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SANTA FE, N.M. - Legislative auditors have faulted poor financial management by school districts for allowing questionable spending of public money, including the purchase of a $91,000 tow truck.

THE GLARING MONEY PROBLEM FOR LAS VEGAS CITY SCHOOLS IS NO SURPRISE -- LEGAL COSTS.

State documents obtained by Eyewitness News 4 point to serious financial issues at the two school districts serving Las Vegas, New Mexico.

State Taxation and Revenue officials plan to auction 116 lots of a subdivision near Conchas Lake to recover unpaid taxes, penalties and interest from delinquent taxpayers.

Edward Lighthart, who walked out of Discovery Park in July with apparent amnesia, has reappeared in Las Vegas, N.M., again with no apparent memory of who he is.

We have an answer to a culinary question a lot of people are contacting us about: Is an In-N-Out Burger coming to Albuquerque? A viewer wrote this to Eyewitness News 4: "I am a native New Mexican but lived in Orange County, Calif.

Law-enforcement officers arrested five drunken-driving suspects at the Wednesday evening checkpoint on Interstate 25, located at the spot where five members of a Las Vegas, N.M., family were killed by a drunken driver exactly three years earlier.

A mobile vehicle featuring live dancers has increased business for strip clubs but has drawn fire from critics over decency, safety Leila Navidi " Kay," a dancer from Deja Vu Showgirls, performs some pole dancing moves while inside a truck with strippers from Little Darlings to advertise the clubs on the Las Vegas Strip late in the evening Monday, ...

Updated at: 11/10/2009 11:04 PM By: Joe Vigil, Gadi Schwartz, Eyewitness News 4; Matthew Kappus, KOB.com Officers say a National Guardsman shot a Las Vegas man three times after the two got in a fight on the road.

This photo provided by the New Mexico National Guard shows Spc. Joseph Gallegos.

The Democratic Party of New Mexico's State Platforms and Resolutions Committee will be holding a resolutions hearing in Las Vegas, New Mexico on November 14th from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

For the fourth straight year, the College-High School Challenge Rodeo comes to McGee Park, pitting New Mexico's top high school rodeo athletes against cowboys and cowgirls from New Mexico State, Eastern New Mexico, New Mexico Junior College, New Mexico Highlands and Mesalands Community College in an event sponsored by the New Mexico Rodeo Council.

Lloyd Goding & Brooke Burkey, a volunteer with the Safe & Dry program at a local Las Vegas home, discuss ways to stop cold drafts from entering house Local faith and community leaders gathered in Las Vegas, New Mexico Friday morning to call attention to the urgent need for weatherization and energy efficiency in New Mexico's rural communities.

The New Mexico National Guard said a 39-year-old solder deployed to Iraq has died after a heart attack.

Governor seeks input on budget cuts Gov. Bill Richardson will hold office hours today in hopes of hearing from New Mexico residents about the budget bills that were passed last week by the Legislature.

New Mexico's serious DWI problem, in spite of strenuous public efforts to deal with it, seems unwilling to go away.

Pedestrian dies in collision on I-25 An unidentified man was killed late Friday when he was hit by a sport-utility vehicle as he was walking on Interstate 25 near the Old Pecos Trail exit, sheriff's investigators said.

The Downtown Action Team and the city of Albuquerque are launching the first phase of developing a cultural plan.

Photo: Pat Gonzales, left, and Linda Dixon work out together Monday as part of The Center for Living Well program at Christus St.

New Mexico now has an additional spoke in its wheel toward having a louder voice on the international scene, thanks to Gov.