Tag: hit and run

Notes from the penultimate day of the 2014 legislative session

DENVER -- Police are scouring a cordoned-off six-block radius in the Capitol Hill neighborhood between Josephine and Williams Streets, chasing down alleyways with dogs in search of a hit-and-run driver, whose SUV careened into commuters and/or pedestrians minutes ago, reportedly pinning one of them against a bus-stop bench.

The blogosphere is alive with seething over a questionable decision by Fifth Judicial District Attorney Mark Hurlbert not to file a felony charge against...