Western Colorado

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Banking on comic relief

CBS is hoping to improve entertainment in the Grand Valley. That’s not CBS the television network. It’s Steve Moore, aka Comic Book Steve, longtime Grand Junction resident. Moore is opening Top 5 Comics, 1938 N. First St., Suite ...

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Second-grader found in fetal position from dog attack; gash required surgery

A game of truth or dare Wednesday ended much more perilously than Colby Strauser ever intended. The 7-year-old, who lives at a mobile home park in Fruita, had been dared by his best friend to touch for five minutes a neighbor’s fence ...

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Woman held in county’s largest heroin bust.

A suspected illegal immigrant from Mexico was arrested after narcotics officers found nearly 17 pounds of heroin in her suitcase at the Grand Junction Greyhound bus station. Authorities estimated the street value of the heroin at $2 million ...

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Librarian turns page to retiremen

What Maxine Curley will remember most about her 34 years with Mesa County Libraries are the children. Curley has been putting on puppet shows, reading stories and singing songs with children as a children’s librarian for more than three ...

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Man stabbed outside bar

A patron of Whiskey River nightclub was assaulted in the parking lot shortly after midnight Tuesday, according to the Grand Junction Police Department. A 33-year-old Grand Junction man sustained one “significant stab wound to his ...

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Postal Service to replace units after those at mall, Horizon Drive close

The U.S. Postal Service plans to replace the Mesa Mall and 759 Horizon Drive contract postal units that will shut down on April 18. The Postal Service hopes to have the new contract postal units open by the end of May, according to Postal ...

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Fish contaminated by high mercury levels

Popular fishing destinations Rifle Gap and Juniata reservoirs are among a handful of western Colorado lakes added last week to the growing list of waters with fish contaminated by unsafe levels of mercury. According to the Colorado Department ...

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Text-message alerts to be part of schools’  lockdown safety procedures for 2009-10

Nisley Elementary has had to initiate some type of lockdown procedure nine times in the past three years. “Nisley has had its fair share,” said Tim Leon, safety coordinator for School District 51. The majority of those instances ...

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Kidnap victim in court as man hears sentence

With her head held high and her arms encircled around a large, white, teddy bear, a 9-year-old girl who was kidnapped last year, but fought free, congratulated herself for having courage during a scary incident that could have ended her ...

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Yellowstone wolf drifts into Colo.

Colorado’s known wolf population grew by one — to one — this week when a wolf wandered into the state from southwest Montana. The wolf, an 18-month old female known as 314F, is being tracked by a Global Positioning Satellite ...

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