Thursday, July 22, 2010 Headlines

(KRQE NEWS 13) - As of 5:46 p.m. - One of two Colorado jail escapees has been shot and killed near Dulce in northwestern New Mexico, and police are pursuing his companion, New Mexico State Police reported late Thursday afternoon.  It is not yet clear which of the two men is dead.  Read more ...

As of 5:39 p.m. - The indigenous soccer cup kicked off July 20th and runs to the 24th. There are over 150 native youths not only from New Mexico, but from around the nation as well. Read more ...

As of 5:36 p.m. - A youth conservation group from Rio Rancho is trail blazing in the bosque.  Read more ...

As of 4:24 p.m. - The New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission has again delayed action on a controversial proposal that involves the exchange of water rights and millions of dollars between the state and computer chip manufacturer Intel Corp. Read more...

As of 4:12 p.m. - Half or more of the roads and trails currently open to motorized travel in the Santa Fe National Forest would be closed under a draft travel management plan released Thursday. Read more...

As of 3:35 p.m. - Breathless voices to emergency operators describe the shots fired at an Albuquerque business where a gunman last week stormed through a courtyard and then inside the building, killing two people and wounding four others before killing himself. Read more...

As of 3:33 p.m. - President Hugo Chavez says he is cutting Venezuela's diplomatic relations with Colombia over claims he harbors guerrillas. Read more ...

As of 3:01 p.m. - When Smokey Bear warning of high fire danger appeared in a Facebook posting someone tipped the Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office leading to the recovery of 61 stolen highway signs . Read more ...

Asof 2:51 p.m. - A big black bear was captured near Cedar Crest Thursday morning. See the photos...

As of 2:45 p.m. - Senate Democrats on Thursday abandoned plans to pass an energy bill that caps emissions of carbon dioxide, saying Republicans refuse to support the measure. Read more...

As of 2:19 p.m. - Expanded and updated :  An appellate court in Washington, D.C., has ruled in favor of northern New Mexico's Jicarilla Apache Nation in a dispute over natural gas royalties dating from more than 20 years ago. Read more ...

As of 2:12 p.m. - President Barack Obama and his family are vacationing next month on the Gulf Coast, as they've urged other Americans to do to help the area's battered economy. Read more...

As of 2:07 p.m. - Midday Webcast : Kristen Van Dyke's forecast. The prime target of the deadly shooting at Emcore Corp. on July 12 has been released from University of New Mexico Hospital. A 14-year-old Texico girl died after the mattress she held down in the back of a moving pickup truck caught the wind and flipped her out. Watch more ...

As of 2:03 p.m. - Las Cruces police are investigating an apparent self-defense shooting in a mall parking lot. Read more...

As of 1:52 p.m. - A homeowner in his underwear chased down and tackled one of four teens who rang his doorbell and fled in a late-night prank called "ding dong ditch," leading to charges against the homeowner but not the boy. Read more...

As of 1:45 p.m. - Home sales in metro Albuquerque rose 20 percent from May through June when compared to the same period last year, the Greater Albuquerque Association of Realtors reported Thursday. Read more ...

As of 1:26 p.m. - Police say 12 cows being driven to the slaughterhouse made a break for freedom when the truck that was transporting them overturned in West Michigan. Read more...

As of 1:10 p.m. - Rescue workers found the body of a missing climber Thursday who had fallen from a cliff when a thunderstorm struck his climbing party on an exposed mountainside in Grand Teton National Park, a park spokeswoman said. Read more ...

As of 1:04 p.m. - You want your back-to-schooler to eat a healthy diet, so you pack a "wheat" bread sandwich and tuck a "juice" drink in her brown-bag lunch. But did you know that loaf simply labeled "wheat" may be just white bread with added coloring? Read more ...

As of 12:59 p.m. - NM Game and Fish is currently processing a bear that was captured in Cedar Crest Wednesday night. They will dart it, tag it, and then release it into the wild.

As of 12:56 p.m. - Hobbs police are looking for Eduardo, "Eddie" Samaniego Rivera, 60 . He was last seen on June 25 around 9 a.m., walking from his residence on Castle Drive in Hobbs.

As of 12:42 p.m. - A New Mexico man is accused of stealing 200 head of cattle from an Arizona ranch, packing them into trailers, then moving them out of state. Read more ...

As of 12:32 p.m. - The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's quarterly oil and gas lease sale Wednesday netted nearly $10 million for the sale of 139 leases on federal land in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas. Read more...

As of 12:21 p.m. - Adrienne Basciano, the apparent target of her ex-boyfriends July 12 shooting rampage at Emcore Corp., has been released from University