Prosecutors in the James Holmes case can access Holmes’s application to the University of Colorado, documents relating to his withdrawal from the neuroscience program just weeks before the Aurora theater shooting and campus police records they say they “probably” have, Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester has ruled…
James Holmes’s lawyers are asking to postpone a hearing set for October 25 because they need more time to prepare. One of the main reasons given for this request involves the amount of time it takes to deal with media requests that additional information be made public…
How do Colorado’s working poor feel about Obama and Romney? Today’s London Guardian seeks an answer. Reporter Gary Younge spoke to people at a Fort Collins food bank like Mark Weaver, an ex-human resources manager and chair of Loveland’s Chamber of Commerce. “It was very humiliating,” he says of going…
Update below: The families of the twelve people who died in the Aurora theater shooting and the victims who were brain injured or paralyzed will split 70 percent of the $5 million left in the Aurora Victim Relief Fund, while those who suffered less severe physical injuries will share the…
Tomorrow night’s episode of the CBS true-crime show 48 Hours will tell the story of Brittney Brashers, a 21-year-old Air Force member who was beaten and choked to death by her boyfriend, Robert Walters, in November 2009. Walters tried to cover up the murder by making it look like a…
Update below: Prosecutors say victims of the Aurora theater shooting are “severely concerned” about their own safety and for that reason, the names of all victims and witnesses in the case should be kept secret. The argument came in response to a request from several media outlets to release the…
Ken Feinberg, the “special master” of the Aurora Victim Relief Fund, stood Thursday night in a suit and tie before a couple dozen theater shooting victims at the Aurora library and explained his idea for doling out the more than $5 million in donations to the fund: The “bulk of…
Mimi the Denver Zoo elephant is now eating bagels in heaven. Mimi was euthanized Tuesday after what the zoo describes as “a natural decline in health.” At 53, she was the oldest elephant at the Denver Zoo and the seventh oldest zoo elephant in the entire country. Mimi had been…
Attorneys for accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes have answered the question we posed last week in this headline: “Should law enforcement be punished for releasing strange new mug shot?” The answer is no — at least according to Holmes’s lawyers, who were the ones asking for the punishment in…
Update below: Families representing eleven of the twelve people who died in the Aurora theater shooting have asked Colorado’s attorney general and secretary of state to investigate Community First Foundation and its website, GivingFirst.org, which collected more than $5 million in donations to the Aurora Victim Relief Fund. The letter…
When we arrived at work this morning, we were greeted by a mound of yellow gelatin that was cold to the touch and sitting upon a black plastic food tray ringed with leafy green garnish like a church-picnic dessert gone horribly wrong. Lying atop the slimy heap was a DVD…
It’s been thirty years since Denver’s 16th Street Mall opened for business, and this week’s cover story “It’s a Mall World After All!,” takes a look at the attraction’s past, present and future. That future includes new life for Denver Union Station, the 131-year-old train station at the west end…
Mike White is searching for answers. To find them, he hopes to return to the Aurora theater where a gunman opened fire on White, his family and others who’d come to see the July 20 midnight premiere of The Dark Knight Rises. “I’m not sure what the questions are,” White…
Releasing a second mug shot of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes violated the case’s gag order, Holmes’s attorneys argue in a new motion. A judge has granted their request for a hearing to investigate. The mug shot was “leaked to the media” on September 20, Holmes’s attorneys say –…
Claudia Folska, Westword cover girl and a candidate for the RTD Board of Directors, has a variety of interests. In college, she started a nonprofit called Eyecycle that pairs sighted people and blind people on tandem bicycles. After college, she biked from Pakistan to China. This past spring, she earned…
On Friday, July 20, the day authorities say James Holmes opened fire during a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises, John Resig posted a note theCHIVE.com, the wildly popular photo website he founded with his brother. “If any of the victims or family members of victims are Chivers (or…
A motion made public today in the James Holmes case references “the notebook and the burnt currency” when discussing whether a package sent to a psychiatrist who was seeing Holmes should be subject to doctor-patient privilege. Much of the document is redacted, including the psychiatrist’s name, though she’s been identified…
Update below: Law enforcement investigated motions filed by someone impersonating a victim in the James Holmes case, prosecutors say in one of 57 documents made public. As Westword previously reported, at least one of those motions is truly bizarre, claiming that Holmes is being “framed by Philip Anschutz, police chief…
This morning, the court released more than fifty documents in the James Holmes case that had previously been kept from public view — dating all the way back to Holmes’s application for a public defender on July 20, the day prosecutors say Holmes shot and killed twelve people and injured…
Claudia Folska’s resume is impressive. In college, she started a nonprofit. After graduate school, she biked from Pakistan to China. This past spring, she earned a dual doctorate from the University of Colorado. And best of all, she once groped Arnold Schwarzenegger — a feat she jokes that she could…
Claudia Folska offers her elbow to her companion and leads him through a pedestrian tunnel that connects a noisy light-rail platform to a parking lot. The tunnel is dark and wild inside. A cacophony of recorded bells and whistles echoes off the walls, which are decorated with long tubes of…
On the same day that a new, wild-eyed mug shot was released of James Holmes — one that shows his hair close-cropped and returning to its natural dark color — the accused Aurora theater shooter has been charged with ten additional counts of attempted murder at the request of prosecutors…
