Jefferson County News

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.