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No NM charges in case of body parts sent to Kansas

New Mexico authorities won't file criminal charges in a grisly case that began a year ago when seven heads, a torso and several limbs were discovered at a Kansas medical waste facility, a prosecutor's office said Thursday.

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Autopsy: Dog bites killed NM man attacked by pack

Bites from a relentless pack of dogs killed a 55-year-old man with a history of seizures who was found lying unconscious along the side of a road while the animals mauled him, a medical examiner's report said.

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NM border town officials to remain jailed

Three top officials from a New Mexico border town who are accused in a scheme to illegally buy guns in the U.S. and send them to Mexico will remain jailed, after a judge denied their bail requests Tuesday, saying the evidence against them was "pretty damning."

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Thousands in NM without natural gas service

With tens of thousands of people across New Mexico without natural gas service, Gov. Susana Martinez on Thursday declared a state of emergency, ordered government offices be shut down Friday and urged schools to "strongly consider" remaining closed for the day.

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NM governor: No pardon for outlaw Billy the Kid

The rehabilitation of Billy the Kid lies dead in the dust.

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Garrett descendant objects to pardoning the Kid

Descendants of Old West lawman Pat Garrett and New Mexico Territorial Gov. Lew Wallace are outraged over the possibility that Gov. Bill Richardson will pardon Billy the Kid.

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Lawman's descendant objects to pardoning the Kid

Descendants of Old West lawman Pat Garrett and New Mexico Territorial Gov. Lew Wallace are outraged that Gov. Bill Richardson is considering a pardon for Billy the Kid, saying Wallace never offered a pardon, and a petition seeking one is tainted because it comes from a lawyer with ties to Richardson.

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New Mexico Independent news website shuts down

The New Mexico Independent news website laid off its staff Wednesday and largely shut down the site because of a lack of funding.

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NM parking attendants ticket SUV with body 3 times

University of New Mexico parking attendants ticketed a rental vehicle parked on campus three times without noticing a dead woman slumped in the front seat.

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Uranium company: court decision allows NM mine

A company says the U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the last legal challenge to its license to mine uranium at an aquifer that supplies drinking water to Navajo communities in northwestern New Mexico.

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ACLU challenging half-pay for discharged gays

The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the government on behalf of a gay former Air Force sergeant denied full separation pay after he was forced out under the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

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New Mexico balloonist who crossed Pacific dies

Ron Clark, a member of the four-man crew that made the first balloon crossing of the Pacific Ocean in 1981, has died. He was 69.

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NM police: We need info about licensed medical pot

The tip about a backyard marijuana-growing operation set the Pecos Valley Drug Task Force in motion.

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Amendments toughen anti-fraud arts and crafts law

Zuni silversmith Tony Eriacho stands behind tables of American Indian jewelry and crafts that are not what they seem.

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NM ranchers sue over changes in wolf program

Ranching groups and two southern New Mexico counties are suing over a program that's reintroducing Mexican gray wolves into the wild in New Mexico and Arizona.

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Baby slapping aboard flight sets off debate

America's latest folk-hero flight attendant may be the one on a Southwest Airlines jet who took a 13-month-old baby from her mother after the woman slapped the crying child for kicking her.

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NM watchdog group sues to halt plutonium factory

A watchdog group has filed suit in federal court to halt a multibillion-dollar plutonium building planned at Los Alamos National Laboratory until an environmental study can be done.

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Mo. search wraps up in New Mexico bodies probe

The FBI and police on Wednesday appeared to wrap up searches in southwest Missouri that were done in connection with an investigation into the deaths of 11 women and a fetus found buried in the New Mexico desert last year.

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Looking for medical marijuana in NM? Get in line

Len Goodman can't grow enough marijuana to keep up with demand.

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NM's largest utility seeks electric rate hike

The state's largest electric utility filed a request with regulators Tuesday for a rate increase that would add $10 a month to the average customer's bill starting sometime next year.

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Federal agency agrees to deadline on AZ, NM wolves

A federal judge in Arizona has approved a settlement requiring the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to issue a finding by the end of July on a petition that seeks to list the Mexican gray wolf on the federal endangered species list separate from other North American gray wolves.

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Head of N.M.-based nuclear weapons lab to retire

The head of Sandia National Laboratories' nuclear weapons programs will become the lab's next president.

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Families sue over how NM company treated bodies

A New Mexico man received what he thought were the cremated remains of his wife's body after donating her organs to science — only to learn a few weeks later that police found her body, intact, at the company that was supposed to handle the donation.

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NM city calls body donation offices a 'biohazard'

One of two walk-in freezers where authorities found bodies and body parts wasn't working, so the remains have contaminated the building and forced health officials to treat it like a biohazard.

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VA doctors prohibited from prescribing medical pot

When Paul Culkin came home to New Mexico after serving with an Army bomb squad in Iraq, he tried counseling and medications offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs to cope with his post traumatic stress disorder.

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