Back in March, we shared a photo gallery of criminals with Colorado connections who landed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List during the roster’s sixty-year history. But the FBI’s Denver branch has a most wanted list of its own — four murderers and one attempted murderer whose capture remain…
It’s a tough real estate market — but the City of Denver is still hoping to unload Cableland, a spectacular mansion donated by the late cable magnate Bill Daniels to serve as the official mayoral residence. Not that either Wellington Webb or John Hickenlooper chose to live there. Instead, the…
The folks at FantasyHumor.com have turned their attention to Denver — but they’re a little behind the times with the May 18 post headlined “Denver’s New Stadium Bums Out Kickers.” We’re willing to overlook the fact that the latest Broncos stadium debuted in 2001 because of the excellent, DIA-inspired graphic…
Usually, the FBI doesn’t highlight bank robbers until after the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force has given them a nickname — like the H1N1 bandit, the Tom Thumb Bandit, the Band-Aid Bandit or the alleged (and just-captured) Portfolio Bandit. But in the case of the three men who robbed…
So, your ex-boyfriend was a jerk. Maybe he was even one of the fine specimens on our Top 10 Bad Boyfriends list. After putting up with his crap for far too long, you kick him to the curb. Two months later, you’re in the pet-food aisle at King Soopers. As…
Jarrad McKay, 21, and Matthew Baker, twenty, haven’t been accused of committing the perfect crime. Instead, they’ve been charged with taking part in a really stupid one — and then making it jaw-droppingly easy for the cops to bust them for it. Early this morning, officers from the Boulder Police…
Paonia’s Paolo Bacigalupi, profiled in Westword as “the hottest writer in sci-fi” a couple of weeks ago, just got hotter. His first novel, The Windup Girl, just won the 2010 Nebula Award for Best Novel from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The Nebula is one of the…
In February 2009, the Rocky Mountain News died just shy of its 150th anniversary, and even though the surviving Denver Post has picked up more of the tabloid’s audience than anyone other than MediaNews Group’s Dean Singleton would have guessed, big challenges remain, as editor Greg Moore made clear in…
When most observers consider Denver’s most powerful websites, they frequently overlook Associated Content — and that’s a mistake. The project, which got its start in former Westword profile subject Luke Beatty’s basement circa 2004, has a simple concept: AC pays contributors fees for content based on how many people look…
Denver blogs specialize in mile-high items. Climb up and take a look at these. At MaxDenver.com, Andrew Mason notes the quarterback pecking order at the Broncos’ ongoing passing camp: “First: Kyle Orton, sixth season. Second: Brady Quinn, fourth season. Third: Tom Brandstater, second season. And finally Tim Tebow.” Want to…
On May 17, 2009, Westword launched Mile High Murder, a blog category tracking homicide in the seven-county Denver/Boulder metro area. Over the next year, we wrote about ninety different murders — all of them shocking in their own way. On May 17, 2010, year two of this project began with…
MMJ advocates have greeted the passage of HB 1284, a bill to regulate the medical marijuana industry, with cheers (from CMMR’s Matt Brown), boos (courtesy of Cannabis Therapy Institute’s Laura Kriho) or a blend of both (Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente sees it as a mixed bag). As for law enforcement…
Littleton Leaf Blower Real Name: Charlie Blosten Occupation: Public Services Director Suburb of Operations: Littleton, Colorado Hair: Steel Blue Eyes: Cupola Cams Super powers: The Littleton Leaf Blower channels pure willpower in the form of hot air. This willpower can be used to do just about anything, from convincing City…
Colorado rolled into the history books last week as the first place to codify a statewide marijuana distribution system, thanks to the passage of House Bill 1284 and Senate Bill 109. Both laws will take Colorado’s convoluted and confusing medical marijuana industry and… make it convoluted and confusing in a…
Republican senatorial candidates Ken Buck and Jane Norton are fighting over Sarah Palin in the strangest kind of way. During a Monday radio appearance on KRAI radio in Craig,, Buck seemed to say Palin would be “rude” if she endorsed Norton during a Saturday event at Magness Arena — the…
University of Colorado sociologist Tim Wadsworth says it was “complete and utter happenstance” that his study about immigration was released just as debate over the issue is at its most contentious. “It was accepted for publication [by Social Science Quarterly] last October and was put in the lineup. I don’t…
Littleton’s Michael Alan McDougall didn’t hide from the lights and lenses of TV cameras after being accused of murdering his pregnant wife, Jennifer, in a Houston suburb by shooting her in the abdomen — nor did he dodge the question of why he’d done so. Instead, he smirked and declared,…
Just prior to Mother’s Day, members of the Denver Police Department discovered a scene unfit for any greeting card. Charlene “Chuck” Ciacio, 84, was found dead, and her son, 47-year-old Michael Ciacio, was taken into custody in relation to her killing. Michael Ciacio has now been formally charged with first-degree…
The three bodies found yesterday at Boulder Stove & Flooring have now been identified as co-owners Sean and Staci Griffin and Rob Montgomery. According to the Denver Post, Montgomery was the store’s health-products specialist; he’d worked as a software specialist for two decades. In an interview yesterday for the post…
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has been spending a lot of time on the Gulf Coast lately, dealing with the noxious plumes (environmental and political) spewing from the Deepwater Horizon oil leak. In the past few days, the Secretary has had photo ops with oil-slimed pelicans, issued his umpteenth…
A Denver law firm is suing the U.S. Securities and Exchange commission for its refusal to release the names of top officials who were caught regularly using government computers to access pornography. Calling the senior officials “voracious voyeurs of pornographic and sexually explicit websites,” law firm Steese, Evans and Frankel…
Our friends at TMZ.com share a fresh Hawaiian shot of a very odd trio — hometown hero Dog the Bounty Hunter (who did his best to keep crash-happy Jerrad Leonard off the streets) and his wife, Beth, snuggling up with none other than George Clooney. TMZ’s comment: “Someone’s definitely going…
