Garage cleanups can lead to strange discoveries — but seldom ones as bizarre as what Arvada’s Sam Eastman found: Hiding behind his toolbox were the cremated remains of a woman entirely unknown to him — Doris Dunkelberger, who died in 1984. Oh yeah: They were in a Tupperware bowl. Presumably…
On Monday in this space, ex-Congressman and former presidential candidate Tom Tancredo called for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to send National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border following the murder of rancher Rob Krentz, presumably by an illegal alien. His plea has now been echoed by none other than…
Like many nonprofits, Colorado Public Radio has suffered financial bumps and bruises in recent years. Back in 2008, Standard & Poor’s lowered the rating on CPR’s 2002 series bonds — the ones used to fund its two-channel, news-and-classical-music network — to BBB-, from BBB. Then, in January, S&P downgraded the…
Another day, another cold case belatedly moved forward by DNA. Yesterday, we told you about Kevin LeWayne McKinney, who’s been charged in the 1998 murder of Diane Caldwell. Today, it’s Roderick Elias, formally accused of murdering 22-year-old Kristen Kay Swanson in 1980 — so long ago that she’d waitressed at…
Update, 4:16 p.m., March 30: The Thornton Police Department has now formally identified Liberty Ledezma as the victim in the Star Point condo complex fire. See the TPD release after the original item, published on March 29. Authorities have not yet confirmed the identity of the young woman who died…
A Colorado Springs attorney accused of violating the Americans with Disabilities act by not allowing a disabled woman and her seeing eye dog into his office will have to shell out $50,000 as part of a consent decree approved by a federal court today. A November 2009 complaint accused Patric…
Cynthia Buschagen isn’t leaving Castle Rock’s Faith Lutheran Church quietly. On Friday, the 66-year old filed a lawsuit against her former employer — as well as its parent organization, Rocky Mountain Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and Faith Lutheran’s pastor, Reverend Michael Knauff — alleging age discrimination. According to…
“That Fireman Who Wants Your Drugs May Not Be a Fireman,” published back in February, noted that drugs had been stolen from ambulances at two Westminster fire stations, along with uniforms. Similar burglaries were reported at another eight metro-area stations. This crime wave was hot — but Westminster Police think…
Welcome to a Denver blog roundup. Rope ’em and tie ’em. In a fan post on Mile High Report, oc60 presents his arguments in favor of the Broncos keeping Brandon Marshall before asking readers to vote to give him another chance or send him packing. The results at this writing?…
Yesterday, ex-Congressman and former presidential candidate Tom Tancredo decried the murder of Arizona rancher Rob Krentz and called for troops to be placed on the U.S.-Mexico border — a wish the Obama administration is extraordinarily unlikely to grant. But Tancredo, who spoke on Saturday at a well-attended Tea Party rally…
Update, 12:34 p.m.: Channel 31 reporter Julie Hayden has responded to an interview request on this subject. Look below the original item to read what she has to say. In an age of shrinking newsroom resources, media organizations are borrowing from each other more than ever before — and that’s…
#13 of the 22 Major Arcana: Josh Penry, the Hanged Man…..
Last week, we told you a story involving Carol “Chay” Burdick, a Boulder resident going to court against her landlord after she was told to remove an Easter display featuring marshmallow Peeps or face eviction. Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait before this sure-to-be-a-landmark legal case is resolved. A two-day trial…
Escape is tough for a lot of zoo animals, since they stand out in urban environments like sore elephants. But because otters are indigenous to Colorado, not to mention small, quick and wily, they have a fighting chance to frustrate would-be captors — which once-and-future Cheyenne Mountain Zoo resident Kitchi…
Duel, Steven Spielberg’s 1971 feature-length directorial debut about a crazed trucker on a smash-and-trash spree, is well worth seeing — but residents of a Longmont neighborhood should probably wait a while before checking it out. After all, many of them just witnessed a version of it live. David Kent, a…
While lawmakers hammer out regulations on Colorado’s nascent yet booming medical marijuana industry, an even bigger political showdown is looming in California, where voters will decide whether to legalize marijuana altogether in the November election. While marijuana activists have been pushing for legalization for decades, some of those associated with…
While the Aurora Police Department still has plenty of work to do regarding a double shooting yesterday at the Sommerset Gardens Apartments, the APD appears to have finally cleared a previously unsolved crime from its books. Diane Caldwell, 47, was found murdered in a field in November 1998 — but…
Jacob Joseph Medina has several distinguishing marks…Update, 6:50 a.m.:The Denver Police Department reports that Jacob Joseph Medina was captured without incident at approximately 4 p.m. yesterday at a business in northwest Denver. Look below to read our original item about the search for Medina, published on March 26. The Denver…
Deadly gunplay erupted in a parking lot near the Sommerset Gardens Apartments in Aurora yesterday. The result: two people dead and two in custody. No members of this quartet have been identified to date. Early reports suggested that the Aurora Police Department was looking for a third suspect, but that’s…
Last week, we told you about State Representative John Kefalas’ bill to simplify the language in insurance policies, which requires, among other things, that policies be written at a tenth-grade reading level in no smaller than ten-point font — an effort the democrat from Fort Collins says was a response…
Remember John Mark Karr? The man who briefly became a notorious in 2006 thanks to CU professor Michael Tracy’s suspicion that he’d murdered Boulder tot JonBenét Ramsey? Well, he’s b-a-a-a-ck. Make that she’s back — at least according to Inside Edition, which is reporting that Karr has changed sexes and…
Those Denver blogs just keep rolling along. Ian Henson at Bronco Talk dissects a message sent out by Brandon Marshall’s PR firm, which sniffs about the absence of “a contract extension commensurate with [his] skills.” He concludes that Marshall is “shady,” calls the message “childish,” and wonders, “Is this a…
