Albuquerque Express news Albuquerque Express news Rss feed

  • Petition pushes for transgender teen to graduate a man

    Damian Garcia, a transgender teenager who was born female, wants to graduate from St. Pius X High School, wearing a black gown, the color reserved for ...

  • Soldier surprises student pen pals

    Posted at: 05/20/2013 7:40 AM By: Heather Mills, KOB Eyewitness News 4 He's a hero to kids that have never even met him. Serving overseas in Afghanistan, a soldier and an Albuquerque 4th grade class were just pen pals. That is until he gave them a big surprise. It started off simple for Ms. Chavez's 4th grade class at Oñate Elementary. The student's sent a ...

  • Protest to support transgender student Protest to support transgender student

    ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A protest in support of Damian Garcia, the transgender high school student, is planned to take place near the St. Pius High School campus on Monday morning. An online protest started by an Albuquerque family has also gathered about 22,000 signatures in support of Damian. There is debate over which cap and gown Damian will wear for graduation. Damian was born a girl, but ...

  • Child injured after falling out of window Child injured after falling out of window

    ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A 2-year-old child is injured after falling from a third story window. Emergency crews swarmed an apartment complex on Montgomery northeast near the Lovelace Woman's Hospital around 7:30 p.m. Sunday. That is where police say the child fell out of a window from the third floor. Police will only say that the child was injured but could not say how the child fell. No word ...

  • More storms expected after rash of tornadoes

    And the destructive weather isn't over. Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes could pummel parts of the central Plains and Midwest through ...


partlycloudy
Albuquerque Weather
56.2°F Partly Cloudy
Winds: From the WNW at 1.0 MPH Gusting to 3.0 MPH
Tue
clear
81° 48°
Wed
clear
86° 50°
Thu
clear
93° 52°
Last Updated on May 20, 7:47 AM MDT
Weather sourced from Weather Underground

Movie Review

Ocean's Eleven

Steven Soderbergh's retro-funk update of the original Rat Pack movie Ocean's Eleven is a vivacious, quirky, throwaway crime-comedy about the seemingly impossible heist of $160 million from three of Las Vegas' biggest casinos. It's everything the 1960 original wanted to be while avoiding the sloppiness that was inherent to a project completely subverted to the whim of Frank Sinatra, Dean Ma ... ...

On Facebook

  • Rally being held in support of transgender teen

    Posted at: 05/20/2013 7:14 AM By: Erica Zucco, KOB Eyewitness News 4 This morning a peaceful protest will be held in support of a transgender high school senior at St. Pius X High School. Damian Garcia identifies as male and wants to wear a black robe like the other men at graduation. The school says because Garcia's birth certificate says female, Garcia should have to wear white ...

  • Thousands seek work even as NM jobless rate drops

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- Thousands of people in New Mexico are still looking for work or at least better jobs even as the state's unemployment rate is ...

  • Dear double letter sparks outrage

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) - A simple greeting at the top of a letter to retirees across the state, coupled with the message in it has some outraged. A state agency has sent out letters to retirees, who are now collecting a pension and working another job, calling them what some say is an offensive name linked to the controversial subject of double ...

  • Thieves steal copper from church

    RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) - A Rio Rancho church has been left in the dark and with what may be a big bill all thanks to metal thieves. Pastor of the Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, Ken DeSoto arrived about an hour before Sunday service to find his building completely powerless. DeSoto says someone ripped two of three lengths of copper wire out from the power supply box to the church. ...

  • Woman who killed bicyclist arrested again

    ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The woman, who hit and killed a bicycle rider in Albuquerque three years ago, is back behind bars Monday morning accused of driving recklessly again. Albuquerque police arrested Miranda Pacheco early Sunday morning, saying she was drunk swerving all over the road and did not have insurance. Pacheco has also accused of violating her probation. She spent 90 days in jail, ...

More Albuquerque Express news