Patrick Engle has been sentenced to 96 years in prison for a March 2016 crash that killed young mom Jessica Holman. He’s one of four people sentenced in the case, which involved a stolen truck, a police pursuit, a lying mother and grandmother and Engle’s past as a habitual criminal.
A real estate pro recently argued that renting makes more sense than buying in Denver right now, particularly for newcomers to the area, because an increase in the number of available rental units is finally leading to better deals. But while August rents in many metro communities are actually down from last month, or rising at a more modest pace than during the craziest periods of the past few years, they’re still up in almost all parts of metro over this time last year for both one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments, sometimes by double-digit percentages.
This week, attorney David Lane expects to file a motion to dismiss charges against members of the Colorado Springs Socialists, a student protest group, over a March demonstration in Colorado Springs on the grounds of “outrageous conduct” by local law enforcement. The reason? Lane argues that undercover officers were improperly embedded among the non-violent protesters, whose largest offense at the rally appears to have been jaywalking.
Will CBD trigger a positive result in a drug test for THC? The answer isn’t cut and dried, but there are ways to avoid it.
Leadership and staff at the Denver Veterans Medical Center gathered on Wednesday, August 23, to draw attention to what they are calling chronic under-staffing in not only their Veteran’s Affairs (VA) hospital but others around the state and country.
It’s not easy to prove that Mayor Michael Hancock and his minions are violating the Denver City Charter in their pursuit of a $300 million stormwater diversion project, but opponents of the controversial project have managed to keep things interesting in Denver District Court this week.
Veteran journalist Peter Marcus is leaving the ambitious ColoradoPolitics.com website he helped launch last November in favor of a communications director position with Terrapin Care Station, a marijuana dispensary chain that’s spreading beyond Colorado. And in explaining the factors that led to his decision, he makes an observation that speaks to the divergent trajectories of the two professions.
Jefferson County Public Schools was awarded $825,164 by the Colorado State Board of Education last week as part of an effort to support emotional and social health among students — and marijuana paid for it.
Yesterday, August 22, a U.S. District Court judge sentenced Highlands Ranch resident Caroline Zarate Boyle after she pleaded guilty to ripping off her former employer, the U.S. Postal Service, by pretending to have cancer. This admission and the punishment she’ll receive as a result, outlined below, have earned her a place in the Colorado Cancer Faker Hall of Fame, which has inducted seven members in the past eight years.
Commerce City Kush, a creation of Denver breeder Rare Dankness, hasn’t achieved stardom yet – but this hyper-local indica definitely has widespread potential.
Colorado fourteeners are gorgeous, but they can also be deadly. Since caution is key when attempting to summit these magnificent peaks, we reached out to Lloyd Athearn, executive director of the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, who offers the following ten tips for challenging Colorado fourteeners safely.
Dixie Brands is voluntarily recalling some of its edibles products because of the presence of non-food ingredients, according to the Denver Department of Environmental Health and confirmed by Dixie.
Like so many others, we succumbed to a last-second urge to head north out of Colorado into the path of totality, traffic warnings be damned. Four and a half hours and one fender-bender later, we see the total eclipse.
On July 11, when Ed Perlmutter announced that he was dropping out of the 2018 Colorado governor’s race, he also said he wouldn’t run again for U.S. representative in the state’s 7th Congressional District in part because “there are a lot of good people in my race…. Sometimes you need to move on and somebody else needs to come in.” But yesterday, Perlmutter revealed that he’d changed his mind and will now seek reelection to Congress. This decision has caused three of those good people to step aside, including state senator Andy Kerr, who abandoned ship this morning, August 22. That leaves outsider candidate Dan Baer as the only 7th CD Democratic hopeful other than Perlmutter left standing, and his campaign’s comments about the latest developments are far from unequivocal.
Steve Myers changed his name to Steve Swarup Jackson and taught English for four and a half years at Yeshiva Toras Chaim, an orthodox Jewish school on West Colfax.
In Colorado, which has an extremely healthy economy but ranks 42nd in educational funding per pupil, teachers such as Stuart Sanks are increasingly turning to online crowdsourcing and benefit events to pay for school supplies or student extracurricular activities. And that’s not to mention how often they’re reaching into their own pockets to make sure the kids they teach are getting the scholastic opportunities they deserve, whether they’re part of a comparatively wealthy demographic or not.
Infused-tablet company Stratos and medical marijuana evaluation clinic Holos Health have been hosting a series of “Cannabis 101” classes for the public at Balfour Senior Living residences.
Denver’s housing market has been red hot for the past few years, with buyers of more modest means often finding themselves priced out of properties thanks to bidding wars that routinely generate over-list offers. But as indicated by the presence of a “Price Reduced” sign on a home in a sought-after part of Centennial, as seen in the photo above, this situation may finally be about to change.
At an event last week, Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks revealed that he had battled through an addiction to opioids. But he declined an interview request from Westword to talk in more detail about this ordeal, which came about as a result of treatment for cancer, even though opioid deaths are on the rise in Denver and across the state.
What are the best pot-infused edibles to help with insomnia? Our Stoner is here to help.
Just over a month after Ed Perlmutter dropped out of the 2018 race for Colorado governor and announced that he wouldn’t seek reelection to Congress in the state’s 7th Congressional District, he has changed his mind. Perlmutter has now declared that he will indeed make a bid to stay in Congress, contradicting earlier statements about making room for new blood.
Crow is shaping up for his first-ever political fight as he prepares to take on Levi Tillemann and David Aarestad in the primaries next summer before potentially challenging Mike Coffman next fall.
