By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press The number of residents still unaccounted for has been shrinking significantly after thousands of people fled their homes as two fast-moving wildfires approached their village in southern New Mexico, Ruidoso Mayor Lynn Crawford said Tuesday. Search and rescue crews have cleared more properties in the areas of Ruidoso, the […]
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FBI offers $10,000 reward for information about deadly Ruidoso wildfires
RUIDOSO, N.M. (AP) — Federal authorities offered a reward for information about those responsible for igniting a pair of New Mexico wildfires that killed two people and destroyed hundreds of homes in the past week. The FBI on Saturday offered up to $10,000 for information in connection with the South Fork Fire and Salt Fire […]
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Team combs fire-ravaged New Mexico community for remains of the missing
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN As residents return to a fire-ravaged village in the mountains of southern New Mexico, the mayor on Monday warned them that some parts of Ruidoso remain off limits as special search and rescue teams comb the charred rubble along the hardest-hit streets. They’re looking for the remains of people who are […]
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Triple-shooting suspect captured after intensive search across Alamosa farmland
The suspect in a shooting that left one person dead and two others with critical injuries was captured Sunday following an intensive search across a huge area of southern Colorado. Officers went door to door as aircraft searched overhead for Henry Corral, 44, who authorities said had taken off on foot after crashing his vehicle […]
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FBI offers $10,000 reward for information about deadly Ruidoso wildfires
RUIDOSO, N.M. (AP) — Federal authorities offered a reward for information about those responsible for igniting a pair of New Mexico wildfires that killed two people and destroyed hundreds of homes in the past week. The FBI on Saturday offered up to $10,000 for information in connection with the South Fork Fire and Salt Fire […]
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How does heat kill? It confuses your brain. It shuts down your organs. It overworks your heart.
By SETH BORENSTEIN As temperatures and humidity soar outside, what’s happening inside the human body can become a life-or-death battle decided by just a few degrees. The critical danger point outdoors for illness and death from relentless heat is several degrees lower than experts once thought, say researchers who put people in hot boxes to see what […]
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Supreme Court rejects settlement in water dispute between New Mexico and Texas
By LINDSAY WHITEHURST The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a settlement between Western states over the management of one of North America’s longest rivers. The 5-4 decision rebuffs an agreement that had come recommended by a federal judge overseeing the case over how New Mexico, Texas and Colorado must share water from the Rio Grande. The high […]
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New Mexico judge rejects effort to compel new testimony from movie armorer in Alec Baldwin trial
By MORGAN LEE SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico judge denied a request Friday to use immunity to compel testimony from a movie set armorer in the involuntary manslaughter trial of actor Alec Baldwin who fatally shot a cinematographer during rehearsal for the Western movie “Rust.” Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was convicted in March of […]
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Public records and lightning data shed new light on Salt and South Fork fire origins
By PATRICK LOHMANN Officials from many agencies responding to the unfolding natural disaster in southeast New Mexico have said an investigation is ongoing about the cause of the South Fork and Salt fires, including whether the blazes were caused by a human or nature. “When we got here we were told it was human-caused; we were […]
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37th Year of Flamenco Festival Features 126 Artists and 23 Shows
Marisol Encinias has been performing flamenco her whole life. “I’m 53 now, and I began dancing with my grandmother when I was 5,” Encinias said. Encinias’ mother started the Festival Flamenco de Albuquerque in 1987. It’s now grown to be the country’s largest flamenco festival and the largest international festival outside of Spain. This year, […]