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NEWS ABOUT: New Mexico

New Mexico stories: 47 news summaries

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 San Fran Is Best US 
 Vacation Destination 

Charleston, Santa Fe, New York, and Chicago round out top 5

Oct 29, 09 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - San Francisco has topped this year’s Conde Nast Traveler list of American cities to visit. The city by the bay edged out Charleston , SC , at No. 2. Metropolises New York and Chicago made a strong showing as well, at Nos. 4 and 5, respectively. The list is... More »

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travel • California • San Francisco • New York City • Chicago • South Carolina • New Mexico • Charleston • Santa Fe • Conde Nast • opinion polls

Hotel Owner Forces Latino Employees to Change Names

NM innkeeper forbids speaking Spanish

Oct 26, 09 2:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - A hotel owner who demands that Latino workers change their names to Anglicized versions and not speak Spanish in his presence is causing a stir in New Mexico. Larry Whitten laid down the law: Martín (mahr-teen) and Marcos are now just Martin and Mark, and employees he considered insubordinate... More »

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Iraq • New Mexico • racism • Latinos • Spanish • Hispanic • cultural heritage

Life Not Groovy for Licensed
Pot Sellers

New Mexicans left fearing both feds
and criminals

Oct 10, 09 7:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - New Mexico has started handing out licenses to nonprofit medical marijuana producers and distributors in an effort to avoid the kind of dispensary free-for-all seen in California—but that's not making those involved sleep any easier. Marijuana is still illegal under federal law, meaning growers, distributors and users—fearing both... More »

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New Mexico • medical marijuana • marijuana • marijuana legalization

(AP) - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former members of his administration will not face charges in a yearlong pay-to-play investigation, a source tells the AP. A federal grand jury has been probing whether lucrative work on state bond deals was improperly awarded to a Richardson donor—derailing his nomination as... More »

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Bill Richardson • New Mexico • governor • pay-to-play

(Newser) - The tentative thaw continues in North Korea relations. On the heels of Bill Clinton's trip, Bill Richardson hosted two high-ranking officials from the North today at the governor's mansion in New Mexico and declared that Pyongyang is sending a "positive vibration" about detente. “What I sense was, one,... More »

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North Korea • Bill Richardson • New Mexico • Bill Clinton • Pyongyang • governor • nuclear disarmament

North Koreans in Santa Fe to Meet Gov. Richardson

UN ambassadors get special permission to leave New York

Aug 19, 09 4:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two North Korean diplomats at the UN are traveling to Santa Fe to meet with Bill Richardson, the New Mexico governor and former UN ambassador, reports CNN. The meeting is taking place at Pyongyang's request, according to the governor's office, and will focus on clean energy technology. Richardson has visited... More »

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North Korea • Bill Richardson • diplomacy • State Department • New Mexico • governor

7 Women ID'd
in New Mexico Mass Grave

Police in Albuquerque hunting serial killer after 11 bodies found

Jul 10, 09 5:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police in New Mexico have named seven of the 11 murdered women found in a mass grave outside Albuquerque several months ago, CNN reports. Police say the victims were linked through drugs and prostitution, but they have yet to identify a suspect. The women, one of whom was pregnant, were... More »

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New Mexico • murder • serial killers • Albuquerque

 World's Toughest 
 Golf Hole: 
 3 Rugged Miles 

NM hosts challenging extreme golf tournament

Jun 3, 09 3:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - New Mexico’s ultimate golf challenge is a single, 50-foot wide hole. Sound like child’s play? Add a 2,550-foot mountain, rattlesnakes, and a 3-mile course. The Elfego Baca Shootout—a side event to the Socorro Open—requires golfers to finish with just one of 10 balls, hardly an... More »

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golf • New Mexico • golf course • extreme sports • Socorro Open • Elfego Baca Shootout

NYC Probes Rattner's Firm in Pension Scandal

Quadrangle paid finders fees to indicted adviser's company

Apr 22, 09 9:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - New York City authorities are investigating whether Quadrangle Group, formerly led by Obama car czar Steven Rattner, deceived managers of the city's pension funds, the Wall Street Journal reports. Rattner's firm, Quadrangle, paid finders fees to Searle & Co., which had been headed by now-indicted political adviser Hank Morris,... More »

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New York City • New York • New Mexico • corruption • Searle • pension funds • kickbacks • Jeff Bingaman • Steven Rattner • Quadrangle Group • Hank Morris

 New Mexico
Bans Death Penalty

Guv abolishes executions after wrestling with conscience

Mar 19, 09 3:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has signed a bill abolishing the state's death penalty, reports the Santa Fe New Mexican. Richardson, who formerly supported capital punishment, said replacing execution with life in prison without the possibility of parole was “the most difficult decision of his political life.” He... More »

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death penalty • Bill Richardson • New Mexico • lethal injection • execution • capital punishment

 9th Body 
 Unearthed in 
 New Mexico 
 Desert 

All may be victims of serial killer

Feb 25, 09 3:00 AM CST
(Newser) - A ninth body has been unearthed in the New Mexican desert in what one expert believes is the work of a serial killer, reports KRQE-TV. Only one of the victims in the secret graveyard outside Albuquerque—a prostitute reported missing in 2003—has been identified. There are currently 24 women... More »

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New Mexico • murder • fetus • prostitute • serial killers

(Newser) - Val Kilmer is pretty confident about a future in New Mexico politics—assuming that’s his next move. “If I run, I’m going to be the next governor,” the actor and affirmed Democrat tells the AP. He's considering a campaign next year, when term limits will bar... More »

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Bill Richardson • New Mexico • Val Kilmer

Mississippi Has Most Teen Pregnancies

State passes Texas
and New Mexico in nationwide uptick

Jan 7, 09 11:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Mississippi has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the US, the AP reports. Some 68 Mississippi women out of 1,000 aged 15-19 got pregnant in 2006—the most recent year for which data are available, and in which the US rate rose for the first time in 15... More »

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pregnancy • Texas • New Mexico • abstinence education • Mississippi • teen pregnancy • celebrity pregnancy • teenager • pregnant women • wowOwow

Richardson: Not So Easy Going Home Again

Mixed reactions greet return of Santa Fe's political dynamo

Jan 6, 09 12:31 PM CST
(Newser) - His cushy Cabinet post yanked out from underneath him, Bill Richardson is heading home to the state that made him a national player, reports the New York Times. And while New Mexico might be a let-down for Richardson, (“Sometimes your own dreams and plans must take a back seat... More »

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Bill Richardson • New Mexico • governor • commerce secretary • pay to play


 Richardson 
 Camp Mum 
 to Vetters 
 on Pay-to-Play 

Gov. tight-lipped about investigation

Jan 5, 09 7:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Bill Richardson’s sudden exit from the prospective Obama Cabinet is causing some Democrats to question the transition team’s vetting process. Sources tell Politico that Richardson evaded the team’s questions about the “pay-to-play” investigation he cited as his reason for backing out. The investigation has been public... More »

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Barack Obama • Bill Richardson • New Mexico • grand jury • political scandal • transition team • President Obama • commerce secretary • pay to play

(AP) - Bill Richardson has withdrawn his nomination to be commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation into a lucrative state contract awarded to a firm that backed the New Mexico governor's political activities. Barack Obama's transition office said today that Obama has accepted Richardson's withdrawal. More »

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Bill Richardson • New Mexico • nomination • grand jury • commerce secretary • pay to play • CDR Financial Products

 Kilmer for NM Governor? 

Former Batman
mulls run: 'a worthy, serious endeavor'

Nov 7, 08 10:34 AM CST
(Newser) - Val Kilmer’s considering a run for governor of New Mexico, he tells Cindy Adams of the New York Post. “There's sort of a rumor around that I'm maybe thinking about running to be governor of New Mexico? Well, it's sort of true,” says the star of Batman ... More »

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New Mexico • governor • actor • politician • Val Kilmer

 Talking Heads 
 Vow Restraint 
 ... Sort of 

Networks vow some restraint

Nov 4, 08 8:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Television news executives have vowed they won't jump the gun and project a president-elect until one man has 270 electoral votes. And they won't count electoral votes until polls are closed, reports the Los Angeles Times. But if key states in the East and Midwest back Obama, viewers will likely... More »

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California • New Mexico • Rick Davis • Nevada • Colorado • CBS News • exit polls • David Axelrod • Election 2008 • television news • network news • projections

ANALYSIS

John McCain, Here's How You Can Still Win This Election

Forget about Pa.; focus on Virginia, Florida, FiveThirtyEight says

Oct 26, 08 12:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain, the polls aren’t looking good and your running mate is being accused of going “rogue,” but Nate Silver has some advice on how you can still eke out a victory. “No razzle-dazzle here,” Silver writes for FiveThirtyEight, “McCain simply has to pick... More »

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Florida • John McCain • Iowa • Wisconsin • electoral college • New Hampshire • New Mexico • Ohio • North Carolina • Pennsylvania • Indiana • Virginia • Minnesota • Missouri • Colorado • Nate Silver

Hard Times Turn Latino Voters
to Obama

Their support in key Western states could decide election

Oct 25, 08 7:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Campaign workers walking Latino precincts in Las Vegas are finding padlocked doors, foreclosed homes, jobless residents—and more voters supporting Barack Obama, the Los Angeles Times reports. "The economy is so bad, and I am afraid McCain has the same ideas as President Bush," one man told a... More »

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Barack Obama • New Mexico • Latino voters • Nevada • Colorado

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