Whitewater News

More than two years ago a Grand Junction mother of three disappeared. What happened to Paige Birgfeld is a question her father and the Mesa County Sheriff have looked tirelessly to answer.

Weeks after Miriam Helmick abandoned her home in Whitewater in July 2008 and left for Florida, her slain husband's daughter found a folded-up prenuptial agreement tucked away in a desk at the home.

Richard Marques, 19, of Palisade, Robert Ross Jr., 20, of Rifle, and Gemini Billington, 19, of Rifle, were arrested this weekend on suspicion of committing a series of burglaries at Rifle-area businesses and a church over the past several months, according to the Rifle Police Department.

Mesa County Commissioner Steve Acquafresca will seek a second term, he told Republicans on Friday.

Alan Helmick, a former longtime resident of Delta, was described as lonely and vulnerable when he met Miriam Helmick, the woman prosecutors believe responsible for his murder in June 2008.

A Colorado Bureau of Investigation agent testified Tuesday that gunshot residue was found inside a car that Miriam Helmick had driven the morning her husband was killed, and that it was found on the shoes she wore that day.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Court was back in session today for day two in the trial of Miriam Helmick, the Whitewater woman accused of killing her husband Alan back in June of 2008.

A Grand Junction woman is on trial for allegedly killing her husband. In opening statements Thursday, prosecutors said Miriam Helmick tried but failed to purchase a $1 million life insurance policy for her husband, who had a $250,000 insurance policy.

A Fruitvale man has been accused of choking and squeezing his wife's cat so hard that it defecated, Grand Junction police said of his arrest Thursday.

People all across the Grand Valley woke up to a winter wonderland on Wednesday. Anywhere from one to three inches fell across the valley overnight Tuesday into Wednesday morning.

A residential group home that houses sexually abusive youth between the ages of 12 and 18 will be allowed to increase the number of people living together in the home by two.

A prosecutor said Monday that Miriam Helmick may have been inspired by an award- winning 2007 movie when she allegedly tried to kill her second husband in a car fire in Delta.

Winemakers are a nervous lot and once you get to know one or two, you wonder if they ever get a restful night's sleep.

A plan that will guide how the Grand Valley grows in the next 25 years proposes a number of significant changes that have raised the eyebrows of some neighborhood groups.

Five thefts from automobiles were reported to Mesa County sheriff's deputies Thursday morning, along with four reports of attempts to steal from other vehicles.

Mesa County estimated it will cost $257,226 to design a bridge to take wastewater from Whitewater across the Colorado River to the Clifton Sanitation District.

Colorado's federal lawmakers need to wade into mercury dispute After Department of Energy officials said that a 1996 agreement with Colorado's Mesa County to store low-level radioactive waste at a federal facility near Whitewater cleared the way for the DOE to store mercury there, it's evident that Colorado's congressional delegation needs to ...

Stephen Boelter touched many people's lives in largely unseen ways. There are many generous and philanthropic people in this community.

There's no legal problem here, officials with the U.S. Department of Energy say.

In one moment, Monte High's life changed forever. His single-vehicle accident back in 1983 not only cost him the use of his legs, but it also changed him spiritually.