Smoke gets in your eyes

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Smoke from wildland fires in Utah cast a blue haze across the palisade and the west facade of Grand Mesa.


Smoke from wildland fires cast a blue haze across the palisade and the west facade of Grand Mesa above the town of Palisade.

A red flag warning is in effect for the Western Slope of Colorado and parts of eastern Utah until 10 p.m. Thursday.

Thieves accused of stealing frozen gopher feet, selling for bounty

A Minnesota mother and her 18-year-old son are accused of stealing nearly $5,000 in frozen gopher feet and selling them for a bounty.

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    Sneak preview the new Mesa County Library in downtown Grand Junction.

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    Unwinding at the Palisade Bluegrass Festival this weekend.

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Day of Dogs benefits humane society

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Miranda Ashman poses with her dogs Lupe and Isa. National Take Your Dog to Work Day is celebrated on June 21.

Lupe and Isa trotted behind Miranda Ashman at the COBB & Associates Marketing and Communications offices. As the dogs licked at her face, Ashman planned for Take Your Dog to Work Day. For the second year, COBB will celebrate the holiday while partnering with the Roice-Hurst Humane Society to … more


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  • As fires rage, feds cut funding on prevention

    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place.

  • New Colo. wildfire prompts evacuations of homes

    DENVER (AP) — A new wildfire in the foothills southwest of Denver forced the evacuation of dozens of homes Wednesday as hot and windy conditions in much of Colorado were making it easy for new fires to start and spread.

  • Correction: Dish-Sprint story

    ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — In a story June 18 about Dish Network Corp.'s announcement that it will not submit a revised bid to purchase Sprint Nextel Corp., The Associated Press reported erroneously that Softbank's competing bid for Sprint falls short of Dish's. In fact, the two offers are not directly comparable. Softbank is offering $21.6 billion for a 78 percent stake in Sprint. Dish is proposing to buy all of Sprint for $25.5 billion.

  • FBI: Airline passenger said there was a bomb

    DENVER (AP) — A preliminary hearing is scheduled Thursday for a Colorado man accused of telling a flight attendant there was a bomb in his backpack on a flight from Knoxville, Tenn., to Denver.

  • Radar shows tornado touched down at Denver airport

    DENVER (AP) — Radar indicated a tornado briefly touched down Tuesday over the east runways of Denver International Airport, where thousands of people took shelter in bathrooms, stairwells and other safe spots until the dangerous weather passed, officials said.

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  • As fires rage, feds cut funding on prevention

    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — As the West battles one catastrophic wildfire after another, the federal government is spending less and less on its main program for preventing blazes in the first place.

  • FBI ends Michigan search for Hoffa's remains

    OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Beneath a swimming pool, under a horse farm and now a weed-grown field north of Detroit. For at least the third time in a decade, FBI agents grabbed shovels and combed through dirt and mud in the search for Jimmy Hoffa's remains or clues to the disappearance of the former Teamsters boss.

  • Former TWA Flight 800 investigators want new probe

    MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Former investigators are pushing to reopen the probe into the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of New York, saying new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet.

  • 3 Navy football players accused of sexual assault

    ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy has charged three Navy football players with sexually assaulting a female midshipman more than a year ago.

  • Traffic returns to Wash. bridge that collapsed

    MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Cars and trucks are rolling again across the Interstate 5 Skagit River bridge, restoring the traffic flow on the main route between Seattle and Vancouver, British Columbia.

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