Monaco Grocery robbery leaves one employee dead (40)
An employee of the Monaco Grocery on East Colfax is dead after being shot last night during an attempted robbery. ...
View ArticleEisenhower Tunnel closed on I-70 due to blasting agent spill
Some breaking news for you in our Denver blogs daily post. Traffic in both directions on Interstate 70 has been closed at the Eisenhower Tunnel due a spill of an estimated 1,000 pounds of...
View ArticleRemembering Sandy Widener, John Parr and Chase Parr
The reminder for the memorial site at muchloved.com came in at 5:01 this morning. I did not need it: Not a day goes by that I do not think about Sandy Widener, John Parr and Chase Parr, th...
View ArticleReader: Phillip Greaves for sheriff!
Phillip Ray Greaves II, the 47-year-old Pueblo author of The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover's Code of Conduct, sent a copy to the wrong person: a Florida sheriff's de...
View ArticleMedical marijuana dispensary review: Colorado Alternative Medicine (CAM)
Colorado Alternative Medicine is one of the few shops I've heard good things about from patients as well as other dispensary owners. I've been hearing stories about its solid collection of ...
View ArticleQwest sign: Light there be lights!
The Denver skyline is bright with Christmas lights, but a traditional blue glow still dominates the dark. And while the status of the Qwest sign will ride on the Qwest/CenturyLink merger pr...
View ArticleDan Sheridan gets canned for singing about big money, a Strange but True...
Westword's annual Strange but True edition will hit newsstands (and this website) on December 30, featuring the weirdest and wackiest Colorado stories from 2010. Remember Jihad Jamie? How ...
View ArticleHighlands Mommies: Their picks for best food, shops, yoga studios in...
Much fuss has been made about the Highlands Mommies' relationships to local businesses, as is evident in the comments on our cover story, "The Mommies." Here's a juicy one: The Highland M...
View ArticleReturn policy scenarios for after-Christmas shoppers: Kenny Be's Worst-Case...
There is only one thing people love more than Christmas gift shopping, and that is after- Christmas gift-return shopping! As seen below, It's also the one time of the year that Josh McD...
View ArticleLaura Boggs of the Jeffco school board is censured for shmuckery
Jefferson County school board member Laura Boggs has been so disruptive this year that she inspired a teachers' union-produced newsletter called Boggs Watch that is dedicated to keeping an...
View ArticleOur updated medical-marijuana directory
William Breathes had heard a lot of good things about Colorado Alternative Medicine, and the shop measured up to his high expectations, which you can read about in his latest review. And th...
View ArticleReader: There auto be a law against Iowa cops
For anyone planning on driving outside of the MMJ-friendly state of Colorado this holiday season, we offer this recent post as a public service (and yes, our second comment of the day). ...
View ArticleGovernor Bill Ritter pardons Reverend Leon Kelly and nineteen others
Governor Bill Ritter today issued full pardons to twenty people around Colorado, including the Reverend Leon Kelly, who has been a well-known public figure and anti-gang crusader since 198...
View ArticleMan dies after being shot at several times while sitting in a car in...
A man in his 20s is dead after being shot while in a car this morning in the 2900 block of North Pontiac Street in northeast Denver. Denver Police responded to a report of a shooting at 9...
View ArticleLEGO my library: Imagine Rigney's cool homage to Michael Graves
Kids do the darnedest things with LEGO bricks and games, as Joel Warner pointed out in this feature last January. But few projects are quite the labor of love involved in one fifteen-year-o...
View ArticleReader: It's bad form to make fun of bad hair
Hair today, gone tomorrow. For his 2010 wrap-up, Michael Roberts looked through hundreds of crime reports to come up with his mug shot retrospectives. And that disgusted Disgusted America...
View ArticleiPad theft defendant Brandon Smith, 2010 Shmuck of the Year nominee
Westword is asking readers to help us select the Shmuck of the Year by rolling out five candidates this month. The winner -- loser -- will be announced on January 3. Our first four candi...
View ArticleA holiday gift from Latest Word: Kenny Be's Fotochop Fiesta
The Christmas tree shape and Santa Claus color of John McEnroe's sculpture at the base of the Highland bridge almost demands that "National Velvet" be decorated for the holidays. Inspir...
View ArticleBill Ritter plays it safe on pardons
In their last days in office, some governors have been known to make bold moves in the criminal justice arena, denouncing ruinous policies and commuting long sentences as a way of highligh...
View ArticleJason Ross, truck driver heading wrong way on I-70, kills 71-year-old man,...
A little after 8 p.m. last night, Jason Ross of St. Louis drove his roughly 35 ton semi truck onto I-70 in eastern Colorado heading in the wrong direction. He may have been drunk and he de...
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