Verde Wellness’s Chuck Blackton locks up his medical marijuana buds, edibles, hash and tinctures in a Volkswagen-sized, all-but-dynamite-proof safe each night. So does every dispensary owner who follows the law (or has any sense) — which makes the three after-hours break-ins Verde’s experienced comically pathetic…
Willow, a cat who wandered away from the Squire family’s home in Broomfield five years ago, turned up on East 20th Street in New York City yesterday — and she’s not telling how she got there. That’s the kind of mystery capable of creating the next Meme Cat Superstar. But…
Tom Martino has filed for Chapter 7 personal bankruptcy protection and is claiming assets of $1.37 Million and liabilities of $78.6 million. Long known for turning his “Troubleshooter” consumer advocate media persona into a pay-for-play advertising empire, the shameless Martino will no doubt find a way to make a fortune…
Yesterday, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests accused the Vatican, as well as four officials, including Pope Benedict XVI, of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. To draw more attention to this action, members of SNAP’s Denver branch demonstrated at a local church…
Our post about Troubleshooter Tom Martino’s bankruptcy is hardly the first time we’ve reported about the consumer advocate-turned-empire builder. Below, we’ve assembled ten pieces from the past decade plus, ranging from a report about how he was scammed by a fellow employee and looks into slumlord-ready properties to his attempted…
The debate over a paid-sick leave initiative is contagious — and not just because proponents are using the movie Contagion to push what they call a public-health issue. But one reader begs to differ…
The war between activist Corey Donahue and the Department of Revenue over public records has flared up once again. This time, Donahue accuses DOR supervisor Matt Cook with improperly deleting e-mails shortly before leaving his post — a charge denied by the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division…
Jose Manuel Martinez-Adame went the extra mile to earn his nickname of “Vampire.” He reportedly had his teeth sharpened to better resemble a demon of the night. And cops believe he’s got a lethal nature — which is why they’re looking for him in relation to the homicide they’ve linked…
Tom Martino was once the embodiment of hubris — a nationally syndicated radio host and local television personality who’d parlayed his reputation as a consumer advocate into a real-estate empire funded largely by Troubleshooter.com, which charges businesses for his recommendation. But the syndication deal went south years ago, his contract…
Posing in front of 20 pounds of marijuana got High Level Health/Discount Medical Marijuana owner Jim Rice on Survivor. But strategic moves and a bit of politicking kept him in in, at least through tonight’s first episode…
What does a skeezy beauty pageant, and “hot ass” and “best orgasm” contests have to do with medical marijuana? Nothing. But for some reason all three are events were listed as contests as recently as Tuesday afternoon for the upcoming HempCon convention…
This morning, jurors heard two versions of what happened to Robert Walters’s girlfriend, Brittney Brashers, on the night she died. In closing arguments, the prosecution argued that Walters beat Brashers to death and then faked a car accident to cover it up. However, defense attorney Fernando Freyre said that scenario…
As seen in Contagion, the movie whose trailer features Gwyneth Paltrow dying, mass sickness — and the mass hysteria that can come with it — are relegated mostly to the fictional world. The two made an appearance today, however, at two separate meetings to discuss the 2011 Denver Paid Sick…
This week’s cover story, “Leave It to Beaver,” explores the work of Sherri Tippie, who’s spent more than 25 years rescuing beaver from trash-choked urban streams and drainage areas and relocating them to high-country habitat, or installing flow devices in dams so that beaver can thrive in the inner city…
These Denver blog posts should be served piping hot. Free Colorado’s Ari Armstrong thinks the Post unfairly equated the entire Tea Party with a few idiots who seemed to cheer a hypothetical young man’s death during Ron Paul’s portion of a GOP debate. At Education News Colorado, Kristina Tabor advocates…
UPDATE: 10:19 a.m. Friday. We’ve picked a winner. Thanks for playing and check your e-mail to see if you’ve won. Attention, Latest Word readers: Want to win a pair of tickets to Saturday’s Rocky Mountain Showdown between the CU Buffs and CSU Rams at Sports Authority Field at Mile High,…
In July, Judge John Kane, ruling in a brutality case brought by Jason Graber, ordered Denver to release every document related to excessive force complaints against cops and sheriff’s deputies for eight years. “Further obstruction will not be tolerated,” he added, and he meant it. He’s now threatening to fine…
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s proposed 2012 budget was released yesterday and revealed that city government can continue business as usual as long as city employees keep taking furlough days without pay. The complete budget breakdown is shown below…..
Even though the NBA season is in serious doubt, several Denver Nuggets will be in action soon. But it’ll be a tough commute for local fans to see them in person — since J.R. Smith and Wilson Chandler, possibly joined by Kenyon Martin, are expected to be ballin’ it up…
Our post about the Broncos’ crushing defeat to the Raiders on Monday night outlined many of the team’s faults — but hardly all of them. One of our readers picked up the slack and mused about what the performance means for the squad’s future…
Update: Early reporting about a Frontier flight from Denver to Detroit on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 suggested, inaccurately, that fighter jets had been scrambled after a couple tried to join the Mile High Club in the plane’s lavatory. Now, however, the tale’s morphed, with Shoshana Hebshi, one of three…
Opponents of voter-verification measures like the one Secretary of State Scott Gessler promoted earlier this year frequently note that few cases of fraud actually surface. This week, however, David Shackley, 69, will be sentenced for the crime. But he hardly fits the profile of non-citizens defrauding the system that Gessler…
