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  • Police ID stabbing victim search continues for suspect

    Police are still looking for 33 year-old Ricardo Villanueva-Cordova in connection to a fatal stabbing at an Albuquerque gas station. Police said Villanueva-Cordova stabbed 27 year-old Michael Sanchez several times, and it was all over Sanchez complaining about Villanueva-Cordova’s barking dog. Police said it all started early Tuesday morning, when Sanchez went to the ...

  • Watch Live Who will be the next NMSU president

    Five candidates are vying for the New Mexico State University presidency, and the regents will announce their pick at 4 p.m. Monday at the NMSU Corbett Center Auditorium. Watch the meeting online at http://panopto.nmsu.edu/pressearch. The candidates are David Ashley, Guy Bailey, Garrey Carruthers, Daniel Howard and Elsa Murano. Here's a quick look at the candidates and their notable moments ...

  • Ex-mobster tells of Bulger gangs killings

    "You killed friends?" Bulger attorney Hank Brennan shot. "Yes," replied prosecution witness John Martorano. "Families?" "Yes." "Strangers?" "Yes." "Innocent people?" "Yes," said Martorano, who has admitted to 20 murders and who earlier served 12 years in prison on a government deal for his cooperation in the case ...

  • Judge rejects witness in ex-cops trial

    BERNALILLO, N.M. (KRQE) - A long, contentious and at times bizarre day in the Levi Chavez trial ended with the judge ruling a state's witness can't be called by the prosecution to testify. The problem that led to two days of hearings with the jury absent in the murder trial of the former APD cop centered around a revelation over the weekend by New Mexico Insurance Fraud Bureau ...

  • Boy recovering from hammer attack

    ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The man accused of attacking a 3-year old boy with a hammer has a criminal history showing the attack is not the first time he's randomly hurt someone. Clayton Senn, 36, had his first court hearing on Tuesday. Senn is charged aggravated battery with great bodily harm and two counts of aggravated assault. Albuquerque police say Senn hit the boy in the head with a hammer ...


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Spy Game

In Spy Game, Robert Redford plays Nathan Muir, a 30-year veteran agent of the C.I.A. who finds out on the day of his retirement that his protg, Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt), has been captured while trying to liberate a prisoner from a Chinese prison during a rogue mission and is schedule to be executed in 24 hours. The real problem for Muir is that the top brass at the C.I.A. are looking for way ... ...

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  • Judge decides not to grant dismissal in Levi Chavez case

    TENSE MOMENTS IN THE COURTROOM, AS THE DEFENSE ATTORNEY FOR LEVI CHAVEZ PUSHES FOR A MISTRIAL. BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER ANNA VELASQUEZ IS LIVE WITH DETAILS . DAVID SERNA NOT ONLY WANTED A MISTRIAL HE DIDN'T WANT THE STATE TO BE ABLE TO RE-TRY LEVI CHAVEZ UNDER DOUBLE JEOPARDY THIS ALL STEMMED FROM HIS EMERGENCY MOTION AND THIS HEARING TOOK ALL DAY HE SAYS THE STATE ...

  • Albuquerque man accused of fatally stabbing a neighbor in dispute over barking dog

    ALBUQUERQUE - Authorities say an Albuquerque man is accused of fatally stabbing a neighbor in an apparent dispute over a barking dog.Albuquerque police say they have written an arrest warrant for 33-year-old Ricardo Villanueva-Cordova on suspicion of murder.The name of the man killed hasn't been released yet.Customers at the Valero Gas Station called 911 Tuesday morning after seeing a man ...

  • Audit questions $6M in labor charges by New Mexico Environment Department

    SANTA FE - Federal auditors are recommending that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recover more than $6 million in grant funding from New Mexico.The EPA's Office of Inspector General says three bureaus within the New Mexico Environment Department did not always comply with federal requirements when it came to charging labor, fringe benefits and indirect costs to federal grants.The ...

  • Polygraph ruling may stall murder trial

    ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The trial of a man accused of killing an Albuquerque couple in 2005 Albuquerque was finally set to start Thursday. Now there could be another delay. Ronald Santiago allegedly shot John and Bernadette Ohlemacher in their Paradise Hills home in because they discovered he stole from them. The case has been tied up for years by challenges to the police search of Santiago's ...

  • DA discusses double-murder case

    HIGHEST COURT TO MAKE A KEY DECISION IN A DOUBLE MURDER CASE.. THE D.A. IS SPEAKING FOR THE FIRST TIME. AT THE CENTER OF THE DEBATE-- A POLYGRAPH TEST TAKEN BY THE DAUGHTER OF THE MURDERED COUPLE. AND TONIGHT THE D-A- SAYS, IF THE LIE DETECTOR IS ALLOWED IN COURT, THE JURY MAY NOT FIND THE TRUTH. ACTION 7 NEWS ANCHOR TANYA MENDIS JOINS US LIVE FROM DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE WITH THE DETAILS. THESE ...

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