Hospital patient throws rocks at T-Mobile store so he can go to jail, cops...
Video below.What's better -- being stuck in a hospital or going to jail? The choice was easy for a man in Littleton yesterday, who apparently wanted to be behind bars so badly he didn't even g
View ArticleReader: Wouldn't you rather let a mom buy her kid booze & pot than some dirty...
Manzanares.Jonathan Shikes's most recent Shmuck of the Week post highlighted Michelle Manzanares, accused of giving her teen daughter booze and weed -- gifts allegedly commemorated in photos an
View ArticleOrgasmic meditation, BDSM classes at Bedroom event not educational enough for...
More pics below.Beyond the Bedroom is described by co-organizer Dan Powers, aka Daka-Dan, as an October 16 educational event about sex. But police in Lakewood, where Beyond the Bedroom was orig
View ArticleGreat American Beer Festival hop-heads make Best Photos of September list
Remember way back to last month? We do, as proven by our gallery of September's best photos, which features shots from this weekend's Great American Beer Festival and much more. And while you'r
View ArticleMarijuana PTSD study roadblock example of feds' schizophrenia, says Brian...
Last year, Colorado's health department refused to approve medical marijuana for treating post-traumatic stress disorder -- but one branch of the federal government appeared ready to test pot's
View ArticleNorth High credit recovery investigation says poor adult oversight to blame...
An investigation into allegations of cheating within the credit recovery program at North High School found that while the program's online classes were "challenging," staff members did not su
View ArticleMichelle Obama = Chewbacca according to Colorado Springs radio host Jimmy Lakey
Not Michelle.Denver blog posts a-go-go! BigMedia.org: Jimmy Lakey, the same radio host who laughed at comparisons of Michelle Obama to Planet of the Apes, now thinks she looks like Chewbacca.
View ArticleDenver Paid Sick Leave Initiative: Opponents rally to support Denver's...
Big pic below.This morning's No On 300 rally rally in Skyline Park brought out approximately seventy representatives and supporters of the hospitality industry, everyone from five crop-topped
View ArticleCharles Farrar: Last-gasp appeal of sex-abuse case claims prosecution misconduct
Nine years into a 145-year sentence for sexual abuse -- a crime that his alleged victim insists never happened -- Charles Farrar has now filed what may be his last, best hope for freedom. It's
View ArticleLarron Jackson, former Bronco, writes about incarceration, the NFL and the...
Even now, 62 years old in the church that is his second home, Reverend Larron Jackson can split his life easily into three separate metaphors. Those words, in turn, found their way into the tit
View ArticleDiana DeGette and Henry Waxman request listeria outbreak investigation
U.S. Representative Diana DeGette didn't just fall off the turnip truck. She's been concerned about food safety throughout her tenure in Congress, and yesterday, she and California Representati
View ArticleRaymond Davis, CIA contractor who killed 2 in Pakistan, charged with felony...
Davis.The phrase "international incident" understates the controversy that erupted in Pakistan this past January after Raymond Davis, subsequently revealed to be a CIA employee, killed two men
View ArticleHoneyBaked Ham manager accused of treating employee like piece of meat in...
HoneyBaked Ham may specialize in succulent cuts of meat, but that doesn't mean employees are supposed to be treated like another item on the menu. That's among the accusations in a complaint fr
View ArticleMedical marijuana: Papa John's delivery driver calls cops on legal patient...
Not to be too stoner-cliché here, but I always thought Pizza Delivery Guy is pretty universally seen as a ganja-friendly career. I mean, I've had countless stoned drivers show up at my door and
View ArticleImmigrant rights activist groups protest renewal of GEO contract (PHOTOS)
Big pics below.The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), which brings people of various faiths together to work for social justice, peace and humanitarian service, has been holding vigils
View ArticleDPS school board race: 4 candidates for phasing out struggling schools, says...
This morning, school reform organization A+ Denver released the results of a survey of the nine candidates for Denver Public School Board. The survey asked them to rank 28 statements, such as "
View ArticleReader: Only magazine that doesn't feature pics of hot, barely dressed girls...
The debate over the scrapped Hot Ass contest and fake-orgasm competitions at HempCon 2011, an alleged medical marijuana event, continues to broil even though the bash itself is over. Here's a p
View ArticleFatal shooting near 250 South Osceola, Denver Police investigating as...
Graphic below.At this point, details are fuzzy in regard to a shooting that took place yesterday evening. Thus far, we know that police responded to gunplay in the vicinity of 250 South Osceol
View Article7News, Azteca America sold: Scripps back in CO two years after Rocky Mountain...
Rich Boehne.In February 2009, E.W. Scripps shut down the Rocky Mountain News, seemingly ending its major participation in the Colorado media market. Now, however, Scripps is back thanks to the
View ArticleThomas Frank Ross, CU student, charged with bias-motivated crime over Asian...
Big pic below.How does a food fight result in a bias-motivated crime charge? When the food is Asian and the alleged victim is half-Asian. Or at least that's the way it worked out for Thomas Fr
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