A year ago at the state spirit competition, the Española Valley cheer squad showed exactly what it can do when it’s on its game.

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A man who stabbed his co-worker five times with a knife in December 2023, pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated battery.

ALBUQUERQUE — With a shot heard around the north, Aayilah Boies’s 3-pointer with 2.7 seconds Friday night left gave the Mesa Vista girls basketball team its first ever Class 2A state championship.

With no seniors and several eighth graders making the transition to high school cheerleading, it’s been a year of learning for the McCurdy spirit squad as it gets ready to hit Saturday’s state competition at The Pit in Albuquerque

Sometimes you just want something tasty that’s easy and will leave some leftovers — maybe even something that doubles as an easy meal train dish, if it’s that time in your friends’ lives for births, deaths or surgeries.

An Española man will spend three years and eight months in prison for a string of armed robberies in November 2024 involving a gun.

A Hernandez man received a conditional discharge following four-and-a-half years of supervised probation, after pleading guilty to charges of aggravated assault against a household member and child abuse, for beating his girlfriend while she was with her infant child.

A federal jury convicted a Dulce man of raping and molesting girl under age 12 and acquitted him on a charge of molesting a second girl under 12 following a multi-day trial in Albuquerque.

Efforts to open a lowrider museum in Española faced a setback after Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham issued a line item veto on March 11, for $500,000 that was promised for efforts to get the museum created.

Recently, a New Hampshire man told the Associated Press of his dismay at learning last fall that he couldn’t vote in local elections without proving he was a U.S. citizen. He had voted before, but this time around, he needed a passport or birth certificate to re-register to vote, he recalled.

It was a big bipartisan win for New Mexicans when the legislature and governor enacted Senate Bill 1 to bring New Mexico into the interstate licensure compact for doctors. According to the New Mexico Medical Board, joining this compact will result in an increase of 10-15% in the number of doctors applying to practice in New Mexico annually.