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    March 21, 2012

    Tonight: Author Amy Reading explores Denver's con-artist past

    In 1919 rancher J. Frank Norfleet got swindled twice by a roving group of slick con artists, who cleaned him out of $45,000 with a fake stock-exchange scam similar to the "Big Con" operation in The Sting. But rather than embrace defeat, Norfleet became the "boomerang sucker." He spent the next four ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Top 10 gambling movies of all time

    ​This week's cover story, "All In," focuses on the work of University of Denver professor Robert Hannum, who's been researching the mathematics of gambling and the science of poker for almost two decades. Of course, we all know (or think we know) something about Las Vegas casinos and card game ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    Colorado's No. 1 in fraud complaints: Greeley, Boulder, Fort Collins & CO Springs in top 15

    ​Statistics compiled by the Federal Trade Commission show that Colorado had the highest per-capita rate of consumer fraud complaints in the nation last year. According to the FTC's Consumer Sentinel Network report for 2010, Greeley, Boulder, Fort Collins and Colorado Springs all ranked among t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2009

    A Van Cise reprise in the Justice Center debate

    Philip Van Cise. As Christoper Osher reports in this Denver Post article, Mayor John Hickenlooper has added one more to the list of candidates whose names might end up on portions of the new city justice complex: Van Cise. Gangbusting DA Philip Van Cise, the son of a prominent attorney and father o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    No justice for Van Cise?

    A task force has named four finalists in the naming-rights battle over the new Denver Justice Center -- and historic gangbuster Philip Van Cise isn't among them. To those who know anything of Van Cise's remarkable but much-neglected story, the news is a bit puzzling, and disheartening. Not that t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    Justice Center campaign goes straight to video

    In the battle over naming rights for Denver's new Justice Center, two clear favorites have emerged: Dale Tooley, the city's district attorney for much of the 1970s, and Philip Van Cise, the one-term DA of the 1920s who busted a sophisticated ring of con artists and took on the Ku Klux Klan. Tooley w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2008

    Name the new Justice Center for somebody just enough: Philip Van Cise

    Philip Van Cise. On November 19, Mayor John Hickenlooper sent out the formal invitation, inviting locals to come up with names for the two new buildings that will comprise the Denver Justice Center Complex. But the behind-the-scenes maneuvering to find the right name has been underway for some ... More >>

  • News

    February 7, 2008

    Phil Van Cise: Scourge of Denver's Underworld

    Fearless DA Phil Van Cise cleaned up Denver — and it cost him his career. Can a new justice center right an old wrong?

  • Calendar

    October 27, 2005

    Ghoul Crazy

    Dr. Colorado leaves no tombstone unturned.

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