Tag: Ute Mountain Ute Tribe
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Ute Mountain Ute Tribe joins sports betting lawsuit against Colorado
Another Colorado tribe has joined a lawsuit against the state over access to online sports gambling. An amended complaint filed Thursday with the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado added the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe to a lawsuit filed earlier this year against the state by the Southern Ute Tribe. The complaint alleges that…
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3 people found dead in Cortez in suspected fentanyl overdose
Less than three weeks after five Coloradans died in what is believed to be the largest single fentanyl overdose in the country, three more people were found dead in a hotel room in Cortez after ingesting fentanyl. One of the victims, 44-year-old Shondella Silas, was buried Thursday. Shondella Silas left behind five children, according to…
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Ute Tribal members gets 20 years for sex crimes against child
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A member of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on Tuesday for sexually abusing multiple children at his Colorado home, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado. Blair R. House, 63, of Towaoc, was sentenced for aggravated sexual abuse and sexual abuse against two…
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‘The other Mesa Verde:’ Colorado’s lesser known, no less wondrous tribal park
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save TOWAOC • Some say the first people of the canyons never left. Not really. You don’t see them, the Ancestral Puebloans who made homes in the cliffs some 1,400 years ago. “But you can feel them,” says the woman at the ramshackle gas station-turned-visitor center here…