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Lack of Crime Scene Photos Helps Derail Rape Case

When a 9-year-old Española girl whose stepfather allegedly raped her found out he wasn’t going to be charged with that crime and would be...

City To Fund Line Extensions

After years in multiple committees, the Española City Council unanimously passed a funding plan for expanding water and wastewater to more than 200 residences...

Maintenance Work Doled Out Regardless Of State Law

The Española School District paid three contractors a total of over $350,000 last fiscal year to repair and maintain climate control systems at schools...

Police Blotter: Wife’s Car Disabled until Husband’s Wallet Returned

Española Police, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies and State Police responded to the following calls: Key Roundup Monday, Aug. 31 • 6:27 a.m....

Drug Seizure Program Ignored

Law enforcement agencies in Rio Arriba County routinely claim that they are underfunded, undermanned or both, but they’re missing out on one revenue stream...

Mayor Tries to Strip Papers of Legal Ads

If the New Mexico Municipal League has their way, public legal notices will no longer have to appear in a newspaper. A measure introduced by...

Officer Paid for 30-Hour Workday

Rio Arriba County Sheriff Joe Mascareñas signed off on a time sheet that allowed one of his deputies to be paid for 30 hours...

Police Blotter: Wal-Mart Customer Humiliated by Lotion Swap

Española Police, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies and State Police responded to the following calls: Ex-Tenant Cussed Out Monday, Aug. 25 • 8:46...

Rio Arriban Chosen As State Delegate for Drug Walk

Deborah Fickling came to New Mexico in 1989 as a recovering drug addict. On Thursday (9/10) she leaves for New York City as a...

Hays Settles for $1.15 Million

The Kit Carson Electric Cooperative and Rio Arriba County have agreed to pay more than $1 million combined to settle a wrongful death lawsuit...

Dispatcher Targeted in Pot Raid

Narcotics agents seized 57 marijuana plants Sept. 1 from the Chimayó property of a State Police 911 dispatcher, according to the Region 3 multi-agency...

Did Deputy Let Drunk Driver Go Free?

Accusations are flying back and forth between Española Police and Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies over whether the latter agency allowed an allegedly drunk...

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