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The Española City Council wants to see an ordinance to regulate the installation of privately owned fire hydrants throughout the city due to questions about liability and safety.
Prosecutors are asking a judge to hold a Santa Cruz man, a convicted murderer, without bail pending trial after he allegedly violated a protection order filed by his soon-to-be ex-wife, threatening her with a gun, having his mother contact her and trying to contact her through CashApp.
Prosecutors are asking for a judge to hold an Española man without bail pending trial after he allegedly reversed his truck toward a deputy’s car that tried to pull him over, then engaged deputies in a slow-speed chase, ending in the hills off State Road 399.
Two Democrats and four Republicans qualified for the ballot in New Mexico’s June 2 gubernatorial primary in which each party’s voters will choose a nominee to replace outgoing Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham.
Probation officers are asking a judge to send Mackie Roybal, 32, back to prison, after he pleaded guilty in 2017 in four cases, including shooting a 3-year-old in the leg in the Wal-Mart parking lot.
Prosecutors added two charges against a former Jicarilla Apache Nation police officer, accused of raping her son, physically attacking her daughter and lying to federal investigators.
Prosecutors are asking a judge to hold a man without bail pending trial after he allegedly threw rocks into the homes of people he knew, as well as through commercial buildings, under what appears to be delusions that they stole his gold.
