New Mexico news

• Woman pleads guilty in heroin trafficking case in ABQ

  25-01-2016 23:56
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Arizona woman has pleaded guilty to heroin trafficking in New Mexico. Prosecutors say 25-year-old Vanessa Guadalupe Munoz-Mungaray of Tucson entered her plea Monday in a federal court in Albuquerque. Munoz-Mungaray was arrested after federal drug agents seized more than seven pounds of heroin from her luggage at an Albuquerque bus station […]
  
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• Updated: Santa Fe considering “off-season” arts festival

  25-01-2016 23:45
  
  Mayor Javier Gonzales wants to start a multi-day festival of the performing arts that would be held after Albuquerque's balloon fiesta
  
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• Lawyers challenge Texas law on harboring immigrants

  25-01-2016 23:24
  
  SAN ANTONIO — Immigrant rights attorneys are challenging part of a Texas security law that they say could allow state authorities to target shelters and landlords for harboring immigrants who are in the country illegally. The Mexican American Legal Defense And Education Fund filed a federal lawsuit Monday in San Antonio, asking a judge to […]
  
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• Pared-back bail reform measure OK’d on 4-3 vote

  25-01-2016 23:21
  
  A pared-back proposal to revamp New Mexico’s bail system by allowing judges to deny bail to dangerous defendants passed its first legislative hurdle today on a 4-3 vote. But all three Democratic members of the House Regulatory and Public Affairs Committee voted against the measure, pointing out it does not include a separate provision dealing […]
  
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• Who’s Obama for? Clinton has reason to smile

  25-01-2016 23:20
  
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama hasn’t endorsed a Democratic successor, but he’s now revealed some personal pros and cons in the fight between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Clinton has reason to smile. In an interview published Monday, Obama casts his former secretary of state as a “wicked smart,” progressive pragmatist and Sanders as a […]
  
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• Mergers continue in 2016, Johnson controls and Tyco tie up

  25-01-2016 23:13
  
  NEW YORK — Johnson Controls and Tyco will join in a $3.9 billion deal as the unprecedented pace of buyouts and mergers from last year rolls over into 2016. Shareholders of Johnson Controls Inc., based in Milwaukee, will own about 56 percent of the new company, which would have a combined value of about $36 […]
  
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• Updated: Grand jury indicts leader behind Planned Parenthood videos

  25-01-2016 23:12
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas grand jury investigating Planned Parenthood has indicted two anti-abortion activists who covertly shot videos of the organization. Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson announced Monday that Center for Medical Progress founder David Daleiden was indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record and a misdemeanor count related […]
  
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• Updated: Sprint job cuts reach 2,500, mostly in customer care centers

  25-01-2016 23:11
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The closure of Sprint Corp.’s Rio Rancho center, resulting in the loss of 400 jobs, is part of a larger company move that has claimed at least 2,500 jobs and struck six customer care centers nationwide. The job cuts are coming mostly in customer care but also include 574 other positions […]
  
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• Immigrants rights protesters rally against losing licenses

  25-01-2016 23:04
  
  Immigrants rights advocates flooded the state Capitol today demanding to keep their driver’s licenses. Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the Capitol against a Republican-backed bill that would end the issuance of driver’s licenses to immigrants who are here illegally, and replace those licenses with driving privilege cards. That bill is moving through the state House. […]
  
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• Ex-prosecutor to spearhead investigation into Flint water

  25-01-2016 23:01
  
  LANSING, Mich. — A former prosecutor and a retired head of the Detroit FBI will play key roles in an investigation into Flint’s lead-tainted water as part of the effort to seek answers while also preventing conflicts of interest, Michigan’s attorney general announced Monday. Republican Bill Schuette said Todd Flood, a former assistant prosecutor for […]
  
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• Judge declines to end Detroit teacher sick-outs

  25-01-2016 22:58
  
  DETROIT — A judge denied a second attempt by the Detroit Public Schools on Monday to obtain a temporary restraining order against teacher sick-outs that have closed dozens of buildings this month and kept thousands of students home. State Court of Claims Judge Cynthia Stephens said the district didn’t present enough evidence to prove the […]
  
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• Justices extend bar on automatic life terms for teenagers

  25-01-2016 22:57
  
  WASHINGTON — More than 1,000 prison inmates, some behind bars more than 50 years for murders they committed as teenagers, will get a chance to seek their freedom under a Supreme Court decision announced Monday. The justices voted 6-3 to extend an earlier ruling from 2012 that struck down automatic life terms with no chance […]
  
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• Bernie Sanders gets his own ice cream flavor

  25-01-2016 22:43
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa — Here are the latest developments from the 2016 race for president, one week out from the Iowa caucuses. All times local. 3:35 p.m. Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream fame is backing Bernie Sanders’ bid for the Democratic presidential nomination with a personal flavor called “Bernie’s Yearning.” The website […]
  
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• Texas ‘weather nerd’ came to NYC to see storm firsthand

  25-01-2016 22:05
  
  NEW YORK — Steve Yarborough calls himself a “weather nerd.” The aviation data specialist from Houston says when he and his wife Kathleen saw the weekend storm building up, they booked a flight to New York City to see it firsthand. He says the closest he gets to snow in his part of Texas is […]
  
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• Rubio’s Iowa crisscross approach bends caucus campaign norm

  25-01-2016 22:05
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa — Marco Rubio has recently been all over the map in Iowa. Quite literally. Having spent little time in the state’s rural Christian conservative northwest, the Republican presidential candidate dropped in to Sioux County for the first time last week, then bounced across the state two days later to speak with some […]
  
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• The Latest: Panel to study diversity at The Citadel

  25-01-2016 21:59
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Latest on The Citadel disciplining 14 cadets after photographs surfaced on social media of seven freshmen with pillowcases similar to KKK garb on their heads (all times local): 3:15 p.m. Citadel president retired Gen. John Rosa says he is setting up a task force to study and make recommendations about the […]
  
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• Justices won’t let North Dakota enforce tough abortion law

  25-01-2016 21:58
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. — The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to review lower court rulings overturning North Dakota’s ban on abortion at six weeks of pregnancy — before many women know they’re pregnant. The justices turned away the state’s appeal of decisions striking down the 2013 fetal heartbeat law as unconstitutional. The law never took […]
  
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• AP INVESTIGATION: Feds’ failures imperil migrant children

  25-01-2016 21:58
  
  LOS ANGELES — As tens of thousands of children fleeing violence in Central America crossed the border in search of safe harbor, overwhelmed U.S. officials weakened child protection policies, placing some young migrants in homes where they were sexually assaulted, starved or forced to work for little or no pay, an Associated Press investigation has […]
  
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• Updated: Expert: Escaped California inmates must have had inside help

  25-01-2016 21:57
  
  SANTA ANA, Calif. — Three California inmates who sawed through a metal grate, crawled through plumbing tunnels and shimmied to freedom down a rope made from bed linens likely had help to pull off the daring plan and also benefited from the complacency of jail staff, security experts said Monday. The inmates vanished early Friday […]
  
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• Texas health officials wary of rise in unvaccinated students

  25-01-2016 21:57
  
  DALLAS — Tucked into a hillside not far from a popular nature preserve, the private Austin Waldorf School touts its individualized learning and emphasis on moral purpose. But the school with an enrollment of nearly 400 is different in another way: Nearly half its students forgo vaccinations, one of the highest rates in Texas. Four […]
  
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• Solar industry urges extension of New Mexico tax credit

  25-01-2016 20:12
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — Time may be running out for an extension of New Mexico’s rooftop solar tax credit as legislators weigh whether to forgo $5 million in annual state revenues to encourage more generation of solar energy by households, farms and small businesses. The tax credit offsets up to 10 percent of costs for […]
  
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• About 700 immigrant children now staying at Holloman base

  25-01-2016 19:43
  
  AQLAMOGORDO, N.M. — About 700 immigrant children from Central America are now staying at Holloman Air Force Base. KOAT-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1OKf3XB ) that the children arrived in Alamogordo on Sunday. U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter directed Holloman Air Force Base to be the first of three temporary shelters to open in New Mexico, Colorado and […]
  
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• Updated: Rousey congratulates Holly

  25-01-2016 19:40
  
  Former UFC champ Ronda Rousey, for the first time publicly, congratulated new champion Holly Holm.
  
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• Former NFL star Vince Young arrested for drunken driving

  25-01-2016 19:35
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Police say former NFL quarterback Vince Young has been arrested on charges of drunken driving in Austin, Texas. Travis County jail records show that the 32-young former Texas star was booked shortly after midnight Monday on a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated. His bond was set at $2,000. Austin police spokesman […]
  
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• Program gets underway to examine Texas earthquake increase

  25-01-2016 19:34
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — A program to study the recent increase in earthquakes in Texas is getting underway with management hirings and deployment of new seismographic equipment. The TexNet Seismic Monitoring Program is being overseen by the University of Texas and bankrolled with $4.5 million approved last year by the Texas Legislature. The Austin American-Statesman (http://atxne.ws/1Qo8nil […]
  
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• Trump’s wife remains private despite prospect of presidency

  25-01-2016 19:33
  
  WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump. If that prospect evokes no clear image, that’s no accident. Donald Trump’s wife has said little in the campaign about the type of first lady she’d like to be should her husband win the Republican nomination and the presidency. The distance, she’s said, is intentional so she can focus […]
  
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• Suspect in fatal shooting of East Texas police dog captured

  25-01-2016 19:33
  
  GARLAND, Texas — An East Texas man suspected of fatally shooting a police dog following a traffic stop has been captured in the Dallas area. Michael Paul Koch (KAHCH) of Grand Saline (gran suh-LEEN’) was caught Saturday morning in Garland. The Smith County Sheriff’s Office announced Koch’s arrest on warrants for evading arrest and interference […]
  
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• Officer indicted for using Taser on city official in Texas

  25-01-2016 19:33
  
  HOUSTON — Authorities say a grand jury has indicted a police officer after he used a stun gun on a City Council member in a small, predominantly black Texas college town. E. Rivera, chief investigator for the Waller County District Attorney’s Office, said Monday that Prairie View officer Michael Kelly was indicted for official oppression, […]
  
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• Suit challenges increase in visiting aircraft’s use of base

  25-01-2016 19:32
  
  A lawsuit contends Davis-Monthan Air Force failed to comply with environmental-protection requirements to gauge noise and other impacts when approving a plan to have more military aircraft visit the Tucson installation to conduct training flights. The Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest filed the lawsuit Friday in federal court on behalf of several […]
  
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• British explorer Henry Worsley dies on solo Antarctic trek

  25-01-2016 19:32
  
  LONDON — A British adventurer attempting to become the first person to cross the Antarctic alone and unsupported has died after collapsing from exhaustion within miles of his goal. Former army officer Henry Worsley was just 30 miles (48 kilometers) from the end of the almost 1,000-mile (1,600-kilometer) trek when he called for help and […]
  
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• Apple’s iPhone success may be reaching its peak

  25-01-2016 19:31
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — Apple could soon face one of its biggest challenges to date: Peak iPhone. Most analysts believe Apple surpassed its own record by selling more than 74.5 million units of its flagship product in the final three months of 2015. But there are signs that iPhone sales in the first three months of […]
  
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• Music will fill Meow Wolf opening weekend — ya just have to wait a couple months

  25-01-2016 18:59
  
    It looks like music is going to be a big component of the March 18-20 opening of the Meow Wolf Arts Complex, with quite a variety of styles. March 18 will feature Amanda Palmer, once part of the Dresden Dolls and with influences that, according to Wikipedia, include such luminaries as Gunter Grass, Twin […]
  
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• REDW promotes three in ABQ, Phoenix

  25-01-2016 18:35
  
  REDW LLC has promoted three of its team members to principal:  Anthony Gerlach in REDW’s Phoenix office; Mustafa Kamal in the firm’s Albuquerque office; and Paul Madrid at REDW Stanley Financial Advisors LLC, a subsidiary of REDW LLC, also based in Albuquerque. “This promotion recognizes not only their achievements but also their deep commitment to […]
  
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• A month after raising rates, Fed faces darker global economy

  25-01-2016 18:02
  
  WASHINGTON — Since the Federal Reserve raised interest rates from record lows last month, the global picture has darkened. Stock markets have plunged. Oil prices have skidded. China’s leaders have struggled to steer the world’s second-biggest economy. All of which raised a delicate question: Did the Fed err in raising rates for the first time […]
  
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• Bomb in San Bernardino attack was poorly built

  25-01-2016 17:19
  
  WASHINGTON — Two law enforcement officials say a bomb left behind by the couple responsible for the December attack in San Bernardino, California, failed because it was poorly constructed. One official says 28-year-old Syed Rizwan Farook and 29-year-old Tashfeen Malik (tahsh-FEEN’ mah-LEEK’) drove around San Bernardino after the shootings at the social services center. They […]
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Gutted? Disaster? GOP hyperbole on military

  25-01-2016 17:19
  
  WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush says the Obama administration has “gutted” every weapons system in the U.S. military’s inventory. GOP rival Donald Trump says the military is a “disaster.” Florida Sen. Marco Rubio maintains that President Barack Obama is more interested in providing money to Planned Parenthood than for the nation’s armed forces. […]
  
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• Former Texas Gov. Perry endorses Ted Cruz’s White House bid

  25-01-2016 17:18
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Former Gov. Rick Perry, who twice ran unsuccessfully for president, is endorsing fellow Texan Ted Cruz’s White House bid. Perry was the longest-serving governor in Texas history. He left office last January under felony indictment for abuse of power related to threatening a veto of state funding for public corruption prosecutors. Perry’s […]
  
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• Lawmakers consider changes to who manages weigh stations

  25-01-2016 17:16
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — The New Mexico Department of Transportation has asked lawmakers to change how weigh stations are managed in hopes of capturing the $56 million a year that analysts say the state is losing to truckers who don’t pay fees. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports (http://bit.ly/1JxJsJL ) that members of the House […]
  
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• New Mexico governor gets ‘anti-immigrant’ label over REAL ID

  25-01-2016 17:15
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — The nation’s only Latina governor continues to face accusations by advocates of pushing an “anti-immigrant” agenda over her push to revise New Mexico’s immigrant driver’s license law. Those charges come even though New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has been one of the few elected Republicans to denounce GOP presidential hopeful Donald […]
  
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• Bill to address rape kit backlog goes before lawmakers

  25-01-2016 17:14
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — Legislation aimed at addressing a backlog of rape test kits in the state would appropriate $1.2 million to hire more forensic scientists to process DNA evidence from sexual assault cases in the next fiscal year. The bill introduced by Rep. Sarah Maestas Barnes, an Albuquerque Republican, is scheduled to go before […]
  
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• Geoff Grammer’s AP Top 25 men’s basketball ballot for Jan. 25

  25-01-2016 08:46
  
  Each Monday, Journal hoops writer Geoff Grammer publishes his Associated Press Top 25 ballot online.
  
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• Women increasingly make their home on the range

  25-01-2016 08:05
  
  Today nearly 1 million women account for 30% of farmers in the U.S.
  
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• Too-dark tinted window cases rarely get to a judge

  25-01-2016 08:05
  
  MORE ON THE TOO-DARK TINT:...
  
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• Investigation: Migrant kids abused, forced to work

  25-01-2016 08:05
  
  LOS ANGELES–As tens of thousands of children fleeing violence in Central America crossed t ...
  
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• 2 NM forest projects win federal grants

  25-01-2016 08:05
  
  Two New Mexico State Forestry Division projects have been awarded $599,000 by a U.S. Forest Service...
  
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• Video depicts terrorists before their attack on Paris

  25-01-2016 08:02
  
  PARIS–New video released by the Islamic State group on Sunday shows the extremists who car ...
  
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• ‘The Revenant’ braves blizzard with $16 million at box office

  25-01-2016 08:02
  
  NEW YORK–The snowy frontier saga "The Revenant" fared best out of the movies that tried to ...
  
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• Shooting reveals court system problems

  25-01-2016 08:02
  
  AUSTIN–The shooting of a Texas judge in the driveway of her Austin home has exposed incons ...
  
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• Real-life drama playing out over radio pioneer’s fortune

  25-01-2016 08:02
  
  Himan Brown might have titled it: "The Brouhaha Over the $100 Million Estate."A lawsui ...
  
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• On on one with Bill Bice

  25-01-2016 08:02
  
  In building his own booming software company, Bill Bice made his share of blunders.The ...
  
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