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News from around New Mexico:

• Two recent suicides at the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge in the past month have reawakened a call for installing barriers at the bridge.
• A Las Cruces father charged with threatening his daughter’s school bus driver with a knife says he was just standing up for his child after a year of what he called escalating harassment — and meant no violence to the female driver whatsoever.
• The man dubbed the “Cinderella” escapee was back in a San Juan County court on Wednesday.
• Bandelier National Monument, closed for the duration of the Las Conchas Fire, is back open to visitors and campfires are once again allowed at the Juniper Campground.
• About 1,100 people so far have made appointments with state Motor Vehicle Division officials to verify that they are residents of New Mexico — about 11 percent of those targeted by the state for residency checks.
• Politico.com lauds the “soft touch” of Gov. Susana Martinez.
• Health care providers and the state Department of Health are offering free immunizations for children in clinics across New Mexico starting this weekend.
• Financial troubles in the Federal Aviation Administration have left their mark in Dona County as some $2.5 million in work at the city’s airport has stalled.
• The U.S. Forest Service is investigating a small fire in the Bear Canyon in the Sandia Mountains that started when lightning struck a tree.
• The new town clerk in Peralta is a former mayor of Nogales, Ariz.
• Jury deliberations in the attempted murder trial of Robert Howard Bruce — a former Rio Rancho man who is a suspect in more than a dozen rapes in New Mexico and Texas — hit a snag in a Pueblo, Colo., courtroom Wednesday when a juror told the court she could no longer continue.
• The New Mexico Lottery raised $41.3 million for college scholarships in the fiscal year that just ended.
• Area law enforcement officers are looking for a 25-year-old Clovis woman who was mistakenly released from the Curry County Adult Detention Center on Tuesday.