Standing in a Boulder courtroom on a blustery Friday evening, waiting for the jury to return with its verdict, Jennifer Latham feels a knot twisting in her stomach. She thinks she might throw up. She takes a few deep breaths. The nausea passes just as the jury starts filing in…

The company that took away Jennifer Latham’s health insurance has had many names in the past 118 years. It began operations in Wisconsin as the LaCrosse Mutual Aid Association. By 1905 it had moved its headquarters to Milwaukee and evolved into Time Indemnity. Over the years, Time has absorbed other…

In the absence of any explanation from the cops who beat him, local artist Eric Winfield has turned to social media to pose a simple question about the events of October 27, 2007: Why? That was the night the Boston Red Sox shelled the Colorado Rockies 10-5 on their way…

Four years ago, in a feature called “Over and Over Again,” I reported on the staggering number of nonviolent offenders stuck in Colorado’s revolving-door version of parole — and costing the state millions of dollars. Exhibit A was an alcoholic parolee named John “Jake” Johnson, who’d been arrested in 1999…

Deciding on one of the largest punitive damage verdicts in Colorado history, a Boulder jury has awarded $37 million to a mother of four whose health insurance company refused to pay medical bills after she was severely injured in a 2005 auto collision with a meth dealer who was fleeing…

Davies loves a good debate. The avid Denver Post reader posted 624 comments in response to articles on the newspaper’s website during a nine-month period that started last February — an average of fifteen comments a week — on topics ranging from Afghanistan to global warming, campaign finance to Xcel…

Just a few hours after touching down in Denver, after a week of performing emergency amputations in a makeshift operating room in Port-au-Prince, local surgeon Scott Burke was trying to catch up on his sleep and rid his mind of the grim images of the devastation in Haiti. Most of…

Prisoners send me all kinds of weird crap. I’ve gotten medical records sealed with toothpaste. Lists of DEA informants on toilet paper. Hair samples from a supermax inmate who wanted them tested to prove that the staff was trying to poison him. And lots of bad drawings, some even intentionally…

Amid a stampede of controversy over the government’s effort to remove 2,500 wild horses from their historic range in Nevada, the Bureau of Land Management has announced two more roundups scheduled for later this year. One roundup targets more than 500 horses near Ely, Nevada, and will leave a herd…

A couple of eons ago, I got my first introduction to hard labor as an ill-paid apprentice on my uncle’s ranch in southern Colorado. I herded and branded cattle, hauled feed, chopped the ice that covered the water tanks and pulled bawling calves out of the mud. It was brutish,…

Get in serious trouble, go to prison. Get into some bad shit inside prison — attacking staff, running heroin, or maybe somebody doesn’t like your gang tattoo — and you go to the hole, also known as solitary confinement or (in prison speak) administrative segregation. Reporting what goes on inside…

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar says his energy plan will bring more certainty to the way public lands get leased and drilled, but it’s hard to say who’s paying attention. During a teleconference yesterday to announce the reform package, many of the reporters on the horn were more interested…