criticized the office’s closure-threat letters to medical marijuana dispensaries within 1,000 feet of schools, stirred up our readership big-time. Here’s an example from a reader irritated that Walsh insisted on putting the phrase “medical marijuana” in quotes…
A car can be a deadly weapon — especially if a driver is purposefully aiming it at people. That’s among the allegations against Joshua White, 24, who’s accused of using his car to bump a woman and a man, then dragging the latter 150 feet…
Last December, we noted that the U.S. Supreme Court had agreed to hear an appeal by Steve Howards, who claimed that his free speech rights had been chilled by Secret Service agents when he approached then-Vice President Dick Cheney in Colorado circa 2006. Yesterday, the case reached the nation’s highest…
Update: In recent days, Fort Carson-based Sergeant Christopher Mountjoy was arrested in the death of Virgil Means outside the Sin City Disciples motorcycle club. Now, a second soldier, John Burrell, has been arrested in the incident. He’s being held on the charge of murder in the first degree…
Peyton Manning was barely a Bronco and the ink on Tim Tebow’s trade deal to the New York Jets was still wet when the snarky geniuses behind the NFL Memes Facebook page began coming up with hilarious ways to needle everyone involved in the pro-football version of Trading Places. Check…
If you weren’t amused by Jimmy Fallon’s Tebowie skit the first time around, tough luck — because you’re about to see a lot more of it. Even before The Chosen One was traded to the Jets, Fallon reprised the gag to reflect the Broncos’ Peyton Manning signing, complete with lyrics…
People aren’t usually prosecuted for lying to get out of jury duty. If they were, the court system would have a mighty tough time finding enough jurors to determine the guilt or innocence of the non-jurors. Then again, most people who pull off this gambit don’t concoct as elaborate a…
Update: The Tim Tebow to the Jets trade spent only a brief time in limbo yesterday. The Broncos and the Jets eventually agreed to split a $5 million payment required by a contract clause, resulting in The Chosen One’s ticket being punched for the Big Apple, and an even brighter…
Immigration advocates are hopeful that a new agreement between the Roaring Fork School District and three local police departments will put an end to the controversial collaboration between school resource officers and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE. But they also fear that the agreement doesn’t go far enough…
Yesterday, state Republicans killed a bill that sought to make it a felony-level crime to intentionally mislead citizens about voting information during an election. Known as the Fairness in Voting bill, it came under political fire during its tenure in the legislation over accusations that it was an unnecessary effort…
A feud between Boulder waste oil recyclers has reached a legal conclusion after a libel suit and disparagement claims filed by recycOil, a recycling and biofuel company, were settled in its favor. The firm filed the former against Jennifer Hronkin, a Boulder biofuel advocate, for making false and defamatory statements…
Denver blog posts already miss Tim Tebow. Denver Egotist on photog Tomas Zuccareno’s Aspen Magazine shoot with four-time X Games gold medalist Gretchen Bleiler. Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead Broke hips us to free Red Cross training. Colorado Peak Politics: Are Obama minions bribing college kids?…
Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett recently took issue with U.S. Attorney John Walsh’s closure-threat letters to medical marijuana centers within 1,000 feet of schools. After Garnett sent a letter of his own on the topic, a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman told us Walsh would respond directly to the Boulder DA…
