Local News

By Ann Imse, For the Courier

The Inter-Canyon Fire Protection District board failed to investigate serious overspending for five years, records show — and that allowed $643,000 to vanish before the fire chief was indicted on embezzlement charges.

The board did not discover the alleged theft until there was no money left in the bank, in December 2012.

A Jeffco sheriff's deputy, Sgt. David Baldwin, died on Sunday morning when his patrol motorcycle collided head-on with an SUV on Colorado 93 north of West 64th Parkway.

The accident occurred just after 10 a.m. when a southbound 2004 Saturn Vue reportedly crossed into the oncoming lane while passing on a curve. Baldwin's Harley-Davidson, which was traveling in the left northbound lane, was struck by the SUV, according to a news release from the Sheriff's Office. Baldwin was thrown from the bike; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

A lockout at eight South Jeffco schools, including Columbine High School, has ended, according to a tweet from the Jeffco Sheriff's Office.

The schools went into lockout after several threats were phoned in to Columbine, but the Sheriff's Office determined later that the threats were neither "local or credible."

The Littleton City Council has rejected a request to allow medical marijuana grow operations in the city. 

The city had received a request from Mother Nature’s Miracle, one of four medical marijuana dispensaries in Littleton, to consider issuing cultivation licenses. The license would allow dispensaries to grow marijuana within city limits at either a separate facility or in a building connected to a dispensary.