Training camp has opened for your Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos, and the truest, orange-and-bluest fans are optimistic about another fantastic season. Not Colin Cowherd, though. The ESPN star turned Fox Sports personality, who hosts The Herd on FS1 and Fox Sports Radio (heard locally on Denver Sports 760), thinks anyone who…
Plenty of Denverites are up in arms about the current state of the 16th Street Mall, which they see as a setting for random violent crime and an aggressive, drug-using homeless population that’s keeping visitors away. In the view of Annie Levinsky, executive director of Historic Denver, such factors, which are…
Stephanie Anderson died in Boulder County Jail of what an autopsy maintains were natural causes. But attorney David Lane, who’s representing Anderson’s family, suspects that there was nothing natural about some of the events that took place prior to her passing — and he’s conducting an investigation with an eye toward…
Today, a federal judge ordered that former Evergreen resident John Hinckley be released from the Washington, D.C.-area hospital that’s been his official home since he who was found not guilty by reason of insanity for trying to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in 1981. More than three-and-a-half-decades after Hinckley’s failed murder bid, most people…
Attorney Matt Buck speaks bluntly about the death of Paul Castaway, a homeless Native American who had bouts with mental illness. “On July 12, 2015, Denver police officer Michael Traudt killed Paul Castaway,” Buck says. “He had the ability to use less-than-lethal force, but instead, he made a different choice. He…
The recently published post Denver Development and Controversial Impact of “Slot Houses” draws upon “Documenting Change in Denver,” part of an analysis being conducted by CU Denver’s Center for Advanced Research and Traditional Architecture. In tracking the building boom in Denver, CARTA director Christine Franck spotlights the West Colfax neighborhood (and a…
Back in January, our Chris Walker reported about snowboarder Seth Beckton’s claim that someone had pushed him off a chairlift at Aspen Highlands ski area. The following month, Thomas Proesel was arrested in the incident. But there’s been an unexpected twist in the case. Pamela Mackey, Proesel’s Denver-based attorney, says that…
Last week, 104.3 The Fan issued a press release revealing that “thirty-seven year radio veteran Sandy Clough will host a self-titled show, weekdays from 10 a.m.-12 p.m., beginning Monday, July 25, 2016.” Such an announcement typically means that a media outlet is courting additional publicity. But when we requested an interview with Clough,…
It was a tragedy that had already resulted in one death when it was compounded by another. On July 13, Cole Sukle, fourteen, and a friend were riding bicycles in a designated lane near a park near East Yale Avenue and East Nielsen Way when they were struck by a car…
The topic of development in Denver raises passions among plenty of locals — particularly those who don’t like the looks of many new buildings being erected across the Mile High City. Take the comment of one reader, who likened the structures to 1950s prison complexes. Such reactions are of particular interest…
In November 2015, two female deputies with the Denver Sheriff Department filed a lawsuit alleging that Denver County Jail is a house of horrors for female guards. The complaint suggested that profane verbal abuse, sexual harassment and intentional masturbation are common occurrences at the facility and argued that female deputies are “discouraged…
“Please Read! Do not erase. Your life may depend on it!” So begins “They Are Taking Over!,” one of the featured items on ConspiracyMadLibz.com, a new website launched the week of the Republican National Convention (and just in time for the Democratic confab that gets underway next week) by Krista…
Since at least 2014, when the owners of the former Hotel VQ began leasing 330 square foot micro-apartments for $900, local renters have complained about the high prices they were paying for small spaces in Denver. Of course, one size doesn’t fit all when it comes to the cost of…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office has formally charged Brett Sisman with sexually assaulting a woman he met using the dating app Tinder. The incident allegedly caused so many injuries to the victim that they were documented by as many as one-hundred photos. This is the second time in just over…
A few hours before festivities for the third night of the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland got underway, Steve House, chairman of the Colorado Republican Committee, predicted a change of tone at the gathering, whose first two days had been marked by controversy over plagiarism charges aimed at the…
Is Tom Cruise selling his spectacular Telluride home because Edge of Tomorrow underperformed at the box office (despite being pretty good)? Or is he simply sick of extraordinary beauty? Neither. He reportedly is bidding adieu to the property, which he purchased in the 1990s, because he simply is too busy to spend much…
On June 19, 2014, a shooting at a Red Rocks show featuring Nas, Flying Lotus and Schoolboy Q shocked the music community here and beyond — especially after law enforcement announced that Schoolboy Q’s sports-utility vehicle had been specifically targeted by the gunman. In the immediate aftermath of the incident, speculation…
The topic of violence on the 16th Street Mall isn’t going away. At least not yet. Shortly after we published a three-part series on the subject in this space last month, Denver officials announced a new $396,000 safety plan for the mall that called for a tripling of Denver police officers patrolling the area. But…
As we’ve noted, most of America didn’t get a chance to see Colorado senatorial hopeful Darryl Glenn speak at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on Monday, since major cable news network personalities talked over his words rather than focusing on his fierce delivery and the passionate reaction he elicited…
On the website of the Marijuana Industry Group, among the most powerful cannabis business organizations in Colorado and the country as a whole, executive director Michael Elliott remains front and center at this writing. Elliott, who’s headed MIG under both its current name and its previous moniker, the Medical Marijuana…
Colorado got plenty of pub during day one of the Republican National Convention yesterday in Cleveland, thanks to the decision by delegates from the state to briefly walk out after the powers-that-be smothered the last dying embers of the “Never Trump” movement in Quicken Loans Arena, where the shindig is taking place…
JonBenét Ramsey is on the current cover of The Globe, alongside a screaming headline about “Chilling New Evidence!,” a subhead referencing the “real reason beauty queen was MURDERED!,” and photos of “two suspects arrested.” Case closed? Not quite. As we’ve been reporting, it’s been nearly twenty years since the JonBenét…
