Update below: Prosecutors in the case of James Holmes decided to drop their request for immediate access to the notebook the accused Aurora theater shooter sent to Dr. Lynne Fenton, who’d acted as his psychiatrist. But prosecutor Rich Orman said at a hearing held this morning that he thinks it’s…
Kim Cordova, the former Safeway bakery clerk who defeated longtime union boss Ernie Duran in 2009, has won another term as president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7. Cordova’s battle for the union’s top spot was detailed in our cover story, “Flour Power.” She promised to eradicate…
Fight Back Colorado, a group devoted to defeating anti-civil union lawmakers, has announced its first target: Representative Robert Ramirez, a Westminster Republican who narrowly won his race two years ago and who Fight Back Colorado says flip-flopped on civil unions. The group has sent mailers to voters in Jefferson County…
There has been a birdnapping on Bannock Street. Carlos Botran was in a meeting on September 6 at PivotPoint, a web and graphic design business at 1150 Bannock Street, when he believes someone came through the front door and took Alex, a 25-year-old African Grey Parrot who lived at the…
Now that the Sugar House is closed and the Scarlet Ranch has moved to Littleton, there’s a void in the Denver swingers’ club scene, says promoter Sante Suffoletta. Starting October 5, he hopes to fill it with Friday swingers’ nights — called Menage — at Jet Hotel & Lounge. “There’s…
Update: We’ve obtained the probable cause statement in Denver Police Officer Celena Hollis’s death. See it below earlier coverage. Original post, 6:59 p.m. September 13: Rollin Oliver, accused of murdering Denver Policewoman Celena Hollis, admitted to officers that he fired at least two shots on June 24 in City Park,…
Update: Rich Audsley, speaking for the 7/20 Recovery Committee, has released a statement responding to criticism from families of Aurora theater shooting victims. It’s included after our original coverage. Tom Teves, the father of Aurora theater shooting victim Alex Teves, lambasted the way Giving First, a program of the Community…
Mimi the elephant is in the twilight of her elephant life. Zookeepers’ best guess is that she’s 53 years old, which easily makes her the oldest Asian elephant at the Denver Zoo and means she’s surpassed the average elephant life span of about 44 years old. As such, Mimi has…
Rickey Servine, Jr. has been charged with sexual assault and false imprisonment for “violently and aggressively” assaulting a female client of Rocky Mountain Offender Management Systems in Aurora, according to Officer Frank Fania, spokesman for the Aurora police. Servine, 35, worked for the company, known as RMOMS — which provides…
Editor’s note: With Peyton Manning’s regular-season debut for the Broncos set for Sunday, we offer this (hilarious) (and helpful!) Peyton primer by Melanie Asmar that first appeared last March. Hello, Denver sports noobs. Perhaps you’ve heard of a new man-about-town named Peyton Manning. No, no — he’s not the guy…
In May 2008, Crips gang members burned down the Holly Square Shopping Center in northeast Park Hill. More than four years later, the scorched earth is experiencing a rebirth. On Saturday, The Prodigal Son Initiative, a youth organization headquartered across the street, is leading a clean-up effort to make way…
The Scarlet Ranch swingers club, which moved last year from Denver to Littleton, won’t be getting an infusion of city money anytime soon. Last night, the city council narrowly rejected a $42,500 settlement agreement to resolve a federal lawsuit alleging that in May 2010, Denver police “illegally entered, searched and…
Getting a DUI is expensive. Dan Beeck, who owns one of Colorado’s biggest private probation companies, had that in mind when he started providing often-required alcohol education classes and therapy for cut-rate prices. But as explained in our cover story, “Blow Back,” not everyone was thrilled with his plan. Some…
James Holmes “had conversations with a classmate about wanting to kill people in March 2012” and “made threats to a professor” at the University of Colorado according to a motion written by prosecutors (and on view below). The motion, which was made public today, says “evidence gathered so far” includes…
Editor’s note: Yesterday, our Melanie Asmar was in the courtroom when a prosecutor said James Holmes had been banned from the University of Colorado the month before he allegedly killed twelve people and injured 58 at an Aurora theater. Afterward, a CU spokeswoman said that’s not the case. Learn more…
Dan Beeck knows how expensive it is to get a DUI. As the owner of one of Colorado’s biggest private probation companies, Rocky Mountain Offender Management Systems, he contracts with six of the state’s 22 judicial districts to monitor mostly first-time DUI offenders. In addition to fines, each one is…
Should House Speaker Frank McNulty work as a fry cook at a certain “hate chicken restaurant”? Fight Back Colorado, a group devoted to defeating lawmakers in November’s election who voted against a bill to legalize civil unions, wants to know. Though the group hasn’t announced which lawmakers it will target,…
Bill Sullivan, the subject of our story “Operation Cock Block,” is in trouble again. The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced fraud charges against two men, William P. Sullivan and Michael Turnock, for allegedly carrying out a $15.7 million Ponzi scheme involving a Denver-based company and more than 120 investors…
James Holmes’s own “confidential defense expert” has a right to be present during evidence testing if the testing will destroy the evidence but not otherwise, a judge ruled today. Holmes, 24, is charged with 24 counts of murder and 116 counts of attempted murder in the July 20 Aurora theater…
A hearing to argue whether a doctor-patient privilege exists between accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes and Dr. Lynne Fenton, the University of Colorado psychiatrist he was seeing, has been postponed. Originally scheduled for Thursday afternoon, prosecutors asked that it be delayed until next Thursday, August 23, because they say…
In 2002, we reported that former P.S.1 charter school principal Stephen Myers resigned his principal job in Massachusetts after he was accused of making inappropriate comments to a male student — an allegation that didn’t surprise his old P.S.1 colleagues. Now, Boston Magazine has written an in-depth story that quotes…
A total of 34 motions were made public yesterday in the case of James Holmes, accused of the Aurora theater shooting. Much of the court file remains sealed, but Arapahoe County District Court Judge William Sylvester also released the register of actions, a chronological list of all actions in the…
