A federal inmate held at the Hidalgo County jail has tested positive for measles, the state’s first confirmed case in 2026.
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‘New Mexico was basically the worst,’ Epstein survivors told lawmaker of abuse at Zorro Ranch
Rep. Andrea Romero said she met around eight to 10 survivors when she was in Washington, and at least three had been to New Mexico.
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Democrats Decry Meager Medical Care for Detainees in Funding Fight
President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort has led to a record number of immigrants being held in federal detention centers, local jails, and private prisons.
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Wirth cosponsored a bill to add a new judge in Santa Fe. It could benefit his law practice.
SB 35 would ease judges’ caseloads amid spike in medical malpractice and other civil claims
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Lawsuit accuses Los Lunas child treatment center of allowing sex abuse of girls
A former resident of the Sandhill Center alleges she faced repeated sexual assaults over several months in 2008 and 2009.
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New Mexico providers struggle to secure state funding for sex assault, DV services
“Survivor safety … requires ongoing investment,” said MaryEllen Garcia, executive director of the New Mexico Coalition Against Domestic Violence.
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Hepatitis C tends to run rampant in prison. A group of New Mexico inmates help keep it at bay.
Dr. Karla Thornton noticed a troubling pattern. Starting in 2004, Thornton, an infectious disease expert at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, was tasked with helping train medical providers working in the state’s prisons to treat hepatitis C, a blood-borne liver disease that can cause serious damage if left untreated. But new infections […]
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Trouble with the law
Moriarty Police Chief Adan Urbina and one of his officers, Christopher Costa, spent the summer of 2023 taking inventory of everything in their evidence room. The pair began the tedious work of inspecting and cataloging the boxes of seized possessions after Cpt. Mark Satterfield, the lone evidence custodian for this small police force some 40 […]
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When a call for help ends in gunfire
A new lawsuit in the 2024 fatal police shooting of teenager Elijah Hadley could shed light on a persistent problem in New Mexico: an outsized portion of police violence begins with a welfare check
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Protect and serve: Did county officials enable Ryan Martinez’s violent actions at a 2023 protest in Española?
Two survivors have filed suit against Rio Arriba County office-holders, alleging that their civil rights were violated when they failed to control dangerous conflicts surrounding the proposed reinstallation of a statue depicting Juan de Oñate
