We recently posted about the ten Colorado counties with the drunkest drunk drivers — and yes, Denver made the list. But how does the alcohol consumption in the Mile High City compare to other cities around the country. That was the question recently explored by WCBS5 in Boston. Using numbers…
Update: Gregory Lewis’s crime spree ended after his capture in New York State. He’s now been formally charged in Colorado with a slew of very serious charges: attempted first-degree murder, three counts of sexual assault, two counts of first-degree assault and aggravated robbery. Continue for our previous coverage. See also:…
Update: Although the circumstances that led to police discovering the bodies of Kacey Heberlein and Chris Bankert in a Castle Rock home (see our previous coverage below) suggested a murder-suicide scenario, authorities in the community declined to provide details until an autopsy was completed. Now, however, the Douglas County coroner’s…
Last week, we told you about the Twitter spat that erupted after Dr. Christian Thurstone, an addiction specialist who’s also a major player in Project SAM, a national organization fighting to prevent greater access to cannabis, shared a blog post in which he implied that marijuana contributed to — and…
Our post featuring the top twenty tweets about whether San Diego QB Philip Rivers is a cry baby or a whiner, inspired by his frequent fits during the Chargers’ loss to the Broncos on Thursday Night Football, was a comment magnet. Some readers defended Rivers, some bashed him and some…
A Denver blog post by any other name remains the same. At our Cafe Society blog, Mark Antonation tells about five pairs of restaurant names certain to cause confusion. Mile High Hockey’s Sandie Gauthier collects the not-too-positive news about the Colorado Avalanche’s slow start, including Nathan MacKinnon’s scoring drought. Denver…
Update: Earlier this month, we told you about a series of attacks on Fort Collins women that local police believe were committed by the same man; see our previous coverage below. Now, two more assaults have taken place involving a suspect fitting the same description, bringing the latest estimate for…
Last month, we shared Denver Police Department concerns about trick-or-treaters possibly being slipped marijuana edibles on Halloween. Literally hundreds of readers ripped such fears as unreasonable and reactionary. But rather than backing down, the DPD upped the ante with a video on the alleged threat, plus a Facebook campaign rolled…
NewsCastic recently published a list of 101 facts about Denver, and while most of the entries were familiar to us, quite a few of them weren’t. Here’s the ten that struck us as the most unusual or surprising, featuring photos and original NewsCastic text. To see the original post, click…
Upon being saved after a fall in Chautauqua Park yesterday, a man reportedly told his rescuers that he’d taken hallucinogenic drugs. This is hardly the first time such an incident has happened in the area — and the last time it did, the story went national thanks to the combination…
Our post about three Denver teens suspected of traveling overseas to join ISIS just over a month after nineteen-year-old Arvada resident Shannon Conley pleaded guilty to a similar plan prompted a wide variety of comments, with frustration, alarm and everything in between represented. Here’s a post by a reader who…
Denver blog posts have equal love for hip bros and bro hipsters. Our Show and Tell blog offers twenty ways to tell the difference between a hipster and a bro. The Colorado Independent’s Tessa Cheek: “CSU newspaper wins election-season battle against Clerk Myers.” The Redheaded Slut on coloring outside the…
Earlier this week, we reported about a motion filed by the defense team representing accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes asking for the current December 8 trial start date to be pushed back. Prosecutors have now responded, and they raise no objections to the request, making it likely that the…
Did marijuana contribute to — and perhaps even cause — the death of Michael Brown, whose shooting by a police officer caused weeks of rioting in Ferguson, Missouri? That’s the implication of a blog post by Dr. Christian Thurstone, an addiction specialist who’s also a major player in Project SAM,…
To mark the Halloween season, USA Today assembled its picks for the country’s top haunted houses — and one from Denver made the cut. Count down all ten below, featuring images and text from each of the attractions — and be sure to click on the links to learn more…
Remember Luke Chrisco, the guy who was arrested back in 2011 for hiding inside the tank of a porta-potty in order to scope the underside of users at a Boulder-area yoga festival? Well, he’s back with another memorable gambit. Even as he faces a possible return to a cell for…
One of the most enjoyable things about the Broncos’ 35-21 win over the Chargers last night (and there were many of them) was the sight of San Diego QB Philip Rivers’s frequent temper tantrums. Ranting, complaining, yelling into his own helmet: He put on quite a show in defeat, and…
Our post about Children’s Hospital tips about how to talk to kids about marijuana didn’t garner a lot of compliments about the advice from our readers. Here’s one example. See also: Marijuana Makes You Feel Fuzzy and Other Pot Facts From Children’s Hospital…
Denver blog posts are on the cyber-road again. At our Backbeat blog, Drew Ailes counts down six ways to avoid being robbed on tour. Colorado Pols thinks pollsters are still getting the Latino vote wrong. Denver Frank wants Aurora overturn its pit-bull ban. See also: Denver’s Five Best Restaurant Walk-Up…
Does a new Colorado law invite voting fraud by allowing pretty much anyone the ability to print out legal ballots from home computers? That was the argument made by Fox News’ Megyn Kelly this week in a video on view below. Only problem: It’s not true — and the person…
Accidents happen in school science labs — but they hardly ever result in criminal accusations. Daniel Powell is an exception to this rule. He’s been charged with multiple assault beefs for a methanol explosion that injured four students, including one who spent weeks in the hospital for burns that initially…
Update: National and even international attention continues to focus on three Denver-area girls who were taken into custody because of suspicions that they planned to join the ISIS terror group in Syria (see our previous coverage below). But even as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was thanking Germany for…
