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The Bernalillo County District Attorney's Office is investigating the conduct of New Mexico State University employees and players in connection with a fatal shooting by an NMSU basketball player in Albuquerque after it took hours for police to obtain the gun used in the shooting from a coach. Meanwhile, NMSU officials said Tuesday the school will hire an external, third-party investigator to review the Nov. 19 fatal shooting and the university's response to it. The announcements came a day after the Albuquerque Journal and...
ALBUQUERQUE — Rep. Deb Haaland was confirmed as the next secretary of the Department of the Interior on Monday, a vote praised by advocates for conservation and Native American issues. Senators voted 51-40 to confirm Haaland, a New Mexico Democrat who will become the first Native American cabinet secretary in the country’s history. She will be tasked with leading an agency critical to the Biden administration’s efforts to confront climate change. “Rep. Haaland’s confirmation represents a gigantic step forward in creating a go...
New Mexico’s quest for statehood was slowed for years, in part, because of concerns about different languages and cultures here. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., said he knows about his state’s history, and it’s one of the reasons he’ll be leading the push to make Puerto Rico the country’s 51st state. “One of the things that shocked me was how similar the struggle really is, that the arguments haven’t really changed,” Heinrich said at a news conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Heinrich said he would introduce a bil...
