The skier who died at Breckenridge on March 8 has been identified as Derek Cressey, a 38-year-old “gentle giant” from Windham, Maine. And the outpouring of love and loss that followed the news of this young father’s passing speaks to the impact he had on friends and loved ones during his too-short life.
The March 2 resignation of Manual High School principal Nick Dawkins and his subsequent assertion that he “was targeted by those that called me a nigger and vowed to bring harm to me” after reports of a confederate flag at a Manual-Weld Central High School football game last September was preceded by a Denver Public Schools investigation into an alleged hostile work environment, as he has acknowledged. According to multiple sources, staff concerns about Dawkins included inappropriate sexual and racial comments, his lack of discretion about sensitive personnel matters (including copying others on an implicit job threat to a staffer on family medical leave), and his disappearance after a meeting in which he accused DPS of compiling a secret dossier on him due in part to complaints from white women.
Innocent as it may seem, caucusing isn’t without controversy. Some argue it’s an archaic, unnecessary step, and other say it’s a cornerstone of democracy.
A new organizer is planning an event for April 20 in Denver Civic Center Park.
“Colorado has its own race to run. We can’t afford an Olympic-size distraction,” says Dick Lamm.
One of legal marijuana’s growing justifications is a potential to combat America’s opioid crisis, but anti-pot groups are claiming just the opposite.
The Colorado Hemp Institute hopes to be one of the country’s first nutraceutical and medical hemp research and treatment facilities.
Extraction Oil & Gas was the operator of the Windsor drilling site when it went up in flames on December 22. More than two months later, the company still doesn’t know exactly what happened that night, according to its preliminary report.
A 23-year-old CSU student was arrested on two charges today at a proposed drilling site next door to Bella Romero Academy for protesting the fracking activity and what he called “environmental racism.” Now, he’s facing his first court hearing on March 9, and he will be in police custody until he can post bail.
There’s a new 4/20 event at Civic Center Park this year, and it’s bringing along some big names with it.
Gary Cruz, a popular Denver sportscaster during a reported seventeen-year run that included parts of three decades, has died of cancer in Arizona at age 68. And while he’s been off the Mile High City airwaves for more than a generation, he remains well remembered among many local viewers.
Rich Wyatt, the star of American Guns, a once-popular Discovery Channel program that showcased him, his telegenic family, including wife Renee and kids Paige and Kurt, and his business, Wheat Ridge’s Gunsmoke Guns, has been sentenced to 78 months, or six-and-a-half years, in prison for conspiring to deal firearms without a license and multiple tax charges. The verdict, which comes nearly a year after he was found guilty of these offenses, represents the ultimate comedown for a once-prominent TV personality who rubbed shoulders with celebrities such as rock star Ted Nugent and even a former President of the United States, George W. Bush.
A thus-far-unidentified male skier died at Breckenridge ski area yesterday, March 8. He is the first fatality at Breckenridge during the 2017-2018 season but the tenth since 2015-2016. In addition, the skier is the third person to lose his life on or near Breckenridge’s Peak 8 during that span.
New DPS head Troy Riggs promised a new era of transparency during a meeting with journalists on Thursday, March 8, and had Sheriff Firman provide jail assault stats to prove his point.
Operating a legal cannabis business comes with a unique allure, but it also comes with a lot of obstacles and head-scratching.
The voters of Colorado got together Tuesday night to start the process of electing the state’s next governor — or at least some voters did. Back in 2016, energized by what they thought was going to be a banner year for Democrats in America’s highest office (surprise!), caucus attendance numbers were some of the highest ever — which meant that about 13 percent of active voters participated. That’s a pretty low number to label high.
Last week was Erik Soliván’s last as a City of Denver employee. On Wednesday, March 7, he sat down with Westword to talk about his future.
In early 2016, we told you about the Western Slope arrest of former Texas death-row resident Claude Wilkerson for allegedly keeping a woman chained to his bed and repeatedly raping her. Just over two years later, Wilkerson has agreed to a plea deal in the case, and it’s a sweet one. He’s admitted guilt to a pair of lesser charges, for which he’ll serve just six years behind bars and three on probation — an astonishingly brief sentence given the initial description of his crimes.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock’s apology for sending inappropriate texts to Denver police officer Leslie Branch-Wise in 2011 and 2012, when she was on his security detail, has sparked renewed interest in reports from that same period of him having been a client of the Denver Players/Denver Sugar prostitution ring. How did Hancock skate out of trouble back then? A recording of a conversation between Scottie Ewing, the enterprise’s central figure, and the Denver Post’s Chuck Plunkett, now the paper’s editorial page editor, demonstrates how Denver’s power elite managed to prevent Hancock, the mayor-elect at the time, from being brought down by the scandal. And you can bet similar dynamics are at play today in regard to the Branch-Wise matter.
On February 6, as we’ve reported, 24-year-old Sam Failla was declared dead just outside Vail ski area, where he worked as an instructor. Today, the circumstances of Sam’s tragic passing, and particularly the eleven hours or so that elapsed between an exhausted companion’s first 911 call and the discovery of Failla’s body in a stream only about a mile from the base of a major ski lift, remain mysterious. And while the investigation is ongoing, John Failla, Sam’s father, believes multiple opportunities to save his son’s life were missed.
Seeds are harder to cultivate and don’t always produce a female plant, but they’re much easier to ship or travel with.
A hundred firefighters battled a three-alarm fire at a construction site at 1899 North Emerson Street in City Park that broke out Wednesday afternoon.
