News that Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers is paying bonuses to prosecutors who achieve a certain percentage of felony convictions at trial may be raising eyebrows among other DAs, but it’s hardly a shocker to anyone who’s followed Chambers’ other efforts to turn her office into a conviction machine…
Tell the average person about some cat in Boulder having pipe problems and he may assume the rub has something to do with local medical marijuana dispensaries that may be closed due to license problems. But no: This tale has to do with an actual cat, nicknamed Squeeze, who may…
Update: We continue to learn more about the string of serious crimes in Aurora — not just the officer-involved shooting that left Oleg Gidenko dead, but also separate hostage dramas. The first ended with the death of a man recently ID’d by Aurora Police as Aaron Williams, twenty. In the…
Patricia Calhoun’s post about receiving a parking ticket at 4 a.m. because her tires were on the curb in front of her house drew something of a rebuke — albeit a good-natured one. Here’s the reader’s slant on the issue…
Update below: Jay Leno’s “Jaywalking” routine features man- and woman-on-the-street interviews with alleged morons — but one recent clip makes him look like a bigger dope than the woman he portrays as a brainless chump. That’s because her reference to Amelia Earhart as a 9News personality is almost, if not…
Update: The Aurora Police Department, which has been involved with gunplay aplenty of late, has identified the three men allegedly at the center of an officer-involved shooting Sunday night on North Laredo Street. Oleg Gidenko, Yevgeniy Straystar and Ruslan Giriyev. The tally: one dead, one hospitalized, one out on bond…
ATTORNEYS REPRESENTING CRAIGSLIST told Congress on September 15 that the ubiquitous web classifieds site was closing its adult section. Under intense scrutiny from the government and crusading advocacy groups, as well as state attorneys general, owner Craig Newmark memorably applied the label “Censored” in his classifieds where adult advertising once…
There’s an old saying in journalism: If your mother says she loves you, check it out. It’s a facetious way of saying: Trust no one, verify everything. Yet some of the biggest, most respected media outlets in the country failed to perform their due diligence when it came to the…
The push by advocates to gain publicity at any cost often involves local law enforcement. Once again, the Super Bowl became a platform to push a religious agenda and bogus numbers. Last November, Dallas Police Sgt. Louis Felini was quoted predicting that up to 100,000 prostitutes would descend on the…
Should the City of Boulder pass a law requiring “party permits” for the type of large, alcohol-fueled house parties thrown by CU students living in the University Hill neighborhood? This is one of the measures Boulder Councilwoman Lisa Morzel is calling for in response to the slaying of Todd Walker…
The e-mails contained an ugly ultimatum: Annette Story had to fork over $1,500 or lose contact with her son. Kidnapping? Extortion? No, just another child/family investigator (CFI) demanding an increase in his retainer. Under current Colorado law, Story had no recourse against such an outrageous threat, but a new bill…
As recounted in the April story “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Tell,” Alan Sudduth has spent more than half his 31 years behind bars for the 1995 killing of Denver cab driver Finley Bradshaw Myers, even though somebody else — a friend named Nicholas Reed — has confessed to the murder…
In our Denver Blogs category, we feature posts from blogs about Denver. Like these. Denver Stiffs’ Jeffrey Morton writes about the question of whether Raymond Felton should start for the Nuggets in Shakespearean verse. Really. Eddie at People’s Press Collective vouches for the value of vouchers. Denver Egotist: Boulder Digital…
At this writing, the most viewed video on the 9News website features anchors Mark Koebrich and Adele Arakawa trying not to snicker too overtly at clips of an alleged UFO sighting near Lafayette. But are the three red lights, arrayed in a triangular shape, a laughing matter or proof that…
Update: On March 1, attorney Rob Corry sued the City of Loveland on behalf of three dispensaries that had to close the previous day under the provisions of a voter-approved medical marijuana business ban. However, yesterday’s preliminary injunction hearing didn’t go the plaintiffs’ way…
Last week, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment tried to counter media-fueled fears about radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan creating health risks here. Today, that job just got more difficult. The CDPHE confirms that “minuscule” amounts of radiation from the accident have been…
We had a lot of fun with our recent top ten suggestions for new Metro State names other than Denver State — but many of the comments have taken the proposed moniker swap very seriously. Among the more interesting is a post suggesting that Denver State will cause confusion with…
Update: Kevin McGregor has now been charged with first-degree murder in relation to the shooting of University of New Hampshire football player Todd Walker this past Friday — and the case is on a very fast track, with a preliminary hearing slated for April 25. In the meantime, the tragic…
After the CU Buffs got screwed out of a March Madness berth, their consolation was a number one seed in the National Invitational Tournament — and they’ve made the most of it so far. By beating Kent State last night, the squad earned the right to play in the NIT…
Last year, one of the many new enterprises to spring up from the medical marijuana deluge were pot classes. So-called institutes, colleges and universities opened their doors to help newbies understand complicated marijuana regulations, open their own MMJ businesses and learn how to properly grow medicinal crops. A year later,…
Former Denver Manager of Safety Fidel “Butch” Montoya is switching his endorsement in the upcoming mayoral election to James Mejia. In a strongly-worded letter e-mailed to friends Monday evening, Montoya writes that he originally intended to endorse former state senator Chris Romer, but has become “very disenchanted” with his “lack…
Denver blog posts? Got ’em here. Mile High Report fan poster Jumpslash believes John Elway isn’t satisfied with current Broncos QBs. Who might he target? Colorado Pols thinks the feud between Dick Wadhams and Ted Harvey over the future of the Colorado GOP is getting nasty. Colorado Independent’s Rachel Cernansky…
