Northern Briefs

Three Threaten City Suits

11/5/09     Three individuals are threatening to sue the city of Española for everything from falsifying police reports to wrongful termination to causing an accident...

Lawyers Line Up To Replace Judge Hall

11/5/09     The state First Judicial Court Nominating Commission plans to review 17 applications Thursday (11/5) to replace state District Judge James Hall on the...

Chamita Subdivision Approved after Five-Year Fight

11/5/09     A developer’s five-year battle for permission to build a subdivision on the side of a hill north of Chamita ended Oct. 29 with...

Remains Are Of Missing Woman

SUN Staff Report 11/5/09     The state Office of the Medical Investigator confirmed Oct. 30 that the human remans found west of El Rito Oct. 27...

Lead Prosecutor Leaves Local Office

SUN Staff Report 11/5/09     Former assistant district attorney Kathryn Thwaits left her post last week as the head of Rio Arriba County’s District Attorney office.    ...

School Board Could Challenge New Super.’s Faith

11/5/09     Mesa Vista School District Superintendent Randy Earwood has been on the job three weeks, and already he is eyeing facilities upgrades, curriculum improvement...

Driver in Lindrith Rollover Passes Sobriety Test

11/5/09     The driver in the single-vehicle rollover accident Sept. 26 in Lindrith that seriously injured two people was not legally drunk, according to blood...

Stabber Sentenced To 15 Years

SUN Staff Report 11/5/09     A Nambé woman was sentenced to 15 years years in prison Oct. 22 by state District Court Judge Michael Vigil for...

Split Council Hires Second-Best Engineering Firm

11/5/09     Emotions and tempers ran high Oct. 27 during a contract debate that split the Española City Council and led to the Council overruling...

Feds To Pay for City Hall’s Geothermal Climate Control System

11/5/09     Out of three applications for federal stimulus funding submitted in August, the city of Española received funding for one of them, bringing the...

Jail Offers Tierra Amarilla Man Escape from Old Ball and Chain

11/5/09 Landlady Slap Monday, Oct. 19     • 9:25 a.m. — An El Centro Family Health employee told 911 dispatchers a patient was in withdrawals, and the...

‘Devils Suffer Disheartening Loss

11/5/09     The Española Valley football team’s long journey to respectability took a step backward again Oct. 30 when Los Alamos shellacked its District 2AAA...

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