THE ALBUQUERQUE CITY COUNCIL’S FINANCE AND GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS COMMITTEE HAS SENT A GASOLINE TAX PROPOSAL ON TO THE FULL COUNCIL WITHOUT RECOMMENDATION. COUNCILOR ISAAC BENTON’S PLAN WOULD RAISE THE TAX BY TWO CENTS A GALLON. HE TELLS NEWSRADIO KKOB IT WOULD RAISE ALMOST 5 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR TO MAKE SOME BADLY NEEDED…… MORE
Easter Means Chimayo Pilgrimage
THE FAITHFUL TAKE TO THE ROADWAYS THIS WEEK. THE ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE TO EL SANTUARIO DE CHIMAYO BEGINS SOON FOR MANY WHO ARE GOING TO WALK ALONG ROADS IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO TO REACH CHIMAYO. JUAN RIOS WITH THE SANTA FE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT SAYS HE EXPECTED BIG CROWDS THIS YEAR DUE TO THE…… MORE
Guns Seized at the Border
MOST SEIZURES ALONG THE MEXICO-U-S BORDER INVOLVE DRUGS BEING SMUGGLED INTO THE UNITED STATES. BUT THAT WASN’T THE CASE LAST WEDNESDAY AT THE SANTA TERESA PORT OF ENTRY. U-S CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION FIELD OPERATION OFFICERS FOUND HUNDREDS OF ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION AND 16 HIGH-CAPACITY SEMI-AUTOMATIC MAGAZINES IN A VEHICLE HEADING INTO MEXICO.…… MORE
Hold-up Convict Sentenced
A MAN GETS NINE AND-A-HALF YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR A 2015 CRIME SPREE IN THE ALBUQUERQUE AREA. TWENTY-EIGHT YEAR OLD SHELDON HARRIS WAS ACCUSED OF HOLDING UP SEVERAL SUBWAY AND BLAKE’S LOTABURGER RESTAURANTS AT GUNPOINT. HE WAS ARRESTED A YEAR AGO, AND EVENTUALLY PLED GUILTY TO TWO OF THE ROBBERIES. …… MORE
Man Found Dead at Duke City Motel
A BIT OF A MYSTERY SURROUNDING A MAN’S DEATH IN ALBUQUERQUE. POLICE WERE SENT TO THE MOTEL 76 AT CANDELARIA AND UNIVERSITY ON REPORTS OF A SHOOTING…AND FOUND A MAN DEAD. ALTHOUGH IT APPEARS THE MAN HAD BEEN SHOT, DETECTIVES ARE STILL TRYING TO DETERMINE IF THAT WAS THE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH.…… MORE
Intel in Rio Rancho Shedding Jobs
Fewer folks walking the hallways at Intel in Rio Rancho. The company reported Monday that it now has 1,200 workers in Rio Rancho, down from 1,900 a year ago. The figures come from a report presented to the Sandoval County Commission. The company says about half of the decline was due to retirements while others…… MORE
No Arrest of Suspect in Car Wash Shooting
Two weeks after 59-year-old Earl “Payaso” Roybal was shot and killed at a Northwest Albuquerque car wash, his family and friends want to know why the suspect in the case has not been arrested. APD has not answered any questions yet on the shooting that occurred March 26th. Roybal was washing his motorcycle when another…… MORE
Conscious Campus Heads to Eastern NM University
Another Conscious Campus Forum is being held Monday at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales. Conscious Campus is an initiative from New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas to bring higher awareness of campus sexual assaults to state colleges and universities. Another aspect of the initiative is to look for ways to intervene. Sonya Carasco Trujillo…… MORE
Dollars Adding Up In Santa Fe Soda Tax Fight
Santa Fe voters won’t decide the fate of their Mayor’s soda tax until May 2nd. But the battle over the proposed tax is getting expensive. Online campaign finance statements indicate both sides of the issue are putting a lot of money into it. Pre-K for Santa Fe, the group made up of tax supporters, has…… MORE
Rio Rancho Stabbing Suspect Arrested
Police in Rio Rancho make an arrest in a fatal stabbing from late in the evening of March 31st. Joseph Vargas has been charged with an open count of murder in the death of 23-year-old Kenneth Torres. Julian Torres, unrelated to Kenneth, was wounded in the attack and remains in critical condition. It happened on…… MORE
