In the movies, turbulence can be hilarious — but it’s considerably less so in real life, as passengers on United Flight 967 headed from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles discovered last night. Injury estimates vary from a turbulence incident over Kansas vary, but Channel 31 reports that thirty people were…
There’s no politics like Boulder politics. At last night’s Boulder City Council meeting, Seth Brigham, who’d previously protested a possible nudity ban by stripping to his boxers, ridiculed proposed new decorum rules already facing the ACLU’s wrath by wearing a Zorro mask while speaking. (The rules would nix mask-wearing –…
At former Texas hurler Colt McCoy’s weekend wedding, ex-Longhorns teammate Jordan Shipley, joined by Aaron Watson, serenade the groom with a personalized tune that pleases the crowd — but attendees really go crazy after this couplet: “Gettin’ sick and tired of folks gettin’ fired up/Rubbin’ shoulders with Tim Tebow.” Behold…
Alleged wrong-way drunk driver Betsy Long, a onetime green-biz entrepreneur, faces vehicular homicide charges and more in a July 5 crash that killed Mary Warren, a 22-year old bound for the Peace Corps. And according to prosecutors, she cleared the legal .08 blood-alcohol-content limit with plenty of room to spare,…
Who wants to be a coroner? More people than you think, now that CSI and its ilk have made death investigation seem like a hip and even lively career choice. In Colorado practically anyone can apply for the job, which has made for some intriguing races this year. Especially in…
Boulder tends to win a lot of “Best place to…” awards, and now it’s racked up a new honor: The city’s been named the best place to raise abducted children by American Living magazine. Never heard of that publication? That’s because the whole thing is made up, part of a…
Everyone has questions about the new medical marijuana laws. And one of the best people to answer them is Jill Lamoureux-Leigh, one of the most successful and respected people in the MMJ community…
Update below: Lots of twists and turns in the gunplay on West 18th Avenue over the weekend. Daniel Alderete was shot by police, allegedly because he wouldn’t drop a weapon, while Filberto Alderete was arrested for investigation into the death of a man later identified as Jesus Sifuentes Jr. Now,…
In December 2003, the Ault, Colorado home onetime UNC student Thomas Mink shared with his mom was raided by police. His crime? Satirizing a UNC professor named Junius Peake as “Junius Puke” in his self-published newsletter, The Howling Pig. Thus began a court fight whose latest chapter ended yesterday with…
A Denver blog post x 3. Bronco Talk’s Jon presents a hilarious create-a-caption contest around this Tim Tebow Madden 11 image. My fave so far: “Phillipians 4:13, Phillipians 4:13, hut, hut!” 5280’s Michael de Yoanna explains how getting pregnant can make your mortgage more expensive. Oh, baby. Who Said You…
Bears are multi-faceted creatures. They’re adorable, but they can also kill you — which is why the Division of Wildlife moved aggressively in the case of an animal that punched in the window of a car last night. A trap was placed for the bear, which was caught earlier this…
Yesterday, Scott McInnis made his first public appearance — at Adams State College in Alamosa — since word of his plagiarism problems broke. But according to Channel 7’s John Ferrugia, who was there, McInnis treated a subsequent interview like a game of dodge ball, repeatedly declining to answer direct questions…
If the mug shot of Vicente Solorzano, twenty, who’s wanted in a non-fatal shooting in Aurora on Monday night, looks familiar, it should. The same shot ran earlier this year in relation to a post about Project Big Freeze, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid targeting “transnational gangs with ties…
Musings on Plagiarism If Republican Gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis can plagiarize water experts and make the big bucks, then I should be allowed to plagiarize daily cartoonists for a few cheap laughs. Instead of The Simpsons, Dennis the Menace and Pearls Before Swine, I give you The Shamsons, McInnis the…
Earlier today, Patricia Calhoun shared a chat with Tom Tancredo at the Independence Institute’s ATF event this past weekend. But I caught up with him yesterday when he was at an even more unusual place — a fast-moving line at the DMV (and “fast-moving” isn’t a misprint). But he still…
Last November, a billboard questioning Barack Obama’s nation of birth and asking the question “President or Jihad?” appeared along I-70 on the property of Wolf Interstate Leasing & Sales, earning enormous publicity for the birther cause and prompting regular protests. But now it’s gone — replaced with a sign promoting…
The basketball world has been debating where Carmelo Anthony might land next season if Melo doesn’t re-up with the Nuggets. Right now, the most popular possibility (well behind a potential Melo-sign-and-trade deal with the L.A. Lakers) involves a Melo-Chris Paul-Amare Stoudemire team-up in New York. But a new poll suggests…
Brent Bingham doesn’t believe in zombies. Not the kind that rise from the dead and eat your brain, anyway. But that isn’t stopping him from teaching people how to beat the living (or undead, or whatever) crap out of them. “Zombies are a metaphor,” says Bingham, a Denver martial arts…
Sheridan Police Department confirms that a suspicious death over the weekend near the 2600 block of West Hampden along the Bear Creek bike trail was a homicide. No victim has been identified at this writing, but reports suggest that the victim was a 51-year-old female transient who may have died…
Update below: Yesterday, we shared a pair of updates about an over-the-weekend incident in which one man was killed, a second man (Filberto Alderete) was arrested for investigation of first-degree murder, and a third man (Daniel Alderete) was shot by police after allegedly refusing to drop a weapon — although…
Fourteen years ago, Brian Aucone was a lowly Denver Zoo intern, cleaning up animal poo and setting up exhibits. A biology student at the University of Northern Colorado, Aucone would drive to Denver from Greeley every Saturday to work at the zoo for free (and class credit). Now, after having…
Is Bill Ritter guilty of plagiarizing? That’s what investigative website Face the State seems to be suggesting, having dug up a 2008 Veterans Day commentary bylined by Ritter in 2008 that has more than a passing resemblance to a Veterans Day speech given by Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski four years…
