Snowboarder breaks leg

A 28-year-old man fractured his femur in a snowboarding accident outside the Santa Fe ski area boundary Saturday. He was apparently coming down the ungroomed area known as Big T.

Assistant Fire Chief Ted Bolleter said his department got a call about the accident around 4:15 p.m. Ski patrol located the snowboarder and by early evening had "packaged" him and was transporting him by sled to the Ski Basin Road. A Fire Department ambulance was waiting at the Aspen Vista overlook. Bolleter said a CareFlight helicopter was also standing by, waiting to transport the man to St. Vincent Regional Medical Center or to a hospital in Albuquerque, depending on his injuries.

"It takes a long time to hump someone out of there, especially in powder," Bolleter said early Saturday evening.

Las Vegas couple die in shooting

LAS VEGAS, N.M. — State police are investigating the apparent shooting deaths of a couple in their Northern New Mexico home.

State Police Lt. David Martinez identified the victims as 24-year-old Damian Ortiz and 25-year-old Stephanie Dimas. The two were found inside their mobile home north of Las Vegas early Thursday.

Police have not identified any suspects, and they continue to search for a motive in the case.

State targets drunken drivers

ALBUQUERQUE — Law-enforcement officers from around New Mexico and some American Indian communities are teaming up to keep drunken drivers off the roads.

Officers have started a holiday season DWI Super Blitz that includes increased saturation patrols and more sobriety checkpoints.

The blitz coincides with the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs' "Don't Shatter the Dream" mobilization against drunken driving.

New Mexico DWI Czar Rachel O'Connor says three other initiatives also will help.

The first is an agreement between the Navajo Nation and the McKinley County Sheriff's Office that allows tribal officers to patrol for suspected drunken drivers in McKinley County and for deputies to patrol for drunken drivers on Navajo land.

Another allows for DWI arrest information to be shared between the state and Laguna Pueblo.

The state also has launched an advertising campaign in the Four Corners region to curb DWI.

Man indicted in daughter's death

LAS CRUCES — Robert Flores, a 23-year-old Las Cruces man, was indicted by a Doña Ana County grand jury on one count of intentional child abuse resulting in death and two counts of tampering with evidence in the Dec. 6 death of his infant daughter, Kalynne Flores.

The intentional child abuse charge carries a mandatory life sentence, which in New Mexico means serving 30 years before becoming eligible for parole. However, jurors also have the option of considering negligent child abuse resulting in death, which carries a maximum penalty of 18 years in prison.

Police have said Flores was watching his daughter while her mother worked a night shift. Detectives allege he went to buy beer, leaving the baby in a laundry basket inside a bedroom closet so neighbors would not hear if she cried. Police said the mother, Deserii Cortez, returned home hours later and found the baby unresponsive. The child was later pronounced dead.