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Thursday’s boys prep basketball score

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Boys Aspen 50, Manitou Springs 44

Class 3A State Tournament

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Thursday’s girls prep basketball score

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Girls Olathe 40, Coal Ridge 25

Class 3A State Tournament

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Thursday’s prep soccer score

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Central 10, Eagle Valley 0

Halftime: 5-0

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Thursday’s prep baseball scores

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Grand Junction 8, Pueblo West 4

Thursday at Pueblo West

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Back in the ring: After one year of opponents backing out, Ethridge finally gets to fight

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When John Ethridge is training, it’s a demonstration in intensity.

In the heat of a workout, the grimace on his face is something that’s not manufactured, but one of fierce determination. He attacks the punching bag like a mortal enemy. He shadowboxes as if he’s being attacked by Manny Pacquiao, Mike Tyson and Chuck Liddell in their prime.

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Paonia takes control in third quarter

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PUEBLO — Making history was great last season for the Paonia High School girls basketball team.

The Eagles, however, do not want their second-place finish at the Class 2A state girls basketball tournament to be the best in school history anymore.

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Clash of the conferences: RMAC, Northern Sun battle it out in Central Region

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As the bracket was being filled out on the big screen Sunday night, you couldn’t help but notice how the NCAA Division II Central Region tournament was shaping up.

It’s the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference vs. the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. Winner take all.

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Not half bad: Stansberry’s strong second half lifts Olathe past Coal Ridge

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FORT COLLINS — Morgan Stansberry came to the rescue right when her team needed her the most Thursday morning at Moby Arena.

The junior forward scored all of her game-high 14 points in the second half to help Olathe High School overcome a one-point halftime deficit and run away with a 40-25 win over Coal Ridge in the opening game of the Class 3A state tournament.

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Blotter, March 12, 2010

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Meth alleged in arrest

Two men were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of drug possession after Grand Junction police officers went to a home on Patterson Road in an attempt to arrest one of them on a warrant and found suspected methamphetamine inside the home.

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Junction police comb through pot patients’ paperwork

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Hundreds of records for medical marijuana patients are under scrutiny as authorities decide whether a local dispensary’s volume of valid patients justifies a grow operation with more than 1,000 marijuana plants, an enterprise still illegal under federal law.

A search warrant executed Tuesday authorized the seizure of photocopies of patients’ marijuana registry cards, as well as doctors’ recommendations and personal contact information for patients, after officers from the Grand Junction Police Department were called that same day to investigate reports of a suspicious odor seeping from a building near the offices of the U.S. Census Bureau.

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