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Air Force sex assaults: Prevention chief arrested ten years after scandal at Air Force Academy

The arrest of Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Krusinski on charges of sexual assault in Virginia has drawn condemnation from officials as high-ranking as President Barack Obama, and no wonder. After all, he was the Air Force's chief of sexual-assault prevention. Krusinski is also a graduate of the Air F ... More >>

Edward Montour guilty plea ruling: David Lane on death penalty, James Holmes, "bloody 18th"

At a February hearing, Edward Montour sought to withdraw his guilty plea for a 2002 murder in an effort to avoid the death penalty he'd previously sought. The office of 18th Judicial District DA George Brauchler, who's also seeking death for accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes, argued agains ... More >>

James Holmes prosecutor: "For James Eagan Holmes, justice is death"

Update: After DA George Brauchler announced at today's Aurora theater shooting hearing that he plans to seek the death penalty against James Holmes, Judge Carlos Samour turned his attention to defense attorneys' desire for Fox News reporter Jana Winter to reveal sources who gave her information abou ... More >>

Rocky Mountain Greenway announcement today had a rocky buildup

At 2 p.m. today, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will join Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Governor John Hickenlooper to make a "major announcement" about the Rocky Mountain Greenway, and also celebrate the recent expansion that added 1,200 acres of wildlife habitate to Rocky Flats ... More >>

Spider-Man, X-Men property of Colorado company? Inside Stan Lee Media lawsuit

Could the X-Men and other characters created by Stan Lee belong to a Colorado company? That's the contention of a lawsuit filed here by locally based Stan Lee Media, Inc. against The Walt Disney Company. The suit claims SLMI is entitled to "billions of dollars of profits" from movies and more even t ... More >>

Dick Cheney-Steve Howards case goes before the Supreme Court

Last December, we noted that the U.S. Supreme Court had agreed to hear an appeal by Steve Howards, who claimed that his free speech rights had been chilled by Secret Service agents when he approached then-Vice President Dick Cheney in Colorado circa 2006. Yesterday, the case reached the nation's hig ... More >>

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

Occupy the Courts day, January 20, protests the idea of corporations as people

Bobby Maxwell, fed whistleblower, earns $7.5 million in oil company battle

It took nine years of fighting for money the government insisted it wasn't owed. It probably cost him his job, too. But last week, former federal auditor Bobby Maxwell and the Justice Department finally reached a $26 million settlement with Anadarko Petroleum over underpaid royalties on oil leases ... More >>

Occupy the Courts: Move to Amend announces a national day of protest

​It was the sixteenth anniversary of the Million Man March, October 16, 2011, and thousands gathered in Washington for a ceremony dedicating the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial. Steve Justino, co-chair of Colorado's Move to Amend, remembers sitting by his computer in Colorado losing sleep -- ... More >>

Gay immigrants aren't alone in fighting the "social visibility" criterion in pleas for asylum

​ What does a gay man look like? Or a whistleblower? Or a woman who, were she to return to her home country, would be targeted for female genital mutilation? Those are the questions raised by "social visibility," a criterion adopted by the Virginia-based Board of Immigration Appeals that some ... More >>

Raped and extorted by a prison gang, Scott Howard was called a "drama queen" by corrections officials

Return to Sender

What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the Feds got off their duffs?

Fantasy Voter Fraud

Signed, sealed and rejected: These political activists are rabble with a cause

Edward Nottingham: "Naughty" non-investigation proceeds with relentless inertia

Complaints about former U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham continue to hang fire.​Almost two years ago -- fittingly, on April Fool's Day -- Sean Harrington filed a complaint with the Colorado Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel requesting an investigation of U.S. District Judge Edward Not ... More >>

Sonia Sotomayor could declare martial law on Kevin Orcutt's nunchaku

Ward Churchill to get hero treatment in HBO documentary

Ward Churchill, in an image from HBO's documentary "Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech." Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech, debuts Monday, June 29, on HBO -- and judging by its trailer, Colorado's own Ward Churchill is a significant player in the documentary. The ... More >>

Focus on the Family's nightmare scenario about an Obama victory

America's promise to protect asylum-seekers gets lost in the paperwork

Wayne Laugesen Vs. Richard Baker: The Debate

Best of Denver Winners from 1995

Ah, 1995: a time when entire Best Of categories were devoted to the O.J. Simpson trial, Bernie Bickerstaff and Dikembe Mutombo were still dominating the sports pages, and Mel's Bar and Grill was still new. Check out the winners from our 1995 Best Of issue after the jump.

Blackburned

Who’s the bigger bully — the smartass attorney who scorched the Denver Fire Department, or the fussbudget judge who threw out the verdict?

Carved in Stone

Twenty years after Jim Stone first blew the whistle on Rockwell International, he got his day in court -- the Supreme Court.

Flats, Busted

Lawsuits against Rocky Flats, like plutonium, last forever.

The Message

Is Channel 9 successful because of its people or its system?

The War Within

As America prepares to invade Iraq, female Air Force cadets wage their own battle.

Vendetta

Who's a bigger nuisance -- Douglas Bruce or Denver's property police?

Hot Target

The Rocky Flats Web site is dark -- but terrorists may already have a blueprint for the former nukes plant.

The Media Eye

It never blinks -- even when we wish it would.

Derailing Affirmative Action

Randy Pech says the government's disadvantaged business programs discriminated against his company. This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide if he's right.

Old News

There's nothing pretty about the age-discrimination lawsuit filed by a Denver TV veteran.

Cough It Up

The man who created Josie and the Pussycats can't understand why his girls don't belong to him

Scene From a Mall

Shopping-center execs love getting attention in the media -- as long as they call the shots.

Telling Tales Out of School

After her retarded daughter was sexually assaulted, a mother decided to teach DPS a lesson.

A Failure to Communicate

How confusion and chaos led to a reporter's arrest -- and a First Amendment court test.

Spies, Lies & Portable Tapes

The feds were already suspicious of scientist Wen Ho Lee. Then they discovered he’d downloaded every secret in the nuclear arsenal.

The Case for Safety

Is this a case of an industry policing itself?

Trials and Immigrations

Brandon Marinoff may be Denver's most daring attorney. Just ask his clients -- the ones who haven't already been deported.

If Books Could Kill

Not a Pretty Picture

When you're fighting for artists' rights, things can get ugly.

Grand Illusions

Down in the Dump

How the people of Overland Park were forced to live next door to a radioactive "monolith"-- by the Environmental Protection Agency.

OFF LIMITS

DEAD POETS SOCIETY

JUDGMENT DAY

DENVER ATTORNEY DAVID L. SMITH HAS MADE LIFE A LIVING HELL FOR HIS ADVERSARIES. NOW HE'S FEELING THE HEAT HIMSELF.OUT OF ORDER DAVID L. SMITH SAYS COLORADO'S FEDERAL JUDGES ARE OUT TO GET HIM. HE'S RIGHT.