Editor’s note: William Breathes is off today. In his absence, we bring you a classic installment of Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule that’s even more intriguing than it was upon its original publication in 2012. The Colorado legislature had passed laws making marijuana a misdemeanor in 1917, with fines up to…
Our post featuring five metro-area homes selling for around $371,650 — the average price in Denver and a new record high — prompted comments that often went beyond opinions on the properties. Here’s the take of a reader who’s wary of anything that makes Colorado look too good to people…
Denver blog posts are keeping an eye out. At our Show & Tell blog, Antonio Valenzuela highlights five great views — both mountain and city — around Denver. At ColoradoPols, Michael Bowman writes about “Secession, the Sequel.” Denver Egotist highlights a football-to-football translator. Cup fever: Catch it!…
For obvious reasons, albeit totally unfair ones, residents of Colorado border states such as Kansas increasingly view folks from here as slackers — and Matthew Headley isn’t helping. Headley, who’s from Canon City, has now been sentenced for sticking up a Kansas bank while clad in pajama pants, as if…
The World Cup literally kicked off yesterday in Sao Palo, Brazil with a kick made by a man with complete paralysis of the lower trunk. Juliano Pinto, 29, used a robo-suit that let him use his brainwaves to control his normally unresponsive lower limbs in order to make contact with…
Most politicians like to hear themselves talk, but Mayor Michael Hancock may have taken an appreciation for his own voice to a new level over the past three years. During that time, the mayor has recorded at least seventeen messages that been played inside the terminal trains at Denver International…
In September 2012, we told you about a lawsuit filed by Jamal Hunter against the City and County of Denver and individual law enforcers for failing to properly protect him before and after he says inmates scalded his genitals with boiling water and two deputies attacked him. Now, a judge…
Update below: On Tuesday, the Westminster Police Department put out an alert for Lea Chali Porter, a nineteen-year-old from the Pueblo area who’d been reported missing five days earlier after a visit to north metro. At this writing, Porter has not yet been found. However, Christopher Waide, a friend of…
This week, the Denver Cruisers invited anyone and everyone to climb aboard the Soul Train — and what a ride it was. Our Marissa Shevins was there to capture the scene. Check out a sampling of her shots below and click to access the complete “Denver Cruisers hop on the…
It’s been two years since we assembled our favorite “You Know You’re from Denver When” punchlines from the Facebook page of the same name — and there are a lot more where our first batch came from. Continue to see our latest photo-illustrated gallery, but be warned: One pic is…
Update: The Aurora Police Department has identified the victim of a fatal shooting outside a Taco Bell on June 4; see our previous coverage below. Mark Chalfant, nineteen, was a multi-sport athlete looking forward to a bright future when his life suddenly ended — and the three suspects in the…
I used to love the summertime in Boulder. It meant that a huge chunk of the college population went back to Connecticut or California or Texas or wherever they were from and left the tiny college town feeling tiny again. Apparently, that is no more. There is gridlock everywhere, even…
Our post about the Colorado State Patrol denying that Keith Kilbey was turned into a stoned-driving poster boy even though he was incredibly drunk in addition to being high riled up a lot of readers. This post exemplifies many others…
The public, and the media, will be allowed to attend jury selection in the trial of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes. Attorneys in the case requested that the proceedings be closed to the public, but Judge Carlos Samour ruled this week that the selection process will be open. It…
Denver blog posts are all about partnerships. At our Backbeat blog, Thomas Mitchell offers the scoop on 420 EDM Tours, which gives visitors access to electronic dance music and pot. Denver Urbanism’s Ken Schroeppel says Colorado leads the national in embracing and regulating ride-sharing services. Coyote Gulch on how a…
They were known as KTR, which allegedly stands for “Kings That Reck,” “Killing The Rest,” “Keeping Things Real,” “Killing Time Regardless” and “Keep Them Racks.” And if the allegations made in a 140-count grand jury indictment on view below are accurate, the burglary crew of five men and a juvenile…
A kidnapping at the Cherry Creek Mall and the murder of a Denver man whose body was found in a dumpster. At first glance, these crimes have little in common. But now, the same suspect — William Lornes — has been convicted of committing both of them and could spend…
One of the biggest arguments for the passage of Amendment 64 was the potential tax revenue limited recreational marijuana sales would generate — and yesterday, the Denver City Council Government and Finance Committee met to discuss how to spend the city’s share of money…
Update: Amy Van Dyken, who severed her spine in an ATV accident on Friday (see our previous coverage below), confirms that she’ll be relocating from Arizona to her home state of Colorado in order to rehab at Craig hospital in Denver. In the meantime, she continues to amaze with social…
This week, the average Denver-area home price reportedly hit an all-time record high: $371,650. What kind of home can you get for that amount? There’s a considerable variation, as you’ll see when you take a mini-tour of five Denver-area residences for sale through The Home Cart. Check them out below,…
Those of us whose knowledge of meth manufacture pretty much begins and ends with Breaking Bad will get a reality check from the following gritty, grungy, glamour-free photos of drugs, guns and more seized by the Metro Gang Task Force after busting not one but two alleged drug trafficking organizations…
The residents of one five-block stretch of Edgewater have every reason to be freaked out this morning. Yesterday, two kidnapping attempts took place within five blocks of each other — and only five hours apart. And while there’s been an arrest in the first case, with multiple sex offender Dennis…
