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KVIA El Paso
February 28, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A troubled Albuquerque motel that has drawn scorn for attracting drug trafficking and prostitution is being targeted by the city of ... Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller announced Monday that city officials have begun the process to declare the Sahara Motel as a public nuisance.
KOB 4
February 28, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Koluk and Kiska got in on the action for International Polar Bear Day at the Albuquerque Zoo. Advertisement. The BioPark provided tables and activities for children who were able to visit Tuesday. The annual event is meant to draw attention to the challenges polar bears face in theÃÂ ...
Albuquerque Journal
February 28, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The FBI is looking for a man who robbed a northeast Albuquerque bank Monday afternoon. Spokesman Frank Fisher said the robber walked into the U.S. Bank, at 2015 Eubank NE, around 3 p.m. and gave the teller a demand note. The suspect was given an undisclosed amount ofÃÂ ...
Multi-Housing News
February 28, 2018
Although underperforming, the Albuquerque multifamily market is on the mend. Tepid activity is partially due to a lagging pipeline and modest demographic expansion. And even though some of the metro's core submarkets show signs of growth, the suburbs continue a slow recovery from the most recentÃÂ ...
KOB 4
February 28, 2018
This past month has been torture, and the pain continues as we look for answers about what happened to our dad," a family member of Ray said in a statement. "We appreciate the hard work that the Albuquerque Police Department has put into the case and are hopeful that they will have whoever did this inÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
February 28, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A local website is giving moms across Albuquerque a chance to connect with one another. Vanessa Bush took over running “Albuquerque Moms Blog” one year ago. The site offers parenting perspectives, as well as guides on topics ranging from local kid-friendly events toÃÂ ...
KOB 4
February 27, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- After 55 years, one of Albuquerque's original Farmers Market stores will close for good. Advertisement. Those years seem to have gone by in a flash for Jhett Browne. His parents first opened Farmers Market stores in the early 60s, long before eating and buying local was trendy.
KRQE News 13
February 27, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque has been named as one of the best cities for women in the technology field. The study by SmartAsset, ranked Albuquerque as fifth, while Washington D.C. is ranked in the top spot. The study says Albuquerque has the fifth lowest gender pay gap in theÃÂ ...
KOAT Albuquerque
February 27, 2018
A man who admitted to shooting and killing his mother is free to walk the streets of Albuquerque, after he was released from a mental health facility. In December 2007, Justin Quintana told police he took a gun from his mother's Las Cruces home, told her he needed medical attention and then accidentallyÃÂ ...
Seattle Times
February 27, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A troubled Albuquerque motel that has drawn scorn for attracting drug trafficking and prostitution is being targeted by the city of Albuquerque. Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller announced Monday that city officials have begun the process to declare the Sahara Motel as a publicÃÂ ...
Albuquerque Journal
February 17, 2018
Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Albuquerque, Dreamstyle currently employs more than 500 people in New Mexico, California, Idaho and Arizona. Of that number, 260 staffers are located in Albuquerque; the local workforce was 75 people four years ago. Chavez said he makes it a business priorityÃÂ ...
Albuquerque Journal
February 17, 2018
Dunn said the partnership of GreenTree Hospitality of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Peak Hospitality of Albuquerque failed to come up with a required $250,000 bond in time to take on the project by the end of 2017. Minimum base rent for the 2.72 acres at 311 Old Santa Fe Trail is $18,750 a month, or $225,000 perÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
February 17, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A longtime idea to help move traffic across the south end of Albuquerque is being renewed by Kirtland Air Force Base with a proposal to help get drivers cutting through the base. Kirtland Air Force Base is once again talking about the idea of extending Gibson BoulevardÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
February 17, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Long before women had a voice in the sport of skiing, there was Elizabeth Woolsey. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1908, Elizabeth or Betty as she would later be known, turned her passion for the Sandia Mountains into a love of the sport of skiing. Even though by theÃÂ ...
KOB 4
February 17, 2018
She was identified as one of the sex traffickers who had forced the teenager into prostitution. Further investigation found that from February 2017 through January 2018, a sex trafficking operation based out of Albuquerque was being operated in five other states including Arizona, California, Oklahoma, Florida and Maryland.
KRQE News 13
February 17, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The city of Albuquerque has a fascinating history, and now we're getting a closer look at some of the city's most famous sights thanks to a documentary that's popping up on social media. Let's take a stroll through an Albuquerque neighborhood in the 1960s.
Christian Science Monitor
February 16, 2018
A communitywide effort to reduce chronic absenteeism is underway in Albuquerque — and in many other places in the United States – as what was once a hidden problem has been brought into the spotlight. Schools historically tracked “average daily attendance,” counting the total number of studentsÃÂ ...
Albuquerque Journal
February 16, 2018
Albuquerque police officers were called to the area around the campus after a man reported someone had pointed what looked like a real gun at him as he sat in the drive-through of Golden Pride restaurant. The man said he was in fear for his life. When police arrested Deloria he said he was carrying a BBÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
February 16, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque Police have arrested a suspect in a home invasion that left his friend dead. Police say 25-year-old Isaiah Marquez, his half-brother Juan Perdomo, and another man broke into a house near Gibson and I-25 Saturday night. The homeowner's son pulled a gunÃÂ ...
Albuquerque Journal
February 9, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — After months of internal and external investigations involving the University of New Mexico football program, UNM says it will suspend head coach Bob Davie for 30 days. UNM announced the unpaid suspension Thursday as it released the findings of a Chicago law firm's recentÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
February 9, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – One of the teens connected to the murder of a man in his northeast Heights driveway has been misbehaving. Enrique Palomino and five others were breaking into homes and cars the night Steven Gerecke was shot and killed in 2015. Palomino pleaded guilty last year forÃÂ ...
Albuquerque Journal
February 9, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Police issued an arrest warrant for a man named “Rico” after he shot a woman in southeast Albuquerque Thursday afternoon, according to a police department spokesman. Police issued an arrest warrant for a man named “Rico” after he shot a woman in southeast AlbuquerqueÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
February 9, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A picture is worth a thousand words and in this case, it has a lot of people outraged. When readers opened their issue of the Albuquerque Journal on Wednesday, they saw a cartoon in the Opinion section. It shows a couple being held at gunpoint by a trio of young gangÃÂ ...
Albuquerque Journal
February 8, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Days after two roommates disappeared under suspicious circumstances in late January, police say a man was seen driving one of their cars on a northeast Albuquerque shopping spree. Eugene Carrell Ray, 70, and 28-year-old Zakaria Fry were both reported missing Jan.
Albuquerque Journal
February 8, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Frontier Airlines will begin offering non-stop flights from Albuquerque to Austin and Orlando in April, the company announced today. The flights will begin on April 9, with the carrier offering special fares starting at $39 each way at FlyFrontier.com, according to a news release.
KOB 4
February 8, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A 35-year-old man received a nine-year prison sentence for torturing his girlfriend for several days last August, a Bernalillo County District Attorney's Office official said. Advertisement. As part of a plea bargain, Justin Aragon pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated battery on aÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13 (blog)
February 8, 2018
America's Promise Alliance has partnered with AT&T to bring “GradNation Grants” to states and communities across the country. The program aims to raise the national graduation rate to 90 percent by 2020. United Way of Central New Mexico applied for the grant on behalf of Albuquerque and won the bidÃÂ ...
Albuquerque Journal
February 8, 2018
Officer Simon Drobik, a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department, said around 7:30 a.m. police were called to the neighborhood near Academy and Burlison NE because a man was acting erratically, breaking windows and threatening to kill himself and others from his home on Leander and RubyÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
February 8, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Hundreds of students from all over the Southwest region will descend upon the Second Judicial District Court in downtown Albuquerque. It's all for a competition that's giving college students and aspiring attorneys a lesson in the judicial system. For the next three days, theÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
February 8, 2018
According to the criminal complaint, the woman met 39-year-old Jason Yeitrakis online. She told police they went to a few restaurants near Cottonwood Mall and drank. She says when they were leaving one of the restaurants, Yeitrakis “just snapped” and hit her until she blacked out. She was found whenÃÂ ...
Albuquerque Journal
February 7, 2018
Travel was disrupted twice for hundreds of motorists in the space of three days when large swaths of both interstates that crisscross Albuquerque were shut down after two suicidal individuals threatened to jump from overpasses – one incident lasting more than 13 hours, the other just a few minutes.
Albuquerque Journal
February 7, 2018
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Ozzy Osbourne will bring his “No More Tours 2” to Isleta Amphitheater on Sunday, Sept. 30. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 17 at livenation.com. Citi cardmembers will have access to purchase presale ticketsÃÂ ...
Albuquerque Journal
February 7, 2018
Hot air balloons fly over the North Valley during the 2017 Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. (MARLA BROSE/JOURNAL)). ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The 46th annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta generated $172.98 million in total economic impact, according to a just released economicÃÂ ...
StateTech Magazine
February 7, 2018
Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the infamous setting of the popular TV drama Breaking Bad, but the city could soon be recognized for another reason: its citizen-focused tech efforts. With eyes toward making the city more livable and increasing resident engagement with government, city officials areÃÂ ...
Albuquerque Journal
February 7, 2018
Officer Simon Drobik, a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department, said late morning Tuesday a mother called police saying her teenage son was “acting erratically” and had just left the house in his underwear. Officers found him near Candelaria and the frontage road, where they say he wasÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
February 7, 2018
A man has been sentenced to six years in prison for an Albuquerque freeway crash in 2016 that killed a 10-year-old girl. Feb. 6, 2018 ... The Albuquerque Journal reports a judge also ruled Tuesday that the crime was a serious violent offense, meaning Nelson must serve at least 85 percent of his sentence.
KRQE News 13
February 7, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A New Mexico native will likely be talking about his night of fame on the classic game show “Jeopardy.” Quin Lewellen is a graphic designer from Albuquerque. He says he's such a big fan that he used to go home during lunch in high school to watch Jeopardy. LewellenÃÂ ...
KOB 4
February 7, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Police have arrested a man who had barricaded himself inside a northeast Albuquerque home and caused quite a disturbance, including a full SWAT call out. Advertisement. KOB Photojournalist Lex Stanfield took pictures at the scene showing the suspect just moments after heÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
February 7, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Ask anyone. The number one issue facing New Mexico is crime. A two-month News 13 investigation finds our justice system dangerously overloaded. The problem is not that crooks aren't being arrested, it's that they aren't being prosecuted. In fact, there are so manyÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
February 5, 2018
Two key New Mexico Democratic lawmakers are pouring cold water on Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller's plea for state help to hire 400 officers. Feb. ... Both, who chair important appropriation committees, say Albuquerque has its own tax base and can fund the new officers if that's what its city council wants.
Albuquerque Journal
February 4, 2018
Perry, a mother of two who is married to former Albuquerque Chief Administrative Officer Rob Perry, was serving as Learfield's vice president of business development when USAG came calling. “We wanted someone that could bring increased transparency and leadership and team building skills to theÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
February 4, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M (KRQE) – Many victims of sexual abuse stayed silent for years, but now more and more are speaking out and it's also happening right here in New Mexico. Albuquerque Police have seen a recent spike in sex crimes victims coming forward years later. An Albuquerque attorney saysÃÂ ...
SFGate
February 4, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An Albuquerque man is facing charges after allegedly assaulting firefighters as they were trying to save people from a burning home. KOB-TV reports that Bernalillo County firefighters were at the scene of a house fire on Thursday evening in southwest Albuquerque when theyÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
February 4, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Widespread flu activity continues across the county. In New Mexico, the Department of Health says 18 people have died of flu-related causes. It has investigated 21 flu outbreaks in long-term care facilities so far this season, more than what was reported during the entireÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
February 3, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – When Kyle Guin moved to Albuquerque from Aztec, he said it was like moving to New York City. “It was just like insane there were interstates and traffic,” said Guin. Guin is a junior at the University of New Mexico and is a star of the University's Venture Lab, a live/work/playÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
February 3, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Beer is a beverage a lot of people enjoy, but one Albuquerque brewery is tapping into a completely new use for their ale. Marble Brewery is typically known for its wide selection of locally made beers, and this year Marble is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a splash.
KRQE News 13
February 3, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Break-ins, robberies and parking lot road rage are just some of the types of calls police respond to at Albuquerque's four big shopping malls. On Special Assignment, KRQE News 13 poured through years worth of data to see just what goes on at some of the most popularÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
February 3, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A family is looking for a new place to live after a fire in northwest Albuquerque. AFD says they responded to the blaze at a two-story home near Paseo del Norte and Universe. The second story partially collapsed. Four adults and three children safely evacuated in time.
KRQE News 13
February 3, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The 65-year-old woman whose body was dumped on the mesa and set on fire was a mail carrier who lived in Albuquerque, where police believe she was murdered. Marilyn Gandert made quite the impression after working 31 years for the Albuquerque Post Office.
KRQE News 13 (blog)
February 1, 2018
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE)— The United States Postal Service will soon have a new Albuquerque express location. The U.S. Postal Service will relocate its Louisiana and Montgomery site following a community meeting. Previously inside the Smith's grocery store, the new location has not yet beenÃÂ ...
