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• School bus driver charged for drunk driving in Grand Junction

  April 11, 2012 11:33 AM

  Colorado State Troopers took a Grand Junction school bus driver in custody Tuesday for suspected drunk driving after he had dropped his students at Orchard Mesa Middle School. Gary Williams, 54, is charged with Driving While Ability Impaired, 30 counts of Child Abuse and Failing to Drive in a... more »

• Suspect in custody in fatal Orchard Mesa robbery

  November 26, 2011 1:25 PM

  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - Police have a suspect in custody in an apparent robbery at a home in Orchard Mesa that involved the shooting of a man and another man being struck in the head with a pipe. One person died and another was seriously injured. The Daily... more »

• Mesa County commissioners reject savings bonuses

  October 27, 2011 11:17 AM

  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - Mesa County commissioners are rejecting bonuses for county employees who find savings. Commissioners say the workers should already be doing that as part of their job. According to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, a county employee compensation committee recommended that the county split 50-50 any... more »

• Man dies after fall while mountain biking in Colorado

  October 23, 2011 1:45 PM

  DE BEQUE, Colo. (AP) - A 62-year-old man died from a fall while he was mountain biking in western Colorado. The Mesa County Coroner's office says Rifle resident Steven D. Chesley died from a blunt-force neck injury after the accident Friday afternoon near De Beque The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel... more »

• Missing Penrose man found hundreds of miles from home

  October 2, 2011 5:36 PM

  A missing elderly man from Penrose has been found in Mesa County. According to John Sabatino of the Fremont County Sheriff's office, 88 year old Theodore Matthews was slightly disoriented but in good health when he was located Sunday afternoon. Matthews was reported missing by his daughter Sunday morning... more »

• Mesa County sheriff not a fan of Dog the Bounty Hunter

  July 21, 2011 1:14 PM

  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - The Mesa County Sheriff's Office has a bone to pick with Duane "Dog" Chapman. The sheriff's office says Chapman got a scuffle with a fugitive on Wednesday and used pepper spray while apprehending Andrew Distel. Mesa County court records show Distel had warrants... more »

• Mesa County supports TABOR in legal challenge

  June 21, 2011 11:28 AM

  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - Mesa County Commission have adopted a resolution supporting the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights in a federal lawsuit challenging the amendment's constitutionality. A bipartisan group of current and former state legislators filed the lawsuit last month, alleging constitutional amendment violates a U.S. Constitution guarantee that every... more »

• Horse ban lifted at Mesa, Boulder fairgrounds

  June 4, 2011 2:21 PM

  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - Some Colorado counties are lifting temporary horse bans at county facilities prompted by an outbreak of equine herpes virus. The Mesa County Fairgrounds said Friday it will lift its horse ban next week. That will allow next weekend's horse events including team roping and... more »

• Colorado man died from West Nile

  September 23, 2010 8:19 AM

  Mesa County officials say an elderly man is the first person to die from the West Nile in that county this year. The man's death was announced Wednesday. His name was not released. Mesa County has had 10 cases of West Nile reported this year and some of the... more »

• Bad economy leads to shelters crammed with cats

  July 28, 2010 9:29 AM

  Colorado animal shelters are crowded with cats, from Denver to Grand Junction, and they chalk it up to the bad economy. The Denver Dumb Friends League has 800 cats and is waiving adoption fees through Aug. 31 for all felines. The league has seen a 47 percent increase in... more »

• Western Colorado communities OK ballot spot on pot

  July 20, 2010 8:07 AM

  Officials in Mesa County and Grand Junction, the county seat, have voted to reserve spots on the November ballot for medical marijuana issues in case proposals come in. County commissioners on Monday approved setting aside a spot on the ballot for a possible question asking voters whether to ban... more »

• Body found in Colorado River near Grand Junction

  July 12, 2010 10:18 AM

  A body has been retrieved from the Colorado River west of Grand Junction. Mesa County sheriff's deputies have not released the name or gender of the victim. They say there are no indications of foul play. Rafters reported seeing the body on Sunday. A county coroner's investigator recovered... more »

• West Slope growth rate slows

  June 7, 2010 9:28 AM

  State officials say population growth fueled by the western Colorado energy boom is slowing down in Grand Junction and surrounding Mesa County. But the state Demographer's Office says the area's population isn't expected to shrink. Elizabeth Garner, the state demographer, says Mesa County's growth rate may not pick up... more »

• Dynamite found in Colorado ditch

  May 17, 2010 8:56 AM

  Mesa County investigators says they're not even going to try to figure out how a case of dynamite ended up in a rural ditch north of Loma. The dynamite was discovered Saturday by a volunteer on a highway cleanup crew. Authorities say the volunteer spotted 16 pounds of dynamite... more »

• December chill not enough to hurt Mesa County peaches

  February 1, 2010 9:50 AM

  Enough peach buds in Mesa County may have survived a spell of extreme cold in December to give growers a complete crop this spring. The cold snap that brought temperatures as low as minus 22 in some areas killed an estimated 25 percent of Mesa County's grapevines. Plant pathologist Harold... more »

• Teen accused in threat on western Colorado school

  September 29, 2009 2:33 PM

  Mesa County sheriff's officials have arrested a student accused in a potential threat against Palisade High School. Sheriff's officials said Tuesday that 18-year-old Robert Dell Johnson of Grand Junction was being held on charges of criminal solicitation and interference with an educational institution. Details of the potential threat and what... more »