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Johnny Depp has been made an honorary member of a tribe in New Mexico, where he is playing a Native American in the film adaptation of "The Lone Ranger." Comanche Nation tribal member LaDonna Harris said Tuesday that the tribal chairman presented Depp with a proclamation at her Albuquerque home on May 16. She says the Comanche adoption tradition means she now considers Depp her son.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Police said a homeowner shot someone who broke into his home in northwest Albuquerque on Sunday morning. The homeowner frantically called 911 after the shooting. Police said the man didn't know the intruder or how he got in. "He had fired numerous rounds at the individual," Sgt. Ferris Simmons said. "The suspect was conscious when police arrived. The homeowner did say he was conscious when he was making the call and crying." ------------cut------------------- "No one ever wants to take another person's life in a situation like this. However, we expect homeowners to defend their families and defend...

The Albuquerque Public Schools superintendent is speaking out after a seven-year-old autistic boy was handcuffed at school. Maria Quesada spoke with KOB Eyewitness News 4 Monday night and said she was outraged to find her son cuffed at school. Photos showed marks left on his wrists. According to APS police documents, the boy was out of control and unplugging cords from outlets, throwing chairs and kicking a teacher and a police officer at Mary Ann Binford Elementary School. Quesada said she does not think the 4-foot tall, 50-pound boy deserved to be handcuffed. Superintendent Winston Brooks spoke Wednesday afternoon, weighing...

Declining an ambulance ride is more complicated than just saying you don’t want one, according to the Albuquerque Fire Department protocols. Patients must meet a variety of standards before they are allowed to decline ambulance transport including alertness, ability to maintain coherent thought and speech, judgment that is not clouded by alcohol or drug use, normal vital signs and a neurologic exam that includes “coordination and gait that is normal or consistent with their past medical history.” A patient also must be “able to reference time/date/place/situation.” If all the criteria are met, the patient must sign a form indicating he...

Walter White has lived a hectic life since learning he has terminal lung cancer, then deciding to apply his skills as a high school chemistry teacher to cook and sell methamphetamine so that, after he's gone, his family will be provided for. During the first three seasons of the AMC drama "Breaking Bad," Walt (played by series star Bryan Cranston) has grappled not only with cancer, but also with a Mexican drug cartel, his tormented wife, a brother-in-law who is a DEA agent, and his unstable partner in crime, Jesse Pinkman (co-star Aaron Paul), a past washout from Walter's chemistry...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A special type of government search warrant that allows authorities to search homes without informing the owner for months is becoming more common, Target 7 has learned. /snip The number of delayed-notice search warrants spiked nationally from nearly 700 in fiscal year 2007 to close to 2,000 in 2009.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A Delta Air Lines flight from Detroit to San Diego has been diverted to Albuquerque, N.M. over what authorities are calling a "potential security threat." Albuquerque International Sunport airport spokesman Daniel Jiron declined to say Sunday what the potential threat was, referring calls to the FBI. FBI spokesman Frank Fisher declined to clarify and said only that agents were investigating. Jiron says the plane is in a "remote location" at the airport. The passengers, who were taken off the plane, are being interviewed. He did not immediately know how many passengers are aboard. The flight, Delta 1706,...

9:40am UPDATE: New Mexico's Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management has activated the state's Emergency Operations Center to a Level 3 operations status because of the effects of the extreme cold in communities across New Mexico, Secretary-Designate Michael S. Duvall said in a news release. Albuquerque Public Safety Director Darren White told KOAT-TV this morning that as many as 20,000 city residents could be without gas service today. Increased demand has led to lower gas pressure around the city and the potential for loss of service, and the city was contacted early this morning and told of the potential...

A man police are calling a would-be burglar lost most of his calf muscles Monday after an Avenida Cañada homeowner shot him at close range with a 12-gauge shotgun. “(The homeowner) said he didn’t have the heart to kill him,” Española Police Lt. Christian Lopez said. “He shot him in the legs.” Joe Quintana, 28, was still in surgery at Española Hospital late Monday evening after he was shot by Joseph McNeil just before 9 a.m., Lopez said. A slug from McNeil’s shotgun tore through Quintana’s right calf muscle, which destroyed it, and went through his left calf, partially removing...

...they do not seem to consider that the main reason why such questions are still being asked of him is because 1) we elected a perfect stranger, 2) if he practices his faith no one seems to see evidence of it, 3) he attended a church for 20 years that held to aberrant theology and in which he did not pay enough attention to catch the race bating and politicization 4) he besmirches the Bible whiles praising the Qur′an and on it goes...

The President of the United States will be making a stop in Albuquerque’s South Valley Tuesday. He’ll arrive the night before spending some time visiting with veteran Andrew Cavalier at his South Valley homes backyard.

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) -- Tourists hurry inside a shop here to buy books about the famed Navajo Code Talkers, warriors who used their native language as their primary weapon. Outside, on a walk sheltered from the sun, nine of the Code Talkers sit at a table autographing the books. Each is an old man now. They wear similar caps and shirts, the scarlet and gold of the Marine Corps, and turquoise jewelry. One of these men, who signs his name as Cpl. Chester Nez, is distinguished from the others......

New Mexico authorities said a former employee shot and killed five people at a business Monday in Albuquerque before turning the gun on herself. Police said officers responded to a 911 call at 9:26 a.m. (11:26 a.m. ET) that multiple shots had been fired. When officers entered the building, they found a total of 10 people shot -- four were dead, including a woman believed to be the shooter,

The city has implemented a new policy that will screen every person who is arrested to see if the person is in the country legally.

Not only was Republican Richard J. Berry elected mayor of Albuquerque yesterday, but the G.O.P. also took control of the Albuquerque City Council, as the New Mexico Independent reports: GOP challenger Richard Berry surprised even himself Tuesday, knocking off longtime Democratic Mayor Martin Chavez and avoiding a two-man runoff while doing it. Berry, a two-term Republican state legislator, bested Chavez in convincing fashion, collecting nearly 44 percent of votes to Chavez’s 35 percent. Richard Romero received nearly 21 percent of the vote. Only provisional ballots remained to be counted early Wednesday. ... City Councilor Michael Cadigan lost a bid Tuesday...

State Rep. Richard Berry scored an impressive victory Tuesday with an outright win over three-term incumbent Martin Chávez to become Albuquerque's next mayor. "We had a message that resonated with voters in Albuquerque, and we worked hard," said Berry, a general contractor and two-term Republican state representative who campaigned as a "common-sense" business owner with conservative themes. ...Berry maintained a 5 percentage point or better lead over Chávez throughout the night and finished above the 40 percent threshold needed to avoid a runoff election next month. Richard Romero, the third candidate in the race, was trailing, with about 21 percent....

Richard “RJ” Berry appears to be winning a plurality of the absentee votes posted to the Bernalillo county Web site moments ago. Berry now has 41.62 percent of the vote compared to 36.03 percent for incumbent mayor Martin Chavez and 22.18 percent for former state Pro Tem Richard Romero.

ACORN Registration Forms Found In Apartment During Drug Bust. “A search of a northeast Albuquerque apartment as part of a drug investigation led to the discovery of about a dozen voter registration forms, police said. The forms were filled out and had dates from late last month, Albuquerque police said. Authorities had not determined the authenticity of the forms. The occupant of the apartment, a Cuban national, was arrested on drug charges. He told authorities he obtained the documents while working for the Association of Communities Organized for Reform Now or ACORN.” (“Albuquerque Police Find Voter Registration Forms At...

Tea Party sets up in Rio Rancho Updated: Tuesday, 01 Sep 2009, 12:34 PM MDT Published : Tuesday, 01 Sep 2009, 12:34 PM MDT Reporter: Kaitlin McCarthy Web Producer: Todd Dukart RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) - Protestors gathered at Haynes Park in Rio Rancho starting Tuesday morning, getting ready for another stop in a national tour of protests against proposed health care reform and government spending. The Tea Party Express tour, organized by a conservative political action committee called the Our Country Deserves Better Committee, is scheduled to wrap up on Sept. 12 in Washington, D.C., where a protest march...

Thousands attend tea party protest in ABQ A vocal crowd of over a thousand people gathered near Montgomery and Louisiana Boulevard in Albuquerque Wednesday to protest the federal government's spending habits. Retired teacher Yvonne Estrada gave up her bowling night to join thousands of other New Mexicans Wednesday who turned out to voice their concerns about the economy and the federal government's spending habits. Estrada says she's worried about where America is headed. She joined a march of several hundred people along a busy Albuquerque street during rush hour. Her sign read, "I am not your ATM." Estrada says she...

Voters in the 1st Congressional District seem to be fairly evenly divided on key health care proposals pending in Congress, said Rep. Martin Heinrich, who faces some of those voters today at a town hall meeting in Albuquerque. But Heinrich, a freshman Democrat from Albuquerque, said provisions to force insurance companies to cover everyone enjoy widespread support because "those things are important and common sense." Proposals such as organizing a government-run insurance company are much more controversial, even among members of Congress, Heinrich told Journal editors and reporters earlier this week. Heinrich said he supports the so-called public option ...

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A young woman who worked at a Denny's Restaurant on Albuquerque's West Side was killed Saturday morning during what police describe as a takeover-style robbery, and officers are still searching for suspects. Police by mid-afternoon Saturday detained two possible suspects from the 10 a.m. robbery at the Denny's on Coors Boulevard at Iliff Road NW. "Four masked men came in with guns," Brian Thompson told News 13. "Two went toward the back. That's all we could see because we all hit the ground." Albuquerque police spokeswoman Nadine Hamby said witnesses told police they saw between two and...

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - A young woman who worked at a Denny's Restaurant on Albuquerque's West Side was killed Saturday morning during what police describe as a takeover-style robbery, and officers are still searching for suspects. Police by mid-afternoon Saturday detained two possible suspects from the 10 a.m. robbery at the Denny's on Coors Boulevard at Iliff Road NW. "Four masked men came in with guns," Brian Thompson told News 13. "Two went toward the back. That's all we could see because we all hit the ground." Albuquerque police spokeswoman Nadine Hamby said witnesses told police they saw between two and...

SNIPPET: "Police were nearby and took one suspect into custody while another was arrested after a getaway car was followed to a nearby trailer park."

Police in Albuquerque said a restaurant employee has been killed after several armed suspects attempted a takeover-style robbery at a packed Denny's Restaurant. Police spokeswoman Officer Nadine Hamby said "multiple" armed suspects rushed the northwest Albuquerque restaurant at about 9:30 a.m. Saturday. As many as 100 people were inside. A Saturday morning breakfast for 60 restaurant guests quickly turned into a nightmare.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A boy's body has been found buried in the sand of a playground at a public park on the city's northeast side, and police are asking the public for their help as detectives try to find out who the child is. Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz said during a news conference late Friday that police have had no reports of missing children. "We have detectives standing by to respond to any information anyone can provide us about this missing juvenile. We believe that he may be missing from the neighborhood," the chief said. The boy — believed...

On April 21, Cindy Sheehan -- known for camping outside President Bush's ranch in 2005 to protest her son's military death in Iraq -- joined representatives from the Coalition to Stop $30 Billion to Israel. Sheehan and representatives of the 12 organizations that make up the Coalition dedicated 10 billboards in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which call for ending American military aid to Israel. The billboard message, "Tell Congress: Stop Killing Children, No More Military Aid to Israel," refers to a U.S. pledge to aid Israel over a ten-year period. The billboard features a picture of an Israeli tank juxtaposed with...

The posters are ready. The Web site is getting heavy traffic. And a local organizer involved with a budding national political movement symbolized by tea bags — think Boston Tea Party — says the tea leaves are pointing to a big turnout for an Albuquerque rally next week. The rally is scheduled for Wednesday, the deadline for filing income tax returns, and will focus on what organizers see as frightening fiscal folly in Washington, D.C. -SNIP- Dozens of tax-day rallies are being planned from coast to coast on Wednesday, according to the Web site www.taxdayteaparty.com .The Web site describes the...

I attened the Tea Party here in Albuquerque today, I would say there was at least 2000 people in attendance while I was there and plenty of people driving by showing their support. Organizers say that by the end on the party which ran from 4 to 7 PM over 7000 people had registered. The crowd was polite festive and orderly. There where people of all races ages and economic classes and everyone of them were 100% AMERICAN and MAD AS HELL about spending and pork! Pictures on my flickr account at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24180181@N04/ Oh by the way they are all...

Investigators have found the remains of three more bodies on the far West Mesa during the past few days -- including one this morning -- bringing the total number of bodies to six, Police Chief Ray Schultz tells ABQJournal.com. Earlier articles on this, Here.. Remains of 3 Found on West Mesa And here.... Police: One Person Likely Buried Bodies

Note: The following text is a quote: http://dallas.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/dl020309.htm Man Arrested in New Mexico for Sending Threatening White-Powder Laced Hoax Letters to Banks Across the U.S. DALLAS— At a press conference held today in Dallas, acting U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas, Robert E. Casey, Jr., Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas FBI, and Randall C. Till, Postal Inspector in Charge of the Fort Worth Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, announced that special agents and postal inspectors arrested Richard Leon Goyette, a/k/a Michael Jurek, 47, yesterday at the airport in Albuquerque, New Mexico,...

The Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico's largest daily newspaper, plans to stop home deliveries and rack sales in more than 30 communities around the state because of the economic downturn. The home deliveries will stop at the end of January. Subscribers will still be able to get the Journal's electronic version or receive the paper by mail

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The Albuquerque Police Department has turned to the want ads for snitches. An ad this week in the alternative newspaper The Alibi asks "people who hang out with crooks" to do part-time work for the police. It reads in part: "Make some extra cash! Drug use and criminal record OK."

Starting off in Scramento with an enthusiastic crowd of supporters of our Great Country, the Our Country Deserves better PAC and hit Carson City, Elko, Ely (Nevada) and last nite in flagstaff ArizonaDozens of supporters were waiting for our arrival with signs and flags, and cars passing by were honking support in this liberal infested area.The whole tour is printed on the back of the bus. Mark Williams getting ready to hit the road. Some shots of the crowd in Sacramento Debra Johns speaking and collecting resumes. The tour is collecting resumes from working people across the country that have...

ALBUQUERQUE, NM– Gov. Palin hit back at Sen. Obama during an evening rally in the Land of Enchantment Saturday, arguing that the Democrat is in no place to lecture her on federal earmark requests. The Democratic presidential nominee told an Indiana crowd today that Palin is a flip flopper when it comes to requesting federal dollars for state projects, noting that her recent criticism of the earmark process comes only after years of advocating for earmarks for her city and state. “When you’ve been taking all these earmarks when it is convenient and then suddenly you are the champion anti-earmark...

Yesterday, I wrote about the strange meme that Sarah Palin would exist in a hermetically sealed mayonnaise jar on Funk & Wagnall’s doorstep until the election, and the media would not be allowed to question her. Team McCain issued a reply that amounted to a Bronx cheer later in the morning, but somehow this attack persisted. Last night, though, I received today’s schedule for John McCain and Sarah Palin, which more than hints that the myth of Palin as the Girl in the Plastic Bubble was just that — a myth: Saturday, September 6, 2008 Colorado and New Mexico 10:00am...

Road to Victory Rally : Albuquerque, NM - September 6th What: Road to Victory Rally : Albuquerque, NM - September 6th When: September 6, 2008 Where: Albuquerque Convention Center 401 2nd Street NW Albuquerque, NM87102 Join Senator John McCain, Cindy McCain and the Vice Presidential Nominee for a Road to Victory Rally September 6th, 2008 Doors open 4:00 p.m. Program begins at 6:00 p.m. Albuquerque Convention Center 401 2nd Street NW Albuquerque, NM 87102

MSUNuke and ArkPig620, and I are heading to NM for Memorial Day Weekend. We will spend 2 nights with friends in Las Cruces, NM, and 2 in Albuquerque, NM. We are wondering what attractions are in the Albuquerque, NM area and a safe area/hotel to stay? Of course we are in our 30s and want the drinking/shopping district;) All three (3) of us are military and have CHL, but would like to avoid any local criminals and overzealous law enforcement in our celebrations;) Thanks for the Albuquerque, NM area info!

ALBUQUERQUE, NM, April 25, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "I want to save others from the same fate that I was almost put into," said 14-year-old Janelle Bushnell referring to a silent protest against abortion she has been punished for planning at her New Mexico middle school. Bushnell and a friend have been distributing flyers to fellow students at their James Monroe Middle School, encouraging them to wear red armbands and duct tape in protest of the scourge of abortion that has silenced the voices of so many of Bushnell's unborn peers. Bushnell was inspired to protest abortion after learning that her...

The FCC is trying to get KKOB to reduce power permanently from 50,000 Watts. The morning host said the level the FCC wants is a measly 1000 watts. DON'T LET THE FCC DO THIS! KKOB is a monster talk station with Michael Savage, Rush and Hannity featured every weekday.

The powerful 50,000-watt Albuquerque radio station 770 KKOB, often heard throughout the Southwest late at night, has been ordered to drop to 1,000 watts as of Tuesday, KKOB fill-in host Pat Frisch announced this morning. The "government" has ordered the step-down in order to accommodate other markets in the West on the same 770 AM frequency, said Frisch, who urged listeners to voice their protest by calling a special hotline set up at (505) 767-6778 and/or signing an online petition at www.770kkob.com (click on OUTRAGE!). "We take offense to the need for other communities to grow at the expense of...

Officers protecting Albuquerque Public Schools showed up on campus Thursday armed with guns. The school board approved a plan to arm the officers Wednesday night. Officers with APS get training every few months on how to use the weapons, and how to make sure they don't end up in the wrong hands. Officers ...are also trained on how to handle the worst case scenario, a student with a gun.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The basket of a hot air balloon tipped after the craft got stuck, sending a female passenger on a 60- to 70-foot fall to her death Monday, state police said. The balloon snagged a fiberoptic line running above a power line about 8 a.m. during an annual balloon festival. The pilot threw down a tether to a pickup truck on the ground to reel the balloon down and free it, state police spokesman Andrew Tingwall said. But the tether broke, and the balloon flew back up, causing its gondola to tip and the woman to fall to...

I have received word that the Walmart near I-40 and Coors at Albquerque was robbed of over $40,000 this morning by masked robbers. Customers were in the store. I can't find any news on this story. Does anyone have additional information?

Albuquerque, N.M. -- People are getting red light camera tickets with cars that have the same license plate numbers as their's. "It showed that it was a blue car that was running the light, and my car was a red truck, and I thought, this is strange," said Kathy Harrison. So Harrison called MVD. Alice Ortiz with the MVD says, "We have identified about 45 plates out of 2 million. They seem to be isolated to our UNM plates." The problem seems to be with the UNM "Go Lobos" plates. MVD says that there is a computer glitch and they...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Rio Rancho police officer who crashed his motorcycle Monday while riding in a motorcade for President Bush's visit to Albuquerque was pronounced dead after being taken to a local hospital.Trish Hoffman, a spokeswoman for the Albuquerque Police Department, said the officer's name was being withheld until family members could be notified about this death. Hoffman said the officer had been with the Rio Rancho police department since 2005 and worked with campus police at the University of New Mexico before that. The officer had a wife and two teenage children, she said. As for the crash,...

Albuquerque Public Schools police officers staged a sickout Friday morning in protest of a recommendation by the APS policy committee to deny officers permission to carry guns on campus. Acting Albuquerque Public Schools Police Chief Steve Tellez says 26 of the department’s 33 officers called in sick early Friday morning. Albuquerque police and Bernalillo County deputies provided coverage for the district’s schools while the APS officers were out.

<p>Police chief, activists to announce new procedures at morning news conference.</p> <p>Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz will hold a news conference just a few minutes from now with members of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos to explain new police procedures regarding illegal immigrants.</p>

Catron County Manager Bill Aymar says officials only want to prevent problems by asking the federal government to remove a pregnant female Mexican gray wolf released on the county's border after it killed two cows elsewhere. But Victoria Fox, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, says the agency has no reason to remove the wolf. The dispute over the animal -- designated F924 -- began as soon as it was released April 25 in southwestern New Mexico. The next day, the county demanded it be removed as an "imminent danger." Fish and Wildlife rejected the demand last...

NORFOLK -– A military judge today sentenced Petty Officer 3rd Class Ariel J. Weinmann to 12 years in prison and a dishonorable discharge for espionage, desertion and other crimes. The 22-year-old submariner from Salem, Ore. admitted guilt to the offenses earlier this week at Norfolk Naval Station in a plea agreement that spared him the maximum potential penalty of life in prison with no possibility of parole. Weinmann, who deserted from the submarine Albuquerque in July 2005 after becoming disillusioned with the Navy, passed classified information about the Tomahawk cruise missile system to the Russians, according to a Pentagon source....