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• Not Sufficiently "severe or pervasive"

  Staff Writer | August 10, 2006 10:56 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO

  On August 2, 2006, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals held that four statements made by a second level supervisor to an employee over a one year period was not sufficiently "severe or pervasive" for the purpose of showing the existence of a hostile work environment. The supervisor commented that the employee's shorts were too short and asked to measure them from the inside of her thigh, asked if...

• Albertsons will be Albertsons

  Staff Writer | February 20, 2006 11:23 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO

  A New York City investor group has acquired all Albertsons stores in the Rocky Mountains, the Southwest, Florida, northern California and in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The stores, including the three Albertsons in Grand Junction area, will be operated under the Albertsons name on an ongoing basis.Cerberus Capital Management, based in New York City, leads the investor group which includes...

• Man arrested for year-old car accident

  Staff Writer | January 30, 2007 11:15 AM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO

  After a fatal motor vehicle accident that occurred nearly one year ago, a man was just arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide and other charges.The man, Jade Brandon Huskey, was originally thought to be a passenger in the car that killed a woman named Molly Gomez, presumably the driver. At the scene of the accident, Huskey admitted to drinking too much and reportedly had a blood-alcohol...

• Avalanche near Winter Park buries vehicles

  Staff Writer | January 09, 2007 2:27 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO

  A number of motor vehicles were buried with people in them Saturday in what a Denver official called Colorado's largest avalanche in history. The mammoth accident on US-40, just 60 miles to the west of Denver, amazingly resulted in no injuries or deaths. The rescue efforts began just after the avalanche hit at 10:30 a.m. Everyone trapped in their vehicles was successfully rescued because of the...

• Move over law improves safety on side of road

  Staff Writer | December 18, 2006 4:17 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO

  Colorado law enforcement officials and emergency personnel risk their lives every day when they're pulled over on the side of the road to clock speeders or help people. That's why Governor Bill Ownes and the state legislature passed the "move over law" two years ago.The law says that motorists must move vehicles over a lane when passing emergency personnel or police on the side of the road. This...

• Local broadcasters try to block EchoStar

  Staff Writer | December 01, 2006 10:13 AM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO

  An article from today's Denver Post reports that local broadcasters in Colorado filed a motion to block EchoStar Communications' last-minute effort to circumvent a court ruling and continue to provide more than 900,000 DISH network customers with its distant-network signals. This is part of a seven-year legal battle in this copyright law case, the story says.Apparently today is the deadline for...

• Accidents too common in Snowmass Canyon

  Staff Writer | November 18, 2006 4:30 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO

  An article in The Aspen Times points out the dangers of driving on the downvalley-bound entrance to Snowmass Canyon on Highway 82 in snowy, icy or simply cold weather. Too many motor vehicle accidents occur in this area each year. "That's a problematic area," Basalt fire chief Scott Thompson said. His district sent ambulances to roughly nine accidents at mile marker 30 last winter. He said there...

• Wal-Mart's Pay Structure

  Staff Writer | August 09, 2006 11:06 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO

  Wal-Mart, the largest private employer, publicly announced that it is raising wages at approximately 1300 U.S. stores and introducing wage caps at all stores to try to remain competitive with other retailers and meet a need for workers and managers. Wal-Mart has, in the past, been named as a defendant in lawsuits seeking to change its pay structure.

• Group Seeks to Protect Wild Buckwheat

  Staff Writer | July 30, 2006 9:31 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO

  According to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, environmental groups including the Uncompahgre Valley Association are requesting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service make increasing efforts to protect the Clay Loving Wild Buckwheat, an endangered plant that grows only in Delta and Montrose Counties. The groups ask that the protected areas for this plant increase to include all of the Gunnison...

• Motorcycle Collides with Truck

  Staff Writer | July 18, 2006 5:21 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO

  The Daily Sentinel reported that a man from Grand Junction received serious injuries when his motorcycle collided with a truck on July 17. As the motorcyclist, Daniel Emert, drove down South Avenue, a truck making a left from Fourth Street onto South Avenue crashed into his vehicle. Unfortunately, Emert was not wearing his helmet, and while he seriously injured, his current condition is unknown....