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Kenneth Ellis II, waits for a verdict from the jury in an Albuquerque courtroom Friday, March 15, 2013.

Jury awards more than $10 million in APD shooting trial

By Jeff Proctor / Journal Staff Writer | Fri, Mar 15, 2013

The verdict includes $2.7 million in punitive damages against Lampiris-Tremba and damages of $7.6 million against the city.

Navajo gambling pact may be in limbo

By Deborah Baker / Journal Staff Writer | Fri, Mar 15, 2013

A new gambling compact between the state and the Navajo Nation was lobbed late into the New Mexico legislative session, and it's unclear whether the House and Senate are going to touch it.

Nannie Sanchez, right, goes over paperwork with her boss, Sen. Nancy Rodriguez, on the Senate floor. Sanchez is considered an ambassador of the developmentally disabled and has been a fixture at the Roundhouse since she was 5. (PAT VASQUEZ-CUNNINGHAM/JOURNAL)

Ambassador for disabled is leaving the Roundhouse

By Joline Gutierrez Krueger / Journal | Fri, Mar 15, 2013

This 60-day session of legislative sausage-making screeches to a halt at noon Saturday, but for one ...

Dems, Gov. in showdown over budget

By Dan Boyd / Journal Staff Writer | Thu, Mar 14, 2013

Gov. Susana Martinez is threatening to veto a $5.9B budget proposal.

Love me, I’m a roundabout

By Leslie Linthicum / Of the Journal | Thu, Mar 14, 2013

In New Mexico, we like our roads straight and, truth be told, we don’t really cotton to a lot of intersections.

‘Amazement’ greets the news from Rome

By Olivier Uyttebrouck And Karen Peterson / Journal Staff Writers | Thu, Mar 14, 2013

Church bells sounded across the state Wednesday as New Mexicans joined Roman Catholics worldwide in expressing joy and astonishment at the election of Jesuit Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina as the 266th pope.

Council president says chief should go

By Dan McKay and Jeff Proctor / Journal Staff Writers | Thu, Mar 14, 2013

City Council President Dan Lewis says Albuquerque needs a new police chief in the wake of a federal investigation into the department and other controversy that has "engulfed and tarnished" the reputation of APD.