Root Shoot Whiskey is bottled-in-bond, aged four years in American White oak barrels, and made from 100% Colorado-grown grain. Photo: Courtesy of Root Shoot Whiskey
🥃 Root Shoot Whiskey from Loveland-based Root Shoot Spirits was named the best American-made single malt at the 2025 London Spirits Competition, earning 98 points out of 100. (Denver Post 🔑)
🚨 A 19-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a 19-year-old woman in a bus terminal near Union Station last week was free on bond related to a separate shooting earlier this year in Aurora. (9News)
❌ The Denver City Council this week rejected a $25 million contract with Suncor over concerns about the pollution generated by the Commerce City refinery. (Denver Post 🔑)
🔎 Boulder County detectives closed a 50-year-old murder case using new technology, determining Louis Jess Locicero could be "conclusively" tied to the 1975 stabbing of John Patterson at a Boulder gas station. (Axios Boulder)
😬 Colorado's snowpack has been melting rapidly, raising risks of less water supply and more wildfires this summer. (CPR)
