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New Mexico Legislature weighs new sexual harassment policy

SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico lawmakers took new steps Monday to prevent sexual misconduct and harassment at the state Capitol, attending a training session and considering new procedures for ...

DATE: Jan 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New technology aims to slow damage to Georgia O’Keeffe works

SANTA FE – Chemical reactions are gradually darkening many of Georgia O’Keeffe’s famously vibrant paintings, and art conservation experts are hoping new digital imaging tools can help them s...

DATE: Jan 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

New Mexico moves to rein in predatory lending operations

SANTA FE – New Mexico is moving forward with an overhaul of the storefront lending marketplace that will cap interest rates at an annual 175 percent starting Jan. 1, while state regulators s...

DATE: Nov 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico Legislature seeks anti-harassment training

SANTA FE – New Mexico legislative leaders have begun a review of workplace sexual harassment guidelines and preventative training, as decade-old accusations roil a state senator’s campaign f...

DATE: Nov 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Jury convicts New Mexico state senator in corruption trial

SANTA FE – A former New Mexico state senator was convicted Thursday of fraud, bribery and felony ethical violations in a corruption trial over accusations he used his position as a lawmaker ...

DATE: Nov 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico lawmaker defends conduct at corruption trial

SANTA FE, N.M. – A former New Mexico state senator told jurors at his own corruption trial Tuesday that he had tried to avoid personal financial conflicts in arranging the sale of a state-ow...

DATE: Nov 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico political corruption trial details private talk

SANTA FE – A former top-ranked New Mexico lawmaker told a jury he was confronted in his state Capitol office in 2014 by a senator for interfering with the proposed sale of a state-owned buil...

DATE: Nov 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico looks for opioid solutions amid tributes to dead

SANTA FE – A Day of the Dead altar with family photos of orphaned children in the arms of the departed stood as silent testimony to New Mexico’s struggle to reduce the toll of opioid addicti...

DATE: Nov 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Defense: Former N.M. state senator’s $50,000 commission was legitimate

SANTA FE – A former New Mexico state senator went on trial Tuesday on accusations he used his elected office to profit from the sale of a state-owned building, in a high-stakes corruption tr...

DATE: Oct 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico moves to defuse outrage over science standards

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s public education secretary said the state will adopt widely used school science standards in their entirety in response to public outrage over proposed changes that o...

DATE: Oct 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

George R.R. Martin mixes business, politics at film forum

SANTA FE – Author and film producer George R. R. Martin waded into the politics of movie-industry tax breaks on Thursday while endorsing a prominent Democratic candidate for governor of New ...

DATE: Oct 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Guilty pleas entered in sweeping Indian-art fraud probe

SANTA FE – A New Mexico art gallery owner and a jewelry supplier have pleaded guilty in federal court to criminal charges in the sale of fake Native American jewelry that was manufactured in...

DATE: Oct 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News