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Heroin deaths in Denver are up 933 percent over fourteen years, and the heroin fatality numbers for Colorado as a whole are nearly as shocking, with a 756 percent rise since 2001 and a recent rate of increase that outpaces the one in the Mile High City. But considerably more people in Denver and Colorado are dying each year from other opioids, including methadone and prescription drugs such as Oxycontin and Fentanyl, than perish because of heroin use. And while the upticks in fatalities aren’t as sharp as the ones related to heroin, they’re still substantial. In Colorado, deaths from opioids other than heroin are up 128 percent from fifteen years ago, while Denver’s fatality total has risen by 372 percent.

The Denver Zoo is laughing off a Saturday Night Live skit about the facility, even though the focus of the routine was a fictional “animal pornographer” whose seemingly benign responses to a reporter played by host Scarlett Johansson were graphically depicted as describing acts of bestiality.

California-born Andrew Garcia, a member of the U.S. Army stationed at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, is the tenth person to die following an accident at a Colorado ski area during the 2016-2017 season. He passed away several days after a crash while snowboarding at Buttermilk, an Aspen Skiing Company resort.

Boulder’s Becky Ann Lee is a self-proclaimed psychic. But she apparently wasn’t able to foresee what would happen to her after she bilked a heiress to the LaCoste clothing fortune out of more than $232,000.

Of the nine deaths related to accidents at Colorado ski resorts during the current season, four are tied to Breckenridge. This represents an unfortunate trend: Four skiers also died at Breckenridge last season, out of nine across the entire state, with all of the incidents at Breck taking place during last March or afterward. That adds up to eight Breckenridge-related deaths in approximately one year and nearly half the current official total of eighteen fatalities during the past two seasons combined. No other Colorado resort, and there are over two-dozen of them, appears to have suffered more than one casualty. Yet after multiple contacts from Westword in recent weeks about the rising number of recent tragedies, Breckenridge’s only response has been a statement that essentially blames the victims for their own deaths.