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  • Other states join New Mexico in granting drivers licenses to...

    SANTA FE - Gone are the days when New Mexico and Washington were the only states to issue driver's licenses to immigrants in the country illegally.Last week, the governors of Oregon and Maryland signed bills that will allow state residents without proof of immigration status to obtain driver's licenses. Illinois authorized a driver's license law for illegal immigrants earlier this ...

  • Okla. Medical examiner expecting more bodies

    The vicious tornado that tore across central Oklahoma on Monday has killed at least 51 people -- with about 40 more bodies expected to arrive at the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office, Amy Elliott of the coroner's office said. The official death toll will gradually rise as the bodies are ...

  • Big jump in HIV among Navajo in New Mexico

    A Navajo reservation near Gallup, N.M., had a 20 percent increase in HIV diagnoses in 2012 from 2011, a doctor says. Dr. Jonathan Iralu, an infectious disease specialist who runs an HIV clinic in Gallup, said he compiled the report for the federal Indian Health Service because he used to treat a small number of Navajo men with human immunodeficiency virus each year. However, the 47 new cases ...

  • Crews could head to Okla. as early as Tuesday

    Posted at: 05/20/2013 11:39 PM | Updated at: 05/20/2013 11:41 PM By: Maria Guerrero, KOB Eyewitness News 4 Dozens of American Red Cross volunteers across New Mexico will find out as early as Tuesday morning if they will be heading to Oklahoma to help in the recovery efforts. Meanwhile, people with loved ones in the tornado-ravaged state are desperate to know if their loved ones are ...

  • Traffic ticket insurance scam or safeguard

    Posted at: 05/20/2013 11:26 PM | Updated at: 05/20/2013 11:31 PM By: Jill Galus, KOB Eyewitness News 4 Health insurance, life insurance, and car insurance are among types of protection most people would not go without. But what about traffic ticket protection, with a promise that you will never have to pay out-of-pocket for a traffic fine again. For the past few weeks, KOB Eyewitness ...


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Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda

When dealing with the worst atrocities in history, there is always the question of whether or not they are representable. That is, because an event such as the Holocaust is so enormous, so overpowering in its horror, no film can ever hope to capture it in its entirety. Thus, the event mus ... ...

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  • Martinez popular across party lines

    Posted at: 05/20/2013 10:56 PM By: Gadi Schwartz, KOB Eyewitness News 4 Governor Martinez has some surprising support outside of her party. KOB Eyewitness News conducted a survey in collaboration with Survey USA and found 66 percent of New Mexicans are happy with the job she is doing. She fairs well with both men, 62 percent approval, and women, 70 percent approval. But not everyone ...

  • NMSU study on red light cameras shows mixed results

    University of New Mexico study on red-light enforcement cameras in Albuquerque. LAS CRUCES - Four years after traffic enforcement cameras were installed at some of the busiest intersection in town, debate still rages as to whether they have improved safety or merely acted as a revenue generator for the city, as some alleged from the start.And, a $30,000 study being conducted by New Mexico State ...

  • Garlic Vitamin B Las Cruces readers share their strategies for dodging mosquitoes

    LAS CRUCES - Health officials offer their common-sense advice to avoid mosquito bites. Remove standing water around your house. Wear DEET-based repellent. Stay inside in the morning or evening. After all, West Nile virus is nothing to ignore, already infecting five people in Doña Ana County, and a 12 others statewide. It's much worse in Texas. Sun-News readers have their own, ...

  • State supressed $11 million fraud case

    SANTA FE (KRQE) - A New Mexico cabinet secretary lied twice about why a fraud investigation into a luxury homebuilder was dropped in 2011, then admitted he hadnt reviewed all the evidence before re-opening the investigation earlier this month. And New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Superintendent J. Dee Dennis, Jr., said he only re-opened the investigation after News 13s Larry Barker began ...

  • N.M. child ADHD rates lower than natl average

    Posted at: 05/20/2013 8:48 PM By: Nikki Ibarra, KOB Eyewitness News 4 A new study by the CDC found that Attention Deficit Hyper-Activity Disorder rates among children three to 17 are higher than recent ...

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