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Courthouse project a polluted money pit

Larry Barker — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:09:55 GMT

Santa Fe County picked a spot in downtown Santa Fe to build a new $38 million courthouse, but a year and $14 million later all the county has to show for its effort is a big, contaminated hole in the ground.

Preview Caught: Secret FBI video

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:03:46 GMT

It was the largest corruption case in New Mexico history and the politically powerful when to prison for it however, there is an element to it that has never been reviled, until now. Larry Barker investigates on KRQE News 13 Tuesday 10pm

Santa Fe County Judicial Complex

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:15:00 GMT

County's test results showed contamination at site, September 2008. Site map showing the location of monitoring wells, observation wells, boreholes, and former Underground Storage Tanks (USTs)

Sante Fe courthouse contamination

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:15:00 GMT

In investigative reporting to get to the facts you got to dig, and the irony in that, for this story, is it's about digging; a huge excavation for a large government project - the Santa Fe Judicial Complex. Taxes payers have paid approximately $13 million dollars towards it and what Larry Barker finds are lies, cover-ups and a big government scandal.

Renderings and est. extent of plume

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:15:00 GMT

Artist's renderings of the Judge Stephen Herrera Judicial Complex (courtesy: Santa Fe County) and a map showing the estimated extent of the underground gasoline plume. (Source: New Mexico Environment Department)

Preview: A new courthouse scandal

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Lies? Cover-up? A new courthouse scandal. Larry Barker investigates on KRQE News 13 Thursday at 10pm and Friday at 5:30pm

Secret Sandia settlement taps taxpayers

Larry Barker — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:51:01 GMT

Just before dawn more than three years ago the military launched a rocket with a secret payload off the coast of Alaska, a success touted by the Pentagon that left a trail of injury and secret payouts for Sandia National Laboratories.

Sandian Alaska accident photos

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:15:00 GMT

Photos from Narrow Cape Beach on Kodiak Island, Alaska taken from the scene of the accident.

Operation nightmare in Kodiak, Alaska

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:15:00 GMT

Nightmare at mission Alaska, an investigative report by Larry Barker is a New Mexico story that takes place on Kodiak Island 30 miles off the Alaskan coast. The story has to do with a contingent of Sandia lab scientists and engineers who were tasked to work on a defense department project involving a missile launch.

Vandenberg AFB post-launch celebration

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:15:00 GMT

A traditional post-launch celebration with Sandia employees from Vandenberg AFB October 15, 2002. Food and alcohol are served; one of these parties preceded the fated drive on the beach in Alaska from which Larry Barker investigates.

The Fielding and Launch of FT-04-1

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:15:00 GMT

An edited version of the video created while the Sandians were on location in Kodiak that February of 2006.

The nightmare of operation Alaska

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:47:18 GMT

Larry Barker previews his investigative report on The Nightmare of Operation: Alaska. Watch the story KRQE News 13 Thursday at 10pm and again Friday at 5:30pm.

Property records reveal shameful secret

Larry Barker — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:17:07 GMT

The images of racial injustice etched in the national memory recall familiar city names like Selma, Little Rock and Birmingham. Less known for its place on that list is Albuquerque.

BioPark work skipped safety inspections

Larry Barker — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:53:19 GMT

This is a story about the Rio Grande Zoo, but instead of lions, tigers and bears it's about visitor safety and buildings constructed without permits and inspections.

Larry Barker Investigates Thursday

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:15:00 GMT

Preview: Shameful secret cast dark shadow

Larry Barker previews zoo story

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:55:40 GMT

It's one of New Mexico's most popular tourist destinations, but Larry Barker's investiagion found something more than animals and fun at the zoo. He talks about how he got the story, which airs Tuesday at 10 on KRQE News 13.

Ghostly claims echo in theater, saloon

Larry Barker — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:49:04 GMT

Hollywood phantoms, poltergeists, spirits, specters and spooks come in all shapes and sizes, but those ghosts aren't real. If it's reality you want, step up to the bar in Cuchillo.

Larry Barker with some haunting details

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:00:00 GMT

An investigation of an ultimate ghost story; airs Thursday on KRQE News 13 at 10.

Larry Barker on a haunting story

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:30:45 GMT

Larry Barker previews the Ultimate Ghost Story; the investigation airs Thursday on KRQE NEWS 13 at 10.

DWI charges pleaded away despite law

Larry Barker — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:07:47 GMT

In Gallup and McKinley County, where the state identified drunken driving as a major concern, News 13 investigative reporter Larry Barker found prosecutors and courts ignoring a law that prohibits bargaining away DWI charges. (Broadcast Feb. 26, 2007)

Road to Alamo barely good intentions

Larry Barker — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:40:15 GMT

After generations of talk and promises plus millions spent on already fractured pavement investigative reporter Larry Barker found residents of the Alamo Navajo Reservation doubtful their 40-mile outlet will ever be more than sometimes impassable dirt.

Larry Barker previews 'Road to Nowhere'

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:53:37 GMT

News 13 investigative reporter Larry Barker previews his story on the "Road to Nowhere." The story airs Wednesday night on KRQE News 13 at 10.

Clinic's constant calling ties up EMS

Larry Barker — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:02:45 GMT

In the last two years an Albuquerque urgent-care center has called 911 hundreds of times leading investigative reporter Larry Barker to look into whether Health Care Partners has been dumping patients onto public services at taxpayer expense.

APS parties hearty on contractor's tab

Larry Barker — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:42:29 GMT

The invitation-only events included mariachis, open bars, door prizes and, as investigative reporter Larry Barker discovered, guest lists of Albuquerque Public Schools employees enjoying the largesse of a contractor with a multimillion dollar deal to sell APS computers and software.

PERA backtracks on double-dippers

Larry Barker — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:47:18 GMT

When investigative reporter Larry Barker first exposed the practice of public employees faking retirement to draw both a salary and a pension, the head of the Public Employees Retirement Association said that was improper. Now he says he misspoke and no one did anything wrong although a legislative leader said he still smells fraud.

Before talkies there was New Mexico

Larry Barker — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:44:45 GMT

Movie making with big stars and famous directors is hot in New Mexico, but not for the first time. Investigative reporter Larry Barker digs back nearly a century to reveal long forgotten pieces of a priceless and silent past.

Water bandits tap city system

Larry Barker — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:56:28 GMT

Thieves armed with wrenches, pipes and hoses are stealing as much as 100 million gallons of water a year in Albuquerque and using it for everything from big contracting jobs to flushing home toilets.

Commuting commissioner costs taxpayers

Larry Barker — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:06:06 GMT

The governor appointed Don Dutton to a $100,000 job as a gaming commissioner in Albuquerque, but as investigative reporter Larry Barker discovered, Dutton instead opted for a pricey office in Ruidoso while racking up $25,000 in travel expenses.

N.M. licenses mysterious strangers

Larry Barker — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:41:05 GMT

A New Mexico law intended to keep illegal aliens from going underground has instead fed a criminal underworld as some 1,500 foreign nationals using bogus documents obtain both real driver's licenses and new identities.

Town official rings up $10,000 in tabs

Larry Barker — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:14:10 GMT

Bernalillo's town manager lived high on the public dime until his expense account and what he defends as the normal cost of business cost him his job.