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By Charley Able • March 9th, 2010

Fund-raising for what would be the county’s first Boys & Girls Club turns to the community to raise the final $150,000 needed to meet a three-year funding goal.

Officers combed city in search of youngster who left school after an altercation before finding him near the school hours later.

Hiker finds spent pre-World War II munitions in popular Open Space area on Green Mountain and officials worry more dangerous items may be undiscovered.

Prosecutors charge Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood with counts of attempted murder, assault, child abuse and possessing a weapon at a school. Young victims recovering.

Tom Hoby will take the reins of Jeffco’s highly regarded Open Space program as director of the Community Resources Department. He will start at month’s end.

Senate Bill 165, which sought to eliminate what Kopp called “redundancies and waste” in state government, falls 3-2. Ritter signs Rep. Andy Kerr’s PERA fix.

Another stand of Lakewood’s majestic – but frail – cottonwoods are falling, this time along West 13th Aveunue to make way for the West Corridor light rail line.

Life behind bars awaits ex-con who assaulted a woman during the burglary of a church that had given him a helping hand several times before the crimes.

Staging will limit Wadsworth traffic beginning at 7 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday but work on rail bridge will close off the street 10 p.m.-5:30 a.m.

Suspects in flurry of thefts from cars parked at Southern Gables Church are indicted. They also are accused of similar crimes in along the Front Range.

Two victims died within hours of each other, but one case landed a driver in jail on suspicion of murder while charges are unlikely in the other fatality, police say.

Lakewood’s dispensary regulations – in the works since late last year – include strict security measures, spacing from schools and each other, and costly fees.