$1M Spent on Truancy, With Little to Show for It
By Zsombor Peter / Copyright © 2008 Albuquerque Journal; Journal Staff Writer
Nearly five years after launching a million-dollar-a-year initiative to battle student truancy, the state has no numbers to show whether it has made any genuine gains.
APS Freezes Accounts to Fight Deficit
By Zsombor Peter / Journal Staff Writer
Effective today, Albuquerque's public schools cannot touch their supply and contingency accounts without an OK from the district's acting superintendent and its CFO.
Woman Ruled Fit to Stand Trial in Fake Kid Case
By Joline Gutierrez Krueger / Journal Staff Writer
An Albuquerque woman has been ruled competent to stand trial on charges stemming from an elaborate scheme to invent an imaginary child to bilk her ex-husband out of thousands of dollars in child support.
Jail Fight Allegedly Orchestrated
By Joline Gutierrez Krueger / Journal Staff Writer
A fight this weekend at the state juvenile detention center that left eight injured and eight in adult custody was orchestrated to ensure simultaneous attacks on at least three victims, court records show.
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Ruling on DWI Stop Tossed
By Scott Sandlin / Copyright © 2008 Albuquerque Journal; Journal Staff Writer
A driver who makes a legal U-turn to avoid a sobriety checkpoint can't be pulled over by police for that alone, the state Court of Appeals decided in overturning a conviction in a San Juan County case.
Eclipse Seeks Bloggers' Identities
By Andrew Webb / Copyright © 2008 Albuquerque Journal; Journal Staff Writer
Eclipse Aviation has asked a California court to force the unmasking of anonymous commenters who posted on Web sites covering the company.
Fair, Expo Mediate Complaint
By Rene Romo / Copyright © 2008 Albuquerque Journal; Journal Southern Bureau
LAS CRUCES— The State Fair Commission chairman and Expo New Mexico will try to resolve complaints from the Professional Bull Riders to keep the group from moving an annual bull-riding competition out of Albuquerque, the commission chairman said.
RB Keith Arrested Outside Nightclub
By /The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS— Colts running back and former New Mexico State player Kenton Keith was out of jail Monday after being arrested for refusing to leave a nightclub parking lot and yelling at officers that he was a Colts player who had done nothing wrong, police said.
'Topes, Fans Have Wiener of a Time
By Randy Harrison / Journal Staff Writer
If they came Monday night for both wieners and winners, the fans at Isotopes Park got their fill.
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