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The head of the state livestock board says it can't roundup free-roaming horses from the mountain hamlet of Placitas.

The Coronado Soil and Water Conservation District agency on Monday ordered the state to remove the horses. But the Albuquerque Journal reports Wednesday that the board's executive director, Ray Baca, says the conservation district has no authority to issue such an order.

Baca says the livestock board will assist any way it legally can, but that the horses are the problem of Sandoval County and property owners in Placitas.

The Las Cruces Police Department’s Mobile Operations Command center will deploy to south Solano Drive next week for four days of community interaction.

The Mobile Operation Command will be stationed in the parking lot of the Families and Youth, Inc., agency at 1320 S. Solano Dr. The MOC will be parked in the northeast corner of the parking lot, near the corner of Solano Drive and Idaho Avenue.

  Las Cruces Police have arrested a woman suspected of running over and killing her boyfriend during a dispute early Wednesday morning.

Annette Larson Fuschini, 38, has been charged with an open count of murder and aggravated driving while intoxicated.

Fuschini’s boyfriend, Carlos Nevarez Jr., was transported to Mountain View Regional Medical Center where he was subsequently pronounced dead. Nevarez, born June 12, 1971, had just turned 42 today.

WASHINGTON – The DEA today announced that the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated 18 individuals and 15 entities linked to Rafael Caro Quintero, a Mexican drug trafficker.  Rafael Caro Quintero is a significant Mexican narcotics trafficker who began his criminal career in the late 1970s when he and others, including Juan Jose Esparragoza Moreno (a.k.a.

SANTA FE, N.M. - The Rosemont Leadership Institute, in collaboration with the University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University, has named 31 high school juniors to its inaugural class of Rosemont Leadership Institute Scholars.

Nearly 270 highly qualified high school juniors from across New Mexico applied for RLI, which includes a $25,000 scholarship to attend either the University of New Mexico or New Mexico State University. Semi-finalists were interviewed by faculty and staff from NMSU and UNM, as well as representatives from Rosemont Realty.

  Delfina C. Domínguez, Ph.D., a professor of clinical laboratory sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso, has received a grant from the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) to develop a point-of-care device to detect pertussis, also known as whooping cough, which can be used in schools and doctors’ offices.

  SILVER CITY, NM. – Unusual nighttime easterly winds drove the Silver Fire to within one-quarter mile of the town of Kingston. Firefighters responded overnight and successfully protected the town. The town of Kingston remains under a mandatory evacuation order. An evacuation center is located in the town of Hillsboro at the Community Center on Elenora Street. 

New Mexico finds itself at the top of yet another somber list.

The national food bank organization, Feeding America, says its 2013 Map the Meal Gap study shows that New Mexico is the highest for childhood hunger in the U.S and has seen hunger grow for the third year in a row.

The 2013 study shows that more 30 percent, or nearly 160,000 children, are experiencing hunger. Three years ago, when the first Map the Meal Gap study was released, New Mexico was at 27 percent for childhood hunger.

District Attorney Diana Martwick of Alamogordo is among seven lawyers asking to be considered for a vacant judgeship in southern New Mexico.

A Judicial Nominating Commission announced the applicants on Tuesday.

The bipartisan panel will meet next week in Alamogordo to interview the candidates and decide who to recommend to Republican Gov. Susana Martinez for possible appointment to the judgeship in the 12th Judicial District of Otero and Lincoln counties.

A 7-month-old boy is in critical condition after police say his Albuquerque parents left him inside a car in the scorching desert heat.

KOB-TV reports that the baby was left in the car on Monday and is suffering from severe brain trauma.

According to a criminal complaint, the baby's mother, 25-year-old Erica Garcia, told police she left the baby with his father, Juan Flores, while she left to get a mandatory drug test. But Flores told investigators he didn't remember that, and he thought his child was with the mother the whole time.

Laguna Pueblo is working with Sacred Wind Communications to bring Internet service to the central New Mexico tribe.

The high-speed broadband project was first unveiled last week. Officials say it's aimed at connecting every home and building in the tribe's six villages.

The project has been funded through six separate grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The director of the pueblo's utility authority, Leonard Otero, says the service means residents will have access to academic, medical, employment and other types of valuable information.

A nonprofit corporation that aimed to reduce public intoxication in Gallup says it will close its doors at the end of the month.

The Na'Nizhoozhi Center Inc. serves a largely American Indian population in northwestern New Mexico. It was established in 1992 with funding from the McKinley County liquor excise tax, the state and federal government.

But funding continuously has dropped, and the center that served more than 75 people daily last year no longer has enough money.

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  The Energy Department's inspector general says former Congresswoman Heather Wilson collected $450,000 in questionable payments from the nation's federally funded nuclear labs after she left office.

A report says the New Mexico Republican failed to document what she did to earn $20,000 a month from New Mexico's Los Alamos and Sandia national labs from 2009 to 2011.

The inspector general says private contractors that run the labs have reimbursed the government for the payments. An investigation continues.