Denver Post

Thousands of court cases across Colorado — hundreds of them involving violent felonies — are hidden from public view, concealed behind judges’ orders that can remain in effect for years, The Denver Post has found.

The beauty of the pedestrian bridge stretching between Denver International Airport’s main terminal and the A concourse is in the eye of the crosser: It is the gateway to the Rockies for people from far-off lands or a potential shortcut for flyers running late.

Moments after Colorado voters picked candidates in the primary election, the race to November began.
The two men left on the ballot for governor traded barbs in their victory speeches Tuesday night.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Bucket list item you never knew you wanted: Drinking with animals.
You know we’re truly living in high times when going to a Yappy Hour isn’t just a possibility, but you have to choose which one of the many options to attend.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The principal caught an incriminating sight when she walked by the classroom: The male math teacher was sitting provocatively close to the 13-year-old student perched on his desk wearing a short skirt.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

It didn’t take much to inspire the metro area’s first urban camping ban outside Denver and Boulder. Just an assortment of abandoned items — tents, sleeping bags, drug paraphernalia, clothes and DVDs among them — collected by police during the past year in parks, under bridges and along trails.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Following the deaths by suicide last week of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, calls to a Colorado suicide-prevention hotline soared.

Colorado’s largest charter school for gifted and talented students has been hit with eight civil rights complaints in two years. But administrators at Stargate Charter School, in Thornton, say they have learned their lesson and are making changes to better address allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination against disabled students.

A flurry of construction that will significantly expand the capacity of Denver International Airport kicked off Tuesday as crews broke ground on a $1.5 billion gate expansion project.
In the next three years, that project will add 39 gates across all three concourses, a 35 percent increase in the number of regular boarding positions.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

It was something perfectly ordinary: Lindsay Gottlieb, who coaches the University of California at Berkeley’s women’s basketball team, was about to fly with her 1-year-old son.
But her family then had what Gottlieb called an “uncomfortable and hurtful” interaction with a Southwest Airlines employee at a Denver International Airport ticket counter: On Monday, she said, the employee asked Gottlieb to “prove” she was the mother of her biracial son, even after seeing the toddler’s passport.