TrueCrimeReport.com, a national crime website by Westword parent Village Voice Media, has been giving Colorado unwanted attention. Three weeks after Tim Masters case detective James Broderick finished first on the site’s weekly Top 5 Police Blunders list, the Denver Police Department has reached number one for its continuing hit streak…
Yes, it’s only the pre-season. But anyone who’s ever gone to Invesco Field when the Broncos have played the Pittsburgh Steelers — most notably during the 2006 AFC Championship game — knows how frustrating it is to see as much black and gold as blue and orange. Steelers fans show…
Fresh developments in two cases involving alleged child molesters from religious backgrounds with a past in Colorado. This week, a judge declined to toss a lawsuit against Father Mark Matson, who’s accused of molesting a teenage boy at a Denver boarding school circa the ’70s. And William Muller, a Catholic…
Denver Manager of Safety Ron Perea’s resignation does not take effect until August 31, 2010, which leaves plenty of time for local law enforcement personnel to stage a beat-police support rally! While citizens were sickened to watch the video of Denver police beating a man in Lower Downtown, and appalled…
HB 1284, the medical marijuana regulatory bill signed into law by Bill Ritter in June, is so complicated that many of its elements still aren’t widely understood by MMJ patients and caregivers — or people who are both. Consider the plight of one patient-caregiver, who recently learned he’ll have to…
Nothing gets journalists more hysterical than perceived attacks on journalism. It’s no surprise, then, that an announcement the University of Colorado at Boulder was considering discontinuing its journalism school in favor of a new media entity prompted big play for panicky pieces implying that the move was another sign of…
Looks like Three Dog Night was right. Apparently one really is the loneliest number. The folks at SeshRoulette.com realize that and have made it their mission to end solo marijuana smoking through video chat. Much like the infamous (and currently on-hiatus) Chatroulette, webcam-using tokers are randomly paired up…
Plenty of bad Nuggets news lately. Note that Carmelo Anthony is reportedly demanding a trade, and Denver cops are looking into assault allegations against J.R. Smith. No wonder the most prominent item on the team’s website is the naming of the 2010-2011 Nuggets dancers. There’s a lot of youth on…
As speculation ramps up about where Carmelo Anthony will be traded (not if), ugly reports have surfaced about another Denver Nugget who may not be long for the team: J.R. Smith. But Smith attorney David Lane says assault accusations made against him are without merit and predicts they’ll go nowhere…
Early last week, we argued that Carmelo Anthony was as good as gone from the Denver Nuggets — and while some locals continued to fantasize about Melo signing a $65 million contract extension, it’s time to stop dreaming. A persuasive Yahoo! Sports report makes it clear that new Nuggets GM…
On Monday, we shared videos of rioting in Old Town Fort Collins and noted that local police were studying such footage in an attempt to identify participants in the free-for-all. Now, the Fort Collins Police have named seven people (only one a CSU student) they’ve accused of riot-related crimes to…
A few months ago we first reported on the “labia lift” — an extremely invasive search process that the Colorado Department of Corrections has started using at its Denver women’s prison. Now the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado has taken notice — and demanded that the DOC immediately halt…
Tim Tebow makes the ladies weak in the knees, and elsewhere: After he was announced as a new spokesmodel for Jockey, one online commenter declared that looking at Tebow’s photo triggered “multiple, small orgasms.” And that appeal can become a religious experience — hence Tebow’s recent naming as “Single Christian…
Have three Denver blog posts for ya. Denver Stiffs’ Nate Timmons has the skinny on Masai Ujiri, just named the Nuggets new general manager. Job one: Get Melo inked. Good luck with that. Colorado Education News’ Robert Reichardt believes our state can’t win Race to the Top. Or place. Or…
Earlier today, we told you about a gun found in a kindergartener’s backpack in Lakewood. And it hadn’t been brought to school for show and tell. Now, more details: The person who allegedly left the gun in this spot is James Chavez, 27. The gun was loaded — and the…
This just in: William Breathes’s latest medical marijuana dispensary review, of VIP Wellness Center — which didn’t leave him feeling very important. You may have better luck at other centers listed in our comprehensive online listings. Click to access our newly updated medical-marijuana directory…
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 dispensary list here, and keep reading for William Breathes’s review of…
The Dan Maes campaign may think his comments about Denver’s B-Cycle program being a United Nations plot have been overblown by the media — but they aren’t going away, as our slideshow of the Denver Cruisers’ UN-inspired bike ride proves. Still, the funniest iteration thus far is a mock-Maes commercial…
Aurora Wraptight Real name: Ifiok Etuk; Occupation: Soul feeder; Suburb of operations: Aurora; Eyes: All-seeing; Hair: All-growing Suburban superhero skill: After years of thankless toil in the corporate ranks of Taco Bell, Aurora Wraptight learned that his path to true happiness would actually start by selling his delicious homemade burritos…
Yesterday, Governor Bill Ritter and Colorado School of Mines President Bill Scoggins revealed the new permanent location for Colorado’s “Goodwill” moon rock. From now on, you’ll be able to find the once lost and recently found rock at the School of Mines’ Museum of Geology…
Dr. Ned Calonge, the Chief Medical Officer of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, is leaving his post in November to serve as president of The Colorado Trust. Below, Calonge talks in detail about the decision to rejoin the private sector, his goals at the Trust, and his…
Yesterday, Cannabis Therapy Institute’s Laura Kriho criticized Governor Bill Ritter’s proposal to use $9 million in medical marijuana fees to help make up for a budget shortfall. But Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation’s Matt Brown, sees the move as evidence medical pot is becoming increasingly entrenched in the system. “It…
