A 36-year-old Denver woman has been charged with causing significant damage to a $30 million Clyfford Stil painting and the Twitterverse is alight with the news, mostly because of her method for causing said damage.
The latest Occupy Wall Street encampment to fall to a city police force was in Denver overnight, where retreating protesters left cops a set of burning shelters to deal with as they made their way out of the camp.
Police officers in Denver used a sock puppet Twitter account to harass Occupy Wall Street protesters, calling them "idiots."
Clearing out an encampment in a central city park, police fired pepper spray and pepper balls into an unruly crowd, and used batons to clear out others.
There's so much weed in Denver its local magazine has a pot reviewer
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