Updated: 9:18 AM But what if you could make your own hours, work out of your home, and still bring in some extra cash?

Posted: 9:54 PM Tope Elementary students may now have a little more fun at recess with some new playground equipment.

Updated: 9:47 PM All week 11 -News has introduced you to the candidates for Grand Junction City Council in this April’s election, now meet District “A”s candidates.

Updated: 6:59 PM A woman who admitted to killing her baby is headed to prison. A Mesa County judge has sentenced Morgan Hite to 20 years in prison and five years mandatory parole and for the first time we're hearing the 23–year–old's tearful apologies.

Updated: 11:57 AM If you have received a text message about a shooting at Wal-Mart, officials with the Grand Junction Police Department say it's just a hoax.

Updated: 6:47 PM For the last two weeks Champ, a 7-year-old Husky, has been cooling his paws at the Mesa County Animal Shelter. Animal Services says he was brought in as a stray. Nobody came to claim him so they got on the case.

Updated: 7:10 PM An Adams County jury has convicted a 29-year-old man of second-degree murder in the shooting of an Aurora police officer.

Updated: 6:42 PM When the economy sours, some people head to classroom. Not to learn, but to teach.

Posted: 4:11 PM Projects to be funded with the first $98.5 million spent under the Building Excellent Schools Today (BEST) Act by County.

Updated: 10:54 AM Tomorrow is the first Critical Mass monthly community bike ride of 2009.

Updated: 10:39 AM Tonight is Call-A-Lawyer night hosted by the Mesa County Bar Association.

Posted: 9:38 AM The American Red Cross says it's on track to erase a $210 million deficit and balance its budget by next year.

Updated: 9:09 AM The National Weather Service's Flood Safety Awareness Week continues today with a message about flood insurance.

Updated: 5:00 PM 11News was in the courtroom this morning where the family of a mother convicted of giving birth to a baby boy then leaving the child in a closet to die issued a statement to the media just prior to her sentencing.

Updated: 7:02 PM Morgan Hite, convicted of giving birth to a baby boy and then leaving the child in a closet to die, was sentenced to 20 years in prison this morning.

Posted: 7:56 AM The Grand Junction Fire Department has released new statistics for its 2008 annual report showing emergency calls are way up, and it's taking longer for crews to respond.

Updated: 9:03 AM The Sunset Slope Quilters are stitching their way toward National Quilt Day, this Saturday, March 21st.

Updated: 1:05 PM Fire officials say a controlled burn got out of control off of Broadway at around 11 a.m. yesterday.

Posted: 7:41 AM A series of accidents kept police busy overnight and early this morning.

Updated: 7:45 AM Just before 9 p.m. yesterday a woman rolled her car on Highway 340 near Monument Road.

Updated: 3:27 PM It's a battle over experience in the race for the District "D" City Council seat.

Posted: 9:43 PM Middle and high school students with School District 51 haven't had new math materials for nearly ten years, but that will soon change.

Updated: 5:35 PM Authorities say a Pitkin County prosecutor and his family were placed under protection last weekend after the prosecutor's ex-wife was accused of plotting his death.

Updated: 5:21 PM A Longmont truck driver has escaped injury after the semi-trailer full of potatoes he was hauling rolled over on U.S. 285 and spilled.

Updated: 7:01 PM An elderly man trying to fight the Preserve Subdivision fire in the Redlands with a garden hose suffered some sort of medical problem this afternoon.