Friend to the elderly wins hero award
Cathy Abercrombie-Tate accepts her honor as this year's Grand Junction Lions Club Hometown Hero during a ceremony Tuesday afternoon at Two Rivers Convention Center. At right is her boss, Mesa County...
View ArticleTrial put on hold for mental evaluation
A trial that was set for next week for a Grand Junction man accused of photographing nude underage girls for paid-subscription websites is on hold, after his attorneys asked for an evaluation of his...
View ArticleHolzer not a psychopath, defense says
A psychologist contracted by Austin Holzer's attorneys told a judge Monday he doesn't believe the now-18-year-old accused of gunning down a Mesa County sheriff's deputy earlier this year is a...
View ArticleFraud suspect accused of illegally obtaining $18,000 in assistance
A woman accused of illegally obtaining nearly $18,000 in public-assistance benefits has been arrested and arraigned in Mesa County District Court. The Department of Human Services announced Thursday...
View ArticleMan accused of strangling woman
A 33-year-old Grand Junction man accused of pushing his arm against a 21-year-old woman's neck for almost two minutes after arguing over the volume of a movie was jailed and could face felony charges,...
View ArticleFruita mom of 6 to pay restitution in welfare racket
A Fruita woman who received government assistance for several years while her household income was more than $100,000 has been sentenced to five days in jail and ordered to pay nearly $58,000 in...
View ArticleBlotter, Oct. 29, 2016
A 26-year-old Colorado Springs woman appeared in Mesa County court on Friday on possible charges of money laundering, forgery and theft, for her role in a scheme involving multiple people opening...
View ArticleCity may buy downtown parcel
The Grand Junction City Council will vote Wednesday on whether to buy the Mesa Pawn & Loan building at 225 S. Second St. If approved, the $800,000 to purchase the property would come from the...
View ArticleMonday is deadline to receive mail ballots
If you want to vote in this year's election and aren't yet registered to do so, you're running out of time. Voters who still need to register need to do so by Monday if they want to receive a mail...
View ArticleSecond time around, emotions running cooler on Palisade pot vote
Emotions that ran high when voters were asked in 2014 whether they wanted to allow retail marijuana stores in Palisade seem to have chilled two years later, with the question again before town...
View ArticleNew sexual exploitation, assault charges leveled
A Grand Junction man facing federal charges on suspicion of taking and distributing pornagraphic photos of a toddler was advised of new counts of sexual exploitation and assault in state court last...
View ArticleBlotter, Oct. 31, 2016
Authorities are seeking information about a man who stole an elderly man's wallet and used his credit cards to charge more than $500 in goods at various businesses in Clifton and Collbran last week,...
View ArticleCops nab suspect after wild chase
A Grand Junction police officer and a Mesa County Sheriff's deputy frisk homicide and kidnapping suspect James Main Jr., left, as they prepare to put the handcuffed man into a patrol car after...
View ArticleReal News
Keller Williams Colorado West Realty welcomes its two newest Realtors to the team, Leah Rice and Nicole Farabee. California native Leah Rice, along with her husband, William, and children, Madison and...
View ArticleMan accused of downloading child porn
A registered sex offender with a criminal history has been re-arrested after police accused him of using a Colorado Mesa University library computer to download pornographic images of children in...
View ArticleGrandma: Softer side to suspect in killing
Attorneys for accused cop killer Austin Holzer called witnesses Friday who highlighted tranquil moments in the teen's often turbulent life: summers spent with his grandmother where he visited Pikes...
View ArticleCounty accepts $850,000 grant to aid business
President Gerald R. Ford signed the Community Development Block Grant program into law in 1974, merging seven grant programs into a block-grant program that was approved by Congress. The idea,...
View ArticleCourt overturns conviction in slaying
The Colorado Court of Appeals has reversed convictions for a 30-year-old Grand Junction man who law enforcement said killed a man and then burned his body in a recreational vehicle on Orchard Mesa in...
View ArticleFormer teacher accused of lewd contact with teen
A former Central High School teacher appeared in Mesa County court on Tuesday, advised on potential charges of attempted sexual assault on a child for allegedly exchanging numerous lurid messages with...
View ArticleEditorial: Hillary's big problem may be Obamacare
For Hillary Clinton and her supporters, this election cannot end soon enough. Her problem may be one part texting-pervert-email-thing, another part WikiLeaks, and two parts Obamacare trouble.
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