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A 34-year-old South Jeffco man died early Tuesday morning after police restrained him and loaded him into an ambulance.

The man, who the Sheriff’s Office said appeared to be under the influence of drugs, stopped breathing at about 4:35 a.m. and was taken to Littleton Adventist Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 5:20 a.m.

Former Colorado Public Radio reporter Lesley Dahlkemper is running for the Jeffco school board, and she says she would take the district in a more decisive and cohesive direction.

Community dialogue should be given more emphasis, Dahlkemper said, and the board needs to take a hard-line stance on cost-saving measures — even if it means closing more schools.

Columbine High School Hall of Fame Award recipients Maddie Tedford and Vinny Sonderby received their diplomas along with more than 350 of their classmates on May 28, and for the pair, the long-awaited graduation still seems surreal.

“It hasn’t really hit me yet,” Tedford said of the ceremony, which took place at Comfort Dental Amphitheatre in Greenwood Village. “In the back of my mind I’m still going to be at Columbine next August.”

The Jeffco Public Library board violated the state’s Open Meetings Law on May 19 when the public was removed from a meeting involving its budget, say two Colorado Press Association attorneys.

The board, which includes two practicing lawyers and an executive member of the Colorado Freedom of Information Council, held the executive session at the Arvada Library, citing a section of the law that allows for closed meetings about matters involving negotiations.