New Mexico news

• NM to hold Facebook hearing next week

  02-08-2016 23:57
  
  State regulators have decided to hold a public hearing next week on a solar energy plan for a possible Facebook data center, despite a request to expedite the matter so New Mexico would be more competitve with Utah in landing the huge deal. Facebook is considering building a data center in Los Lunas, and the […]
  
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• Updated: In blow to GOP unity, Trump refuses to back Ryan, McCain

  02-08-2016 23:56
  
  DAYTONA BEACH, Florida — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Tuesday that he is refusing to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan and Sen. John McCain just two weeks after pledging to bring the fractured GOP together at the party’s nominating convention. He also ripped into New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte in the same interview with […]
  
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• Man in DWI crash that killed three pleads guilty, faces 18 years

  02-08-2016 23:29
  
  A man who pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to a drunken driving crash that left three young adults dea ...
  
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• Coming up: Tax free holiday starts Friday

  02-08-2016 23:22
  
  Families will spend an average of $674 outfitting their kids with everything from T-shirts to tablets for the upcoming school year, according to a new national survey. And if they do their shopping this weekend in New Mexico, those purchases will be tax-free. The state’s annual gross receipts tax holiday runs Friday through Sunday. It […]
  
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• ABQ is No. 6 for happiest homeowners

  02-08-2016 23:18
  
  Affordable homes, safe and diverse neighborhoods and accessibility to attractions are why homeowners are happy to live in Albuquerque, according to a HomeAdvisor’s Homeowner Happiness Index survey. Albuquerque had the sixth-happiest homeowners out of 36 metropolitan areas. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, St. Louis and Seattle homeowners ranked higher. Those who lived in Baltimore, Philadelphia […]
  
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• Updated: DA’s office: No charges against State Police officers for 2014 shooting

  02-08-2016 22:54
  
  The Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Office announced Tuesday that charges won’t be filed against two New Mexico State Police who shot and injured a woman two years ago. New Mexico State Police officers Janice Madrid and Richard Williamson shot and injured Roxanne Torres in July 2014 after Torres drove a vehicle toward Madrid and other […]
  
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• Updated: Trump talk of cutting US forces in Korea has rocky precedent

  02-08-2016 22:52
  
  WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has alarmed U.S. allies in Asia and elsewhere by suggesting that American military support should depend on their willingness to pay. But he would not be the first U.S. president to consider shaking up time-honored military deployments. Four decades ago, President Jimmy Carter tried to withdraw troops in […]
  
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• Jazz Festival rocks out in Santa Fe

  02-08-2016 22:25
  
    The New Mexico Jazz Festival closed out Sunday with a performance by Lisa Fischer and Grand Baton at the Lensic to an appreciative crowd. The singer moved easily from ethereal, echoing vocal sound effects to rousing, rocking, tuneful belts from the belly. And where else would you hear “Jumping Jack Flash” played with a […]
  
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• Updated: Delaware court says state death penalty law unconstitutional

  02-08-2016 21:40
  
  DOVER, Del. — Delaware’s death penalty law is unconstitutional in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling earlier this year, the state’s high court ruled Tuesday. In a 148-page opinion, a majority of the Delaware Supreme Court justices said the state law violates the U.S. Constitution because it allows a judge to sentence a person […]
  
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• Starbucks recalls stainless-steel straws on reports of cuts

  02-08-2016 21:33
  
  SEATTLE — Starbucks is recalling stainless-steel straws it sold in its stores and online after three reports of children suffering “mouth lacerations” while using them. The Seattle-based company says about 2.5 million of the straw sets were sold in the U.S., and 301,000 were sold in Canada. The straws have a ridge at the bottom […]
  
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• Updated: Turkey’s Erdogan blasts foreign countries over coup reaction

  02-08-2016 21:27
  
  ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once more blasted unnamed Western countries Tuesday for what he said was support for the attempted coup on July 15 that left more than 270 people dead. “The West is supporting terrorism and taking sides with coups,” Erdogan said, adding that forces unhappy with Turkey’s rise as […]
  
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• Updated: Bergdahl lawyers: McCain comments violate due process rights

  02-08-2016 21:25
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. — The Army sought to have U.S. Sen. John McCain back away from statements about punishment for Bowe Bergdahl because of concerns about hurting the soldier’s right to a fair trial, according to newly released emails. The emails were revealed in a motion filed Monday seeking the dismissal of charges against Bergdahl, who […]
  
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• Delegation likes Facebook data center

  02-08-2016 19:21
  
  New Mexico lawmakers have sent a letter to the state’s regulatory agency urging them to move forward on a proposed Los Lunas Facebok data center, according to a press release. The letter, dated July 22, was signed by U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, along with U.S. Representatives Steve Pearce, Ben Ray Lujan, and […]
  
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• Lawsuit aims to stop Texas campus carry before classes start

  02-08-2016 19:05
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Texas’ new law allowing concealed handguns in college classrooms and buildings has barely started and already faces a federal legal challenge seeking to block it before students return for the fall semester. Three professors at the University of Texas sued last month to overturn the law. They claimed it is unconstitutional and […]
  
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• Unsafe lead levels in water fountains at Fort Worth schools

  02-08-2016 19:04
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas — The Fort Worth school district is replacing hundreds of drinking fountains after testing this summer found unsafe levels of lead in the water. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram (http://bit.ly/2arXxOf ) reports that the lead was found in a certain style of fountain that allows water to sit as it is chilled. District […]
  
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• Arizona county considers ban on new irrigation

  02-08-2016 18:55
  
  KINGMAN, Ariz. — An Arizona county is considering a ban on irrigation to slow the rate of loss from its aquifer. The Kingman Daily Miner reports (http://bit.ly/2athSQv ) that the Mohave County Board of Supervisors has agreed to work with the Arizona Department of Water Resources on a process that could prevent new irrigation in […]
  
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• Updated: Pope: It’s ‘terrible’ children taught they can choose gender

  02-08-2016 18:39
  
  VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has lamented that children, as he puts it, are being taught at school that gender can be a choice. Francis said: “Today, in schools they are teaching this to children — to children! — that everyone can choose their gender.” Without specifying, he blamed this on textbooks supplied by “persons […]
  
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• Public eagerly awaits foul smell of garden’s ‘corpse flower’

  02-08-2016 18:23
  
  WASHINGTON — Washington botany enthusiasts are salivating over the possibility that an exotic plant is about to finally bloom and produce a huge and memorable stink. The U.S. Botanic Garden wrote on its Facebook page Monday that botanists are waiting with “bated breath” to see if the garden’s 6-year-old “corpse flower” will open for its […]
  
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• Updated: Obama challenges GOP to drop support for Trump

  02-08-2016 18:21
  
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama slammed Donald Trump as “woefully unprepared” to serve in the White House on Tuesday and challenged Republican lawmakers to drop their support for their party’s nominee. “There has to come a point at which you say enough,” Obama declared. The president’s blistering comments came on the heels of Trump’s criticism […]
  
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• Texas attorney general tries again to end his criminal case

  02-08-2016 18:05
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is trying one last time to have his criminal indictment on securities fraud charges dismissed before trial. The Republican has asked the state’s highest criminal court to throw out felony charges that accuse Texas’ top prosecutor of deceiving wealthy investors in a tech startup. Two lower courts […]
  
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• Rules on shark fin removal at sea set to be tightened

  02-08-2016 17:52
  
  PORTLAND, Maine — Interstate regulators could be about to tighten the restrictions on the last species of shark that can have their fins removed at sea in the U.S. Smooth dogfish are the only sharks from which American fishermen can remove fins at sea. Many other sharks can be hunted, but fins can’t be removed […]
  
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• High-profile pay raises by firms can trigger job malaise at other companies

  02-08-2016 17:48
  
  When Starbucks and JPMorgan Chase last month separately revealed plans to raise worker pay, they were the most recent in a steady barrage of high-profile announcements of companies’ human resources strategies. News releases and social media posts trumpeting generous parental leave policies, unlimited vacation time, flexible work arrangements and revamped performance-management systems have become as […]
  
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• Longtime newspaper and magazine printing company is sold

  02-08-2016 16:52
  
  LAS CRUCES – Magazines and newspapers in Las Cruces and throughout southern New Mexico that have relied on Signature Offset to print their publications will now have to find a new printer. Signature Offset, founded in 1970 in Denver as Intermountain Color, was sold Friday. Its new owners abruptly closed its printing plant in Las […]
  
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• Updated: Paid family leave benefits rising in some sectors, regions

  02-08-2016 16:49
  
  NEW YORK — The call for paid family leave on the Democratic party platform is the most ambitious attempt by a major party in years to reverse the United States’ status as the only industrialized nation without any standard for paid time off for new parents. But over the last five years a handful of […]
  
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• Breaking: Amber Alert: 3-year-old abducted from Santa Rosa

  02-08-2016 16:48
  
  Authorities have issued an Amber Alert for a 3-year-old Native American girl abducted from Santa Rosa, NM, according to a mobile notification sent out to residents in the state. The girl’s name is Merleah Guinn, according to the alert. Authorities have not released any information about the circumstances of the abduction, including when it happened. […]
  
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• Updated: Mitsubishi scandal probe finds unrealistic goals, conflicts

  02-08-2016 16:44
  
  TOKYO — A group of lawyers asked by Mitsubishi Motors Corp. to investigate mileage cheating at the Japanese automaker found a divided company that had set unrealistic goals, to which employees simply couldn’t say, “No.” The Tokyo-based automaker acknowledged in April it had systematically falsified mileage data on its eK wagon and eK Space minicars, […]
  
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• GM, Ford say July US sales fell

  02-08-2016 16:42
  
  DETROIT — U.S. auto sales were expected to drop slightly in July as unusually hot weather kept buyers indoors. Kelley Blue Book predicted a 1 percent decline from last July to about 1.5 million vehicles, while auto pricing site TrueCar.com expected sales to be flat for the month. TrueCar said some automakers offered big discounts […]
  
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• Zia Station will finally open as ‘kiss-and-ride’ RoadRunner stop

  02-08-2016 08:05
  
  Santa Fe Rail Runner stop built in 2008
  
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• Regents halt work on UNM alumni association project

  02-08-2016 08:05
  
  The University of New Mexico Alumni Association really irked some of the school's regents after laun ...
  
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• New survey ranks NM’s education system almost last in the nation

  02-08-2016 08:05
  
  State Public Education Department: We have to reform the system
  
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• Governor repeats no-tax-increase pledge

  02-08-2016 08:05
  
  State budget shortfalls could top $600 million
  
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• Ex-environment sec. mum about next post

  02-08-2016 08:05
  
  SANTA FE–State Environment Secretary Ryan Flynn said Monday he has not yet decided what he ...
  
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• Topes Today (Aug. 2)

  02-08-2016 07:21
  
  At Tacoma 12:35 p.m. Radio: 610 AM Probable starters: Isotopes RHP Eddie Butler (4-2, 6.39) vs. RHP Zach Lee (7-8, 5.28). Monday: Former University of New Mexico star D.J. Peterson went 2-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs to lead Tacoma to an 8-3 win over the visiting Isotopes. Peterson opened the scoring with […]
  
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• Updated: City asks county to put sick leave question on ballot

  02-08-2016 06:08
  
  Also at issue is candidate financing
  
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• ‘They took too damn long’: Inside the police response to the Orlando shooting

  02-08-2016 06:03
  
  When Omar Mateen finished pumping bullets into dozens of people sprawled on the dance floor inside the Pulse nightclub on June 12, he walked toward the bathrooms, where many patrons had hidden. It was just minutes after Orlando, Florida, police were called about the gunfire, and law enforcement officers began descending on the club. Four […]
  
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• Several school districts say After School Satan clubs probably in line with policies

  02-08-2016 06:02
  
  Several U.S. school districts indicated Monday that they think the Satanic Temple’s plan to open After School Satan clubs in elementary schools probably conforms with their policies and local laws, and the Prince George’s County, Maryland, school system said it is reviewing a request to open such a club. If the districts allow the clubs, […]
  
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• Humayun Khan’s grave becomes a shrine in the wake of his father’s speech

  02-08-2016 06:02
  
  Across the Potomac River from Washington’s great monuments, Jake Dowell and his family came to Arlington National Cemetery on Monday to visit his grandfather’s grave. But he also wanted to pay his respects to a soldier he had never met and whose name he had learned only in the past week: Army Capt. Humayun Khan. […]
  
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• Bloom of the ‘corpse flower’ eagerly awaited

  02-08-2016 05:56
  
  WASHINGTON – Anticipation was growing Monday at the foot of Capitol Hill of an event expected to produce a huge and memorable stink by purely natural means. “We are waiting with bated breath to see if the corpse flower opens today,” the U.S. Botanic Garden said on its Facebook page. Eagerly awaited, peak bloom of […]
  
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• APD shuts down I-40 at San Mateo for crash

  02-08-2016 05:51
  
  Officers have shut down Interstate 40 east of San Mateo after a hit and run Monday night, according to a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department. Officer Mike Schroeder said the crash involved a motorcycle. He said the driver of the vehicle fled the scene. “One subject is listed in critical condition and has been […]
  
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• McDonald’s worker in Santa Fe stabbed in fight that started over soft drink theft

  02-08-2016 02:47
  
  SANTA FE — A 17-year-old McDonald’s employee was stabbed in the upper body Saturday by an unruly man who refused to leave after trying to fill a soft drink cup without buying anything. According to a police report, the teen who works at the McDonald’s on Richards Avenue and Cerrillos Road told the man — […]
  
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• 27-year-old charged with DWI in fatal downtown Santa Fe crash

  02-08-2016 02:24
  
  SANTA FE — A 27-year-old Albuquerque man has been charged with DWI, reckless driving, driving with an open alcohol container and not having a driver’s license after he crashed his SUV into a wall at the corner of Sandoval Street and West San Francisco early Saturday morning and his passenger was found dead with no […]
  
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• Updated: Anton Yelchin died without a will, has nearly $1.4m estate

  02-08-2016 01:14
  
  LOS ANGELES — Anton Yelchin’s parents have filed court documents indicating the “Star Trek” actor died without a will and left behind a nearly $1.4 million estate. Court records show Victor and Irina Yelchin filed to become administrators of their son’s estate on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court. The actor died on June 19 […]
  
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• Habitual offender gets more prison time under New Mexico law

  02-08-2016 01:13
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. — A man convicted in a stabbing case has been sentenced to 11 years in prison as a habitual offender under New Mexico law. Prosecutors say 36-year-old Roberto Urquidi was sentenced Monday for aggravated battery, a third-degree felony. He received the maximum three-year prison term for the stabbing plus eight years for […]
  
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• 2 men accused in polygamous food stamp fraud arrested again

  02-08-2016 01:13
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — Two alleged ringleaders of a food stamp fraud scheme in a polygamous sect on the Utah-Arizona border have been arrested for violating terms of their supervised release. U.S. Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Melodie Rydalch said in an email that Seth Jeffs and John Wayman were arrested Monday. She didn’t provide any details […]
  
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• 12 reported killed in Syria as Russia strikes back after chopper downed

  02-08-2016 01:02
  
  MOSCOW — Twelve people were killed in Russian air raids on northern Syria, a monitoring group said Monday, hours after Moscow said one of its helicopters had been shot down in the area with the apparent loss of all five crew members. The 12, including two children, were killed in intensive Russian air raids near […]
  
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• Arizona judge won’t require court election oversight

  02-08-2016 00:57
  
  PHOENIX — An Arizona judge on Monday rejected an effort to require Maricopa County to have court-approved plans in place for managing upcoming elections. The order issued by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Hugh Hegyi turned away a request for a preliminary injunction that would have required Maricopa County and the secretary of state to […]
  
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• BCSO: Possible body found in ditch

  02-08-2016 00:18
  
  The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office and the Sandia Pueblo Police Department are investigating a possible body near where the North Diversion Channel meets the Rio Grande at Fourth Street. Deput Felicia Romero, a BCSO spokeswoman, said the agencies are working together to determine and need to determine if it is a body and who has […]
  
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• Updated: FAA gives commercial balloon operators little scrutiny

  02-08-2016 00:17
  
  WASHINGTON — Commercial hot air balloons like the one destroyed in a fireball in Texas this weekend often carry more passengers than airplane and helicopter tours, but have long received less government scrutiny, according to aviation experts. The Federal Aviation Administration’s oversight of commercial balloon operations amounts to “essentially none,” said Mark Dombroff, a former […]
  
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• Police in New York hunt bandits who made off with pet bunny

  02-08-2016 00:06
  
  NEW YORK — Police in New York City are searching for two men who broke into an unlocked apartment and made off with a pet bunny. In addition to the caged rabbit, police say the men took a bracelet and a passport from the Bronx residence. A surveillance photo shows the men walking down the […]
  
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