Colorado Attorney General’s office spokesman Mike Saccone confirms that Myrl Serra, district attorney for the 7th Judicial District, which covers several Western Slope counties, is in Montrose County jail following his arrest this morning on three startling charges: unlawful sexual contact, no consent, with force or threats; indecent exposure; and…
With the Carmelo Anthony trade talks devolving into accusations of tampering against the New York Knicks, an intriguing new question has arisen: If Anthony won’t accept a trade to any team other than the Knicks, should the Nuggets explore the idea of a swap with a team that might want…
Remember that scene in Goodfellas where Tommy (Joe Pesci) responds to a compliment from Henry (Ray Liotta) about a joke by seemingly building up to a homicidal freak out — “Funny like a clown, I amuse you?” — before revealing that he was only putting everyone on? A similar scene…
Has the war between intoxicants formally begun? The California Beer and Beverage Distributors (CBBD), a trade association, recently made headlines for donating $10,000 to oppose Proposition 19, the California marijuana-legalization measure to be voted on in November…
Like everything that accompanies the Greatest Show on Earth, the train carrying the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus to Denver this week is big, big, big — packed with spectacle, history, legend, lore and plenty of, um, fertilizer. Challenger No. 3985 is reportedly the largest steam locomotive in…
A 23-year-old from Colorado Springs who is one of four men accusing Atlanta pastor Bishop Eddie Long of sexual abuse spoke to a Fox News reporter from Georgia last night. Jamal Parris is the first of the alleged victims to speak, and he told the reporter — who was waiting…
Candidates for public office often have to worry about skeletons in their closet. But in the race for Colorado Attorney General, it’s the bodies buried by ex-government informant Scott Kimball that could make a difference. AG John Suthers has been blasted by challenger Stan Garnett over his role in setting…
These three Denver blog posts are guaranteed fresh. Purple Row’s Andrew T. Fisher writes the postmortem on the loss that officially buried the Rockies’ 2010 season. It’s a dirty job, but somebody had to do it. Face the State’s Jared Jacang Maher tallies up legislators’ travel expenses. Bet he didn’t…
Coloradans apparently aren’t attractive enough to rouse voters in Maxim’s 2010 Hometown Hotties contest. More than twenty Colorado women took part in ten weekly contests; see their photos below. But the group netted only one weekly winner — Miranda from Denver, seen here — and just two semifinalists — Miranda…
In most cases of arson, the furniture that’s destroyed is inside the house. But not so in the case of a Broomfield fire late last week. In that incident, furniture left on a home’s driveway in anticipation of an estate sale was torched, with the house subsequently going up in…
Even as Tom Tancredo was partying with Dog the Bounty Hunter and Dan Maes defendng his firing as a Kansas cop, John Hickenlooper’s been trying not to screw up a scenario that led GOP boss Dick Wadhams to brand him the world’s luckiest guy. But is Tancredo starting to get…
It is probably safe to say the jobs that were lost during America’s Great Recession will never come back, each a casualty of an unsustainable economic system. All new jobs will be created as society transforms into a sustainable future. Attend the October 2, 2010, Inaugural Denver Chicken Coop Tour…
A federal court judge has set bail for Dr. Louis Hampers, the former head of the Children’s Hospital ER who is accused of writing 654 phony prescriptions using several aliases and stolen identities, at $2.5 million. The ruling came out of a detail-filled court hearing yesterday, at which a federal…
The first incarnation of this year’s Personhood Amendment, which says the term “person” applies to humans from their biological starting point, popped up in 2008, when the face of the proposal was 21-year old Westword cover girl Kristi Burton. This year, Kristi’s playing a quieter role for three main reasons…
Last month, we shared the trailer for 127 Hours, the James Franco flick about Boulderite Aron Ralston’s loss of limb. But Ralston’s not the only Boulder resident to go Hollywood. Penny Chenery’s the main human character in Secretariat, about the Triple Crown winning horse she owned. Chenery, who raised her…
Yesterday, GOP guv candidate Dan Maes released documents connected to his firing as a Liberal, Kansas cop in 1985 — a bizarre assemblage of material unlikely to supercharge his faltering campaign. But Colorado Republican Party chieftain Dick Wadhams isn’t worried about other GOP candidates going down with Maes’s ship, and…
In July, we told you about the arrest of 84-year old Zona’s Tamales owner Zona Moore, along with son Saalim Muhammed, and a third person, Renee McKinnon, on charges of trafficking in cigarettes and other stolen goods. Now, Moore has reportedly pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of theft by…
Yesterday, we told you about team execs reportedly angry at how the Nuggets have been handling the Carmelo Anthony trade negotiations. But such frustration apparently goes both ways. Now, we’re hearing the Nugs are pissed at one squad in particular — the New York Knicks — for allegedly helping to…
These days, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE, emphasizes that it’s targeting criminal aliens, not otherwise law-abiding citizens who lack documentation authorizing their U.S. residency. And that’s the theme of ICE’s latest Colorado busts. Of the 78 people rounded up from Fruita to Kiowa, 64 of them had…
“An Education,” Melanie Asmar, September 23 Teacher’s Pest I respect and appreciate Andrea Merida’s leadership on the Denver Board of Education, because she does her homework and brings forth questions that need to be addressed, all the while remaining focused on it being all about successful outcomes for all of…
Cliff Warren is a man who minds his own business. That’s what he was doing around 1 a.m. one night in July last year, the night of the Big Incident. Fact is, he was snoozing in his bedroom in Lamar, a flat farm town of 8,900 people 200 miles southeast…
There was no shortage of opinions as the Public Utilities Commission took testimony from an overflow crowd about the state’s energy future last week. The heartfelt, often contradictory pleas came from people riled or galvanized by Xcel Energy’s $1.3 billion plan to convert several coal plants to natural gas to…
