Drive-by shootings: New Mexico’s ‘hidden in plain sight problem’
At least 302 drive-bys occurred in Albuquerque last year, leaving two children dead and terrorizing families. Is an end in sight?
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How a cry for food sparked Christmas Day trouble in New Mexico’s largest jail for kids
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Women legislators fight for salaries
New Mexico is the only state where lawmakers don’t get paychecks
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Days of wine and roses: State agencies probe lavish spending by university president
Questions abound about the luxe purchases and overseas travel of Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard.
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Holidays for foster teens: CYFD sends kids to a lockup with cold “cells” and metal beds
On Thanksgiving, CYFD sent foster children to a facility for violent youth. At Christmas, kids ran away.
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From cars and couches to safe havens for the homeless
Dozens of families are living at a transformed hotel in Albuquerque, where the unhoused can find refuge and their kids have room to thrive.
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Two sides of a gun
In a time when kids can buy semi-automatics on Snapchat, two beloved sons start shooting. And two families are torn apart.
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Chess, cards and catnaps in the heart of America’s nuclear weapons complex
At Los Alamos National Laboratory, workers collect full salaries for doing nothing
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Two paths after foster care
Two teens aged out of New Mexico’s child welfare system last year. What made their lives so different?
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The political minefield of parental rights in New Mexico
As far-right conservatives make a bid for school board seats, disinformation is on the rise. Welcome to the culture wars.
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Hundreds of police killings. Two prosecutions. No jail time.
In more than 350 police shootings across New Mexico in the last decade, only two officers were charged with a crime. Why?
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An Apache ceremony for the ages
On the Mescalero Apache Reservation, four days of dancing mark the passage into womanhood, testing a girl’s endurance — and enveloping her in tradition.
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