Position: Journal Staff Writer

Email: tbaker@the-journal.com

Phone Number: 970-564-6033

Suspect admits killing woman

“When I put my arms around her I didn’t think I was going to strangle her.” That’s what murder suspect William Blackburn, Jr., 42, told a Colorado Bureau of Investigations agent during a recorded...

DATE: July 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

County rejects Bong-A-Thon permit

Montezuma County officials have denied a permit for North America's oldest marijuana event outside of Stoner, Colo.Planning director LeeAnn Milligan said Colorado Invitational Bong-A-Thon officials...

DATE: July 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - News

Trial date set for man in Samoan scam

Just as the victims of a $60,000 international scam predicted, an alleged con man failed to abide by the terms of a plea deal last week, resulting in a scheduled jury trial later this year. At a...

DATE: June 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Archaeologist talks about birds, petroglyphs

In the Middle Ages, Christians shared oral stories of Jesus through stain glass images. Across the Southwest about the same time, Ancestral Puebloans, with no written language, relied on imagery to...

DATE: June 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: MT - News

DAV salutes Jack & Janelle’s Restaurant

The Colorado chapter of Disabled American Veterans recently selected Jack & Janelle’s Restaurant for their outstanding service to American military personnel. “More than 600 nominations were...

DATE: June 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

Trial date set for man in Samoan scam

Just as the victims of a $60,000 international scam predicted, an alleged con man failed to abide by the terms of a plea deal last week, resulting in a scheduled jury trial later this year. At a...

DATE: June 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Safety issue raised as M-CHS nears opening

More than 150 days have passed since the city of Cortez heard about public safety issues around the new Montezuma-Cortez High School. On Jan. 27, Cortez resident Gerald Vincent addressed city...

DATE: June 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Attorney-client privilege at issue in Hampson case

Chief District Court Judge Doug Walker has discovered a head-scratching dilemma. At issue is attorney-client privilege. Currently serving a 25-year prison sentence, convicted murderer Luther...

DATE: June 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Samoan pleads guilty in $60K scam

In April 2013, a Cortez-based online education center entered into a historic agreement to expand its reach to the remote Independent State of Samoa. LeRoy Lafaialii Mariner, a Samoan living in...

DATE: June 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

Woman's troubles widen

Accused in March of attacking a roommate with a baseball bat, a Dolores woman has now been accused of a scheme to torch the victim's home. The alleged victim claims her 53-year-old attacker...

DATE: June 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: DS - News

Funding deadline nears for press

Considered a modern steam-powered marvel in the late 1800s, a rare Cranston Press is currently collecting dust and cobwebs in downtown Mancos. More than a dozen people stopped by the former Mancos...

DATE: June 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Prison terms reduced for armed thieves

It was a cold night in March 2011 when two cousins robbed a Cortez store clerk at gunpoint. The masked thieves nabbed $117 in cash and several packs of cigarettes. Sebastian Tutt of Shiprock, N.M.,...

DATE: June 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Local News

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