New Mexico news

• Updated: Firefighters and cancer: Is a risky job even riskier?

  24-02-2017 23:49
  
  Sitting before the D.C. Council in a crisp blue dress shirt, Preston L. Williams Jr. recounted the day he was first diagnosed with the cancer that was slowly killing him. It seemed to be “the longest day of my life,” when “time stood still,” the firefighter said in advocating for new health and retirement benefits […]
  
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• Major security flaw means you have to change your passwords again.

  24-02-2017 23:48
  
  Security firm Cloudflare disclosed late Thursday that a long-running bug in its security systems may have leaked information, including potentially personal information, from thousands of sites including Uber, Fitbit and OK Cupid. The problem was first uncovered by Google security expert Tavis Ormandy, who let Cloudflare know about the issue on Feb. 18. But the […]
  
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• Updated: Refugee haven ‘insulted’ by suit over alternative schooling

  24-02-2017 22:33
  
  LANCASTER, Pa. — The handiwork posted outside a small classroom in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Amish country hints at the ambition of the refugees studying at Phoenix Academy. I come from Africa and want to be an economist. I come from Tanzania and want to be a teacher. I come from Cuba and want to […]
  
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• 2 killed in freeway crash in New Mexico during dust storm

  24-02-2017 22:33
  
  LORDSBURG, N.M. — Authorities say a California woman and a Florida woman have been killed in a New Mexico freeway crash during a dust storm. New Mexico State Police on Friday identified the two victims as 64-year-old Gail Boulanger of Redondo Beach, California and 83-year-old Helen Mitchner of Spring Hill, Florida. They say a passenger […]
  
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• New: Bill overhauling NM infrastructure system clears first Senate hurdle

  24-02-2017 22:21
  
  SANTA FE — A new attempt to change New Mexico’s system for funding dams, roadways and other infrastructure projects cleared its first Senate committee today. Members of the Senate Rules Committee voted 4-2 in favor of the legislation, though several senators expressed concern it would give too much power to top-ranking lawmakers. “We need to change […]
  
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• Arizona school teacher pleads not guilty to sex with student

  24-02-2017 22:07
  
  GOODYEAR, Ariz. — An Arizona elementary school teacher arrested for alleged sexual conduct with a 17-year-old girl who’s a foreign exchange student has pleaded not guilty. Maricopa County Superior Court officials say 36-year-old Joshua Schroder had his arraignment Friday. Goodyear police arrested Schroder on Feb. 12 on suspicion of nine counts of sexual conduct with […]
  
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• Florida Supreme Court overturns abortion limit at clinic

  24-02-2017 19:19
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. — A Planned Parenthood affiliate has won a battle over whether doctors can perform abortions and sonograms at a Florida health center. The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday overturned two lower-court decisions that would have stopped abortions and sonograms from being performed at the Kissimmee Health Center outside Orlando. The high court said […]
  
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• Stampede! Drone causes 1,500 elk to charge in Wyoming snow

  24-02-2017 19:16
  
  JACKSON, Wyo. — Wildlife refuge officials say a man with a drone caused 1,500 elk to stampede half a mile. The stampede happened Monday at the National Elk Refuge in western Wyoming. Elk and bison often congregate at the refuge to eat feed put out to help them survive the winter. This winter has been […]
  
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• Updated: Attacks near Syria town captured from IS kill 62

  24-02-2017 19:13
  
  BEIRUT — Two attacks near a Syrian town just captured by Turkish forces and Syrian opposition fighters from the Islamic State group killed at least 60 people, mostly civilians, and two Turkish soldiers on Friday, as the group retreats from one of its last remaining strongholds in northern Syria, Turkey’s news agency and Syrian activists […]
  
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• Updated: Nevada plans July pot sales despite warning of US crackdown

  24-02-2017 19:10
  
  CARSON CITY, Nev. — Nevada still plans to launch recreational marijuana sales in July despite warnings this week of a federal crackdown by the administration of President Donald Trump, state officials said Friday. Marijuana possession and sales are illegal under federal law, but Nevada voters decided in November to allow people age 21 or older […]
  
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• Updated: Montana landowners say government botched arsenic cleanup

  24-02-2017 19:10
  
  OPPORTUNITY, Mont. — George Niland wonders whether he should wear a respirator when he mows his lawn. Serge Myers laments not being able to garden in his backyard. Rob Phillips puzzles over why his 22 acres have been marked as an unblemished island surrounded by a sea of contamination. The three men all live in […]
  
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• In an Ancient Burial Place, 3 Centuries of One Woman’s Descendants

  24-02-2017 18:22 via nytimes.com
  A study of DNA from 14 bodies in a burial site in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon found a matrilineal link, raising questions about a society’s structure.
  
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• Judge denies request to delay lawsuit against Texas voter ID

  24-02-2017 17:44
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — A long-running lawsuit over Texas’ contentious voter ID law will move forward in federal court, even as the Republican-controlled Legislature considers how best to modify it. A federal judge on Friday denied a request from the U.S. Justice Department and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to delay the case. The Trump administration […]
  
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• US Marshals Service: Murder suspect extradited from Mexico

  24-02-2017 17:41
  
  PHOENIX — Federal authorities say a 41-year-old man sought in an Arizona homicide has been arrested in Mexico and extradited to the United States. The U.S. Marshals Service says Luis Dagoberto Sanchez-Velasquez was sought on a warrant charging him with homicide and burglary in the stabbing death of his nephew during a 2008 break-in in […]
  
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• Updated: 2 die in New Mexico wreck of vehicle fleeing Border Patrol

  24-02-2017 17:14
  
  LORDSBURG, N.M. — New Mexico authorities say two people died after being ejected from a car that struck a road sign, entered a highway median and overturned several times while fleeing from U.S. Border Patrol agents. State Police said the wreck occurred Thursday on Interstate 10 between Lordsburg and Deming in southwestern New Mexico. The […]
  
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• Updated: Hotly contested Pinelands pipeline approved

  24-02-2017 16:57
  
  CHERRY HILL, N.J. — The Latest on vote to permit natural gas pipeline in New Jersey’s federally protected Pinelands (all times local): 11:15 a.m. New Jersey regulators have approved a measure allowing a natural gas pipeline to run through the federally protected Pinelands preserve. The Pinelands Commission voted to permit the pipeline Friday. The issue […]
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner defended Trump. Now she says his bathroom order is ‘a disaster.’

  24-02-2017 16:57
  
  The strange relationship between Caitlyn Jenner and President Trump is now officially strained. Jenner, a Republican who was one of the relatively few celebrities to attend Trump’s inauguration and who backed him against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, is none too happy with the president she has long defended. Jenner, an Olympic legend and reality TV […]
  
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• Swedish politician: officials should have sex in lunchbreak

  24-02-2017 14:09
  
  A politician in northern Sweden wants to list sex as an officially approved activity for civil servants during their daily…
  
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• Former Tim’s Place restaurant getting dose of barbecue

  24-02-2017 14:09
  
  Moe's slated to debut in Albuquerque this spring
  
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• Updated: From joke to president: Trump returns to conservative confab

  24-02-2017 12:18
  
  WASHINGTON — Six years ago, as the “money, money, money, money” chorus of his reality TV show’s theme song blasted, Donald Trump stepped out before the nation’s largest gathering of conservative activists for the first time. The crowd was less than adoring, occasionally laughing at and booing the longtime former Democrat. The intro music is […]
  
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• Man pleads no contest in Moriarty murder case

  24-02-2017 08:05
  
  Tammie Cessna's body was found in a van outside Moriarty motel
  
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• Capitol Notebook: Lawmakers approve adding peppers to license plates

  24-02-2017 08:05
  
  House committee offers support for spicy option
  
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• Scammers score big using names of relatives, real cops

  24-02-2017 08:02
  
  People who fall for these scams, which prey on fears, are often older
  
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• City Council defers rape kit testing resolution

  24-02-2017 08:02
  
  Mayor's Office, APD don't have report on cost of plan to speed up testing
  
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• Beer pong shooting suspect faces jail

  24-02-2017 08:02
  
  Luis Delgado pleaded no contest to charges, could be sentenced to 14 years
  
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• More indictments in fake Native jewelry case

  24-02-2017 07:44
  
  Group accused of passing off items made in Philippines
  
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• New Mexico, you’re a star

  24-02-2017 07:41
  
  Exhibit chronicles state's long-running role in movie and TV production
  
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• Key senator calls for budget compromise

  24-02-2017 07:41
  
  John Arthur Smith warns of cuts to schools and Medicaid
  
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• Updated: ‘Hipster Cop,’ in fashion spotlight during Occupy, retires

  24-02-2017 07:40
  
  NEW YORK — A New York City police detective who became an internet sensation as the “Hipster Cop” for his fashionable wardrobe during the Occupy Wall Street protests is letting go of something he’s been wearing for 25 years — his badge. Det. Rick Lee’s last official day with the New York Police Department before […]
  
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• Updated: US changes rules of engagement for Mosul fight in Iraq

  24-02-2017 07:39
  
  SOUTH OF MOSUL, Iraq — U.S. Army Lt. Col. James Browning juggled phone calls on an overstuffed sofa in a small village south of Mosul. His counterparts in the Iraqi army’s 9th Division were pushing toward western Mosul, just a few miles away and were coming under mortar fire from the Islamic State group as […]
  
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• Christus St. Vincent mulls detox center closure

  24-02-2017 06:10
  
  The center, with 10 beds for men and five for women, serves about 1,200 people a year, according to Santa Fe County.
  
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• Updated: Malaysia says VX nerve agent used in killing of North Korean

  24-02-2017 05:50
  
  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — The banned chemical weapon VX nerve agent was used to kill Kim Jong Nam, the North Korean ruler’s outcast half brother who was poisoned last week at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, police said Friday. The announcement raised serious questions about public safety in a building that authorities went 11 days […]
  
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• Updated: Mayor ‘deeply disturbed’ over incident between cop and teen

  24-02-2017 03:57
  
  ANAHEIM, Calif. — Anaheim officials pressed for calm Thursday after a night of raucous protests that followed an incident in which an off-duty policeman scuffled in his front yard with a boy, drew a weapon and fired a shot into the ground after another teen pushed him over a hedge and others surrounded him. Mayor […]
  
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• Updated: Govt: 746 people subjected to travel ban on Jan. 28-29

  24-02-2017 03:57
  
  NEW YORK — The government has given civil rights attorneys a list of 746 people subject to President Donald Trump’s travel ban who were detained or processed by U.S. border agents in the turbulent 27 hours after a judge partially blocked enforcement of the executive order. U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon in Brooklyn had […]
  
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• Cancer patients fear possible repeal of health act

  24-02-2017 03:22
  
  Ashley Walton was 25 when a mole on her back turned out to be melanoma. She had it removed, but three years later she discovered a lump in her abdomen. She was then unemployed and uninsured, and so sh
  
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• Updated: Minimum wage boost gaining Senate support

  24-02-2017 02:26
  
  Pay rate would rise from $7.50 an hour to $9
  
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• Senate wage proposal wins bipartisan support

  24-02-2017 02:26
  
  SANTA FE — A minimum-wage proposal moving through the Senate picked up bipartisan support on Thursday. The Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce and some union representatives favor it, too — quite a contrast from a House proposal that’s drawn opposition across the political spectrum. State Sen. Clemente Sanchez, D-Grants, is sponsoring Senate Bill 386, which […]
  
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• Updated: Jury bill signed; other court programs still lacking

  24-02-2017 01:59
  
  Funds to fall short for child abuse cases
  
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• New: Emergency court funding bill signed into law by Lt. Gov. Sanchez

  24-02-2017 01:59
  
  SANTA FE — Jury trials around New Mexico will go on without interruption through June, after Lt. Gov. John Sanchez signed into law this afternoon a measure providing roughly $1.6 million in emergency funding. The signing of the emergency funding bill ends — at least for now — a political tug-of-war over court dollars punctuated by Gov. […]
  
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• Updated: Firefighters extinguish house fire in Barelas neighborhood

  24-02-2017 01:46
  
  Firefighters extinguished a fire in an abandoned house in the Barelas neighborhood Thursday evening, according to a spokeswoman for the Albuquerque Fire Department. The fire broke out around 5:15 p.m. at a house on the corner of 8th and Nuanes SW. “Firefighters arrived quickly and stopped the fire before it spread to nearby homes,” said Melissa […]
  
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• US court expands disclosure of requests to secretly track electronic records

  24-02-2017 01:34
  
  A federal judge has released a list of all requests made by U.S. prosecutors in Washington, D.C., to secretly collect certain data about Americans’ telephone, email and Internet activity from 2011 to 2016. The disclosure Wednesday continues an effort to bring more transparency to covert law enforcement activities. The release of five years’ worth of […]
  
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• Updated: Residents return after flooding to access damage in San Jose

  24-02-2017 01:34
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. — Gloria Najar said it felt like an “apocalypse” when she returned home after being evacuated in a flood that sent waist-high water into homes and streets in San Jose. Still, as she sorted through her water-logged possessions Thursday, she said she counts herself among the lucky. The 57-year-old — one of […]
  
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• Justice Department will again use private prisons

  24-02-2017 01:32
  
  The Justice Department will once again use private prisons to house federal inmates, reversing an Obama-era directive to stop using the facilities, which officials had then deemed less safe and less effective than those run by the government. In a one-paragraph memo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the previous directive to the Bureau of Prisons […]
  
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• Bill would allow Native graduates to wear regalia

  24-02-2017 00:18
  
  HELENA, Mont. — Aspen Many Hides recalled being in tears as she stood in line five years ago waiting to receive her high school diploma In Polson. Her mother was frantically trying to remove the beads she had sewn into her cap as a sign of accomplishment and to show her pride in her Native […]
  
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• Updated: Kansas guard Graham apologizes after traffic warrant arrest

  24-02-2017 00:15
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas guard Devonte Graham apologized Thursday for his arrest on a traffic-related warrant hours after helping the third-ranked Jayhawks to a record-tying 13th consecutive Big 12 Conference title with a win over TCU. The school said in a statement that Graham was arrested Wednesday night for failing to appear in court […]
  
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• Pew: Hispanics before Trump inauguration split on issues

  24-02-2017 00:15
  
  WASHINGTON — A Pew Research Center survey says more than half of Hispanic immigrants who were neither U.S. citizens nor legal permanent residents said they were concerned about their place in the United States. The survey showed that 55 percent of foreign-born Hispanics surveyed who do not have a green card said they had serious […]
  
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• ‘It wasn’t even a question:’ The simple calculation for pulling advertising off Breitbart

  24-02-2017 00:15
  
  A couple of weeks ago, staffers at Klipfolio received word that their software company’s ads were being displayed on the alt-right site Breitbart News Network, alongside stories that supported White Supremacy, misogyny and homophobia. Executives took swift action, immediately asking for their ads to be removed from the site. “It wasn’t even a question,” said […]
  
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• Updated: White House expects Justice crackdown on legalized marijuana

  24-02-2017 00:14
  
  WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will step up enforcement of federal law against recreational marijuana, White House spokesman Sean Spicer said Thursday, offering the Trump administration’s strongest indication to date of a looming crackdown on the drug, even as a solid majority of Americans believe it should be legal. “I do believe you’ll see greater […]
  
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