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Bataan Military Academy is a public charter school in Albuquerque, located on Mountain Road NE. It collaborates with the Navy to provide students with high school curriculum as well as military training. (Marla Brose/Albuquerque Journal)

Sex attack claim settled

By Hailey Heinz / Journal Staff Writer | Sat, Mar 9, 2013

Family says boy assaulted during Bataan Military Academy's training camp.

State Rep. Henry Kiki Saavedra, D-Albuquerque, celebrates his birthday on the House floor by dancing with Rep. Nora Espinoza, R-Roswell, who had to pay a dollar for the honor. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)

With one week to go in the 60-day legislative session, high-profile bills on state pensions, guns, college scholarships, spending and immigrant driver's licenses are still in limbo at the state Capitol. State Rep. Henry Kiki Saavedra, D-Albuquerque, celebrates his birthday by dancing with Rep. Nora Espinoza, R-Roswell, who had to pay a dollar for the honor. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)

Former FBI agent and police chief Melvin Tucker, employed as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in a civil trial against APD for a fatal shooting by one of its officers in 2010, testifies about whether officers followed protocols when one of them killed Kenneth Ellis III, who was holding a gun to his own head. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal.)

Expert questions officer’s hiring

By Jeff Proctor / Journal Staff Writer | Sat, Mar 9, 2013

Witness says shooting death could have been prevented.

Gov. shifts strategy with lawmakers

By Thomas Cole / Of the Journal | Sat, Mar 9, 2013

Gov. Susana Martinez has taken a markedly less confrontational approach to the Legislature this year ...

EPA boss praises San Juan deal

By Michael Hartranft / Journal Staff Writer | Sat, Mar 9, 2013

State, feds and PNM found common ground

Ernestine Morales smiles at her daughter, Monique, during a quiet moment in their Westgate Heights home. Monique, who has microcephaly, requires round-the-clock care. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)

‘I’m fighting for my daughter’

By Joline Gutierrez Krueger / Journal | Fri, Mar 8, 2013

They crowded into a conference room in the Erna Fergusson Library, and though perhaps only one more ...

Kin of missing demand answers

By Tim Johnson / McClatchy-Tribune | Fri, Mar 8, 2013

Families unite to prod Mexico officials to take action

Senate approves pension fund fix

By Dan Boyd / Journal Staff Writer | Fri, Mar 8, 2013

Legislation scales back public worker benefits.

A memorial stands on Cerrillos Road in south Santa Fe where Del Lynn and Deshauna Peshlakai were killed in a 2010 drunken-driving crash caused by multiple DWI offender James Ruiz. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Driver who killed 2 sisters suing restaurants, friend

By Mark Oswald / Journal Staff Writer | Fri, Mar 8, 2013

James Ruiz, serving 40 years in prison, says others are to blame

APD officer Brett Lampiris-Tremba sits in state District Judge Shannon Bacon’s courtroom on Thursday during a trial about, among other things, how much the city of Albuquerque will have to pay for his unlawful shooting of an Iraq War veteran in 2010. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

Trial opens in APD shooting death

By Jeff Proctor / Journal Staff Writer | Fri, Mar 8, 2013

The Albuquerque Police Department’s training for officers, in particular in the area of dealing with people with mental health problems, went on trial Thursday in state District Court.