The shocking story of Dynel Lane, who’s accused of cutting a pregnant woman’s unborn child from her womb, has a connection to Craigslist. The victim in the case is said to have responded to Lane’s Craigslist post advertising baby clothes for sale. This is hardly the first time we’ve covered…
The rash of violence in the metro area — including four homicides in Denver over the weekend, three of which are said to be gang-related — continued last night. The location in the latest case was Longmont. The time was late last night. What happened? A woman was critically stabbed — and…
According to ColoradoSchoolGrades.com, there are plenty of outstanding high schools in the state. The site’s roster of the ten finest includes five schools that tied for first place. And even a couple of runners-up received A+ ratings. Note that there’s very little crossover between the site’s picks and those Colorado…
In November 2012, we published a post entitled DID DENVER POLICE DELAY GIVE CHRISTOPHER PEREA TIME TO KILL LORETTA BARELA? Two years later, Barela’s family issued a lawsuit making just such a claim — and the assertions about 911 botches were reinforced by an amended complaint filed days ago. Now, audio of…
While the City of Denver has made it clear that marijuana-use lounges and clubs aren’t going to be tolerated, our neighbors to the south in Colorado Springs have welcomed pot clubs. Even members of the Colorado Springs City Council have generally been supportive, allowing several establishments to be licensed and…
In two new posts, a Stanford professor presents data suggesting that most marijuana smokers aren’t well-educated. According to his stats, only about a sixth of pot users have college degrees, while the remainder do not — making the profile of cannabis consumers similar to cigarette smokers when viewed from the…
Denver blog posts are ready to play — ball or whatever. At our Music blog, Jon Solomon reveals that the Zac Brown Band show in July will be the first major concert ever at Coors Field. South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels wonders if the Broncos’ championship window has already slammed…
Today, the Denver Department of Public Safety announced a new retention policy for video footage recorded in Denver’s jails. Some video will now be retained indefinitely, while other footage is to be saved for periods than can stretch into years. Attorney David Lane, who has worked on many cases in…
Within a day or two after Toni Henthorn fell to her death while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park, the whispers started in her Highlands Ranch neighborhood. They spread through Cherry Hills Community Church, which she’d attended with her husband, Harold, and their nine-year-old daughter, Hayley, and eventually reached the…
The Colorado Supreme Court sided with the Colorado Department of Corrections this week in squelching a long-simmering, convoluted debate over whether the state isn’t properly calculating credits that take time off inmates’ sentences. It’s a decision that reinforces the status quo, saves one of the state’s largest bureaucracies from untold…
The Denver Nuggets were prominently featured on yesterday’s episode of Pardon the Interruption. But not for a happy reason. In his introduction to the program, Tony Kornheiser, co-host, with Michael Wilbon, of this longtime staple of ESPN (new home for Denver Post photo boss Tim Rasmussen, whose goodbye gift was a “FUCK…
Back in 2013, we told you about claims of an inadequate defense for Dale Eaton, whose rape and murder of Denver-based Lisa Kimmel, nicknamed “Lil Miss,” was one of the most brutal and shocking crimes of its era. Since then, Eaton’s original death sentence was overturned. But rather than allowing…
Super Bowl Sunday might as well be a holiday, but March Madness is a celebration. Nothing in sports can beat the first two days of bracket season. And by the first two days, I mean the round of 64. All due respect to teams in play-in games, but they’re about…
Early on March 11, many Denverites saw a ball of fire streak across the sky. Subsequent reports suggested that the object was probably an earth-grazer meteorite — and this kind of thing actually happens fairly often in the state. Evidence aplenty can be found at Cloudbait.com, the fascinating website for Cloudbait…
The cake seen above — featuring a bit of Photoshopping to partially obscure the message “FUCK ESPN” — isn’t actually an attack on the all-powerful sports network Rather, it’s a cheeky goodbye gift to Tim Rasmussen, the assistant managing editor for photography and multimedia for the Denver Post. Rasmussen is leaving…
In a new interview with VICE News, President Barack Obama said plenty of things that cheered marijuana-legalization advocates. For instance, he decried the criminalization of nonviolent drug offenders and made comments that seemed to support the rescheduling of cannabis — one of the key provisions in a new bill pushed…
A provocative reader comment often revs up an already vigorous conversation. That was definitely the case with a recent post in which a reader argued that Denver is overcrowded and the situation is only getting worse. Many readers agreed wholeheartedly. Not all, however. Among those with another point of view is…
Denver blog posts listen with open ears. At our Music blog, Gina Tron puts it like so: “Music Hasn’t Gotten Crappy These Days: You Have.” The Colorado Independent’s Mike Littwin takes on those still tilting at Obamacare as the numbers pile up. At Denver Urbanism, Maggie Lyons offers a Doors…
With a million-dollar war chest, the deadline past for any new candidates and a lack of strong opposition, Michael B. Hancock is a shoo-in for re-election as Denver’s mayor on May 5. Over the past four years he’s presided over a roaring economy, the rollout of recreational marijuana sales, and…
Dear Stoner: What’s the deal with “live resin” extract? What makes it so expensive, other than the fact that tourists will buy it? If the extraction process for “live resin” is to freeze and process the plant while it’s still alive, then “live resin” does not cure. As a patient,…
Denver Sheriff’s Department Deputy Lori Clyncke loved Harley Davidson motorcycles, as this photo from her Facebook page attests. She was riding hers this weekend when tragedy struck. Clyncke was killed during a traffic accident in Weld County. She was 47. The DSD broke the news in the following tweet. According…
When we’ve written about GoFundMe pages in recent months, we’ve usually done so in connection with tragedy. Take Leah Montgomery, whose family launched a GoFundMe page to help pay for medical expenses after she was struck by a car and lost her unborn baby. And then there’s the case of…
