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Greene: The hardest stories Colorado has one of the highest suicide...

Dear readers,  The story of Ben Rosenthal’s death last year is not mine to tell. For starters, I never met the 26-year-old from Marin County, California....

Colorado’s youth suicide rates are rising. A new effort seeks to...

On Tuesday morning, in a fourth floor conference room of History Colorado in downtown Denver, 14-year-old Aimee Resnick stood behind a lectern looking out...

The Indy 500: A manhunt, a suicide and the echoes of...

I'm still thinking today about the woman/girl/teenager who turned the Front Range upside down with her apparent obsession with the Columbine High School massacre...

Younger Colorado students seek access to mental health care, without parental...

A bill before the Colorado legislature would allow younger children to access confidential therapy on their own to fight mental illness and youth suicide. A...

Sylvester Tally: Readers respond to “The sad death of the happiest...

Readers had a lot to say about "The sad death of the happiest man in Denver," our story about Sylvester Tally, the beloved longtime coffee...

GREENE: The sad death of the happiest man in Denver

  I’ve been struggling to write about Sylvester Tally for three weeks now. With each interview I’ve done since his Nov. 28th suicide, I’ve heard about...

End of life options: A conversation with Dan Diaz

You may not recall the name Brittany Maynard, but it’s likely you remember the photo of the young, green-eyed Californian with the great smile...

Littwin: Deep end: Trump invokes Vince Foster suicide conspiracy

Congratulations if you had Vince Foster on your Donald Trump fantasy league team. It was a bold pick, but, when it comes to the...

Feds pay $175,000 settlement for ADX suicide

It was sick enough that the federal Bureau of Prisons let Robert Knott degenerate to the point that he killed himself in its ADX...

Are Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris’s parents to blame for the...

It must be the parents’ fault. That’s what most of us assumed after the massacre at Columbine High School. In the absence of any other...