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Residents would be granted a five-day grace period for late sewer and storm-drain payments under a measure the Littleton City Council is considering.

Late fees would also be reduced from 25 percent to 15 percent, or by about $23 for Littleton residents outside of sanitation districts, a change driven by customer complaints about unusually high fees and an unforgiving deadline.

A new independent coffee shop in South Jeffco has brewed up a mélange of local flavor, and the owners hope the shop's neighborhood feel draws area coffee — and pastry — lovers.

Tammy Teixeira and her husband, Rick, owners of Foothills Coffee, entered the restaurant business when they took over Chatfield Sports Bar in October 2010 at South Simms Street and West Brandt Avenue. They remodeled the bar, installed a dance floor and began hosting trivia nights.

When Dakota Ridge senior Melba Njenga moved from Nairobi to the United States at age 12, she felt years older than her new peers.

Having been raised in a culture that demanded school performance under the threat of physical punishment, she had trouble identifying with students who might invest more time in Xbox than plotting x-y intercepts. School was easier here, and not surprisingly the expatriate Kenyan was at least a full year ahead of other students her age.

A Jefferson County judge on March 9 sentenced James Craig Bird to 24 years to life in prison, the maximum possible sentence, in connection with the sexual abuse of several children over a period of years.
Bird, 65, pleaded guilty Dec. 20 to a single count of sexual assault of a child by a person in a position of trust in a pattern of abuse. He had been charged with manipulating and assaulting several children to whom he served as a father figure.