All the headlines from our Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 26 2012 // A family can’t bring damage claims in New Mexico against an out-of-state funeral home that placed a relative’s brain in a casket with an embalmed body shipped to New Mexico, the state Court of Appeals ruled...
Oct 23 2012 // A Clovis, N.M.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to “enhancing the lives of people with disabilities” is facing a lawsuit from clients for neglect and exploitation. The Albuquerque Journal reported that a...
Oct 22 2012 // A former administrative assistant for Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston has filed a lawsuit in New Mexico claiming the sheriff created a hostile workplace for women.Deborah Garcia provided a copy of her Aug. 28...
Oct 19 2012 // The eastern New Mexico town of Portales is preparing for its 39th annual peanut festival this weekend. But the festivities may be overshadowed by anxiety over the shuttering of a local plant at the heart of a national...
Oct 18 2012 // Auto lender Ally Financial, which is 74 percent-owned by the U.S. government, will sell its Mexican insurance business to insurance and reinsurance company ACE Ltd for $865 million in cash as it looks to focus on its U.S....
Oct 8 2012 // More than 2 million homes in California face “extreme wildfire hazards,” over 400,000 of which are in Los Angeles County, according to a study from an insurance industry group.A separate study shows at least...
Sep 27 2012 // A peanut processing plant in Portales, N.M. has been shut down since Saturday after an outbreak of salmonella was linked to peanut butter made at the facility.The Sunland Inc., plant is being scrubbed top to bottom and...
Sep 25 2012 // New Mexico’s summer monsoon season began with promise but has now ended with disappointing amounts of rainfall across much of the state.National Weather Service meteorologist Jason Frazier told the Santa Fe New...
Sep 24 2012 // Two law firms were poised on Friday to collect a blockbuster $305 million in legal fees for their work on a lawsuit, after Delaware’s Supreme Court declined to consider a challenge to the payout.The fee award to law...
Sep 24 2012 // A Santa Fe, N.M. jury has awarded $2 million to a man whose back surgery was so badly botched he suffered cardiac arrest and required three more surgeries.Matt McCann entered Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in...
Sep 24 2012 // More than three-quarters of a million homes in the Western U.S. have a high risk of wildfire damage, according to a report released by Santa Ana, Calif.-based CoreLogic.CoreLogic’s Wildfire Hazard Risk Report...
Sep 19 2012 // An explosion and fire killed at least 26 people at a Pemex natural gas facility in northern Mexico near the U.S. border on Tuesday, one of the deadliest accidents in the oil and gas industry in recent years.Television...
Sep 11 2012 // A Santa Fe jury has awarded $2 million to a man whose back surgery was so badly botched he suffered cardiac arrest and required three more surgeries.Matt McCann entered Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa...
Sep 10 2012 // More than three-quarters of a million homes in the Western U.S. have a high risk of wildfire damage, according to a report released by Santa Ana, Calif.-based CoreLogic.CoreLogic’s Wildfire Hazard Risk Report...
Sep 5 2012 // The state has agreed to settle a lawsuit with a whistleblower who accused the New Mexico Department of Health of nepotism and financial irregularities.The Albuquerque Journal reported that under a settlement agreement made...
Aug 29 2012 // Hurricane Isaac drove water over the top of a levee on the outskirts of New Orleans on Wednesday, but the multibillion-dollar barriers built to protect the city itself after the 2005 Katrina disaster were not breached,...
Aug 27 2012 // According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Tropical Storm Isaac made landfall about 40 miles [64 kms] east of Guantanamo, Cuba, on Sunday with sustained winds of 60 mph [96 km/h].AIR said Isaac’s...
Aug 21 2012 // A man who says he invested more than $1.5 million in a failed northwestern New Mexico hospital project is suing the project’s promoter for fraud.Michael Atchison’s lawsuit claims promoter Bobby Willis spent the...
Aug 20 2012 // Tropical Storm Helene made landfall off the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday and weakened into a tropical depression as it plowed up Mexico’s east coast, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.The depression was about 65...
Aug 14 2012 // A man has sued a security company after one of its guards pepper-sprayed him last month on the sidewalk in downtown Santa Fe, N.M.The Albuquerque Journal reported that 26-year-old Justin LeVan filed a lawsuit on July 31...