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• Suspect arrested after gunfire, standoff at ABQ apartments

  31-05-2020 19:12
  
  A New Mexico State Police officer in tactical gear approaches the Union 505 apartment complex during an active shooter situation off of Indian School and Locust, Sunday afternoon. (Anthony Jackson/ Albuquerque Journal)
  Copyright © 2020 Albuquerque JournalA suspect was arrested Sunday in connection with gunfire and standoff at the Union 505 apartment complex, near Interstate 25 and Interstate 40, Albuquerque police said.No injuries were reported, although the incident, which police describe
  
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• Breaking: APD: Active shooter reported at apartment complex

  31-05-2020 19:12
  
  An Albuquerque Police Department officer outside of an apartment complex where there is a reported active shooter late Sunday morning.
  (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/ Journal)Paramedics wait near the Union 505 apartment complex following reports of an active shooter late Sunday morning. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/ Journal)
  There is currently an active shooter at the Union 505 apartment complex near Interstate 25 and Interstate 40, according to police.
  “This is an ongoing and dangerous situation,”
  
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• Breaking: APD: Active shooter at apartment complex in custody

  31-05-2020 19:12
  
  A New Mexico State Police officer outside of an apartment complex where there is a reported active shooter late Sunday morning. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/ Journal)Police have taken into custody the suspect involved in an active shooting situation Sunday at the Union 505 apartment complex near Interstate 25 and Interstate 40, according to police.
  The suspect, who has not been identified by name but was identified as a resident of the apartments, surrendered peacefully Sunday afternoon, a police spoke
  
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• Breaking: Active shooter near I-25 and I-40

  31-05-2020 19:12
  
  There is currently an active shooter at the Union 505 apartment complex near Interstate 25 and Interstate 40, according to police.
  “This is an ongoing and dangerous situation,” Albuquerque Police Department spokesman Gilbert Gallegos said in an email.
  Police are closing Interstate 25 southbound which is east of the apartment complex.
  
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• APD: Active shooter at apartment complex in custody

  31-05-2020 19:12
  
  A New Mexico State Police officer outside of an apartment complex where there is a reported active shooter late Sunday morning. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/ Journal)Police have taken into custody the suspect involved in an active shooting situation Sunday at the Union 505 apartment complex near Interstate 25 and Interstate 40, according to police.
  No injuries were reported though the incident stretched on for several hours and shut down much of the surrounding area, said Gilbert Gallegos, Albuque
  
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• Fox News reporter attacked, chased from demonstration

  31-05-2020 16:46
  
  NEW YORK — A Fox News reporter was pummeled and chased by protesters who had gathered outside the White House early Saturday as part of nationwide unrest following the death of George Floyd.
  For several journalists across the country, the demonstrations were taking an ominous, dangerous turn.
  A television reporter in Columbia, S.C., was hurt by a thrown rock Saturday and a journalist in Minneapolis was shot in the thigh by a rubber bullet. A television news photographer in Pittsburgh said
  
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• Boy Scout victims’ choice: Sue rashly, or wait and risk loss

  31-05-2020 16:45
  
  TRENTON, N.J. — Some victims of childhood sex abuse who are considering suing the Boy Scouts of America face a choice: an anguished rush to meet a deadline earlier than what lawmakers intended, or wait and sue local councils, perhaps putting them at greater risk of losing.
  Attorneys for the Scouts and victims agreed during federal bankruptcy proceedings this month on a Nov. 16 deadline by which victims must come forward with a claim or be barred from bringing one later, with the victims&rs
  
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• While asking for more, states are slow to spend virus aid

  31-05-2020 16:42
  
  Many states have yet to spend the federal funding they received more than a month ago to help with soaring costs related to the coronavirus crisis, complicating governors’ arguments that they need hundreds of billions more from U.S. taxpayers.
  The Associated Press reviewed plans from governors or lawmakers on how they plan to use the money from the coronavirus relief bill and found that at least a dozen states have started distributing the money. But far more have not.
  The reasons vary. So
  
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• Letter to the editor: Writer questions COVID-19 restrictions

  31-05-2020 16:00
  
  Editor:
  Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has invoked the 2003 Public Health Emergency Response Act as justification for the mandates put in place in response to the current coronavirus pandemic.
  Readers can read this law at https://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/2019/chapter-12/article-10a/ or by searching Chapter 12-10A at http://nmonesource.com. Various lawsuits are being filed, challenging whether the governor is overstepping the powers authorized under that act.
  The Public He
  
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• Letter to the editor: Is COVID a pandemic?

  31-05-2020 16:00
  
  Editor:
  Are we really dealing with a pandemic?
  According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a pandemic occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population. According to this definition, I feel we are not dealing with a pandemic.
  If we were dealing with a pandemic, I would think we would be seeing every county in our state with hundreds, if not thousands, of cases of COVID-19.  I would think hundreds of thousands of people throughout New Mexico w
  
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• Letter to the editor: Celebrating RR with its love for graduates

  31-05-2020 16:00
  
  Editor:
  Generations have marched down the aisle to “Pomp and Circumstance,” walked across a stage to receive a diploma, moved their tassels from right to left and tossed their caps into the air while friends and family members cheered from the stands and confetti showered down among the sea of graduates.
  This year, history was made. Over 1,200 high school graduates at Rio Rancho Public Schools received their diplomas without the traditional bravado of past graduations. However, there
  
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• Letter to the editor: 2020 graduates can unite in unique times

  31-05-2020 16:00
  
  Editor:
  Congratulations, students of the Rio Rancho High School graduating senior Class of 2020!
  All the years I was teaching at RRHS, one of the best things I looked forward to was participating in the graduation ceremony. It isn’t fair that this was not afforded to you in the traditional manner this year.
  However, the circumstances make this year unique to all of you, something that you will have experienced together and be able to share for the rest of your lives.
  Throughout our history
  
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• City votes without public input

  31-05-2020 16:00
  
  The Rio Rancho Governing Body shouldn’t have moved its regular meetings to 4 p.m. on Thursdays, and certainly not without public input, because it will be harder for Rio Ranchoans to participate in their government.
  Most governing body meetings aren’t well attended, but some are, and voters should always have the option to come.
  Wednesday night, governing body members voted 4-3 to move their regular meeting from the traditional time of 6 p.m. on the second and fourth Wednesdays of th
  
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• City honors Class of 2020 on special day

  31-05-2020 16:00
  
  Cleveland High School Anayah Clawson, second from right, records memories with her family Wednesday at the Field of Grads at the Rio Rancho Sports Complex. Class of 2020 members were honored with individual signs, since they couldn’t have a traditional commencement, and were invited to take their signs home after two days of the display. Photo by Gary Herron.
  Another chapter in the lives of the city’s Class of 2020 graduates ended last Wednesday evening.
  Following Monday and Tuesday&
  
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• ‘We’re sick of it’: Anger over police killings shatters US

  31-05-2020 11:05
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — Another night of unrest in every corner of the country left charred and shattered landscapes in dozens of American cities Sunday as years of festering frustrations over the mistreatment of African Americans at the hands of police boiled over in expressions of rage met with tear gas and rubber bullets.
  Cars and businesses were torched, the words “I can’t breathe” were spray-painted all over buildings, a fire in a trash bin burned near the gatesof the White Ho
  
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• US cities clean up, prepare for another night of unrest

  31-05-2020 11:05
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — America’s cities boarded up windows, swept up glass and covered graffiti Sunday as the country’s most significant night of protests in a half-century spilled into another day of unrest fueled by killings of black people at the hands of police.
  The turbulence sparked by the death of George Floyd — a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee into his neck for several minutes — shook not only the streets of New York and Lo
  
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• US cities assess protest damage, await another day of unrest

  31-05-2020 11:05
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — America’s cities boarded up windows, swept up glass and covered graffiti Sunday as the country’s most significant night of protests in a half-century promised to spill into another day of unrest fueled by killings of black people at the hands of police.
  The turbulence sparked by the death of George Floyd — a black man who died after being pinned under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer — shook not only the streets of New York and Los Angele
  
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• Unrest overshadows peaceful US protests for another night

  31-05-2020 11:05
  
  WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets across America again Sunday, with peaceful demonstrations against police killings of black people overshadowed by unrest that quickly ravaged parts of cities from Pennsylvania to California.
  City and state officials had deployed thousands of National Guard soldiers, enacted strict curfews and shut down mass transit systems, but that did little to stop many cities from again erupting into unrest.
  Protesters in Philadelphia hur
  
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• Protests form across US demanding end to police violence

  31-05-2020 11:05
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — Protests formed across America again Sunday, even as glass and graffiti from the previous night’s unrest were still being cleaned up, with some violence and crime flaring in pockets of largely peaceful demonstrations fueled by the killings of black people at the hands of police.
  From Boston to San Francisco, protesters took to the streets once more, and some signs of trouble emerged in cities that have closed streets and imposed curfews after days of turmoil. People rob
  
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• Protests flare again in US amid calls to end police violence

  31-05-2020 11:05
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — Protesters took to the streets across America again Sunday, with violence flaring in pockets of largely peaceful demonstrations fueled by the killings of black people at the hands of police. A truck driver — apparently deliberately — drove into demonstrators in Minneapolis nearly a week after George Floyd pleaded with an officer pressing a knee into his neck that he could not breathe.
  Protests sprang up from Boston to San Francisco, with people robbing stores in b
  
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• The taste of success: Campo chef a finalist for the James Beard Best Chef Southwest Award

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
  Being awarded James Beard Best Chef is similar to an actor winning an Academy Award.
  It is one of the highest recognitions a chef can obtain.
  Chef Jonathan Perno of Campo at Los Poblanos Historic Inn & Organic Farm is one step closer to being awarded that recognition. He has been named a finalist for the James Beard Best Chef Southwest Award. He is competing against a few other chefs in Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada. The winner will be announced in September.
  Chef Jonathan Perno of Campo at
  
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• Stories in fiber: Award-winning Dine fashion designer turns attention to making masks

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
  Penny Singer’s masks.
  Penny Singer paints with thread, wool and cotton to spin designs with the spirit of the Diné.
  The acclaimed Albuquerque designer of jackets, capes and ribbon shirts has won a flurry of awards at both the Santa Fe Indian Market and the Heard Museum Indian Fair and Market.
  But as the pandemic churns across both the country and the Navajo Nation, her fingers have turned to masks.
  Penny Singer is making Southwestern masks in her Albuquerque home studio.
  When the So
  
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• She wasn’t just ‘the horse lady’

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
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  Susan Rothenberg (Koos Breukel)
  Galisteo artist Susan Rothenberg became famous for her paintings of horses, but she never wanted to be pigeon-holed.
  “She didn’t want to be known as the horse lady,” said arts writer and author Lucy Lippard, who knew Rothenberg both in New York and New Mexico.
  Rothenberg’s iconic horses were displayed in museums around the world and attracted the attention of President Barack Obama, who borrowed one
  
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• Santa Fe (mostly) on a path to renewal

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
  New wave rock fans may remember “Walking in LA,” the 1982 ditty by the band Missing Persons. The refrain to the song, delivered to a pulsating beat, was “Nobody walks in LA.”
  Not many people walk in Santa Fe, either, unless they’re tourists staying at one of the downtown hotels or in an Airbnb near the Plaza. Those folks disappeared after the coronavirus shutdown began in mid-March.
  When I moved back to New Mexico in late 2015, I decided to go car-free. I grew up in
  
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• Research needed before planting cherry tree in Las Cruces

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
  Q. I live in Las Cruces and I am about to cut down a large evergreen bush. The trunk is about 10 inches in diameter. Once I’ve gotten it cut down and the roots removed, I’d like to plant a cherry tree. I already have several fruit trees in the yard and this would be the only space I can fit a cherry tree in. What do you think? – M.A., Las Cruces
  A. I have several questions for you. Firstly, do you know if there are a lot of cherry trees grown in Las Cruces? Reason being is cher
  
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• Prioritize democracy over sports

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
  By KHALED KHWEIS
  Amidst the chaos and uncertainty of COVID-19, my younger brother and I have been seeking more ways to keep ourselves occupied. One of our favorite distractions has been “The Last Dance,” ESPN’s documentary series chronicling the Chicago Bulls and their fabled basketball dynasty of the 1990s.Seeing Michael Jordan navigate throngs of raving fans, Dennis Rodman drunkenly steal the limelight in glitzy Vegas casinos, or the masses of spectators at every game was sim
  
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• Philanthropy fits them to a ‘T’

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
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  Eric Griego and his sister Clarissa Lovato are shown at their pop-up store on Marquez Place in November 2019. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
  Family-owned company FS2 Supply Co. has been making a name for itself with authentic New Mexico merchandise, such as a T-shirt emblazoned with the word “Oralé,” a local catch phrase that takes on different meanings according to the occasion.
  Now, the Santa Fe-based company is stepping up to hel
  
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• New face of fashion

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
  Three months ago very few people would have included face masks in their inventory of fashionable accessories.
  Initially, as the pandemic hit communities across the country, it was believed non-medical grade face masks did very little to help battle the virus. However, in early April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a statement saying simple, homemade cloth face coverings and masks could help slow the spread of the coronavirus. Many people are asymptomatic and unknowingly
  
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• Mixed-income housing on Midtown Campus a good idea

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
  As many as 1,700 new housing units might be developed on the city-owned college campus off St. Michael’s Drive, a portion of which is shown here. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
  Now that the Santa Fe City Council has chosen a major Dallas company as “master developer” for the city-owned Midtown Campus, one of the unresolved issues concerns the hundreds of units of housing expected to built there.
  City leaders have essentially promised that the campus site will be used to help
  
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• June 18 special session: NM lawmakers need to budget in the light

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
  Back on Nov. 7, 1972, Colorado’s voters passed Colorado Initiative 9, better known as the Colorado Sunshine Law, a citizen-approved statute that requires any state or local governmental body that meets to discuss public business or to take formal action do so in meetings that are open to the public. The vote was 491,073 in favor and 325,819 opposed. A 60.11% vs. 39.89% victory for openness. To quote two Colorado leaders on its effect:
  “Before its adoption, one could attend a committe
  
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• June 18 special session: It’s time to end state’s oil revenue addiction

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
  For as long as I’ve been a legislator I’ve repeatedly heard that New Mexico needs to end its dependence on the oil and gas industry. But we remain addicted.
  When tax revenue from oil flows freely, we treat it as total gift–nature’s bounty, God’s blessing–and we do nothing to reduce our dependence. It’s made it possible to balance our budget, paying for social needs and even setting aside healthy reserves without raising taxes. It’s been a luxury I
  
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• Get ready to cast your vote: Journal North endorsements

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
  Tuesday is election day. If you haven’t voted early or by absentee ballot, here’s a reminder of the Journal North’s endorsements in the primaries:
  District attorney for Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and Los Alamos counties, Democrat: Mary Carmack-Altwies.Santa Fe County Commission, District 5, Democrat: Hank HughesSanta Fe County Treasurer, Democrat: Lucinda MarkerSanta Fe County Clerk, Democrat: Sarah GuzmanState Senate District 5, Democrat: Leo JaramilloState House District 40, Democr
  
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• Editorial: As coronavirus goes down, many New Mexicans are pulling the state up

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
  “Gray skies are gonna clear up
  Put on a happy face
  Brush off the clouds and cheer up
  Put on a happy face.”
  After months of depressing news and deep sacrifices, the lyrics introduced in the early 1960s musical “Bye Bye Birdie” finally seem appropriate. New Mexicans appear to have turned the corner on the coronavirus pandemic, and shutdown orders are being reduced. There is still concern about later spikes, but that truly will depend on us and how safely we venture out into
  
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• Documentary chronicles artist’s journey to adjust

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
  Iva Morris and Brian O’Connor are seen inside their Veguita studio.
  Brian O’Connor has spent his life creating art.
  Visions manifest inside his head waiting to be placed on canvas.
  The brush serving as the tool to complete.
  Yet, these days, the simple act of painting has become different.
  The brush strokes that came easily, are met with varying degrees of difficulty.
  O’Connor, 62, is redefining himself in his Veguita art studio, as he battles a progressive brain disorder &ndash
  
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• Cuisine a blend of South America and the Middle East

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
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  A tray of various flavors of empanadas at Cafecito in Santa Fe. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
  I had popped into Cafecito, the eclectic Argentinian café that opened last fall in the Trailhead Compound of the Railyard’s Baca District, just once before the COVID-19 shutdown. Even then, the location – in the sunny, industrial-chic space that once housed Opuntia – struck me as ideally socially distanced.
  Tucked away on sleepy Shoo
  
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• Country icons: Documentary opens up the music vaults to provide an intimate look at 14 legendary female artists

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
  Patsy Cline. Kitty Wells. Brenda Lee. Loretta Lynn. Dolly Parton.
  These are just a few of the iconic women in country music.
  Fourteen of these powerful women are profiled in the documentary, “Iconic Women of Country,” which airs at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 4, on New Mexico PBS.
  Dolly Parton is one of the 14 legendary country women spotlighted in “Iconic Women of Country.” (Rob Griffith/Associated Press)
  “These women, they did the heavy lifting,” says director Bar
  
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• City workers feeling impact of furloughs

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
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  Gina Noriega, lead worker at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center, helps deep clean the bleachers around the basketball arena. She is one of many employees currently furloughed for 16 hours per week. Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
  When Carla Vigil received notice that the city of Santa Fe would be furloughing her for 16 hours a week, she assumed she would be able to receive unemployment benefits.
  Yet, after multiple weeks and several applications with
  
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• Business owners will do the right thing

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic has unquestionably impacted us all, but for small businesses, in many cases, it has been fatal. It has also had a disparate impact on Hispanic-owned small businesses and those that serve the Hispanic community and employ its members. The precautions taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and determination of “essential” businesses economically crippled small local businesses, an impact from which many will not recover. The Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerc
  
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• Balizan picked as Journal North’s top male athlete

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
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  John Balizan of West Las Vegas excelled on the gridiron, as well as in the classroom, earning Journal North’s male athlete of the year award. (Courtesy of Shannon Steven Aragon)
  With just two high school seasons in the book this past prep year, picking the Journal North male athlete of the year was a challenging proposition. The decision is usually so tough that it comes down to the outcomes from track & field and baseball.
  But with the spring
  
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• At 95, prolific NM author Max Evans produces a novel that’s been in the works for decades

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
  At age 95, Max Evans is celebrating the publication of his new novel, “The King of Taos.”
  “It’s almost like a miracle to me,” the longtime Albuquerque author said excitedly.
  The manuscript of the novel has been a work in progress for decades.
  “When I was working for (friend and film director Sam) Peckinpah I was thinking nostalgically about when I was living in Taos and about that old bunch of wino characters,” Evans said, referring to the endearing band
  
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• A primary election like no other

  31-05-2020 08:02
  
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  One thing is for sure: there’s never been another election year like 2020. But by the time it’s over, elections of the future may look more like this one than any other.
  With the COVID-19 outbreak hitting the country in the midst of the primary election season, state election officials across the country scrambled to accommodate voting during a pandemic where social distancing has become part of the new normal.
  Vanessa Sandoval gives two thum
  
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• Journal staffers honored by news groups

  31-05-2020 07:28
  
  Albuquerque Journal staffers were recently honored with two dozen awards in two separate regional contests, including first place honors in 10 categories in the Top of the Rockies competition coordinated by the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
  The Top of the Rockies contest, which covered the 2019 calendar year, drew a record number of entries from newspapers and broadcast television and radio stations in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
  The Journal competed ag
  
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• Accused rapist back in jail, charged with 2010 sex assault

  31-05-2020 07:27
  
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  A convicted sexual predator is back behind bars after his DNA was matched to a rape kit that went untested for nearly a decade.
  Victor Gonzales, 43, is charged with criminal sexual penetration, kidnapping and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in connection with the 2010 case.
  Investigators with the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office arrested Gonzales late Thursday and booked him into the Metropolitan Detention Center.
  The AG’s Office
  
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• Free credit checks are now available weekly

  31-05-2020 07:22
  
  Concerned about losing money to identity theft or any of the other coronavirus scams popping up?
  The three major credit reporting agencies are now offering free weekly credit checks, rather than only one freebie per year. Equifax, Experian and TransUnion are doing this through April 2021.
  “Monitoring your credit report is a good way to spot signs of identity theft, such as errors and suspicious activity and accounts or addresses you don’t recognize,” says AnnualCreditReport.com
  
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• Suspect in Mennonite woman’s death also grew up in the faith

  31-05-2020 07:10
  
  Sasha Krause worked at the publishing ministry Lamp and Light, outside Farmington. Authorities say Krause disappeared in January. Her body was found more than a month later in a forest outside Flagstaff. (Courtesy of Erica Sauder )
  FLAGSTAFF – In a forest clearing outside Flagstaff, Sasha Krause was found cold and stiff, with a bullet wound to the back of her head. She was facedown beneath brush, wearing a gray dress, white coat and hiking shoes. Her hair was pinned in a bun and her hands
  
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• Republican Mark Ronchetti fires back at attacks

  31-05-2020 06:52
  
  While much of the attention in New Mexico’s congressional races has been on the negative campaigning for the 2nd Congressional District seat, another race has been heating up as Tuesday’s primary approaches.
  The campaigns of Republican candidates seeking to replace Democratic U.S. Sen. Tom Udall have been taking shots at one another through advertisements and social media.
  Much of the criticism by former New Mexico State University professor Gavin Clarkson and anti-abortion activist
  
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• Pandemic upends college plans

  31-05-2020 06:41
  
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  The valedictorian at Highland High School had her sights set on the University of Rochester in New York next year.
  Then the global coronavirus pandemic hit, and Marina Seheon decided to stay close to home and go to the University of New Mexico. Her parents were against a move across the country.
  Marina Seheon wanted to attend the University of Rochester in New York. But the pandemic forced her to rethink her plans. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
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• During pandemic, NM voters pick fall matchups

  31-05-2020 06:35
  
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  Miguel Rodriguez, with the Santa Fe County Clerk’s Office, puts absentee ballots into a box outside the Santa Fe County Administration Building Thursday May 28, 2020.
  SANTA FE – An unusual election season – dominated by Zoom calls, not campaign rallies – will lumber to a close Tuesday when New Mexico voters nominate candidates for open seats in the U.S. House and Senate.
  State and county races are also at stake, including a series
  
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• ‘Huge disparity’ in COVID-19 death rates for Native Americans in NM

  31-05-2020 06:26
  
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  A sign with the Navajo word for “dangerous” along N.M. 12 north of Fort Defiance warns residents about COVID-19. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
  In 2009, when the H1N1 influenza flared up in the United States, American Indians died at rates four times higher than other racial and ethnic groups.
  In 2020, Native Americans across New Mexico, the majority of whom live on remote tribal lands, are dying of COVID-19 at rates 19 times that of all
  
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• Here’s one proposal: Eliminate university sports programs

  31-05-2020 04:09
  
  … I would be the first to admit that I love watching college football, and basketball in particular. But.
  I am proposing university/college sports, as they now exist in the USA, should be totally eliminated. Try to be calm now and consider this proposal.Universities are supposed to be centers of learning. They have evolved into industries for professional sports in the United States. They provide free minor leagues for MLB, NFL and NBA. In many cases the athletes are “rented”
  
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