There are lots of really bad ways to deal with angry feelings toward someone who breaks your heart. You can spread rumors about STDs, flame them on Facebook, burn their pictures in effigy, sleep with their roommate and leave dog poo at their door. But those will just make you…
We’ve kept you abreast of developments involving medical marijuana caregiver Ann Marie Miller, who faced a cultivation charge for what she insisted was a legal number of plants — an offense that was reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor too late to help her. More recently, she sued the…
Charles Ponzi may be dead and buried, but his infamous scheme continues to inspire sharpies across the globe — like, for instance, John Reinholdt II, who was just sentenced to sixteen years behind bars, and ordered to pay $2.5 million restitution in a complex, long-running fraud involving, among other things,…
Location: The corner of 11th Avenue and Broadway. Number: Unknown. Status: All three operable. Cost: 50 cents for local calls. Photo taken: 2:55 p.m., February 11…
Patricia Calhoun’s top 7 ways of improving Colorado tourism post mentions ex-guv Bill Ritter and a tourism official who suggested that Colorado is the “new Scotland” because of all the distilleries here. Said official responded in our comments section to defend this tag, but not the idea of 24-hour guzzling…
This week, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Westboro Baptist Church’s right to protest at military funerals, typically by claiming that God killed the soldier in question as punishment for America’s tolerance of homosexuality. This ruling is likely to further energize Reverend Fred Phelps and his hateful followers –…
Update: As we noted yesterday, no charges were filed in the immediate aftermath of an incident in which a man shot a 140-pound dog after it attacked his greyhound — and that remains the case at this writing. However, the owner of the dead pet — a bullmastiff named Flato…
Update: Christopher Wells, Micah Woody, Josiah Sher and Matthew Plake — the quartet accused in the murders of Robert “Bob” Rafferty and Amara Wells, Christopher’s ex — made first court appearances yesterday. Among the charges Wells faces: first-degree murder, criminal solicitation and conspiracy…
One of the many Carmelo Anthony trade scenarios would have brought Utah’s Andrei Kirilenko to Denver. Obviously, that deal never happened — and good thing given Kirilenko’s missed buzzer beater from two inches away last night, which handed the Nugs a 103-101 win. In our post yesterday, we noted that…
Update: We already knew that killing involving Adam Raszynski and his mom, Rita Redford, was bizarre. But the charging of Raszynski, who’s facing a second-degree murder beef even though Redford shot him before he stomped her to death, and the release of an arrest affidavit on view below, proves that…
Bob Hancock is a biology professor at Metro State College. He’s also “Mosquito Man,” star of the documentary The Bedbugs of London. In it, Hancock journeys to London in search of an infested hotel room in which to spend the night. Along the way, he offers facts about the bloodsuckers,…
Over the next four decades, millions of new residents along the Front Range are expected to boost water demands more than 50 percent above the currently available supply. But that doesn’t mean the state needs a slew of costly water diversion projects that will damage the ecology and economy of…
The University of Colorado at Boulder decided to shut down its journalism school and is looking to reboot the program, with President Bruce Benson seeking feedback from media-industry pros. It’s a peculiar question in the Westword office, since many past and present writers never went to any journalism school, let…
Turmoil continues in Operation Fortune Cookie, the state’s largest drug bust that collapsed amid alleged cop snitches and paid-off politicians. Last week, we reported that a suit filed by two local cops suggests Thornton Commander Dante Carbone was the prime suspect in the leak that sunk the drug bust. Now,…
Trip over a grenade lately? If not, you’re lucky, because they seem to be popping up all over the place lately — in a park in Colorado Springs on Valentine’s Day and now in a vacant home in Fort Collins. Let’s hope no one has the dubious idea of using…
Make those Denver blog posts happen. Mile High Report’s Troy Hufford notes that Bears fan Barack Obama says he won’t get involved with NFL lockout talks. His last look at Jay Cutler’s probably why. 5280’s Michael de Yoanna: No reelection bid for Paula Sandoval. Denver Egotist looks at what’s under…
Denver’s bedbug infestation has been called one of the worst in the country. But is that true? As explained in this week’s cover story, “Bug Bedlam,” it’s tough to tell, since the city doesn’t track bedbug infestations. But it does take complaints about them through the Department of Environmental Health…
William Breathes writes that Platte Valley Dispensary was a low for his Mile Highs and Lows medical marijuana dispensary reviews. But there are plenty of other highs out there, accessible in our newly updated MMJ listings. Click here to access our medical-marijuana dispensary directory…
I could feel the guy across from me in the waiting room at Platte Valley staring at me, his leg twitching up and down nervously. “You’re going to really like this place, man. They have the best weed in town.” I hadn’t even seen the herb yet, and I knew…
As an organization devoted to freedom of the press, Reporters Without Borders typically targets dictatorships and other iron-fist nations that attempt to quash objective journalism. Now, however, RWB is protesting a story very close to home: the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Nevada’s Righthaven LLC against twenty-year-old, chronically ill blogger…
Although Scott Lee Kimball is a convicted serial killer, he’s equivocated over time about his role in three of the four murders authorities have long believed he committed. But in an enormous letter to his cousin, author Ed Coet, that found its way into the possession of the FBI, Kimball…
Reporter Melanie Asmar has been covering the recall effort aimed at Denver Public Schools board president Nate Easley, including a post about publisher Guerin Green identifying a pseudonymous blogger critical of an anti-Easley group. In our comments section, that blogger fired back under her own name…
