The infamous anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church — which is currently making headlines for its claim that God was responsible for a mine explosion this week in West Virginia that killed 25 miners — has plans to protest more than a dozen Denver area schools, churches and businesses this month. The…
Update, 4:32 p.m.: Just notified by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office that Merle Allison, who’s believed to be the Limping Latex Bandit, has been captured. Look below the original item to get all the details. As the number of Denver area robberies continue to capture the imagination of TV news…
On April Fools’ day, folks are a little less inclined to believe the bizarre. Your consummate bachelor friend probably isn’t announcing his marriage over Facebook, and Canada most likely didn’t apologize for Nickelback, no matter how overdue it may be. It makes sense, then, that Denver couple Victoria and Tim…
Remember that gut-wrenching paranoia and the adrenaline that ran from your heart to your clinched knuckles as your driving instructor told you to “check your blind spot?” There’s nothing scarier than a two-ton piece of machinery that can top a hundred miles-per-hour and has blind spot. Well, magnify that times,…
A federal class-action suit involving disabled Coloradans — two war veterans with psychological disorders — and their service animals was filed Tuesday against Aurora, the City and County of Denver and its head of Animal Control. The two veterans, and another disabled woman from out of state, say Denver’s controversial…
The Colorado Springs attorney who was the subject of a post yesterday about his refusal to admit a disabled woman and her seeing-eye dog into his office — a decision that ultimately cost him $50,000 — now says he did not violate the Americans with Disabilities Act. Law Week Colorado…
A Colorado Springs attorney accused of violating the Americans with Disabilities act by not allowing a disabled woman and her seeing eye dog into his office will have to shell out $50,000 as part of a consent decree approved by a federal court today. A November 2009 complaint accused Patric…
Last week, we told you about State Representative John Kefalas’ bill to simplify the language in insurance policies, which requires, among other things, that policies be written at a tenth-grade reading level in no smaller than ten-point font — an effort the democrat from Fort Collins says was a response…
The tales of Jefferson County School Board Member Laura Boggs’ “disruptive behavior” around town, including an instance where she reportedly called school “stupid,” rallied a good crowd for Thursday night’s school board meeting. There, the teachers-union group that publishes “Boggs Watch,” an e-mail newsletter chronicling the official’s alleged shenanigans, received…
Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Catholic church and school that was recently the subject of national headlines for its refusal to teach the children of a same-sex couple in Boulder, has now become the target of an abortion doctor in Colorado’s liberal metropolis. He says they’re harassing his patients. As…
In response to numerous reports of “disruptive behavior” by Jefferson County Board of Education member Laura Boggs, a teacher’s union has commissioned a special edition e-mail newsletter, “Boggs Watch,” to document her “rogue” tactics regarding Jeffco teachers. Earlier this month, for instance, Boggs reportedly took over a teacher’s classroom during…
Even as President Barack Obama and a divided Congress are on the cusp of formalizing historic, sweeping changes in the way the country handles health insurance, Colorado Representative John Kefalas, a Democrat from Fort Collins, is looking out for the little guy (he’s barely over five feet tall — but…
This week’s feature, “Battlefield Suburbia,” explores the bizarre and tumultuous battles of metro Denver residents, like those who live at Cherry Creek Farm against their homeowner’s associations and the companies that manage them. There are also scraps going on at Highline Meadows — or as residents call it, “Highline Ghettos.”…
The Man With the Metal Ceiling Bob Tarde has lived in the same one-bedroom apartment in Centennial for more than two decades, plenty of time for him to decorate it with hundreds of forest-scene plaques, “home sweet home” garb and other accumulated tchotchkes. Behind the knickknacks, Tarde has also painstakingly…
Tom and Courtney Myers moved into their home in Cherry Creek Farm more than a decade ago, and for many years, they enjoyed their cookie-cut sliver of the moderately affluent neighborhood. Their split-level house, which they share with their aging black Labrador, Max, boasts glinting dark wood floors in the…
This week’s feature, “Battlefield Suburbia,” explores the bizarre and tumultuous battles of metro Denver residents against their Homeowner’s Associations and the companies that manage them. A proposal making it’s way through the state legislature could address some of the disputes that often result in expensive legal bouts and, in the…
Boulder stay-at-home mom Liz Payton saw a void. And in the age of open source Internet publishing and “net-newsers” who can — and do — discriminate to find only the news they want to read, the retired civil engineer turned website manager and a group of four other civic-minded Boulderites…
Coloradans who read today’s kill-joy piece in the Denver Post, which says one Coloradan dies every hour from cardiovascular disease, might be in need of a little pick-me-up. And we’ve got just what the doctor ordered for Colorado’s heavy-hearted health nuts. According to a recent Gallup poll, Colorado was the…
Personhood USA, a national pro-life group, is gathering signatures in Colorado (again) to secure a spot on the ballot for a voter initiative to redefine the start of a person’s life as the first point of biological development. Weird, right? You have no idea. Most people think abortion rights established…
Last week, we told you about Arthur Bittner, the man who had just been busted for not quite robbing a bank in Aurora on February 25. He may not have been as inept a criminal as it initially appeared; police now believe him to be the H1N1 Bandit, suspected in…
Toyota continues to put out advertisements intended to make up for their bad batches of cars. But the company’s efforts appear to be doing little to slow the stream of angry Toyota owners, especially around here. Case in point: Wayne Harris of Aspen filed a class-action lawsuit against the company…
Somebody’s got a bad case of the Mondays. Denver’s KUSA, better known as 9News, regularly lauds itself as Colorado’s news leader, and if ratings are the only inspiration for broadcast puffery, then sure, we’ll have to give it to them. But a news item posted at 9News.com last week, complete…
