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Colorado lawmakers voted unanimously to approve a 24-foot statue to commemorate the Sand Creek Massacre. It will replace a Civil War statue torn down in 2020.

The Supreme Court ruled this week that Native Americans who are prosecuted in some tribal courts can also be prosecuted for the same incident in federal court. And the Pipeline Fire continues to burn about five miles north of downtown Flagstaff.

More than a dozen conservation groups have signed on to a legal brief filed last week in support of a Durango couple facing felony charges over the…

A woman who was forced into marriage at the age of 14 in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has been awarded $16 million from…

San Juan County Sheriff Rick Eldredge and two of his deputies will appear in district court in Monticello this Friday morning at 9am. The Utah Attorney…

The community of Mancos has an unlikely connection to Detroit, Michigan. Detroit resident Desmond Ricks was exonerated from a wrongful 25-year prison…

A wrongfully-imprisoned Detroit man has been freed, thanks to the efforts of a Mancos woman. Fifty-one-year-old Desmond Ricks was released at the end of…

New Mexico has the highest jail-incarceration rate in the nation. That's according to a new report by the Prison Policy Initiative, a non-partisan…

In 1989, a Detroit man named Bernard Young was convicted of child sexual assault and sentenced to 60 to 100 years in prison. But many years later, the…

What will become of the Justice Building, located at the north end of Cortez’s Centennial Park, once Montezuma County’s new courthouse is completed?On…