Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:59 PM EDT
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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Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:39 PM EDT
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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Fri Mar 11, 2011 3:43 AM EST
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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Fri Feb 4, 2011 12:37 AM EST
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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Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:54 AM EST
The rehabilitation of Billy the Kid lies dead in the dust.
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Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:01 PM EST
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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Thu Dec 16, 2010 6:32 PM EST
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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Wed Nov 17, 2010 6:07 PM EST
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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Wed Nov 17, 2010 3:33 PM EST
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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Tue Nov 16, 2010 1:52 PM EST
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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Thu Nov 11, 2010 3:34 PM EST
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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Thu Sep 30, 2010 3:24 PM EDT
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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Tue Sep 21, 2010 3:32 AM EDT
The tip about a backyard marijuana-growing operation set the Pecos Valley Drug Task Force in motion.
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Sat Sep 18, 2010 12:30 PM EDT
Zuni silversmith Tony Eriacho stands behind tables of American Indian jewelry and crafts that are not what they seem.
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Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:50 PM EDT
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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Wed Aug 18, 2010 2:01 PM EDT
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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Mon Aug 16, 2010 4:13 PM EDT
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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Tue Aug 3, 2010 3:13 PM EDT
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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Fri Jul 16, 2010 3:30 PM EDT
Len Goodman can't grow enough marijuana to keep up with demand.
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Tue Jun 1, 2010 4:28 PM EDT
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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Fri May 14, 2010 1:44 PM EDT
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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Thu May 13, 2010 3:31 PM EDT
The head of Sandia National Laboratories' nuclear weapons programs will become the lab's next president.
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Wed Apr 14, 2010 1:46 PM EDT
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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Tue Apr 6, 2010 3:21 PM EDT
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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Wed Mar 31, 2010 4:10 AM EDT
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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