When we posted a mug-shot roster of Denver sex offenders who’d failed to register earlier today, we had no idea we’d be establishing a theme. But this blog was followed by items about two sex offenders in Boulder — one who molested a woman while she was in bed alongside…
On December 30, a woman was found dead in her home at 14192 W. 4th Avenue in Jefferson County, an area captured in the graphic on view below (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). The victim was subsequently identified as Alisha Brown, 30. More than…
There’s something obviously disgusting about a woman rallying her friends and family around an illness she invented, raising money for treating cancer when it’s nothing but crazy that infects her body. But what’s even more punch-yourself-in-the-face mind-boggling about the crime committed by Tausha Marsh, who this week pleaded guilty to…
Yesterday, AM 760 host/columnist David Sirota and Colorado Springs city councilman Sean Paige took part in an on-air debate, with the honor of Colorado Springs at stake. But while the program has ended, the scrap isn’t over, with Paige continuing to take swings at Sirota in a new, insult-laden Huffington…
“What I’d really like to do is propose a bill that would require the state to keep all of the babies delivered to unwed mothers in public hospitals, and sell them on the open adoption market. It’s time for Colorado to turn the cycle of poverty into the cycle of…
In today’s Denver Post, columnist David Harsanyi argues that the debate over medical marijuana is dishonest in part because advocates actually want legalization — a goal that might be hurt by the passage of Representative Tom Massey’s medical marijuana bill, because it would give dispensaries a monetary incentive to fight…
At this hour, Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis is in Pueblo to make a speech about what he considers to be job-killing tax increases on candy and other items that were passed by the Colorado senate on Wednesday. And according to McInnis spokesman Sean Duffy, he thinks he might have…
Remember Gino Rael? He’s the convicted sex offender accused of trying to recruit underage girls in letters written from jail — and while he insisted in court that he was actually targeting women of legal age, a judge pointed out that descriptions such as “I like skateboards, robots, fighting pirates”…
Early yesterday morning in Boulder, a college-age woman living in an apartment on the 1800 block of 22nd Street awakened to find a man’s hands in her underwear — and although her boyfriend was sleeping beside her, the hands weren’t his. According to Boulder Police Department spokesman Sarah Huntley, the…
The Denver Police Department’s sex-offender registration unit has released an updated roster of sex offenders who’ve failed to register. And it’s not short. There are well over 100 individuals on the list: some who look scary as hell, others who appear relatively benign (and are therefore arguably scarier). Page through…
Did you know that today is officially Colorado Loves California Day? No joke. Well, actually, it sorta is one. This is the second year that Colorado has proclaimed its lust for the Golden State — the idea being that if we suck up to Cali, businesses there might expand here…
NFL fan sites have been abuzz about rumors that the Broncos are interested in trading for Philadelphia QB Donovan McNabb ever since an ESPN report mentioned the possibility. Broncos sources swear nothing along these lines is happening, but ESPN Radio’s Amy Lawrence thinks it should be. During an overnight broadcast,…
This week’s cover story, “You’re in Bad Hands,” follows a Lafayette woman’s four-year battle with her health insurance company after a devastating car accident left her seriously injured, saddled with hundreds of thousands in medical bills — and a canceled policy because of Assurant Health’s profit-minded approach to the controversial…
These days, everyone who sends a child off to school worries about safety — and that’s doubly true in Colorado, where the word “Columbine” hasn’t called the state flower to mind for more than a decade. So imagine how Boulder High School parents felt when they received a letter from…
Last Friday was a very big day in Denver transit. The feds announced $304 million in loans for Union Station, completing the funding necessary for the new transit hub, as well as essentially committing to a $1 billion injection over several years for several future FasTracks rail lines. That means…
Here are three things bloggers are writing about Denver stuff today. Ian Henson at Bronco Talk shares a report that the Broncos might be for sale, with Stan Kroenke potentially an interested party. Maybe Pat Bowlen doesn’t want either Kyle Orton or Donovan McNabb working for him… The Denver PR…
How bad is the blood between the current leadership of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 and Crisanta Duran, former UFCW associate counsel and daughter of ex-union boss Ernie Duran? So bad that at a meeting earlier this week, the executive board rescinded its endorsement of her candidacy for…
That didn’t take long. Yesterday, we told you about the search for Timothy McGlothin, who authorities (and members of a grand jury) believe was part of bank-robbery group dubbed the Hoppin Hooded Bandits, for the way they leapt over counters to collect their loot. Well, McGlothin was subsequently grabbed at…
Our roster of “Mile Highs and Lows” dispensary reviews has just grown by one, thanks to the publication moments ago of the Wildflower Seed’s critique of One Brown Mouse/Cannabis Healing Arts. And after learning more about this Nederland locale, check out Westword’s newly updated dispensary directory. More information is just…
This dispensary has closed. As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred…
Sensing a shortage of lists in popular culture, The Daily Beast’s Tunku Varadarajan has put together a roster of “The Right’s Top 25 Journalists,” based not necessarily on the quality of their work, but on the influence they wield over the masses. And guess who’s number six: None other than…
Colorado’s political stars will shine as the candidates in the U.S. Senate race take to the stage. Don’t be surprised to feel that you’ve seen it all before… In western wears and folksy airs, the seven Republican candidates (from left to right: Gary Kennedy, Vincent E. Martinez, Steve Barton, Jane…
