August 25, 2009
Traffic was slow on Highway 314 heading south from Los Lunas yesterday after a black Dodge 4×4 flipped into a power pole, downing power lines and injuring the driver. A propane tank, lawn chair, drink cooler and other debris scattered across the highway’s shoulder. The bloodied driver was taken by ambulance to the hospital, as [...]
August 13, 2009
A Los Lunas teenager is being accused of nearly beating a man to death. Farlin Lucero was beaten mostly on his arms and head with fists and a bamboo stick on Friday. He’s at the University of New Mexico Hospital in critical condition due to a significant loss of blood and failing organs. He has [...]
August 04, 2009
The driver of a car that wrecked into a power pole sending a dangerous electrical surge into San Francisco Xavier Mission Chapel in Jarales died late last month. Efren Chavez-Mendoza’s crash caused sparks to fly from the electrical panel inside the Catholic church. At the time, the church’s caretaker, Susan Cordova, said the church was saved [...]
July 29, 2009
On June 27, moments before fireworks began exploding in a graceful display in Belen’s night sky, Jan Perea was airlifted to the University of New Mexico Hospital, her face bloodied and smashed by the crumpled truck she was riding in. Two trucks, a white Ford and a green Dodge, driving in opposite directions on Highway 116 [...]
July 22, 2009
KRQE is reporting that a Bosque Farms police officer was stabbed this morning while out on a jog.
June 05, 2009
Susan Cordova is crediting a singed and melted case of bottled drinking water for saving the San Francisco Xavier Mission Chapel in Jarales from burning down. On Sunday night, a gold Nissan Infinity traveling north on Jarales Road in front of the Catholic church swerved off the road and wrapped itself around a power pole, [...]
April 28, 2009
Five signs along Highway 47 expressing citizens’ opposition to threats to agriculture, were vandalized overnight with black spray paint. The signs were placed by citizens who believe both the proposed county hospital, which might be constructed near Highway 47 at the south end of Tome-Adelino, as well as a four-lane Highway 47 and bridges across [...]