Paul James Kerr, a former KinderCare teacher in Littleton, has pleaded guilty to felony sex assault on a child, as well as two other misdemeanor charges. His admitted technique — getting a child to reveal herself by claiming that he was checking her for signs of abuse…
Indianapolis is bracing for war. It’s Super Bowl week, after all. Time for the Annual Invasion of the Hookers, which promises to be as harrowing as the Ottoman Empire’s advance on Crete in 1647, though with considerably more nudity. Yes, one of America’s great urban legends is again being trotted…
News that Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers is seeking the death penalty for Josiah Sher, the alleged trigger man in a double-murder-for-hire case in Castle Rock, doesn’t exactly come as a shocker. The slayings of Amara Wells and Bob Rafferty were about as coldblooded as they come, and Chambers…
Nancy Werkmeister, a former assistant principal at North High School involved with the problem-ridden credit recovery program, is now working at Montbello High School. Denver Public Schools spokesman Mike Vaughn says Werkmeister “has a part-time contract to help with scheduling to make sure students are matched with the right classes,…
For “Money can buy you love, if you have a contract with this Harvard MBA,” this week’s feature, Westword talked to local matchmaker extraordinaire Rachel Greenwald about her business — but what about her advice? In her first book, Find a Husband After 35 (Using What I Learned at Harvard…
Vote for Denver blog posts. Colorado Pols on the decision of Dougco school board members to publicly endorse Mitt Romney. State’s most politically controversial board strikes again? Roundball Mining Company’s Charlie gives out harsh grades after the Nuggets’ painful loss to Memphis. Denver Egotist: Check out a D.C. designer who’s…
After ex-Arapahoe County Sheriff Pat Sullivan’s November arrest for allegedly trading meth for sex, he was jailed in a detention facility bearing his name. No wonder county commissioners soon began considering a policy forbidding the naming of public buildings after individuals, living or dead. But now, this conversation has been…
By 7 p.m. on Valentine’s Day, all medical marijuana centers in Fort Collins must close their doors thanks to a voter-approved ban passed last November. But there may be hope for a renewed romance between the city and dispensaries, as a handful of centers have filed a last-minute lawsuit to…
The grassroots group Rags Over the Arkansas River is trying to block Christo’s “Over the River” art project along the Arkansas River. Students from the Environmental Law Clinic at DU’s Sturm College of Law were at the Denver federal courthouse at 9 a.m. today, filing suit against the U.S. Bureau…
Will Pericak has one of the most sparkling bios of any CU Buff. However, the Boulder Police report about his activities this past weekend is considerably less impressive. The document, on view below, tells a tale featuring a bar fire, a chest bump and a lot of fuck-yous…
Patricia Calhoun’s item about a Denver City Council food fight over building a new Sunflower Market on Colfax sparked a strong take from one of our most regular commenters after the project was approved. Here’s what he had to say…
Earlier this week, while making a mental list of “Shit Westword Staffers Say,” we decided to explore the massive “Shit __ Says” trend and its Colorado applications. It turns out, after a quick YouTube search, that there aren’t a lot. Instead of “Shit People From Denver Say” (“Where are you…
During the same week that Debe Bell was convicted on 35 counts of animal cruelty (see the photo at right), a bill to establish a registry for animal abusers failed to get out of the agriculture committee. Why? Here’s the take of Representative Jeanne Labuda, the measure’s sponsor…
As a native of Grand Junction, I know a little something about the town’s conservative values. So I’m not even slightly surprised by the reaction to a Central High video featuring students grinding on each other, even though the clip was intended to discourage such behavior at school dances. See…
Update below: Yesterday’s Denver Police news conference was among the odder in recent memory — but also among the more welcome. The DPD’s concession that Representative Laura Bradford had received special privileges rather than being busted for a DUI, and its willingness to offer details about how it happened, suggests…
That old saw about divorce being hardest on the kids almost turned fatal in the case of Nyesha Hall-Gonzalez, 28. She’s accused of burying a Carmelo Ortiz-Hall, her two-year-old son, under tumbleweeds and leaving him to die in an El Paso County field because of her desire to kill herself…
If you think the Super Bowl and sexy men’s underwear have nothing in common, you’d usually be correct. But this year, there’s a connection — and a local one at that. Pampered Passions Fine Lingerie in Englewood is running an ad in USA Today’s glossy preview publication for Super Bowl…
As advertised, Ron Paul appeared in Denver today, speaking at the Grand Ballroom of the Renaissance Denver Hotel — one of three scheduled Colorado stops in advance of next week’s caucuses. Look below to see images from his visit, courtesy of photographer Javid Rezvani…
Late yesterday, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers announced that his office had secured an indictment for fourteen individuals suspected of running a human-trafficking ring that trafficked children for sex at locations ranging from Denver to Grand Junction. Although the seventy-page indictment did not mention Backpage.com, Suthers did in subsequent interviews,…
The world of competitive livestock showing is a quiet one, perhaps, but it can be cutthroat. After nineteen-year-old Maggie Weinroth and her fourteen-year-old brother Ben were accused of cheating at the 2011 Colorado State Fair by drugging their prize winning goats, Ben was banned from competition, the two have been…
Denver blog posts are completely house-trained. Big Media’s Jason Salzman on John Sampson, a Coloradan who testified at a hearing to determine if the allegedly America-born Barack Obama is eligible for the Georgia ballot. Coyote Gulch on a Conservation in the West poll about the importance of public lands. The…
A few weeks ago, I stumbled on a commentary about Tim Tebow by ESPN’s Rick Reilly. Now, I don’t care for football, and I don’t care for extreme media hype over an athlete, either. But Reilly’s commentary on Tebow is worth a read, even for you non-sports fans. Afterward, I…
