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Fire at 522 28 1/4 Road.

A Grand Junction firefighter muscles a hose into the yard where a large garage burned at 522 28 1/4 Road this morning. Bill Jones, the renter on the property, said he was burning elm seeds when he saw fire in the barn. Jones thought the fire potentially started from a “spark into oily rags.” No one was hurt, but the barn sustained major damage.

Trial for 1994 murder to proceed

The case against a man facing charges in the 1994 rape and murder of Palisade resident Jacie Taylor will go forward, District Judge Richard Gurley ruled Thursday. In a preliminary hearing for 40-year-old Douglas Thames in Mesa County District Court, Gurley ruled that there was sufficient probable cause for investigators last year to question him and take DNA samples after new evidence exonerated the man who had already served 18 years in prison for the crime

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