Grand Junction, Colorado News http://www.news-spider.com/Local/Colorado/Grand_Junction/index.html Latest Grand Junction, Colorado News from news-spider.com. News from more than 2,000 sources, updated continuously. en-us Copyright (c) 2008 news-spider.com. All rights reserved. Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:13:39 GMT Crested Butte in Outside Magazine's top 10 towns http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326393 When Outside Magazine started looking at the greatest towns in America, its writers picked towns that had overcome adversity and were “riding on a wave of civic reinvention and fresh ideas.” http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326393 Sun, 6 Jul 2008 05:17:12 GMT A ride with a mission http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326394 Dana Liesegang rides so that others might walk. http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326394 Sun, 6 Jul 2008 05:07:44 GMT Investigator specializes in blood-spray analysis http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326395 The spray of blood means more to Les Guttmann than it does to most of us. http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326395 Sun, 6 Jul 2008 05:07:43 GMT Roan Plateau trust fund worth more than $100M http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326396 A trust fund holding federal royalties from drilling on a portion of the Roan Plateau now is bulging with more than $101 million. http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326396 Sun, 6 Jul 2008 05:07:42 GMT Man's life, return to western Colorado hinge on DNA evidence from 1983 Texas murder case http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326397 Roughly one year after Lester Leroy Bower Jr. left Grand Junction in the wake of the oil shale bust of the early 1980s, his life was thrown into chaos. http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326397 Sun, 6 Jul 2008 05:07:41 GMT Udall pushes to up funding for gun ranges http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326398 Congressman Mark Udall, D-Colo., announced Saturday he will introduce legislation this week to allow states to use wildland-restoration funds to create and maintain public shooting ranges. http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326398 Sun, 6 Jul 2008 05:07:19 GMT 24 Road commercial area expands http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326399 Commercial growth along 24 Road north of Mesa Mall appears ready to take off. http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326399 Sun, 6 Jul 2008 05:07:17 GMT GJ graduate, geologist studying Mars http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326400 Charles “Doc” Richardson’s research in geology has taken him to Antarctica, New Zealand and Spain, but the Grand Valley has never been far from the Grand Junction High School graduate’s mind. http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326400 Sun, 6 Jul 2008 05:02:51 GMT GJ team plants seeds in El Salvador http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326401 In the tiny, jungle-surrounded village of Caluco, El Salvador, there is a school constructed of corrugated steel and a dirt floor. http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326401 Sun, 6 Jul 2008 05:02:50 GMT Utah State to expand Moab campus http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326402 Utah State University is pushing forward with an expansion of degree programs and construction of a larger campus at its branch in Moab, after a community survey showing support for the project. http://www.news-spider.com/comments/1215326402 Sun, 6 Jul 2008 05:02:49 GMT