Jefferson County News

Jefferson County Sheriff's deputies caught four suspected thieves red handed as they were loading a stolen vehicle with stolen goods from a coin store near West Long Drive and West Bowles Avenue early Thursday morning.

Jefferson County osteopath Kevin Clemmer pleaded guilty to illegally distributing oxycodone, a synthetic opiate, in U.S. District Court in Denver on Thursday.

On May 23, 2013 at 1:30 a.m., Jefferson County deputies responded to a burglary alarm at the World of Coins store located at 7735 W. Long Dr.

Four suspects were in the process of robbing a Littleton coin store when Jefferson County Sheriff's Deputies showed up and caught them in the act Thursday morning.

Jefferson County sheriff's investigators and animal control officers have seized 18 horses at an animal rescue facility in Morrison.

On May 21, 2013, Jefferson County Sheriff's Office investigators and animal control officers served a search warrant at 17346 Forest Ave.

Shaini Elizabeth Davenport, 21, entered guilty pleas this week to vehicular homicide plus four additional counts for driving under the influence of alcohol, according to a Jefferson County District Attorney's Office media release.

The bomb squad from the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is responding to West Jefferson Middle School on Tuesday afternoon.

A cyclist hugs the side of the road while riding to the top of Lookout Mountain, with a view of Golden below.

Students in Jefferson County would spent six to eight more hours in the classroom next year under the superintendent's budget proposal.

University of Colorado women's golf coach Anne Kelly announced that Valor Christian's Victoria Glenn will continue her education and play golf at CU.

Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories.

JOSHUA POLSON/jpolson@greeleytribune.com Eaton's Keri Ruff gets ready to throw discuss on Friday during the Track and Field Championships at Jefferson County Stadium in Lakewood.

The Citizen Awareness Project is chaired by Charlie Smith. He applied for 501 4 status last year, which means he was applying to be a social welfare, tax-exempt organization.

UPDATE: A photo forwarded to us from today's press conference announcing the lawsuit against Colorado's new gun safety bills, Dave Kopel of the Independence Institute on the right: See the man in the black shirt on the left? That's Clint Webster , a 2010 GOP candidate for House District 24.

FOR THE TRIBUNE/Kevin Jelden Eaton's David Jones pole vaults 13 feet 3 inches Thursday during the Track and Field Championships at Jefferson County Stadium in Lakewood.

Edward T. Buckingham, a former CNMI attorney general who has been declared a fugitive, was arrested in Colorado, according to Office of the Public Auditor legal counsel George L. Hasselback yesterday.

The Colorado Department of Education is holding a study session on Thursday to address questions about a pilot program being implemented in Jefferson County Schools that has some parents concerned.

Sandra Lee Schreiber, 69, is suspected in the death of her husband, Michael P. Schreiber, 79, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office.

Families walk around Crown Hill Lake at Crown Hill Park, which borders Lakewood and Wheat Ridge on Jan.