Yesterday, we told you about a city council amendment aimed at shutting down Altitude Organic Medicine over what owner Brian Cook sees as an improper reading of an outmoded zoning rule. The amendment passed — but Cook’s hoping to fight it in court…
If the Weld County Sheriff’s Office is correct, Christian Hanson, 21, has been a busy — and bad — man. He was already in custody on kidnapping and sexual assault beefs. But now, he’s also suspected in a murder-for-hire plot that led to the more recent arrest of Jesse Rodriguez,…
The blogosphere has been abuzz of late about the news that gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis picked up a $300,000 paycheck as a two-year fellow at the Hasan Family Foundation, mainly for writing a series of eye-glazing articles about Colorado water issues. Political junkies everywhere want to know what the Hasans…
One gutsy Colorado Springs man is facing hard time after he filed a fraudulent lien against the home of an IRS agent in retaliation for a lien the IRS placed on his home. Ronald Roy Hoodenpyle, come on down!…
The Nuggets’ swan dive this past season pretty much corresponded directly with health issues that kept George Karl away from the bench. So it’s a great sign that Karl showed up for a pre-draft workout today, despite the fact that the Nuggets don’t have a pick for this week’s draft…
The release from the Boulder Police Department about an alleged assault that took place yesterday on the Foothills Trail involving an unnamed woman and Michael Gonzales-Davis notes that she managed to “fight him off.” But the details of her response make her achievement seem much more impressive. The woman reportedly…
Three tasty samples of Denver blogs. At Mile High Report, Telluridden shares a QB guru’s video breakdown of Tim Tebow’s mechanics, which features some positive comments. Really. The Denver Egotist previews DAM’s latest edition of Style Wars. Suit up. The Colorado Independent’s Joseph Boven provides the skinny on Doug Lamborn’s…
JonBenét Ramsey can’t raise objections about the person tweeting in her name, having been murdered in 1996 — which is presumably why fake confessor John Mark Karr’s been trying to create a JonBenét lookalike cult. But the faux-JonBenét can bitch — and he/she is doing so about not being named…
Altitude Organic Medicine received a rave as part of our Mile Highs and Lows dispensary reviews. But AOM may get a much more negative critique at today’s city council meeting. Owner Brian Cook says two members are trying to shut down his business over what he sees as an improper…
The study of neighbors through their lawn decoration … Figure 67. South Park Hill: Trunk show of bear trees and blue sky. Tree removal anywhere in the metro area is bound to make a house look more bear, and the home pictured below shows the yard-artistic differences between Northglenn and…
Rep. Steve King appeared at a 9.12 Project event over the weekend — but not at a planned fundraiser for Cory Gardner, who canceled after King played the race card in comments about Barack Obama. What’s Gardner’s campaign got to say about the accusations of political correctness and timidity that…
For the first time ever, our annual music showcase sold out on Saturday. But the 11,000 who got tickets were treated to one hell of a day. See hundreds of photos on the slideshow page and gets tons more coverage — including downloads, video, more photos, Tweets and other assorted…
A day after the Marcus Duran shooting was ruled a justifiable homicide amid reports that the homeowner who fired the fatal shots has received threats, another potential Make-My-Day incident took place — this one in Colorado Springs. The Springs-area homeowner reportedly shot at two men trying to bust into his…
Last month, we told you about the shooting of Marcus Duran, seventeen, by a homeowner during a burglary attempt. Although a decision about potential charges against the homeowner lingered for weeks, the Denver DA’s office now calls the incident a justifiable homicide. But what about reported threats against the homeowner?…
In March, we shared a mug shot gallery of Denver’s fifty most wanted criminals — and McConney Bronson placed fifteenth. Now, he’s number seven in the second year of our Mile High Murder blog — and Pernell Hines is a suspect in the incident…
These days, the top purveyor of bogus death notices is Twitter, with the likes of Kanye West and Britney Spears among those falsely identified as cadavers. But a report of “Convoy” singer C.W. McCall’s premature demise came courtesy of an old-school source: the Denver Post…
The best of today’s Denver blogs What’s Ted Haggard been doing lately? Well, for starters, he’s opened a new church, and 5280 reports that his recent tweets are reflecting some curiously liberal views on religion. A “concerned citizen” clues the Denver Egotist into a disparity between the talk that Downtown…
Last week, Governor Bill Ritter signed into law a bill that rigorously steps up consequences for “peeping Toms.” Drafted by state representative Joe Rice and sponsored by state senator Evie Hudak, the bill essentially makes invasion of privacy — or peeping — a felony, rather than a misdemeanor, which was…
Thomas Leurck prefers to take out his frustrations with life by kicking the dog. But after a judge ordered him to stay away from the dog, Leurck only had one other coping mechanism: getting shitfaced and driving around Boulder County. According to the Boulder Daily Camera, the 48-year-old Superior man…
A magnet for controversy since opening its doors last fall, Perky Cups, the Aurora coffee shop notorious for its teeny-weenie-bikini baristas, called it quits today. Reportedly, the closure was due to a rent dispute, but the shop’s case certainly wasn’t helped along by Aurora Councilwoman Molly Markert’s morally outraged letter…
It’s getting to be a full-time job tracing the fall-out from the job offers dangled by the White House for Andrew Romanoff. According to Roll Call, House Republicans issued a resolution of inquiry last night demanding documents from the Justice Department on the White House’s role in making job offers…
Move over Blues Brothers, Colorado’s Bounty Brothers are traveling the world to clean up the criminal element for Christ! For over a decade, Gary Brooks Faulkner and Duane ‘Dog’ Chapman had worked the crime circuits of Mexico and Pakistan, hunting for separate scofflaws. Each was a seasoned veteran of bounty-huntertainment…
