Jurors convict man in Las Vegas, NM child's death

KOB-TV New Mexico - Sun Nov 22

A jury in Santa Rosa has convicted a man of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a 6-year-old who was killed as she slept in a house in the northern New Mexico community of Las Vegas.

public schools lax in financial management

Clover Herald - Fri Nov 20

Legislative auditors have faulted poor financial management by school districts for allowing questionable spending of public money, including the purchase of a $91,000 tow truck.

Suspect spending in school districts

SantaFeNewMexican.com - Fri Nov 20

Three sport utility vehicles purchased for school administrators from an out-of-state dealer.

Santa Fe Community Foundation awards $410,000 in grants

SantaFeNewMexican.com - Thu Nov 19

The Santa Fe Community Foundation has awarded 40 grants totaling $410,000 to nonprofits in Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Mora, San Miguel, Taos and Rio Arriba counties.

Report questions spending at Las Vegas, NM schools

ClipSyndicate - Thu Nov 19

THE GLARING MONEY PROBLEM FOR LAS VEGAS CITY SCHOOLS IS NO SURPRISE -- LEGAL COSTS.

Report questions spending at Las Vegas, NM schools

KOB-TV - Thu Nov 19

State documents obtained by Eyewitness News 4 point to serious financial issues at the two school districts serving Las Vegas, New Mexico.

Land auction set at Conchas Lake

SantaFeNewMexican.com - Tue Nov 17

Here's a gamble riskier than cards in Sin City: buy a piece of lake front property in northeastern New Mexico.

Tax officials to auction 116 lots near Conchas Lake

KOB-TV - Tue Nov 17

State Taxation and Revenue officials plan to auction 116 lots of a subdivision near Conchas Lake to recover unpaid taxes, penalties and interest from delinquent taxpayers.

Checkpoint nets five DWI arrests

SantaFeNewMexican.com - Fri Nov 13

Law-enforcement officers arrested five drunken-driving suspects at the Wednesday evening checkpoint on Interstate 25, located at the spot where five members of a Las Vegas, N.M., family were killed by a drunken driver exactly three years earlier.

Mother of apparent road-rage victim has words for son's killer

KOB-TV - Fri Nov 13

Hundreds gathered Thursday night to remember a Las Vegas man shot and killed after a confrontation at an intersection.