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Man goes on stabbing spree in Albuquerque church
Four people were stabbed at the St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico after a young man allegedly jumped from his seat and charged the choir just as the service was ending, police said. A police spokesperson told The ABQ Journal that two of the four people who…
Santa Fe’s city attorney: Same-sex marriage is legal in New Mexico
Santa Fe officials on Tuesday urged county clerks to provide same-sex couples with marriage licenses, claiming that same-sex marriage was legal in New Mexico. In a legal memo, City Attorney Geno Zamara explained that the state’s definite of marriage was gender-neutral and therefore did not prohibit same-sex marriage. He also…
New Mexico police search for the horrible person who shot this puppy with a crossbow
Police in Farmington, New Mexico said they’re on the lookout for whoever shot a local puppy in the hind leg with a crossbow, leaving the poor creature yelping in pain. The local animal shelter removed the crossbow bolt from the puppy’s leg and transferred him to a facility in Durango,…
N.M. bill makes aborting a rape pregnancy ‘tampering with evidence’
A measure proposed by a Republican lawmaker in New Mexico would make it illegal for a woman to abort a fetus sired by a rapist on the grounds that the woman is “tampering with evidence” in the suspect’s trial. According to Huffington Post, state Rep. Cathrynn Brown (R) has put forth House…
Teen arrested in New Mexico after shooting two adults and three children
A young man has been arrested and charged in the murder of five people, including three children, in the southwestern US state of New Mexico, police said Sunday. Police said in a statement they found the bodies of an adult male and female and two girls and a boy described…
New Mexico Republican official caught training polls challengers to suppress votes
A liberal group in New Mexico claims to have undercover video showing the vice chair of the Sandoval County Republican Party training poll challengers to use illegal tactics that could suppress voters’ rights. ProgressNow New Mexico on Wednesday published video of a September 26th official “Poll Challenger Training,” in which…
New Mexico state employee fired over medical marijuana
A state employee in New Mexico, one of 16 states that allows doctors to recommend marijuana for medical uses, told local media that she was fired after a drug test revealed that she’d been following her doctor’s orders to treat post traumatic stress disorder. The woman told local reporters she…
Geoengineers to release planet-cooling gas into New Mexico atmosphere
Two Harvard engineers are planning to spray thousands of tonnes of sun-reflecting chemical particles into the atmosphere to artificially cool the planet, using a balloon flying 80,000 feet over Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The field experiment in solar geoengineering aims to ultimately create a technology to replicate the observed effects…
1,200 firefighters tackle record-breaking U.S. blaze
Over 1,200 firefighters battling New Mexico’s largest wildfire in history rappelled from helicopters Saturday to extinguish blazes in rugged mountains and canyons, authorities said. The Whitewater-Baldy Complex blaze has burned through 227,000 acres (92,000 hectares) and is only 15 percent contained, although “substantial progress” has been made as firefighters race to extinguish the massive…
Wildfires sweep across the southwest amid historic drought conditions
Lightning strikes and already-dry conditions are keeping firefighters busy fighting more than a dozen blazes Wildfires raced across a dry and windy south-west on Friday, destroying dozens of homes and depositing a smoky haze over the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Fueled by historic drought conditions, the wildfire season opened…
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