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New Mexico House Democrats outraise, outspend GOP caucus

Under Senate Bill 3, which passed earlier this year, these “legislative caucus committees” are now allowed to collect five times as much money per donor as other political committees in the state.

DA Serna raises $118,000, far short of Plame’s haul of more than $446,000

Attorney stays on Española vote tampering case

Ringside Seat

A hoaxer’s claim of killing Hoffa hits the big screen

Ex-retirement community worker accused of abusing patient now faces petty misdemeanors

Nehemiah Griego apologizes for murdering family during sentencing

Owl killings spur moral questions about human intervention

News in brief

Santa Fe school board hears parents’ pleas to avoid closures

By Dillon Mullan | dmullan@sfnewmexican.com
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Declining enrollment, aging facilities and a geographically uneven distribution of school-age children in the district mean the question of school closures is set to linger.

Plea deal nets 12 years for Santa Fe man in stabbing death of his girlfriend

Under the terms of his agreement, Christopher Garcia, 28, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and guilty to two tampering charges. The remaining charges were dismissed.

The Pantry Dos brings favorites and more to community college district south of Santa Fe

Seven decades in, The Pantry has a new little brother — and the family ties are strong.

DA’s Office asks judge to step down from embezzlement case over comment to newspaper

An assistant district attorney asked a judge to take himself off the case based on his remarks in the phone interview with the The New Mexican.

Paperback exchange Book Mountain could be facing final chapter

Book Mountain’s landlord recently informed Peggy Frank that they have to vacate their space — at least temporarily — while he renovates the 1950s-era strip mall in Santa Fe.

News analysis

Warren, candidate with the plans, needed one for incoming attacks

The senator’s reward for achieving co-front-runner status: persistent sniping from fellow Democrats who see her surge as a threat to their own paths to the nomination.

DA Serna raises $118,000, far short of Plame’s haul of more than $446,000

By Michael Gerstein | mgerstein@sfnewmexican.com
Updated 25 min ago

Most candidates had not yet turned in their campaign finance reports ahead of the midnight filing deadline.

Paperback exchange Book Mountain could be facing final chapter

By Steve Terrell | sterrell@sfnewmexican.com
Updated 2 hrs ago

Book Mountain’s landlord recently informed Peggy Frank that they have to vacate their space — at least temporarily — while he renovates the 1950s-era strip mall in Santa Fe.

Plea deal nets 12 years for Santa Fe man in stabbing death of his girlfriend

By Phaedra Haywood | phaywood@sfnewmexican.com
Updated 11 hrs ago

Under the terms of his agreement, Christopher Garcia, 28, pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and guilty to two tampering charges. The remaining charges were dismissed.

DA’s Office asks judge to step down from embezzlement case over comment to newspaper

By Phaedra Haywood | phaywood@sfnewmexican.com
Updated 12 hrs ago

An assistant district attorney asked a judge to take himself off the case based on his remarks in the phone interview with the The New Mexican.

New Mexico House Democrats outraise, outspend GOP caucus

By Jens Erik Gould | jgould@sfnewmexican.com
Updated 12 hrs ago

Attorney stays on Española vote tampering case

By Phaedra Haywood | phaywood@sfnewmexican.com
Updated 12 hrs ago

The trials are set to begin Oct. 31 in state District Court.

Ex-retirement community worker accused of abusing patient now faces petty misdemeanors

By Ari Burack | aburack@sfnewmexican.com
Updated 12 hrs ago

The resident’s daughter said Tuesday she was less concerned about the specific charges and thankful that prosecutors were still pursuing the case.

Ringside Seat

A hoaxer’s claim of killing Hoffa hits the big screen

By Milan Simonich | msimonich@sfnewmexican.com
Updated 12 hrs ago

Zack Stalberg, now retired in Lamy, was the legendary Daily News editor who killed a story about a man’s claim of killing Jimmy Hoffa.

Nehemiah Griego apologizes for murdering family during sentencing

By Susan Montoya Bryan | Associated Press
Updated 12 hrs ago

“I am sorry,” Nehemiah Griego told his older sisters who were among those in the packed courtroom. “I wish I could take it back, but the reality is that we can’t.”

Neighborhood farewell

In Santa Fe, a time to move on for decadeslong residents

By Robert Nott | rnott@sfnewmexican.com
Updated 18 hrs ago

Families are leaving subdivisions where they saw Kennedy-to-Trump changes as they built lives and raised kids, grandkids, even great-grandkids.

Notes from the north

The New Mexican's James Barron and Will Webber talk about the University of New Mexico football team's struggles ahead of a difficult back half of the season. They also discuss reasons for optimism for St. Michael's following back-to-back wins.