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Commissioners hire owner’s rep for new courthouse

To help control costs and monitor progress on an estimated $7 million new courthouse project, the Montezuma County commissioners have hired an owner’s representative. Monty Guiles...

DATE: Jan 31, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Drug Court funding dries up

Judge: Court out of money until July

DATE: Jan 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Colorado courts shift to Twitter

State court officials have adopted Twitter handles, nearly one year after the media was allowed to provide live tweets from inside 22nd Judicial District courtrooms. In a statemen...

DATE: Nov 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Court briefs

Two women charged in armed robbery A plea hearing for Nicole Hill, 24, address undisclosed, has been set on Dec. 8, after she posted a $3,000 bond on charges of armed robbery, fel...

DATE: Nov 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: For the record

Plea to drop offender listing rejected

Convicted nearly two decades ago, a Dolores man’s appeal to no longer register as a sex offender was rejected this week. “I don’t do the things I used to do,” Brian Kartchner told...

DATE: Nov 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Court briefs

Motion denied in homicide case The court rejected a defense argument to disqualify the district attorney from prosecuting a woman charged with vehicular homicide. At a ...

DATE: Oct 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Cortez man claims ‘illegal sentence’ in child sex case

A Cortez man convicted of attempted child sex assault has argued that the court imposed an “illegal sentence.” In a four-page motion filed in June, public defender Amy R. Smith re...

DATE: Aug 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News