This morning, a freshman girl at Columbine High School allegedly attacked two fellow students with a hammer. It’s a story that would likely have remained local had it happened elsewhere. But because the incident took place at Columbine, outlets from ABC to the Sydney Morning Herald are covering it. Which…
A high-ranking official at one of the nation’s largest private prison operators has been accused by his daughter-in-law of intimidation and harassment in a Boulder domestic dispute — including threatening to initiate a federal inquiry into her legal status by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — according to court documents…
Last week, authorities found Dennis Mann, 41, dead at the scene of an accident at 640 West Tennessee Avenue involving complications of high voltage electrocution. Mann’s death was Denver’s eleventh electrocution in the past 21 years. He was working around a power line while cleaning out a concrete construction truck…
Did you run around outside on Saturday wearing nothing but your underwear? If so, we hope you were taking part in Cupid’s Undie Run, a Children’s Tumor Foundation fundraiser. “We’re running for the kids,” director Sarah Morley told our Bree Davies. “We just hope they’re not watching.” But the rest…
For the better part of a week, our reports about 9News anchor Kyle Dyer being bitten by a rescued Argentine Mastiff on live TV have generated comments aplenty. Here’s one that balances compassion for Dyer with some constructive suggestions…
Aspen’s Marilyn Marks is driven. The woman behind Citizen Center, a nonprofit organization that focuses on elections issues and more, is pushing Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s office to hold a hearing prompted by her complaint about alleged voting irregularities in Saguache County. And today, she plans to announce…
Just Friday in this space, we talked about the growing epidemic of serious metro-area hit and run accidents in the context of updates on the Jenna Breen and Tim Albo crashes. A February 11 incident continued this trend by way of a chain reaction smash-up that led to the arrest…
Last week, we told you about a court ruling that bans medical marijuana patients from using cannabis while on probation. The decision was praised in a Denver Post editorial, but George Yingling, the attorney who represented Leonard Charles Watkins, the man at the center of the case, believes it was…
Age is only a number — one that needn’t stop any of us from being active. Take Barbara West, who allegedly didn’t let her 73 years on earth prevent her from driving the getaway car in a burglary — and attempting to outrun the cops…
The new University of Colorado Memes Facebook page was launched last Tuesday morning, and it’s already a campus must-see, with more than 5,000 likes and new content — frequently rude (especially toward CSU), often politically incorrect (there’s already a Whitney Houston entry) and usually funny as hell even if you’re…
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? The Omicron personal vaporizer…
The Broadway headquarters of Girl Scouts of Colorado is brimming with activity. It is cookie season, and while the offices are normally full of girls, they are also now stuffed with Thin Mints and Savannah Smiles. But for months, the entire national organization has been busy with preparations: On March…
Denver blog posts believe the children are our future. Colorado Pols isn’t too impressed by the now-closed investigation into Laura Bradford’s controversial January 25 traffic stop. Denver Stiffs’ Andrew Feinstein on another Nugs loss, versus Golden State. Are injuries the problem? Or something more? Denver Egotist takes a look at…
Is Mitt Romney the anti-Christ? Are his politics unbearably loathsome? Is his hair too perfect? The answers to those questions depend on your own point of view. But no matter what you believe, throwing glitter on someone is pretty much never the right way to express your feelings — unless…
Tim Tebow isn’t the only current NFL player to travel overseas on goodwill missions. Seth Olsen, a former Denver Bronco guard now playing for the Indianapolis Colts (although he calls Denver home), recently returned from a ten-day trip to Uganda as part of a team completing a clean-water project. So…how…
Update: For the second time in less than a week, a skier has been killed while schussing the slopes at Keystone. The death brings the total skier deaths this year in Colorado to eleven, just six shy of a macabre record set in 2008…
The comments continue to pile up on posts about 9News’ Kyle Dyer and her dog-bite injury, including one featuring an admission in a Today show story that the station has been trying to keep attack footage off the Internet because of the traumatizing effect on staffers. This rationale prompted from…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office has now formally charged James Bradley, 32, with attempted first-degree assault for a bizarre incident involving a hammer attack on a police officer back on December 4. Why such a delay? No doubt due to Bradley’s condition. The officer shot him, and as detailed in…
Last week, we told you about a series of layoffs at Lincoln Financial stations — most prominent among them Denver radio legend Hal Moore, whose position at Cruisin’ Oldies 950 was eliminated. We finally caught up with Moore, who got the news within a day of turning 72. He expresses…
We’ve been following a pair of tragic hit-and-run cases — the January death of Jenna Breen and the horrific injuries inflicted on Tim Albo in 2010. There are new developments in both stories, including a hearing for the man accused of killing Breen and Albo-inspired legislation intended to give drunk…
After U.S. Attorney John Walsh sent closure threats to 23 medical marijuana dispensaries near schools (and vowed that he wasn’t bluffing about the shut-down warnings), observers began to fear that MMCs would have few places to move in Denver due in part to rules that centers be at least 1,000…
The slogan featured prominently on attorney Nicholas Athanasiou’s website reads, “When Everything Seems Against You, Call Us!” Well, Athanasiou may want to give himself a ring about now. He’s among eighty individuals accused of being part of a huge cocaine ring — one shuttered in what authorities are calling the…
