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New Mexico eases pandemic restrictions as virus relents

Dining indoors will be allowed

DATE: Aug 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Survey, focus groups aim to boost New Mexico competitiveness

ALBUQUERQUE – One of New Mexico’s largest economic development advocacy groups has launched an online survey to take the temperature of business owners and others on everything from taxes to...

DATE: Aug 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Business

Woman guilty of embezzling from N.M. pistachio store

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. – A woman who admitted embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from an Alamogordo business faces up to 18 years in prison when she is sentenced later this year, prosecutors ...

DATE: Aug 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Limited indoor dining to resume for New Mexico restaurants

SANTA FE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Wednesday she will relax some public health mandates imposed because of the coronavirus, citing recent progress in slowing the outbreak in New Mex...

DATE: Aug 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. House hopefuls in New Mexico race unload dueling gun ads

RIO RANCHO, N.M. – Democratic U.S. Rep. Xochitl Torres Small and Republican challenger Yvette Herrell this week released dueling ads – with guns – aimed at appealing to rural voters in their...

DATE: Aug 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Albuquerque police pull tweet denouncing Wisconsin shooting

ALBUQUERQUE – Albuquerque police have deleted a tweet that denounced the “senseless” shooting of a Black man by Kenosha, Wisconsin, police and expressed sympathy for his family. P...

DATE: Aug 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Deputies in New Mexico fatally shoot armed man

ALBUQUERQUE – Deputies in New Mexico fatally shot a man who had opened fire in a neighborhood on Albuquerque’s northeast side, authorities said Tuesday. Bernalillo County Sheriff ...

DATE: Aug 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Los Alamos newspaper to call it quits after decades in print

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – The newspaper that has served the northern New Mexico community of Los Alamos for nearly six decades will publish its last edition on Sunday. The Los Alamos ...

DATE: Aug 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Business

Abuse complaints decline sharply without school oversight

SANTA FE – A sharp decline in reports of child abuse and neglect in New Mexico at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic is prompting concerns that problems are going unnoticed while childre...

DATE: Aug 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

County elections official dies in eastern New Mexico

SANTA FE â€“ A state senator says the top elections official in Roosevelt County in eastern New Mexico has died amid preparations for the Nov. 3 general election. Republican Senat...

DATE: Aug 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. Senate hopefuls in New Mexico feuding over debate lineup

RIO RANCHO, N.M. – Democratic U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján and Republican Mark Ronchetti’s campaigns are feuding over the number of TV debates in the race for the U.S. Senate, agreeing to two so ...

DATE: Aug 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Police: Suspect arrested after fatal shooting in Farmington

FARMINGTON – A man as been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting in west Farmington, according to police. They said 45-year-old Johnny Davidson has been booked into the San...

DATE: Aug 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News