Albuquerque News

Alamogordo Daily News photographer J.R. Oppenheim, managing editor Michael Johnson, reporter Duane Barbati and associate news editor Elva Osterreich each were honored with several awards Saturday night during the New Mexico Press Association-Associated Press Managing Editors 2009 Better Newspapers Contest.

Albuquerque police were investigating a homicide in Northeast Albuquerque Saturday.

A long-delayed and controversial landscaping project on Albuquerque's east side is starting to come together, thanks in part to the mayor-elect. La Luz de Amistad Park at Tramway and Central was once overrun with homeless people and prairie dogs, neighbors say.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. a ' The state Office of the Medical Investigator has identified an eighth victim among the remains found buried on Albuquerque's west side as a runaway from Oklahoma.

Santa Fe County rancher Bruce King, who served three terms as governor of New Mexico, died Friday morning at his home in Stanley, New Mexico.

A stunning discovery leads to a crack in a cold case. The body of a missing Lawton teenager is found in a makeshift graveyard near Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Albuquerque police are investigating the discovery of a body found in a trash bin.

A federal judge has determined there is probable cause to hold a teenager accused of murdering a nun at her home on the Navajo reservation.

An Albuquerque man -- arrested in a woman's murder last weekend -- has been hospitalized after jailers found him hanging from a sheet inside his cell.

The famed Navajo Code Talkers, the elite Marine unit whose unbreakable code stymied the Japanese in World War II, fear their legacy will die with them.

Authorities have arrested a 57-year-old Albuquerque man after police say he met a 16-year-old Westminster girl on the Internet and drove her to New Mexico, where they had sex and the man took bondage fetish photos of her.

Meteorologist Rob Guarino, the Fox29 emigre who started doing mornings at KOAT in Albuquerque, N.M., a year ago, has given notice to his station and will come back east.

The Fort Hood tragedy has one local man especially on edge, worried that his daughter could be one of the dead.

Authorities have arrested a 57-year-old Albuquerque man after police say he met a 16-year-old California girl on the Internet and drove her to New Mexico, where they had sex and the man took bondage fetish photos of her.

Bernalillo County sheriff's deputies are continuing to investigate after a 16-year-old Los Angeles girl was rescued from the Albuquerque home of a 57-year-old man in a situation deputies said was chilling and dangerous.

Albuquerque Journal, N.M., Commercial Real Estate column: Renovation reinvents Hotel St.

ALBUQUERQUE Two groups that support health care reform criticized Rep. Harry Teague Monday for the Democrat's vote against a bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives.

A New Mexico teenager suspected of killing a nun on the Navajo Indian reservation reportedly tried to commit suicide over the weekend.

Two 19-year-old men are jailed in the beating death of a woman who turned up missing after going to a friend's home to trade a snowboard.

A 14-month-old girl was badly burned and 32-year-old Michael Gallegos has been charged with child abuse in the case.