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Man accused of stalking young girls on Facebook

Man accused of stalking young girls on Facebook

LITTLETON, Colo. -- A teenage dance student says a 20-year-old man used her Facebook Page to make advances toward other students at the dance school in Littleton, some as young as 9-years-old.

Bullet found at Highlands Ranch elementary school

HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. -- A bullet was discovered Thursday inside a Highlands Ranch Elementary School, according to a letter sent home to parents.

A student found the bullet on the floor in the cafeteria after lunch at Redstone Elementary School, located in the 9900 block of Glenstone Circle.

The bullet was immediately turned in.

The school says there was no immediate threat, but it's not clear how the bullet got there.

Boy, 10, faces felony charges in townhome fire

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. -- A 10-year-old boy faces felony juvenile charges for what his parents say was an accident.

It happened last May when Tina Christenson’s son, Jacob, and his friend found a lighter and set a piece of paper ablaze. The flames spread to a bush, and then to a townhome.

The fire caused $100,000 in damage.

"He understands that what he did was horribly bad," Tina Christenson told us. “All he saw in his mind and in his thinking was lighting the piece of paper on fire, letting it go out, stomping it out, and that was it. I know he did not see beyond what could possibly happen."

She says Jacob knows what he did was wrong, and he needs to be held accountable. But -in her view- the felony charges are excessive.

Silence could make Coloradans organ donors under proposed bill

Silence could make Coloradans organ donors under proposed bill

DENVER (AP) -- Colorado drivers sign up for organ and tissue donation at higher rates than in any other state. But state lawmakers are considering a first-in-the-nation change so that people getting driver's licenses would be presumed organ donors unless they indicate otherwise.

The "presumed consent" process has been considered in Delaware, Illinois and New York. But so far no state has adopted the measure amid ethical fears that "presumed consent" opt-out donation programs are coercive.

Country Dinner Playhouse demolished

Country Dinner Playhouse demolished
ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. -- The building that housed a dinner theater that has been a landmark in metro Denver for decades is getting demolished. 

Crews started knocking down the old Country Dinner Playhouse early Tuesday morning.

The building that resembles a barn sits just south of Arapahoe Road on the east side of I-25.

Wellness center in Highlands Ranch fights to stay open

Wellness center in Highlands Ranch fights to stay open
Chris Michlewicz/Highlands Ranch Herald

Dr. Ryan Hatch made a business decision when he moved to Highlands Ranch with his family two years ago. The only difference between he and most other businessmen was his main product line.

He rented a retail space, made tenant improvements and invested much if his life savings into his health clinic. In August 2008, he opened Hatch Wellness Center, a shop behind King Soopers at University Boulevard and Highlands Ranch Parkway that provides, among chiropractic and acupuncture services, medical marijuana.

Grand jury indictment busts up major auto theft, drug ring in Denver metro area

Grand jury indictment busts up major auto theft, drug ring in Denver metro area
 

A Denver Grand Jury has returned a 103-count indictment naming 8 co-defendants in a major auto theft ring that targeted victims across the Denver metro area.  The indictment is the result of a year-long investigation.

Tiffany Nicole Weaver (01-03-89), Levi Gregory Yazzie (01-26-82) and Harold Ernest Margeson (12-09-69) are all charged with violating the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act (COCCA) and numerous other counts including conspiracy to commit aggravated motor vehicle theft, conspiracy to commit