Email Author Alan Prendergast

Awards

• 2011 - Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published September 30, 2010

  "Black Out"

• 2011 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published November 4, 2010

  "Like an Open Book"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2011 - Society of Professional Journalists/Colorado Chapter, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2010 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published October 22, 2009

  "The Quality of Mercy"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 14, 2009

  "The Giveaway"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published February 11, 2010

  "You're in Bad Hands"

• 2009 - Society of Professional Journalists/Colorado Chapter, published April 10, 2008

  "Miles and Miles"

• 2008 - Sigma Delta Chi Awards/Society of Professional Journalists, published August 16, 2007

  "The Caged Life"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 8, 2007

  "The Punisher"

• 2006 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published December 8, 2005

  "Catch-16"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published May 12, 2005

  "If the Shoe Fits"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 23, 2005

  "Welcome to America"

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published September 8, 2005

  "Duke of Oil"

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2001 Stories by Alan Prendergast

• Shocking the Conscience

  published December 6, 2001

  Last week's dismissal of most of the lawsuits against police and school officials stemming from the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School left... More >>

• "I'm Full of Hate and I Love It"

  published December 6, 2001

  A year before the shootings at Columbine High School, Eric David Harris already had the plan worked out in his head. He knew what time to... More >>

• Bones of Contention

  published November 29, 2001

  This all started around 65 million years ago, when a large carnivore died badly in the wilds of what is now eastern Wyoming. But no human paid any... More >>

• Follow That Story

  published November 15, 2001

  The developers had money, business leaders and most of the town's elected officials on their side. But last week, the citizens of Berthoud decided... More >>

• The Berating Game

  published November 8, 2001

  Confused? So are we. Parents, teachers, kids -- everyone involved in public education in Colorado, it seems, eagerly awaited this fall's... More >>

• Follow That Story

  published October 25, 2001

  Even in these troubled times, respect for the law sometimes depends on who's wearing the badge. Last week, voters in rural Costilla County ousted... More >>

• More Whoppers from Jeffco

  published October 25, 2001

  For the past eighteen months, ever since Columbine families filed nine lawsuits against... More >>

• Back to School

  published October 25, 2001

  The Fire Last Time They dreamed of fire. It would be a cleansing fire, fueled by propane, gasoline, gunpowder, homemade napalm --... More >>

• A Click in Time Saves Minds

  published October 4, 2001

  Go to GoTo.com, an Internet search engine that provides "sponsored" search results for America Online, Lycos,... More >>

• The Strange Case of Dr. Schmidt

  published September 20, 2001

  After nearly two dozen surgeries in twenty years, Nyla Bailey thought she knew what doctors could do about her excruciating pain, which wasn't... More >>

• Be Seeing You

  published August 23, 2001

  Joseph Adams has flashbacks sometimes. In those moments, he practically relives the time he spent in a prison cell in Kuwait, the beatings and... More >>

• Scenes from a Sprawl

  published August 9, 2001

  Two weeks ago, John Meyer came across a man with a clipboard outside Toddy's, a grocery store in a busy strip mall on the edge of downtown... More >>

• Attention, Kmart Shoppers

  published July 12, 2001

  Two weeks ago, when Kmart officials announced that their stores would stop selling handgun ammunition, they described the decision as a shift in... More >>

• The Siege

  published June 21, 2001

  Cynthia Devereaux is on the phone, calling everybody who's anybody in Costilla County. She calls Father Pat Valdez, the parish priest in San... More >>

• Unhappy Returns

  published May 24, 2001

  Judging from the Denver dailies, the Governor's Columbine Review Commission completed a masterful bit of finger-pointing last week. Following the... More >>

• The Hit Man Nobody Knows

  published May 17, 2001

  This much is certain: On the morning of November 27, 1989, Avianca Airlines Flight 203 took off from Bogotá, Colombia, headed for the city... More >>

• Wirtz Case Scenario

  published May 10, 2001

  This all started over twenty-five bucks. Maybe if his jailers had let him keep his money five years ago, Robert Wirtz Jr. wouldn't have... More >>

• The Do-Nothing Defense

  published May 3, 2001

  For a moment last Friday, U.S. District Judge Lewis Babcock sounded like one of the Brothers Karamazov -- the brooding, metaphysically challenged... More >>

• Chronology of a Big Fat Lie

  published April 19, 2001

  The last two weeks have not been the best of times for the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. The agency has been in serious damage-control mode... More >>

• Lights, Camera...No Comment

  published April 12, 2001

  David Gelber adjusts his tie. He tugs it left, then right again. It's as if he's trying to get more oxygen without disrobing, as if what's needed... More >>