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A Denver man has been arrested in connection with a string of chilling stabbings of people waiting at RTD bus stops on West Colfax Avenue.

Police hope a composite sketch andA surveillance photos will bring new leads in the 15-month-old hunt for the killer of Adams County Chief Deputy District Attorney Sean May.

Mark your calendars, Denver's signature Christmas event is just around the corner.

Minnie Goodblanket, left, and Nathaniel Whiteman take part in Saturday's march to the Capitol.

Lady Liberty is one of many strains offered by Highland Health. As Colorado's medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state .

The aspiring pro boxer arrested for shooting his son in the leg and the boy's mother, accused of covering up the incident, were given hefty bonds during their first appearance in court Tuesday.

The Sand Creek Massacre Spiritual Healing Run/Walk committee and supporters are commemorating the 145th anniversary of the 1864 Sand Creek Massacre this weekend.

Share + Nov 23, 2009 5:44 pm US/Mountain Written by Paul Day Reporting Paul Day Deep frying a turkey has become a tradition with problems because of what can happen with all that leftover grease.

Carlotta Espinoza lies on a platform above the Colorado History Museum's diorama of 1860s Denver.

If you've ever been to Earl's , with locations in Park Meadows and on the 16th Street Mall, you've no doubt noticed that the waitstaff and bartenders are predominantly beautiful females -- and the new location in Cherry Creek, which just opened today at 201 Columbine Street, is just as predictably flirty.

With aggressive discounting by stores and greater optimism by consumers, some Denver-area retailers say they're doing better than they expected on this Black Friday, with strong sales of clothing and electronics especially.

Even as a growing number of retailers are holding "Black Friday" specials weeks in advance and offering many of the same deals online, shoppers showed up in full force at Denver area stores predawn for the annual day after Thanksgiving sales.

FULL LIST OF HOLIDAY EVENTS A DENVER - Rather than staying inside avoiding the wintery weather this holiday season, the Downtown Denver Partnership wants you to come out and enjoy the many different planned activities and festivities.

Caf Berlin Caf Berlin offers diners a taste of Germany, so much so that regular customers feel at home when eating the same food they prepared back in their country.

You might be asking, "A dance party at City Hall?" Well, yes and no. If you are thinking Mayor Hickenlooper is getting his groove on with a bunch of Colorado senators into the wee hours of the morning, you would be wrong.

Todd Marzano, wipes his eyes while waiting in line for tickets at Denver International Airport on Wednesday.

Three trade associations representing Colorado tech businesses have moved their Denver offices.

El Centro artistic director Anthony J. Garcia. Denver's only Latino theater company, with financial backing from the city, is buying the shuttered Denver Civic Theatre at 721 Santa Fe Drive.

Colorado will receive $42 million for environmental remediation of various Asarco Inc.

The city of Denver Tuesday opened a new Five Points Business Development Office, with Mayor John Hickenlooper and Councilwoman Carla Madison on hand for the event.

New America Media and the U.S. Census Bureau invite you to a roundtable discussion on ethnic media's role in the 2010 Census What: Roundtable discussion on 2010 Census with ethnic media Who: Marilia A. Matos, Associate Director for Field Operations, U.S. Census Bureau Michael C. Cook, Acting Branch Chief, Decennial Media Relations Local Media ...

The Denver District Attorney's office today filed formal charges against nine of the 35 people suspected in downtown beatings and robberies over the last four months.

Cyclists enjoy a renovated trail on the Cherry Creek Greenway at South Holly Street and Cherry Creek Drive.

Racial attacks like the ones behind the arrest of 32 suspects in Denver are part of a trend spreading across the country, gang experts said Saturday.

The parents of a 3-year-old shooting victim were arrested late last night after they gave conflicting accounts of how the child was injured.

On November 21, 2009, at 3:25 a.m., Denver Police received a call of a shooting, which had occurred inside Saturday's Night Club, at 8315 E. Colfax Ave.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Denver real estate developer Erik Osborn for failing to appear at a pretrial hearing on the morning of Nov.

A credit union manager fleeing an early-morning robber ran for help only to find that her would-be savior was the robber's accomplice.

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Racial attacks like the ones behind the arrest of 32 suspects in Denver are part of a trend spreading across the country, gang experts said Saturday.

Eleanor Roosevelt pioneered the concept that presidential wives should do more than serve as hostesses at state dinners; she wrote newspaper and magazine columns, hit the lecture circuit and spoke on radio shows about social and political issues ranging from stretching family budgets during the Great Depression to the role of women in the armed ...

Two men who had been kicked out of Saturday's Night Club on east Colfax Avenue for fighting returned to the club early this morning and one of them fatally shot a man, police say.

A science teacher at an impoverished elementary school in north Denver has been named Colorado Teacher of the Year for 2010.

"Look, when I was here in 2002, I walked for what, eight hours, all over downtown and you know what I found? I found chicken wings -- chicken wings and fried fucking mozzarella sticks.

Authorities have tentatively identified two bank robbery suspects killed during a brazen shootout with Westminster Police Thursday.

Public comment sessions related to the final draft of the City and County of Denver's new zoning code will be aired on the city's municipal access TV channel, Denver 8 TV.

Last night I went to the Denver Associated Content meeting for staff and contributors.

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Gunfire erupted as police in north metro Denver tried to apprehend two suspects wanted for a bank robbery Thursday afternoon.

Shots have been fired during an apparent robbery in suburban Denver, resulting in injuries.

Police arrested two suspects who they say tried to rob a credit union early Thursday morning.

The sale of a 30,000 square foot building at 9635 W. Colfax Avenue in Lakewood will unexpectedly displace 35 independent businesses by the end of November.

A man suspected in at least six robberies in Denver in the last seven weeks poses as a customer before leaving and then returning to show a knife and commit the crime, police said.

Bikes are nice. But on frigid, icy mornings, they may not be the best high-speed getaway vehicle for a bank robber.

Denver, Colorado's swingers' scene has three very popular on premise swingers joints.

Police say witness descriptions of a vehicle involved in a deadly hit and run wreck Monday night helped lead to an arrest shortly after the crash.

Whether you're a Colorado native or a newcomer, chances are you've driven down the same streets, walked through the same neighborhoods, passed beneath the same signs -- but have you ever stopped to wonder about how those places got their names? If you have such questions, Professor Tom Noel, known on the UC Denver Campus where he teaches history as ...

A partnership spearheaded by 7NEWS Chief Meteorologist Mike Nelson has brought real-time weather data back to the city of Denver for the first time since it left in 1995 with the opening of Denver International Airport.

Police officers stopped a vehicle in downtown Denver this afternoon and found a man inside who had been shot.

Denver is one of my favorite cities. It is beautiful, clean, the people are friendly, it is not overly expensive, and its a wonderful place for a family vacation.

Traffic on a bridge that takes East 104th Avenue over the South Platte River is being detoured after engineers discovered significant deterioration of concrete on key portions of the bridge.

Ed Harris with his co-stars for the evening, Starz Denver Film Festival co-founder Ron Henderson and Mayor John Hickenlooper.

A collision between a train and a semi-truck tied up traffic this morning in Denver.

Michelle Obama and her Women of Excellence posse will travel to Denver, Colorado on Monday to see if they can whip some students into shape and get them to buy into the White House mentoring and leadership program.

Instead of sitting in stalled traffic to the High Country on Sunday, Brian Tai and his friends hit the slopes in Denver's Ruby Hill Park. Sunny skies are expected Monday in the city with a high near 45. Highs in the low- to mid-50s are expected each day through Friday.

The city and county honored its veterans and those in active military service Saturday with the annual Veterans Day Parade.

A variety of actresses, Obama administration officials and members of Congress will join first lady Michelle Obama for a series of mentoring activities Monday in Denver beginning at West High School.

A judge sentenced a paramedic to 12 year in prison after police say he fractured a patient's skull and broke his nose and eye socket on the way to the hospital.

The Denver Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Career Education Center Middle College of Denver High School to officially adopt the Denver Public School for the 2009-2010 school year.

"Why are there so many jazz musicians in Denver?" asks Page Fraley , a jazz trumpeter himself, rattling off a list of fine musicians who teach around town.

Police are investigating a series of assaults along West Colfax Ave. over the past two months; the most recent, a stabbing at a bus stop Thursday morning.

Stunning. Fascinating. Haunting. These are the first words that come to mind when attempting to describe what Denver's Opera Colorado put up on the Ellie Caulkins Opera House stage to open their new season.

Gary Magness, left, his wife, Sarah Siegel-Magness, and "Precious" director Lee Daniels.

Denver Public Schools is about to make to make big decisions on issues like opening schools, shutting schools down, and relocating schools to make better use of its sprawling Denver real estate portfolio. The District has enough vacant classroom space to house almost 30,000 students and their teachers.

MTV's "The Real World" is holding an open casting call in Denver this weekend for its 24th season.

The city is offering frustrated drivers one more option to pay for parking in Cherry Creek North.

Former East High teacher Dick Nelson is the volunteer curator of East's museum, which for 20 years has preserved memorabilia from the school.

A line of scrapers works the ground. No water has been secured for the south metro reservoir, and Western Slope interests are balking at proposals to pump water over the mountains.

In its 133 years of existence the Denver Fire Department has never had a woman in its command staff, until now.

Denver artist John McEnroe spent three and a half months in the backstage area of the old Elitch Gardens theater fabricating an installation for the Denver Art Museum's upcoming exhibition, "Embrace!" He needed a tall enough space to accommodate components that stretch to 25 feet.

The city of Denver plans to save roughly $5 million next year by instituting five furlough days for city employees.

Vine Street Pub's Paul Nashak plans to raise a toast to Denver tonight if the city council approves his request for a zoning variance that would allow the brewery to make beer on-site. A part of the Boulder-based Mountain Sun string of pubs, Vine Street has been open in Denver at 1700 Vine Street since May 2008 -- and has been trying to get brewery ...

This city really knows how to kick off its third annual Denver Arts Week: Tonight's Know Your Arts First Friday , an amped-up First Friday art-walk event, will step up to the plate to showcase local artists and galleries all over town.

A weak housing market pushed the Lower Downtown Design Review Board to defer development of residences on a site that kidney-dialysis giant DaVita is interested in for its corporate headquarters.

Officers with the Denver Police Department responding to a home early Friday morning found a dead woman and a man with stabbing wounds to his neck and arm.

If youa re making the trek to Denver for an Avalanche game or a concert, it can be easy to end up wandering around aimlessly.

One of the city's most popular shopping districts has a new way for drivers to pay for on-street parking, just in time for the holiday shopping season.

A Denver Arts week gets underway Friday. The city-sponsored event, which runs through Nov.

A new school board is about to take office in the Denver Public Schools and the transitional item , finished by the last board, but subject to review by the new school board, will be how to deal with six troubled schools, three neighborhood schools and three charter schools.

A crash forced officials to close northbound Interstate 25 in north metro Denver Thursday morning.

Denver voters Tuesday soundly defeated a ballot initiative that would have significantly restricted police discretion on whether to impound cars driven by unlicensed drivers.

Seedco Financial Services , hired by Denver's Office of Economic Development in 2007 to enhance economic development in low-income areas, has performed so poorly that it is actually hurting the city's ability to lend money to businesses, according to a city auditor's report released on Tuesday.

Property owners in downtown Denver's 14th Street area voted to contribute $4 million in funds for improvements to the corridor in Tuesday's election, according to the Downtown Denver Partnership Inc.

Mayor John Hickenlooper with Library Friends Foundation president Michelle Onoda , left, and Booklovers' Ball chairwoman Judy Joseph .

Roland Wilson included trademark amenities in the 130 multistory buildings he designed.

Halloween turned violent in Denver on Sunday morning with two shooting incidents, a party that turned into a fight, and a high-speed car chase, police said.