Police officer convicted of killing a Colorado man is set to learn if he will...
DENVER (AP) — A Colorado police officer convicted of killing Elijah McClain, a young Black man walking home from a store, is expected to learn Friday whether a judge will sentence him to prison or he...
View ArticleBaltimore celebrates historic 20% drop in homicides even as gun violence...
BALTIMORE (AP) — Long plagued by rampant gun violence, Baltimore recorded less than 300 homicides last year for the first time in nearly a decade, ending a surge that began in 2015 following the death...
View ArticleLos Angeles County has thousands of ‘unclaimed dead.’ These investigators...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Arusyak Martirosyan struggles to open the door of a stranger’s one-bedroom apartment overflowing with the belongings from a life lived but not claimed in death. Wedged against the...
View ArticleIran mourns those slain in Islamic State-claimed suicide blasts as death toll...
KERMAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Friday mourned those slain in an Islamic State group-claimed suicide bombing targeting a commemoration for a general slain in a U.S. drone strike in 2020, as the death toll...
View ArticleA magnitude 4.2 earthquake shakes a wide area of Southern California. No...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A magnitude 4.2 earthquake was felt widely across the nation's second largest city Friday and shook things off shelves near the epicenter in a small mountain community east of Los...
View ArticleWinner claims Grand Junction multi-million dollar lottery ticket
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — The multi-million winning lottery ticket sold at the Redlands Safeway has now been claimed, according to the Colorado Lottery. Colorado Lottery confirmed to...
View ArticleDispatcher recognized for baby deliveries
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — A GJPD dispatcher delivered her second baby in just two months this Friday morning. Dispatcher Emily Hawk who has been with the department since March of 2017 assisted...
View ArticleNuggets receive bobblehead tribute
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — January 7 marks National Bobblehead Day. And to mark the occasion the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum just unveiled its champions wall, which now includes...
View ArticleBoss shot and killed following workplace argument in Delta
DELTA COUNTY, Colo. (KREX) — A Delta man is facing murder charges after a Boss was found shot dead at work on Thursday morning. At around 9:44 A.M., Delta County Sheriff's Deputies and North Folk EMS...
View ArticleGrand Junction approves multi-million dollar bond for sewage expansion
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — The City of Grand Junction has approved a multi-million dollar bond to expand the Perisigo Wastewater Treatment Plant. On Wednesday, the city approved a 76...
View ArticleCarnival begins in New Orleans with Phunny Phorty Phellows, king cakes, Joan...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The countdown to Mardi Gras begins Saturday in New Orleans as Carnival season kicks off with dozens of costumed revelers and a brass band set to crowd onto a streetcar for a...
View ArticleOn Jan. 6 many Republicans blamed Trump for the Capitol riot. Now they...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the follow-up to their 2018 bestseller “How Democracies Die,” authors Daniel Ziblatt and Steven Levitsky write about three rules that political parties must follow: Accept the...
View ArticleHezbollah fires rockets at Israel in 'initial response' to killing of top...
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia fired dozens of rockets at northern Israel on Saturday, warning that the barrage was its initial response to the targeted killing, presumably by Israel, of a...
View ArticleOrthodox Christmas: Why it's celebrated by some believers 13 days after Dec. 25
While much of the world has Christmas in the rearview mirror by now, people in some Eastern Orthodox traditions will celebrate the holy day on Sunday. Certain Eastern Orthodox churches, including...
View ArticleBanchero records 1st triple-double, hits go-ahead free throws as Magic hold...
DENVER (AP) — Paolo Banchero was pleased with his first career triple-double. What made it even better was its central role in a stirring comeback. Banchero hit a pair of go-ahead free throws with 9.7...
View ArticleStephen Curry scores 26 points to help Warriors hold off Pistons, 113-109
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Moments after a hard-fought victory to finish back-to-back games at home, the Golden State Warriors found out they will be without veteran leader Chris Paul for the unforeseeable...
View Article11-year-old killed in Iowa school shooting was a joyful boy known as...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Ahmir Jolliff dashed out of his home in Perry Thursday morning, eager to see his friends on the first day back to school after winter break. It was vintage Ahmir — known as...
View ArticleThings to know about a school shooting in the small Iowa town of Perry
A small town in Iowa is stunned but pulling together after a school shooting in which a 17-year-old killed a sixth-grade student and wounded seven other people before authorities say he died of a...
View ArticleBlinken meets Jordan's king and foreign minister on Mideast push to keep Gaza...
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Sunday with Jordan’s king and foreign minister and visited a World Food Program warehouse in Amman as he pressed ahead with an urgent...
View ArticleSurvivors struggle to rebuild their lives three months after Afghanistan's...
ZINDA JAN, Afghanistan (AP) — A 6.3 magnitude quake on Oct. 7 killed and injured thousands of people in Afghanistan’s west. Three months on, survivors are struggling to rebuild their lives. Some...
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