The tragic death of Michelle Walters during this past weekend’s Ironman Boulder competition returned the spotlight to cycling safety — or the lack thereof. Fatal cycling accidents are a far-too-regular occurrence in these parts, and the risks cyclists face on a daily basis are magnified by bike rage, a phenomenon that…
Days after last year’s Ironman Boulder challenge, competitor Brian Godlove died of causes associated with the race, including dehydration. The latest Ironman Boulder, staged yesterday, brought a different kind of tragedy. McCook, Nebraska’s Michelle Walters, 34, was killed after being struck by a vehicle during the race. Thus far, the Colorado State…
Conejos County Sheriff’s Office The official search for Mr. Keller has been suspended but the investigation is continuing. We have exhausted the search resources available to us for the time being and have uncovered no information that would lead us to believe that continuing to search right now is the…
Last December, statistics showed that Colorado is the second fastest growing state in the country (behind only North Dakota) thanks to the addition of more than 100,000 new residents between July 2014 and July 2015. And a large percentage of them wound up in the Denver area. But where did they…
Two years ago, when Joseph Valverde was shot and killed by a Denver police officer in broad daylight at a public park, the incident got less attention than might otherwise have been the case — and for a very unusual reason. A short time after Valverde’s death, on the same July…
Oh what a difference a few months make. In early September, running back Montee Ball was a member of the Denver Broncos squad that would go on to win Super Bowl 50. Now, however, he’s a free agent without an NFL job, as well as an arrestee charged with battery…
“You,” says the Grand Junction woman in a Facebook video. “Your kind. You’re the ones that gives brown people the bad name. Just fucking want to get something for nothing. Well, get your ass a job if you don’t have one.” At that point in the clip, which is on view…
Today brings the opening ceremonies of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — and while many will be watching to find out if the games turn into a literal shit show (thanks to reports about water tainted by feces), those of us in Colorado have another reason to…
When recent CU Boulder graduate Josie Valadez Fraire made plans to take part in a July 1 demonstration against Donald Trump, the featured attraction for the Western Conservative Summit at the Colorado Convention Center, she expected merely to add her voice to those of fellow protesters unsettled by the presumptive Republican…
Frank Turner, who joins Flogging Molly at Red Rocks on Monday, August 8, doesn’t hide his feelings — and that makes some people uncomfortable. Over the course of his prolific solo career, launched after a memorable stint as lead vocalist for the incendiary act Million Dead, Turner has established himself…
On Sunday, your Denver Broncos will be playing the Pittsburgh Steelers in a huge playoff game for everyone concerned, including standout wide receiver Demaryius Thomas. But the contest will be even bigger for Thomas if another possibility falls into place. That’s because it appears his mom, Katina Smith, will be in…
When most folks think about bad behavior at Rocky Mountain National Park, they picture the likes of Casey Nocket, who recently admitted to defacing the park with her art (she typically used acrylic paint rather than chalk) and then sharing photos of her vandalism on Instagram. But there are plenty of…
Sometimes Colorado seems like its own country. And there’s a reason for that. Colorado is actually larger than some of the most famous countries in the world — so much so that several of those nations and others could actually fit inside our state with room to spare. This fact…
A lawsuit has been filed against the University of Colorado Boulder by a male student who was expelled after being accused of sexually assaulting two fellow students — claims he says are false. According to the complaint, the student, referred to as John Doe, “was subjected to a biased and…
At this writing, a search is ongoing for nineteen-year-old Darius Ratcliff. The reason: He’s suspected of killing one person, Cristian Martinez, 21, and wounding three others at a house party at a house party in the Baker neighborhood. The incident reportedly took place at around 11 p.m. on Friday, November…
The weekend shooting at 18th and Market, which killed one person and injured another, took place in a parking lot that’s long been known by Denver police as the worst place to be during let-out for area bars and clubs. Plenty of drivers would agree. Multiple cars in the lot were…
It’s Colorado Day — a perfect opportunity to celebrate the state we’re in. Not that the folks at the Fuck Yeah Colorado! Tumblr need a calendrical excuse. We saluted the site in our first Fuck Yeah Colorado! collection circa 2012, and created a 2014 sequel highlighting the page’s predilection for capturing the funny, strange and/or wonderful…
A month ago today, when Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump visited Colorado to attend the Western Conservative Summit, our Ana Campbell wrote that he had a no good, very bad day. But if anything, his latest trip to our fair state was even worse. The Donald was almost an hour…
As Friday night, July 29, was giving way to Saturday morning, July 30, the Denver Police Department responded to the latest shooting in Lower Downtown — one that left one man dead and another one injured. The location — a parking lot near 18th and Market — was no doubt…
Right now, there are rumors aplenty in the local journalism community that sports columnist Woody Paige, arguably the best known writer for the Denver Post, has left the newspaper over a pay dispute. If true, the story would represent the latest public-relations hit for a publication that recently followed a buyout offer…
Longtime 9News personality Gregg Moss is leaving the station. And while he’s done so in the past, only to subsequently return, he writes in a Facebook post announcement that “this one feels like the last.” As we noted in a 2009 post, the self-proclaimed “business boy” cut back on his…
On June 14, authorities at the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park recovered the body of 23-year-old University of Colorado-Colorado Springs student Ryan Wood Moss, a nature lover originally from North Carolina who’d been reported missing three days earlier. Moss’s family believes he died on June 9 after falling…
