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According to the Mesa County Department: A Clifton woman delivered a lost credit card to deputies on Friday. Contact informa- tion for the owner is unknown. Search and rescue team members, Grand Junction ghters and Bureau of Land Management re patrol crew members assisted a 58-year-old man who became ill while hiking Thursday on the Bangs Canyon Trail. A Clifton man told deputies Thursday a threatened him and told him to leave his property. Witnesses told deputies the complainant was told to leave the property after speaking loudly, using foul language and walking over to the other apartment.

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KREX moving to new digs By EMILY ANDERSON Emily.Anderson@gjsentinel.com KREX, KFQX and KGJT will go dark beginning at 6 a.m. today and return on air sometime Sunday after broadcast equipment is moved into the new building at 345 Hillcrest Ave. Denver CBS liate KCNC will appear in place of KREX programming during the weekend for Bresnan subscribers. General Manager Ron Tillery said no way to avoid going off air this weekend because master control and technical operations that have been connected temporarily in a trailer outside the new station will have to be disconnected, moved inside the building and reconnected. The equipment organizes the entire broadcast day, Tillery said.

Some equipment, such as the signal transmitter and encoders, have been moved to the new facility. Aside from a few small tweaks over the next few weeks, Tillery hopes to have the bulk of the move into the new build- ing complete by Aug. 10, when KREX will begin broadcasting news in high nition and will feature a new newsroom with a new set. KREX will broadcast its last newscast from Rocky Mountain PBS at Western Colorado Community College at 10 p.m. on Aug.

6. Television newscasts will not take place on Aug. 7-9 while the newsroom and production control move back to Hillcrest Avenue. All other programming will take place as usual that weekend, and KREX reporters will post news stories on the Web site during those three days. Newscasts will return to television at 5 p.m.

Aug. 10. Tillery said excited about the new facility, which will replace the KREX building that burned down in January 2008. have a wonderful new facility that is designed to be a television Tillery said. designed to accommodate what we do today and what we envision be doing in the near Car pulled from Colorado River By EMILY ANDERSON Emily.Anderson@gjsentinel.com A tow truck pulled a stolen car from the Colorado River on Friday evening.

A man and a woman saw the trunk of the dark blue car poking out of the river Friday afternoon when they took their dog to the edge for a swim. No people were found inside the car, which had its trunk and doors open when Mesa County search and rescue members swam to examine the car. Mesa County Department deputies, Palisade and Clifton re departments, Palisade police and the Colorado State Patrol also responded to the scene at 3945 U.S. Highway in Palisade. The car was believed to be one that had been reported stolen, Palisade Fire Chief Richard Rupp said.

The car had a Colorado license plate and had not been seen the previous evening by the couple who reported the incident. They had taken their dog swimming Thursday as well. GRETEL The Daily Sentinel MEMBERS OF THE Mesa County Search and Rescue dive team swim back to shore as a boat stands by after checking a Kia sedan submerged in the Colorado River for occupants east of Palisade on Friday. No one was inside the car, which police believed to be one that had been reported stolen. Crews contain of Rangely re RANGELY Crews coping with wind gusts of 26 mph have managed to build containment lines around 90 percent of a wild- re in northwest Colorado.

The remaining 10 percent of the re is burning on steep cliff faces. The re south of Rangely is burning on private and fed- eral land and in sagebrush and pinon and juniper trees. An air tanker and helicopters are being used to ght the re. Some of the crews will be cut back. Several power lines have been destroyed.

The re started Tuesday. Fire managers say it was human-caused. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Founder of Harley dealerships on West Slope killed in bike crash By SENTINEL STAFF With wire reports A man who built an empire of Harley-David dealerships, including two in Grand Junction and Montrose, died Thursday after colliding with a pickup in southwestern Wyoming. The Wyoming State Patrol said 66-year-old Bruce Ross- meyer of Florida was trying to pass a pickup pulling a trailer about 18 miles east of Farson on Thursday. Sgt.

Stephen Townsend said the truck driven by 73-year-old Robert VanValkenburg of Rock Springs was turning left onto a dirt road when the collision occurred. Townsend said VanValkenburg had his left-turn signal on. Rossmeyer was thrown from the motorcycle and landed under the trailer. No other motorcycles were involved in the crash. The Daytona Beach News- Journal in Florida reported Thursday that Rossmeyer was one of the largest Harley-Davidson dealers.

The Grand Junction Harley- Davidson Web site indicates the dealership on Crossroads Boulevard was formed in February 1996 by Rossmeyer and Scott Lindsay. The dealership in Montrose opened in 2007. Lindsay be reached for comment. A woman who answered the phone at the Grand Junction dealership Friday said she release any information and referred calls to General Manager Tracy Tubbs, who be reached for comment. A friend, Grady Pfeiffer, told the Rapid City (S.D.) Journal that Rossmeyer was headed to the motorcycle rally in Sturgis, S.D.

Rossmeyer planned to meet with a group of custom- bike builders called the Hamsters in Thermopolis and then ride to Sturgis, said Pfeiffer, the spokesman. Cops expect biker rally near Pueblo By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Law-enforcement cers expect between 400 and 1,100 members of the Bandidos motorcycle club at a rally west of Pueblo next week. Pueblo police and the Pueblo County Department say they expect trouble but are preparing. They say the rally will be on private land Aug. 6-10.

The U.S. Department of Justice estimates the Bandidos have about 900 members in 88 chapters in the U.S. In 2006, club president George Wegers was sentenced to 20 months in prison for conspiracy to engage in racketeering. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SHERIDAN, Wyo. The state began work this week to clean up a 55-year-old coal mine in Sheridan County and improve a pair of shing ponds at the site.

The Department of Environmental Abandoned Mine Land fund is paying $395,000 to clean up the abandoned Kleenburn mine, which operated in 1953 and 1954. The project will cover about 20 acres of the 75-acre parcel, which is owned by the county. DEQ cials said they plan to reshape two spoil piles made up of remnant coal material. going to reduce the slope of the spoil piles and make them more gradual so they blend in to the topography said Jack Smith, project manager. going to re-vegetate the site so that the amount of soil erosion is going to be minimal, and not going to impact water The Abandoned Mine Land program taxes coal production to raise money for cleaning abandoned coal mines.

The county and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department are also contributing a combined $33,000 to build a pedestrian foot bridge at the site. The site will be limited to pedestrians. Bob Rolston, chairman of the Sheridan County Commission, said the site has mainly been used for illegal dumping and for recreation by off-road-vehicle and motorcycle riders. became drive-at-will and Rolston said. maintained, so we had garbage issues.

It becomes a ict with someone who wants to take his kid out there and sh and a person who wants to be out there on a The project also includes the construction of a channel to connect the two shing ponds at the site. Wyoming Game and Fish Department sheries biologist Paul Mavrakis said it will improve the habitat for sh, particularly in the shallower pond. connecting those two ponds, it gives sh an opportunity to go back and forth in the wintertime, hopefully eliminating our winter kill Mavrakis said. The project also includes a paved pathway, which will make the site accessible to people with disabilities. Wyoming cleaning up Sheridan County coal mine The Daily Sentinel (ISSN 1545-8962) Published every morning at 734 S.

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