There was a wild outburst inside a Las Cruces District Courthouse after a judge told a man accused of raping a child he'll be held in jail without bond.
It's a good time to work closely with Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. Most of her department heads are getting a raise most people could only dream of.
1. A cold storm system will continue to pass through New Mexico on Tuesday spreading snow across the north and gusty winds elsewhere. Highs will top out In the mid-60s Tuesday. A storm will move close to the state Wednesday with the chance for showers in the northwest.
After voters rejected Albuquerque Public Schools tax hikes, the district was left scrambling to come up with a new construction plan. Some schools were lucky, their projects were already in the pipeline or in the works.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Former University of Oregon football star Keanon Lowe said he had just entered a classroom at the Portland high school where he works as a coach and security guard when a student armed with a black shotgun appeared in the doorway. Lowe had just seconds Friday to react. He lunged at the gunman and wrestled with him for the weapon as other students ran screaming out a back door, Lowe told reporters Monday at a news conference.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An intense storm system moved across the Southern Plains on Monday, spawning tornadoes that caused scattered damage and a deluge of rain but not the "particularly dangerous" twisters that forecasters had feared. No injuries were reported.
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - A small group of inmates, disproportionately black, are set to stay in Washington state prisons for life - left out of the latest in a multi-year wave of reforms easing tough-on-crime "three strikes" laws around the U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A San Francisco reporter is seeking the return of property after police raided his home with a sledgehammer, as officials sought to determine the source of a leaked police report into the death of the city's public defender. An attorney for freelancer Bryan Carmody will make the request Tuesday in San Francisco County Superior Court, arguing that "the free flow of information to the public is jeopardized" when government interferes with independent newsgathering.
The airline industry's U.S. trade group is predicting another record for summer travel. Airlines for America forecast Tuesday that 257.4 million people will fly on U.S. carriers between June 1 and Aug. 31. That's a 3.4% increase over last summer, and it works out to about 2.8 million travelers a day. The trade group says airlines are adding 111,000 seats per day, more than the predicted 93,000 increase in daily passengers.
Day two of practice for the Indy 500 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway saw two crashes. Felix Rosenqvist and Fernando Alonso both crashed Wednesday afternoon. Both drivers were not injured.
