Yesterday our blogs were feeling nostalgic about 2014. But today they’re all about the holidays — and partying our way from Christmas Eve right into the new year. On Cafe Society, Ben Landreth serves up the top ten spots where you can have a very merry Christmas Eve meal. Our…
In a highly unusual case, a female correctional officer who worked at the state prison in Sterling has been charged with multiple counts of unlawful sexual contact, after inmates reported being groped by the officer during pat-down searches. And one prisoner who claims to have triggered the investigation says it…
Television shows like CSI have given us, the channel-surfing American public, an almost mystical faith in the crime-solving abilities of DNA. We expect the presence of foreign DNA in the victim’s bite wound to nail the perp, and the absence of any traces of the stuff to help absolve the…
This past March, Loveland Police Officer Garret Osilka was shot and seriously wounded during a routine traffic stop. Cody Powell was busted for the crime, and he’s now received a forty-year sentence — one not long enough for many of Osilka’s colleagues. Photos, videos and more below. See also: Garret…
This week’s cover story, “The Coldest Case,” looks back at the still-unsolved 1996 murder of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey — and the long, lonely battle waged by Fleet and Priscilla White, former friends of the Ramseys, to learn how the investigation got so badly derailed. The case had a devastating impact…
Update: As we noted in a December 12 post, Gregory Kilcollins’s Facebook profile photo featured him wearing a hat whose inner brim is emblazoned with the term muerte, the Spanish word for death. Two days later, witnesses say Kilcollins shot up an apartment complex, seriously injuring one man in the…
Yesterday, we told you about an $11 million verdict for Ken McGill, who suffered a stroke while in Jefferson County Detention Center. But the McGill incident isn’t the only jail-related tragedy to spur a multi-million dollar settlement this week. Colorado’s Department of Corrections has reportedly agreed to pay $3 million…
In recent months, officials and marijuana activists alike have been calling for cannabis users to make sure their stash isn’t accessible to children. Alysia Lombard and Mario Hollerway are accused of ignoring that advice and a lot more in relation to their three-year-old daughter, who tested positive for THC after…
Update: We finally know the identities of the victims in the Adams County triple murder for which Furmen Leyba and Gabriel Flores have been formally charged: They are Johnny Angel Gutierrez, eighteen, Jason Albert Quizada, 37, and Jayson Antonio Figueroa, seventeen, Moreover, one person is said to have survived the…
Update: Our post last week about the discovery of a body in a Xenia Street alley (see our previous coverage below) noted the arrest of two men, Yer Zit and Zar Yar, both thought to be natives of Myanmar. Now, the pair have been charged, but not for murder. Instead,…
Last week, Mark Antonation at our Cafe Society blog told you about a man who’d been living in the ceiling of the downtown Yard House becoming trapped in a wall amid flooding that forced the restaurant to temporarily close. Now, that man, Stephen Graves, has been formally charged with several…
At first, police thought the fatal crash that took place near West Harvard Avenue and South Hazel Court had come as a result of a street race like the one that killed Regis University student Rachel Neiman within recent weeks. But family members of the victim, young mom Leann Najera,…
Update: Earlier this week, we told you about a double shooting at Westminster’s England Park that left one man dead and another seriously wounded; see our previous coverage below. We noted that a juvenile had been taken into custody, and he’s now being identified as Israel Maestas, a sixteen-year-old known…
In October, Judge Carlos Amour, who’s overseeing the Aurora theater shooting case, agreed to push back the start of jury selection to January 20, 2015 — the fifth postponement overall. But he refused to move the time for opening statements beyond its previous early June schedule. That didn’t stop Holmes’s…
Update below: Some deaths are so brutal, so shocking to the public conscience, that they seem to cry out for retribution. That seemed to be the case in the fatal trauma suffered by thirteen-month-old Brookelynn Palmer, whose head injuries were so severe that prosecutors maintained she must have been swung…
Female students at CU-Boulder are on alert this morning over disturbing reports about a man who’s been fondling and harassing women near one of the most traveled spots on the campus. Continue for photos, video, a larger version of the sketch above. See also: Gun-Free CU-Boulder Dorms are Target Areas…
KKTV in Colorado Springs didn’t have to look far for a story last night. There was one waiting in its parking lot — specifically what initially looked like an explosive device left in the vicinity of an employee’s vehicle. But it turned out to be a lot less incendiary than…
Chuck E. Cheese restaurants are designed to attract kids — and knowing that, the eatery’s security team has designed safety measures intended to keep perverts away. But that apparently didn’t stop Robert Weber, a sex offender, from getting inside a local branch and inducing a three-year-old girl to perform a…
The body found in a Xenia Street alley late Thursday night wasn’t the only grisly discovery in the metro area late last week. A dead woman was spotted along North Chambers Road in Aurora on Friday morning, with local law enforcers initially expressing exasperation that the incident came to their…
“To say Plaintiff Denny Lovern has a problem with alcohol, and in particular drinking and driving, is an understatement,” notes a recent U.S. Court of Appeals judgment prompted by Lovern’s arrest for crashing into a wall and a fence with a blood alcohol content of .321, roughly four times the…
In his preparations for his attack on his school last December, Karl Pierson developed a hit list of specific students he planned to target and even scoped out in advance the locations where his intended victims could be found. Yet those details were omitted from the official report on the…
There’s a good reason why most people don’t recall the Denver police shooting that killed Joseph Valverde this past July: It took place mere hours before officers killed Ryan Ronquillo at a funeral home staging a memorial service for one of his friends. But even though the Valverde incident was…
