Family members of the victims in several mass murders, including Columbine and the Aurora theater shooting, are calling on the federal government to establish a protocol for a “national compassion fund” that would ensure that any money donated in the wake of a tragedy goes directly to the victims. “Our…
Update: Earlier this month, we told you that Warren Watson had been captured in Idaho after being named a person of interest in the slaying of Lakewood family attorney Claudia Miller; see our previous coverage in its entirety below. Now, a grand jury has named Watson in eighteen charges, including…
We’ve just learned about the death of Damien LaGoy, who became one of the most public advocates for medical marijuana patients like himself. Opponents of medical marijuana tend to characterize MMJ patients as twenty-something slackers who merely want an excuse to get high, but LaGoy contradicted that image. He had…
Best of Denver 2013 is only days away — which means winners from last year don’t have much longer to bask in the knowledge that they’re at the top of our personal roster. We’ve already shared our picks for the ten funniest Best of Denver awards from 2012, as well…
Doonesbury hasn’t had a print home in Denver since June 2011, when the Denver Post yanked it. But it can be accessed online, and it’s still good. Creator Garry Trudeau remains sharp and engaged; he’s not doing the equivalent of repeating Garfield-eating-lasagna jokes. Case in point: Today’s strip, part of…
I’m Shmacked is the umbrella term for a series of documentaries intended to capture the culture on college campuses across the country — which translates to videos of partying students gleefully losing their shit. The latest I’m Shmacked stop? CU-Boulder on St. Patrick’s Day, naturally. We’ve grabbed the newly released…
Given the accessibility of Facebook pages and photos, it’s surprising we don’t hear more stories like this one: Some young dipshits in Fort Collins created a series of pages with names like “Nasty Chicks of Foco” whose main purpose was apparently to attack and demean assorted high school girls as…
March 22 was a brutal night — snow, sleet, chilly temperatures — and no doubt mom Zama Bee Khan wanted to get her two kids, Za May, eight, and Ah Zet, six, out of the cold and into the warmth. But she never got the chance. As she crossed the…
Marijuana lawyer Rob Corry has spent years critiquing, and often ripping apart, pot-related legislation. Note his line-by-line shredding of the original 2010 medical-marijuana regulatory draft and a companion measure about the relationship between doctors and MMJ patients or his 2011 letter to lawmakers about that year’s THC driving bill. His…
Denver blog posts have it goin’ on. Big Media’s Jason Salzman quotes Rocky Mountain Gun Owners’ Dudley Brown as saying a rule “prohibiting lobbyists from threatening state lawmakers with political retribution for casting a vote” won’t stop him from doing just that. Denver PR Blog salutes a dubious great moment…
Our posts about Coy Mathis, a six year old born a male who identifies as female, and the civil-rights complaint her parents have filed against the school over bathroom access, have drawn fascinating comments for weeks. The latest comes from a reader who has very personal experience with gender-identity issues…
Earlier this month, we told you about a reported sexual assault of a man in Capitol Hill by two still-unknown male assailants. Afterward, a reader argued that the case had gotten so much attention because the victim was male, whereas incidents of women being raped in Capitol Hill happen frequently…
Colorado’s tough sex offender laws are supposed to keep predators under tight supervision. But a series of lawsuits claim that the system is violating even minor offenders’ rights to free speech and association, prohibiting contact with family members — and, in one particularly bizarre case, telling a 62-year-old man that…
When most of us are stuck in a traffic jam — particularly during a Monday morning commute after a snowfall that left potentially icy pavement in its wake — we tend to think about the inconvenience to us before we think about the story behind the stoppage. But this morning’s…
You may have heard our annual Best of Denver issue comes out next week — and we’re building up to the big unveiling by highlighting winners whose reign is coming to an end. Last week, we shared our picks for the ten funniest Best of Denver posts in 2012. Now,…
It’s official: Elvis Dumervil, a vaunted sack-master and feared presence on the Broncos defensive line for seven years, is now officially a member of the Baltimore Ravens. How did this disastrous turn of events take place? For reasons that are at least as stupid as the ones that ended with…
Update: The tale of Evan Ebel, the man shot during a gun battle with law enforcers in Texas on Thursday (see our previous coverage below), seems to grow stranger with each passing day. Hours after Ebel was taken off life support, as evidence that he had killed both pizza-delivery man…
Here’s one of the oldest examples of reefer madness we’ve dug up so far for Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule. This article, which ran August 24, 1904, in the Telluride Daily Journal (as well as several other small papers across the state later that week), frames marijuana as a plant that…
Update: Tustin Amole, spokesperson for the Cherry Creek School District, told us on February 28 that a decision about the future of Overland High School teacher Carly McKinney, who was put on leave after news broke about controversial photos and tweets sent from her Twitter account, was likely to come…
In this week’s cover story, “Competitive skiing kept Army veteran Joel Hunt from going downhill,” I profile Hunt, an Iraq war vet who’s one of the country’s most promising skiers with disabilities; he’s in the running for the Paralympic Games in Russia next year. But when I first met Hunt…
Our latest update about Gunsmoke Guns, the Wheat Ridge business at the center of the just-canceled reality TV series American Guns, featured a search warrant affidavit suggesting tax rip-offs going back years. But the evidence presented in the document against the Wyatt family — Rich, Renee, Kurt and Paige –…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office is a big fan of Katie’s Law, which allows the state to collect DNA samples from anyone arrested for a felony, in part because of the growing number of times when this evidence links to cases that have long since grown cold. As an example,…
