General Steel, controversial Colorado building company, faces more lawsuits
Update, 4:17 p.m.: Comments from General Steel have been incorporated into the original post, published at 2:28 p.m. Colorado's General Steel Corporation is being sued in federal civil cou...
View ArticleKen Buck gets the Politico treatment
Jane Norton isn't the only one gunning for Ken Buck. Colorado's rogue Republican candidate for Michael Bennet's U.S. Senate seat became the subject of some national target practice yesterday...
View ArticleGary Faulkner, on David Letterman show, says he and Osama bin Laden are "two...
Osama hunter Gary Faulkner's fifteen minutes are ticking away quickly, and he's making the most of them. Mere hours after blathering on CBS' Early Show about his intention to capture bin La...
View ArticleJoseph Scott Carter arrested in Boulder County kidnapping by rifle point
Yesterday, we told you about a weekend kidnapping near Peak to Peak Highway -- the third assault on Boulder County nature lovers in June. Hours later, following the release of a suspect ske...
View ArticleMuseum cuddles up to swastika quilt
Today, the swastika is almost exclusively associated with the Nazi regime. But the icon was once seen as a benign decorative device -- which explains how it turned up on a quilt recently do...
View ArticleTed Haggard's new church: Christian comeback or empty infomercial?
Massage fan Ted Haggard's attempted comeback with St. James Church is such a made-for-TV enterprise that it makes sense his pulpit performances are getting regular reviews. Thus far, howeve...
View ArticleGlee-ful "Safety Dance" flash mob on the 16th Street Mall
Don't know if the pranksters who congregated on the 16th Street Mall over the weekend constitute a flash mob. "Flash large grouping" is more like it. Still, they managed to take shoppers by...
View ArticleStephen Shappell: Busted in Denver for murder involving spiked Snapple,...
Late Sunday, Stephen Michael Shappell, 21, was arrested in Denver in relation to the Philadelphia-area murder of Kevin Mengel Jr., 33, who owned a landscaping business where Shappell worked...
View ArticleMike Cotsworth is suburban superhero Lucky Parker: Kenny Be's Hip Tip
Lucky Parker Real Name: Mike Cotsworth; Occupation: Car Wrangler; Suburb of Operations: Parker; Hair: Fishtails; Eyes: On the Road Suburban superhero skills: As a suburb-cruising car colle...
View ArticleColorado Indymedia on FBI's info request following ICE offices vandalism
On Friday, we shared an account by Open Media Foundation's Tony Shawcross about an FBI request for information from Colorado Indymedia following acts of vandalism at two Immigration and Cus...
View ArticleMad Men (and women) to take over the Retro Room tonight
Season four of Mad Men doesn't get underway until July 25. But for Denver fans addicted to the show like it's characters crave nicotine, AMC has a temporary fix. Tonight from 5 p.m. to 7 p...
View ArticleBill Clinton loves him some Andrew Romanoff
While Republican Ken Buck used the caucus system to transform himself from a senatorial dark horse into a frontrunner (the kind now getting attacked by the likes of Politico), Andrew Roman...
View ArticleUbaldo Jimenez fades again -- but gets a win for the Rockies anyhow
A Denver blogs three-peat. Purple Row's Bryan Kilpatrick notes that Ubaldo Jimenez was perfect through three innings (just like his last start) before fading (just like his last start) and...
View ArticleThomas Holloway (No. 9): Boulder man suspected in slaying of his elderly...
Just in from the Broomfield Police Department: Thomas Holloway, 53, from Boulder has been arrested following a couple of incidents last night. According to the BPD, Holloway is suspected of...
View ArticleAli Hasan rips Jihad Jane Norton over 9/11 video
GOP Senate hopeful Jane Norton surely expected to outrage Dems with her video attacking "liberals in Washington" for being soft on terror. But when the founder of Muslims For Bush denounces...
View ArticleDenver Public Schools receives $14.4 million in federal money to improve six...
Six struggling Denver schools were awarded $14.4 million in federal money to help them "turn around" -- which is education-speak for raise test scores and graduation rates. The schools -...
View ArticleJohn Hickenlooper proves truth is stranger than fiction at Colorado Book Awards
Truth is definitely stranger than fiction, with the 19th Annual Colorado Book Awards announcement in Aspen last Friday just offering more proof. For starters, the main speaker was John Hicke...
View ArticleVampire made me crash my SUV, woman says
With Eclipse, the latest film in the über-popular Twlight series, due to hit theaters nationwide today, Americans everywhere have vampires on their mind. But a Fruita area woman was ahead ...
View ArticleJoseph Scott Carter, kidnapping suspect, was senatorial candidate at war with...
The story of a Boulder County kidnapping over the weekend has gotten considerably stranger since the arrest of Joseph Scott Carter for the crime. During a court appearance yesterday, Carter...
View ArticleTim Tebow: He's better than Superman -- and a new hope like Luke Skywalker
Thanks to media hype about everything from his classical beauty to his autographing skills, Tim Tebow has attracted haters and worshippers alike. Count TebowZone.com among the latter group...
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