As tension between police and protesters in Anaheim continue to make national news, Occupy Denver activists staged solidarity protest last night — and faced four reported arrests of their own. Denver Police spokesman Sonny Jackson confirms two of these, though the group’s legal team has since bailed four people out…
Update: Yesterday, Denver Post sportswriter John Henderson, in London covering the Olympics, tweeted that an event made him “horny” — a statement that inspired a vigorous (and mostly negative) debate on a national sports-journalism discussion forum; get details in our original coverage below. Moments ago, Henderson got back to us,…
Update below: Moments ago, we reached James Mapes, the man who was arrested late last night for visibly wearing a weapon into a Thornton movie theater. Mapes has a concealed-carry permit and says he wasn’t attempting to garner attention for Second Amendment-related subjects by wearing a gun in plain sight…
Dennis O’Dell was first taken into custody circa early May in relation to a hammer attack on his uncle — one allegedly fueled by a bad dream and their mutual interest in meth. Now, however, he’s been charged with murder, after his horribly injured relative died…
Our post about the opponents of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, attempting to tie George Soros to the pro-pot campaign drew comments about the billionaire philanthropist and his possible impact on the initiative’s chances for success in the November election. Here’s a post from a reader who…
The face is pretty unmistakable: The features look strikingly similar to the now iconic visage that’s been burned into our collective consciousness over the past ten days. But this face doesn’t belong to the person alleged to have shot seventy people at an Aurora movie theater just after midnight on…
The family of Ashley Moser has been visited by tragedy yet again. The young mom’s daughter, Veronica Moser-Sullivan, age six, was the youngest person to die in the Aurora theater shooting. Now, her loved ones have released a statement revealing that she suffered a miscarriage as a result of being…
David Goss is a sod farmer who a judge recently described as a “pillar of his community.” Unfortunately for Goss, this compliment was delivered in the context of said judge sentencing him to four years behind bars for a confrontation with an El Paso County deputy. And now that same…
As we noted in our collection of James Holmes memes, bad-taste attempts to mine chuckles from the Aurora theater shooting have been proliferating on the fringes of the Internet. But last week, Dane Cook, one of the country’s best-known stand-up comedians, waded into this territory, too, via an on-stage joke…
A court filing today made by the defense team representing accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes (see it and other documents below) offers up a series of revelations. It notes that Holmes was under psychiatric care prior to the attack, provides the name of the CU Denver staffer in question,…
Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? Cannabis Logbook 1.5 iPhone app…
Turns out that one half of Harold & Kumar just wasn’t enough to get Colorado voters excited about reelecting Barack Obama. In May, Kal Penn, i.e. Kumar, came to a Denver youth summit to promote Obama, and this weekend, John Cho, i.e. Harold, is getting in on the fun and…
Howard Saltz was once among the most powerful figures at the Denver Post, serving as deputy business editor, deputy managing editor and DenverPost.com editor before becoming a veep at MediaNews Group, its parent company. More recently, he’s been named editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. But there’s one story that…
Denver blog posts are an important part of your healthy breakfast — or lunch — or dinner. Colorado Pols on the backlash against the Colorado Springs Gazette for hyping an opinion piece about the Chic-Fil-A gay marriage controversy with a graphic featuring cows spelling out “God Hayts Fagz.” Bronco Talk’s…
Last month, the Supreme Court of the United States overturned the national Stolen Valor Act of 2006. That decision led to the dismissal of charges against local college student Rick Strandlof (“Will the real Rick Strandlof please stand up?”), whose friends became suspicious when he pretended to be a Marine…
Billionaire George Soros is a frequent conservative target for donating big bucks to liberal causes (of course, conservatives have munificent billionaires of their own — but that’s another story). Now, Smart Colorado, a group opposing Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, sees Soros’s fingerprints on the pro-pot campaign,…
Yesterday, we highlighted a conservative activist’s view that the Aurora theater shooting isn’t a national story. And according to one of our readers, it’s not the only story, either — but blanket coverage of it is preventing us from learning about potentially more important ones…
When asked about gun laws on Sunday — two days after James Holmes fired shots into an Aurora movie theater in one of the largest mass shootings in American history — Representative Ed Perlmutter backed reinstatement of the assaults weapon ban. The comments, on live national TV, made him one…
At his next court appearance, on Monday, suspected Aurora theater shooter James Holmes is expected to be formally charged by a prosecution team fronted by 18th Judicial District DA Carol Chambers. Our Alan Prendergast is an expert on Chambers thanks to feature articles such as “The Punisher,” so it’s no…
We all process tragedy differently, which may explain the attempts to wring humor from the Aurora theater shooting. But like the James Holmes Facebook tribute pages, or tweets about how the suspected killer is hot, the proliferation of James Holmes memes is mondo-disturbing. Under the theory that this stuff shrivels…
Even before his bizarre first court appearance, reports have circulated about alleged weird behavior by suspected Aurora theater shooter James Holmes. One of the most vivid has already been debunked, not that it’s stopped the story from zipping around the web. Hard to believe all of them (or perhaps any…
On Wednesday, we shared reports that suspected Aurora theater shooter James Holmes had sent a CU psychiatrist a notebook of attack plans and drawings. But if it exists, that item is off-limits, and so are all other typically public records related to the grad student under an order signed by…
