On January 9 and 10, the weekend before the Denver City Council is slated to vote on a new medical marijuana proposal, Los Angeles-based Greenway University, described by CEO and founder Gus Escamilla as a “medical marijuana training and education institute,” is slated to stage a two-day seminar at the…
Former UNC professor Vance Fulkerson once taught a class called “Self-Defense Singing” — and among the folks from whom his students needed protection was him. In July, Fulkerson was charged with sexual exploitation of children related to a video system set up in (eeesh) his bathroom. Nine more counts followed…
View Larger Map We still don’t know the name of the seventeen-year-old male arrested in connection with a January 3 homicide near 4th Avenue and Utica Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). But the Denver Coroner’s Office…
View Larger Map That news about Denver’s murder decrease in 2009 rings hollow in the face of recent bloodshed. There have ben eight homicides in the metro area since December 22, and three in Denver proper between January 1 and today, including an early hours shooting that reportedly involved a…
View Larger Map Update, 3:51 p.m.: A juvenile has been arrested in connection with this crime. Get more information after the original item… More irony in news that the falling 2009 murder rate in Denver. This is the seventh blog we’ll publish today about a homicide in the metro area…
It’s hard to know what was more depressing yesterday as the once 6-0 Broncos lost to the lowly Kansas City Chiefs at home to finish the season 8-8: The sarcastic chants of “Throw it to Marshall” from fans who were angry that the Pro Bowl wide receiver had been benched…
A decision last week preventing the City of Centennial from outlawing medical marijuana dispensaries inside town limits was good news for more operations than just CannaMart, the business that brought suit against the community in the first place. It also bodes well in the matter of Plants 4 Life, a…
We’re back with our week-daily roundup of Denver bloggery. Did you miss us? The Colorado Independent’s David O. Williams speculates that 9th Judicial District Attorney Martin Beeson was too busy with high-profile cases involving the likes of actor Charlie Sheen to challenge John Salazar in the 3rd Congressional District. It’d…
On December 15, in the days after Denver Police Officer Kevin Ford shot and killed Nicholas Alvarado Morales, a Mexican national in the U.S. illegally, reports surfaced suggesting that cops kicked and beat the severely wounded man while taking him into custody. These assertions are addressed tangentially in Denver DA…
Daniel Snyder, owner of the Washington Redskins, has been described as a “tour de force of executive douchery” — a meddler on par with the Oakland Raiders’ Al Davis, albeit one who tends to avoid wearing the sort of glasses usually sported by elderly women. Mike Shanahan, who lived the…
Ever since CU announced that it would bring back Dan Hawkins as head coach in 2010 (mainly to save money, it appeared), fans have wondered what kind of impact troubles at the top would have on recruiting. Early last month, there appeared to be cause for concern, what with Littleton’s…
The study of neighbors through their holiday decorations… Of the twelve days of Christmas, today is devoted to the eleven pipers piping. Lest we forget, they are tooting for the birth of the little baby Jesus. The historical account of elbeejay’s birth, detailed in the popular “Away in a Manger”…
In mid-December, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 members who work for King Soopers and Safeway weighed in on a new contract — one that provided ratification bonuses for those who offered “yes” votes. But the results were mixed. King Soopers workers approved the deal, while their peers at…
Denver rang in 2010 like it rings in every year: with lots of booze. See New Year’s photos from around the city on the slideshow page…
As I was signing off prior to two weeks worth of vacation, everything seemed to be going the Broncos’ way. Their next opponent, the Oakland Raiders, was in hilarious turmoil, choosing to skip over their much-ballyhooed number one draft choice, JaMarcus Russell, to start third-stringer Charlie Frye at QB. No…
As noted in our first Mile High Murder No. 59 blog, murders in Denver proper were down in 2009. Unfortunately, though, the first homicide of 2010 took place mere hours after the start of the next decade. The incident took place on January 1 at 1434 North Lipan Street. Although…
View Larger Map There are more questions than answers thus far in the death of a woman found dead on December 30 in a Sixth Avenue West subdivision — an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Contacted this morning,…
Homicides aplenty took place in the waning days of 2009, as is clear from our reports about Mile High Murders No. 59, No. 60 and No. 61. The 62nd victim? Michael Canada, 55, who was reportedly killed in his Edgewater home, at 2547 Harlan Street, by James Alan Clark, 49,…
View Larger Map More holiday-season cheerlessness: a December 29 murder at the Riviera Motel, 9100 East Colfax Avenue — an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). The victim in the shooting was identified as Kendrick Anthony Williams, 25, and…
View Larger Map Another Aurora homicide took place on December 22 in addition to the killing of Eleanor Joann Sears, 75, allegedly at the hands of her own daughter. The victim in the second incident was found in an alley near the 2500 block of North Joliet Street, an area…
View Larger Map This morning’s Denver Post leads with a report about the decline of Denver’s murder rate in 2009, mirroring a national trend. But that hardly means slayings have become rarities in the metro area. Indeed, there were several during the last two weeks of the past decade, and…
You might think that the departure of a rising star among state Democrats would be a bigger deal than this Post story suggests, but state representative Kathleen Curry and party leaders seem eager to downplay Curry’s decision to change her voter registration from Dem to unaffiliated. The move will strip…
