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Sponsors water down mental-health gun bill

DENVER – Legislators at last began moving on the final piece of their gun violence agenda Tuesday with the first of two bills addressing people with dangerous mental problems. Spo...

DATE: Apr 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Election-reform bill advances to full House

DENVER – Democrats advanced an election bill Monday night that would replace neighborhood polling places with mail ballots. La Plata County Clerk Tiffany Lee Parker, a Republican,...

DATE: Apr 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

State senate sends Medicaid expansion bill to House

DENVER – The state senate voted Monday to expand government health insurance for the poor, a key part of the federal health care law known as Obamacare. Under Senate Bill 200, adu...

DATE: Apr 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Sen. Udall seeks drought aid

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry on Monday asking the committee to add funding for livestock disaster assis...

DATE: Apr 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Law requires officers to train for dog encounters

DENVER – Brittany Moore’s German Shepherd, Ava, was standing in the driveway with a rawhide bone in her mouth when a police officer’s bullet pierced the dog’s back. The Erie polic...

DATE: Apr 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

Property taxes due April 30

Montezuma County Treasurer Sherry Dyess reminds property owners that April 30, 2013, is the deadline to pay the 2012 property taxes for those who are paying in full. The new mailing address ...

DATE: Apr 16, 2013 | CATEGORY: Business