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‘No contest’ bid nixed; Brainard guilty

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Grand Junction City Councilor Rick Brainard, left, consults with his defense attorney, Stephen Laiche, after Brainard’s no-contest plea was rejected Friday by Judge Craig Henderson at the Mesa County Justice Center. Brainard then pleaded guilty to misdemeanor third-degree assault. He will not serve time in jail.

Grand Junction City Councilor Rick Brainard pleaded guilty Friday after a thwarted bid to end his domestic-violence case with something less than a guilty plea.
Brainard, 51, tried to plead “no contest” under a deal with the Mesa County District Attorney’s Office in which he would have been placed on a deferred judgment and sentence for 18 months, aside from a suspended jail sentence. Brainard sought permission to travel out-of-state.

4 sheriffs join suit against new gun laws

Four local sheriffs joined 50 others from around the state Friday in a federal lawsuit against the state challenging two gun-control measures approved by the Colorado Legislature earlier this year. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Denver, charges that the two new laws, limiting gun magazines to 15 rounds and background checks in all gun sales, violate the U.S. Constitution, specifically the right to possess firearms under the Second Amendment and due process rights under the Fourteenth

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Gagne keeps blacksmithing alive

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Lee Gagne, a 71-year-old blacksmith volunteer at Cross Orchards Historic Site, can’t bring himself to retire from blacksmithing just yet.

Lee Gagne can’t bring himself to retire from blacksmithing just yet. Because he wants to keep the art of blacksmithing alive. When Gagne, 71, was four years old, he began blacksmithing in Massachusetts. He said that his whole family was involved with it. “We would work on farms and … more

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