AN ALBUQUERQUE CITY COUNCILOR WANTS LITTERING FINES TO GO UP. CURRENTLY THE FINE IS 150 DOLLARS FOR A FIRST OFFENSE. BUT COUNCILOR CYNTHIA BORREGO HAS PROPOSED AN ORDINANCE THAT WOULD HIKE FINES TO 250-DOLLARS FOR A FIRST OFFENSE … AND 500 DOLLARS AFTER THAT. FINES WON’T BE IMPOSED UNLESS AN OFFICER SEES THE OFFENSE. THE…… MORE
Beware What You Buy at the Grocery Store
BE AWARE OF WHAT YOU’RE BUYING IN SOME OF YOUR FAVORITE GROCERY STORES. THERE’S BEEN A RECALL THAT WAS ANNOUNCED OCTOBER 17TH ON READY-TO-EAT AND PRE-MADE FOOD AT WALMART, KROGER, TRADER JOE’S, WHOLE FOODS AND 7-ELEVEN. IT INCLUDES RECALLS ON 217 TO 940 POUNDS OF SALADS. SOME OF THOSE PRODUCTS ARE TRADER JOE’S BARBECUE FLAVORED…… MORE
NM’s Economic Growth Helped by Celebs
THE FILM INDUSTRY IN NEW MEXICO IS HELPING TO BOOST ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE STATE. THE STATE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT SAYS DIRECT SPENDING WAS 230 MILLION DOLLARS FOR FISCAL 2018. ONE OF THE CELEBRITIES … ARIELLE KEBBEL, WHO STARS IN “MIDNIGHT TEXAS” SHOT HERE … BOUGHT A NECKLACE IN NOB HILL AND WORE IT ON…… MORE
Woman Charged in Son’s Death Pleads Not Guilty
A SANTA FE WOMAN ACCUSED OF KILLING HER YOUNG STEPSON LAST MONTH PLEADS NOT GUILTY. THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN REPORTS 20 YEAR OLD MELYNIE CURTIS ENTERED THE PLEA IN COURT ON MONDAY. CURTIS ALLEGEDLY STRANGLED FIVE YEAR OLD JAYDEN CURTIS, THEN CALLED 9-1-1 TO REPORT THAT HE WAS UNCONSCIOUS IN THE BATHTUB. INVESTIGATORS SAID…… MORE
Forty-Four Years for Rio Rancho Man
A RIO RANCHO MAN WILL SPEND EVEN MORE TIME IN PRISON. A JUDGE HAS SENTENCED 33 YEAR OLD REYES BARELA TO 44 YEARS IN PRISON FOR ROBBING A SANTA FE MEDICAL MARIJUANA FACILITY IN 2013. THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN REPORTS THAT’S ON TOP OF A 24 YEAR SENTENCE BARELA GOT IN AUGUST FOR THE…… MORE
Hit-n-Run Driver Arrested
ALBUQUERQUE POLICE BELIEVE THEY KNOW WHO STRUCK AND KILLED A PEDESTRIAN DOWNTOWN, THEN TOOK OFF. THIRTY-TWO YEAR OLD MATTHEW LOWE HAS BEEN ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH LEAVING THE SCENE OF AN ACCIDENT CAUSING DEATH AND EVIDENCE TAMPERING. THE INCIDENT HAPPENED SATURDAY AFTERNOON NEAR FIRST AND CENTRAL. A METRO COURT CRIMINAL COMPLAINT SAYS LOWE PERFORMED POORLY…… MORE
Commissioners Take on the Minimum Wage and Weed Killers
THE BERNALILLO COUNTY COMMISSION TUESDAY NIGHT WILL TAKE ON RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE. COMMISSIONERS WILL DISCUSS RAISING THE MINIMUM WAGE BY 20 CENTS AN HOUR FOR THE UNINCORPORATED AREAS IN BERNALILLO COUNTY. IT’S AN INCREASE OF ABOUT 400 DOLLARS A YEAR. AND IT WOULD UP THE HOURLY WAGE FROM 8-85 TO 9-05. IF IT’S APPROVED,…… MORE
Three Rescued from Albuquerque Arroyo
THREE PEOPLE HAD TO BE RESCUED FROM AN ARROYO TUESDAY MORNING. WE STILL DON’T HAVE MUCH INFORMATION ON WHAT THEY WERE DOING IN THE ARROYO ALONG PAN AMERICAN NEAR CANDELARIA … BUT ALBUQUERQUE FIRE RESCUE HELPED PULL THEM OUT OF THE WATER. IT TOOK ABOUT A HALF AN HOUR TO RESCUE THE TRIO. THEY WERE…… MORE
Man Arrested Off Jet at Sunport
A FLORIDA MAN FACES FEDERAL CHARGES AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY GROPED A FEMALE PASSENGER ON A SOUTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT FROM HOUSTON TO ALBUQUERQUE SUNDAY. FEDERAL AGENTS SAY 49 YEAR OLD BRUCE ALEXANDER TOLD THEM PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID IT’S OKAY TO GRAB WOMEN BY THEIR PRIVATE PARTS. DONALD TRUMP MADE THAT COMMENT ON AN “ACCESS HOLLYWOOD” TAPE…… MORE
Man Who Groped Girls at Shopping Mall Sentenced
A MAN WHO GROPED YOUNG GIRLS AT CORONADO CENTER TWO DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS LAST YEAR HAS BEEN SENTENCED TO 12 YEARS IN PRISON…THE MAXIMUM ALLOWED. FORTY-SEVEN YEAR OLD MICHAEL CHAVARRIA IS A CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER FROM CALIFORNIA WHO WAS SENTENCED TO SIX YEARS FOR LEWD AND LASCIVIOUS ACTS UPON A CHILD IN 2001. THE BERNALILLO…… MORE
