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Blocks Plead Not Guilty

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5/14/09     Public Regulation Commissioner Jerome Block Jr. and his father, Jerome Block Sr., have each pleaded not guilty to the array of criminal election-finance...

Take off the Masks, Wash Your Hands If You Want To Avoid Swine Flu

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5/7/09     New Mexico has three confirmed cases of H1N1 “swine” flu, and the three people who caught it have already recovered, according to a...

Lybrook Closure Delayed Despite Law

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5/7/09     The Rio Arriba County Commission has voted for the second time to postpone closing the Lybrook Volunteer Fire Department.     Commissioners had delayed the...

Burgular Pretends To Be Cop

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5/7/09     A Chimayó man pretending to be an undercover police officer allegedly burglarized two trailers and made off with $6,000 cash, according to court...

Politicos Jump at Gov.’s Offer To ‘Do Something Big’

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5/7/09     Student dormitories. An Española Railrunner stop. A really, really big recreation center.     Española politicians and bureaucrats shifted giddily in their seats and rattled...

Light-Footed Questa Darts Past McCurdy

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5/7/09     The McCurdy baseball team may have finished its regular season April 30 by losing to the Questa Wildcats 15-12, but the Bobcats will...

Masked Driver Treats Local Roads Like Racetrack

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    5/14/09 Española Police, Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies and State Police responded to the following calls: Unjust Slap? Monday, April 27     •...

McCurdy Crowns Honor-Student Queen

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From a press release 5/14/09     McCurdy School crowned Ashley A. Pacheco, of Chimayó, prom queen May 2.     Pacheco is a senior and will graduate May...

Ohkay Casino Wins $250,000 Jackpot Dispute

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5/14/09     A state Appeals Court judge has ruled an Española man cannot sue Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo’s Tsay Corporation in state District Court for refusing...

Family Get-Together Ends in Stabbing

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State Police arrested the suspect in a triple stabbing Sunday when he returned to the scene of the crime later the morning of the...

Lead Prosecutor Leaves Local Office

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Former assistant district attorney Kathryn Thwaits left her post last week as the head of Rio Arriba County’s District Attorney office.     Thwaits had been...

Hantavirus Hits Close To Home

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From a press release 5/14/09     The New Mexico Health Department announced May 8 that a 25-year-old woman from Santa Fe County was hospitalized in critical...
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