Address change: Kansan takes postal reins
The U.S. Postal Service has delivered a new postmaster to Denver. Mark Talbott, 51, is Denver’s 34th postmaster, following in the footsteps of such luminary Coloradans as silver king Horace Tabor and...
View ArticleParish Carter not guilty of first-degree murder
CENTENNIAL — An Arapahoe County jury today found Parish Carter, the third and final man to be tried in the killing of a witness and his fiancée five years ago, not guilty of first-degree murder....
View ArticleCarter guilty of lesser charges in witness-shooting case
CENTENNIAL — A jury Thursday found Parish Carter not guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of Javad Marshall-Fields and his fiancee, Vivian Wolfe. But the jury did find Carter, 28,...
View ArticleDigging begins at new Denver dog park
Denver dogs have been waiting at the gate of the Railyard Dog Park for more than five years. This week, construction finally started on the doggone thing. Members of The Railyard Dogs, the neighborhood...
View ArticleDogs in drag join lineup to celebrate PrideFest in Denver
A reluctant Spanish Water Dog named Anita Pooper Scooper took the grand prize Saturday in a “Dogs in Drag” contest at the 35th annual Denver PrideFest at Civic Center park. Wearing a hot-pink and neon-...
View ArticleFive Points keeps celebration of freedom alive on Juneteenth
Thirty years ago, Johnnie Lofton sold 50-cent hot dogs from her booth in front of Charlene’s Beauty Shop in Five Points during Denver’s Juneteenth festival. Since that time, she has seen the festival...
View ArticleBicyclists rally against Black Hawk’s ban on riding through town
Dozens of bicyclists peddled to the state Capitol Tuesday at a rally hosted by Bicycle Colorado to protest Black Hawk’s ban on bicycling through most of the town’s roads, the only such ban in the...
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Dozens of bicyclists peddled to the state Capitol Tuesday at a rally hosted by Bicycle Colorado to protest Black Hawk’s ban on bicycling through most of the town’s roads, the only such ban in the...
View ArticleDenver Zoo sets record for memberships
It’s not a 20 percent gift-shop discount or a 10 percent off of restaurant tabs or even the chance to enter a bit earlier than the rest of the public that persuaded Ron and Heather Magee of Lakewood to...
View ArticleRecycling couple plan a can-do wedding
Got some cans to kick in? E-mail the happy couple at SteveLori2BWed@yahoo.com Getting married requires a lot of planning and, in the case of Steve Litherland, 21, and his fiancee Lori Benjamin, 20, a...
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