At first, the Denver Police Department inquiry into the passing of seven-year-old Montbello resident Jordan Vong was termed a “death investigation.” But now, the DPD is revealing that a sixteen-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder.
On Friday, August 10, a news conference has been scheduled to discuss new developments in one of the metro area’s most tragic homicide cases: the 1984 hammer murders of parents Bruce and Debra Bennett and seven-year-old daughter Melissa, as well as horrific injuries sustained by the Bennetts’ three-year-old, Vanessa, who survived.
Late August 7, Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen confirmed that the body of seven-year-old Jordan Vong had been found.
Tonight, August 8, Boulder County Democratic Socialists of America members are sponsoring “What Is Socialism?,” an event intended to teach folks in the community what socialism means, as well as to offer a vision of what a socialist Boulder County might look like.
Last month, metro Denver rent prices hit new heights, with no end in sight. So it’s a pleasant surprise that the latest data shows a moderating of rates across the Mile High City and its closest neighbors. Indeed, the costs in several places are actually lower now than they were at this time last year, making them relative bargains by comparison with the communities nearest them.
The office of Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, who earlier this year was accused of sexual harassment by a Denver police detective who’d worked for him, dodged an investigation by the Denver City Council for his behavior even though it appeared to violate city rules. Now, new policies put forward by Hancock’s office say that he will face a non-Council third-party inquiry, but only if he sexually harasses in the future.
The recently issued Denver Opioid Strategic Response Plan is an attempt to stem the opiate epidemic, and Lisa Raville, executive director of the Harm Reduction Action Center, who participated in the report, sees it as a step toward helping those with addictions rather than demeaning them.
A recent study demonstrates how enormous the gap is between those with incomes in the top 1 percent and the other 99 percent in cities and counties across Colorado.
When Jolon Clark proposed a new sales tax to improve and expand parks in the Mile High City, he was a Denver City Council member. Now, he’s the council’s president, and he’s thrilled that his colleagues have voted to place the measure on the November ballot.
According to one real estate expert, a rising number of Denver metro-area entrepreneurs have moved beyond house-flips to tear-downs, an increasingly lucrative practice that entails purchasing a home, destroying it and building a new, higher-priced structure in its place.
Ground has finally been broken on the massive Central 70 project, which the Colorado Department of Transportation expects to take four-to-five years to complete. Here’s a timeline of CDOT predictions about where, when and how the undertaking will spool out.
During a startling news conference yesterday, Aurora Police Chief Nick Metz essentially argued that the actions of Richard “Gary” Black, Jr., who had just gunned down a naked home intruder trying to kill his grandson, caused an officer to fatally shoot him.
Even though Colorado’s economy continues to boom, plenty of folks in the state are still struggling to climb the economic ladder. A new report about Colorado’s middle class explains why.
In a result that’s sure to stir frustration and confusion among alumni from the University of Denver, the University of Colorado Boulder and plenty of other institutions across the state, a new analysis names Colorado State University the best four-year college in Colorado.
This afternoon, Aurora Police Chief Nick Metz is expected to hold a press conference about the police shooting of 73-year-old Richard “Gary” Black, who was killed while defending his family from a naked home invader identified as Dajon Harper, 26. Metz is expected to address the fact that one of the officers involved in the Black tragedy had taken part in a fatal gun-down just 34 days earlier.
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Clint Eastwood has just wrapped up two days of shooting in Colorado on his next movie, The Mule. Eastwood’s visit was unexpected, admits Colorado Film Commissioner Donald Zuckerman, since last year, the general assembly slashed the amount of film incentive money by 75 percent, essentially bringing a previous upswing in the number of Hollywood productions in the state to a grinding halt.
Colorado Senate President Kevin Grantham’s GoFundMe campaign to finance a portrait of President Donald Trump to hang in the State Capitol has raised more than $6,300 toward a goal of $10,000, the amount needed for commissioning the artwork.
Denver NORML executive director Jordan Person and six other members of the organization recently returned from a lobbying trip to Washington, D.C., and based on her experiences, members of Congress are not just more comfortable talking about marijuana issues these days. They’re really into it.
In recent weeks, we reported that metro Denver rents had hit new heights with no end in sight. But the scale of these increases remains surprising, and worrisome, too. Indeed, a new report reveals that the price of renting a one-bedroom apartment in Denver went up by a higher percentage from month to month than any other city in the country.
The case of the late Jeffrey Scott Lillis is one of three current complaints against Colorado counties in relation to inmate deaths at facilities that contract health care services to private corporations attorney David Lane accuses of putting profits ahead of proper care.
The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office has instituted a new protocol that allows people who had been taking Methadone and the like to help them kick their habit to keep doing so while they’re behind bars.
The most dangerous time to drive in Denver is between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m., when more than 1,300 accidents typically take place every year. That breaks down to an average of nearly four accidents during that hour span every single day.
