Today's News

The Alamo Draft House is building an 800-seat theater facility in the Aspen Grove shopping center that the company hopes will change the way you see movies. For those who may be yawning at the notion of yet another movie theater in the area, read on.

The company, which opened in 1997 in Austin, Texas, bills itself as something more than the average cineplex.

In some ways, the Oct. 3 presidential debate at the University of Denver broke little new ground.

President Barack Obama criticized former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for supporting policies that “skew toward the rich” and for planning a $5 trillion tax cut. The Republican challenger countered by saying that Obama’s vision of bigger government and higher taxes will inhibit economic growth.

Commentary by pundits has revolved around who bested whom, who wasn’t making eye contact with whom, and who didn’t give enough details.

A bicyclist was injured about 6 p.m. Sunday while traveling north on the Mary Carter Greenway Trail in South Platte Park, just north of West Mineral Avenue. The person hit a barbed wire tied across the trail, about a foot off the ground, and was thrown off the bicycle.

The Littleton Police Department and South Suburban Parks and Recreation are investigating the incident as a serious threat to public safety. This type of behavior could result in charges of reckless endangerment and assault, as well as other criminal charges.

The Jeffco commissioners held a virtual town hall meeting Sept. 25 from the comfort of a fifth-floor conference room in the County Administration and Courts Facility.

The mass conference call lasted from 7 to 8 p.m., and the commissioners fielded 26 questions.

It was the first time the county commissioners held such a meeting, although the C-470 Corridor Coalition conducted a similar exercise July 31 through Aug. 2.