KRQE - Sunday 4th August, 2013
35-year-old Marcario Rodriguez's horse collapsed while in the lead during the eighth race at the track. Apparently, the horse broke a bone and died on the track. Rodriguez is listed as in satisfactory condition at UNM ...
Dream Big prepares for Kutz 4 Kidz
KRQE - Sunday 4th August, 2013
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The community organization Dream Big prepared for the annual Kutz 4 Kidz event by setting up a bus and gathering school supplies Saturday at the Walmart at Coors and I-40. They said they would stay as long for as it took to collect enough school supplies to fill 3,500 backpacks. APD and Dream Big are asking anyone to donate. The supplies, along with free haircuts, will be ...
Cop attacked at transportation center
KRQE - Sunday 4th August, 2013
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Police say a man attacked an officer after at Albuquerque's Alvarado Transportation Center after being told to move. On Saturday, security tried to get Michael Fuentes, 46, off the floor after they say he was passed out with a bottle of vodka. When he refused to move, police came and tried to move his backpack. Fuentes didn't like that and bit the officer on the ...
Garlic Vitamin B Las Cruces readers share their strategies for dodging mosquitoes
Las Cruces Sun-News - Sunday 4th August, 2013
LAS CRUCES - Health officials offer their common-sense advice to avoid mosquito bites. Remove standing water around your house. Wear DEET-based repellent. Stay inside in the morning or evening. After all, West Nile virus is nothing to ignore, already infecting five people in Do?a Ana County, and a 12 others statewide. It's much worse in Texas. Sun-News readers have their own, ...
Long road ahead for states drought
KRQE - Sunday 4th August, 2013
It's been three tough years in New Mexico, with years of below-average snow and rain. A few monster storms brought with them a lot of rain, making July the ninth wettest July in Albuquerque's history. Even so, much of the state remains in some form of drought, ranging from moderate to exceptional. Tom Thorpe with the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District wants everyone to know that ...
Acts of kindness help NM students
KRQE - Sunday 4th August, 2013
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - Getting ready for school can be expensive, but thousands of New Mexico families got some help with free school supplies and strangers surprising families in check out lines to pay the bill. Thousands gathered outside of UNM Stadium, some as early as 5:30 a.m. Saturday. The line stretched all the way to the ...
$7.3 million Hot Lotto ticket sold in N.M.
Action 7 News - Sunday 4th August, 2013
Although there were no winners in last night's $300 million Powerball drawing, someone did win $7.3 million in the Hot Lotto drawing. There was only one winning ticket in the country. The winning numbers are 2, 4, 29, 38, 41 and a hot ball of 7. There has been no word yet on where in New Mexico the ticket was ...
Albuquerque Journal N.M. Reel N.M. column
Hispanic Business Magazine - Sunday 4th August, 2013
Aug. 04--Nearly 50 years later, "The Creeping Terror" is still inspiring filmmakers. The science fiction film is about a slug-like monster that terrorizes an American town after escaping from a crashed spaceship. It is widely considered to be one of the worst films of all time, and in September 1994, the film was the subject of the satirical television series "Mystery Science ...
Al Qaeda threat prompts U.S. to close 22 embassies consulates
Congoo - Sunday 4th August, 2013
(CNN) -- Fears that al Qaeda may launch attacks in the Middle East, North Africa and beyond in the coming days prompted the United States to close 22 embassies and consulates for a day Sunday -- an unprecedented move. The closures Sunday stretch across a swath of North Africa and the Middle East, ...
Brazen prison breaks worries Interpol
Action 7 News - Sunday 4th August, 2013
Interpol has issued a global security alert, asking its member nations to help determine whether a rash of brazen prison escapes recently are ...
Albuquerque loses ballooning world record to France
Daily Herald - Sunday 4th August, 2013
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Albuquerque no longer holds the world record for launching the most hot air balloons within an hour. However, there was little concern among officials with the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. The fiesta's executive director, Paul Smith, said that fiesta organizers didn't do anything special when establishing the record in the first place.He says a typical ...
Questions surge into Las Cruces alarm companies about new alarm...
Las Cruces Sun-News - Sunday 4th August, 2013
Her forecast was based on experience. Employees at alarm companies all over the city received Thursday numerous customer inquiries about registering their security systems under the city's overhauled alarm ordinance. Allied Security, Lang estimated, had about 40 such ...
New Mexico Bus Driver Tells Gay Couple To Sit At The Back Of The Bus
Addicting Info - Sunday 4th August, 2013
The 1950s are calling their bus driver back? because nothing says ?Welcome to our city? quite like forcing a gay couple to the back of the bus. Image of Roy McCoy and Chris ...
Landlord Couple destroys rented homes in Belen
Action 7 News - Sunday 4th August, 2013
Landlords in Belen said a couple has rented and destroyed several separate homes, ripping out copper wires and stealing the toilets and kitchen ...
Out-of-state sex workers expected to be in Albuquerque for state fair
Action 7 News - Sunday 4th August, 2013
NEW MEXICO STATE FAIR. BUT THE CROWDS WON'T JUST INCLUDE FAMILIES - POLICE SAY THEY'RE EXPECTING A WAVE OF OUT-OF-STATE PROSTITUTES. ACTION SEVEN NEWS REPORTER MELISSA COLORADO HAS MORE. A CHAIN WRAPS AROUND THE GATES TO THE EXPO FAIRGROUNDS. BUT ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, THAT CHAIN WILL BE GONE. IT WILL BE DAY 1 OF THE NEW MEXICO STATE FAIR. NATS OF LAST YEAR'S STATE FAIR - ...
Watch time-lapse slideshow of southern New Mexico from 1984 to 2012
Las Cruces Sun-News - Sunday 4th August, 2013
Watch time-lapse sequences from all over the world, including the southern New Mexico area, from the time period 1984 to 2012. TIME in partnership with Google has released the NASA Landsat image slideshows. To view the images, go ...
11 city of Las Cruces employees earn more than $100000 a year and other interesting facts
Las Cruces Sun-News - Sunday 4th August, 2013
click here to search City of Las Cruces: Did you know? - Eleven city of Las Cruces employees earn more than $100,000 a year - Five city government department directors are paid less than $100,000 a year - Mayor, City Council aren't among high paid city positions - It's a man's world: Top 10 city government salaries belong to men - City salaries include a 2 percent ...
By the numbers NMSUs highest paid employees
Las Cruces Sun-News - Sunday 4th August, 2013
click here to search Who makes the most money at New Mexico State University? Football coach Doug Martin earns the top spot at $363,000. Interim president Manuel Pacheco is just behind at $360,000. The top 10 earners at the university make a combined $2.57 million - up 1 percent from $2.55 million in fiscal year 2012. Highest-earner Martin took over the head coaching slot in February after ...
U.S. issues travel alert embassies closed
Action 7 News - Sunday 4th August, 2013
Hours before 22 U.S. embassies and consulates were to close for a day, President Barack Obama met with top security leaders Saturday to review the situation that led to the unprecedented ...
Moderate Rouhani Takes Over as Irans President
Arutz Sheva - Sunday 4th August, 2013
He has the support of Iran's reform movement, which wants the new president to release political prisoners and have international sanctions ...
In rare intervention Obama administration overturns ban on Apple products
Star Tribune - Saturday 3rd August, 2013
The Obama administration has vetoed a product ban that would have forced Apple to stop selling some iPhones and iPads in the United States next ...
APD asking citizens to stuff the bus for Albuquerque students
KOB.com - Saturday 3rd August, 2013
The Albuquerque Police Department is asking Albuquerque citizens to "stuff the bus" to help students who do not have school supplies. Dream Big representatives are spending Saturday night in the Wal-Mart parking lot on Coors and Interstate 40 until they collect enough school supplies to fill 3,500 backpacks. The school supplies are for the Kutz4Kidz program in which ...
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