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This article won a 2006 Western Publication Association Maggie Award in the personality profile category.Friday Evening, Feb. 18, just before 5:30 p.m. She didn't want to go. Tiffany Engle jumped in her new, charcoal-gray Mazda 6 and argued with herself in the front seat. A brokerage assistant at Marcus & Millichap in downtown Denver, she also... MORE
Richard Stites lays pictures of his dead son on the family's dining room table. Here's a shot of Nolan Edward Stites when he was 7: a fair-skinned cowlick of a kid aiming a .22-caliber rifle in the woods. An avid outdoorsman, Richard couldn't wait to teach his boy to shoot and survive in the wild. And here's a shot of teenage Nolan with his rifle... MORE
It was after midnight, and Jacqueline Woods*, an 18-year-old freshman at the United States Air Force Academy, was feeling too ashamed to sleep. She flicked on her computer and saw that her brother, an academy senior who lived in a neighboring dorm, was also online. As they began exchanging instant messages, she decided to tell him what had... MORE
For the second year in row, 5280 has been awarded the gold medal for civic journalism from the City and Regional Magazine Association. Mike Kessler's "Out in the Cold," from 5280's November issue, topped entries from Chicago, the Washingtonian, and other leading city publications. Maximillian Potter's "Nobody's Hero" won the same award in 2007. "... MORE