Rio Grande County and the City of Monte Vista, in southeastern Colorado, have agreed to pay $290,000 plus several thousand dollars in additional costs to settle a lawsuit over a police home invasion two years ago that resulted in shoulder surgery for an elderly man who was body-slammed by two cops shortly after being tased by a third.
The Colorado Sun, a fledgling online news operation that’s making its official debut today, may be deploying an innovative blockchain funding model, but in many respects, its initial offerings are more about the past than the future.
The excitement over new Denver Broncos starting quarterback Case Keenum’s regular season debut against the Seattle Seahawks was transformed into equal amounts of glee and anxiety during the September 9 contest. Keenum helped create plenty of highlights en route to a 27-24 victory, but his three touchdown passes were offset by a trio of interceptions so unfathomably stupid that fans on Twitter were left to wonder whether their new signal-caller is a gridiron genius or a ham-handed surgeon who specializes in ripping hearts out of chests without anesthetic.
The first Jason Margolies Golf Tournament will raise money to cover bills.
The three victims were all homeless, but there’s much more to their story.
Denver is widely regarded to be among the more liberal major cities in the United States. But it’s also home to Colorado Christian University, which the research website Niche just ranked the seventh-most-conservative American college — and it’s among the fastest growing, too.
The real story revolves around the city’s role in creating a split in the surrounding neighborhood favoring gentrification and ignoring the value of community.
Interested in working in legal weed? It pays to know which positions to pursue.
A rabbi for 32 years and the head of Denver’s largest synagogue for nine, Joe Black would only marry two Jews, and if someone in the faith wanted to wed a gentile, he or she would have to convert before he presided over the wedding.
Today, September 7, Democratic leaders and gubernatorial hopeful Jared Polis’s campaign hosted a press conference on the GOP state treasurer’s parking spot at the State House to make a point about Stapleton’s supposed regular absences from work.
The defense attorney accuses the DA of trying to “do the bidding of the Trump Administration.”
More often that not, those of us who live in Denver and other sizable communities in Colorado and beyond are being watched by cameras maintained by each municipality and mounted in busy public areas. Now, cops in one Front Range community want to expand the network by supplementing their own surveillance gadgets with privately owned ones.
Between all the snow and ice, sidewalks in Denver can be slippery nightmares come winter. Which got us thinking: What’s going to happen to electric scooters, the newest mode of rentable transportation to hit the streets, in the winter?
“Denver is becoming more diverse, but that is not reflected on TV and in our TV news departments in front of the camera — and perception is reality.”
House Democrats are pressuring the EPA to establish a maximum contaminant level for PFAS chemicals.
David Reid Ross became the official Republican nominee for state representative in House District 12 after winning the primary in June. But after Westword revealed racist and homophobic content from Ross’s personal blog, The House of David, the Colorado Republican Party has tried to distance the organization from him. That’s left Ross with intestinal distress.
“Minorities and people of color haven’t benefited from legal marijuana as much as I’d hoped.”
The Denver Police Department has arrested and named a suspect in the shooting deaths of three individuals experiencing homelessness whose bodies were found in early August near the South Broadway and I-25 interchange.
Artists Patrick Kane McGregor, Mike Giant and Jason Garcia are creating a massive piece at 35th Street and Chestnut Place.
The Denver District Attorney’s Office has announced that the fourteen-year-old suspect in the August 28 shooting of a student outside the DSST Cole Middle School has been charged with felony first-degree assault and a misdemeanor gun-possession count in juvenile court. But with the victim still in critical condition more than a week after the incident, a spokesperson for Denver DA Beth McCann is non-committal about a possible transfer to adult court should the situation change.
At this year’s Rocky Mountain Showdown, fans showed up hours before the game, took out their grills, and started drinking. Typical for a college football pregame, some fans drank a bit too much.
A new study ranks Colorado as the top state in the country for high earners and affluent families, also known as rich people.
