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As the oil and carbon dioxide markets fizzle, so does the 2017 Montezuma County budget. During a budget workshop this week, county administrator Melissa Brunner reported that department budgets...
DATE: Nov. 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
La Plata County Judge Martha Minot is proposing a new tact for dealing with repeat drunken drivers: Rather than throw them in jail, give them the resources and supervision they need to break the...
DATE: Feb. 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News
WASHINGTON – For most presidents, choosing a Supreme Court nominee is a puzzle. For President Barack Obama, the chance to pick a successor to Justice Antonin Scalia is more like a Gordian Knot. As...
DATE: Feb. 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court begins its new term on Monday under an election-year spotlight, with a chief justice who’s become a campaign issue and a docket that seems designed to remind...
DATE: Oct. 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World
District Court Judge Todd Plewe issued a restraining order Wednesday to bar the 32nd annual Colorado Invitational Bong-A-Thon marijuana competition from taking place next weekend near Stoner....
DATE: July 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
U.S. Magistrate David West is up for reappointment, and comments are sought from the public as part of the process. “First, the district court judges had to invite him to stand for reappointment,”...
DATE: April 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
The federal court system will make it a policy to hold criminal hearings and trials related to Southwest Colorado in Durango. “The designation will mean that a detained defendant will be held...
DATE: March 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
Anyone intrepid enough to take on judicial proceedings personally won’t get any legal advice from Lindsay Patterson, but she can steer litigants in the right direction. Patterson, the lone staff...
DATE: Oct. 31, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News
Freedom of information just got a little freer. On Monday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that advocacy groups, the media and individual citizens who sue because they believe a document should be...
DATE: June 30, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News
Gov. John Hickenlooper appointed Anthony Edwards as judge for the San Juan County Court in Silverton. Edwards will fill a vacancy caused by the retirement of Judge Lyndon K. Skinner. Edwards...
DATE: May 22, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News
Southwest Colorado has experienced a spate of murder cases during the last two years, and some local judges have responded by clamping down on the flow of information to the public.The 6th Judicial...
DATE: Aug. 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News
Eleven residents have applied for a new judgeship position that is being created in the 6th Judicial District, which covers Archuleta, San Juan and La Plata counties.The candidates are Steven Boos,...
DATE: June 5, 2012 | CATEGORY: Local News
