[VIDEO] Santa Fe Police: DNA testing leads to arrest of 'prolific' burglarPosted: 5/16/2012, 1:00 AM Mountain time
Santa Fe police on Wednesday say DNA testing led to an arrest a "prolific" burglar they say left blood stains on a car he allegedly burglarized in 2011 and in a storage trailer he allegedly burglarize ...
Days before he died, father able to see son 'graduate' from NMSUPosted: 5/15/2012, 10:00 PM Mountain time
LAS CRUCES — Twenty-two-year-old Javier Lujan, a lifelong Las Crucen, marched across a New Mexico State University stage on Saturday, becoming the first in his family to graduate with a college ...
New Mexico soldier killed in Afghanistan
Posted: 5/16/2012, 2:29 PM Mountain time
WASHINGTON — A soldier from New Mexico has been killed in Afghanistan. The Department of Defense said Staff Sgt. Israel P. Nuanes of Las Cruces died May 12 of wounds sustained during an enemy ...
Posted: 5/16/2012, 2:29 PM Mountain time
WASHINGTON — A soldier from New Mexico has been killed in Afghanistan. The Department of Defense said Staff Sgt. Israel P. Nuanes of Las Cruces died May 12 of wounds sustained during an enemy ...
New Mexico pays $22M in credits to 'Avengers'
Posted: 5/16/2012, 1:31 PM Mountain time
ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico shelled out millions in movie tax credits to have a co-starring role in "The Avengers." KRQE-TV (http://bit.ly/IZirew) reports the state Taxation and Revenue Departmen ...
Posted: 5/16/2012, 1:31 PM Mountain time
ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico shelled out millions in movie tax credits to have a co-starring role in "The Avengers." KRQE-TV (http://bit.ly/IZirew) reports the state Taxation and Revenue Departmen ...
Protesters turn out for PNM shareholders meeting
Posted: 5/16/2012, 2:00 PM Mountain time
ALBUQUERQUE — Environmentalists are continuing their push to see that a coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico is closed. About 50 people from various environmental groups turned ou ...
Posted: 5/16/2012, 2:00 PM Mountain time
ALBUQUERQUE — Environmentalists are continuing their push to see that a coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico is closed. About 50 people from various environmental groups turned ou ...
SFCC sues state over stalled higher-ed center
Posted: 5/15/2012, 8:00 PM Mountain time
Santa Fe Community College's governing board is taking the Martinez administration to court in an effort to pressure it to approve the college's plan to build a new Higher Education Center. On Tuesd ...
Posted: 5/15/2012, 8:00 PM Mountain time
Santa Fe Community College's governing board is taking the Martinez administration to court in an effort to pressure it to approve the college's plan to build a new Higher Education Center. On Tuesd ...
EPA auditors review how state records costs
Posted: 5/15/2012, 8:00 PM Mountain time
Two auditors from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began examining records at several bureaus of the New Mexico Environment Department on Tuesday, state officials confirmed. The federal audi ...
Posted: 5/15/2012, 8:00 PM Mountain time
Two auditors from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency began examining records at several bureaus of the New Mexico Environment Department on Tuesday, state officials confirmed. The federal audi ...
Business-plan competition draws new ideas
Posted: 5/15/2012, 8:00 PM Mountain time
What Santa Fe really needs is a late-night vegan food truck. Or a lingerie manufacturing business. Or an easy hydroponic growing system to feed a micro-agriculture revolution. Those are among the id ...
Posted: 5/15/2012, 8:00 PM Mountain time
What Santa Fe really needs is a late-night vegan food truck. Or a lingerie manufacturing business. Or an easy hydroponic growing system to feed a micro-agriculture revolution. Those are among the id ...
Life's a peach at pueblo orchardPosted: 5/15/2012, 8:00 PM Mountain time
San Ildefonso Pueblo elders, young people and teachers on Tuesday began planting 150 fruit trees in hand-dug holes. With luck, water and some tender care, the apple, peach and apricot trees in the d ...
Santa Fe jury sets up death-penalty debate on AstorgaPosted: 5/15/2012, 8:57 PM Mountain time
A Santa Fe jury decided Tuesday that a man convicted of killing a Bernalillo County sheriff's deputy is guilty of aggravated circumstances in the murder, setting up a hearing for a possible death pena ...
Board makes last cuts to school budget
Posted: 5/15/2012, 8:00 PM Mountain time
The Santa Fe school board voted late Tuesday to dip into cash reserves and cut spending on contracts and special-education services to cover holes in an $84.6 million budget for the next school year.& ...
Posted: 5/15/2012, 8:00 PM Mountain time
The Santa Fe school board voted late Tuesday to dip into cash reserves and cut spending on contracts and special-education services to cover holes in an $84.6 million budget for the next school year.& ...
Anaya competent to stand trial, bond deniedPosted: 5/15/2012, 8:00 PM Mountain time
Arthur Anaya's lawyer Wednesday didn't challenge a finding that Anaya is mentally competent to stand trial for murder. Authorities say Anaya, 54, shot to death 16-year-old Austin Urban and 51-year-o ...
County clerk candidate loans $19K to campaign
Posted: 5/15/2012, 8:00 PM Mountain time
Thanks to a $19,000 loan to her own campaign, Santa Fe County clerk candidate Geraldine Salazar is reporting that she has amassed $20,089 for her campaign so far, about seven times more than her oppon ...
Posted: 5/15/2012, 8:00 PM Mountain time
Thanks to a $19,000 loan to her own campaign, Santa Fe County clerk candidate Geraldine Salazar is reporting that she has amassed $20,089 for her campaign so far, about seven times more than her oppon ...
Board makes last cuts to school budget
Posted: 5/16/2012, 1:00 AM Mountain time
By Robert Nott The New Mexican The Santa Fe school board voted late Tuesday to dip into cash reserves and cut spending on contracts and reduce a planned increase in special-education servic ...
Local news in brief, May 16, 2012Posted: 5/15/2012, 10:00 PM Mountain time
Mutilated cow found at San Ildefonso San Ildefonso Pueblo tribal police are investigating the mutilated corpse of a cow found late Sunday evening. Santa Fe County sheriff's deputies were the firs ...
Culinary elite battle for Apache honor in 'No Kitchen Required'Posted: 5/15/2012, 6:00 PM Mountain time
BBC America's newest cooking-competition series, No Kitchen Required, is touted as a cross between Survivor and The Amazing Race -- where chefs are sent to remote areas of the world to compete against ...
Save Earth one drink at a time with the top organic, sustainable and biodynamic winesPosted: 5/15/2012, 6:00 PM Mountain time
I'm a firm believer in "going green" all year -- not just on Earth Day -- and that includes keeping my wine collection stocked with plenty of eco-friendly wines. To borrow a quote from Andrew Jay, m ...
Beyond Take Out: Make rumaki and other 1960s appetizers the stars of your 'Mad Men' party
Posted: 5/15/2012, 6:00 PM Mountain time
I miss the 1960s. Or, to be totally accurate, I missed the '60s, by a few decades. By the time I was born, women could wear pants to work, cigarettes would kill you, and the cone bra was a thing of th ...
Posted: 5/15/2012, 6:00 PM Mountain time
I miss the 1960s. Or, to be totally accurate, I missed the '60s, by a few decades. By the time I was born, women could wear pants to work, cigarettes would kill you, and the cone bra was a thing of th ...
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