Denver woman challenges longstanding Colorado law requiring anti-abortion...
A Denver woman is mounting a new legal challenge to a longstanding Colorado law that prohibits anti-abortion activists from approaching within eight feet of people outside abortion clinics. The law was...
View ArticleAuon’tai Anderson announces run for Colorado state House, dropping school...
Denver school board Vice President Auon’tai Anderson will run to represent northeast Denver in the Colorado House of Representatives in 2024, dropping his school board re-election bid and pivoting into...
View ArticleDenver Police Department lacks clear plan to tackle low morale and high...
The Denver Police Department doesn’t have a clear plan to address the low morale, high turnover and staffing shortages that have emerged in recent years during the nationwide push for police reform and...
View ArticleParty and protest mix as LGBTQ+ pride parades kick off from New York to San...
By BOBBY CAINA CALVAN (Associated Press) NEW YORK — Celebrations mingled with displays of resistance Sunday as LGBTQ+ pride parades filled streets in some of the country’s largest cities in annual...
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3 years after Colorado’s landmark police accountability bill, what’s changed?...
Three years after the passage of Colorado’s landmark police accountability bill, officers have been convicted under new laws, a statewide database of officers’ misconduct is publicly available and body...
View ArticleFrance has a 5th night of rioting over teen’s killing by police amid signs of...
PARIS — Young rioters in France clashed with police into early Sunday and targeted a mayor’s home with a burning car, injuring members of his family, as the country saw a fifth night of unrest after...
View ArticleIsraeli parliament gives initial OK to measure limiting the Supreme Court’s...
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s parliamentary coalition gave initial approval early Tuesday to a contentious bill to limit the Supreme Court’s oversight powers, pressing forward with a...
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Dramatic protests in Iran over women’s rights are the subject of a show at...
There is a lot to see in the series of photographs currently on display at Denver’s Leon Gallery: dramatic scenes of civil rights protests that took place in Iran last year; the defiant posturing of...
View ArticleTim Hernández, teacher who inspired Denver classroom walkout, announces run...
Tim Hernández, the former Denver Public Schools teacher who drew supportive protests when his contract wasn’t renewed last year, is running for a vacant Colorado House seat set to be filled later this...
View ArticleDenver will pay $4.7 million to protesters in largest settlement stemming...
Hundreds of protesters cited for curfew violations during the 2020 racial justice demonstrations will receive portions of a $4.7 million settlement approved Monday by the Denver City Council. The...
View ArticleFormer Denver mayor candidate Terrance Roberts receives settlement for 2020...
Former Denver mayoral candidate and civil rights activist Terrance Roberts will receive a $50,000 settlement to resolve allegations that Denver police pepper-sprayed him without reason during a racial...
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All eyes on Aurora courtroom as first of three trials begins in Elijah...
Elijah McClain is pictured in this undated photograph. (Photo provided by family of Elijah McClain) Four years ago, Elijah McClain died after Aurora police officers tackled him and paramedics injected...
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Denver to pay $550,000 to protester who lost eye after police shot him with...
The city of Denver is poised to pay $550,000 to settle a lawsuit by a man who lost an eye after police shot him in the face with a projectile during the 2020 protests. Courtesy of Russell StrongRussell...
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Aurora police on trial as first of three cases brought in killing of Elijah...
Elijah McClain is pictured in this undated photograph. (Photo provided by family of Elijah McClain) AURORA — Prosecutors for the state of Colorado laid responsibility for Elijah McClain’s death four...
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Video of Elijah McClain’s stop by police shown as Aurora officers stand trial
Elijah McClain is pictured in this undated photograph. (Photo provided by family of Elijah McClain) Elijah McClain’s mother left the courtroom in tears Friday after prosecutors showed video footage of...
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Uplands finally breaks ground on contested farmland in Westminster
After a decade-long and at times bitter struggle to convert 234 acres of mostly farmland in southern Westminster into a new community, the Uplands is finally turning dirt. “From the beginning, our...
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Pathologist testifies he’s unsure whether police choke hold contributed to...
Elijah McClain is pictured in this undated photograph. (Photo provided by family of Elijah McClain) The pathologist who performed Elijah McClain’s autopsy testified Tuesday that he was unsure if a...
View ArticleDenver is set to pay $1.4 million to settle another lawsuit against Denver...
Denver city leaders are poised to approve a $1.4 million settlement to a group of people injured during the 2020 racial justice protests downtown — bringing the city’s total bill so far for alleged...
View ArticleEditorial: Rep. Tim Hernández shouldn’t stay silent on the murder, rape and...
Newly appointed Colorado state Rep. Tim Hernández clarified that he was rallying for support of Palestinians and not for Hamas on the west steps of the Colorado State Capitol only a day after Hamas...
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Walgreens locations in Denver impacted by nationwide walkouts by pharmacists...
Walgreens counts as the latest chain of pharmacies to delay its customers due to staffing shortages and walkouts by pharmacists over work conditions. Patrons in the Denver area dealt with disruptions...
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