Janusz sentenced

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Former Grand Junction Police Officer Eric Janusz who was previously found guilty on one of four counts of sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust was sentenced to 8 years to life. Janusz at times wept during the sentencing hearing this morning at the Mesa County Justice Center.

Crash closes Glenwood Canyon

A woman is dead and Interstate 70 is closed in both directions in Glenwood Canyon after an early-morning, head-on crash involving a semi and a passenger car. CDOT expects the highway to be closed for the foreseeable future.

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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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