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The Gallup organization recently released a stunning poll showing that 81 percent of Americans are unhappy with the way the country is being governed.
Further breaking down those poll numbers, the Gallup press release went on to note that “57 percent have little or no confidence in the federal government to solve domestic problems, exceeding the previous high of 53 percent recorded in 2010 and well exceeding the 43 percent who have little or no confidence in the government to solve international problems.”

By Emile Hallez

Staff Writer

State Sen. Mike Kopp resigned from his seat last week after representing South Jeffco for the past five years.

In a letter announcing his resignation, the Senate District 22 Republican cited personal reasons for the decision, specifically that he wanted to spend more time with his four children. His wife, Kimberly, died in late July after a three-year battle with cancer.

A South Jeffco woman who died Tuesday evening in her driveway succumbed to a medical condition and was not struck by a vehicle, as initially thought, the Colorado State Patrol said Thursday.

Shirley Gallegos, 76, was attempting to enter the front passenger door of a 2006 Honda Accord at 7:15 p.m. at 9717 W. Peakview Drive as the vehicle was moving, the State Patrol said. Gallegos fell, and the patrol initially reported the vehicle’s door might have hit her as the car was rolling backward.

By Emile Hallez

Staff Writer

More than a year and a half after Bruco Eastwood left his father’s ranch in Hudson, drove to Deer Creek Middle School and shot two students, the 33-year-old walked out of a Jefferson County courtroom — not as a free man, but one who will nonetheless serve little or no jail time.

A jury of 11 women and one man on Oct. 5 found Eastwood not guilty by reason of insanity on four counts of attempted murder in the shootings of Matt Thieu and Reagan Weber on Feb. 23, 2010.