A man convicted of fatally shooting his parents and three siblings in New Mexico as a 15-year-old was sentenced Friday to life in prison with the possibility of parole in a case that has tested the limits of mental treatment for juvenile offenders.
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Jaguars once roamed throughout North America. But since only a handful of the large cats have been spotted in the last decade, the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau argued before the 10th Circuit Wednesday that land designated in the state for the predators isn’t essential to their conservation.
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New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced a program Wednesday that will pay for 100% of undergraduate tuition and fees at New Mexico universities for eligible in-state residents.
Read moreIn upholding a murder conviction, the New Mexico Supreme Court said Tuesday it has abolished a prohibition against spouses testifying in court cases about what their husband or wife told them in private conversations during their marriage.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss claims from a man whom police in Hobbs, New Mexico, shot in a bar parking lot, as police allegedly knew and were indifferent to the bar’s serving minors and people who were too drunk to be served, creating a public nuisance.
Read moreEleven people sued Farmington, New Mexico in federal court, claiming it violates the Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act by charging people whose residential systems generate solar power.
Read moreSpaceport America is no longer just a shiny shell of hope that space tourism would one day launch from this remote spot in the New Mexico desert.
Read moreA New Mexico judge has ruled the state’s medical marijuana program cannot exclude qualified patients who live outside the state.
Read moreNearly 300 people, most of them Navajo, demand damages in a federal complaint against Weston Solutions, Gold King Mines, the United States and others from the Aug. 5, 2015, spill of toxic water from the Gold King Mine in New Mexico.
Read moreA conservative coalition in New Mexico filed a state lawsuit on Thursday challenging the constitutionality of new gun laws requiring background checks and requiring accused domestic abusers to surrender their guns.
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New Mexico’s Environment Department and attorney general filed an injunction asking that the U.S. Air Force be compelled to quickly clean up contamination from toxic firefighting foam that lingers in the ground around Cannon and Holloman Air Force bases.
Read moreThe Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved three of President Donald Trump’s nominees to federal district courts, including two to seats on courts in Ohio.
Read moreA divided New Mexico Supreme Court Friday set aside the death sentences of the last two men awaiting execution in the state, ruling that the penalties were disproportionate in comparison to sentences in similar murder cases.
Read moreNew Mexico hit Monsanto, Pharmacia and Solutia with a 261-page lawsuit, claiming they made and sold products containing PCBs though Monsanto knew as early as 1937 that it was polluting the state’s soil and water.
Read moreIn New Mexico, where more than 20% of counties have fewer than five practicing lawyers – and two counties have no lawyers at all – a work group is considering an initiative that would allow non-lawyer legal technicians to provide civil legal services to people who are unable to afford an attorney.
Read moreNew Mexico’s top prosecutor is demanding that the U.S. Air Force close a publicly accessible lake at Holloman Air Force Base, saying the concentration of hazardous chemicals at the site poses a risk to public health and the environment.
Read moreFormer CIA operative Valerie Plame has officially filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run for Congress in New Mexico.
Read moreAuthorities on the U.S.-Mexico border have tried to distance themselves from an armed civilian group that detains asylum-seeking families, but the United Constitutional Patriots have never been shy about saying they work with Border Patrol agents.
Read moreThe leader of an armed group that has been detaining asylum-seeking families from Central America near the Mexican border said two years ago that he was training supporters to assassinate Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and billionaire Democratic supporter George Soros, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday.
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