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Kevin Simpson
Kevin Simpson was a reporter at The Denver Post until 2018. He covered a wide variety of topics at The Denver Post while working as a sports writer, metro columnist and general assignment reporter with a focus on long-form pieces. A graduate of the University of Missouri, he arrived in Colorado in 1979 and spent five years covering sports at the Rocky Mountain News before moving to The Post. He shifted from sports to city desk in 1987 and spent seven years writing his metro column before focusing on long-form stories that have spanned subjects as diverse as storm chasers, bull riding and conflict in the Middle East.
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They could sell in a hot home market, but many hunker down and use surging equity to renovate and remodel
Her three daughters were grown. Her husband died two years ago. The circa 1978 tri-level in southeast Aurora was more house than she needed. And the scorching metro real estate...

Community connected to the world by U.S. 34 celebrates the road’s reopening after 2013 floods
The painstaking process of reconstructing U.S. 34 through the Big Thompson Canyon, made necessary by the massive and devastating 2013 flood, finally offered a measure of relief Thursday afternoon.

At Colorado WWII internment camp where 7,000 Japanese and Japanese-Americans were imprisoned, history is finally set free
The building speaks most eloquently about its function from 1942-45 as a recreation hall at the Granada War Relocation Center -- a square mile just outside of town better known...

Steve Hogan traveled the world, but the lifelong civic leader’s heart and home remained in Aurora
It wasn't unusual for Steve Hogan to drop everything, find a cheap airline fare and fly halfway around the world, just for the sheer experience -- and the frequent flier...

In show of solidarity, Renee Lima-Marin makes case at court hearing that his long-ago co-defendant should also be freed
Rene Lima-Marin, who recently won his freedom after a long legal battle, showed up in Arapahoe County District Court on Friday to support co-defendant Michael Clifton at an appearance that continues...

Diver’s find in sunken wreckage of bomber could lead to recognition of Colorado WWII veteran’s valor
For Armand Sedgeley, 96 and now living in a Lakewood retirement community, there remains one last piece of unfinished business from his military service in World War II. Though he...

Denver on short list for new Army HQ to draw on technology and innovation of academia and business
The Army has named Denver as a finalist for a new command site that will draw on the area's academic and business resources to help modernize its operations.

With Colorado Avalanche playoff run, a resurgent fan base revels in the team’s long-awaited success
For the Colorado Avalanche, Thursday night marked the first time since 2014 that they carried a bandwagon of hardcore fans and happy hangers-on into the postseason. And that year, which...

Colorado man serving 98-year sentence files petition seeking equal treatment to co-defendant Rene Lima-Marin
Michael Clifton has filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus that he hopes could free him from the 98-year prison sentence he continues to serve while his original...

Owners of Denver apartment building destroyed in March fire deny responsibility pending investigation
A makeshift memorial of flowers, hard hats and reflective vests hangs from the chain link fence surrounding the site of the massive March 7 fire that destroyed an apartment building...