Puppy stomped to death, thrown in dumpster
Two days before Christmas, Christopher Blackstone of Colorado Springs got into an argument with his girlfriend, Talitha Peterson-Hooks. She ignored his subsequent calls and texts, and, acc...
View ArticleMedical marijuana records found in alley: Did Apothecary of Colorado throw...
In this state, patient medical marijuana records are protected by medical privacy rules and the state constitution. When patients fill out their MMJ applications, it's assumed they will be...
View ArticleHijacker drives Comcast truck through Mormon Bishop's McMansion gate, shoots...
We begin with the drama in Greeley... An Arizona truck driver lost his mind in Greeley and hijacked a Comcast TV truck, which he then drove through the locked gate of a Mormon Bishop's ma...
View ArticleMan shoots wife, turns himself in to police (42)
A 47-year-old man shot his wife during an argument in Aurora on Monday. He turned himself into police and is now in custody. The couple had no relatives in the area, and the Arapahoe Coun...
View ArticleReader: Medical marijuana records scandal could be a clever ploy
The discovery of medical-marijuana patient records behind the former Apothecary of Colorado has members of the MMJ community smoking mad. But poindenver had an interesting take: ...
View ArticleCalifornia Zephyr heading into Union Station
The sun just started to edge up over the horizon after we passed Fort Morgan: The California Zephyr is running an hour or so late, but the miracle is that it's going at all, after the mess...
View ArticleHow does our Hall of Shame 2010 compare to previous years? Read them and weep.
Names like Josh McDaniels, Scott McInnis and Jamie Paulin-Ramirez made us cringe this year, committing dastardly deeds or generally making fools of themselves and the Centennial State. An...
View ArticleDPD: How not to let your car get stolen on cold days
It doesn't seem like the Denver Police Department should have to remind people not to leave their cars unlocked and running. But then, the DPD is like our dads, always pointing out the o...
View ArticleThe weird got weirder in 2010: Read about it in the Year in Review
On Tuesday, 9News reported a story about a woman who uses a webcam to check up on her dog during the day instead discovering a burglar in her Capitol Hill home. Strange? Yes. True? Yes. ...
View ArticleNuggets considered trading for Kevin Love, says George Karl
Before the Nuggets beat the Timberwolves 119-113 last night in Minnesota, Nuggets head coach George Karl said his team considered trading for hot-shooting Timberwolves star Kevin Love thi...
View ArticleNew Year's party bottles make a beautiful garden border: Kenny Be's Yard...
If you are planning a New Year's party for sixty or more of your best friends who each drink two or more bottles of wine apiece, you will have enough booze bottles to make a beautiful gar...
View ArticleTom Tancredo to start yakking on "Tea Party Radio"
The gin-soaked novelist who declared that there are no second acts in American lives never caught the many acts of Tom Tancredo -- former U.S. Representative, presidential hopeful, guberna...
View ArticlePuppy stomper deserves the same treatment
Christopher Blackstone was so infuriated that his girlfriend wouldn't answer her cell phone when he called after an argument that he stomped her puppy to death, police say. Hmm, doesn't r...
View ArticlePolice seek suspect in Englewood slaying (44)
Update: Police arrested their suspect, Michael Anthony Renner, this afternoon at a storage locker. Englewood police conducting a welfare check on a 49-year-old man found his dead body in ...
View ArticleMedical marijuana dispensary review: Ballpark Holistic Dispensary is nearly...
Stuck somewhere between being a grow supply store and a medical marijuana dispensary, the Ballpark Holistic Dispensary is having a slight identity crisis. ...
View ArticleOur updated medical-marijuana directory
William Breathes noticed that the Ballpark Holistic Dispensary was going through a slight identity crisis -- the grow-supply setup was stellar, but the law requiring dispensaries to grow mo...
View ArticleThe year's worst PR disasters
We're ready to hit the lights and hit the bars, or something like that, for New Year's Eve. But first we've done some heavy blog reading today and present these three fascinating stories. ...
View ArticleNew Year's Eve in Denver: So many parties, so many concerts, so many things...
Latest Word will be dark until Monday, what with New Year's Eve 2010 upon us. If you're still looking for something to do, or something else to do, on Friday night, check out our top 10 ...
View Article'Tis a privilege to live in Colorado: Cal-orado reunion finally pulls into...
The Calhoun family Cal-orado reunion -- a crazy jumble of travel by planes (although not many from the snowbound East Coast), trains and automobiles -- started yesterday morning at Snow Mo...
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