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Bernalillo County approves mobile health clinics for schools

Bernalillo County will soon have two mobile School-Based Health Centers serving students and community members. This initiative — approved by the Bernalillo County Commission — will launch in September and provide primary, preventative and behavioral health care to pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade students, student families, school faculty and local community members.  Two mobile clinics will rotate […]

Posted inBernalillo County, Courts, Justice & Safety, Local Gov.

BCSO asks for public assistance in juvenile homicide investigation

The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office announced an ongoing investigation following the discovery of a body in Pajarito Mesa on May 19, 2024, at approximately 4 p.m. Upon discovery, the body was identified as a teenage male with signs of at least one gunshot wound. BCSO detectives say they faced significant challenges in identifying the decedent […]

Posted inCourts, Justice & Safety, National News

Guilty: Trump becomes first former U.S. president convicted of felony crimes

By MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ, ERIC TUCKER and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes Thursday as a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush […]

Posted inJobs, Workers & Economy, National News, Syndicated

Lab-grown meat isn’t on store shelves yet, but some states have already banned it

By DEE-ANN DURBIN Lab-grown meat is not currently available in any U.S. grocery stores or restaurants. If some lawmakers have their way, it never will be. Earlier this month, both Florida and Alabama banned the sale of cultivated meat and seafood, which is grown from animal cells. In Iowa, the governor signed a bill prohibiting schools from […]

Posted inCongress & Federal Gov., National News, Syndicated

Biden is said to be finalizing plans for migrant limits as part of a US-Mexico border clampdown

By COLLEEN LONG and SEUNG MIN KIM The White House is finalizing plans for a U.S.-Mexico border clampdown that would shut off asylum requests and automatically deny entrance to migrants once the number of people encountered by American border officials exceeded a new daily threshold, with President Joe Biden expected to sign an executive order […]

Posted inAlbuquerque, Education

Expanding the arts, programs for struggling schools approved in $2.15 billion APS budget

The Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education has approved a $2.15 billion budget for the next fiscal year — which will go toward educating, feeding, busing and otherwise serving almost 65,000 students at 143 schools. The budget also includes raises for more than 11,000 employees and more arts instruction. The spending plan covers APS schools […]

Posted inCongress & Federal Gov., Courts, Justice & Safety, National News, Syndicated

NRA can sue ex-NY official it says tried to blacklist it after Parkland shooting, Supreme Court says

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for a National Rifle Association lawsuit against a former New York state official over claims she pressured companies to blacklist it following the deadly 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida. Giving the NRA a new chance to prove its case, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that “the critical takeaway is […]

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Boeing tells federal regulators how it plans to fix aircraft safety and quality problems

By DAVID KOENIG Boeing told federal regulators Thursday how it plans to fix the safety and quality problems that have plagued its aircraft-manufacturing work in recent years. The Federal Aviation Administration required the company to produce a turnaround plan after one of its jetliners suffered a blowout of a fuselage panel during an Alaska Airlines flight in January. […]

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Bernalillo County’s Summer Lunch Program to launch June 3

Bernalillo County’s Summer Lunch Program will return June 3 to serve free meals to thousands of kids in the county’s unincorporated areas including the South Valley, North Valley, East Mountains, Pueblo of Isleta and Paradise Hills area. This program — funded by a U.S. Department of Agriculture grant administered by the New Mexico Early Childhood […]