Denver Public Schools is expelling and suspending fewer students than in the past, according to a new report by the group Padres y Jovenes Unidos. The number of times students are referred to law enforcement is also decreasing, though the group notes that racial disparities still exist. Black and Latino…
This morning’s press conference to unveil Colorado’s new mental-health plan was scheduled weeks earlier — but the announcement ended up being very timely, since it took place just days after one of the worst mass shootings in history. And just as Governor John Hickenlooper’s recent-gun control comments have been thrust…
The first, fragmentary accounts of a shooter’s rampage through an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, were just starting to make headlines last week when the cyberchatter about a conspiracy began. This is not just some lone nutcase engaged in senseless killing for his own indecipherable reasons, the mutterers assured each…
Yesterday, the Task Force on the Implementation of Amendment 64, charged with researching the many unanswered questions about the legalization of marijuana in Colorado, met for the first time. But not before a marijuana activist objected to the involvement of Tamra Ward, who had signed onto a letter urging the…
Flags in Colorado will fly at half staff today, as they have been since December 14, to honor the children and adults who were killed in Newtown, Connecticut. They’ll be raised again to their full height on Wednesday — unless of course there is another tragedy, another senseless death in…
After the tragic mass shooting in Connecticut on Friday, Governor John Hickenlooper, no stranger to devastation, said the time has come to talk gun control. President Obama has also signaled his interest in policy changes. But thousands of Colorado residents are having a different reaction: They are looking to purchase…
During the public hearing portion of yesterday’s Amendment 64 task force meeting, one member of the audience asked if the group would address the issue of DUI charges related to pot, a topic that Fox31 recently took on. And then a marijuana activist took on Fox31, accusing the station of…
For his students at the University of Colorado Denver, where he was an associate professor of English, Jake Adam York had a reputation for being a hardass. You got the feeling it was a reputation he enjoyed. We feared him or we loved him — often both — and the…
When Governor John Hickenlooper signed Colorado’s pot measure into law last week, he announced the creation of a task force dedicated to resolving the long list of unanswered questions about legalization. In its first meeting yesterday afternoon, the group debated the best path to consensus — a process sure to…
Last week, a number of mainstream media outlets suggested that rescheduling marijuana might bridge the gap between conflicting state and federal laws following the passage of Amendment 64 — this despite the fact that the federal government took nine months to shrug off Colorado’s rescheduling suggestion. Even so, A64 proponent…
In summer 2011, we told you about the arrest of Ricky Scott for the murder of Anthony Silva, a Fort Carson soldier; see our original coverage below. Now, Scott has been convicted of first-degree murder in the crime, which appears to have taken place after a fight over $200 worth…
Five months after suffering their own losses, family members associated with deceased victims in the Aurora theater shooting have set up a fund to help Newtown school shooting victims, including Emilie Parker, age six, pictured here. Calling themselves VictimsFirst, the group said the money will go directly to victims’ families…
Denver blog posts are perfect for holiday giving. Colorado Pols shares a tweet from Senator Greg Brophy, who says Governor John Hickenlooper wanted to shoot melons with Brophy’s AR-15 in September — but now, he wants to take the weapon away. View From a Height’s J. Sharf on Newtown, A…
When Colorado native son Ken Salazar became Barack Obama’s Secretary of the Interior four years ago, it was widely expected that he would steer a more “balanced” course through the energy wars across the West, pulling back on the drill-baby-drill mantra of the Bush years. It hasn’t worked out that…
Late last month, we told you about William Costello, charged with being a serial rapist after his DNA scored strikes on three previous sex assaults; see our original coverage below. Since then, he’s been linked to two more crimes, yet his bond was actually lowered — and he’s since been…
Update: A silver Ford Explorer ran through a red light last week in Fort Collins, colliding with a cyclist and sending him flying off his bike before the driver fled from the scene, leaving the cyclist on the ground. So says the police’s official accident report, on view below, along…
As we’ve reported, the first meeting of the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force is slated for noon today. But even before that initial session, a marijuana activist is protesting the inclusion of one task force member, Colorado Concern’s Tamra Ward. Why? Because her signature is the first on letters from…
Talk about cross-pollination. On our post about the DEA’s response to a Colorado’s marijuana-rescheduling request, a conversation broke out about President Barack Obama’s pot chat with Barbara Walters. Here’s the view of a reader experiencing a case of déjà vu…
Sunday’s Broncos-Ravens match-up looked to be the most difficult on Denver’s second-half-of-the-season schedule — a road game against a division-leading team whose quarterback, Joe Flacco, continues to chirp about how he and his squad are among the NFL’s elite. They sure as hell didn’t look like it during a 34-17…
In the immediate aftermath of the Aurora theater shooting, Governor John Hickenlooper said it was too soon to talk about gun control. He remained virtually silent until, in a Thursday interview calling for a debate on the topic. One day later, the unimaginable shooting in Connecticut that claimed the lives…
As we all know, Colorado has been shaken by some extraordinarily startling crimes in 2012 — and they’re reflected in the mug shots that accompanied our coverage of these stories. Below, we’ve assembled the images associated with the best known among them, as well as other tales that give us…
In doing research for our feature on the history of cannabis in Colorado, we came across some amazing old news stories from local papers about marijuana arrests and more. We’ll share the most memorable of them in our quasi-regular feature, Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule. Today’s item, from October 12, 1937:…
