Amber Raye Presson, a 31-year-old from Denver, died on Sunday, August 13, while attempting to rescue her son while tubing on Clear Creek in Golden. Her death is at least the sixteenth at a Colorado water attraction in 2017, and the fifth fatal tubing accident in the state during that span, by our estimate.
Senator Cory Gardner is having a busy August, even with Congress on vacation. On August 7, his Denver office moved from Skyline Park. On August 12, the Colorado Republican tweeted about the Charlottesville violence, earning a spot on CNN. And August 15, he’ll hold three town halls.
Between a festival that’s overtaking the neighborhood this weekend, a liquor store that’s holding on despite it all, and the ever-continuing debates over newcomers vs. natives and gentrification, RiNo generates a lot of buzz in this city. And commenters have weighed in on recent stories we’ve written about River North…
Wyoming is considered one of the best theaters on the West Coast to view the eclipse. Many of those visitors are expected to come from Colorado, but Wyoming sheriffs have a message for us: don’t bring your weed.
Levi Tillemann’s got an impressive resume for a 35-year-old. He’s earned his PHD, learned Chinese and Japanese, published a book and served in Obama’s Department of Energy. Now, he’s hoping to add Congressman to his lengthy highlight reel.
In the lawsuit between the Thompson family and the 18th District Attorney’s office, a deputy district attorney compared the child to the Sandy Hook shooter, Adam Lanza, who killed twenty children and six adults at a Connecticut school in 2012 — the second deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
Instead of illegally booting nursing mothers from their seats, Coors and Sports Authority fields are joining the Pepsi Center in installing private, four-by-eight foot pods in their main concourses to give moms the option of breastfeeding in a tiny, portable room — and not in the stands.
As we previewed in a January post, Greg Heard, a homeless man, has filed a lawsuit against a Denver police officer and the City and County of Denver over a June 2016 arrest during which he was tased in the act of surrendering even though he was unarmed. The complaint, accessible below, bolsters its argument with a video also shared here and references to a Westword post from March in which a police trainer harshly criticized Dulayev’s decision to tase first and ask questions later.
Kirke LLC/Metro Denver Telluride Health Center LLC, known to its customers as The Hemp Center, has voluntarily issued a recall on medical marijuana products because of potentially unsafe levels of four banned pesticides.
A man living in the metro area says the response of the Denver Police Department to the recent theft of his vehicle was so slow, rude and ineffectual that he decided to search for it himself. He adds that many hours later, after finding the vehicle on his own, the officer he called to clear the case was more polite than his predecessors. But the cop’s comments about the charges and fees he’d incur for an investigation and the long odds of catching the culprit ultimately convinced him that the DPD would be of no help. So he took the vehicle home and shared his experiences on a neighborhood Internet bulletin board, prompting plenty of similar tales from folks living near him.
Jeff Sessions, a proponent of the war on drugs, hasn’t been shy about saying that marijuana should remain illegal federally. So on April 3, four governors of the states with legal recreational cannabis businesses up and running, including Colorado, sent him a letter. And finally, the Attorney General has responded.
Steffan Tubbs is out at KOA’s Colorado Morning News following his July 30 arrest on suspicion of domestic violence, disturbance by phone. Late last night, after word of the split broke, Tubbs went on Facebook to share the thoughts of his fourteen-year-old son, who told him, “It’s just too much.”
The Western Values Project is digging deep to track the potential conflicts of interest in Zinke’s department, while exploring their potential effects on fossil fuel drilling in Colorado.
Ignacio Luque-Verdugo received the maximum sentence in a 2014 triple shooting at Aurora’s Bronco Bar that the judge in the case described as an execution. Prosecutors said a man killed in the incident was shot six times, with five of the bullets fired into his back after he was already down.
Jeff Hunt, the vice president of Public Policy at Colorado Christian University, invited Westword and others to share his op-ed, “Marijuana Devastated Colorado, Don’t Legalize It Nationally” earlier this week. Although we declined, USA Today obliged in spreading Hunt’s reefer-madness gospel on August 7
Studio420, an Englewood marijuana club, has been ordered to shut down following an administrative hearing. The business is planning to appeal the latest negative ruling in a years-long fight with the city that dates back to a time when it was called iBake Englewood and fronted by an entrepreneur who called himself Thurlow Weed.
The death of James Cummings, a 27-year-old from Denver, who drowned after leaping from a cliff-jumping spot at Green Mountain Reservoir in Summit County, was at least the fifteenth fatality at a Colorado water attraction in 2017. Now, federal and local authorities have jointly decided to temporarily restrict access to the site, in part because of its spreading reputation online among adventurers in Colorado and beyond.
Our Stoner tells a concerned Coloradan how to report unhealthy marijuana cultivations to the proper authorities.
Proposed DIA renovation partner Ferrovial manages two refugee camps for the government of Australia, which have been denounced as “islands of despair.”
Over much of the past decade, several inmates in a Colorado prison developed a series of revolutionary programs that challenged the way most correctional facilities handle gang violence. Their approach was so successful that Colorado Department of Corrections administrators are now using some of their ideas for their own new prison-gang program.
Charges against Cynthia Dawn Russell and Elizabeth Moseley in relation to an ADAPT protest of Senator Cory Gardner in January have been dismissed. This decision, which came down on the same day that cases against five Democratic Socialists of America members who demonstrated against the senator at a July sit-in were also tossed, helps explain why Gardner recently relocated his offices from the Chase Bank building, a commercial enterprise, to a federal building.
An Alamosa judge has ordered a new trial in the case of Krystal Voss, who was convicted of child abuse in the death of her 19-month-old son and sentenced to 20 years in prison. The reversal is another setback for advocates of “shaken baby syndrome,” a diagnosis that’s been attacked by skeptics as junk science.
