Jairo Adair Contreras is taken into custody on Camino Rancho Siringo on Thursday afternoon. - Courtesy photo by Frank Romero/For The New Mexican
Police on Thursday tracked the fugitive's footprints in the melting snow
toward a 6-foot backyard wall in a south-central Santa Fe neighborhood.
Jairo Adair Contreras, who had escaped nearly two weeks ago from an
inmate work crew at Maricopa County ...
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Updated: 8:48 PM
Lt. Gov. John Sanchez's decision Thursday to drop his campaign for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Jeff Bingaman is great news for form ... - Foreclosure settlement brings some aid to N.M.
Tens of thousands of New Mexicans who have tangled with foreclosure will benefit from a national settlement that will bring about $92 million to the s ... - Court rules in favor of governor in union dispute
Updated: 5:48 PM
ALBUQUERQUE -- Republican Gov. Susana Martinez won a court fight with labor unions Thursday over her appointee to a board that enforces New Mexico&rsq ... - House OKs change in legislative pension plan
Updated: 4:18 PM
The House has approved a proposal to require legislators to contribute more into their pension plan, but the sponsor of the measure says the Legislatu ... - 2012 Legislature
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Lobos to don alternate uniforms for conference game against WyomingALBUQUERQUE -- The University of New Mexico men's basketball team will be hoping to literally -- and figuratively -- turn back the clock Saturday as it sets sail on the second half of the Mountain West Conference season. The Lobos (19-4 overall, 5-2 in league play) will play host to Wyoming (18-5, 4-3) in The Pit. Tipoff is scheduled for 1:30 p.m ...
Editorial: Don't let PRC reform die
Congratulations to the New Mexico House of Representatives. Understanding the need for urgency, House members unanimously passed legislation to reform the troubled Public Regulation Commission. It's urgent because the PRC has been a mess nearly since its creation in the mid-1990s, and because changing the institution involves a constitutional amend ...
Congratulations to the New Mexico House of Representatives. Understanding the need for urgency, House members unanimously passed legislation to reform the troubled Public Regulation Commission. It's urgent because the PRC has been a mess nearly since its creation in the mid-1990s, and because changing the institution involves a constitutional amend ...
'Cake Bible' author Rose Levy Beranbaum shares recipe for the ulimate Valentine's Day giftWhen Rose Levy Beranbaum thinks about Valentine's Day, it's not the candlelit dinners, handwritten cards or bouquets of long-stemmed roses that come to her mind. Instead, the Cake Bible author is brought back to her childhood.
"I have images since ...
