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Ferri trial begins First responder crime scene expert testify on first day
Special prosecutor Amy Orlando, center, speaks with defense attorney Gary Mitchell, left, and prosecutor Scot Key before the jury is brought into District Judge Fernando Macias' courtroom Monday. Orlando and Key are prosecuting Mitchell's client, Eugene Gino Ferri, who has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder and four other felonies related to the 2010 killings of a ...
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Mulligans fore Mutts event June 8 in Las Cruces
LAS CRUCES - Action Program for Animals and Doña Ana Pets Alive are teaming up with Red Hawk Golf Course for a June 8 golf tournament. The tournament will feature an after-play lunch and several contests on the course during play. Openings remain for players, sponsors and registration. For more information, call ...
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LCHS to hold last look reception before renovations
LAS CRUCES - Former Las Cruces High School graduates and curious community residents are invited to a public reception at LCHS before the walls of the school come tumbling down. A multiyear renovation project to the city's oldest high school will begin soon after school ends Friday. A community reception will be held from 4:30-6 p.m. Wednesday in the school's main lobby, 1750 El ...
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Okla. Medical examiner expecting more bodies
The vicious tornado that tore across central Oklahoma on Monday has killed at least 51 people -- with about 40 more bodies expected to arrive at the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office, Amy Elliott of the coroner's office said. The official death toll will gradually rise as the bodies are ...
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Big jump in HIV among Navajo in New Mexico
A Navajo reservation near Gallup, N.M., had a 20 percent increase in HIV diagnoses in 2012 from 2011, a doctor says. Dr. Jonathan Iralu, an infectious disease specialist who runs an HIV clinic in Gallup, said he compiled the report for the federal Indian Health Service because he used to treat a small number of Navajo men with human immunodeficiency virus each year. However, the 47 new cases ...
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Crews could head to Okla. as early as Tuesday
Posted at: 05/20/2013 11:39 PM | Updated at: 05/20/2013 11:41 PM By: Maria Guerrero, KOB Eyewitness News 4 Dozens of American Red Cross volunteers across New Mexico will find out as early as Tuesday morning if they will be heading to Oklahoma to help in the recovery efforts. Meanwhile, people with loved ones in the tornado-ravaged state are desperate to know if their loved ones are ...
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Traffic ticket insurance scam or safeguard
Posted at: 05/20/2013 11:26 PM | Updated at: 05/20/2013 11:31 PM By: Jill Galus, KOB Eyewitness News 4 Health insurance, life insurance, and car insurance are among types of protection most people would not go without. But what about traffic ticket protection, with a promise that you will never have to pay out-of-pocket for a traffic fine again. For the past few weeks, KOB Eyewitness ...
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Martinez popular across party lines
Posted at: 05/20/2013 10:56 PM By: Gadi Schwartz, KOB Eyewitness News 4 Governor Martinez has some surprising support outside of her party. KOB Eyewitness News conducted a survey in collaboration with Survey USA and found 66 percent of New Mexicans are happy with the job she is doing. She fairs well with both men, 62 percent approval, and women, 70 percent approval. But not everyone ...
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State supressed $11 million fraud case
SANTA FE (KRQE) - A New Mexico cabinet secretary lied twice about why a fraud investigation into a luxury homebuilder was dropped in 2011, then admitted he hadnt reviewed all the evidence before re-opening the investigation earlier this month. And New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Superintendent J. Dee Dennis, Jr., said he only re-opened the investigation after News 13s Larry Barker began ...
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Redhorse jury begins deliberations
Posted at: 05/20/2013 9:06 PM | Updated at: 05/20/2013 9:08 PM By: Ashley McElroy, KOB Eyewitness News 4 The jury in Alex Redhorse’s third trial began deliberations today. Redhorse is accused of killing Dusty Rye and Alec Armijo in 2011, then burning their bodies in the Cibola National Forest. During today’s closing arguments, the prosecution argued there were several ...
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N.M. child ADHD rates lower than natl average
Posted at: 05/20/2013 8:48 PM By: Nikki Ibarra, KOB Eyewitness News 4 A new study by the CDC found that Attention Deficit Hyper-Activity Disorder rates among children three to 17 are higher than recent ...
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Help from New Mexicans already on the way to Okla.
New Mexicans have already sprung into action and are providing aid to victims of the Oklahoma hurricane. The Red Cross may deploy volunteers to the area as early as tomorrow morning. For those looking for family members Regional CEO, Rahim Balsara said there is help on the web. "There is a website that is called Safe and Well," he Balsara said. "That when people who are ...
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Albuquerque voters still confident in APD
Two thirds of Albuquerque voters report they have some degree of confidence in the Albuquerque Police Department. Below are the results of a survey conducted by Survey USA, a research ...
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Woman who killed cyclist in court again
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Police say an Albuquerque woman who hit and killed a bicyclist three years ago is still making bad decisions behind the wheel. Miranda Pacheco, 28, was in court Monday accused of driving recklessly and driving drunk. The family of the man Pacheco killed ...
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Albuquerques suburbs are among the poorest in the country
The suburbs were once considered a more desirable place to live, but numbers released today show it's now a popular place for poverty. And Albuquerque's suburbs are among the poorest in the ...
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A church is left in dark after theft
Police said Sheppard of the Hills Lutheran Church is the second church to be targeted by thieves in less than a month. This church's reverend said it's a shame they were ripped ...
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Bargain thrift store catches on fire overnight
"It's very smoky but there doesn't appear to be any fire damage to any of the merchandise or and of the donations in the back, which is really miraculous, even the books," said Jill ...
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Police search for answers in jogger shooting
Was it random or was an Albuquerque jogger targeted when he was shot? KOB Eyewitness News 4 learned Justin Schroer only moved to Albuquerque a week ago to work at the UNM Cancer Center. Police said he was shot Friday near UNM. Police told KOB they will be interviewing Schroer tomorrow at UNM Hospital where he’s still recovering. Their main concern is whether or not someone ...
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Arson fails to hide Las Vegas murder
LAS VEGAS, N.M. (KRQE) - Firefighters quelling a blaze in Las Vegas Friday found the remains of a murder victim inside a charred apartment. Investigators are calling the fire a failed attempt to cover up the killing of Angel Arroyo, 32. Now Jos Montoya, 31, and Gary Esquibel, 30, are in custody after law officers tracked them to metro Albuquerque. "This is so unexpected," said neighbor ...
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Careless driving law under scrutiny
Critics are taking aim at a state law against so-called careless driving that levels the same punishment on drivers for a wide variety of ...
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Miranda Pacheco back in court
A woman convicted of careless driving in the 2010 death of a bicyclist was back in front of a judge Monday. Twenty-eight-year-old Miranda Pacheco was accused of driving drunk on ...
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Careless driving killed three DA
GRANTS, N.M. (KRE) - A semi truck driver who crossed the median on Interstate 40 and killed three people in an oncoming moving van has been charged with careless driving and faces a maximum of 90 days in jail if convicted. According to witnesses to the Jan. 9 crash driver Ali Sokondo, 19, suddenly crossed the median on Interstate 40 near Grants right into the path of a moving van with three men ...
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Children rescued from OK tornado rubble
A child is pulled from the rubble of the Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., and passed along to rescuers Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Sue ...
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Careless driving charged in fatal crash
RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) - A driver who struck and killed a motorcyclist at a Rio Rancho intersection has been charged with careless driving. James Gustafson, 67, of Bernalillo, died after his bike was hit by an SUV driven by Theodore Kaufmann at the intersection of Northern Boulevard and State Route 528 on Feb. 7. Kaufman, 72, Rio Rancho High School's assistant softball coach, told ...
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SFPD Chief advocates to lower blood alcohol limit
Santa Fe's police chief has come out in agreement with the National Transportation Safety Board's recommendation to lower the legal blood-alcohol ...
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Albuquerque leading the way in sustainable development
The Global Warming debate over whether humans or natural processes are to blame for rising temperatures, is far from settled. But for many environmentalists and conservation groups there is a concern that the debate may detract from the fact that something must still be done about the unsustainable way in which humans currently live.
Albuquerque is leading many cities in the United States, and even the world, in efforts to develop a sustainable development program by which future generations will not have to suffer for the industry and economic growth of the present. Read more
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