Author: Kevin Simpson
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Denver Sheriff Department’s ‘mega-class’ trains for culture shift
Bridget Andrews sat near the front of the expansive classroom, another navy-blue shirt among row after row of men and women in the largest recruiting class – 83, about three times the normal size – in the history of the Denver Sheriff Department. On Day 3 of training, a class on ethics, she began to…
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El Nino could hit Colorado Springs early – and hard
It’s looking like El Niño has grown up — at least for this winter. The periodic warming of surface waters in the Pacific Ocean, and its influence on weather patterns across North America, continues to gain strength of potentially historic proportion. “It’s in the ‘Big Boy’ category,” said Klaus Wolter, a University of Colorado Boulder…
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Comedy helps pull Caleb Medley through tragedy of Aurora shootings
As the cop guided his vehicle away from the chaos, making his third emergency run of the night to University of Colorado Hospital, he could hear the labored breathing of the injured young man in his back seat — “the most god-awful sound,” as he would later describe it. That 23-year-old victim, Caleb Medley, was…
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Classmates: Ridgeway suspect fascinated by crime-scene forensics
The teenager who police say killed 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway was described by a former classmate as nice and helpful, by another as creepy. But those who know him universally describe Austin Reed Sigg, 17, as very smart, and very interested in the science of crime-scene investigation and the mechanics of death. Jacqueline Miller, who shared…
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Grand County gun store owner questioned about Holmes
James Eagan Holmes may have fired his weapons at an unsupervised gun range in Grand County, according to a gun shop owner who says he was interviewed by investigators. The owner of C & M Guns in Hot Sulphur Springs, who asked not to be named, said investigators from three different local and federal law…
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Urban Coloradans face new vulnerability after wildfires
Jeffrey Lucas’ hands shook uncontrollably as he pointed his iPhone at the advancing Waldo Canyon fire and watched it race toward the Colorado Springs neighborhood where he grew up. The resulting video, which spread almost as quickly via his Facebook account and later through the news media, portrayed the kind of raw panic, punctuated with…
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Urban Coloradans face new vulnerability after wildfires
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Jeffrey Lucas’ hands shook uncontrollably as he pointed his iPhone at the advancing Waldo Canyon fire and watched it race toward the Colorado Springs neighborhood where he grew up. The resulting video, which spread almost…
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Rod Blagojevich makes burger run before entering prison
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save At first, Bryce Kuschel didn’t know what to make of the scene at Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers in Littleton, where he stopped in on his lunch break from school and found a mop-haired man…
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Rod Blagojevich makes burger run before entering prison
At first, Bryce Kuschel didn’t know what to make of the scene at Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers in Littleton, where he stopped in on his lunch break from school and found a mop-haired man glad-handing customers before a swarm of cameras. Rod Blagojevich, the disgraced Illinois governor on his way to begin a 14-year…
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State’s college grads increasingly weighed down by student debt
After a false start as a computer science major and an 18-month break to work, Jeremy Askim — like a lot of college students — hasn’t taken the most direct route to his bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Metropolitan State College of Denver.And like most Colorado college graduates, he’ll take more than his diploma with…