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New Mexico school shooting suspect to remain in custody

ALBUQUERQUE – A 13-year-old New Mexico boy accused of shooting and killing a classmate will remain in custody pending trial. A Children’s Court judge agreed with prosecutors during a virtu...

DATE: Aug 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico State Fair vaccine mandate spurs concern

ALBUQUERQUE – Some are calling a requirement for everyone attending the upcoming New Mexico State Fair to show proof of vaccination anything but fair. The mandate was announced Tuesday by Go...

DATE: Aug 18, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico braces for end of federal unemployment bonuses

SANTA FE – State labor and workforce training officials are bracing for the end of a $300 weekly federal bonus in unemployment benefits that also bolstered income for the self-employed and ...

DATE: Aug 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico governor sets mask mandate, requires vaccination

ALBUQUERQUE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Tuesday she will be reinstating a mask mandate for all public indoor spaces in New Mexico as vaccination rates remain stagnant and infections ...

DATE: Aug 17, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico to ask about sexual orientation in public surveys

SANTA FE – New Mexico will begin routinely collecting demographic data about sexual orientation and gender identity during government surveys under an executive order signed by Democratic Go...

DATE: Aug 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

West Nile virus detected in Bernalillo County mosquitoes

ALBUQUERQUE – Health officials in New Mexico’s most populated area are warning residents to take precautions against mosquito bites. They announced Monday that mosquitoes carrying West Nil...

DATE: Aug 16, 2021 | CATEGORY: AP New Mexico

State health officials make urgent call for volunteer nurses

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico health officials say an increase in hospitalizations across the state has prompted them to put out an urgent call for volunteer nurses to help boost the state’s medi...

DATE: Aug 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Operations conducted to crack down on Gallup street racing

GALLUP, N.M. – Operations aimed at cracking down on street racing within Gallup and the surrounding area of northwestern New Mexico’s McKinley County have netted a dozen arrests and produced...

DATE: Aug 14, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

San Juan County detention officer charged with sexual contact with inmate

FARMINGTON – A detention officer at the jail in San Juan County has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of having sexual contact with an inmate and with bringing contraband into t...

DATE: Aug 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

1 dies in New Mexico school shooting; student detained

ALBUQUERQUE – One student was killed and another was taken into custody Friday after a shooting at a middle school near downtown Albuquerque during the lunch hour, police said. The gunfire...

DATE: Aug 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico sets rules to launch pandemic debt collection

SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico’s court system is taking steps to ease financial upheaval as the state braces for a wave of foreclosures on delinquent mortgage loans and the state phases out a m...

DATE: Aug 13, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico defends title as most Latino state in nation

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico has retained its title as the nation's most heavily Hispanic state, with 47.7% of respondents to the 2020 census identifying ancestry linked to Latin America and other Spanish-speaking areas.

DATE: Aug 12, 2021 | CATEGORY: New Mexico