Janusz sentenced

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

Glenwood Canyon open again after crash

A woman was killed, three others were hospitalized and Interstate 70 was closed roughly nine hours today in Glenwood Canyon after a fiery head-on crash involving a semi-tractor trailer and a passenger car.

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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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