Inside the shoplifting bust of Albuquerque Journal editor Patrick …
Oct 4, 2024 · The editor of New Mexico’s largest newspaper has lost his job for stealing groceries at a Walmart. Public and private records obtained by Searchlight New Mexico paint a clear picture of what happened. What remains a mystery is why.
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Investigative Reporter | Alicia Inez Guzmán was raised in the northern New Mexican village of Truchas, and has written about histories of place, identity and land use in New Mexico. She brings this knowledge to her current role covering the nuclear industry, focusing on the impact of nuclear weapons expansion at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, …
A trial was averted in the Oñate shooting—serious tensions remain ...
Oct 8, 2024 · In a deal made on the eve of his criminal trial, 24-year-old Ryan Martinez — a resident of Sandia Park, New Mexico, who was charged with attempted murder for shooting Native American activist Jacob Johns on Sept. 28, 2023 — has pleaded no contest to that charge and a related charge of aggravated assault, which stemmed from Martinez pointing a weapon at another activist, Malaya Corrine ...
Toxic timeline: A brief history of PFAS - Searchlight New Mexico
Feb 19, 2019 · Amy Linn has written about social issues and child well-being throughout her career, starting at the Miami Herald and including work for the Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Examiner and Bloomberg News. She was the recipient of an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship to write about teenagers on death row; the resulting stories appeared in the New York Times and other publications.
An Apache ceremony for the ages | Searchlight New Mexico
Sep 6, 2023 · At sunrise on the first morning, a team of men erects the “big teepee” on the reservation in south-central New Mexico. Some are Seaven’s friends and family, but many work for the Mescalero Apache Natural Resources Department, which offers employees time to help with every coming-of-age ceremony.
'State of chaos': New Mexico’s child welfare crisis is worse, …
Sep 28, 2023 · New Mexico’s child welfare system has devolved into a “state of chaos,” leaving foster children in dismaying and dangerous conditions, according to a scathing assessment from independent monitors. “The situation is worse than last year, deteriorating, and requires effective immediate action to protect children’s safety,” the monitors wrote in …
Why recovering opioid victims can’t get the medicine they need ...
Nov 20, 2024 · ESPAÑOLA — Daniel Valerio wants to get back to the mountains. The 69-year-old Marine Corps veteran has been out of work since Colorado’s Wolf Creek ski area shuttered temporarily during the early days of the pandemic. He ran a restaurant there and skied in his spare time. Before that, he taught ...
New map shows plutonium contamination miles away from Los …
Apr 25, 2024 · The Buckman Direct Diversion Project at a bend in the Rio Grande River, viewed from White Rock Overlook. Nadav Soroker/Searchlight New Mexico Posted in Nuclear The long path of plutonium: A new map charts contamination at thousands of sites, miles from Los Alamos National Laboratory
In drought-plagued New Mexico, a city loses nearly half its water …
Feb 15, 2023 · Michael Benanav is a writer, photographer and digital storyteller based in northern New Mexico. In addition to Searchlight, his work appears in The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Sierra Magazine, and other publications.