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Family of man killed in jail slams Denver for “cover up”

The family of Michael Lee Marshall -- a homeless man killed by Denver sheriff's deputies -- says Mayor Michael Hancock's administration tainted the homicide...

Hillary Clinton visits Colorado, but dodges the state’s big issues

Hillary Clinton came to Colorado Tuesday looking for another opportunity to close the enthusiasm gap between her and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Her speech in...

Denver tries to spur condo construction by limiting homeowners’ right to...

Monday Denver became the latest municipality to enact so-called construction defects reform. City Council approved a proposal out of the Mayor's office that will make...

Michael Lee Marshall and Marvin Booker: Parallels in both life and...

Michael Lee Marshall didn’t know about Marvin Booker until days before he died. The two men had lots in common. Both had mental health problems and...

Denver inmate dies after sheriff’s deputies restrained him

A mentally ill inmate who apparently posed no physical threat when three sheriff’s deputies restrained him into unconsciousness at the Denver jail has died...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s DIA’s new hotel —...

  Depending on whom you speak with, the hotel opening tomorrow at Denver International Airport resembles a bird in flight, or an airplane, or a...

Denver sheriff’s budget is out of line, say community activists

Denver has an addiction problem – an addiction to jails and prisons. And the time has come for the city to get off its...

Transparency? Not so much in Hancock’s appointment of new sheriff.

Michael Hancock had hoped that finding a new sheriff would cure what ails Denver’s violence-plagued, scandal-ridden and otherwise dysfunctional sheriff’s department. But, for the second...

Denver City Council may proclaim today “Indigenous Peoples’ Day”

The United States shouldn't celebrate a guy who led a genocide against Native Americans. We should celebrate indigenous people instead. So goes the anti-Columbus Day...

Did a mystery hacker strike at Denver School Board president Happy...

A Denver Post opinion poll with suspiciously high turnout hints that someone wants to take down school board president Allegra “Happy” Haynes so badly...