Editor’s note: Last week, we reported about the resignation of newly appointed Denver school board member MiDian Holmes after revelations surfaced about a past child-abuse conviction. The following report about a meeting last night to deal with the vacancy was written by former Westword reporter Melanie Asmar and appears courtesy of Chalkbeat…
Matt Batrowny and his brother, Brian, were early supporters of Bernie Sanders. One day last summer, shortly after the senator from Vermont announced that he was running for president, recalls Matt, “We were walking down the street with a couple of buddies, and we had Bernie T-shirts on. A lot…
Search the indispensable Internet Movie Data Base for the word “Colorado” and you’ll get a list of top titles from movies or TV series. Sometimes the connections to Colorado are obvious, as is the case with South Park, which made the cut — but isn’t number one. On other occasions, however,…
There’s plenty of aggression evident on Joshua Owings’s Facebook page. Mixed in with photos of a child who appears to have been at the center of a custody dispute are images like the one above and plenty of in-your-face text, including Owings’s 2014 claim to have graduated from a college…
Most burglaries are committed with a motive of stealing things. But that apparently wasn’t the case when it came to a home in Jefferson County. According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, the burglars who broke into a residence on the 8700 block of South Jellison Court sometime between April…
At first, the cause of death for Oklahoma’s Joshua Foster and Zach Moore in northern Colorado last year appeared to be a vehicle fire. But further investigation suggested that they’d been murdered, with the fire presumably set to cover up evidence of the crime. And now, months after their passing,…
Our readers had a lot to say about the fatal police shooting of Dion Damon, a bank robbery suspect who wasn’t armed when an officer fired seven shots into his body near the Denver Art Museum earlier this week. The cop maintains that Damon ignored orders to leave his car with…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Music, Art Tavana notes that Guns N’ Roses gave Coachella its most epic rock set ever. According to Colorado Pols, the Trumpmageddon protest fizzled. Denver Urbanism’s Ryan Dravitz continues the countdown to the opening of RTD’s A-Line operation…
Last week the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations voted in favor of an amendment to a federal funding bill that would allow Veterans Affairs doctors to discuss and recommend medical marijuana to veterans in states where MMJ is legal. Approved 20-10, the bipartisan Veterans Equal Access Amendment to the 2017…
Although not quite as popular as the 4/20 concerts and rallies this week, a Denver City Council committee could begin this month’s biggest change in Denver’s marijuana industry today when it votes on the city’s long-discussed proposal to set a limit on retail marijuana businesses. The bill’s sponsor, Councilwoman Robin Kniech,…
On the day after Christmas in 2011, as we reported, father-of-five Youn Malual was murdered in an incident that shattered the local Sudanese community. More than four years later, Brandon Jackson — the first of five men thought to have been responsible for the slaying — has been found guilty…
At this writing, we’re ten days away from the April 28 start of the 2016 NFL draft, and the Denver Broncos’ quarterback situation remains unresolved. With Peyton Manning’s retirement and the mutiny of Brock Osweiler, who signed a big-money deal with the Houston Texans, the most senior signal-caller on the…
We recently re-shared a 2013 post highlighting Denver’s five most walkable neighborhoods. Afterward, we checked Walkscore.com, our source for the information, to see if any of the site’s rankings had changed — and they had. In the nearly three years since the original item’s publication, two new neighborhoods entered the…
Put your Gatorade on ice and throw those eyedrops in the trash: 4/20 is almost here. Unfortunately for you chumps with day jobs, the high holiday doesn’t officially start until Wednesday – but you’re also the crowd that actually has money to spend, so there’s plenty of cannabis action to…
A lot of frustration was generated by our post about a bill that would require schools to allow authorized patients access to medical marijuana. One big reason was the story of Addelyn Patrick, a three-year-old with epilepsy. Even though MMJ has proven to be the most effective treatment for her…
In case you missed it…. At Westword Music, Jon Solomon reports that the Monkey Barrel is closing its Platte Street location, but it will open in a new spot this summer — hopefully in a place with room for iconic murals like the ones seen above. Coyote Gulch shares a Kim…
Just what did Colorado taxpayers get out of the Justice Review Project, a four-year program that required state prosecutors to review more than 5,000 criminal cases, in search of possible wrongful convictions? The result was one exoneration through DNA testing — the only case in which DNA was tested at…
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared on The Colorado Independent, whose Susan Greene has written definitive work about the case of Clarence Moses-EL; he served 28 years in prison for a 1987 rape case to which another man has confessed before the convictions were lifted and he was granted a new trial last…
When Tyler Hamilton worked as a security guard at Coronado High School in Colorado Springs, he reportedly answered to the nickname “Tiny.” But there’s nothing tiny about his schmuckiness. It’s absolutely king-sized — which is why he’s the ideal pick as our latest Schmuck of the Week. Hamilton, 28, has…
We’ve been reporting about the murder of Pam Candelario in Walsenburg, a small community in southeastern Colorado. Her husband, Ralph Candelario, was charged with the crime despite an elaborate tale in which he claimed that intruders had broken into the couple’s home, killed Pam and roughed him up before he could…
The Colorado Department of Transportation has just released its 2016 Problem Identification Report. And unfortunately, there are problems aplenty. The statistics are from 2014 — the most recent year for which data is final. And during that span, the number of fatal crashes rose substantially from the year before, as…
Just about the time even longtime Denver-area residents had just about convinced ourselves that warm weather was here to stay, a new Spring storm is on the horizon. And, of course, it’s a baffling one. Forecasters don’t seem to know whether it’ll produce rain, sleet or a snowpocalypse, or what…
