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Metro Denver Gang Coalition: Beyond Darrent Williams

Members of the Metro Denver Gang Coalition are at a crossroads, hoping they can keep the peace through the rest of the year.

Whip It Good

Vett Capone has steered his custom-car business from lowriders to a new high.

Crusade

A sports columnist is risking the ire of readers by writing about gangs -- and criticizing local media for not adequately covering the topic.

The Transformers

They created Denver's gang life. A generation later, can they break free?

Letters to the Editor

From the week of October 13, 2005

Letters to the Editor

From the week of September 29, 2005

The Gang's All Here

A late-summer confrontation leaves two families grieving.

Last Chance

Before Brad Braxton goes to a gangster's final destination, he has a choice to make.

Vocal Folk

Say Word! lets poets speak out.

Rescuing a Samaritan

Denver lends a hand to a hero who took a bullet.

Street Wise

Robert Duran got jacked up. Then he grew up.

And the Award Goes to...

Robert Duran got jacked up. Then he grew up.

Dealing With the Devil

Brandy DuVall went through hell before she died. She left no angels as witnesses.

The Whole Enchilada

Brandy DuVall went through hell before she died. She left no angels as witnesses.

The Buddy System

They met because they wanted to fight gangs. Ten years later, Leon Kelly and Lloyd Lewan are a gang of two.

QUEEN FOR A DAY

PICKING A WINNER HAS BECOME A ROYAL PAIN FOR THE MISS BLACK COLORADO PAGEANT.RAGE BEFORE BEAUTY IT'S GETTING UGLY AT THE MISS BLACK COLORADO PAGEANT.

Tonight: Elvis Dumervil puts those long arms to use at 8 Rivers

​Elvis Dumervil, the Denver Broncos sacking machine who will be a starter in the 2010 Pro Bowl, puts those long arms to use from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight at 8 Rivers, where he'll be bartending to help raise money for Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives, a group he's been working with for the past eig ... More >>

Governor Bill Ritter pardons Reverend Leon Kelly and nineteen others

Leon Kelly.​Governor Bill Ritter today issued full pardons to twenty people around Colorado, including the Reverend Leon Kelly, who has been a well-known public figure and anti-gang crusader since 1986 when he founded the Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives. Kelly, whose late father was also a ... More >>

Bill Ritter plays it safe on pardons

Governor Bill Ritter​In their last days in office, some governors have been known to make bold moves in the criminal justice arena, denouncing ruinous policies and commuting long sentences as a way of highlighting unfair biases in the system. As demonstrated by the modest set of pardons he d ... More >>

Donny Andrews & Andrew Matson: Two friends doing "dumb things," two different outcomes

Donny Andrews.​"Hello, my name is Donny Andrews. I am a first-time, non-violent offender who has been in prison for 23 years on an 80-year sentence... I came to prison at 20 years of age in 1989, and I am now 43 years old." Thus begins a recent letter of appeal from Andrews, a former small-t ... More >>

Terrell Griswold: Mother questions inmate's "natural" death in private prison

Griswold.​On October 28, 2010, a 26-year-old inmate named Terrell Griswold was found slumped over and unresponsive in his cell in the Bent County Correctional Facility, a private prison in southeastern Colorado. The official cause of death is listed as cardiac hypertrophy, or an enlarged heart ... More >>