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Hatch Valley High School graduation
Hatch Valley High School graduate Alex Salazar, 18, screams with joy as the commencement ceremony begins at the school's football stadium. More than 80 students graduated Friday ...
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Carruthers NM only Western state not showing job recovery
SANTA FE - New Mexico's net job losses during the recession total 41,700, and it is the only Western state not showing economic recovery, economist and former governor Garrey Carruthers told legislators on Friday.Carruthers, 73, met with lawmakers for the first time since his hiring 12 days ago as president of New Mexico State University. He told the Legislative Finance Committee that it ...
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Resident reports possible phone scam
Sun-News reportLAS CRUCES - A Las Cruces resident reports that he received a phone call that he "has no doubt" was part of a scam.The man, who did not wish to be identified, said that on Monday, a male caller on his cell phone told him he had won a second prize with the Mega Millions Lottery that included a E Class Mercedes vehicle. The man was eligible, the caller said, because he had ...
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We Ride For Those Who Cant
LAS CRUCES - There was "thunder" in Las Cruces today, but not in the conventional sense. It was the combined sound of hundreds of motorcycles, about 500, that rumbled through parts of the city on their way to Washington, D.C. The 25th annual Run For The Wall, a yearly cross-country motorcycle ride from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. to Washington, D.C., passed through Las Cruces again this ...
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Governor appoints Las Crucens to boards
LAS CRUCES - Kenneth Gutierrez of Las Cruces has been appointed by Gov. Susana Martinez as the Doña Ana County Flood Commissioner. Gutierrez is a Senior Project Manager and Architectural Designer with ASA Architects. For the past 14 years, Gutierrez has programmed and designed numerous projects seeing them from conception through construction at ASA. Gutierrez holds a M.A. in Architecture ...
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Report N Korea fires short-range missiles
North Korea launched three short-range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula's east coast Saturday, South Korea's semi-official news agency Yonhap cited the South Korean Defense Ministry as ...
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Feds to probe Connecticut train crash
Federal transportation investigators will work to determine what caused two passenger trains to collide during rush hour in Connecticut, sending dozens to the ...
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Dirt biker plunges off high cliff
RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) - A man riding a dirt bike west of Rio Rancho sailed over a cliff late Friday and fell an estimated 150 feet down the escarpment toward the Rio Puerco Valley. At 8 p.m. aerial video from Sky News 13 showed responders from the Rio Rancho Fire Department and Sandoval County had rappelled down the cliff with a litter and had reached the biker. An officer already had been ...
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Rabid bat dangerously close to kids
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Some Albuquerque neighborhoods are on alert by the state Department of Health after a rabid bat was found near to two schools and with children seen getting very close to it. The state wants to find those children and make sure neither they nor anyone else came in contact with the bat, so it sent letters to schools and notices to residents. A letter warning residents that a ...
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NMSU student dies in crash
Updated 6:20 p.m. LAS CRUCES - A New Mexico State University mechanical engineering student died in a fatal car crash on U.S. 180 Thursday morning. Nicholas Clegg, 22, was near Deming when another driver, heading north, swerved into oncoming traffic. Clegg swerved to avoid the driver, lost control of his 2011 Toyota and hit a guard rail. He rolled several times and was ejected from the ...
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Bat spurs rabies scare in Albuquerque
"You're in New Mexico, and there's rabies out here, and you need to be careful," said resident Steve Romero. "It's not totally surprising because of the rodent population and rabies being alive and well, and we have everything else around here this time of ...
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The White House came to the Navajo Nation today.
Posted at: 05/17/2013 6:55 PM By: Ashley McElroy, KOB Eyewitness News 4 Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, gave the commencement speech at the Navajo Technical College in Crownpoint, NM. Biden, an educator for 30 years, spoke to the graduates about tomorrow's challenges. "College is a place that changes lives for the better. And tribal colleges are especially ...
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Albuquerque student to graduate with a 5.0
Officials with Albuquerque Public Schools say that's the highest GPA earned by a student in the district's history. A La Cueva High School student held the top spot in 2012 with a ...
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APD explains keeping abduction quiet
stood in stark contrast to one week ago when a 6-year-old girl was reported as abducted and molested. Police didn't send out an alert on that abduction at a North Valley apartment complex. Less than a week later a 4-year-old girl was kidnapped from the same complex 30 feet away from the first crime scene. She, however, was shoved from the car as the kidnapper fled the complex with the ...
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Arroyo Molester receives max sentence
of kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old boy after a nearly two-week long trial in January. District Judge Kenneth Martinez sentenced him to the maximum 41 1/2 years in prison. The attack happened in August 2003 in the Embudo Arroyo in northeast Albuquerque. During the trial, the victim testified he was walking home from school when Sandoval lured him into the arroyo and raped ...
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Dead robbers widow sues shop clerk
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The wife of an armed robbery suspect shot dead by a shop clerk said the clerk was wrong, and now she has filed a civil lawsuit claiming wrongful death. The lawsuit was filed Tuesday on behalf of the Ramon Sedillo's widow and ...
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More New Mexicans planning in-state vacations
Posted at: 05/17/2013 6:34 PM | Updated at: 05/17/2013 6:35 PM By: Stuart Dyson, KOB Eyewitness News 4 More of us here in New Mexico are planning in-state vacations this year. A new poll shows an 11 percent spike in the number of New Mexicans planning to hit the road for vacations this year as compared to last year, and that’s a pretty big increase. 55 percent say they’ll ...
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Kidnapping suspect faces judge
David Hernandez, 31, is accused of kidnapping a 4-year-old girl and leading her mother on a high-speed chase through Albuquerque on Wednesday before turning himself in to police on ...
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Reports At least 20 injured in Conn. train collision
At least 20 people were injured Friday when two trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour in Connecticut, according to CBS News, Fox News and ...
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Questa mine worker died on-site Friday
Posted at: 05/17/2013 6:13 PM By: Shaun Griswold, KOB.com A Questa mine worker died at his work site early Friday morning. The worker was found pinned in between two rail cars around 1:30 a.m. at the Chevron mine near Questa, NM. Chevron officials said this is the first death at the Northern New Mexico mine in over 30 ...
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BCSO deputy OK after late night accident
Posted at: 05/17/2013 6:02 PM | Updated at: 05/17/2013 6:38 PM By: Briana Morfin KOB.com A Bernalillo County Sheriff's deputy is recovering after being involved in a crash last night. The accident happened around 11 p.m. Thursday night at Academy and Layton. BCSO Sgt. Aaron Williamson said a woman turned in front of the deputy while he was going through an intersection. Both ...
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Manzano High graduate earns highest GPA in APS history
Manzano High School's valedictorian Katherine Cordwell earned a 5.0 grade point average, the highest GPA in Albuquerque Public School history. Cordwell will graduate with 36 high school credits and 19 college credits, tomorrow from Manzano High. She only needed 25 credits to graduate, but she earned 19 dual-enrollment credits from the University of New Mexico. She took 20 honors and ...
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Santa Fe marijuana dispensary robbed at gunpoint
Lt. William Pacheco with the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office says three men armed with handguns entered the New Mexico Top Organics dispensary around 10:45 a.m. and tied up the two employees who were working at the ...
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Kids release school-raised trout
PECOS, N.M. (KRQE) - Some New Mexico kids are getting a hands-on approach to wildlife conservation. Seventh graders from El Dorado Community School in Eldorado have been taking part in the Trout in the Classrooms program run by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish. The kids released tiny rainbow trout into the Pecos River this week at the Bert Clancy Campround about 13 miles upstream from ...
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APD warns partygoers to watch their drinks following assualt reports
Albuquerque police have recently received reports of possible drug induced sexual assaults and it wants to warn people to stay vigilant when out on the town. Many of those reports have come from the downtown bar scene, APD spokesperson Tasia Martinez said. Martinez reminded the public to be aware of their surroundings, watch their drinks and never accept drinks from strangers. Police ...
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New Mexico's ancient feud between Billy the Kid and Pat Garret continues
Billy the Kid is one of the most notorious gangsters of all time and a legend for those who lament the abuse of authority and corruption that was prevalent in the frontier lands of American during the time, while others dismiss him as nothing more than a glorified gangster. Governor Richardson’s consideration of a pardon then, is highly contentious.
With Governor Richardson giving serious consideration to pardoning Billy the Kid, arguably the most notorious of all outlaws, we thought it would be helpful to provide some context to the story of Billy the Kid, who even now continues to capture New Mexico news headlines. Read more
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