Avoid parking hassles while at JUCO

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Grand Junction Police officer Jweff Grady whites out a ticket for an illegally parked vehicle in the parking lot at Lincoln Park during a JUCO game.


If you don’t feel like battling for a parking spot for the popular JUCO tournament baseball games at Suplizio Field, consider taking a free shuttle bus.
For hotel visitors along Horizon Drive, a shuttle runs every 30 minutes starting an hour before the first game of each day. The shuttles end at 10 p.m. or one hour after the last game of the day finishes up.

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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