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Feature
By Alan Prendergast
On a quiet Sunday morning last February, Jaime Brown arrived at that dark and unthinkable place every young mother dreads. She walked into the room of her three-year-old...
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Feature
By Alan Prendergast
John Francis Beech had a date with destiny last summer. He counted down the days on a calendar in his garage, crossing out each day leading to the final Sunday in July, on...
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Feature
By Alan Prendergast
On January 21, Ken Salazar walked into the Department of the Interior headquarters in Washington, D.C., and found a crush of employees waiting for him. It was his first day on...
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Feature
By Alan Prendergast
Read a list of Denver's eight worst intersections on the Latest Word blog.
Just south of downtown, a fender bender on Speer Boulevard jams up a long line of cars, which spills...
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Feature
By Alan Prendergast
For more photos of Kauri Tiyme, go to westword.com/slideshow.
The maid found her. It was close to checkout time on Saturday, October 18, and a member of the housekeeping staff...
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News
Back on the case of the CU sex-recruiting scandal
By Alan Prendergast
Eight years after she first reported a sexual assault to police and four years after prosecutors told her they were dropping the case, a young woman has won an unusual court...
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Feature
By Alan Prendergast
Jay Lewis assumes the position. He slouches, arms folded across his chest, knee bent and foot braced on the wall behind him. He looks like your typical green-tunic-clad felon,...
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Feature
By Alan Prendergast
Pat Craig walks along a fenceline of his 240-acre spread outside Keenesburg, visiting with some of his latest arrivals. He calls to them in a falsetto, much higher than his...
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City Limits
How government watchdogs became the energy industry's party animals
By Alan Prendergast
There's more than one way to explain the latest scandal erupting within the Bush administration. The release last week of three reports from the inspector general's office of...
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Feature
By Alan Prendergast
Few dreamers believe in their dream the way William Orr did.
He chased his idea, a search for the perfect fuel to put in a gas tank, for three decades. He conducted test after...
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Feature
Cancer patient Tim Thomason didn't think he could feel any worse. His Denver jailers showed that he could.
By Alan Prendergast
To read Alan Prendergast's blog about the Denver jail's heavily redacted policy on pain meds and release procedures, click here.
They let Timothy Thomason go shortly before 8...
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Feature
Jefferson County officials show Mike Zinna that what goes around comes around.
By Alan Prendergast
In the endless muddle of battle between Mike Zinna and The Powers That Be in Jefferson County, moments of truth have been hard to find. But once in a while there's a burst of...
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Sidebar
Jeffco antes up against Mike Zinna.
By Alan Prendergast
THE ZINNA BILL
LITIGATION EXPENSES FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY RELATED TO DISPUTES WITH MIKE ZINNA
JANUARY 2004-APRIL 2008
Outside Counsel
Zinna v. Congrove $ 112,310.71
Zinna v....
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Feature
What happens to the mentally ill in the justice system is just crazy.
By Alan Prendergast
On a bitter winter morning four years ago, Heather Gooch stood in her apartment on South Bannock Street and listened to the awful thumping. The noise was coming from the floor...
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Sidebar
Denvers Court to Community program is showing promise.
By Alan Prendergast
Thursday afternoons in courtroom 151P tend to be less formal than other proceedings in Denver county courts. Judge Larry Bohning still hands out an occasional scolding ("Time's...
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Feature
Tony Krupicka takes his sport to new extremes.
By Alan Prendergast
Three things you need to know right away about Tony Krupicka:
First, the guy loves to run. Loves it. He cruises the trails above Colorado Springs three, four, even six hours a...
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News
A judge removes DA Carol Chambers from a death-penalty case -- and blasts prosecution misconduct.
By Alan Prendergast
Defense attorneys have accused her of running a death machine, but the wheels came off Carol Chambers's rattling apparatus this week. On Monday a judge ruled that Chambers, the...
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Night & Day
By Alan Prendergast
By most measures, Colorado isn't any more liberal than other western states. So how come the state has managed to put to death only one prisoner in the past forty years, while...
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Feature
How does DA Carol Chambers beat the high cost of a death-penalty prosecution? By billing the prison system.
By Alan Prendergast
The State of Colorado has managed to execute one murderer in the past forty years. Its death row, current population one, is among the smallest in the country. For four years...
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Sidebar
Only one man is on death row, but seven others are waiting in the wings.
By Alan Prendergast
Technically speaking, Colorado hasn't had a death row for several years — not since officials at the Colorado State Penitentiary stopped housing the prisoners awaiting...
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