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The Punisher
Censured but defiant, Carol Chambers goes after habitual criminals -- and cops, judges and lawyers -- like no other district attorney. But at what cost?
By Alan Prendergast
Published: February 8, 2007
As the moment of his sentencing approaches, Tristan Gilmour sits petulantly in an Arapahoe County courtroom. His put-upon attorney, deputy public defender Justin Bogan, wants...
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A Thumb on the Scales
The DA weighs in on the wrong case.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: February 8, 2007
A cynic might regard the phone call that District Attorney Carol Chambers made to Jonathan Steiner, for which she was publicly censured six weeks ago, as a clumsy attempt to...
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The Good Part
A Columbine survivor’s journey to a new life takes a few detours through film, Michael Moore, God and book deals.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: February 1, 2007
After Eric Harris shot him and left him for dead on the lawn of Columbine High School, all sixteen-year-old Mark Taylor could think about was seeing his family one more time...
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Year in Review: We’re Sorry, So Sorry
Regrets? We’ve had a few.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: December 28, 2006
Okay, we could have done better. We admit that. We lied about our age. We faked our memoirs. We called ourselves Art or Daxis and told the escort we were from Kansas City. We...
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Year in Review: The Great Pretenders
Welcome to the 2006 Hall of Shame.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: December 28, 2006
In Colorado, 2006 will be remembered as the Year of the Great Pretender. Many of the most notorious newsmakers were people masquerading as someone or something they weren't --...
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Ten Years After
A decade of blunders, spin and hype hasn't solved the JonBenét Ramsey murder case. Is it time for the truth?
By Alan Prendergast
Published: December 21, 2006
She would have been sixteen now. A boy-crazy cheerleader, maybe, or the dorky president of the debate team. A wobbly-voiced contestant on America's Got Talent. Or just another...
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Trading Spaces
Lakewood voters are stuck between a ditch and Red Rocks in an upcoming special election.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: December 7, 2006
Most special elections are humdrum affairs involving bond issues and tax questions, but the one currently facing the citizens of Lakewood promises to be special indeed. At...
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Fighting Mad
Tycoon Jack Grynberg says the energy industry has stolen millions from him -- and billions from the government. What if he's right?
By Alan Prendergast
Published: November 16, 2006
When Jack Grynberg breezes through the doors of the Grynberg Petroleum Company, attention must be paid. Wearing a dark-blue pinstripe suit, dark glasses and a well-traveled...
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The Big Nix
By Alan Prendergast
Published: November 9, 2006
Forty-three states regulate private investigators in one way or another. Colorado isn't one of them, and state officials aren't inclined to do anything about it -- despite...
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Made for Each Other
The Karr fiasco is over, but Michael Tracey's quest for unlikely suspects in the Ramsey case goes on and on.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: October 12, 2006
Swarmed by reporters outside the Boulder Justice Center this past August, Michael Tracey was in his element. After a long hiatus, the national media was back on the case, the...
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Head Games
At least one out of every five Colorado prisoners is mentally ill -- some violent, some undetected or untreated. How did the Big House become the Bug House?
By Alan Prendergast
Published: September 21, 2006
Talk all you want about bad men and madmen. The truly scary ones are those who know rage so well that they scare themselves. The anger pours out of them without warning,...
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A Federal Case
Cruising down the boulevard, Denver’s avenue of schemes and dreams.
By Sara Behunek, Drew Bixby, Patricia Calhoun, Jessica Centers, Amy Haimerl, Dave Herrera, Jared Jacang Maher, Alan Prendergast, Michael Roberts, Jason Sheehan, Amber Taufen, Luke Turf and Joel Warner
Published: September 7, 2006
Federal Boulevard stretches almost thirty miles down the spine of the metro area, from Bowles Boulevard in Littleton, where the Southglenn Luncheon Optimist Club keeps the last...
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The Case of the Missing License
Congress is putting on the squeeze, but Colorado's private investigators still can't agree how -- or if -- they should be regulated.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: August 10, 2006
"My best chance of clearing myself of the trouble you're trying to make for me is by bringing in the murderers -- all tied up. And my only chance of ever catching them and...
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Farewell, My Lowlife
Tracking down Colorado's most notorious gumshoes.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: August 10, 2006
When private investigators make the nightly news in Colorado, it's usually for the wrong reasons. Almost every local P.I. has a story about some other P.I. who's given the...
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Parade of Groans
A luxury homebuilder's dispute with customers results in a felony charge.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: July 6, 2006
Four years ago, Paul Lambert built one of the biggest luxury houses in Douglas County, a 9,100-square-foot tribute to Vegas excess that was the buzz of the 2002 Parade of...
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The Skeptic
Celebrated and shunned, CSU's Bill Gray is taking heat in the global-warming debate.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: June 29, 2006
Galileo got crosswise with Pope Urban VIII. Robert Oppenheimer didn't see eye-to-eye with Edward Teller. Every original thinker has a bête noire who torments and goads...
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Whistle Stop
A Supreme Court decision may challenge workers' First Amendment rights.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: June 8, 2006
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that sharply limits the rights of whistleblowers could change the landscape for a number of workplace battles in Colorado -- including a...
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Clowns to the Left of Me
Marc Holtzman's got a feeling that something in the Grand Old Party ain't right.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: May 18, 2006
The ghost of Ronald Wilson Reagan haunts the Marc Holtzman for Governor campaign headquarters on South Broadway. Images of the nation's fortieth president beam from brochures,...
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The Smutty Professor
At long last, CU does the right thing.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: May 11, 2006
The University of Colorado wants you to know that it "remains committed to promoting and maintaining an environment free from sexual harassment." CU is so committed, in...
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A Fresh Start
Fifteen years later, a childhood blunder is absolved -- in bankruptcy court.
By Alan Prendergast
Published: May 4, 2006
When he was ten years old and clowning around, Shea Sweeney did something incredibly stupid with a cardboard box and a pack of matches. It left his neighbors feeling burned,...
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