Grand Junction News

Man Free From Prison After 16 Years For A Crime He Didn't Commit

AP | Posted 05.01.2012

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Robert Dewey was 33 when he went to prison for the 1994 rape and murder of a Colorado woman. The 51-year-old walked away free...

HS Student Quits Choir In Protest Over Islamic Song

Posted 02.15.2012

When a Grand Junction High School men's choir made plans to sing an Islamic song called "Zikr," an upbeat rhythmic song that is not intended for a wor...

Grand Junction Teen Will Be Prosecuted As Adult For Dog Mutilation

Posted 01.25.2012

Joseph Nelson, Grand Junction teen that is accused of brutally mutilating his mother's dog and hanging the body from a bridge over the Colorado River,...

'Dog' Omits Dispute With Colo. Sheriff In Latest Episode

AP | Posted 01.12.2012

By Associated Press GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Duane "Dog" Chapman may get the last word in a spat with a Colorado sheriff over an arrest involving p...

Fake Tutor Arrested For Allegedly Sexually Assaulting Child

Posted 11.19.2011

Adam Clayton Ross, a 27-year-old Grand Junction, Colo. man, was arrested Thursday for allegedly posing as a school tutor and then sexually assaulting ...

Toddler Overdoses On Dad's Oxycodone

Posted 01.10.2012

Manuel Rivera, a 31-year-old Clifton, Colo. father pleaded guilty to the Oxycodone overdose death of his 17-month-old toddler daughter, the Grand Junc...

Yet Another Reason Not To Do Meth (Warning: Graphic)

Posted 01.25.2012

In a particularly gruesome story, Joseph Nelson, an 18-year-old Grand Junction, Colo. resident, has been accused of mutilating his mother's dog and ha...

Mom Allegedly Let 9-Year-Old Drive Car

AP | Posted 12.12.2011

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- A Grand Junction woman was cited after witnesses reported seeing her 9-year-old daughter driving her across town at least twi...

Breastfeeding Mom Asked To Leave Pool, Nurse In Bathroom

Posted 11.01.2011

Jessica Coleman, a Grand Junction mother, was asked to stop breastfeeding her 13-month-old son at the Orchard Mesa Community Center Pool and nurse the...

UPDATE: Cemetery Dancer Skirts Grave Charges

The Huffington Post/AP | Posted 10.26.2011

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) -- A Clifton, Colo., man has been fired from his job as a grave digger after he was filmed gyrating and playing a simulated...

Inside The Mob Outside The Grand Junction Health Care Town Hall (VIDEO)

Katharine Zaleski | Posted 05.25.2011

Katharine Zaleski

The Huffington Post went to President Obama's town hall in Grand Junction, Colorado on Saturday to learn what makes health-reform protesters really ti...