We tend to think of videos made by public agencies as staid, safe and dull. Not so the latest clip from the Denver Police Department showing law enforcers simulating an active shooter situation in a building at the old University Hospital site. The footage includes gunshots, explosions, hysterical screaming, open…
Update: The man found dead on the 6800 block of South Broadway on June 25 has been identified as Martin Graw, 55. See our previous coverage below. Original post: The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a death in Littleton last night that’s described as suspicious in nature. Does that…
Back in March, we told you about the arrest of sex offender Jaacob Vanwinkle following the murder of a woman and her two kids in Canon City. The person who led to Vanwinkle’s arrest was a sixteen-year-old who he’d allegedly raped. Now, court documents reveal Vanwinkle’s plan to enter a…
TripAdvisor has come up with its choices for best landmarks and parks in the U.S. and the world — and one in Colorado finished very, very high on the list. How well did it do? Count down the photo-illustrated top ten below, featuring TripAdvisor text and links to each location…
Yesterday, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled that same sex couples have a right to marry under the Constitution — and even though that judgment was stayed owing to the metaphysical certainty of an appeal, Boulder immediately began issuing marriage licenses based on the decision. The…
In recent months, we’ve been inundated with allegations of police officers breaking bad in a big way. Note the seven Denver cops to get in trouble in 2014, another Denver officer who blamed his DUI on an imaginary friend, and an ex-cop from Walsenburg accused of dealing heroin. The latest…
A recent Comment of the Day in which a reader suggested that people from Nebraska need to get high in order to stand living there prompted posts from those who love and loath the Cornhusker State. But the following note strikes a nice balance between these positions — and adds…
Denver blog posts don’t have a hole in the middle. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun shares the opinion of a reader who sees a connection between Westword’s coverage of two topics: marijuana and doughnuts. Colorado Peak Politics notes that neither the Tea Party nor the establishment dominated in…
This week, future presidential candidate (we’re pretty damn sure) Hillary Clinton and her hubby, Bill, are in Denver hosting discussions and events for the Clinton Global Initiative — a display of political star power that recalls the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Photographer Jake Shane was on hand at one of…
Moments ago, the Republican National Committee announced that it had narrowed its list of finalists to host the 2016 GOP convention to two: Dallas and Cleveland. That means Denver’s out (along with Kansas City). That’s undoubtedly good news to the guy who called the Mile High City a “liberal shithole”…
Last summer, we told you about a fatal crash following a Grand Lake 4th of July fireworks display for which Lucas Ackerman had been accused of vehicular homicide, a felony, as well as driving under the influence. But what initially seemed like a straightforward case has become unexpectedly complicated. Earlier…
We’ve been reporting about a triple shooting at Red Rocks last week in which hip-hop artist Schoolboy Q was the likely target. Two Westword writers were caught in the delays that followed the incident, including our Bree Davies, who says she didn’t get out of the area until 2:30 a.m…
For those of us who don’t happen to be Swedish, the product names at IKEA can sound sorta…dirty. And the more erotic they seem, the more likely they are to be totally mundane. Don’t believe us? Check out the following ten items, complete with photos of what they sound as…
Update: Last week, we told you about a lawsuit accusing Colorado Department of Corrections personnel with allowing mentally ill inmate Christopher Lopez to die while they watched; see our previous coverage below. Now, attorney David Lane has released a 47 minute video that compiles shocking footage from Lopez’s final hours…
In April, when we posted about what was reported as the second attack on sex offender Zachary Meints in nine days, we noted that the Boulder Police Department didn’t believe there was a threat to public safety “perhaps due to their theory that Meints was specifically targeted, or maybe because…
Congressman Jared Polis is among the majority of U.S. House representatives who voted in favor of defunding DEA raids on medical marijuana businesses in states where MMJ is legal. But even though that effort is currently stalled in the Senate, Polis is trying to push ahead on other cannabis-related fronts…
Our post about the killing of Raymond Garcia, who was hit by seven (of seventeen) shots by Greeley police officers after he pulled a gun during a prostitution sting, prompted reactions that split about evenly between those critical of the cops and readers with little sympathy for their target. The…
Denver blog posts like food for thought and thought for food. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun shares the opinion of a reader who thinks that pound for pound, Boulder is a better food city than Denver. Coyote Gulch confirms that National Weather Service models didn’t accurately predict last…
Last night, despite a protest rally by homeless advocates, the Denver City Council approved a $1.8 million security plan that will add ten new police officers to patrol the Ballpark neighborhood, LoDo and the 16th Street Mall. The group Denver Homeless Out Loud opposed the proposal under the theory that…
Today is primary election day, when voters in Colorado will determine which Republican gubernatorial hopeful will try to unseat Governor John Hickenlooper in November — and to set the stage, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow capped her show last night with a segment interpreting one technique Hick supporters are using to try…
In recent days, we’ve been sharing details from what VISIT DENVER describes as the Mile High City’s most successful tourism year ever; visitor spending in 2013 topped $4 billion for the first time. First up were tourists’ ten favorite shopping and entertainment centers, followed by the 21 cities and states…
As we’ve reported, authorities looking into last week’s triple shooting at Red Rocks now believe the target was likely Schoolboy Q, one of the show’s headliners. He was uninjured, but three other people joining him in a bullet-riddled SUV were hurt. Now, investigators are looking at a possible connection between…
