Stabbing death: 'We will never get over this'
Posted: 11/6/2009, 8:37 PM Mountain time
A 45-year-old man who was beaten and stabbed to death in September was good-natured and had a talent for home improvement projects, music and making people laugh, his four sisters said Friday. B ...

Ex-state official disputes drunken driving arrest
Posted: 11/6/2009, 8:21 PM Mountain time
The lawyer for a former state Cabinet secretary who was set to take a new job in the Obama administration this month said his client wasn't drunk at the time she was stopped. Attorney Dan Marlowe ...

Lawmaker: Behavioral health system close to collapse
Posted: 11/6/2009, 6:22 PM Mountain time
State officials plan an emergency meeting Tuesday to deal with what some say is quickly becoming a crisis for some behavioral health providers. OptumHealth, which has a state contract that could ...

Smokers likely target in effort to fix state budget
Posted: 11/6/2009, 8:09 PM Mountain time
Veteran tobacco lobbyist Bobby McBride knows he'll be spending a lot of time early next year trying to convince state legislators to kill an attempt to raise taxes on cigarettes. "I've represente ...

Trail Dust: Book tells story of legendary outdoorsman
Posted: 11/6/2009, 5:57 PM Mountain time
In mid-1961, I was working on the Marvin Ake ranch in the San Agustin Plain southwest of Magdalena. One morning I walked over to the barn on some errand. Mr. Ake was standing by a strange mud-cak ...

Six nominated for Santa Fe judgeship
Posted: 11/6/2009, 8:23 PM Mountain time
The state Judicial Nominating Commission on Friday sent the names of six lawyers to Gov. Bill Richardson, who will appoint one of them to the 1st Judicial District Court bench. The governor has 3 ...

Local news in brief, Nov. 7, 2009
Posted: 11/6/2009, 7:52 PM Mountain time
Backhoe and grader still missingThe Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office issued an alert to other law agencies Friday to be on the lookout for two large pieces of construction equipment — a backhoe and ...