4TH POLICE STATION FOR ARVADA

As Arvada’s population heads toward the 120,000 mark, construction will begin on the city’s fourth police station in its fastgrowing northwest corner.

On 12:30 p.m. next Monday, city leaders will gather for a groundbreaking of the Whisper Creek community police station, 14360 W. 89th Drive, which is scheduled to open in mid-2019.

Golden Triangle Construction, Inc. is contracted to build the $4.3 million facility. The Whisper Creek station will join the West Woods station, Lake Arbor station and main station at Arvada City Hall in serving this suburb west of Denver with police and emergency services.

The city opened its Lake Arbor and West Woods stations just four years ago.

California woman killed in crash on Boulderbound Diagonal Highway.

One person was killed Monday morning after her vehicle collided with a tow truck on Diagonal Highway near Niwot.

Colorado State Patrol Trooper Josh Lewis said the crash was reported at about 11 a.m. on Diagonal Highway near Niwot Road. Lewis said a vehicle driven by a 70-yearold woman and a towtruck driven by a 57-yearold man collided.

The truck was also towing a third vehicle that was also involved in the crash, but that vehicle was unoccupied, Lewis said.

The woman, who is from California, was declared dead on scene. Her identity will be released by the Boulder County Coroner’s Office.

Meat found yards laced with rat poison.

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A Colorado humane society group says food laced with rat poison has been found in several yards in a southeast Fort Collins neighborhood.

The Coloradoan reports that the Larimer Humane Society says it has received several reports of suspicious food items found in yards in the Fossil Lake Ranch neighborhood.

The group’s community outreach manager, Kaylene Weingardt, says no animals have been harmed yet.

Ex-inmate threatens to sue El Paso County over alleged excessive force.

SPRINGS» A COLORADO former inmate is threatening to sue El Paso County, alleging a deputy shoved his already broken jaw against a cell wall after he complained he was served food he couldn’t eat.

The Gazette reports attorneys representing Thomas Ryan Dole say the incident took place last September at El Paso County Jail, a few days after Dole was involved in a fight with other inmates that left him with a broken back and required that his jaw be wired shut and that jail staff place him on a liquid diet.

One of Dole’s attorneys, Heather Mitchell, asks for “damages in excess of $75,000” in a letter of claim the county received May 30.