Updated: UPDATED: Ex-MainStreet Official Denies Authorizing Insanity Plea
Peter Yanke, the former Grants MainStreet board member who was indicted by a Cibola County grand jury in September on one count of fourth-degree fraud, told ABQjournal.com on Thursday that he never...
View ArticleTexas Boy With Pellet Gun Shot by Police
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The parents of an eighth grader who was fatally shot by police inside his South Texas school are demanding to know why officers took lethal action, but police said the boy...
View ArticleUpdated: What Is There About the Word 'No'....?
She keeps saying ‘no’ — not long ago telling the Albuquerque Journal’s James Monteleone that “No Means No” — but New Mexico’s Republican Gov. Susana Martinez insists she’s not a candidate for the...
View ArticleAds Blame PNM for Pollution, Illnesses
From The Daily Times SANTA FE — New Mexico’s largest electric company is under attack, the target of a billboard advertising campaign that accuses it of causing pollution and sicknesses. Three new...
View ArticleHeinrich Backs DREAM Act Platform Plank
WASHINGTON (AP) — In an appeal to Latino voters, three Senate candidates in the Southwest are calling on delegates to the Democratic National Convention to make support of a bill to help young illegal...
View ArticleAirline Execs Urge Streamlined Security
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Airport security needs to undergo a radical overhaul or else passengers will become further disgruntled, lines will grow and terminals will be overwhelmed,...
View ArticleUpdated: Denver Post Selling Stake in Rockies
DENVER — The Denver Post is seeking to sell its minority ownership in the Colorado Rockies. The Post holds a 7.3 percent state in the major league baseball club that is majority owned by brothers Dick...
View Article'I Thought Turkeys Could Fly'
While there are plenty of Christmas classics on video and film, Thanksgiving seems to get short shrift. That’s why we’ve made it a tradition here at ABQnews.com for the past several years (sorry, we...
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Updated: BREAKING: U.S. Economy Shrinks 0.1%
Cargo ships unload at Port of Los Angeles as U.S. economy shows 0.1 percent contraction. (AP File Photo) WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank from October through December for the first time since...
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Updated: N.M. UFO memo is FBI's most-read
A 1950 memo by an FBI special agent regarding a report of flying saucers in New Mexico has become the most viewed document in the agency’s online repository of public records. (COURTESY OF FBI WEBSITE)...
View ArticleMore than $384K in drugs seized over weekend
More than $384,000 worth of drugs were seized, some wanted people were detained and illegal immigrants were rescued in what the U.S. Border Patrol reported was a busy weekend in the El Paso sector –...
View ArticleMore than $384,000 in drugs seized in weekend
More than $384,000 worth of drugs were seized, some wanted people were detained and illegal immigrants were rescued in what the U.S. Border Patrol reported was a busy weekend in the El Paso sector –...
View ArticleUpdated: Los Alamos police chief to retire
Wayne Torpy, Los Alamos police chief for the past eight years, announced his retirement Monday afternoon in a phone call to the Los Alamos Monitor. Torpy, who suffered a stroke several months ago and...
View ArticleUpdated: Wiser medication use could reduce costs
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — If doctors and patients used prescription drugs more wisely, they could save the U.S. health care system at least $213 billion a year, by reducing medication overuse, underuse and...
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Updated: Judge Crater, call your office
Police poster seeks information on New York Supreme Court Associate Judge Joseph Force Crater, who went missing on the night of Aug. 6, 1930. (Wikipedia) OK, it’s an old gag about a once-famous...
View ArticleU.S. 380 will be blocked for 2 hours Thursday
SOCORRO — U.S. 380 will be closed at 4:45 p.m. between mile marker 3 and mile marker 49 for approximately two hours Thursday to accommodate White Sands Missile Range mission exercises. Roadblocks...
View ArticleLawmen uproot pot plants in yard near Escondida
SOCORRO — The Socorro County Sheriff’s Department, in a joint operation with federal agencies and the 7th Judicial District Attorney’s Office, arrested a man Aug. 19 for growing 23 marijuana plants...
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Updated: ABQ woman reported missing/endangered
Mary Jackson State Police have issued a missing/endangered person alert for Mary Jackson, 58, of Albuquerque, who was last seen Monday and whose vehicle was found at the top of Sandia Crest with her...
View ArticleTrial set in fatal shooting at Taos grocery store parking lot
The trial of Ken Vargas was set for Oct. 21 after a judge rejected a request by the defense to postpone the case against Vargas, who is accused of fatally shooting a man in the parking lot of...
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Updated: Woman wakes to find stranger in Las Cruces hotel room
Alan Israel Hernandez A 30-year-old woman escaped serious injury early Thursday after she awoke and found a stranger she said was masturbating in her hotel room, Las Cruces police said in a news...
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