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Authorities believe a car that was buried and abandoned north of Pagosa Springs was there for about a week before being discovered Aug. 13.

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Authorities have possession of a car found buried and abandoned north of Pagosa Springs.

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Ute Mountain tribal officials in Towaoc agreed to disperse funding to tribal members to help with the hardships caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Chairman Manuel Heart.

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Ute Mountain Ute tribal members Ginger Lopez, Angelita Berry and Janna Mills collected more than 500 signatures in a petition urging the tribal council to pay out a portion of the U.S. government’s relief package to help businesses, workers and a health care system staggered by the coronavirus.

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DiversifyCUnow, the group of students, faculty, staff and alumni from CU Boulder, placed black cardboard cutouts of “the missing BIPOC students” around campus on the first day of the fall semester to urge the university community to divest funds from the campus police department and invest in the lives of students who are Black, Indigenous or people of color.

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Shontel Lewis

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Ken & Sue’s restaurant in Durango was raided Wednesday by the Internal Revenue Service’s criminal investigations unit.

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The GPS route of Adam Lederer’s 9.5-mile swim along the length of McPhee Reservoir.