Jefferson County News

With each new shooting, such as the ones in Florida and Texas, police say they are developing new techniques that are saving lives.

A Littleton soccer coach was sentenced to 24 years in prison today in Jefferson County District Court for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl last year.

Five men and four women alleged to be in an identity theft and forgery ring operating in Jefferson County have been indicted by a grand jury for racketeering under Colorado's Organized Crime Control Act.

A grand jury has indicted five men and four women accused of being part of an identity theft and forgery ring that operated in Jefferson County, the Denver area and Colorado Springs.

People all over Colorado are desperately waiting to get the H1N1 vaccine before they or their children gets sick.

A man drops his ballot off in front of the Denver Election Commission on Nov. 3, 2009, and thanks election worker Carissa Marsh for standing outside and collecting the drive-up ballots Last-minute ballots streamed into county clerks' offices around the state Tuesday, but many counties still expected overall turnout to be well below 50 percent.

A shifting population and a budget crunch have pushed the state's largest school district to consider closing schools and selling buildings.

One person is dead following a stabbing Sunday morning in Jefferson County. The Jefferson County Sheriff's office says deputies are investigating a double stabbing that happened around 9:30 a.m. Sunday at the Dakota Ridge Apartments.

Officials from Golden, Boulder and Boulder County presented a plan to improve specific intersections of Highway 6 and Highway 93 to the Transportation Legislative Review Committee.

The Wheat Ridge location may not be the first Cabela's in Colorado, but the outdoors mega-retailer is still coming, according to officials with Wheat Ridge and the company.

Jefferson County Question 1A asks voters whether the district attorney's term should be extended from two to three.

The foothills west of Denver got the heaviest snow in this week's autumn snow storm.

With more than a foot of snow already on the ground in many parts of metropolitan Denver, the snow just kept falling Thursday morning.

A man who prosecutors say ran a high-stakes Denver poker club whose customers included prominent athletes, media personalities, attorneys, doctors and others has pleaded guilty to violating the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act.

A Jefferson County grand jury has indicted three people for allegedly stealing $10,000 from a non-profit youth football organization.

A house fire Wednesday night prompted police to go back to a home in Wheat Ridge just two months after they executed a no-knock raid at that same home.

Amy Praski coordinates the Queens Way Neighborhood Watch group for a section of Jefferson County just east of Simms St.

A man and woman were found dead Monday morning in a home in unincorporated Jefferson County after their adult daughter asked sheriff's deputies to check on the couple.

A former Focus on the Family radio ministry employee has been sentenced to five years of intensive probation for attempting to lure an underage teen into having sex with him.

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