When photos of two students at Campus Middle School (CMS) with swastikas drawn on them spread through the community on the day the school presented a program about the Holocaust recently, it led to the reporting of other acts of antisemitism at that school and at West Middle School (WMS). The May 8 regular …
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SB23-279 Unserialized Firearms and Firearm Components is on its way to Governor Polis for signature after passing the State House on May 5, having passed the Senate on April 28. The bill won the support of every Democrat, except Sen. Kevin Priola, who was a Republican until last year. No Republicans in either the State …
As expected, on April 28, Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed a packet of four new laws to fight gun violence and forward his previously announced goal of making Colorado one of the ten safest states in the nation. They were: As he signed the bills, Gov. Polis said, “Today we are taking some important steps …
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Governor Polis said he wanted Colorado to be one of the 10 safest states in the country within five years. In January, he pointed to two specific new laws he hoped would help accomplish that goal, expanding the list of people who could invoke the state’s extreme risk protection order (red flag) law and banning …
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The Byers School District 32-J and the Deer Trail 26J School District are getting their very first school therapy dog, an 8-week-old black Labrador puppy named Otis. K9 Otis will be teamed up with School Resource Officer Deputy Drew Matthews who’s been an SRO at Byers and Deer Trail Schools for two years and with …
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Shortly after 8:00 a.m. on March 30, police were called to a home in the Hills West neighborhood near the corner of East Belleview Avenue and South Havana Street, where they found Tracy Lee Bloch Lechner, 42, a mother of two young children, deceased in her driveway from a gunshot wound. Her estranged husband, David …
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On February 23, Democrats in the state Senate introduced three bills they believe will help address the problem of gun violence in our state. SB23-169 Increasing Minimum Age to Purchase Firearms, changes the minimum age to legally purchase any firearm to 21. Approved amendments to the bill have added exceptions to the minimum age of …
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On January 24, 2023, Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office (ASCO) Patrol Operations Captain Laurie Halaba was sworn in as the department’s Bureau Chief of Public Safety. Captain Halaba is the first female to be named a Bureau Chief in the history of ACSO. ACSO Sheriff Tyler Brown said in a press release, “Captain Halaba started with …
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On December 23, 2022, Arapahoe County District Judge Elizabeth Volz awarded Aurora City Council Member Danielle Jurinsky $3 million in her lawsuit against Robin Niceta, a former Arapahoe County Department of Human Services (DHS) worker, for knowingly making false charges of child abuse against Jurinsky in retaliation for her public criticism of Niceta’s then partner, …
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