Indictment Summer, Episode 2: More Defendants, More Charges

They came by the hundreds to an Adams County court, filling overflow rooms in a show of solidarity against an attempt by a developer to seize through eminent domain a swath of historic Brighton farmland for a flood control project. But last week, a judge ruled she would grant “immediate possession of the Subject Property” — an easement across the 95-year-old Palizzi Farm — to Parkland Metropolitan District No.

By Elliott Wenzler, Vail Daily  As Coloradans and out-of-state travelers prepare to celebrate the Fourth of July this week, there’s one elusive goal top of mind: independence from traffic on Interstate 70. Beginning Wednesday, the Colorado Department of Transportation is warning drivers of longer than usual wait times while traveling through the High Country.

A former Denver police sergeant lost his Colorado police officer certification last month after he made disparaging remarks about an officer’s mental health then lied about it during an internal investigation, records show. Former Sgt. Theodore “Jim” Maher belittled an officer during a morning roll call in February 2022 on the officer’s first day back from leave due to mental health issues, an internal affairs investigation found.

For some of you, it’s time for you to stop thanking me for my service, because clearly you don’t mean it. Would you fly the flag at home and when you take it down go inside and throw it on the floor? Of course not, that would be disrespectful. “Thank you for your service.” I get that a lot when people find out I’m a veteran.

The San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office is offering two $500 rewards for information on “punk-ass” vandals terrorizing southwestern Colorado. After a former sergeant from the sheriff’s office discovered over the weekend that someone had graffitied the old mine and mill in Tomboy Basin — a historic site five miles east of Telluride — the sheriff took to social media. “Sheriff [Bill] Masters is offering a $500 reward to anyone who has information leading to an arrest of the ‘punk-ass clown’ who did this,” the sheriff’s office wrote in a post on Facebook, asking anyone with information to call dispatch at 970-728-1911. Sheriff’s officials believe the vandalism happened sometime within the past month, and the sergeant just happened to be hiking in the area over the weekend when he spotted it, sheriff’s department spokesperson Susan Lilly said. Lilly said they’d received no tips or leads yet, but that she hoped the social media traffic would lead deputies to a suspect. The next morning, the “punk-asses” were at it again, this time tying a wire across two trees on the Wilson Mesa trail, the sheriff’s department said on social media. Wilson Mesa trail is on U.

Ever since it debuted as a modest, pandemic-era gathering in late 2021, Fan Expo Denver has steadily grown to become the behemoth pop-culture event of the region. That’s because Fan Expo, a Toronto-based company that also produces pop-culture conventions in Chicago, Dallas and San Francisco, has the resources and scale to attract big names and big crowds.