New Mexico

Inspired Stories 09/17/21, 04:28

By wrestling a suspect and pinning him to the ground until police arrived, a teen wrestling champion prevented the kidnapping of three children. Then, when it was most needed, he decided to do the right thing. The incident happened when a mother and her three children, ages nine, two, and one, ...

News 09/06/21, 20:08

A New Mexico infant became inexplicably ill with a high fever and died weeks after his mother received Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's adverse event reporting service recorded the infant died just two weeks after his mother, 36, receiving her first Pfizer vaccine dose on July ...

U.S. 07/31/21, 20:02

New Mexico’s House Majority Leader Sheryl Williams Stapleton sent a letter of resignation on Friday, July 30, amid a criminal probe into her alleged corruption. Stapleton, No. 2 Democrat in the state House, is facing an investigation into her possibly illegal connections to a company that received more than $5 million ...

U.S. 04/11/21, 17:39

Warning: The following story contains graphic video that may disturb some viewers.  In February, Law Officer reported that a New Mexico State Police officer was tragically shot and killed during a traffic stop. The gunman also died in a shootout with police following a 40-mile chase. Later the New Mexico State Police released ...

Politics 04/01/21, 16:59

A shocking video from the U.S. Border Patrol released on Wednesday, March 31, showed two human smugglers dropping two toddlers over a 14-foot-high border barrier in the middle of the New Mexico desert. After two children landed on the rough ground, the smugglers immediately fled the area and abandoned the helpless ...

U.S. 03/31/21, 21:33

American citizens whose properties are in or near border towns are giving aid to illegal aliens who trespass onto their land, fearing they and their families could otherwise be in danger. On Tuesday, March 31, New Mexico rancher Amanda Adame made an appearance on Fox News' "Fox & Friends" and shared ...

U.S. 02/24/21, 03:35

American Airlines flight 2292 was tagged by a UFO as it flew to Phoenix from Cincinnati on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 21. The pilot radioed that the UFO was flying right over the top of them, Fox News reported. The passenger jet flew over New Mexico at about 1.00 p.m. Steve Douglass recorded the ...

U.S. 02/08/21, 11:19

As President Joe Biden prioritizes the controversial climate change theory and destroys tens of thousands of jobs, America's top labor leader criticizes these losses and the impractical alternatives presented to workers.  For American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) President Richard Trumka, simply moving jobs is not enough, ...

U.S. 04/27/20, 03:42

A town in Cibola County New Mexico with a population of just over 9,000 in the 2010 Census, is defying the governor’s order of a lockdown, and will reopen for business, with the mayor throwing out a challenge, "Let the state police come down here." Democratic Mayor Martin Hicks of Grants, ...

U.S. 12/26/19, 12:30

Four people found dead on Christmas Day in a home in an Albuquerque suburb were members of the same family and the case is being investigated as a murder-suicide, authorities said Thursday. The victims were identified as Carlos Velasquez, 50; Marilyn Velasquez, 45; Roberto Velasquez, 22; and Adrian Velasquez, 14, police ...

U.S. 11/06/19, 19:42

The call for help came at 8:30 a.m. from an especially secluded pocket of the Navajo Nation: A man and woman were unresponsive inside a traditional structure and 14 others were suffering from smoke inhalation after a nighttime ceremony. Navajo Nation police said Wednesday they are still investigating what happened at ...

Politics 09/17/19, 13:54

The Santa Ana Star Center where President Donald Trump held a campaign rally on Sept. 16 was packed, so thousands of people had to watch his speech on a large screen outside the venue in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. President Trump shared pictures shot at the event showing the center, a ...

Politics 09/17/19, 05:37

President Trump held a rally just 17 miles from Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Monday, Sept. 16, where thousands of people were gathered at the Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho to hear the president speak. The president lost New Mexico by 8 percentage points in 2016, but the crowd showed ...

2022 Campaign 09/16/19, 16:38

Hundreds of people showed up early Monday to ensure their place in line ahead of the evening event in Rio Rancho, a suburb of Albuquerque. A Trump supporter shared the photo on Twitter, saying "Don’t let the media fool you!! Waiting in line for the Trump rally! A whole lot of ...

U.S. 06/24/19, 17:54

Colorado authorities on Monday were investigating what caused a bus carrying a New Mexico high school church group home from a weekend retreat to veer off a highway and crash, killing the driver and a man training to become a Catholic priest. Investigators were looking into the possibility the driver had ...

U.S. 06/23/19, 20:32

A charter bus carrying 15 members of a church group ran off a highway after striking a bridge support Sunday in southern Colorado, killing two people and injuring several others, a state patrol official said. The bus was carrying a charter group from a church in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and was ...

U.S. 06/18/19, 17:47

It's a carefully planned mission that involves coordination across state lines — from Mexican gray wolf dens hidden deep in the woods of New Mexico and Arizona to breeding facilities at zoos and special conservation centers around the U.S.It's also about timing as wolves in the wild and those in ...

U.S. 06/16/19, 19:37

A new mural in southern New Mexico seeks to honor missing and slain Native Americans amid a nationwide push to bring more attention to the issue.The Las Cruces Sun-News reports artist Sebastian "Vela" Velazquez recently erected the mural in Las Cruces in conjunction with the city's eighth annual "Illegal" graffiti ...

U.S. 06/07/19, 17:03

New Mexico's governor said Friday she's opposed to plans by a New Jersey-based company to build a multibillion-dollar facility in her state to temporarily store spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors around the U.S.In a letter to U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said the interim storage ...

U.S. 05/30/19, 15:13

The latest on the crowd-funded barrier built on the U.S.-Mexico Border (all times local):2:15 p.m.The man behind an online fundraising campaign to build a privately funded barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border says his group has 10 more projects in the pipeline but he declined to provide details about where the ...