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News Articles: New Mexico

Police work outside of a home in Albuquerque, N.M., on Feb. 23. Critics say problems with training are attributed to higher levels of police killings in New Mexico.

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  • Law

Why New Mexico has one of the highest rates for killings by police

A shooting last week in Farmington, N.M., where police went to the wrong house and killed a man, is just the latest example of lethal force being used against civilians in the state.

April 14, 2023
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
During rehearsals on the set of <em>Rust </em>in October 2021, actor Alec Baldwin, here pictured in 2015, fired a gun with a live round, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. He now faces involuntary manslaughter charges.

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  • Law

New Mexico prosecutors downgrade charges against Alec Baldwin in the 'Rust' shooting

The actor's lawyers argued that he had been charged under a previous version of a New Mexico firearm law. The change would reduce his prison time if convicted in the shooting death of Halyna Hutchins.

February 20, 2023
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Lisa Rager knows well the hurdles to obtaining services for foster kids. She and her husband, Wes, have cared for more than 100 foster children and adopted 11 of them, many of whom are pictured. Rager says one child waited more than a year for an appointment to see a specialist doctor.

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  • News

Unmet needs: Critics cite failures in health care for vulnerable foster children

More states are moving to specialized managed-care contracts solely to handle medical and behavioral services for foster kids. But child advocates, foster parents, and even state officials say these and other care arrangements are shortchanging foster kids’ health needs.

January 25, 2023
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By:
  • Andy Miller and
  • Rebecca Grapevine
Police say that Solomon Peña, left, sent a co-conspirator this image showing himself in a car with José Trujillo, an accused gunman in several drive-by shooting attacks on Democratic officials' homes in Albuquerque.

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  • Politics

A losing Republican candidate in N.M. is charged over shootings at homes of Democrats

A former candidate for the state legislature was arrested Monday for allegedly orchestrating the shootings at the homes of local Democratic officials.

January 18, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie and
  • Bill Chappell
"We're worried and concerned that these are connected and possibly politically motivated or personally motivated," Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, left, said of a string of shootings. He's seen here alongside Police Chief Harold Medina during a press conference via the Albuquerque Police Department's Facebook livestream.

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  • National

Five Democratic politicians' homes or offices have been shot at in Albuquerque

Authorities already had planned to highlight the attacks — then came word of yet another shooting with a political target.

January 06, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
This photo released Aug. 9, 2022, by the Albuquerque Police Department shows Muhammad Syed. Syed.

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  • National

Afghan refugee faces murder charge in third Muslim killing

Federal authorities in court filings have pointed to cellphone records and accused one of Syed's sons of possibly helping his father track one of the victims.

August 23, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A young unidentified man bows during the Dhuhr afternoon prayer at the Islamic Center of New Mexico on Aug. 7, 2022, after the fourth Muslim man was killed in Albuquerque.

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  • National

The suspect in the killings of 4 Muslim men in New Mexico left a trail of violence

The lengthy pattern of violence — which began not long after Muhammad Syed arrived in the U.S. in 2016 — has shocked members of Albuquerque's small, close-knit Muslim community.

August 13, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Clinic escorts use party horns and whistles to counter the presence of anti-abortion activist Gabriel Olivier, right, outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., on July 6, 2022.

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  • National

Mississippi's last abortion clinic shuts down. The owner promises to continue working

The clinic is now headed to Las Cruces, New Mexico, about 40 miles north of El Paso, Texas.

July 07, 2022
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
A plume of smoke from the Black Fire rises over the Gila National Forest. Philip Connors watched the fire grow and creep closer to his fire lookout post.

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  • Weather

A New Mexico firewatcher describes watching his world burn

Philip Connors deeply loves the forest he has watched over every summer for the past 20 years. But it was a different forest two decades ago, and will be even more changed once the flames die down.

June 22, 2022
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By:
  • Raquel Maria Dillon and
  • Steve Inskeep
Wind kicks up dust at the fairgrounds as firefighters meet and confer about the wildfire raging on the other side of the hill behind them just outside of Las Vegas, N.M., on Saturday, May 7, 2022.

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  • National

New Mexico residents brace for extreme wildfire conditions

With the worst of the thick wildfire smoke having blown out of town, residents of a small northern New Mexico city tried to recapture a sense of normalcy amid predictions of extreme fire conditions.

May 08, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A slurry bomber dumps the fire retardant between the Calf Canyon/Hermit Peak Fire and homes on the westside of Las Vegas, N.M., Tuesday, May 3, 2022.

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  • National

Biden declares disaster in New Mexico wildfire zone

The declaration releases emergency funds to recovery efforts in three counties in northeastern New Mexico.

May 05, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A video aboard the school bus captures the moment a car crashes into the bus during the February incident.

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  • Law

Albuquerque police release footage of a school bus crash

The crash occurred in February. The school bus was carrying 23 children at the time, according to police.

April 28, 2022
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
In this photo provided by the National Park Service, fallen trees smolder after a wildfire at Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument in Arizona, Wednesday, April 20, 2022.

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  • National

Fires hit Southwest, New Mexico's season 'dangerously early'

New Mexico faces a long and potentially devastating wildfire season, said Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, as Southwestern wildfires cause destruction and force people from their homes.

April 24, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Kylee Moberg tries to get through a road block on N.M. 94 to get to her friend and horses on Friday. Destructive Southwest fires have burned dozens of homes in northern Arizona and put numerous small villages in New Mexico in the path of danger.

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  • National

Fires hit Southwest, New Mexico's season 'dangerously early'

New Mexico faces a long and potentially devastating wildfire season, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Saturday, as Southwestern wildfires cause destruction and force people from their homes.

April 24, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A pair of Resource Advisors from the Coconino National Forest record data in Division Alpha as they work to determine the severity of Tunnel Fires impact on the Forest.

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  • National

Southwest fire crews brace for return of dangerous winds

Firefighters are bracing for the return of ferocious winds in the Southwest after a brief reprieve allowed them to attack flames from the air for the first time in days.

April 22, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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