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Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com The city of Santa Fe has agreed to a settlement in a 2022 civil rights claim related to the police department losing key evidence in a [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com A 22-year-old Santa Fe woman pleaded guilty Monday to aggravated second-degree murder for nearly decapitating another young woman with a sword in 2022. Kiara McCulley also [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com A state district judge has set a new plea hearing date in a DWI case against former New Mexico State Police Chief Robert Shilling after the [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com A Santa Fe jury deliberated for about five hours Monday before finding a Santa Fe man guilty of second-degree murder in the 2022 shooting death of [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Mark Delgado eluded police for six months after he was accused of shooting and killing James Towle outside an auto shop on Rufina Street in late [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Las Cruces A jury trial got underway Tuesday in the voluntary manslaughter case against a Las Cruces police officer accused of unlawfully killing a man in [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com The former president of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology has filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging he was pushed out in retaliation for questioning [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Lea County Commissioner Pat Sims is a registered Republican but a Libertarian at heart. He calls his cows Democrats. 'They're always sitting around, waiting for a [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com A sophomore lawmaker has filed a bill proposing a dramatic rewrite of New Mexico's public records law that critics warn would have an alarming effect on [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Consuelo Contreras got a call from a detective Sept. 4, the day her brother was shot by Santa Fe police officers in the parking lot of [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com A Santa Fe man was sentenced to 41/2 years in prison Friday for groping a teenage girl in the laundry room of their apartment complex in [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Cowboys for Trump founder and former Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin hasn't heard from President Donald Trump's administration personally. However, he said Tuesday he believes he [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com A judge has sentenced Randy Patrick Lujan Sr., 61, of Santa Cruz to 22 years in prison in connection with the 2021 shooting death of an [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Having already been ravaged by fire and flood, residents of the tiny Mora County community of Cleveland now say they are being subjected to environmental threats [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com A state judge in Grant County ruled Monday he will not order outgoing Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard to immediately return a $1.9 million [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Life in prison is defined as 30 years in New Mexico. Adults convicted of first-degree murder who are sentenced to life can become eligible for parole [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com In the early days of the American West, stealing cattle was considered a hanging offense -- if not by the law, at least by neighbors doling [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Despite attorney Kari Morrissey's widely criticized handling of the criminal case against Alec Baldwin, the District Attorney's Office has appointed her special prosecutor again in another [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com A woman convicted of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of a police officer and retired firefighter who died in a head-on collision is appealing [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com The state Supreme Court held Thursday a lower court must reconsider whether three women whose lawsuit helped the state collect millions of dollars from one of [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Actor and producer Alec Baldwin is suing First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies, special prosecutors and others involved in his criminal prosecution in connection with the [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com With all but one month accounted for in 2024, data from the Santa Fe Police Department shows the city's crime rate increased about 5% from the [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com A 73-year-old Santa Fe man is suing Albertsons, saying employees at the grocery chain's Zafarano Drive location stood by while he was beaten and choked by [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com A Chimayó man who fatally shot his friend at a New Year's Eve party two years ago pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter earlier this month [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Attorneys for First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies say a new and inexperienced spokesperson in her office - not the DA herself - posted politically partisan [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com A judge has refused to grant a new trial for Maria's New Mexican Kitchen or reduce the $31 million jury award handed down earlier this year [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Proposed new rules aimed at increasing the speed with which criminal cases move through the First Judicial District's courts are creeping toward implementation, the slow speed [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com 'Rust' film set shooting pecial prosecutor Kari Morrissey has decided not to appeal the dismissal of the involuntary manslaughter case against actor Alec Baldwin after the [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Organized Crime Commission The New Mexico Organized Crime Commission released its annual report Monday highlighting achievements in its first full year of operations after being reinstated [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Issues in Focus A Rapidly Aging New Mexico LOS LUNAS everal silver-haired lifers sat around a table in a prison hobby shop, crocheting colorful blankets like [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood and Carina Julig phaywood@sfnewmexican.comcjulig@sfnewmexican.com A state district judge on Friday issued a ruling calling on the city of Santa Fe to rebuild the toppled Plaza obelisk. Judge [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com An Albuquerque woman convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in connection with a 2022 incident in which she faked her own kidnapping and sparked a [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com The New Mexico Prison and Jail Project has filed a lawsuit against the state Corrections Department on behalf of an inmate who alleges he was raped [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com A woman convicted Thursday of two counts of first-degree murder and other charges for feigning her own kidnapping and leading police on a wrong-way chase in [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com A woman accused of faking her own kidnapping and leading police on a deadly pursuit in 2022 faces two life sentences after a Santa Fe County [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Three Rio Arriba County jail employees are on administrative leave in the wake of a raid Monday in which local law enforcement agents sought the source [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Jeannine Jaramaillo - accused of faking her own kidnapping in 2022, prompting a police chase and crash that left two people dead near Santa Fe - [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com The criminal trials are over for now, but the Rust saga continues to play out in New Mexico courts. The most recent legal salvo fired in [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com A woman accused of leading police on a high-profile wrong-way chase on Interstate 25 that claimed the lives of a Santa Fe officer and a retired [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Former Rio Arriba County Sheriff James Lujan is suing the city of Española, a former police chief and several former officers, accusing them of conspiring against [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com The New Mexico Cannabis Control Division has issued a health and safety advisory recalling cannabis prerolls and roll-your-own products that tested positive for a prohibited pesticide. [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Santa Fe police detained two of three people suspected of being involved in an armed robbery at a Speedway gas station Thanksgiving Day. One man believed [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Unhoused Art founder Ryan Williams, 45, still remembers the first time he saw someone living on the street. 'She was pulling, like, a wagon, and there [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Medicaid The specter of a Donald Trump presidency loomed over the Legislative Health and Human Services Committee during a discussion Friday on a proposal that would [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com A retired state employee and union president has filed a complaint with the State Ethics Commission accusing First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies of violating state [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com Prosecutors have dismissed charges against a 21-year-old Cuba, N.M., man arrested last month in connection with the June shooting death of a teenager in a small [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com A Santa Fe man charged with murder two years ago, after he was accused of coercing his girlfriend to kill a woman with a sword, has [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood and Alaina Mencinger phaywood@sfnewmexican.com amencinger@sfnewmexican.com Mora County has joined two school districts and an electric cooperative in suing the federal government for more than $1 billion for [...]

Byline: Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com The three federal immigrant detention centers in New Mexico house a combined 1,820 people and are about 78% full, according to data from U.S. Immigration and [...]