7-11 Gunman Captured
Albuquerque police have captured the armed gunman who shot and killed a 7-Eleven convenience store clerk early Tuesday morning. Police arrested Eloy Aguilar, 22, Wednesday afternoon after they said he was the triggerman in the killing of a 7-Eleven clerk, later identified as Chad Mercer, 36. Aguilar was arrested at his apartment complex located at [...]
Fake Financial Report Could Force New Mexico Downgrade
SANTA FE, N.M. – New Mexico’s top security regulator says potential fraud within a state financing authority extends beyond a faked financial audit that has national credit rating agencies considering whether to downgrade the agency’s bond ratings. The disclosure by Securities Division Director Daniel Tanaka came Wednesday as the New Mexico Finance Authority’s governing board [...]
N.M. Senators Studying U.N. Arms Treaty
WASHINGTON – A proposed global small arms trade treaty under negotiation at the United Nations has American gun advocates warning of an erosion of the Second Amendment rights, while New Mexico’s senators are taking a wait-and-see approach. The 193-member U.N. General Assembly began discussions this month for the first legally binding global treaty that would [...]
State To Confiscate Supercomputer
New Mexico’s $11 million supercomputer Encanto has fallen on hard times. It is on the verge of being repossessed by the Martinez administration; it is about to be evicted from its home at Intel; and its ranking among fastest supercomputers in the world has dropped from third to No. 128, substantially reducing its market value. [...]
MONSOON? Finally.
A thickening flow of moist air from the south has New Mexico primed this week for summer rains Chuck Jones, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service, says “It looks like a full onset of the monsoon,” The coming rains are expected to break Albuquerque’s heat wave, with today’s forecast of a high of 94 [...]
One Dead, 346 Homes Destroyed By Waldo Canyon Fire
(Colorado Springs, CO) – The wildfire ravaging in the Colorado Springs area is now a killer. A body has been found in the ashes of a burned-out home, the first known fatality connected to the Waldo Canyon fire. Police say there are reports of two adults missing in the fire. Mayor Steve Bach announced [...]
Waldo Canyon Fire Still Raging
(Colorado Springs, CO) – The explosive Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado Springs continues to burn out of control. Forest Service officials say yesterday’s weather conditions pushed the nearly 16-thousand-acre blaze faster than firefighters could handle. Fire crews were forced to fall back as high winds and dry conditions pushed the flames forward. More evacuations were [...]
Weber Fire continues to burn in the Four Corners
The Weber fire near Mancos, Colo. has forced more than hundred people out of their homes in the Four Corners area.. The fire started on Friday just west of Mancos Hill and south of U.S. 160 and has already burned more than 7,000 acres. Crews worked hard overnight to hold the fire back from the [...]
Damage Toll Mounts From Colorado’s Largest Wildfire
(Denver, CO) — The most destructive wildfire in Colorado history continues to turn homes into ashes. The High Park Fire near Fort Collins has destroyed at least 248 homes. Approximately 12-hundred of the 43-hundred homeowners evacuated from the fire were permitted to return to their homes yesterday. The Waldo Canyon fire has grown to [...]
Little Bear Fire 60 percent contained
RUIDOSO, N.M. – Firefighters battling a wildfire in southern New Mexico that has destroyed 242 homes and businesses are working Sunday to increase containment and keep an eye out for possible lightning. The 59-square-mile Little Bear Fire in Ruidoso is now 60 percent contained. Most of the fire is in the mop-up stage but [...]