- A migration of millions of crickets in Nevada is so bad that crews are literally plowing them off the roads. Miller moths don’t seem so bad now, do they?
- Former Denver Broncos linebacker Bill Romanowski was never one to play strictly according to the rules, so I guess it is no surprise that he allegedly owes the IRS more than $15 million in back taxes and penalties.
- The owners of a Northern California taqueria have been ordered to pay $140,000 in back wages and damages after they hired a man to pose as a priest to elicit “confessions” of wrongdoing from employees. “The priest mostly had work-related questions, which I thought was strange,” one employee told investigators.
- A preschool in Taiwan has cracked the code on settling down rambunctious kids: sedatives.
- The Paris 2024 Olympics may be 13 months away, but it is never too early to kick off the scandals. French authorities raided the headquarters of the organizing committee as part of a probe into suspected embezzlement.
- A contestant on “The Price is Right” dislocated his shoulder on-camera when he celebrated too exuberantly.
- 3M has agreed to pay $12.5 billion to settle hundreds of lawsuits brought by cities whose drinking water was contaminated with PFAS “forever chemicals” the company made for decades.
- A new, high-end W Hotel in Scotland is making headlines for its design that is remarkably similar to the poop emoji.
- The FTC has accused Amazon of enrolling consumers into its Prime program without their consent and making it difficult to cancel those subscriptions. And proving that it’s not just the marketing people at Amazon who are clever, the internal code name for the scheme to make it difficult to cancel was “The Illiad.“
- Former talk-show host Maury Povich has launched a line of at-home paternity tests.
- Colorado’s public pension system PERA announced it had a –13.4% rate of return in 2022. If you are a public employee, you might want to plan to continue working.
- Dozens of people were injured and seven went to the hospital after hail hit the Louis Tomlinson concert at Red Rocks. Meanwhile, 9News’ Kyle Clark was not impressed with the facility’s response on social media.
- The Atlanta Braves sent infielder Charlie Culbertson down to the minors the day before his father was scheduled to throw the ceremonial first pitch.
- More than 30 Colorado congregations announced they are leaving the United Methodist Church in a dispute over gay marriage.
- None of the world’s Top 10 Most Livable Cities were located in the United States. Canada had three.
- Will Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk pummel each other in a cage fight? We can only hope.
- Longtime Colorado Rockies TV announcer George Frazier passed away. He was 68.
- It appears that as the world closely watched the search for the lost submersible that was touring the wreck of the Titanic, the five passengers were already dead. Meanwhile, humanity did what humanity does, and the dark jokes and memes about “Schrödinger’s Sub” were, in some cases, vicious.
So, who won the week?
- Colorado native Wyndham Clark won the 2023 U.S Open golf tournament. Clark graduated from Valor Christian High School.
- The Denver Post reporter Conrad Swanson has taken a position with the Seattle Times.
- Meteorologist Jessica Lebel announced she is leaving Fox31 and the news business entirely.
- Former Denver7 investigative reporter and Colorado native Jennifer Kovaleski joined the ABC affiliate in Phoenix.
- Denver Water has tapped Alan Salazar as its new CEO. Salazar currently is chief of staff for Denver Mayor Michael Hancock.
- The Denver Post has wisely abandoned its comments section.