All the headlines from our New Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 14 2019 // A New Mexico non-profit that’s assembled gift bags for the Oscars and Grammys is facing a class action lawsuit brought by disabled employees who say it pays as little as 18 cents an hour.The suit is the latest to...
Mar 12 2019 // A proposal to legalize the sale and consumption of recreational marijuana through state-run stores in New Mexico is advancing in the state Legislature. A Senate panel on Saturday endorsed the House-approved bill that would...
Feb 6 2019 // New Mexico’s Bernalillo County will pay almost $2 million to settle a series of lawsuits stemming from a deputy’s 2017 fatal shooting of two unarmed suspects.KRQE-TV reports the county will make a $1.75 million...
Dec 21 2018 // Another lawsuit has been filed against the Catholic Church, alleging sexual abuse of a child by a now-deceased priest who once served at Our Lady of Health Parish in Las Cruces, N.M.It’s the latest in a string of...
Dec 17 2018 // A former Los Alamos National Laboratory official pushed out of his job amid controversy over his service on an electric co-op’s board has won a jury verdict against the lab’s former management company. The...
Dec 3 2018 // A New Mexico woman who was brought back to life is suing the hospital for violating her rights.Lawyers for Jamie Sams filed a lawsuit in late November in New Mexico state district court against Santa Fe’s Christus...
Nov 21 2018 // Outgoing Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye has extended the tribe’s crop insurance amid ongoing extreme drought conditions.The Gallup Independent reports Begaye signed the insurance contract earlier this month....
Nov 19 2018 // A New Mexico woman who was brought back to life is suing the hospital for violating her rights.The Albuquerque Journal reports lawyers for Jamie Sams filed a lawsuit last week in New Mexico state district court against...
Oct 29 2018 // Another insurance company has gone to federal court in New Mexico to avoid paying millions of dollars in claims from victims whose trust funds and savings were embezzled.The Albuquerque Journal reported the Cincinnati...
Oct 8 2018 // A New Mexico man suing a supermarket chain after he says he slipped and fell on a green chile pod.The Albuquerque Journal reported a lawyer for Richard Berman filed a lawsuit last week in Santa Fe District Court two years...
Sep 17 2018 // A jury has awarded a New Mexico couple $74 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving a son left with brain damage.The jury in late August ruled that a women’s health clinic in Hobbs, New Mexico, didn’t...
Sep 13 2018 // New Mexico saw a spike in traffic fatalities in August as a deadly crash involving a passenger bus and a semi-trailer killed nine people.Preliminary data compiled by the state Transportation Department and the University...
Aug 29 2018 // A jury has awarded a New Mexico couple $74 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving a son left with brain damage.KOB-TV in Albuquerque reported the jury this month ruled that a women’s health clinic in...
Jul 30 2018 // Route 285 is the formal designation for one of the main roads used to carry supplies to and from the oilfields of West Texas. Locals call it something else: “Death Highway.”Last year, 93 people died in...
Jul 25 2018 // Raging waters from the Santa Fe River and arroyos have caused damage to Santa Fe, N.M. homes, city facilities and infrastructure following a heavy rainstorm.More than 3 inches of rainfall were reported in some areas of...
Jul 17 2018 // A crash involving a commercial passenger bus and three other vehicles on a New Mexico highway early Sunday killed three people and injured 24 others, some critically, authorities said.One of the people killed was in a car...
Jul 16 2018 // A northern New Mexico city is facing another lawsuit from a former employer in yet another controversy involving its mayor.The Santa Fe New Mexican reports Martin Gonzales, a former public works director of Las Vegas,...
Jul 9 2018 // Affordable Care Act insurers are facing a fresh round of uncertainty that could drive up premiums or push companies to stop offering coverage through the law, after the Trump administration’s latest move to cut off...
Jul 3 2018 // Fire danger across much of the country has prompted cancellation of July 4 fireworks displays.In northern Arizona, Prescott’s fire chief says he’s canceling the town’s Fourth of July fireworks show as...
Jun 20 2018 // Reports from an independent safety panel show radioactive contamination was found on a worker’s hands and other places at a nuclear weapons lab in New Mexico, the latest safety lapse at the facility as it ramps up...