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  • Kids avoid injury during police chase

    ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Albuquerque police say a man driving a stolen pick-up put the lives of children and an officer in danger. George Lajeunesse, 37, was in court Saturday on charges of aggravated assault on a peace officer and child ...

  • Transgender teen to submit petition

    Supporters of a Saint Pius transgender teen , who was born a girl but wants to graduate as a boy, will turn in a petition Sunday to push the school to let the student wear a black ...

  • Obama to give promised speech on terrorism drones

    President Barack Obama will deliver long-promised remarks Thursday explaining the legal framework behind the decisions he makes to use drones against terrorist threats and further detail the administration's counterterrorism policy, according to a White House ...

  • Family steps in to help transgender teen Family steps in to help transgender teen

    ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Supporters of a Saint Pius transgender teen , who was born a girl but wants to graduate as a boy, will turn in a petition Sunday to push the school to let the student wear a black gown. That petition has collected more than 18,000 signatures worldwide and is growing. Damian Garcia wants to wear a black gown that the boys wear instead of a white gown that girls wear. Saint ...

  • Blind man arrested for gun at airport

    SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) - A blind man was arrested at an airport with several weapons in his bag, including a gun. The man says he was on his way home to New Mexico after a special trip with his family, when he said he made a mistake that ended with him in ...


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Movie Review

Nacho Libre [DVD]

Nacho Libre [DVD]

Much like Jared Hesss first feature, Napoleon Dynamite (2004), Nacho Libre is a film that I dont think you can (or should) get entirely on the first screening. With a similarly dry mix of lethargic pacing, deadpan-quirky humor, and retro styling, it seems calculated to annoy ... ...

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  • Burglars use old trick to rob NM homes

    MORIARTY, N.M. (KRQE) - Sheriff's deputies are putting out a warning for residents in the East Mountain and across New Mexico saying people dressed like utility workers may not be working for your benefit, rather looking to commit a crime. The Torrance County Sheriff's Office says in the last few weeks, it's dealt with about 10 to 15 different cases of burglary suspects wearing ...

  • I-40 closure prompts new traffic plan

    ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - State Department of Transportation officials say they have met with public safety departments about how to handle highway closures during the next major snowstorm. A major snowstorm blew through the state in late February, blanketing roads and prompting the closure of I-40 from Albuquerque east to Texas . Safety officials ended up keeping the interstate closed for nearly ...

  • Their View Consider a league of our own for NMSU football team

    What should be done about football at NMSU? The question is motivated by the fact that the university subsidizes the program from its general instruction fund to the tune of about $4 million a year. The question is also prompted by the fact that, despite serious hard work by the coaches and the players, NMSU continues to field an uncompetitive team. I have heard views ranging along two ...

  • 9 still hospitalized after trains crash

    Two passenger trains heading in opposite directions collided during rush hour Friday evening in southwestern Connecticut, damaging both trains and leaving dozens injured, some of them critically, authorities ...

  • Their View Vision of NMSU leaders deserves criticism

    In a last day, school-wide email (also published by the Sun-News on May 12), NMSU Board of Regents Chairman Mike Cheney addressed students, faculty and staff, asking for the "courage to stand tall in the face of criticism." There has been an increasingly broad base of displeasure at NMSU; and as a student group openly critical of the administration and a number of its policies, we feel ...

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