Update: All too often, stories about missing children or teens have unhappy endings. Thank goodness the story of Jessica Shepherd is an exception. A short time ago, the Johnstown Police Department revealed that Shepherd, sixteen, who was last seen Tuesday evening after sending messages urging a call to the cops,…
Outgrown that studio apartment? Why not think big — really big. Below, take a mini-tour of the five most expensive homes for sale in the Denver area according to The Home Cart, complete with plenty of photos. Appropriately enough, we’re counting up rather than down, with the bargain just a…
In November, we reported about the death of Lakewood Police Agent James Davies, killed by friendly fire while investigating what turned out to be a rather minor incident. Now, First Judicial District DA Peter Weir has determined that no criminal charges should be filed against Agent D.J. Braley, who fired…
Dear Stoner: Why does every one of my puff sessions end with a trip to the convenience store for snacks? Fat Doobie Dear Doob: You want to know about the famed “munchies”? Well, allow me to get all Bill Nye on you right quick. Your body naturally produces chemicals called…
On the morning of the day she died, 31-year-old Lori Stodghill balanced her breakfast plate on her very pregnant belly and watched it bob up and down as the twin boys inside her kicked and kicked. The saucer-sized dish was “bouncing back and forth,” her husband, Jeremy Stodghill, remembers —…
“Scott Gessler Is Always Right,” Sam Levin, January 10 The Right Stuff As a citizen, voter and taxpayer, I was offended by Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s implication that being concerned about making a living necessarily makes you a “conservative.” (Quoting Gessler: “The thing that concerned was earning a living…I…
For the past four years, Colorado lawmakers have put forward proposals — as regularly as that drunken uncle who never fails to show up for Christmas dinner — that would allow grocery stores or convenience stores, or both, to sell full-strength beer. And just as regularly, those bills have been…
At the National Western Stock Show, not all the pigs are on the hoof…or even on a stick, which is how one of the vendors there serves pork. Venturing north out of the Hall of Education, beyond that vendor and down the manure-strewn path toward the Livestock Center and the…
Julie Orr has plenty of reasons to bounce a check. In just a few years, she’s gone from running a successful advertising business to being a single mom on disability. Hers is a dilemma of American life: A leg injury keeps her from working, but she can’t afford the surgery…
Could what is basically a carbon copy of Colorado’s Amendment 64 help make the Aloha State the next one to pass laws legalizing the cultivation, sale and possession of marijuana in small amounts? If Hawaii House Speaker Joseph Souki is successful, it just might…
We recently wrote about a legislative push in Colorado to allow permitted employees to carry guns in schools — one of a handful of gun-related bills already making headlines at the start of the new session. We’ve since heard from Jeff Bollinger, a school superintendent in Sheridan Lake, who supports…
What does a dog named Nuzzy have to do with the arrests of Bryan Carver and Michael Byrd on a potpourri of charges involving drugs and weapon possession by previous offenders? The answer has to do with Nuzzy’s collar — after which Carver and Byrd were the ones getting collared…
Denver blog posts are cooler than being cool. They’re ice cold. Mile High Hockey’s Derek B recaps last night’s Avs game, which started with Gabriel Landeskog accepting his rookie-of-the-year trophy and ended with Colorado defeating the Cup-winning Los Angeles Kings. Square State’s Zappatero on who was and wasn’t wearing an…
Is a fetus a person? Colorado-based Catholic Health Initiatives, which operates 78 Catholic hospitals in seventeen states, is arguing in court that it’s not, as explained in this week’s cover story, “The Meaning of Life.” Sued for wrongful death by a father whose pregnant wife died at a Catholic hospital…
Last August, Governor John Hickenlooper joined Blockbuster President Michael Kelly and other dignitaries to celebrate the relocation of the video firm’s headquarters to Douglas County — a move that came with the company’s pledge to bring 150 jobs to Colorado over the next five years. (See photos from that event…
In March 2011, the town of Hugo, in Lincoln County, was shaken by the murders of Charles and Laura Clagett, an elderly couple who’d lived in the area for years. Soon, their great grandson — later ID’d as Greg Smith, a few weeks shy of seventeen — was arrested and…
Most sane, rational people understand that the cannabis plant has medical properties beneficial to patients who suffer from severe pain, chronic nausea and a number of other conditions. And then you’ve got the federal government, which has again refused to accept marijuana’s medicinal properties…
Although Colorado has led the way in the effort to legalize small amounts of marijuana, it’s another bill that may just push the state into the 21st century: the Colorado Civil Unions Act. After dying on the legislative floor last year, the bill will be heard and debated at 1:30…
Our post about a new Walmart in Boulder expected to open this fall despite strong objections from locals concerned about the company’s business practices and wage scale revved up dialogue aplenty. Here’s a post from a reader who believes that those excited by the prospect represent far more people than…
The first meeting of the Denver City Council’s Amendment 64 Committee, held yesterday afternoon, concluded with few answers but a big pile of questions. The most pressing of the latter might also be the most formidable: Can the committee accomplish its goals within a very tight timeline?…
There’s no shortage of beautiful shots of our fair state on Instagram, as we proved in our recent post highlighting the fifteen photos that will make out of staters surf to Expedia. But you’d be hard-pressed to find a more gorgeous collection than those gathered under the heading “coloradosunsets.” Here…
A stolen vehicle. Two armed robbery attempts, one of them successful. And a police chase prior to an arrest. That’s a full day for anyone — but especially for a twelve year old, busted yesterday along with a wizened cohort, age sixteen. What happened? Here’s how the cops describe it…
