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Jose Sanchez lawsuit: $30K settlement in racial profiling case includes new police training

Flickr​Update: At a meeting last night, the Denver City Council approved a $30,000 payment to settle a lawsuit over alleged Denver Police racial profiling. Equally important, says the ACLU's Mark Silverstein, is a DPD agreement to improve training to try to prevent such incidents in the future ... More >>

Guns N' Roses announces Denver show

​Next month, Guns N' Roses will kick off its first U.S. tour in five years, but there are still more than a dozen cities on the band's tour itinerary, which the band released yesterday, that have yet to have dates or venues set, including Denver. While the tour, which starts October 28 and run ... More >>

The Grand Rapids LipDub: A tribute to my hometown

That's right, Newsweek.​Few could have anticipated a decade or two ago, when I was a kid growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, what kind of toll the decline of the Big Three automakers would take on the whole state; back then, it was a solidly middle-class and blue-collar place to be from, a p ... More >>

Boulder County pays ACLU $65,000 to settle lawsuit over postcard-only jail policy

​This week, the Boulder County jail is expected to formally end its policy of restricting inmate mail to postcards only -- and commissioners agreed to pay the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado $65,000 to settle a lawsuit over an issue that an ACLU spokeswoman hopes is now dead in the ... More >>

Jose Sanchez lawsuit alleges Denver Police Department bias, says ACLU director

Flickr​Despite the firing of officers involved in the Michael DeHerrera beating, the Denver Police Department continues to be a criticism target. The latest example: an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit (read it below) filed on behalf of Jose Sanchez. Among other things, it alleges DPD bi ... More >>

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Candice & Kristin Hermeler: Surveillance video, photos of Australian twins in suicide pact

Kristin Hermeler.​Update: The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office has released surveillance footage and photos of Kristin and Candice Hermeler, Australian twins who acted out a suicide pact at the Family Shooting Center; Kristin died, while Candice was gravely wounded but survived. The footage ce ... More >>

Immigration and Customs Enforcement's latest roundup: 85 "criminal aliens" busted by ICE

​Immigration and Customs Enforcement continues to emphasize that it's focusing on arresting so-called criminal aliens -- and it's lassoed plenty in these parts of late. In September, ICE busted 78 people -- and of the 6,617 folks grabbed in the Denver area during fiscal 2010, 4,447 were said t ... More >>

"Marriage is so gay" T-shirt: Colorado Springs' Falcon High School drops ban after ACLU letter

Large photo below.​Update: Well, that didn't take long. Only hours after the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to an El Paso County school district demanding that Falcon High School student Kate Cohn be allowed to wear a T-shirt that reads "marriage is so gay," the principal who ori ... More >>

ACLU files claim against ICE for harassing U.S. citizens en route to Amway convention

​Today, the American Civil Liberties Union announced a formal administrative complaint against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over an April incident during which dozens of Spanish speakers aboard a Denver charter bus were detained under suspicion of human smuggling. Turns out the ri ... More >>

Shmucks of the Week: Cancer-fakers

​There's something obviously disgusting about a woman rallying her friends and family around an illness she invented, raising money for treating cancer when it's nothing but crazy that infects her body. But what's even more punch-yourself-in-the-face mind-boggling about the crime committed by ... More >>

Is Bazi a miracle drink that can make people both healthy and wealthy -- or is it just the latest scheme from Denver's penny-stock prince?

Off Limits

Sour grapes

Missionary Position

The Tango House helps spread dance fever

The Bite Stuff

The hunt continues to outfox opponents.

Swingtime in the Rockies

An undercovers assignment to investigate The Lifestyle.

The Other Coors Spokesman

International Mr. Leather Bruce Chopnik wants to tell the world: It's a new day for gays and Coors.

Preach for the Stars

Meet Bill McCartney's good buddy, golfing pal and spiritual partner: Pastor James Ryle.

Strange but True

LETTERS

COACH TURNS INTO PUMPKINHEAD