Last week, we told you about Nuggets Twitter fan J.R. Smith, who challenged L.A. Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant via a cocky tweet — “Dont get me wrong kobe is great but not when he play me” — before telling the media to keep its collective nose off his page. Turns…
Somebody’s got a bad case of the Mondays. Denver’s KUSA, better known as 9News, regularly lauds itself as Colorado’s news leader, and if ratings are the only inspiration for broadcast puffery, then sure, we’ll have to give it to them. But a news item posted at 9News.com last week, complete…
Westword is covering the trial of Willie Clark, accused of murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams early on New Year’s Day 2007. The most recent updates for the day will be at the top; to check out the account chronologically at day’s end, read from the bottom up. Click here…
Some say the dreadful economy is to blame for the upswing in Colorado bank robberies — but the Safe Streets Task Force, which is charged with tracking down the crooks, doesn’t think it’s so simple. Atop the list of possible factors a task force spokesman shared with Westword reporter Joel…
As noted here a few weeks ago, Colorado’s U.S. Senate race is shaping up to be an epic mudwallow, with GOP hopeful Jane Norton painting incumbent Michael Bennet as the spend-crazy flunky of a soft-on-terror President and the Democrats firing back with videos that present Norton as a loony teabagger…
“An Uphill Battle,” an April 2007 Westword feature article written by Adam Cayton-Holland, told an unusual story of friendship between Steve Powers and best pal Lance Hering. When Hering, a U.S. Marine, decided to fake his own disappearance in Eldorado Canyon rather than return to Camp Pendleton, Powers volunteered to…
The photo above will make many Denverites gasp. After all, the likeness of Russell Scott, who spent decades on local TV as Blinky the Clown, is so uncannily accurate that it looks as if the Blinkster ran into a blade-wielding executioner with absolutely no sense of humor. But no: It’s…
Lafayette councilman Kerry Bensman is frustrated by the publicity his town has received in relation to the story of Spork, a ten-year-old dachshund who received a vicious-dog citation after he bit a veterinary technician last August. He believes most media outlets have been underplaying the seriousness of the injuries sustained…
Our last Denver blogs roundup of the week. But Monday’s not that far away. Ian Henson at Bronco Talk notes that the Bears’ loss of a coin flip to the Jaguars gives the Broncos the eleventh pick in the NFL draft — which will save $1.5 million-$2 million in guaranteed…
Why drugs? Because they caused this guy to shimmy out his bedroom window and hit a cop with his car when police showed up at his door. They inspired this crazy bitch to deprive hospital patients of vital medicine and infect those same patients with Hep C. And, perhaps worst…
When web surfers visit the Rocky Mountain News website, the first line they see at the top of the screen reads, “Denver newspaper, with the latest Colorado news, sports, weather and entertainment.” Not quite. The site is frozen at February 27, 2009, the day its last edition was published –…
In January, Frontier Airlines spokesman Peter Kowalchuk insisted that Frontier would still be Denver’s hometown airline despite most of its executives being shipped to Indianapolis, home base for its new parent company, Republic Airways Holdings. But would that still be the case if it was no longer called Frontier? And…
“Bankruptcy is a bitch! My monthly income is $29,000, but my monthly expenses are $31,000. I’ve tried to economize, but I just don’t see how people can live for less than $30,000 a month.”…
The North Metro Task Force has been busy of late when it comes to marijuana-related arrests, including one that resulted in the discovery of 21 pounds of weed and the arrest of one William Howard Frank, 59. Frank claimed to be running a medical marijuana operation, just as did Highlands…
Documents released by the Denver District Attorney’s Office following the arrests of Argelia Figueroa-Ramirez and Ronald Webster tell an extraordinarily sordid story — one in which a mother is accused of pimping her own daughter and one of the girl’s friends, both fourteen, in exchange for meth, crack cocaine and…
Yesterday on Mile High Sports Radio 1510, Nate Kreckman and Joel Klatt, who have quickly become must listens among Denver sports lovers, debated a bar fight in Atlanta involving Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno, who won’t be charged in the scuffle. The Denver Post’s Mike Klis, a regular Kreckman-and-Klatt guest,…
This week, jurors began hearing evidence against Eric and Linda Torrez, who were charged back in 2008 with sexual assaults on children in their care during the 1990s (read the Denver District Attorney’s Office news release issued at the time charges were filed by clicking here). But before the trial…
Westword is covering the trial of Willie Clark, accused of murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams early on New Year’s Day 2007. The most recent updates for the day will be at the top; to check out the account chronologically at day’s end, read from the bottom up. Click here…
What a difference a couple of days make. About this time on Tuesday, we were rocked by news of a shooting at Deer Creek Middle School that left two students wounded, one critically — and the situation could have been far worse if staffers led by Dr. David Benke hadn’t…
File this one under “What the hell?” According to the Fort Collins Police Department, a 27-year-old woman was attacked in her home on December 31. Then she was attacked again on February 1. And she was attacked a third time last night. All by the same guy. Who she says…
Last August, Lafayette’s Kelly Walker brought Spork, her ten-year-old dachshund, to a veterinary hospital to get some oral surgery — but before the procedure could get underway, the terrified animal bit a vet tech. Weeks later, animal control officers issued a vicious dog citation in Spork’s name — and if…
Hey! Look! Denver blogs! Over here! Inside the Rockies’ Tracy Ringolsby reports that Fox Sports’ Dayn Perry has named Troy Tulowitzki one of eight preseason favorites to win the National League MVP award. Tulo! Tulo! Rocky Mountain Right shares an anti-Jane Norton video from a group called the Declaration Alliance…
