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Federal judge dismisses lawsuit over detainee’s suicide in La Junta
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A federal judge agreed last week that various law enforcement and medical defendants had not violated the rights of a suicidal man who died unattended in a holding cell of the La Junta Police Department. The surviving son and daughter of Glyn Hart filed suit over their father’s 2021 death. They advanced claims under federal…
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Faulty police warrant prompts appeals court to overturn La Junta man’s convictions
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Colorado’s second-highest court concluded last month that police relied on an illegal search warrant to obtain evidence against a La Junta man despite having no probable cause for a crime. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals reversed the theft and attempted trespass convictions of David Leon Gearhart based on the Fourth Amendment’s requirement…
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Otero County Republican Judy Reyher engulfed in controversy after contested House District 47 vacancy appointment
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The aftershocks were still coming days after a Republican vacancy committee picked a replacement for former state Rep. Clarice Navarro, the Pueblo Republican who resigned to take a position with the Trump administration in early November. Judy Reyher, a Swink resident and former Otero County GOP chair, won the appointment to Navarro’s seat on a…
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YESTERYEAR: Postmasters point toward safer, more effective mail delivery
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Fifty-five Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … Top officials with the Post Office Department – including Acting Assistant Postmaster General Sidney W. Bishop, a Denver native – unveiled major new Postal Service programs before an audience of 2,700 delegates to the 57th annual National Association of Postmasters Convention in Denver. The department would…
