On Saturday, Joseph Owen Coy was accused of a racially motivated attack on Olubiyi Ogundipe for allegedly punching the Nigeria-born CU student amid slurs about monkeys and worse — but Boulder Police didn’t know if Coy’s two companions would face similar charges. Now, one of them — Zachrey Harris, 21…
When methheads start cooking their own product, they’re rarely as fastidious as Walt and Jesse in Breaking Bad. The cost of decontaminating a former lab can run into tens of thousands of dollars, as detailed in my feature “Toxic Shock.” And sometimes the best option is to raze the place…
Our latest feature story, “Andrea Merida’s Classroom Behavior Has Earned Her a Seat Apart on the Denver School Board,” profiles Merida, the controversial DPS board member who, in ten months on the board, has butted heads with administrators, stood up for teachers when no one else would, and survived two…
Dr. Louis Hampers, the Children’s Hospital ER doctor charged with writing 654 fake prescriptions, appeared for the first time in a Colorado court today after being arrested in Virginia on September 7. At a 2 p.m. hearing, Magistrate Judge Kathleen Tafoya denied him bail…
As recounted in the July feature “Up from the Ashes,” northeast Park Hill residents are hoping the site of Holly Square Shopping Center is ready to turn the corner after years of drug deals, gang skirmishes and, most recently, a gang-related arson attack that leveled the strip mall. The first…
Back in February, Nicholas Lorenzo was accused of stroking his meat while behind a meat counter at a Louisville Safeway. Today, he was reportedly sentenced to five years probation, 48 hours community service and a spot on the sex-offender registry — hefty punishment for what was presumably only a few…
Tonight, several medical marijuana attorneys host a fundraiser for Boulder DA Stan Garnett, who’s challenging Attorney General/MMJ-law hater John Suthers. Garnett’s now publicly criticizing a ruling forbidding marijuana grower Chris Bartkowicz from using a medical defense in his high-profile case. In a release, Garnett also urges Suthers to intercede with…
Want three Denver blog posts? Got ’em for you. Purple Row’s Russ Oates has the sad task of recapping the Rockies’ second loss to the Diamondbacks in a row. Eeesh. Colorado Pols notes that Ken Buck was MSNBC personality Keith Olbermann’s second worst person in the world the other night…
This dispensary has closed. In “Mile Highs and Lows,” Westword offers a no-holds-barred look at what goes on behind the locked doors of marijuana dispensaries, whether they resemble swanky bars or a dope dealer’s college dorm room. See our updated dispensary list here, and keep reading for William Breathes’s review…
Today’s entertainingly pissy political pissing match pits Clear the Bench Colorado’s Matt Arnold, who wants to throw the bums off the state’s supreme court, against Colorado Ethics Watch, which filed a campaign-finance complaint against Clear the Bench in May. The issue? Legal bills Arnold says he’s owed — ones that…
“Hi, I’m Ken Buck! As we move toward the general election, you Tea Party fuddy-duddies who are in a snit over my ‘evolving positions’ need to know that I still want want to have a political relationship with you. However, we can no longer be an exclusive item. In order…
Richard Belzer, a TV mainstay thanks to the Law & Order franchise (he’s currently a regular on Special Victims Unit), got his start as a standup comic. But don’t expect lotsa chuckles at the debate he’ll moderate at this weekend’s Plant Medicine Expo & Healthcare Provider Conference. Because he’s very…
David Rangel, the third area teacher busted for alleged improper relations with students in four months, appeared in Weld County District Court yesterday, where bond was set at a whopping $100,000. That’s a big number for a guy who told police that while he kissed and groped a teenage student,…
More dizzying twists in Carmelo Anthony trade rumors. This week, we’ve been told the New Jersey Nets are his choice, in a likely concession to his fame-addicted reality-TV-star wife La La Vazquez — only to hear Chicago is really his top pick. But are the Nuggets pushing for a pact…
We’ve often made sport of Denver Post and ESPN vet Woody Paige. But when he’s not cobbling together forced riffs and calling them columns, he can be a moving writer. Think of his 2006 piece about his sister’s losing battle with cancer — and today’s effort about late Bronco receiver…
On Monday’s Oprah, host Oprah Winfrey spotlighted the new documentary Waiting For “Superman”, which examines charter schools and America’s troubled public-education system. Along the way, she opened her pocketbook and gave $1 million to six impressive charters — among them the Denver School of Science & Technology. Below, Bill Kurtz,…
High profile medical marijuana grower Chris Bartkowicz won’t be able to use the state’s medical marijuana laws as part of his defense in federal court, a judge ruled yesterday. Bartkowicz was arrested last February after showing off his grow operation to a local television news crew…
The Downtown Denver Partnership has been working to upgrade the quality and quantity of the sometimes sketchy, sometimes boring vendors and carts on the 16th Street Mall, but its flashiest new pick-up to date just packed up and left. The NewsCube, which opened at the end of August to glowing…
Andrea Merida blows through the back door of the sunny conference room at Denver Public Schools’ Balarat Outdoor Education Center. She’s in a huff. She’s spent the past few hours in the car, hunting for the place, which is an hour and a half northwest of Denver and is perched…
“Spreading Her Wings,” Patricia Calhoun, September 9 A New Life I had to respond to your story “Spreading Her Wings.” It was very well-written, but hard to read due to my tears! This story should be published nationwide: Our country desperately needs to revamp the so-called “social/human services” that left two…
A Pinal County sheriff’s sergeant is discussing Deputy Louie Puroll, who famously claimed on April 30 that a Latino drug smuggler shot him in the desert. “I can’t speak for our sheriff ,” Dave Hausman says, “but I can speak for our unit, and the sheriff can slap me later…
You can find just about everything you want at Mile High Marketplace, that collection of kitsch north of downtown Denver at I-76 and 88th Avenue that’s long been a local institution (and in our hearts, will always be known by its old name, the Mile High Flea Market). Just about…
