New Mexico news

• 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 ...
  
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• 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 […]
  
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• 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 ...
  
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• 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 […]
  
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• 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.
  
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• 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 […]
  
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• 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 […]
  
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• 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 […]
  
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• 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 […]
  
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• 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 […]
  
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• Clinton, Sanders to debate after splitting contests

  11-02-2016 21:42
  
  MILWAUKEE — After splitting the first two voting contests, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are taking their increasingly heated fight for the Democratic presidential nomination back to the debate stage Thursday night, jockeying for advantage as the race heads toward delegate-rich states. For Clinton, that means bolstering her appeal with minorities, particularly black and Hispanic […]
  
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• Cruz app data collection helps campaign read minds of voters

  11-02-2016 21:41
  
  WASHINGTON — Protecting the privacy of law-abiding citizens from the government is a pillar of Ted Cruz’s Republican presidential candidacy, but his campaign is testing the limits of siphoning personal data from supporters. His “Cruz Crew” mobile app is designed to gather detailed information from its users’ phones — tracking their physical movements and mining […]
  
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• Trump settles lawsuit against Univision

  11-02-2016 21:40
  
  NEW YORK — Donald Trump and Univision said Thursday they have resolved the lawsuit that the Republican presidential contender filed after the company decided last summer not to broadcast the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants. Trump owned the pageants at the time, but has since sold them. Univision dropped plans to televise the contests […]
  
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• Migrant advocates decry Arizona bills targeting immigrants

  11-02-2016 21:40
  
  PHOENIX — A migrant justice organization spoke out against a wave of legislation targeting immigrants Thursday as an Arizona House panel passed a bill that would cut off state shared revenue from municipalities that obstruct immigration enforcement. Advocates from Puente stood outside the Capitol to denounce what they say is a series of measures designed […]
  
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• Cosby cases inspire Colorado bill extending time for charges

  11-02-2016 21:40
  
  DENVER — Citing sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby, Colorado legislators were considering a bill Thursday to end a 10-year statute of limitations on such cases and allow more time to seek charges. Attorney Gloria Allred and two of her Colorado clients who claim Cosby assaulted them decades ago planned a news conference before the […]
  
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• Several states seek to block 2nd trimester abortion method

  11-02-2016 21:39
  
  JACKSON, Miss. — Abortion opponents in Mississippi, West Virginia and several other states are filing bills to ban an abortion procedure commonly used in the second trimester that opponents describe as dismembering a fetus. Courts have already blocked similar laws that Kansas and Oklahoma enacted in 2015. The New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, which […]
  
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• Last hours of armed standoff play out online for listeners

  11-02-2016 21:39
  
  The last armed occupiers of an Oregon wildlife refuge shouted, laughed and prayed for tens of thousands to hear online as they negotiated with authorities and spoke with supporters. An open phone line broadcast on YouTube gave a glimpse into the final hours of the nearly six-week-long standoff. The four holdouts surrendered Thursday, having refused […]
  
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• Udall, Heinrich seek deportation raid halt, break with Obama

  11-02-2016 21:38
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — 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 […]
  
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• Education-related groups lead lobbying efforts in New Mexico

  11-02-2016 21:38
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — 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, […]
  
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• 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 […]
  
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• 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, […]
  
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• 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 […]
  
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• 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 […]
  
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• 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 […]
  
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• Fbt Architects to design UNM’s business school

  11-02-2016 18:46
  
  Fbt Architects has been chosen to design a new home for the Anderson School of Management at the University of New Mexico. The business school plans to replace its 1960s-era home on UNM’s main campus with two new buildings that will have upgraded classrooms and technology. Michele Carter, the firm’s marketing director, directed questions about […]
  
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• 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 […]
  
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• 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 […]
  
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• 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, […]
  
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• 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 […]
  
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• 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 […]
  
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• 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 […]
  
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• 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. […]
  
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• 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, […]
  
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• 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 […]
  
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• Rabbi ejected from Arizona town meeting over prayer

  11-02-2016 17:05
  
  CHINO VALLEY, Ariz. — A rabbi was removed from a town council meeting in Northern Arizona after she protested when the mayor read a Christian invocation. The Daily Courier reports (http://bit.ly/1PPsE1u ) that Rabbi Adele Plotkin was escorted out of the Chino Valley council meeting Tuesday after she protested when Mayor Chris Marley, a pastor, […]
  
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• Pentagon chief predicting ‘tangible gains’ in Iraq, Syria

  11-02-2016 17:05
  
  BRUSSELS — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter predicted on Thursday that recent U.S.-led efforts to accelerate the fight against the Islamic State group would produce “tangible gains” in Iraq and Syria by March, even as he urged coalition partners to expand and deepen their military contributions. Carter expected that defense ministers from more than two […]
  
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• New: Breakthrough: Scientists detect Einstein-predicted ripples

  11-02-2016 17:05
  
  WASHINGTON — 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. Scientists likened the breakthrough to the moment Galileo took up a telescope to look at the planets. The discovery of these […]
  
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• Kerry and Lavrov open Syria talks as countries trade barbs

  11-02-2016 17:04
  
  MUNICH — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov opened talks Thursday to try and reconcile deep differences over a proposed cease-fire for the Syrian civil war. They met as other U.S. and Russian officials traded allegations over bombing of civilian areas in the besieged city of Aleppo. Russia has […]
  
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• Even before controversy, blacks cool to Oscars telecast

  11-02-2016 17:04
  
  NEW YORK — The largest black audience for the Academy Awards over the last dozen years came in 2005, when Chris Rock was host and Jamie Foxx and Morgan Freeman won the top male acting awards. Rock will be back as host this year, but it’s an open question how many black viewers will be […]
  
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• Diocese of Gallup to get Ciudad Juarez Papal Mass tickets

  11-02-2016 17:00
  
  GALLUP, N.M. — 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 […]
  
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• University of Texas System regents to consider tuition hike

  11-02-2016 16:59
  
  GALVESTON, Texas — Students attending University of Texas System schools could be paying more for an education. The UT System Board of Regents is expected to hold a special meeting later this month to consider increasing tuition and fees. The proposals call for increases of between 2 and 6.4 percent for resident undergraduate students. System […]
  
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• Brazil and University of Texas reach deal on Zika vaccine

  11-02-2016 16:59
  
  BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil is signing an agreement with the University of Texas to develop a vaccine against the Zika virus, the country’s health minister said Thursday, adding the goal is for the vaccine to be ready for clinical testing within 12 months. Marcelo Castro said at a news conference that the Brazilian government will […]
  
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• Colo. deputy dies after being taken off life support

  11-02-2016 16:58
  
  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A Mesa County sheriff’s deputy allegedly shot by a teenager has died after being taken off life support. Sheriff Matt Lewis announced the death of Deputy Derek Geer late Wednesday night. The sheriff’s office says Geer was shot by a 17-year-old boy who was seen walking around with a gun Monday […]
  
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• Sea lion found starving in San Diego restaurant on the mend

  11-02-2016 16:57
  
  SAN DIEGO — Veterinarians say a starving sea lion rescued last week after finding its way into a fancy San Diego restaurant is on the mend. SeaWorld vets said Wednesday that the 8-month-old female pup has put on about four pounds, and her bloodwork is encouraging. The underweight and dehydrated sea lion was found Feb. […]
  
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• Doña Ana County Treasurer declines to resign

  11-02-2016 16:57
  
  LAS CRUCES – Doña Ana County Treasurer David Gutierrez said Wednesday he won’t step down from office, in spite of a unanimous vote by county commissioners a day earlier calling on Gutierrez to resign for sexually harassing an employee in 2014. Asked if he planned to resign, Gutierrez replied: “No, absolutely not. I don’t know […]
  
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• Women’s college basketball: UNM finishes strong for crucial win

  11-02-2016 08:05
  
  Great effort finally yielded a great result for the UNM women's basketball team Wednesday night. ...
  
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• Voter fraud claims lead to fight over legal fees

  11-02-2016 08:05
  
  ACLU called Duran's bluff on NM's 'culture of corruption'
  
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• Urso has been around, still has tread on his tires

  11-02-2016 08:05
  
  Nick Urso drives a 2005 model car with only 40,000 miles on it. That's kind of how he sees himself.
  
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• Updated: Lobo women have the Pit rockin’ with comeback victory over Utah State

  11-02-2016 08:05
  
  Sports as entertainment, not life and death. What a concept.With apologies to Herm Edw ...
  
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• Psychologist: 5 more years of treatment for Griego

  11-02-2016 08:05
  
  Judge may decide today on the future of 18-year-old who killed his parents and three siblings
  
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