Clifton man arrested after failed bank robbery
A Clifton man was arrested Friday morning after he attempted to rob the Alpine Bank, 3243 I-70 Business Loop in Clifton. John Worsham, 49, of Clifton, was identified by the Mesa County Sheriff's Office...
View ArticleBlotter, Sept. 24, 2016
A 25-year-old female relative of a man arrested after a three-hour SWAT standoff Wednesday appeared in Mesa County court on Friday, accused of hindering and delaying the arrest of the man. Alycia...
View ArticleBLM office in Junction to see change
Grand Junction will no longer be home to a district Bureau of Land Management office after the agency's Grand Junction Field Office gets transferred from the northwest Colorado district to the...
View ArticleWe all play a part in stabilizing and strengthening families
In response to the recent child fatality series, our deepest condolences go out to all families who have lost children, and to those children who are still with us who bear the lifetime scars caused by...
View ArticleYou Said It, Sept. 25, 2016
I would like to applaud The Sentinel for an informative series of articles on child abuse in Mesa County. While I knew we had a serious problem in the county, I was appalled by the graph in Wednesday's...
View ArticleImagination Library, Sept. 25, 2016
Thank you to our book sponsors for their support in delivering 12,856 books from April through September to children in Grand Junction. Those sponsors were Horizon Sunrise Rotary, Temple Buell...
View ArticleWoman accused of large pot grow with kids at home
A woman who denied any knowledge of more than 300 marijuana plants growing in the home she occupied with her children was arrested earlier this month. Members of the Western Colorado Drug Task Force...
View ArticleBlotter, Sept. 26, 2016
Timothy Vermillion, 24, of 2520 D Road, was arrested on Sept. 21 after he called 911 and told dispatchers he had just choked and beaten his pregnant wife and threatened to kill her, according to law...
View ArticleState's top cop pushes program to halt overdoses
Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman is leading a massive effort to lower the rate of drug overdose deaths in Colorado, and the latest push includes 2,500 doses of preventative medicine and...
View ArticleFirst Full Day Of Fall Brings Snow To Western Slope
There's a good dusting on the Grand Mesa in Mesa County east of Grand Junction and it's been snowing off and on this morning in Telluride.
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Bray Real Estate Jo Carole Haxel has joined the Bray Real Estate team as a broker associate in the Grand Junction office. Jo Carole spent most of her youth in northwest Arkansas and has lived in Mesa...
View ArticleCraig man missing after weekend camping trip; search near De Beque ongoing
Scott Burke was supposed to return home Saturday, "but no one has seen or heard from him since he left Friday," according to the Mesa County Sheriff's Office. Burke was reported to have gone camping in...
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The irony struck me yesterday morning as two seemingly distinct things happened. I looked through a week's worth of Daily Sentinels accumulated while gone on a quick unexpected trip.
View ArticleLottery recognizes 4 Grand Valley projects
Four Grand Valley community-betterment projects have earned recognition from the Colorado Lottery, which presented Starburst Awards to the city of Grand Junction, the town of Palisade and Mesa County....
View ArticleChallenger: Park status is cash cow
Mesa County Commissioner John Justman speaks as Jim Doody listens during a debate at the Redlands Rotary Club on Friday at the Avalon Theatre. Doody, who is running as an unaffiliated candidate, is...
View ArticleJudge shows compassion to 'desperate' suspect
A Clifton man accused of attempting to rob an Alpine Bank branch was released on a personal-recognizance bond Monday after a judge said he wanted to show compassion to someone who was "desperate" and...
View ArticleUnited Way fund drive off to a promising start
Workplace fundraising for the United Way of Mesa County is up compared to last year, organizers said Tuesday, in announcing progress of their 2016-17 fundraising drive. Employees at more than two dozen...
View ArticleApprentice careers: linking youth to jobs
From Left, Steve Schultz of District 51, Noel Ginsburg of Intertech Plastics, John Flanagan of the Workforce Center, Brian Watson of Launch WestCo and Brad Revare of CareerWise Colorado meet to begin...
View ArticlePolice look to link suspect to earlier vehicle break-ins
A 34-year-old man arrested early Monday morning on suspicion of stealing items from parked cars at a hotel on Horizon Drive might also be linked to as many as 14 vehicle break-ins and two stolen guns,...
View ArticleBlotter, Sept. 27, 2016
A 29-year-old Rifle man accused of brandishing a rifle affixed with a silencer at party-goers early Sunday morning and possibly firing a shot is being held at the Mesa County Jail in lieu of a high...
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