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1. Feature

How a plan for open space near Stapleton became open season on prairie dogs

By Alan Prendergast
Published: May 9, 2013

More than most people, perhaps, Stapleton resident Patricia Olson feels a strong connection to animals. A veterinarian and former CEO of the world's largest nonprofit...
2. Feature

The battle against bullying begins with the Bard

By Alan Prendergast
Published: April 4, 2013

The stage is a half-circle at the front of the auditorium, marked off with a snaking trail of rope; the audience sits on the floor. Dressed in dark jeans and T-shirts, the...
3. Feature

Looking to Auraria's future while studying the lessons of its past

By Alan Prendergast
Published: February 28, 2013

Few events in the life of a city are as relentlessly cheerful as a groundbreaking for a new school building. It's a time for back-slapping congratulations and lofty,...
4. Feature

The lifers book club: Of mice and men, hopes and regrets at the Limon prison

By Alan Prendergast
Published: January 17, 2013

The prisoners report to the officer at the desk, then head into a room awash in sunlight in the visitation area of the Limon Correctional Facility. They murmur soft greetings...
5. Sidebar

Russian lit and combat tales make the reading list for the Limon prison book club

By Alan Prendergast
Published: January 17, 2013

The list of books discussed in the Words Beyond Bars Project, a pilot program at the Limon Correctional Facility: Cooked, by Jeff Henderson (2007). The true story of a...
6. Feature

Kimmyan Franklin couldn't escape her uneasy past

By Alan Prendergast
Published: January 3, 2013

Take me up into your mind once or twice before I die (you know why: because the eyes of you and me will be full of dirt some day). — e.e. cummings She was always...
7. Feature

Will juvenile lifers get a second chance?

By Alan Prendergast
Published: November 29, 2012

The day his old life ended, Jeff Johnson was jonesing for a cigarette. He was tall and gangly, a bit of a rebel and a goof. He liked to shoot pool and flirt with the girls at...
8. Night & Day

Bustin’ Loose

By Alan Prendergast
Published: October 25, 2012

By the time he turned 36, Damien Echols had spent half his life on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. How he managed to sustain hope and sanity in the bowels of a...
9. Feature

Arapahoe County's district attorney race could prove a lethal election

By Alan Prendergast
Published: October 18, 2012

For Ethan Feldman, the siren's call came as he presided over his courtroom in Arapahoe County, watching a procession of newly stamped prosecutors making tentative efforts to...
10. Feature

Joe Arridy was the happiest man on death row

By Alan Prendergast
Published: September 20, 2012

Joe Arridy didn't ask for a last meal. It's doubtful that he even understood the concept. He was 23 years old and had an IQ of 46. He knew about eating and playing and...
11. Feature

Can a single student with $250 change the fate of the Gates Rubber factory?

By Alan Prendergast
Published: August 16, 2012

Eugene Elliott caught his first glimpse of the ravaged Gates Rubber Company complex three years ago. He was driving in Denver one day, and here was this huge, hulking factory,...
12. Feature

In the world's toughest bike race, Justin Simoni rode from disaster to triumph

By Alan Prendergast
Published: August 2, 2012

In the stillness of a summer afternoon, the hours baking away in the clay-oven heat of southwestern New Mexico, Justin Simoni began to wonder if he was done. Done, as in...
13. Night & Day

Page Turner

By Alan Prendergast
Published: July 26, 2012

Donald Kueck was a Mojave Desert hermit who had a way with bobcats, snakes, ravens and squirrels. He was also paranoid, doped up and lethal — “Dr. Dolittle with an...
14. Feature

Why Colorado's forests are bugging out with beetles

By Alan Prendergast
Published: June 28, 2012

Archimedes had his bathtub, Newton his apple. Scott Ferrenberg's Eureka moment required more fieldwork to confirm, but it began when a bug the size of a grain of rice landed...
15. Feature

Sucker Punch: The "Big Bitch" could bite fighting concert-goer

By Alan Prendergast
Published: May 24, 2012

It was close to seven on a warm July evening in Greenwood Village, time for the suburb's more sedentary citizens to fire up their grills and televisions. But at the Comfort...
16. Feature

The Columbine shootings continue to "inspire" Hollywood

By Alan Prendergast
Published: March 22, 2012

The news first surfaced in the Hollywood trade press last month: The Lifetime cable network is developing a miniseries about the 1999 school shootings at Columbine High School...
17. Feature

Sixteen-year-old Tara Perry followed her man into crime and madness

By Alan Prendergast
Published: February 23, 2012

They know how to make an entrance, these bad boys. They strut into the King Soopers on Smoky Hill Road on a Friday evening in May like it's fight night in Vegas and they've...
18. Feature

Drilled, Baby, Drilled: The strange battle to keep Big Oil from cheating

By Alan Prendergast
Published: January 19, 2012

Three years ago this month, outside some drab federal offices in Lakewood, a bespectacled man sporting a white cowboy hat and a bolo tie stood in a teeth-rattling wind before...
19. Feature

The case of the kidnapped coed

By Alan Prendergast
Published: December 15, 2011

Two rabbit hunters found her. She lay face-down, half-buried in the snow beside a frozen stream twelve miles south of Boulder, legs pulled up as if curled in sleep. She...
20. Feature

The Big Bitch

By Alan Prendergast
Published: November 24, 2011

On the Saturday before Easter 2010, Dennis Pauls got it into his head to give his ex-wife a plant. It was an Easter lily, a Christian symbol of suffering and renewal;...

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