Sergio Valenzuela crossed the U.S.-Mexico border every day to go to school.

It didn?t matter that Roger Walters was barking at them Wednesday in practice, lecturing on ball security.

Three men who are no strangers to Grand Junction will be inducted into the NJCAA Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame in May.

NWCA Division II Poll

BoysMontrose 79, Central 68

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Central rallied in the second half, but it wasn?t enough.

Leading economic indicators suggest Mesa County?s economy has reached the bottom and has begun to rebound in 2012, county leaders said Wednesday in a presentation that contained overtones of cautious optimism similar to this time last year.

Citing Colorado?s ?Make My Day? law, the Mesa County District Attorney?s Office said Wednesday no charges will be filed in the fatal shooting of an alleged burglar at an Orchard Mesa home in November.

Services will take place Sunday at Palisade High School for one of two Grand Junction men who recently died in a car crash in Utah.

Because of low natural gas prices, Antero Resources is delaying its plans to drill in Battlement Mesa, a company official said this week.

Rick Santorum?s big victory Tuesday night in Colorado is unlikely to carry him to the nomination and even less likely to translate into a general-election rebuff of President Obama, observers said Wednesday.

DENVER — A centerpiece bill touted by House Speaker Frank McNulty and other Republicans as a way to keep government regulations from getting in the way of businesses creating jobs turns out to be nothing of the kind.

The entry into the home of Jason Kemp in 2010 by Colorado State Patrol troopers was a violation of Kemp?s Fourth Amendment right against illegal search and seizure, a Denver federal judge said in a ruling Wednesday.

REDSTONE — When a national forest official recently told residents of the Redstone area about renewed interest in mining coal up a valley where millions of dollars have been spent on reclamation from a former mine, ?It just blindsided everybody,? one resident said.

DENVER — The Denver Police Department has turned over all of the information it has about the January traffic stop of Rep. Laura Bradford to a House ethics panel looking into suspected drunken driving and improper use of a legislative immunity law by Bradford.

? Karl ?John? Kampf, 68, Grand Junction, died Feb. 4, 2012, at St. Mary?s Hospital.

Threat outside bar alleged

Critics of oil shale development crowed Wednesday about a Congressional Budget Office conclusion that leasing land for oil shale development would provide no immediate revenue boost to federal coffers.

A story on Page 11A on Wednesday incorrectly said Phyllis Hunsinger spoke on behalf of Mesa County Commission candidate Rose Pugliese during a GOP caucus Tuesday night. The speaker was Janet Blackman.