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High-School Student Caught Selling Xanax

    An Española Valley High School student was caught selling prescription drugs Oct. 16 at school, according to a police report.     School security guards...

Former Prosecutor Passes on City Job

SUN Staff Report 3/5/09     The city of Española remains without a city attorney after former assistant district attorney A.J. Salazar turned down the job.     The...

Former Teacher Instigated Stick-Beating, Arbiter Rules

1/29/09     The Española Military Academy won a bittersweet victory against a former employee when an arbitrator upheld the Academy’s decision to fire Leonard Martinez...

Is Cold War Over? Gangster Rapper Asks

 1/29/09    Española Police officers, Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s deputies, State Police officers and Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Police responded to the following calls: Teens Beat Up...

New City Director Under Investigation for DUI Crash

2/19/09     The city of Española may have filled one director position, but its list of vacancies isn’t getting any shorter.     The city hired Len...

Legislature Strips County of About $200,000 in Unspent Capital Outlay Funds

SUN Staff Report 3/5/09     Even as Rio Arriba County officials scramble to assemble a list of shovel-ready capital projects eligible for federal stimulus grants, the...

County Revenues Increase

1/22/09     Despite declines in 2008 property and gross receipts tax revenues, Rio Arriba County revenues were up overall last year, with year-end revenues increasing...

Lady Trojans Win Big District Game

2/12/09     The Mesa Vista Lady Trojans slipped by the Questa Lady Wildcats Feb. 7 in a District 3AA game in Ojo Caliente.     Despite trailing...

McCurdy Science Star Checks Caffeine Buzz

1/29/09     The Spring 2008 Science Star award Lindsay Redman received earlier this month from Los Alamos Women in Science is nothing new for the...

Oil, Gas Industry Largest Lobby at State Legislature

2/26/09     The oil and gas industry has more financial clout in the state legislature than any other industry, according to a Feb. 4 study...

Brush Fire Burns 33 Acres in El Guache

3/5/09     Six fire departments responded Feb. 28 to a grass fire that burned 33 acres of private land and five acres of federal land...

No Propane Could Damage Vallecitos Fire Trucks

SUN Staff Report 2/5/09     The Vallecitos Fire Station has run out of propane for the second time this winter, threatening ice damage to its tanker...

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