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Santa Fe woman accused of embezzling nearly $600K from firm

SANTA FE – A Santa Fe woman has been accused of embezzling nearly $600,000 from a landscape architecture firm where she once worked. A Sept. 19 arraignment has been scheduled for 43-year-old...

DATE: Sep 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico judiciary endorses elimination of some court fees

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s judiciary has endorsed the elimination of court fees for traffic violations and some misdemeanor criminal cases that can have a disproportionate effect on the poor, a...

DATE: Sep 4, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico teams rally for hospitalized football player

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – For 22 seconds, none of the 104 players thought about football. The high school students’ thoughts and prayers were elsewhere – with Abraham Romero in the intensive c...

DATE: Sep 4, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New assessments show New Mexico students still struggling

Education officials tout ‘strategies’ to get back on track

DATE: Sep 2, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico Supreme Court details ruling on stream access

ALBUQUERQUE – The New Mexico Supreme Court on Thursday detailed its legal reasoning for a decision earlier this year that answered a long simmering question over whether the public had a rig...

DATE: Sep 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Settlement deadline looms in Supreme Court case over Rio Grande water

Texas claims New Mexico shorted its share of the water by pumping groundwater

DATE: Aug 31, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico governor pledges $10M for new abortion clinic

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico’s governor on Wednesday signed a new executive order that pledges $10 million to build a clinic that would provide abortions and other pregnancy care. “The goal her...

DATE: Aug 31, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Researchers: Pretrial detention plans wouldn’t reduce crime

ALBUQUERQUE – Legislative proposals intended to make it easier to keep certain criminal defendants in jail while awaiting trial would have done little to reduce crime, according to a study b...

DATE: Aug 31, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico governor issues pardons to 6 people

SANTA FE – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday pardoned six people for convictions ranging from fraud and larceny to burglary and drug trafficking. The pardons represent anothe...

DATE: Aug 29, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Lawmakers ask about self-sufficiency of New Mexico spaceport

ALBUQUERQUE – Some members of a legislative financial oversight committee asked Monday whether Spaceport America will ever be self-sufficient, and they’ll likely have to wait months for an a...

DATE: Aug 29, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

NAACP supports removal of Cowboys for Trump cofounder

SANTA FE – The NAACP is supporting efforts to bar a New Mexico-based county commissioner from public office, alleging that the Cowboys for Trump cofounder has sought to disenfranchise voters...

DATE: Aug 29, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Albuquerque woman accused of embezzling $175K from employer

SANTA FE – An Albuquerque woman is accused of embezzling more than $175,000 from her former employer over a six-year span, according to authorities. A criminal complaint filed earlier this m...

DATE: Aug 29, 2022 | CATEGORY: New Mexico