Immigration raid on Wildcat Dairy causing fear for workers who weren't...
This week's immigration raid on Wildcat Dairy led to eleven arrests, with nine additional workers sought, as well as the announcement that 89 percent of employees weren't authorized to work in
View ArticleReader: American Express faces another charge after prohibiting medical...
FlickrJoel Warner's recent post about American Express prohibiting use of the card for medical marijuana purchases stirred outrage among some of those posting. But one reader's view puts the s
View ArticlePirate steals booty of pills from Walgreens: Avast, ye hearties, and pass the...
Big pics below.We traditionally think of pirates jonesing for barrels of rum -- but not one plunderer in Colorado Springs. This man, adorned in a black wig, a black beard and mustache, and an
View ArticleRichard Eugene McDaniel victim of homicide in Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Park (3)
Graphic below.Update:The Denver coroner's office has now identified the victim of a Memorial Weekend homicide at Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Park. Richard Eugene McDaniel, a forty-year-old Africa
View ArticleShark-chicken and the good and bad of alley fence art: Kenny Be's Yard Arteology
Congress Park: Mechanical crow mobile suspended above an ocean mural. Privacy fencing provides yard artists a secure area in which to create and display yard art projects that might not otherwi
View ArticleMedical marijuana: Could the Justice Department arrest state MMJ employees?
Eric Holder.Ever since U.S. Attorney John Walsh sent a letter suggesting that parts of HB 1043, the medical marijuana cleanup bill, would likely violate U.S. law, the local MMJ community has fe
View ArticleBalloon Boy family auctioning their helium-filled hoax: Now if only the...
Richard Heene.Balloon Boy hoaxers Richard and Mayumi Heene have been prohibited by a judge from making money off their story until 2013 (and make no mistake, they will start trying one tick int
View ArticleKidnapping victim, age 8, was sexually assaulted: Feds bump up reward to $12,000
Big pic below.When the Denver Police Department initially shared information about the kidnapping of an eight-year-old girl yesterday, officers said she hadn't been injured. Unfortunately, they
View ArticleTy Lawson is ready to take his game, and the Nuggets, to the next level
Ty Lawson.Denver keeps birthing more blog posts. Here's a set of triplets. Denver Stiffs' Nate Timmons offers a self-described exit interview about Ty Lawson. He sees a lot of reasons for opti
View ArticleScarlet Ranch swingers club to reopen tonight in former Northwoods Inn...
The Scarlet Ranch swingers club has revealed its new location, and it's a meaty one: the former Northwoods Inn steakhouse in Littleton, as first reported on our Cafe Society blog. The launch i
View ArticleWorld Series of Poker: Three great moments of champs at work (VIDEO)
Proving on paper that poker is primarily a game of skill, not luck, is trickier than it sounds, as University of Denver professor Robert Hannum explains in this week's feature "All In." But fan
View ArticleScarlet Ranch, Scottie Ewing, Michael Hancock, Denver Players & the swingers...
Scottie Ewing.Old swinger stories never die. Late Thursday, Complete Colorado broke a story about Michael Hancock allegedly being one of the clients of Denver Players, the prostitution/escort
View ArticleMichael Hancock prostitution-article reporter waiting for mainstream outlet...
Michael Hancock.On Friday, we pointed to a CompleteColorado.com post claiming that mayoral frontrunner Michael Hancock's name and number had been linked to Denver Players, the prostitution ring
View ArticleDan Haley's satirical goodbye front page from his colleagues at the Denver Post
Front page below.The Denver Post isn't exactly known as a laugh-out-loud publication. But there are plenty of people at the paper with a great sense of humor, and we've got proof courtesy of a
View ArticleFirst Friday of 2011 worth flipping over & more images from a hot Denver...
Did you get out and enjoy Denver this weekend? If not, Westword photogs captured a lot of what you missed, including a look at the First Friday of summer, midnight at Streets of London, the thi
View ArticleJames Sanchez ID'd as victim in drive-by house party shooting on 300 block of...
Near the scene.Update: The Denver coroner's office has just identified the man shot to death early Sunday morning, allegedly by someone in a car that drove past the scene of a house-party-relat
View ArticleReader: Immigration raid at Wildcat Dairy's only flaw is that more illegals...
Our post about an immigration raid in Morgan Count -- one decried by a local activist -- continues to generate passionate posts. Here's one from a reader upset that more people weren't taken i
View ArticleSpringer Spaniel's owner wanted for bark-and-run horseback-rider accident
FlickrIn a hit-and-run accident, a driver causes a crash but flees the scene rather than facing the music. Something similar happened over the weekend, but it didn't involve cars. Instead, the
View ArticleSunnyside sunflower seeds are used to cultivate a quick culture: Kenny Be's...
Traditionally, several Native American groups planted sunflowers on the north side of their gardens as a "fourth sister" to complement the better known three sisters combination of corn, beans
View ArticleDenver Chalk Art Festival: Photo gallery captures one of the city's great events
Big pics below.Now in its ninth year, the Denver Chalk Art Festival on Larimer Square has evolved into the sort of gathering that captures all that's great about the city and the people who liv
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