Barbie dolls, model cars and miniature wheelchairs joined the usual tinsel and candy canes adorning Christmas trees this week as part of the annual Festival of Trees to benefit Carrie Tingley Hospital.
Despite a slight increase in attendance, the 2009 New Mexico State Fair saw a dip in revenues, due largely to a drop in paid attendance and an increase in the number of fairgoers who got in for free, fair officials said Friday.
On the heels of a controversial study that suggested new guidelines for mammograms, another national group came out Friday with new guidelines developed by a University of New Mexico professor for when a woman should get a Pap test.
Victim: 'You're a predator in every sense of the word'
Former prison guard Anthony Townes maintained his innocence to the end -- an end that came not long after the clock struck noon Friday when state District Court Judge Ross Sanchez handed Townes a multi-year sentence for raping four women inmates at the Camino Nuevo prison in 2007.
"You're a predator in every sense of the word, Townes," o
