In the late spring of 2015, a home in Greenwood Village was utterly destroyed after Robert Seacat, a suspected Walmart shoplifter, took refuge inside and refused to come out for nearly twenty hours. In the wake of this bizarre episode, the trio that had been living in the residence — John Lech,…
It’s been a rough past few months for the venerable PT’s strip clubs in Denver — and things just got rougher. Early yesterday morning, a shooting took place outside PT’s II, 8315 East Colfax, following a promotion dubbed #selfiesaturday. One man died in the incident, and no suspect information has…
If you think the property in this photo, and the larger ones below, doesn’t look like a typical ranch, you’d be right. But its owner, rock singer Joe Cocker, isn’t a typical rancher. He is, however, downsizing — and that means he’s selling his spectacular spread near Crawford, on the…
A new private-sector security plan for the 16th Street Mall, which includes the hiring of guards who’ll be on duty as soon as this afternoon, has just been unveiled by the Downtown Denver Partnership and the Downtown Denver Business Improvement District. It’s the latest effort to address problems at one of the…
In July, we told you about the death of 23-month-old Jayvion Johnson, as well as the arrest of his mother, Candice Lampley, and her boyfriend, Delonta Crank, in the tragic incident. Early word suggest that the child had suffered serious burns, and a just-released autopsy report has confirmed it. Jayvion…
It’s hitching season for pro football players with Colorado connections. Last week, we shared wedding and honeymoon photos of Broncos receiver Eric Decker and singer Jessie James. Now we’ve got images, a wacky wedding video and more from the Colorado nuptials of Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III and Rebecca…
Earlier this year, Realtor.com named Denver one of the ten best U.S. cities for singles wanting to buy a home. But according to a new study by Zumper, a website focusing on housing and rentals, plenty of them won’t be able to afford such a purchase once they arrive here…
At first blush, a proposed amendment to the Denver city charter seems unlikely to stir passions. But including Denver’s Office of the Independent Monitor in that document is important to the Denver Justice Project, which is planning a rally in favor of such a proposal at 4:30 p.m. today at the…
Yesterday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced that, if elected, he will institute an ideological test for Muslim immigrants and visitors to the United States — or, in his words, “extreme, extreme vetting.” The uproar that followed was undoubtedly familiar to former Congressman Tom Tancredo, who previously ran for president, as…
The folks at O.penVAPE, a Colorado-based manufacturer of vaporizer devices, cartridges and other marijuana-related products, were disappointed when the Denver Broncos declined to consider their proposal to purchase naming rights for Mile High Stadium. But that doesn’t mean representatives of the firm are putting distance between them and the NFL —…
On July 29, we reported that sports columnist Woody Paige was leaving the Denver Post, his newspaper home for the lion’s share of 35 years. In the subsequent Sunday edition, the paper published Paige’s goodbye column, in which he cited memorable pieces (including one in which he revealed that he’d once…
The circumstances of the sexual assault committed by former University of Colorado Boulder student Austin Wilkerson are unique (and distressing). But the outcome — Wilkerson will spend no time in prison for his crime — was all too familiar. An example: In speaking about the sex assault case against Air…
George Brauchler, DA for the 18th Judicial District, is frustrated that Doyle Carmack got no jail time for his sixth DUI conviction — an outcome he associates with a 2015 felony DUI law that has no mandatory minimum provision and is, in his view, inconsistent “with the other sentencing portions…
The varied responses to the death of cyclist Michelle Walters during the recent Ironman Boulder race, as well as Mark Shelton’s vivid recounting of what he describes as an intentional hit-and-run in Denver, indicate that the tension between many drivers and cyclists in the area remains at a very high level. That’s no…
We had a big response to our post revealing the top 29 places people left on their way to becoming transplants to Denver. Ditto for one reader’s essay urging Denverites old and new to get along. One of the comments had a different take. This former Nashville resident is now part of…
In April, as we’ve reported, a Denver police officer, Technician Jeffrey Motz, shot and killed Dion Damon, a man wanted for bank robbery, as he sat in his car near the Denver Art Museum. Damon was unarmed at the time of his death, but Motz said the suspect made a “threatening-type…
It’s an indication of Denver’s Broncos-craziness that on a day when Patrick Roy blindsided hockey fans everywhere by abruptly resigning as the coach of the Colorado Avalanche and local heroine Missy Franklin continued her Olympics swoon in Rio, the Super Bowl champs’ preseason opener against the Chicago Bears was easily…
For any pet lover — hell, for any thinking, feeling human being — the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals video focusing on Thornton’s Jurassic Pets is difficult to watch. The description of the clip, first posted in December 2014 (two months after PETA shared the footage, plus witness…
The collective head of planetary sports media exploded this week when agents for former Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow announced that he’s interested in tackling a career in Major League Baseball and will be holding a try-out for teams later this month. Never mind that he hasn’t played baseball since…
Authorities in Santa Fe, New Mexico recently confirmed that human remains found in wilderness outside the city have been positively identified as Randy Bilyeu, a 54-year-old from Broomfield. In January, Bilyeu disappeared after heading to New Mexico to look for treasure — specifically what’s described as a $2 million cache…
In 2011, Matthew Weatherspoon made headlines in Denver for stabbing his girlfriend’s bulldog puppy — in self-defense, he insisted at the time. Now, Weatherspoon is back in the news — this time for mistreating a human being. According to the 18th Judicial District DA’s office, he was the first person to go…
Last year, Governor John Hickenlooper signed into law a bill that made DUIs a class 4 felony under certain circumstances. Among them: The violation must occur after three prior convictions for DWAI, DUI or DUI per se and the offender’s blood alcohol content has to be at least .15 —…
