Blotter, Jan. 10, 2017
A 50-year-old man with six driving under the influence convictions on his record was arrested Saturday after the Toyota 4Runner he was driving rolled into a canal near the 2300 block of South Broadway,...
View ArticleNo raise for him until 2019, DA says
Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein, fresh off a successful election and garnering a guilty verdict in the first-degree murder case against Lester Jones, told the County Commission to keep his...
View ArticleDe-icing products no match for slick roads
Drivers navigate an icy Belford Avenue on Monday morning after a storm with freezing rain covered the Grand Valley in a quarter-inch coating of ice. Snow-packed roads that residents had been driving on...
View ArticleMan jailed after barricading himself
A Grand Junction man wanted in an armed home invasion and vehicular eluding case last month allegedly fled from police and barricaded himself in a home in the Riverside neighborhood for several hours...
View ArticleAvalanches close I-70, Colorado mountain roads; snow and ice make driving...
Heavy snow, coupled with high winds, produced avalanches overnight throughout Colorado's high country that closed highways and caused traffic detours and delays Tuesday morning. A slide that hit a semi...
View ArticleChange TABOR? Yes
For too many Republican lawmakers, the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights is a sacred cow. Few are willing to support any tinkering of the law limiting government growth on fears that doing so leaves them...
View ArticleBlotter, Jan. 11, 2017
Law enforcement said a series of texts and calls threatening a Mesa County man and his family if they didn't wire money to the Dominican Republic likely originated outside the U.S., according to a...
View ArticleDA: Officer justified in using deadly force
The Grand Junction police officer who shot and killed a 24-year-old parole absconder during a November traffic stop gone wrong won't face criminal charges, Mesa County District Attorney Dan Rubinstein...
View ArticleGJ attorney Grattan to become county judge
A Grand Junction attorney who has specialized in business law will be sworn in this month as a Mesa County judge. Michael Grattan III, a finalist for two other places on the bench, was selected by Gov....
View ArticleFacing our demons
Crisis Text Line serves anyone, in any type of crisis, providing access to free, 24/7 support and information via the medium people already use and trust: text. Here's how it works: Tuesday's...
View ArticleCareerWise Colorado and UnitedHealthcare to Launch Apprenticeship Program in...
UnitedHealthcare will fund a Mesa County-based program manager position for the next two years to enhance CareerWise's efforts in the greater Grand Junction area. The program manager's role is to work...
View ArticleTeen gets 8 years for cocaine distribution
A California teen was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to drug-related counts stemming from his June arrest, when members of the Western Colorado Drug Task Force found...
View ArticleTanner Flores, accused of murder, kidnapping, bound over for trial
Ashley Doolittle's parents, Jeff Doolittle, center, and Ann Marie Doolittle, left back, walk toward the courtroom Thursday at the Larimer County Justice Center in Fort Collins to attend a preliminary...
View ArticleDistrict 51 starts search for new chief
" is something you continue to think about and continue to weigh and you look at different things. ... Certainly talking with my family had a big influence on that, but nothing more than that.
View ArticleReligion briefs, Jan. 14, 2017
Area students in sixth through 12th grade are invited to see and hear inspirational speaker and strong man Jon Pritikin at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Victory Life Church, 2066 U.S. Highway 6&50. "Jon...
View ArticleCounty may add 3 pests to watch list
Mesa County officials will consider adding three more species to the list of pests and diseases that threaten the commercial fruit industry and are regulated by the Upper Grand Valley Pest Control...
View ArticleBroadband grants to aid rural folks
Thousands of rural Western Slope residents, including some in Mesa County's Plateau Valley, will be among the beneficiaries of the first round of grants issued by Colorado's newly created Broadband...
View ArticleBriefs, Jan. 14, 2017
The holiday closure does not include the Coroner's Office, Criminal Justice Services, Grand Valley Transit, Mesa County Landfill or emergency functions of the Sheriff's Office.
View ArticleTraffic Alert, Jan. 15, 2017
B 1/2 Road Overpass Project at U.S. Highway 50, Orchard Mesa: B 1/2 Road Overpass is scheduled to reopen this week, weather permitting. Sewer Repair and Replacement Project, River Road between 24 Road...
View ArticleMolina attack suspect chooses jury trial
The 26-year-old Wyoming man believed to be the link between three shooting victims and their assailants in an October attack in Molina has asked to be tried by a jury in May. Jacob Christopher Hoard is...
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