For years now, we’ve previewed games between your Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots in the traditional manner — with memes created by people who truly loathe Tom Brady, the Pats’ ultra-talented but exceedingly irritating quarterback. And since the Broncos and the Pats are scheduled to face off on…
Update: Last year, a series of bank robberies perpetrated by men wearing masks familiar from the movie Scream culminated in a massive manhunt for three suspects, one of whom wound up on the FBI’s ten most wanted list. All three of the suspects — Miguel Sanders, Tyrone Richardson and Myloh Mason —…
This morning, the board of directors for Colorado’s Economic Development Commission approved a rebate of $300,000 for Freak Power, a movie about writer Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo 1970 run for sheriff of Pitkin County to be written and directed by Bobby Kennedy III, grandson of the late Senator Robert F…
Update: In October, we previewed a lawsuit to be filed against the State of Colorado over reports of shocking abuse at the Pueblo Regional Center — claims that included strip searches and genital manipulation of mentally disabled residents. See our previous coverage below. Now, the suit has been filed (it’s also…
Chauncey Billups, a Denver native, is the greatest basketball player ever from Colorado — a star for the CU Buffs and the Denver Nuggets, one of several NBA teams for which he played in a long and distinguished career (including the Detroit Pistons, with whom he won a 2004 championship…
Update: In October, Tyrone Adair Jr., best known to members of the local hip-hop community as BossMan Goodie, was shot to death outside Cold Crush, a venue that was temporarily closed as a public nuisance after the incident; see our previous coverage below. Now, the Denver District Attorney’s Office has announced…
Early next year, Mitch Morrissey will end his term as Denver district attorney — an office he assumed in January 2005. Morrissey’s twelve years in office are among the most eventful of any DA in Denver’s history. Over that span, he earned national attention for his office’s use of DNA…
Denver Broncos lovers like to think of themselves as the best and biggest fans anywhere — but the folks at Fansided don’t agree. A Time Inc. website, Fansided has published the Fandom 250, an unusual project that essentially rates apples against oranges. Rather than using specific categories (fans’ favorite sports…
Our recent post about the Colorado cities that spend the most and the least on the holidays drew from information compiled by WalletHub — and seasonal budget information only scrapes the surface of its data. When we contacted the folks at the site, they provided us with lots of unpublished facts…
Despite providing a home for Mile High Stadium, among Colorado’s most iconic venues, Sun Valley is Denver’s lowest-income neighborhood according to data shared by the office of the city’s mayor, Michael Hancock. But the area has been targeted for economic transformation. Hancock has announced that Sun Valley will receive one…
Comedian and Denver favorite T.J. Miller, who was born and raised in the Mile High, has had a busy past few days. Early Friday morning, according to TMZ, Miller, who is currently co-starring with Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston and plenty of other notables in Office Christmas Party, was arrested in…
As our Chris Walker reported, videos of Denver police officers taking the blankets and tents of homeless people went viral, prompting a letter from the ACLU demanding that such practices end immediately — and over the weekend, Denver mayor Michael Hancock ordered the cops to cease the actions. But it…
In some ways, the Denver Broncos were lucky yesterday, despite the unlucky final results of their game against the Tennessee Titans. The Broncos lost the contest 13-10 — a defeat that exposed the offense, even under returning starter Trevor Siemian, as being incapable of making big plays when they count…
“Dear Trump. I feel sad because you are saying you want to send the Mexicans back. I am Mexican. Plz don’t send my family back. I am really mad. Plz think before you say. I was really scared about what you said on the TV.” So reads a letter to…
Earlier this week, we wrote about the tragic death of Rashaan Salaam, the first Heisman Trophy winner ever for the University of Colorado Buffaloes. Salaam was found dead in a Boulder park on Monday night of a suspected suicide; his funeral service is scheduled for today. Now, ex-Buffs quarterback (and…
For a country rooted in a rebellion, America’s got no shortage of castles. And some spectacular ones can be yours — including one in Denver. Estately recently compiled a list of the most whimsical American castles for sale right now. Among the classically inspired structures highlighted is a Denver-area property…
Since February 2013, we’ve been reporting about the disappearance of Kelsie Jean Schelling, a onetime resident of Denver (she lived in the Larimer Square area) who vanished in Pueblo. She’d headed south to see her boyfriend shortly after learning she was pregnant. In the intervening three-years-plus, the case has gotten…
The election of Donald Trump and his nomination of marijuana-hating Senator Jeff Sessions as attorney general has raised concern among members of the cannabis community about a crackdown on the pot laws in states such as Colorado. Such worries aren’t without merit. University of Denver law professor Sam Kamin recently outlined…
We’ve previously posted about the theory that Colorado drivers are terrible — an extremely important consideration on a day like today, when roads are icy and often treacherous owing to the impact of yesterday’s steady snowfall and bitterly cold temperatures that continue to linger at this writing. Now come facts and…
Yesterday, we reported about longtime 9News anchor Adele Arakawa revealing that she would retire from the station in June 2017 — an announcement she made before she’d planned after the media website FTVLive quoted sources as saying that she was being pressured to take a buyout. She dubbed the piece…
Thus far, Burke Ramsey, brother of JonBenét Ramsey, who was murdered in her Boulder home on December 25, 1996, nearly twenty years ago, hasn’t filed a promised lawsuit against CBS for a docuseries that essentially accused him of murder. But his attorney is shrugging off a dismissal motion from an expert…
The initial report about a death in Boulder’s Eben G. Fine Park was sad but unremarkable. Boulder police announced that the body of a middle-aged man had been found just shy of 9 p.m. on Monday, December 5, but there were no signs of either foul play or an overt threat…
