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New Mexico plans to close women’s prison in rural community

SANTA FE – New Mexico plans to close a women’s prison located in a small rural town and transfer the inmates and workers elsewhere, state officials say. Timing and other details r...

DATE: Mar 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Marijuana takes center stage in New Mexico special session

SANTA FE – New Mexico lawmakers are embarking on an unusual legislative session that may focus entirely on the legalization of recreational marijuana. Efforts at legalizing the sa...

DATE: Mar 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

GOP eyes Albuquerque congressional seat held by Haaland

SANTA FE – A cadre of 130 New Mexico state Republican Party leaders is deciding on a nominee to run for the Albuquerque-based congressional seat held by Deb Haaland before she was confirmed ...

DATE: Mar 27, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man held in New Jersey killing charged in New Mexico deaths

ALBUQUERQUE – Authorities on Friday charged a man already accused of a beating death in New Jersey with murder and other counts in New Mexico in the slaying of his ex-wife and two of her fri...

DATE: Mar 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Navajo Nation confirms nine new COVID-19 cases, two more deaths

WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – The Navajo Nation has reported nine new COVID-19 cases for a second day. The latest numbers released Friday, including two additional deaths, raises the tribe...

DATE: Mar 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Kansas man arrested in 1979 homicide in Colorado

WICHITA, Kan. – A Wichita, Kansas, man has been arrested in the 1979 slaying of a woman in Weld County, Colorado, authorities announced Friday. James Herman Dye, 64, was booked in...

DATE: Mar 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Governor calls special legislative session in New Mexico

SANTA FE – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is calling legislators back to the Capitol to consider proposals to legalize recreational marijuana. Lujan Grisham set Tuesday as...

DATE: Mar 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Feds arrest armed Colorado man after remark about Boulder

IOWA CITY, Iowa – An Iowa gun store refused to sell a semi-automatic rifle to a heavily armed and agitated Colorado man who said he was surprised his friends didn’t suspect he was the Boulde...

DATE: Mar 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado shooting suspect passed check in legal gun purchase

BOULDER – The suspect in the Colorado supermarket shootings bought a firearm at a local gun store after passing a background check, and he also had a second weapon with him that he didn’t us...

DATE: Mar 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man wanted for questioning in New Mexico case is arrested

ALBUQUERQUE – A man wanted for questioning in the disappearances of three people from Grants last month was arrested on a warrant in Albuquerque, authorities said Thursday night. ...

DATE: Mar 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico high court affirms man’s extended commitment

SANTA FE – The New Mexico Supreme Court has upheld a district court decision to extend the criminal commitment of a Las Vegas, New Mexico, man placed in a mental institution after he was acc...

DATE: Mar 26, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico relaxing rules on nursing home visits in pandemic

SANTA FE – New Mexico is preparing to relax restrictions on visits to nursing homes and assisted living facilities as the spread of COVID-19 wanes and more people get vaccinated. ...

DATE: Mar 25, 2021 | CATEGORY: Regional News

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