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The long-running legal dispute between the Montezuma County commissioners and a corporation wanting to build a Dollar General store is not over yet.

Cortez Municipal Court is launching a Teen Court program that will train young volunteers to serve as attorneys, jurors and judges in cases involving their peers.

Montezuma County’s denial of a high-impact permit for a Dollar General store just off Highway 145 has been upheld.

Tina Peters, convicted on several counts and sentenced to nearly nine years in prison, was released early after Gov. Jared Polis commuted her sentence.

Attorneys representing the Montezuma County board of commissioners and a corporation seeking to build a Dollar General store here made their cases in District Court on Thursday.

A Cortez man accused of brutally beating three men in Veterans Park in 2025, killing one of them, entered a not-guilty plea in District Court on Wednesday. In other news, a man who was struck by a plane and killed after he trespassed onto a runway at Denver International Airport on Friday reportedly had lived in Montezuma County.

A Cortez woman accused of killing her 5-year-old daughter in 2022 entered a not-guilty plea Monday morning in District Court.

The bill would let Colorado residents sue federal immigration authorities for civil rights violations.

A 21-year-old Cortez woman charged with first-degree murder entered a not-guilty plea in District Court Thursday, but attorneys indicated a disposition of her case may be in the works.

A Colorado appeals court upheld Tina Peters’ election interference conviction but ordered a new sentencing hearing, citing concerns that her original sentence may have been influenced by her public statements.