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Author: Alan Prendergast
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351 stories found - 121 through 140
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  1. Feature

    Love Crazy

    The nurse, the cop, the yegg: Fate brought them together and claimed four lives. Then the newspapers stepped in, and things really got insane.

    By Alan Prendergast
    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 much as its good, and by how the...

  2. Sidebar

    Denver's Chronicler of Crime

    One cop's passion became a historian's goldmine.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: October 9, 2003

    Sam Howe loved being a Denver cop. He also loved to clip stories about crime and police work from the newspapers. Fortunately, he worked at both jobs for a long, long time....

  3. News

    A Simple Case

    How a drunk-driving fatality got lost in the system.

    By Alan Prendergast
    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 -- a day already overburdened...

  4. News

    Pro Boner

    Auraria's effort to offer students "free" legal services cost plenty and ended badly.

    By Alan Prendergast
    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 State College of Denver...

  5. Feature

    Toxic Shock

    Starting a meth lab takes little skill or cash. The cleanup is another story.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: September 4, 2003

    Randy Goin remembers his first visit to a methamphetamine lab six years ago. It was the beginning of a long and disturbing chemistry lesson. A Thornton narcotics detective...

  6. Feature

    The Death of Innocence

    The police say Krystal Voss shook her son hard enough to kill him. The evidence says something else.

    By Alan Prendergast
    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 head. It was an accident. That's the...

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    Ten Ways They Got It Wrong

    Critical issues overlooked by prosecutors.

    By Alan Prendergast
    Published: July 31, 2003

    In pursuing a murder case against Krystal Voss for the death of her son, Kyran, the prosecutor and police in Alamosa may have disregarded critical evidence and developed a...

  8. News

    The High Cost of Free Speech

    RTD pays a six-figure settlement for muzzling its own directors.

    By Alan Prendergast
    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 self-published book, Light Rail and Heavy...

  9. News

    The Law Firm of Smith & Wesson

    Other employees at her office were packing. So why did she get canned?

    By Alan Prendergast
    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. The top five: 5. Compare muzzle...

  10. Feature

    Cowboy Justice

    They ran the toughest cellblock in the most dangerous prison in the state. It was the perfect place to beat inmates.

    By Alan Prendergast
    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 their attorneys. The tension was...

  11. Feature

    The Long Road Home

    Why so many parolees go back to prison, and how a new approach could help turn them around.

    By Alan Prendergast
    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 the eight men and one woman...

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    The Revolving Door

    Some parolees face a run-on sentence.

    By Alan Prendergast
    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 room at the 11th Avenue Hotel is not much...

  13. News

    Busting a Cap

    As the economy sags, Berthoud's tough stance on growth comes under fire -- again.

    By Alan Prendergast
    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 for another special election,...

  14. News

    Female Trouble

    A guard's acquittal, new leadership -- and more allegations of misconduct at YOS.

    By Alan Prendergast
    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 System got a change of scenery --...

  15. News

    A Lasting Tribute

    Finding the right words for a Columbine memorial.

    By Alan Prendergast
    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 fall -- a wet, heavy spring...

  16. Feature

    Coup de Condo

    The battle for Cedar Pointe has turned into a tempest in a Tea Party.

    By Alan Prendergast
    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 Association, she thought she was...

  17. Sidebar

    From Locusts to Limos

    By Alan Prendergast

    The rise of the Tea Party

    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 strip clubs -- the group was...

  18. Feature

    Prisoners of Sex

    Colorado's costly program for violent teens was supposed to turn these girls around. Instead, they got turned out.

    By Alan Prendergast
    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 shake. The man who came into their room...

  19. News

    Leave the Driving to Bill

    When special interests collide over auto insurance, consumers feel their pain.

    By Alan Prendergast
    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 plows into the family...

  20. News

    Bruce Talk

    The father of tax limits offers a radical diet for lean times.

    By Alan Prendergast
    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' belt a few notches. Patrons...

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