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19 hrs ago | Denver Post

Jeffco students would spend more time in class under proposed budget

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

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Related Topix: Education Etc.

Sun May 19, 2013

Denver Post

Valor Christian golfer Victoria Glenn commits to CU Buffs

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.

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Sat May 18, 2013

Denver Post

Decomposed remains of girl discovered under a Lakewood trailer in 1977

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

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Related Topix: Lakewood, CO, Prison

Greeley Tribune

Ruff's bid for second discus title falls short

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.

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Related Topix: Lakewood, CO

Denver Post

Colorado conservative group believed to be targeted by IRS spent $1 million last year

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.

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Related Topix: Tax, Representative Scott Tipton, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Representative Ed Perlmutter, 2012 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

Colorado Political News

Here Come The Sheriffs

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.

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Related Topix: Guns, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Lakewood, CO

Fri May 17, 2013

Greeley Tribune

Jones' personal best claims third

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.

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Related Topix: Lakewood, CO

Saipan Tribune

Buckingham arrested in Colorado

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.

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Thu May 16, 2013

Denver Post

Colorado educators get questions, concerns about Jefferson County...

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.

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Wed May 15, 2013

Denver Post

Jefferson County woman suspected of fatally stabbing her husband

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

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Mon May 13, 2013

Denver Post

Crown Hill Park final plan announced by Jefferson County Open Space

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

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Related Topix: Lakewood, CO, Wheat Ridge, CO

Denver Post

Two people stabbed in Jefferson County

A man and a woman were stabbed in Jefferson County on Monday morning in what officials are calling a case of domestic violence.

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Fri May 10, 2013

Denver Post

Denver housing market recovers but sellers remain scarce

Scott and Mitt-Ellen Haase would like to sell their Applewood home, but they want to buy a larger one in Jefferson County before they list it, even though the strategy carries some risk.

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Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Applewood, CO, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Daily Camera

Colorado wildfires: Crews prepare for worst, expect average season

The good news: This year is unlikely to produce a fire season along the Front Range as severe as in 2012, when blazes such as the Lower North Fork fire left three dead and destroyed 23 homes.

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Related Topix: Fire, Colorado, Colorado Government, Natural Disasters, Wildfire, US Governors, John Hickenlooper

Thu May 09, 2013

The Telluride Watch

Providing a Hand Up, Not a Handout'

Gerald and Linda Zschoche worked on the floor structure of a new Habitat for Humanity located at 111 Bluegrass Court in Montrose on Thursday, May 2. For the past seven years the couple has enjoyed traveling around the state and beyond volunteering for weeks at a time to help build homes for families in need.

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Denver Post

GAO: Delays cost taxpayers $1.5 billion in VA hospital construction

Construction delays at Aurora's new Veterans Administration hospital cost the federal government almost $500 million more than budgeted, the General Accountability Office says in a report issued this week.

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Related Topix: US House of Representatives, US Politics, Democrat, US News, Representative Ed Perlmutter

Wed May 08, 2013

9NEWS

Teens, others targeted by major ID theft ring

First Judicial District Attorney Peter Weir announced 10 arrests in a major identity theft ring in the metro area Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Highlands Ranch, CO

CW2 Colorado KWGN-TV

Jeffco grand jury returns 156-count indictment of ID theft ring

A Jefferson County grand jury returned a 156-count indictment naming five women and eight men in an ID theft ring accused of stealing at least $26,000. District Attorney Pete Weir said that the ring operated in Jefferson County and the Denver metro area between April, 2012 and January, 2013.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law

Tue May 07, 2013

Jefferson County

Shred-a-Thon 2013

The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is proud to once again be a part of the Crime Stoppers annual Shred-a-Thon. On Saturday, May 18, from 7 a.m. to noon, Shred-it, Inc.

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Denver Post

Colorado 3rd-grade reading scores remain stagnant, test results show

Preliminary results from the state's standardized test show stagnant reading performance for Colorado third graders, a trend that state officials say must be changed.

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Related Topix: Colorado, Colorado Government, Education Etc.