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Colorado Gov. Jared Polis could use his broad powers to commute the sentences of the three men on the state’s death row today. In fact, he could have converted their death sentences to...
DATE: March 3, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News
The Colorado General Assembly on Wednesday sent a bill to Gov. Jared Polis’ desk eliminating the state’s death penalty, forcing him to decide what comes next for the three men who are on death row...
DATE: Feb. 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News
The deep and emotional tension surrounding a bill to repeal the death penalty in Colorado came alive on the Senate floor in a six-hour debate Thursday. “By having the death penalty in Colorado, we...
DATE: Jan. 31, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News
Bernard Young was behind bars for nearly 30 years for a crime he claimed he didn’t commit when his family, in a last ditch effort, called Mancos resident Claudia Whitman. Whitman, who runs the...
DATE: Feb. 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News
After pleading guilty to violating his probation, a Cortez man was sentenced to two years in a Durango halfway house. In custody at sentencing last week, Dylan Kuhn, 22, begged the court to...
DATE: Sept. 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
It was a cold night in March 2011 when two cousins robbed a Cortez store clerk at gunpoint. The masked thieves nabbed $117 in cash and several packs of cigarettes. Sebastian Tutt of Shiprock, N.M.,...
DATE: June 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
After apologizing to victims, a drug addict was told to prove he was sorry by changing his life. District Court Judge Todd Plewe addressed Roscoe Hampson, 27, of Cortez, during sentencing on...
DATE: March 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
Ex-Journal employee pleads guilty in sting A former Cortez Journal employee has pleaded guilty in connection to an undercover drug sting. Gabriel Gallegos, 33, of Cortez, pleaded guilty to a drug...
DATE: March 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
A patrol officer with the Cortez Police Department was chastised last year four days after he was allegedly stabbed.The Cortez Journal obtained all performance evaluations, internal affairs...
DATE: Jan. 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News
Convicted of starting the 2012 Roatcap fire, Roger "Bucky" Stratton was instructed to never use fire again. Ever. At a sentencing hearing on Jan. 23, the 54-year-old Dolores man was placed on...
DATE: Jan. 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: DS - News
Convicted of starting the 2012 Roatcap Fire, Roger "Bucky" Stratton was instructed to never use fire again. Ever. "I'm taking fire away from you," District Court Judge Todd Plewe told the convicted...
DATE: Jan. 28, 2014 | CATEGORY: MT - News
Convicted of starting the 2012 Roatcap Fire, Roger “Bucky” Stratton was instructed to never use fire again. Ever. “I’m taking fire away from you,” District Court Judge Todd Plewe told the convicted...
DATE: Jan. 28, 2014 | CATEGORY: Local News
