The Board of Public Works approved a four-year deal with an Iowa company but not before round of criticism Wednesday over whether the contract was truly competitively bid.

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SANTA FE, N.M. — A group of Republican legislators has brought the first lawsuit to try to block gay marriage in New Mexico since six counties began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the past week. The lawsuit targets ...

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They are calling him a “legal Rambo” and “a Wild West divorce attorney gone rogue.” A New Mexico lawyer was sentenced to 30 days in prison for breaking into the home of his client’s ex-husband,the Alamogordo Daily News reports. Video ...

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Welcome to the weekly law blog roundup on a day when we honor Martin Luther King Jr. o Judge lets civil rights lawsuit against New York Police Department proceed. o ACLU sues Indianapolis officials for allegedly preventing homeless people from ...

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CHIMAYO, N.M. — They come in pain and in prayer, seeking cures and a cup of sand from a tiny adobe church called Chimayo. For two centuries, Hispanic and Native American pilgrims have sought help from El Santuario de Chimayo, ...

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WASHINGTON — Federal officials announced Tuesday they are awarding more money to help states carry out President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. So what’s the surprise? Seven states that are suing to overturn the landmark law are also on the ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday said the lab analyst who testifies at a criminal trial must be the one who performed or witnessed the lab tests in question, the latest decision bolstering the constitutional requirement that defendants be ...

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CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK, N.M. — One by one, the tourists’ headlamps grow dim and disappear as they venture farther into a fracture in the limestone, deep beneath the surface of southern New Mexico’s scrubby desert. They shimmy through a ...

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Each October, churches and other nonprofit organizations sell pumpkins as fundraisers. But some of these gourds take a much longer journey from patch to home. Light House, an Annapolis homeless shelter and support center, gets its annual pumpkin fundraiser supplies ...

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