Today's News

  Ken Caryl Middle School principal Pat Sandos was out in front of the school Monday morning, following his routine of directing traffic.

It was a sight that months ago seemed uncertain. The school, one of many Jeffco Public Schools selected for closure by a citizen panel, was spared by the Board of Education.

So Aug. 23, the first day of school, might have seemed a bit sweeter than usual for a staff once unsure about the status of their jobs.

The kids train at Tiny Town derailed and overturned about 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, and up to 20 passengers were reported to have been injured.

Fifteen adults and children were taken to Denver area hospitals, according to the Inter-Canyon Fire Department.

Emergency personnel were on the scene, and at least one injured child reportedly suffered broken bones. The train was full at the time of the accident.

  Hundreds of eager customers lined up Aug. 4 outside the new SmartCo Foods grocery emporium, which held its grand opening before the sun had breached the horizon.

The new store, the latest in the chain’s foray into the state, handed out gift cards to the first 250 customers, who began flooding into the market shortly after 6 a.m.

“At a lot of our stores, it starts at about 4 or 5 the night before,” manager David Crookston said of the throng waiting for the store to open.

Negative attacks, they say, have long been part of politics. In “Going Dirty: the Art of Negative Campaigning” by David Mark, we’re told that in the 1828 presidential election, Andrew Jackson’s political allies nicknamed John Quincy Adams “the Pimp,” a reference to “a rumor that while he was ambassador to Russia a decade earlier, he had coerced a young woman into having an affair with a czar.”