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Former South Vietnamese Marine Bao Tran, left, shares a laugh with retired U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Kim Mitchell, center, with whom he was reunited Friday in Albuquerque. Tran’s wife, Duong Thi Bau, stands at right. INSET: This is the passport photo of Tran Thi Ngoc Bich, a Vietnamese orphan rescued by Bao during the Vietnam War. The baby was adopted by an American family and renamed Kimberly Mitchell.   (Marla Brose/Albuquerque Journal)

Joyful Reunion

Amid tears, laughter and much Vietnamese-English translation, former South Vietnamese Marine 2nd Lt. ... - Includes a photo gallery from the event
(Journal)

Mayor’s budget has 1% raises

$481M proposal fills 160 job vacancies, won't hike taxes
Tax bill was major overhaul

Tax bill was major overhaul

The omnibus tax bill approved by the Legislature in the waning hours of its 2013 regular session is ...

Educator pension fix signed into law

Teacher, taxpayer contributions go up

Climber falls to death in Sandias

Albuquerque man hiking alone drops over 100 yards off cliff

Democrats’ school bills rejected

SANTA FE — Republican Gov. Susana Martinez has vetoed several public school proposals by Democrats in the Legislature, including ones attempting to unravel administration education policies. Martinez criticized the measures... Read more »

Breaking: Governor vetoes minimum wage increase

SANTA FE — Republican Gov. Susana Martinez has vetoed a proposal by the Democratic-controlled Legislature that would have increased New Mexico’s minimum wage to the fourth highest in the nation.... Read more »
Former South Vietnamese Marine 2nd Lt. Bao Tran, center, shares a laugh during an interview Wednesday at the Vietnamese American Association of New Mexico offices in Albuquerque.(Marla Brose/Albuquerque Journal)

Rescuer, war orphan reunite 40 years later

Today, which lawmakers and the governor have deemed Vietnam Veterans Day in New Mexico, an improbable reunion will take place at the Vietnam American Association of New Mexico office here. This is the story of how that reunion came about.
Donna Rowe: Advocate for the unwanted

Donna Rowe: Advocate for the unwanted

Donna Rowe began saying her goodbyes months ago, though few of us who knew this stubborn, stone-ribbed woman believed she would ever die.

$26M dip in gas royalties likely

New Mexico is bracing for the loss of $26 million in oil and gas royalties from the federal government this year, a cut one key state senator called the “tip of the iceberg.”
Zach Pagett leaves the courtroom on Thursday, March 28, 2013, after being sentenced for the murder of his brother, Neal Pagett,  Pagett made his brother dig his own grave and then shot him to death in 2008. (Greg Sorber/Journal)

Man faces 8 1/2 years for killing brother

In a 'heartbreaking' case, parents wanted their son released to better treat his mental illness.
A 1950 memo by an FBI special agent regarding a report of flying saucers in New Mexico has become the most viewed document in the agency’s online repository of public records. (COURTESY OF FBI WEBSITE)
 See the full memorandum.

N.M. UFO memo is FBI’s most-read

A third-party report of "flying saucers" in New Mexico, sent by FBI Washington, D.C., field office chief Guy Hottel to then-Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1950, has become the most popular file in the FBI "Vault" - the high-tech reading room housing various records released under the Freedom of Information Act.

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