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  • Armed robbery suspects sought in Las Cruces hold-up

    LAS CRUCES - Las Cruces Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information that helps identify the three suspects who robbed a couple at gunpoint early Tuesday morning. Las Cruces police learned that shortly after midnight a couple in their early 20s was sitting in a vehicle in the 500 block of East Organ Avenue when they were approached by three Hispanic men. Two of the ...

  • Two Las Cruces acts win New Mexico Music Awards

    LAS CRUCES - Two Las Cruces musical acts came away with awards at the 26th annual New Mexico Music Awards. The awards ceremony was held Sunday in Albuquerque.C.W. Ayon won Best Blues Song for "End of My Rope" and The Hard Road Trio - comprised of Steve Smith, Chris Sanders and Anne Luna - won Best Bluegrass/Folk Song for "Family Secrets" and Best Packaging Design for the ...

  • Chelwood Elementary School lockdown lifted

    As of 10:45 a.m., The lockdown at Chelwood Elementary School has been lifted without incident. According to APS’s website, the school was originally put into a shelter-in-place at 9:45 Tuesday morning. The lockdown went into effect as of 10:25 a.m. due to police activity in the ...

  • NM Disaster Medical Alert Team deployed to Okla.

    New Mexico’s Disaster Medical Alert Team is on its way to Oklahoma to assist in relief efforts following Monday’s tornado. The DMAT, which is based at UNM’s Center for Disaster Medicine in Albuquerque, is sending a 26-member team and will be joining a 46-member team from NM, CO and TX. The DMAT is expected to arrive in Oklahoma Tuesday afternoon. Their exact role ...

  • Firefighters save ducklings from fowl fate

    A mother duck with nine of her ducklings were on their way to a pond near Taylor Ranch at Montano and decided to cross the street to get there. Firefighters eventually led the mother across the crosswalk, carrying the ducklings in a ...


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Movie Review

La Femme Nikita

Luc Besson's "La Femme Nikita" is a clever, visually stunning French thriller about a secret government agency that transforms a nowhere-bound, murderous junkie into an efficient hitman, er, hitwoman. The Nikita of the title is a true femme fatal played with ferocious intensity and whetted sexuality by Anne Parillaud. When we first meet her, she is a strung-out druggie traveling with a band of str ... ...

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  • Help offered to El Dentista victims

    SANTA FE (KRQE) - The State Health Department is offering help to victims of "El Dentista," the illegal dentist who police say was working on patients out of his ...

  • Video shows teens vandalizing memorial

    The video shows the duo prying stones from the rotunda at Luis Garcia Park in Tijeras earlier this month. It also shows them throwing rocks, busting up bricks and smashing a ...

  • Sunland Park firefighters continue to monitor fire at Texas-New Mexico border

    ›› Photos: Firefighters battle blaze in El Paso's Upper Valley A brush fire that spread on both sides of the El Paso-Sunland Park border has been extinguished, officials said. Sunland Park firefighters were still at the area of the fire this morning to make sure it did not reignite. "Right now there are just smoldering hot spots," Chief Andres Burciaga said. ...

  • Council passes bill to overhaul POC

    ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - The Albuquerque city council passed a plan Monday night evaluating the Police Oversight Commission. The POC looks at citizen complaints against Albuquerque police officers. Some critics say it has no teeth, others say there is no oversight over the commission. Mondays bill sets up a seven-member task force to look into the process and make recommendations on how to fix ...

  • Woman seriously injured in NE ABQ crash

    ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - Police have closed northbound Washington at Cutler after a crash has left a woman in critical condition. The crash occurred at Washington and Prospect a little before 10 a.m. Tuesday. Police say an Explorer SUV and a van wear involved in the crash. They say it appears that the Explorer SUV drove up onto the van. Officials say the woman was found with serious injuries after ...

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