Seven weird Colorado moments in Ripley's Believe It or Not!: Strikingly True!
Strikingly True!, from the Ripley's Believe It or Not! folks, is dubbed a "yearbook of the weird." So naturally, Colorado is well represented. Page through below to check out seven weird Color
View ArticleDenver Post editor Greg Moore tweets Charlie Sheen roast & other Post...
Greg Moore.Earlier this month, James Paton was named CEO of MediaNews Group, and his arrival is already having an impact on staffers at the Denver Post, the firm's flagship paper. Paton is a bi
View ArticleNorma Vera-Nolasco gets 12 years in valet hit-and-run she was too drunk to...
Big pics below.The maximum sentence to which Norma Vera-Nolasco could be sentenced for the hit-and-run death of valet Jose Medina was twelve years -- and twelve years is what she got. Why? Like
View ArticleAdrienne Anderson, R.I.P.: Remembering driven environmental activist and...
Anderson in 2005.We've just learned about the death earlier this month of Adrienne Anderson, a former environmental-studies professor at CU-Boulder and a champion for environmental causes. She
View ArticleReader: Tom Martino, bankrupt radio host, will be great speaker at...
Tom Martino.Shortly after Troubleshooter Tom Martino detailed his bankruptcy, and the alleged $78 million liability racked up in real-estate dealings, he was announced as a featured speaker for
View ArticleDenver Diner police beating: Lawsuits accuse Denver Police Dept. of cover-up...
Big pics below.In April, Denver cops Ricky Nixon and Kevin Devine were fired in relation to a billy-clubbing and macing incident that took place in 2009. Now, the four victims in that case hav
View ArticleJuan Carlos ID'd as victim in homicide on 1300 block of South Harlan Street...
Graphic below.Update below: Sad to say, the pace of metro-area murders appears to be quickening, with two slayings over the weekend: Katrishay Quarles died of a bullet to the throat near the De
View ArticleKyle Orton can win with the Denver Broncos -- as long as the team is never...
Kyle Orton.Denver blog-post fever: Catch it! Mile High Report fan poster BillBert11 reveals that Kyle Orton has a record of 7-25 if his team trails or is tied at halftime. Denver Egotist: Con
View ArticleMedical marijuana: Cheeba Chews looking to sponsor local snowboarders
From the dreadlocked ski bum in Breck covering his season pass by selling grams from his garden to Texas tourists to the clandestine smoke shacks at nearly every resort in this state, marijuana
View ArticleLegislative maps: Commission's Mario Carrera on new boundaries, need for...
Denver's Senate map.A final vote from the Colorado Reapportionment Commission yesterday announced a consensus on the state's first new legislative maps in the past ten years. The commission is
View ArticlePeter Hessler: Q&A with winner of MacArthur Foundation genius grant and cool...
Peter Hessler.Colorado-based writer Peter Hessler, best known for his articles and books on China, won a MacArthur Fellowship. Colloquially called the "genius" grant, the $500,000 award, paid
View ArticleDenver Zoo named greenest zoo in the country (plus pictures of effing...
"I love to poop." The Denver Zoo is the greenest zoo in the country, according to the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, which awarded the zoo its first-ever (and aptly titled) Green Award. So
View ArticleDenver boot wed alert! Pay your tickets before you loan your car to a bride
Talk about a veiled threat! On Saturday, a bride emerged from a LoDo salon hours before her scheduled nuptials in the mountains, only to find a Denver boot on the Range Rover that a friend had
View ArticleRam This T-shirts wrongly seized at CU-CSU Rocky Mountain Showdown, stadium...
Update: Earlier this week, we reported about how T-shirts featuring a buffalo mounting a ram and the slogan "Ram This" were confiscated at Saturday's CU-CSU Rocky Mountain Showdown. We've now h
View ArticleJeremy Shipley: Fall from 4th floor apartment after being locked out didn't...
Shipley.Jeremy Shipley reportedly did something a lot of us do at one time or another -- got a little tipsy, then discovered he'd locked himself out of his apartment and tried to climb in a win
View ArticleJoan Zalk, yoga instructor, charged with animal cruelty for walking chihuahua...
Big pic below.Cooper the chihuahua undoubtedly has many fine qualities, but long legs and an ability to run at great speed aren't among them. Which helps explain why yoga instructor and acupun
View ArticleReader: Tim Tebow could be phony about his faith, and if he is, the truth...
Tim Tebow.Kyle Garratt's analysis of a recent ESPN Outside the Lines feature on Tim Tebow touched on the debate about whether or not the QB's overt declarations of faith make him a polarizing f
View ArticleCamel Orbs = nicotine Tic Tacs?: Resolution opposes dissolvable tobacco...
More pics below.Is RJ Reynolds, the massive tobacco conglomerate, trying to get kids hooked on nicotine via new dissolvable tobacco products bearing more than a passing resemblance to breath mi
View ArticleMedical marijuana intern wanted
We here at Mile Highs and Lows are up to our ears in weed. We're also pretty busy with weed news, too, which is why we've decided to bring on an intern. That's right: We are looking for a colle
View ArticleRampage Jackson keeps cool in Denver in advance of UFC 135 (PHOTOS)
"Rampage" Jackson.Longtime UFC fighter Quinton "Rampage" Jackson has gone on to become one of UFC's most valuable prize fighters, even defeating Chuck Lidell in 2007. But how is he preparing f
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