Boys Aspen 50, Manitou Springs 44 Class 3A State Tournament

Girls Olathe 40, Coal Ridge 25 Class 3A State Tournament

Central 10, Eagle Valley 0 Halftime: 5-0

Grand Junction 8, Pueblo West 4 Thursday at Pueblo West

When John Ethridge is training, it?s a demonstration in intensity. In the heat of a workout, the grimace on his face is something that?s not manufactured, but one of fierce determination. He attacks the punching bag like a mortal enemy. He shadowboxes as if he?s being attacked by Manny Pacquiao, Mike Tyson and Chuck Liddell in their prime.

PUEBLO — Making history was great last season for the Paonia High School girls basketball team. The Eagles, however, do not want their second-place finish at the Class 2A state girls basketball tournament to be the best in school history anymore.

As the bracket was being filled out on the big screen Sunday night, you couldn?t help but notice how the NCAA Division II Central Region tournament was shaping up. It?s the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference vs. the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. Winner take all.

FORT COLLINS — Morgan Stansberry came to the rescue right when her team needed her the most Thursday morning at Moby Arena. The junior forward scored all of her game-high 14 points in the second half to help Olathe High School overcome a one-point halftime deficit and run away with a 40-25 win over Coal Ridge in the opening game of the Class 3A state tournament.

Meth alleged in arrest Two men were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of drug possession after Grand Junction police officers went to a home on Patterson Road in an attempt to arrest one of them on a warrant and found suspected methamphetamine inside the home.

Hundreds of records for medical marijuana patients are under scrutiny as authorities decide whether a local dispensary?s volume of valid patients justifies a grow operation with more than 1,000 marijuana plants, an enterprise still illegal under federal law. A search warrant executed Tuesday authorized the seizure of photocopies of patients? marijuana registry cards, as well as doctors? recommendations and personal contact information for patients, after officers from the Grand Junction Police Department were called that same day to investigate reports of a suspicious odor seeping from a building near the offices of the U.S. Census Bureau.

Some residents at Mesa Developmental Services were crushed when they discovered several bags of aluminum cans missing from their recycling trailer Monday morning. ?It hurts their hard work and their pride,? said Melissa Atchley, supportive living services coordinator for Mesa Developmental Services. ?I think that impacted them more than the actual loss.?

Gregg Davis is looking for a new spot for MedTech Modern Care and Wellness Systems after deciding not to open at 721 N. 12th St. Davis, who owns Herbal Paradise at 605 Grand Ave., planned to open MedTech in late February. The business would have offered numerous patient-care services, including chiropractic services, acupuncture and medical marijuana.

The effort to find a new home for Mesa State College?s body farm will focus on a remote location. That?s the vow of college President Tim Foster, who announced Thursday that the college is pulling the plug on what would have been a temporary site at 29 Road and Riverside Parkway. That location is within several hundred feet of a number of homes and in one of the fastest growing residential areas of the Grand Valley.

John ?J.B.? Curtis, 82, Grand Junction, died March 10, 2010, at his home. Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado.

On the face of things, odds might seem long for Ronnie Reed?s bid to return horse and dog track betting to western Colorado. But Reed, 60, a former jockey who decades ago raced horses professionally in Grand Junction at a now-defunct track, is betting on the come.

After a closure lasting three-and-a-half days, Interstate 70 in Glenwood Canyon was opened Thursday afternoon to one lane of travel in each direction. The reopening put an end to motorists being forced to take detours of hundreds of miles, such as one on U.S. Highway 40 through Steamboat Springs.

The U.S. Department of Labor filed suit in federal court Thursday against the former owner of a Fruita company that went out of business without paying some of its bills. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Denver and alleges Carl N. France, president and owner of IXP Inc., a pipeline-construction company that ceased operations in January 2009, abandoned his company?s pension plan.

Confronted with questions and concerns from residents, Mesa State College is scrapping its plans to locate human corpses several hundred feet from homes in Pear Park. Instead, it will accelerate its pursuit of an alternate site to build a forensic anthropology center.

Our second Portrait selection of photographs featuring local folk at work.

One night when I was seven years old I saw a big fire in the house across the alley. My parents and I rushed over and saw a huge cross burning in the middle of south Broadway in front of our friend?s house. Men in sheets and white spiked headdress were marching around and shouting. Our neighbor was a popular doctor and he was also mayor of Englewood. His ?crime?? He was Jewish. Many years later, in high school, I finally understood what had happened that frightful night. The Ku Klux Klan was showing its power and its hatred.