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Endorsements, donations draw eyes in Albuquerque mayor race

ALBUQUERQUE – Albuquerque’s long-beleaguered police department and questionable campaign donations are casting shadows in the city’s open mayoral election. Some candidates have re...

DATE: Sep 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

2 leaders of religious sect plead not guilty to child abuse

ALBUQUERQUE – Two leaders of a New Mexico paramilitary religious sect have pleaded not guilty to charges connected to a child abuse investigation. Deborah Green and Peter Green en...

DATE: Sep 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

The ACLU probes whether protesters’ rights violated

SANTA FE – The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico is exploring whether civil rights violations occurred on Friday in the arrests of protesters at a re-enactment of the return of Sp...

DATE: Sep 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Teen in fatal New Mexico library shooting remains detained

CLOVIS, N.M. – A New Mexico judge on Thursday ordered the teenager accused of fatally shooting two workers inside a public library and wounding four other people to remain in custody after p...

DATE: Sep 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico county to keep ‘immigrant friendly’ policy

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – New Mexico commissioners have decided to keep a policy declaring Bernalillo County an immigrant-friendly community despite threats from U.S. Justice Department to defund ...

DATE: Aug 9, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico State Police: 2 found dead inside vehicle on I-40

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico State Police say they’re investigation the suspicious deaths of a man and a woman found inside a vehicle west of Albuquerque. They say a State Poli...

DATE: Jun 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

State police kill man who fired at them on I-25

SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico State Police say an officer fatally shot a 36-year-old man early Monday morning after a long standoff. Police say they were called to a small market i...

DATE: Jun 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico suit against Colorado in Gold King Mine spill fails

U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied petition

DATE: Jun 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

2 more plague cases reported in New Mexico’s Santa Fe County

SANTA FE, N.M. — The New Mexico Department of Health on Monday confirmed two more human cases of plague. The recent cases involve a 52-year-old woman and a 62-year-old woman. The...

DATE: Jun 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Under scrutiny, New Mexico opioid prescriptions taper off

New law requires doctors to check database of prescriptions

DATE: Jun 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

GOP New Mexico lawmaker wants to shrink national monument

SANTA FE, N.M. — Members of New Mexico’s delegation to Capitol Hill are at odds over whether to reduce the size of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument under a review by the a...

DATE: Jun 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Pileup during blinding dust on New Mexico highway kills 6

LORDSBURG, N.M. – Six people died in a 25-vehicle pileup caused by a sudden dust storm along an interstate highway in New Mexico where such conditions have caused deadly collisions in the pa...

DATE: Jun 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News