Plane with 62 people aboard crashes in fiery wreck in Brazil's Sao Paulo state
VINHEDO, Brazil (AP) — A plane with 62 people aboard crashed in a fiery wreck in a residential area of a city in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday, the airline said, but it was not immediately clear how...
View ArticleGJ Fire Department groundbreaking to be held Aug. 29
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) -- The Grand Junction Fire Department's new station was designed to "serve a readily expanding area." A groundbreaking ceremony, which is open to the public, will take...
View ArticleBucktail Fire update; Blaze grows over 7,000 acres as crews continue interior...
MONTROSE COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) — Although the Bucktail Fire expanded to 7,177 acres Friday, containment is expected to increase in the following days, according to Montrose County. The county reported...
View ArticleGJPD on recent car thefts
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — A recent news release from the Grand Junction Police Department reveals there has been a rise in car thefts around the city. Officers are looking to inform residents...
View ArticleTina Peters trail day 8: Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder declines to...
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters will not testify in her trial as the defense and prosecution rested their cases Friday. Peters is charged with...
View ArticleGrand Valley Power announces board of directors election results
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) – Two incumbents and a new face will occupy three open seats on the Grand Valley Power board of directors. Current seat holders, Jesse Mease and Brian Woods, and incoming...
View ArticleMars and Jupiter get chummy in the night sky. The planets won't get this...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Mars and Jupiter are cozying up in the night sky for their closest rendezvous this decade. They’ll be so close Wednesday, at least from our perspective, that just a sliver...
View ArticleDebby finally moves out of the US, though power outages, some flooding risk...
The sun came out but the power stayed off in more than 100,000 homes and businesses across four states Saturday as Debby finally moved out of the U.S. After first arriving in Florida as a hurricane,...
View ArticleUSWNT wins its fifth Olympic gold medal in women's soccer with a 1-0 victory...
PARIS (AP) — At just the right moment, Mallory Swanson yelled at teammate Sophia Smith not to go near the ball as it came through. Swanson knew Smith was offside. But Swanson wasn't. “I was like,...
View ArticleUvalde: 911 call reveals uncle begged to talk gunman out of shooting
DALLAS (AP) — The uncle of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers begged police to let him try to talk his nephew down, according to a 911 call included in a massive...
View ArticleBoxer Lin Yu-ting wins gold, following Imane Khelif to conclude an Olympics...
PARIS (AP) — Lin Yu-ting fought to remain poised and calm throughout the Paris Olympics boxing tournament, even when it seemed like most of the chattering world was maligning her, misrepresenting her...
View ArticleEveryone agrees there's a homeless crisis in the US. Plans to address it vary...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Mayor London Breed has launched a new crackdown on people sleeping outside in a campaign to clear the sidewalks of homeless encampments that have come to define the...
View ArticleWhere do you live? That's a complicated question for a California town with...
CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. (AP) — No one in this wealthy California community known for its white-sand beaches and storybook charm has a street address. But unlike the houses in Carmel-By-The-Sea,...
View ArticleGolden Steph: Curry's late barrage seals another Olympic men's basketball...
PARIS (AP) — Stephen Curry was thinking about this two years ago, after winning his fourth NBA title with the Golden State Warriors. The only thing left for him to win was Olympic gold. And in the...
View ArticleAmerican gymnast Jordan Chiles lost her bronze medal on floor exercise. What...
PARIS (AP) — Romania’s Ana Barbosu replaced American Jordan Chiles as the Olympic bronze medalist in gymnastics floor exercise after the International Gymnastics Federation restored Barbosu to third....
View ArticleOlympic boxing champion Imane Khelif filed a legal complaint for online...
PARIS (AP) — Olympic boxing champion Imane Khelif has filed a legal complaint in France for online harassment after a rain of criticism and false claims about her sex during the Paris Olympics, her...
View ArticleSifan Hassan wins women's marathon at Paris Olympics after trading elbows...
PARIS (AP) — Nobody will ever accuse Sifan Hassan of taking the easy route at the Olympics. Heading into the last 150 meters of her 10-day Olympics odyssey that spanned three events and 38 miles (62...
View ArticleHunter Biden's lawyers say claims about foreign business dealing have no...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden's lawyers say prosecutors are inappropriately trying to insert “politically-charged” allegations about his foreign business dealings into the upcoming federal tax trial...
View ArticleGJFD breaking ground on new fire station
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — The Grand Junction Fire Department has announced the groundbreaking of a new fire station. The groundbreaking of Grand Junction Fire Station 7 will take place Thursday,...
View ArticleMontrose Monday!
MONTROSE, Colo. (KREX) — Recurring guest, Tonya Maddox, tells WesternSlopeNow about upcoming events in Montrose! On Thursday, it's Self Made: Montrose Speakers Series. Self Made is happening at the...
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