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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2003 Stories by Alan Prendergast

• Chicanismo, Reloaded

  published November 27, 2003

  When Nick Morales began teaching Chicano studies at Metropolitan State College of Denver several years ago, he relied heavily on the standard... More >>

• The Plot Sickens

  published November 6, 2003

  The sign on the door at the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office read: "News Conference: Go up stairs and turn right." Reporters who followed the... More >>

• Skin City

  published October 30, 2003

  After hours of walking the streets of Sheridan, hiking up driveways and picking her way through trailer parks, Vicki Johnson has this part down.... More >>

• House Rules

  published October 23, 2003

  When Renee McGaw purchased her East Washington Park home five years ago, she knew the kind of investment she was making. A single mother, she... More >>

• Denver's Chronicler of Crime

  published October 9, 2003

  Sam Howe loved being a Denver cop. He also loved to clip stories about crime and police... More >>

• Love Crazy

  published October 9, 2003

  Forget Kobe. Adios, JonBenét. To hell with Court TV. Crime ain't what it used to be. A place is shaped by its resident evil as... More >>

• A Simple Case

  published September 25, 2003

  Debi Drewes was in the kitchen of her Athmar Park home when she heard the crash. It was shortly after seven in the evening on September 11, 2001... More >>

• Pro Boner

  published September 11, 2003

  As an aspiring attorney-to-be, William Safford figured he'd found the ideal job at Auraria's Student Legal Services. The 23-year-old Metropolitan... More >>

• Toxic Shock

  published September 4, 2003

  Randy Goin remembers his first visit to a methamphetamine lab six years ago. It was the... More >>

• The High Cost of Free Speech

  published July 31, 2003

  Jack McCroskey is a man of many opinions -- some pungent, some pure acid. Take, for example, these barbed appraisals from his recently... More >>

• Ten Ways They Got It Wrong

  published July 31, 2003

  In pursuing a murder case against Krystal Voss for the death of her son, Kyran, the... More >>

• The Death of Innocence

  published July 31, 2003

  An accident. A terrible accident. That was the first story told about how Kyran Gaston-Voss got hurt. The baby fell. The baby hit his... More >>

• The Law Firm of Smith & Wesson

  published July 10, 2003

  Depending on your job, there could be fifty good reasons to bring a gun to work. If you happen to work in a law firm, make that a hundred. ... More >>

• Cowboy Justice

  published June 26, 2003

  The seven men sat around the defense table Tuesday afternoon, murmuring quietly to each other and exchanging hearty good-luck handshakes with... More >>

• The Revolving Door

  published May 22, 2003

  Atif Gamal can open the door or close it. Either way, he loses. If he keeps the door closed, the walls start to close in on him. His... More >>

• The Long Road Home

  published May 22, 2003

  "Welcome to the John Inmann Work and Family Center. Welcome home." Mario Salinas stands in a cramped conference room, studying the faces of... More >>

• Busting a Cap

  published May 8, 2003

  It's spring. The birds are singing, the bees are strumming their little guitars, and in the petition-happy town of Berthoud, the locals are headed... More >>

• Female Trouble

  published April 24, 2003

  Former guard Duane Coleman got to go home. Embattled director Brian Gomez got a new job. And the teenage girls of Colorado's Youthful Offender... More >>

• A Lasting Tribute

  published April 17, 2003

  Four Aprils ago, as investigators strung yellow crime-scene tape and boarded up bullet-riddled windows around Columbine High School, snow began to... More >>

• From Locusts to Limos

  By Alan Prendergast

  published April 10, 2003

  When the Tea Party first burst on the scene in Glendale five years ago -- in response to Mayor Joe Rice's effort to impose new restrictions on... More >>

• Coup de Condo

  published April 10, 2003

  Looking back, Sharon Kratze says, she should have asked more questions. When she decided to run for the board of the Cedar Pointe Condominium... More >>

• Leave the Driving to Bill

  published March 6, 2003

  It isn't that the governor of Colorado hates you soccer moms out there. He just thinks you people shouldn't have the right, when some drunk driver... More >>

• Prisoners of Sex

  published March 6, 2003

  The night her roommate was raped, Angel Castro says, she had a ringside seat. She was in the upper bunk when the bed below her began to... More >>

• Bruce Talk

  published January 30, 2003

  At first glance, the Golden Corral on the north side of Colorado Springs doesn't seem to be the right place to be talking about tightening the ol'... More >>

• Locked and Loaded

  published January 2, 2003

  Stabbings and beatings are common. Drugs are plentiful -- although ingesting them sometimes has unforeseen results. A restraint chair comes in... More >>