Velarde News

Next stop, the real world Amidst boisterous applause, flashing lights and the proud gazes of friends and family, the 2008 graduating class of Los Alamos High School took the stage Saturday morning at Griffith ...

“This is not something we could have done on our own”

It's a little incongruous. In this unassuming Los Alamos bedroom community, in a former horse barn behind an ordinary-looking house in a normal, if rural, neighborhood, resides New Mexico's only licensed ... via Las Cruces Sun-News

“As near as we can tell, the truck hit an icy patch, they hit the hillside and it sent them across the road and into the river upside down”

A Picuris woman and her daughter were found dead in the Ro Grande Monday after Ro Arriba Sheriff's Department officials say their truck slid off NM 68 near Velarde sometime over the weekend. via The Taos News

A mother and daughter are dead after the pickup truck in which they were riding crashed into the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico. via KOB-TV

“The risk now is infections. There could be an epidemic”

Thousands of people have been receiving food handouts Tens of thousands of Mexicans affected by widespread flooding in the state of Tabasco are at risk of epidemics of diseases, officials have said. via BBC

“Yet a moment of thought exposes its emptiness.”

As a political junkie, I enjoyed "Lions for Lambs," the Tom Cruise starrer that is Robert Redford's latest and most political movie. via Newsstand.blogs.com

“Dapat iyon ang habulin nila. Unang una iyong balense sa jueteng, iyong P345 [million] kinuha niya iyon (They should go after him [Singson]. First of all the balance of the jueteng [money] P345 [million] he got that)”

Former president Joseph "Erap" Estrada on Tuesday said the Sandiganbayn should go after former Ilocos Sur governor Luis "Chavit" Singson for the bulk of the cash and assets ordered to be forfeited as part of ... via ABS-CBN News

“God didn't put us on this Earth to be ordinary.”

One of the most grievous episodes in New Mexico's middle colonial period was the destruction of the Pedro de Villasur expedition in Nebraska by Pawnee and Otoe Indians allied with the French. via Santa Fe New Mexican

National Estrada assets to be confiscated Come November 7, former President Joseph Estrada will be facing a new headache - ' the Sandiganbayan will issue a Writ of Execution confiscating almost P900 million ... via ABS-CBN News

“We will immediately act in less than 24 hours. Immediately, that is our job”

The Sandiganbayan on Tuesday assured that it would not take the sheriff more than 24 hours to start reclaiming the plundered riches of former president Joseph Estrada once the anti-graft court orders their ... via ABS-CBN News

“Lubos po akong nagpapasalamat kay Pangulong Arroyo sa pagpapalaya sa aking ama, ganun din po sa mga mamayan na patuloy nagdasal sa paglaya ng aking ama”

By BRENDA PIQUERO TUAZON "History will be my final judge," former President Joseph Estrada said yesterday moments after he walked into freedom ending his family's years of anguish while sending his throngs of ... via Manila Bulletin

“The properties and bank account were not included in the grant of pardon. These are the matters that the justices had to discuss, as to how these forfeited properties and bank account could be satisfied with the release ofd the former president”

The Sandiganbayan has received the copy of the pardon order of President Arroyo exactly 25 minutes after it was signed by former president Joseph Estrada at his residence in Tanay, Rizal Friday afternoon. via ABS-CBN News

“As an elected leader of the Philippines, I am fully aware of the tough times and agonizing choices she went through before deciding to grant pardon”

Saturday, October 27, 2007 Erap: I did not steal from government MANILA - Former president Joseph Estrada emerged from more than six years of detention a free man yesterday afternoon, while the lawyers who ... via Sun-Star Cebu

“It was withdrawn before Erap was impeached by the House. By the time Villar was dramatically and passionately reading the impeachment articles, we [already] lost that P3.1 billion. We did not recover anything”

National Erap release may be delayed A spokesman of the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court said Friday that former president Joseph Estrada's expected release from jail may be delayed. via ABS-CBN News

“The chances of success of a new impeachment complaint bid increases as the internal squabbling of the ruling coalition worsens. Mrs. Arroyo should not be too overconfident of her own chances at political survival”

An activist group on Wednesday said it there is already a crack in the administration coalition, which may cause President Arroyo's downfall. via ABS-CBN News

“If the Arroyo regime persists in keeping the impediments, preparations can still be made for clearing the way for the peace negotiations after the current regime is changed”

National Arroyo: Insurgency holding us back Agence France Presse BUTUAN CITY - The Philippines will never be a wealthy country while a decades-old communist insurgency rumbles on, President Arroyo said ... via ABS-CBN News

“OP discretionary funds used for cash gifts?”

National Santiago wants 1-yr break from Senate duties Administration Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago said Wednesday that she plans to take a one-year leave of absence beginning next month to campaign for a seat ... via ABS-CBN News

“Lakas' position is as long as Speaker de Venecia is in that position, nobody will rock the boat”

National Solon: No one from Lakas will rock JDV's boat "Nobody will rock the boat." This was ruling Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats official and Davao City 1st district Rep. via ABS-CBN News

“Roadmap to Federalism by 2012”

National Estrada due back in Sandiganbayan on Friday For the first time since being convicted of plunder, former president Joseph Estrada is set to appear before the Sandiganbayan Special Division in the hopes ... via ABS-CBN News