Albuquerque news

• Albuquerque Police release ATM picture in Army Veteran’s homicide

  11-02-2016 23:57 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – The Albuquerque Police Department has released a new picture connected to the homicide of Army Veteran Tyler Lackey.
  Lackey, 24, was shot to death on February 5th at the Wells Fargo ATM near Yale and Gibson. APD says they now believe it was a robbery attempt.Since then APD says it has been looking to talk to two people. The first, a woman seen on surveillance video. Investigators also released a picture of the car she was believed to be in. The second person is de
  
  Read more

• Former NM doctor pleads guilty to fraud, unlawful dispensing of drugs

  11-02-2016 23:55
  
  A 63-year-old former New Mexico doctor pleaded guilty Thursday to unlawfully dispensing controlled s ...
  
  Read more

• New Mexico high school receives special award from NFL

  11-02-2016 23:51 via krqe.com
  
  CLOVIS, N.M. (KRQE) — Something pretty special is now sitting in the halls of Clovis High School.
  The NFL sent a golden football to the school last week that bears the name of Clovis High School graduate Hank Baskett, and the words “Part of Super Bowl History.”
  Baskett played with the Indianapolis Colts when they went to the Super Bowl in 2010.
  Before that he played for the Eagles, then the Vikings.
  He’s only one of two NFL players to come from Clovis High School.
  
  Read more

• State to hold training sessions on investment fraud

  11-02-2016 23:49
  
  A series of training programs to teach certified public accountants about investment fraud and financial exploitation will kick off this month in Las Cruces. The state Securities Division is holding the programs so CPAs will be better able to “recognize signs of vulnerability to financial exploitation and make appropriate referrals for (those) deemed vulnerable or […]
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• New Mexico volunteers knit welcoming gifts for newborns

  11-02-2016 23:43 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Newborn babies are receiving a welcoming gift right out of the womb.
  American Heart Association volunteers in New Mexico knitted bright, red hats for the newborns.
  From today to Valentine’s Day, Presbyterian workers will crown newborn babies with these caps.
  They want to use this opportunity to raise awareness about congenial heart defects, which are the number one killer of Americans.
  “It’s really important for us to reach families and something like
  
  Read more

• Archdiocese of Santa Fe giving away Papal Mass tickets

  11-02-2016 23:17 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE (KRQE) – The Archdiocese of Santa Fe is giving away tickets for the Papal Mass that will be celebrated by Pope Francis next week.
  They say they unexpectedly received a batch of tickets for the event happening Wednesday, Feb. 17th in Juarez, Mexico.
  Archbishop John Wester says he wants to get the tickets to as many people as possible who plan to attend.
  Tickets will be distributed on a first come, first serve basis, Saturday, Feb. 13th from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Tickets will be given a
  
  Read more

• Updated: Papal Mass ticket giveaway on Sat in ABQ

  11-02-2016 23:15
  
  The Archdiocese of Santa Fe unexpectedly received a batch of about 500 tickets for the Papal Mass to ...
  
  Read more

• ABQ apartment owners offer concessions to spur winter rentals

  11-02-2016 23:10
  
  Along with a modest year-over-year hike in the average monthly rent at metro area apartment complexes, some owners are introducing rent concessions and beefing up marketing efforts to encourage walk-ins in the traditionally slower winter rental season. That’s the pattern seen by commercial real estate services firm CBRE in its latest apartment survey, which reports […]
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Fargo police say officer shot during standoff won’t survive

  11-02-2016 22:52 via krqe.com
  
  FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota police officer was near death Thursday after being hit by a gunshot while responding to a domestic disturbance, triggering an overnight standoff with the suspected shooter who was later found dead in his home.
  Officer Jason Moszer, a six-year police veteran with a wife and two children, wasn’t expected to survive his injuries. Family members visited him in a hospital early Thursday to say goodbye, Fargo Police Chief David Todd said.
  “We’r
  
  Read more

• Congress votes to permanently ban local internet taxes

  11-02-2016 22:51 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – Many Americans will soon no longer pay local or state taxes to access the internet.
  Congress voted 75-20 in favor of permanently banning taxes on internet access, and now only needs President Obama’s signature to become law.
  “Allowing taxes on internet access would be a very regressive policy,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) said. “It would especially hurt working class families.”
  Wyden authored the original bill banning taxes on internet a
  
  Read more

• New Mexico Senate Dem says REAL ID bill negotiations ongoing

  11-02-2016 22:46 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE (AP) – A key Senate Democrat says he is negotiating with a Republican colleague to resolve a conflict on a bill that would make New Mexico compliant with tougher federal identification requirements.
  Sen. John Arthur Smith said Thursday senators still have not solved a dispute on whether to require immigrants in the country illegally should submit fingerprints before getting a “driver’s authorization card.”
  A compromise proposal moving through New Mexico Senate wo
  
  Read more

• Judge to decide fate of Albuquerque teen who killed family

  11-02-2016 22:43 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A judge is expected to make a decision Thursday about teen who killed his parents and siblings should be sentenced as an adult or get treatment and stay in juvenile jail.
  Nehemiah Griego pled guilty to killing his family last year. In January of 2013 Nehemiah shot and killed his mother, two younger sisters and younger brother in their sleep and then ambushed his father Greg when he came home that night.
  Nehemiah allegedly did it because he was frustrated with
  
  Read more

• Judge: Albuquerque teen who murdered his family can be treated; could be released at 21

  11-02-2016 22:43 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A judge decided Nehemiah Griego, who murdered his family when he was just 15 years old, can be treated and could be released from juvenile jail at age 21.
  Griego, now 18, shot and killed his mother and three younger siblings in the middle of the night at their South Valley home in 2013. He then ambushed his father when he came home.
  During closing arguments, prosecutors called Griego a cold-blooded killer who hunted down his family one by one. They said he planned
  
  Read more

• Education-related groups lead lobbying efforts in New Mexico

  11-02-2016 22:40 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – A new report shows retirees and teachers unions are among those who have had the widest lobbying presence at the New Mexico capitol in recent years.
  The Center for Public Integrity analyzed lobbying registration data from 2010 through 2014.
  In New Mexico, the list includes the New Mexico Association of Educational Retirees, AARP, the New Mexico chapter of the National Education Association, the League of Women Voters of New Mexico and the Realtors Association of New Mexi
  
  Read more

• Santa Teresa to be relieved of used car exports to Mexico

  11-02-2016 22:35
  
  Passenger vehicle exports to Mexico will begin shifting Feb. 29 from the Santa Teresa port of entry in New Mexico to the newly inaugurated Tornillo port of entry east of El Paso.
  
  Read more

• Udall, Heinrich seek deportation raid halt, break with Obama

  11-02-2016 22:33 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – New Mexico’s two U.S. Democratic senators want President Barack Obama to halt deportation raids targeting Central American women and children.
  Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich wrote Obama on Wednesday they were concerned how the administration was focusing on such families instead of using resources to deport criminals.
  The senators urged Obama to temporarily suspend immigration removal actions against children and families from El Salvador, Guatemala and Hondur
  
  Read more

• If Ferguson dissolves police department, who would step in?

  11-02-2016 22:19
  
  FERGUSON, Mo. — As Ferguson prepares to do legal battle with the Justice Department, city leaders acknowledge the possibility that they might someday disband the police department and cede law enforcement to another agency. The question is: Would anyone else want it? A settlement agreement between the federal government and Ferguson fell apart Tuesday when […]
  
  Read more

• The Latest: George W. Bush to campaign in SC with Jeb

  11-02-2016 22:03
  
  PAWLEYS ISLAND, S.C. — The Latest from the 2016 campaign trail (all times local): 3:46 p.m. The brothers Bush are officially hitting the trail together. Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign announced Thursday that former President George W. Bush would campaign in North Charleston on Monday with his brother. A radio ad featuring the 43rd president has […]
  
  Read more

• Open-source textbooks gain in push for college affordability

  11-02-2016 21:53
  
  STORRS, Conn. — The standard textbook for Fundamentals of General Chemistry I at the University of Connecticut has a list price of $303. For students who use the version professor Edward Neth is preparing for the fall semester, the cost will be zero. An early adopter of open source textbooks, Neth said he turned to […]
  
  Read more

• Colorado gun shop owner charged with illegally selling guns

  11-02-2016 21:43
  
  DENVER — A Colorado gun shop owner who appeared on the reality show “American Guns” is accused of illegally selling firearms after losing his license. U.S. Attorney John Walsh announced Thursday that 52-year-old Richard Wyatt was indicted by a grand jury on conspiracy and tax charges and dealing guns without a license Tuesday. According to […]
  
  Read more

• NATO orders warships into Aegean to help ease migrant crisis

  11-02-2016 21:42
  
  BRUSSELS — In a dramatic response to Europe’s gravest refugee crisis since World War II, NATO ordered three warships to sail immediately Thursday to the Aegean Sea to help end the deadly smuggling of asylum-seekers across the waters from Turkey to Greece. “This is about helping Greece, Turkey and the European Union with stemming the […]
  
  Read more

• Silver Alert issued for missing Las Cruces man

  11-02-2016 20:19 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES (KRQE) – Police have issued a Silver Alert for a missing Las Cruces man.
  According to Las Cruces Police, 78-year-old Ismael Ortiz-Melendez was last seen February 9, 2016 in Las Cruces.
  Ortiz-Melendez is 5’8″ and weighs 130 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes.
  If you have any information call Las Cruces Police at (575)526-0795.
  Tagged: Missing and Endangered Persons
  
  Read more

• House report details EPA missteps in Colorado mine spill

  11-02-2016 20:11 via krqe.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — A probe of a mine waste accident in Colorado that fouled rivers in three states with arsenic, lead and other toxic substances has found further evidence that government workers knew a spill from the gold mine was possible, according to documents released Thursday by a U.S. House committee.
  Hays Griswold, a U.S. Environmental Protection agency official in charge of the Gold King mine at the time of the August accident, said in an email that he “personally knew” the
  
  Read more

• Sheriff: 67-year-old man killed 2 deputies

  11-02-2016 20:01 via krqe.com
  
  ABINGDON, Md. (AP) — The son of a gunman who fatally shot two Maryland sheriff’s deputies before he was killed in a shootout says his father was a heavy drinker with emotional problems, but never spoke poorly of police.
  Jeremy Evans told WBAL-TV he believes his father, David Brian Evans, 68, thought he’d spend the rest of his life behind bars and decided to get away.
  David Evans, who had warrants for his arrest, fatally shot a deputy in a restaurant Wednesday and killed another
  
  Read more

• What you need to know about Zika Virus

  11-02-2016 19:58 via krqe.com
  
  What is the Zika Virus?
  Zika virus is spread to people through mosquito bites. The most common symptoms of Zika virus disease are fever, rash, joint pain, and conjunctivitis. The illness is usually mild with symptoms lasting from several days to a week. Severe disease requiring hospitalization is uncommon. (Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  What are the symptoms of Zika?
  Only about 1 in 5 people infected with Zika Virus become ill. According to the CDC, people with Zika do not
  
  Read more

• Construction to start on a busy Albuquerque road

  11-02-2016 19:49 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A very busy road in the heart of Albuquerque is getting a major makeover that’s sure to make a lot of drivers happy.
  Come rush hour the area near I-25 and Osuna turns into a big traffic jam. Now, the city has a plan to try and fix it.
  Starting Monday, drivers can expect to see a lot of orange — orange barrels that is. The city plans to start construction improvements along Osuna stretching from Chappell Road near the Vista del Norte neighborhood all the way
  
  Read more

• Albuquerque drivers prepare for construction woes

  11-02-2016 19:49 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Albuquerque drivers can expect to see a lot of orange barrels around town as construction projects begin.
  Proposed road projects April-JuneThe City of Albuquerque announced on Thursday, crews will be overhauling Osuna Road from Chappell Road to I-25 starting on Monday.
  “We are going to be adding one lane in travel in each direction, along with bike lanes and we will also be upgrading sidewalks and ADA ramps,” said Albuquerque Director of Municipal
  
  Read more

• Police: Thief stole New Mexico woman’s purse, bought fried chicken

  11-02-2016 19:45 via krqe.com
  
  TAOS, N.M. (KRQE) – A man Taos police know well is wanted again. This time, they say he used stolen credit cards to buy fried chicken.
  According to the Taos News, police are looking for 35-year-old Ryan Griffin.
  They say he broke into a woman’s car and stole her purse. He then used the cards at Walgreens and KFC.
  Police have arrested Griffin before in a similar string of break-ins.
  If you know where he is, call police.
  
  Read more

• Missing, endangered teen alert issued for Farmington girl

  11-02-2016 19:30 via krqe.com
  
  FARMINGTON, N.M. (KRQE) – Farmington police have just issued a missing endangered teen alert for 14-year-old Cali Victoria Allbright.
  Allbright is about 5-feet-2-inches and weighs 100 pounds. She has brown eyes and brown hair with red streaks.
  She is also has a tattoo of a rose on her left shoulder, and a tattoo of a heart on her left wrist. Her belly button and lip are also pierced.
  Police say Allbright usually wears a gold necklace that says “boss.” She was last see
  
  Read more

• 8 month Osuna widening project begins Monday

  11-02-2016 19:22
  
  City workers on Monday will start an eight-month, $3.1 million project to widen Osuna NE to three lanes in each direction from Interstate 25 west to Chappel Drive NE, Albuquerque officials said. The work will require restricting traffic to a single lane in each direction along portions of the roadway, beginning Monday at the west […]
  
  Read more

• Texas company buys ABQ apartments

  11-02-2016 19:15
  
  A 200-unit Northeast Heights apartment complex has been sold to a Texas investment group. It was the new owner’s second apartment building acquisition in Albuquerque. The Presidio, which is located at 6350 Eubank Blvd., was acquired by Fort Worth-based Olympus Property, according to brokers who closed the deal on behalf of the buyer and seller, […]
  
  Read more

• Senators: Let female WWII pilots into Arlington Cemetery

  11-02-2016 19:10
  
  WASHINGTON — Two dozen U.S. senators want the Army to reverse a policy change barring female World War II pilots from having their ashes placed at Arlington National Cemetery. The pilots are known as Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs. They flew military aircraft in noncombat roles to free up male pilots for combat. They […]
  
  Read more

• Judge to decide if teen will be sentenced as child or adult for killing family

  11-02-2016 19:10
  
  One final witness will testify Thursday in a hearing to determine if an Albuquerque teenager will be sentenced as a child or adult for killing his family.
  
  Read more

• Troopers cracking down on drug-related driving offenses

  11-02-2016 19:09
  
  DENVER — The Colorado State Patrol says the number of citations related to marijuana dropped by more than 1 percent last year as compared with the year before because of increased training and enforcement. Troopers issued more than 4,500 citations for driving under the influence or driving under the influence of drugs in 2015, including […]
  
  Read more

• Updated: FBT Architects to design UNM’s business school

  11-02-2016 18:46
  
  FBT Architects, in partnership with an Oregon firm,  has been chosen to design a new home for the Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico. The 65,000-square foot structure, to be called the McKinnon Center for Management, will be the “front door of the business school,” and will replace an aging 1960s-era […]
  
  Read more

• Grand jury probes police chief’s role in Taser deal

  11-02-2016 18:40 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – A grand jury is looking into a former Albuquerque Police Department chief’s role in the $2 million contract the city awarded to Taser International to outfit officers with body cameras.
  The Albuquerque Journal reports that subpoenas have been served on city officials requesting former Chief Ray Schultz’s emails, payroll stubs and memos as well as other records. The grand jury is part of an investigation by the office of the Attorney General in the wake o
  
  Read more

• Mexico among most dangerous countries for priests

  11-02-2016 18:35
  
  When Pope Francis arrives in Mexico tomorrow for a six-day tour, he’ll be traveling the most dangerous country in Latin America for Catholic clergy. The Catholic Multimedia Center’s 2015 annual report tallies some 30 priests who have been assassinated in Mexico in the past decade — many of them apparent targets of organized crime. Just […]
  
  Read more

• Heroin ‘epidemic’ at center of brewing Senate budget battle

  11-02-2016 18:33 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – Millions of Americans are addicted to prescription pills, and switching over to heroin at alarming rates. By midnight, 78 more people will die of overdoses.
  Now senators are pushing the Obama administration for solid plans to get a handle on the devastating growth of death and addiction.
  Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked pointedly, “What is Health and Human Services’ plan to make sure opioids are prescribed more appropriately?”
  Other legislators w
  
  Read more

• Jury selection starts in Colorado fetus cutting case

  11-02-2016 18:24
  
  BOULDER, Colo. — Jury selection is under way in the trial of a woman accused of cutting another woman’s unborn baby from her womb. About 300 potential jurors were summoned to the Boulder County courthouse Thursday to fill out written questionnaires in the case of 35-year-old Dynel Lane. Lane is accused of luring expectant mother […]
  
  Read more

• NMSU settles class action lawsuit over family leave

  11-02-2016 18:20
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. — New Mexico State University has agreed to pay more than $700,000 to settle a lawsuit accusing the university of denying or discouraging faculty members from taking time off for family leave. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports (http://bit.ly/1QaFGc0 ) that about 50 current or former nine-month faculty members who had a newborn, […]
  
  Read more

• Diocese of Gallup to get Ciudad Juarez Papal Mass tickets

  11-02-2016 18:20 via krqe.com
  
  GALLUP, N.M. (AP) – The Diocese of Gallup says it also will be getting tickets to a Papal Mass in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
  Diocese spokeswoman Suzanne Hammons said Wednesday the diocese will get 200 tickets for an open-air Mass scheduled for Wednesday.
  Ciudad Juarez, on Mexico’s northern border across from El Paso, Texas, is the last stop in the pope’s schedule 5-day visit to Mexico next week.
  Pope Francis is slated to finish his Ciudad Juarez trip with the open-air Mass in a lar
  
  Read more

• Survey: Solar workforce grows in New Mexico

  11-02-2016 18:16 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE (AP) – State energy officials say the solar industry’s workforce is growing in New Mexico.
  The state Energy Conservation and Management Division teamed up with the nonprofit Solar Foundation to develop the solar jobs census for 2015. They found 299 jobs were added to the solar workforce last year.
  As of November, a total of 1,899 workers were employed by the industry and solar companies said they expected to hire another 234 workers this year.
  State Energy Secretary Dave Mar
  
  Read more

• 52 dead in riot at northern Mexico prison

  11-02-2016 18:14
  
  MONTERREY, Mexico — A brutal fight between rival factions killed 52 inmates and injured 12 at a prison in northern Mexico on Thursday, the state governor said. Nuevo Leon Gov. Jaime Rodriguez said there were no reported escapes and the battle, which sent flames billowing into the pre-dawn sky, didn’t involve guns. Mexico’s deadliest prison […]
  
  Read more

• Magazine publisher Time Inc. buys what’s left of MySpace

  11-02-2016 17:58
  
  NEW YORK — MySpace still exists? It does, and the company that owns the once-ubiquitous social network is being bought by Time Inc. to help the magazine publisher target ads. Parent company, Viant, says it can give marketers access to more than 1.2 billion users. MySpace peaked in 2008 with some 76 million U.S. visitors […]
  
  Read more

• APNewsBreak: Report says EPA knew mine spill was possible

  11-02-2016 17:58
  
  DENVER — A U.S. House probe of a mine waste accident in Colorado that fouled rivers in three Western states has found further evidence that government workers knew a spill from the gold mine was possible. A U.S. Environmental Protection agency official in charge of the site at the time of the August accident said […]
  
  Read more

• New Mexico prison guards caution against tougher sentences

  11-02-2016 17:56 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE (AP) – New Mexico corrections officers and their union leaders are concerned that a slate of legislative proposals for tougher criminal sentencing could aggravate safety problems at understaffed state prisons.
  Connie Derr speaks for a public employees’ union overseeing about 9,000 state corrections workers. She said Wednesday that more funding will be needed to recruit and pay for corrections officers if the Legislature approves tougher sentencing provisions backed by Republ
  
  Read more

• Breakthrough: Scientists detect Einstein-predicted ripples

  11-02-2016 17:50 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In an announcement that electrified the world of astronomy, scientists said Thursday that they have finally detected gravitational waves, the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted a century ago.
  Some scientists likened the breakthrough to the moment Galileo took up a telescope to look at the planets.
  The discovery of these waves, created by violent collisions in the universe, excites astronomers because it opens the door to a new way of observing the
  
  Read more

• Sanders, 2 Clintons visiting Colorado ahead of Super Tuesday

  11-02-2016 17:37
  
  DENVER — Democratic candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton and Clinton’s daughter are due in Colorado with less than a month to go before the state and a dozen others weigh in on the primaries on Super Tuesday. The Colorado Democratic party says Hillary Clinton and Sanders will be at its annual dinner on Saturday. […]
  
  Read more

• 80-year-old drug dealer to be sentenced for pot operation

  11-02-2016 17:37
  
  BOSTON — An 80-year-old man who admitted running a sprawling multistate marijuana-dealing operation faces sentencing in federal court in Massachusetts. Marshall Dion faces up to seven years in prison under a plea agreement with prosecutors who say he has been selling marijuana for decades. In 1985, Dion crashed a single-engine plane in Kenosha County, Wisconsin, […]
  
  Read more

• Water stations along Mexico border vandalized, shot

  11-02-2016 17:36
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. — Volunteers who provide humanitarian aid to people attempting to illegally cross the border between Mexico and southern Arizona are increasing checks after finding water stations vandalized. The Arizona Daily Star reports (http://bit.ly/1TUUlrr ) that volunteers for Humane Borders found six of their water stations vandalized during a check on Tuesday, including one […]
  
  Read more

Follow @Albuquerque_Nws on Twitter!