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An ABQ Deputy Fire Chief Is On Leave After Alleged Tirade – 7:21pm MDT
Two fire department lieutenants ask the chief to take the deputy chief off safety committee ... (By Astrid Galvan)
Bernalillo County Supervisors Report Family Ties – 7:07pm MDT
Surveys were completed this month for the county manager, who said he will consider moving employees who work under their relatives ... (By Dan McKay)
Third Teacher Sues UNM Over Handling of ‘Mistress Jade’ Incident – 6:35pm MDT
Plaintiff contends she was retaliated against after she criticized the way the university dealt with the 2007 incident ... (By Abigail R. Ortiz)
Man Sought on Texas AMBER Alert Arrested by State Police in Raton – 5:56pm MDT
The 16-year-old girl who had last been seen late Monday night at her Richmond, Texas, home is in good health ...

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Police Need Help Tracking Serial Robber – 4:12pm MDT
Albuquerque police are looking for an armed man believed to have robbed four businesses since mid June. ... (By Astrid Galvan/Lights and Sirens)
State Wants To Develop Master Plan for Higher Education – 3:52pm MDT
Series of town hall meetings will be held in communities around the state in August ...







Presbyterian Raps Out Half-Time For Hospital Construction – 3:33pm MDT
Presbyterian Executives Marked The Mid-Way Point Of Its Rio Rancho Hospital With a Rap Video ... (By Rosalie Rayburn)
Border Town Days Celebration Saturday – 2:58pm MDT
The event will run from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Texico and Farwell, Texas ...
Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce Seeks New Leader – 2:39pm MDT
Jim Berry is retiring as president and CEO at the end of next month ...

Ground Control Lost Link With Drone – 12:53pm MDT
The unmanned MQ-1 Predator ran off the runway at Cannon AFB on Wednesday and plowed through a fence ...

Tent Rocks Monument Will Remain Closed Until Mid-August – 11:45am MDT
Weather has delayed completion of project to pave the road to the monument ...
Morning Roundup – 10:45am MDT
News from around New Mexico: ... (By Jim McElroy)

9:10am – New AD Named at Taos High School
First order of business is interviewing candidates for boys' basketball coach. ...
8:45am – Dogs Attack Sheep at NMSU
Huskies pepper-sprayed by campus cops after bloody attack in livestock pens. ...
8:20am – Juarez Transit Cop Held in El Paso on Arms-Dealing Charge
Mexican city's transit police have recently come under attack from cartels. ...
7:55am – Silver City Chamber Director Accused of Kicking Officer
Lola Polley hires Gary Mitchell as defense attorney in fourth-degree felony case. ...

7:30am – Las Cruces Seabee Recovering From Calif. Suicide Crash
Fund set up for families of injured sailor and fellow Seabee who died near Malibu. ...
7:05am – Mud, Rockslides Block Durango/Silverton Railroad
Line back open after 3 trains and about 1,000 passengers were thwarted Monday. ...
6:40am – Alamogordo Weighs Bid for Ruidoso Track
City prepares incentive package in case Lincoln County tax proposal fails. ...
6:15am – Farmington Bicyclists Struck by Suspected Drunk Driver
One cyclist in critical condition after being thrown onto car's hood Wednesday. ...

5:50am – Child Dies After Anthony Train-Van Crash
19-year-old driver who tried to beat train could face vehicular homicide charge. ...

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Oil Spill Near Bosque del Apache
Animal tracks are visible on the surface of fuel oil that spilled into an arroyo after two tanker cars derailed on Monday near Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge. Officials say that almost all the oil had been removed by late Wednesday. Read more. (Courtesy U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
UPDATED: Border Guvs Conference to Start Sept. 19
Gov. Bill Richardson and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will co-host a two-day meeting between U.S. and Mexico border governors in Santa Fe on Sept. 19 and 20.

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Obama Signs Bill To Combat Crime in Indian Country read more (new 5:10 PM MDT)

No Strike Fighter; Holloman Gets F-16s read more (new 5:05 PM MDT)

Troops Headed to U.S.-Mexico Border by Mid-August read more (new 5:02 PM MDT)

AZ, FL, UT, VT To Get Air Force's New F-35 Fighter read more (new 4:59 PM MDT)

UPDATED: Hatch Man Charged With Trying To Poison Wife read more (new 1:06 PM MDT)

More Than 100 Take Advantage of Safe Surrender Program read more (new 9:33 AM MDT)

Las Cruces Police Warn of Door-to-Door Solicitors read more (new 9:30 AM MDT)

State Proposes More Bear, Cougar Hunting read more (new 9:27 AM MDT)

NMHU Starts New Software Development Program read more (new 9:25 AM MDT)

Dona Ana County Bomb Squad Removes Chemicals read more (new 9:22 AM MDT)

Weather Forecast:  . . . Partly cloudy. Scattered showers and thunderstorms in the evening then isolated showers and thunderstorms after midnight. Some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall in the evening. Lows in the lower to mid 60s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph in the evening.     Albuquerque | New Mexico National Weather Service Radar Road Conditions | KOAT Closings List | ABQ Pollen see weather in your neighborhood Weather Station Map Albuquerque Traffic

Uniting Against a Smear Campaign
By Leslie Linthicum/ Journal Staff Writer
  The story of Shirley Sherrod has played out in a perfect modern story arc: Vicious vilification, oopsy daisy, we're sorry and never mind. It probably doesn't feel perfect to Sherrod, the USDA bureaucrat who found herself attacked as a racist, forced to resign for being a racist, defended by the left, then by the right, recast as a racial healer and offered a promotion to the job of — irony alert — trying to address racism at the USDA.
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