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• Guilt-ridden man confesses to landlord’s killing 15 years later, recordings show

  03-06-2023 21:57
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Police officers found Tony Peralta earlier this month sitting on a curb not far from the convenience store in a small southeastern New Mexico community where he borrowed a cellphone -- so he could call 911 and confess to killing his landlord 15 years earlier.
  Sweating and taking puffs from his cigarette, he told them he's tired of covering it up, tired of living with the lie and tired of being overwhelmed by guilt. He agreed to take the officers to where he buried the
  
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• Santa Fe man killed in suspected DWI crash on I-25 late Friday

  03-06-2023 21:48
  
  A Santa Fe man was killed after a suspected drunken driver rear-ended his truck on Interstate 25 late Friday, causing it to roll.Hector Beltran, 66, died in the crash that happened around 10 p.m. on I-25 north of Paseo del Norte, New Mexico State Police said in a Saturday news release. Jonathan Lujan (MDC)Based on the initial investigation, State Police said Jonathan M. Lujan, 22, was driving a Jeep SUV north when it rear-ended a Toyota pickup truck driven by Beltran, forcing the truck to roll o
  
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• Biden signs debt ceiling bill that pulls US back from brink of unprecedented default

  03-06-2023 20:37
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) -- With just two days to spare, President Joe Biden signed legislation on Saturday that lifts the nation's debt ceiling, averting an unprecedented default on the federal government's debt.The White House announced the signing, done in private at the White House, in an emailed statement in which Biden thanked congressional leaders for their partnership.
  The Treasury Department had warned that the country would start running short of cash to pay all of its bills on Monday, which w
  
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• Key suspect in Natalee Holloway’s case moved to new prison ahead of extradition to US

  03-06-2023 20:36
  
  LIMA, Peru (AP) -- The chief suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American student Natalee Holloway is being transferred to a prison near Peru's capital ahead of his pending extradition to the United States to face charges linked to her vanishing, officials said Saturday.The government of Peru, where Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot was serving a 28-year sentence for the murder of a Peruvian woman, authorized his extradition to the U.S. in May.Máximo Altez, van der Sloot's lawy
  
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• India train crash kills over 280, injures 900 in one of nation’s worst rail disasters

  03-06-2023 20:36
  
  BALASORE, India (AP) -- Rescuers found no more survivors in the overturned and mangled wreckage of two passenger trains that derailed in eastern India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds in one of the country's deadliest rail crashes in decades, officials said Saturday.
  Chaotic scenes erupted on Friday night as rescuers climbed atop the wrecked trains to break open doors and windows using cutting torches.The death toll rose steadily throughout the night. Scores of bodies, covere
  
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• Longtime ABQ Rep. Christine Trujillo to retire from Legislature

  03-06-2023 19:52
  
  Rep. Christine Trujillo, D-AlbuquerqueSANTA FE — Citing her age and health, state Rep. Christine Trujllo, D-Albuquerque, said Saturday that she has submitted her resignation and plans to leave the Legislature at the end of the month.The Bernalillo County Commission will appoint a replacement.Trujillo, a former chairwoman of the Legislative Education Study Committee, said she is particularly proud of her work on education and health policy."I feel like I made a good contribution" Trujillo,
  
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• Felony Repeat Offender DWI Court is making ABQ safer

  03-06-2023 19:00
  
  The Second Judicial District Court is composed of 30 judges. The judges serving in the Second Judicial District are a diverse group, who live in this community.We took an oath we will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and the laws of the state of New Mexico and faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of District Court judge. Our decisions are to be based on the law and our constitutional and ethical responsibilities. The Second Judicial District Court has
  
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• Albuquerque’s Al Cabral claims gold in Asian Pacific Masters Games

  03-06-2023 13:49
  
  Al Cabral poses outside his southeast Albuquerque home with medals he was awarded at the Asian Pacific Masters Games in South Korea. (Jon Austria/Albuquerque Journal)One thing Albuquerque's Al Cabral has learned in a dozen years or so of competing in senior athletic competitions is that it pays to hang in there.Cabral won gold medals for javelin and discus and a silver medal in the long jump in the Asian Pacific Masters Games contested in North Jeolla, South Korea, May 12-20.The games, for athl
  
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• The Journal’s 2022-23 metro prep athletes of the year — by sport

  03-06-2023 06:43
  
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• Isotopes’ losing skid reaches six games

  03-06-2023 06:12
  
  'TOPES SATURDAY: At Salt Lake6:35 p.m.,610 AM/95.9 FMPROBABLES: Isotopes RHP Karl Kauffmann (2-3, 7.78) vs. Bees LHP Jake Kalish (2-5, 8.36)FRIDAY: Salt Lake LHP Kenny Rosenberg checked Albuquerque on a run over six innings, striking out 10 in the host Bees' 6-3 victory. Aaron Schunk doubled and had three of Albuquerque's 10 hits, and teammate Hunter Stovall hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning. The Isotopes suffered their sixth straight defeat and are a season-worst 11 games under .500.NEX
  
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• Great Southwest Track and Field: Missouri’s Smith perseveres for repeat decathlon title

  03-06-2023 06:00
  
  Jordan Smith had plans to compete on Saturday at the Great Southwest Track and Field Classic."Was supposed to," he said, wearily. "But I'm scratching."It was understandable, given the circumstances, and an obvious bout of fatigue written all over his 17-year-old face.After two days and 10 events, Smith, from Kansas City, Missouri, had won the decathlon at the University of New Mexico Track and Field Complex on Friday afternoon.He scored 6,247 points over Thursday and Friday as he successfully re
  
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• Former Lobos basketball coach Yvonne Sanchez has new (and old) job

  03-06-2023 05:44
  
  Former UNM women's basketball coach Yvonne Sanchez., shown coaching the Lobos on Jan. 2, 2016 in the Pit, has accepted an assistant coaching position at Arizona State. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal.)Former UNM head and assistant women’s basketball coach Yvonne Sanchez was re-hired by Arizona State this week as a special assistant to Natasha Adair.Sanchez spent the 2021-22 season as an assistant at ASU but left when former head coach Charli Turner-Thorne retired.A Los Alamos native, Sa
  
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• Saturday’s El Paso-United match is even bigger than usual, for these reasons

  03-06-2023 04:17
  
   Motivation will not be in short supply Saturday night at Isotopes Park.New Mexico United (4-4-2) and El Paso Locomotive FC (7-3-1), two of the USL Championship's fiercest rivals, will renew their annual two-part scrum, affectionately known as the Derby del Camino Real.That alone is enough to fire up both teams, who have been locking horns on remarkably even footing since they joined the league together in 2019. The clubs have a 3-3-7 all-time record in regular season and postseason meeting
  
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• Meet the retired engineer from Albuquerque who has a system for playing the lottery. He just won $3 million.

  03-06-2023 03:30
  
  The Albertsons at Academy and Tramway where an Albuquerque man bought his winning Mega Millions ticket. (Chancey Bush/Albuquerque Journal)Paul's a numbers guy, a retired aerospace engineer who was using a slide rule when he came out of college.He's something of a gambler, too. Nothing big time, but he likes to go to Las Vegas for a weekend every few months and he buys tickets for all the Mega Millions and Powerball drawings.Paul understands odds. He doesn't need a slide rule to realize winning
  
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• New Mexico State women’s basketball adds Hall of Famer Gordon to coaching staff

  03-06-2023 02:39
  
  LAS CRUCES — Hall of Famer Bridgette Gordon is joining the New Mexico State women's basketball staff, the school said Friday.Gordon played at Tennessee under the late Pat Summitt, as did current NMSU head coach Jody Adams. Gordon also was an assistant under Adams at Wichita State."Bridgette's success on the court as a collegiate and professional player is genuinely uncommon," Adams said. "I love her ability to build relationships with student-athletes and empower them to be great. Her stor
  
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• Library summer reading program kicks off this weekend. Here’s how to participate.

  03-06-2023 02:25
  
  Theodore Brown, 6, right, his mother Emma, left, and year-old sister Lucia listen to a book being read during the pre-K story time at the Cherry Hills Public Library in Albuquerque on Thursday. The library system is celebrating its summer reading program kick-off on Saturday. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)Whether they're reading "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" or George R.R. Martin, graphic novels or audiobooks, readers of all ages can win prizes this summer through the Albuquerque Bernalillo Coun
  
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• Judge sentences Albuquerque man who, in meth-induced state of paranoia, killed motorist on the Big I

  03-06-2023 02:19
  
  A former Albuquerque paramedic whose methamphetamine-induced paranoia led him to fatally shoot another motorist on the Big I in July 2019 was sentenced to serve 14 years in prison Friday.Donald Duquette, 55, was convicted in early February of second-degree murder and shooting at or from a motor vehicle causing great bodily harm in the death of Jose Ruben Diaz. Diaz was found shot in the head inside his work truck after it crashed against the south wall of Interstate 40.In what prosecutors descr
  
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• Appeals court revives lawsuit over Albuquerque teacher who allegedly called student a ‘bloody Indian.’

  03-06-2023 02:08
  
  The state Court of Appeals has revived a lawsuit over a 2018 incident in which a West Side high school teacher allegedly called a Navajo student a "bloody Indian" and cut the braid of another Indigenous student during class.The lawsuit was originally dismissed over a year after its filing by a district court judge, who found the state Human Rights Act did not apply.But after another two years of her case making its way through the appeals process, McKenzie Johnson, the student targeted by the co
  
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• A decade after county defeat, Michael Wiener seeks return to public office

  03-06-2023 02:02
  
  SANTA FE — Republican Michael Wiener is launching a political comeback.Eleven years ago, he lost his reelection bid for the Bernalillo County Commission after his Democratic colleagues censured him and prominent Republicans — including then-Gov. Susana Martinez — called on him to resign.The criticism came after he had been photographed posing with women in a red-light district in the Philippines, been the subject of a sexual harassment investigation and forwarded a racist joke
  
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• Father accused in repeated abuse of newborn, 2-year-old stepdaughter

  03-06-2023 01:31
  
  Gabriel Desoto (MDC)An Albuquerque man is accused of abusing his newborn child and 2-year-old stepdaughter more than once over the past year — leaving the children with skull fractures and broken ribs.Gabriel Desoto, 25, is charged with two counts of child abuse resulting in great bodily harm in separate incidents that led to the children being hospitalized repeatedly.Desoto was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center Thursday.The Law Offices of the Public Defender is representing D
  
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