The Larimer County Republican Party faced massive fines for not filing campaign-finance reports in 2010 — but last month, the Secretary of State’s office reduced the bill from $48,000 to $15,000, leaving critics agog. Now, Colorado Ethics Watch has issued a complaint about what it sees as additional violations…
The DUID-marijuana working group, formed under the auspices of the state’s Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, met yesterday afternoon to consider recommendations about setting THC driving standard. After about three hours of hashing out a lot about hash, members eventually decided not to back a specific blood limit…
Fallout continues from this weekend’s Fort Collins mega-party at the Ram’s Pointe apartment complex, which attracted thousands and led to ten hospitalizations and the arrests of two CSU football players. But even as officials seek ways to prevent such out-of-control events in the future, more and more videos are popping…
Does slicing off body parts transform ordinary people into comedians? Colorado’s own Aron Ralston, renowned for amputating much of his arm, was a laugh a minute during his Starz Denver Film Festival introduction of 127 Hours, the James Franco-starring movie he inspired. And Montrose’s John Hutt is a joke-cracking machine…
August was a weird-ass month for crime — and we’ve got the mug shots of the prime suspects, from the wild and crazy Dougherty Gang to the allegedly murderous cross-dresser who goes by the moniker Ms. Puppy. Page down to see the complete gallery — and click on the names…
“Best places” lists (like one from this week touting Louisville) exist based on the weird premise that they somehow matter. Sure, they get lots of views and lots of comments, which means more recognition and more ad dollars. But when it comes down to it, who looks at a list…
Shaun Kaufman and Colleen Collins are a real-life husband-and-wife team of private detectives. The couple are also authors, having recently completed their first book together, How to Write a Dick: A Guide for Writing Fictional Sleuths from a Couple of Real-Life Sleuths. Their journey to becoming dicks themselves has been…
Politics junkies are already so discouraged by the prospects in the 2012 presidential campaign that they’re looking ahead to 2016, proposing all kinds of unlikely candidates — including Governor John Hickenlooper, who was being measured for a White House run even before his inauguration eight months ago. Yet the buzz…
You’re in good hands with Denver blog posts. Predominantly Orange’s Kim Constantinesco, inspired by ex-Bronco Peyton Hillis beating Michael Vick to the Madden 12 box, polls readers about current Denver players who might end up on the cover. At this writing, Von Miller’s ahead. On Square State, school board member…
Testimony began yesterday in the trial of Robert Walters, an Iraq war veteran charged with killing his girlfriend, Brittney Brashers, and then putting a hit on his wife so she couldn’t testify against him. The case against Walters was the subject of our story, “Dead End.” The first major witness…
This week, a Longmont teenager let his father know how much he didn’t want to take out the trash — with a knife, which he used to stab his dad in the back six times. And as Longmont Police Commander Jeff Satur explains, that’s not the only sharp instrument he…
Rules of the Game: Make your annual end-of-summer people watching trek to the Taste of Colorado more tasteful by taking the listed number of drinks (below) from your beer or wine whenever you see these classic Civic Center characters…..
Dr. Eric Hatch, the man behind Hatch Wellness Center in Highlands Ranch, is a chiropractor by trade. But a Douglas County court case in which he’s involved could challenge the right of municipalities to ban medical marijuana dispensaries. How? His attorney, Andrew Reid, explains…
The debate continues to rage over Patricia Calhoun’s post regarding Westword medical marijuana reviewer William Breathes’s blood test, which showed him nearly triple a proposed legal limit when sober. Among the dozens of comments spawned by the item is this one, which suggests that when it comes to testing for…
Stealing money from an ATM is a lot easier in the comfort of home — or at least not while under video surveillance in their supposedly permanent location. That’s the apparent logic behind a series of ATM thefts allegedly committed by David Barela and his twin brother Davey, plus Vicente…
Update: Yesterday, strip-club owner and entrepreneur Troy Lowrie railed at Denver Police for busting him in a prostitution sting operation even though he didn’t accept an undercover cop’s offer. Now, however, audio of the encounter, which Lowrie says his attorney requested and never received, has surfaced. Get more details and…
We tend to associate the most expensive Colorado homes with celebrities. Witness our galleries of mountain retreats owned by the likes of Jerry Seinfeld and Roxanne Pulitzer, plus these shots of metro abodes previously occupied by Carmelo Anthony, Kenyon Martin and Josh McDaniels. But the most expensive Denver-Boulder area homes…
Update: The Denver Police Department has announced an arrest in the weekend murder of 27-year-old Brandon Sigala at the Knights Inn. The suspect is Scott Shorts, 43, who’s been booked on suspicion of first-degree murder. However, no booking photo of Shorts has been released to date, because the homicide investigation…
Medical marijuana center applications with the city of Denver are sitting in storage — and in limbo. Furthermore, the director of the office charged with processing them isn’t sure when they’ll even get to the first one…
After years of battling the U.S. Army over its efforts to expand the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, beleagured ranchers in southeastern Colorado got a reprieve this week from another branch of the military. The Air Force won’t be conducting intensive low-altitude training in the area after all…
Denver blog posts are a mile high, give or take a few feet. Colorado Pols considers the viability of Governor John Hickenlooper as a 2016 presidential candidate with centrist appeal. What are the odds? Burning Down the House on life outside of a dog. Unseen Denver uncovers proof that Jesus…
Shelley Angell, executive director of the Louisville Chamber of Commerce, is pleased but notably composed when asked about news that her community has been named the best small-town place to live in America by Money magazine. How is she able to keep it together? Because Louisville has been down this…
