1. JUDGE WANTS TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGED WITNESS INTIMIDATION BY DENVER POLICE
Two Denver police internal affairs officers drove to a prison in southern Colorado apparently with the singular mission of intimidating a witness from testifying in a civil rights lawsuit against the city, a federal judge and attorney contend. Now U.S. District Judge John Kane is but to take a broad examination of the “practices and patterns” of the Denver police and sheriff’s departments.
2. CONVICTED MURDERER TO GET NEW TRIAL AFTER JUROR REVELATION
Michael Blagg, who was sent to prison for life for killing his wife in 2001, when she filled out a questionnaire before the trial. Read a full summary of the crime on .
3. THEATER SHOOTING TRIAL JURY SELECTION TO REMAIN OPEN TO PUBLIC
The public , after a judge denied a request from both prosecutors and defense attorneys to close the proceedings.
4. DENVER MAYOR WANTS VOTERS TO DECIDE TO RENEW CITY’S PRESCHOOL PROGRAM
Mayor Michael Hancock proposed today . The preschool program, whose funding was narrowly approved by voters in 2006, offers tuition credit for preschool education for all families in the city.
5. GOP LEADERSHIP IN FLUX AFTER CANTOR LOSS
Repudiated at the polls, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor announced today , clearing the way for a potentially disruptive Republican shake-up just before midterm elections with control of Congress at stake.
6. THE RENT IS TOO DARN HIGH: COLORADO SETS RECORD
The average rent in Colorado hit a new high of $1,026 in the first quarter of the year, up 8 percent in a year and 3.4 percent in one quarter, thanks to some .
7. AMY VAN DYKEN-ROUEN “WILL FIGHT TOOTH AND NAIL” TO OVERCOME CHALLENGES
A few days after Van Dyken-Rouen severed her spinal cord in Arizona, she . And her former co-workers and teammates agree that her tenacity will serve her well through this ordeal.
8. THERE’S CATFISHING, AND THEN THERE’S THE “BIRDMAN” HOAX
Get out your chalkboard: Reporter John Ingold has broken down the complicated scam perpetrated on both Chris “Birdman” Andersen and a young woman in California named Paris. .
9. BIG SPENDER? UNITED AIRLINES WANTS TO REWARD YOU
United Airlines is mimicking Delta by while reducing the miles accumulated by long-haul, coach fliers.
10. “DOES DOWD KNOW HOW TO DIVIDE BY 10?”
Editorial page editor Vincent Carroll pulls exactly zero punches in detailing her hallucinatory trip on marijuana edibles in a Denver hotel room.
11. AN INTERVIEW WITH LOU FERRIGNO
Denver Comic Con guest and former Incredible Hulk Lou Ferrigno . Did you know every day on set required four hours of green makeup application?
12. WANT TO SEE A BAND? HOW ABOUT 236 OF THEM?
The Underground Music Showcase made its third big lineup announcement, including a plethora of local and national acts. .
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