KRQE News 13 - Northwest New Mexico

Police investigate suspicious death

Dianne Anderson — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:19:37 GMT

San Juan County deputies are trying to determine what role a missing man may have had in the death of his friend.

San Juan SO justifies shooting

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:36:26 GMT

A San Juan County Sheriff's Office investigation has cleared two deputies who shot a woman coming at them with a handgun.

Deputy killed in snowmobile accident

Dianne Anderson — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:41:39 GMT

A deputy with a Four Corners sheriff's department died in an off-duty snowmobile accident Wednesday.

Official's vehicle found; body nearby

Bill Diven — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:33:48 GMT

Farmington police confirm a vehicle belonging to a former tourism executive under investigation for embezzlement has been found in Arizona with a body nearby.

Navajo Nation, lab work on clean energy

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:19:33 GMT

The Navajo Nation has entered into an agreement with a national laboratory to study carbon capture, clean coal technology and renewable energy on the vast reservation.

Official under investigation vanishes

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:00:17 GMT

KRQEe former Farmington tourism director under investigation for stealing money has been reported missing.

Two injured in Grants drive-by shooting

Dianne Anderson — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:51:28 GMT

Grants police are investigating a shooting that wounded two people last night at a house party.

Two sentenced in swastika-branding case

Scott Daniels — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:41:05 GMT

Two of defendants who admitted branding a swastika on a developmentally challenged Farmington man were sentenced to time in federal prison Wednesday.

Police search for missing woman

Tim Maestas — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:54:29 GMT

A San Juan County family is on a desperate search for a woman who vanished on her birthday.

Farmington official: I took city funds

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:39:36 GMT

City officials believe Farmington's leading tourism official could have stolen more than $200,000 from city-funded accounts, and police are searching for financial records from two of the city's more prominent events, Freedom Days and the Totah Festival.

Suspected DWI driver hogtied by witness

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:24:00 GMT

New Mexico authorities say a witness hogtied a suspected drunken driver accused of barely avoiding several head-on collisions and then trying to run away once he was confronted by people who saw what happened.

Police vow more patrols on US 550

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:59:20 GMT

Police agencies are vowing to do more consistent patrols along U.S. 550 after the rural four-lane highway was the site of six alcohol-related deaths during a recent six-week period.

Cops: Teacher assaulted cop, called 911

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 18:47:19 GMT

A Farmington High School teacher is facing battery on a peace officer charges after police said she tried to call 911 from the backseat of a patrol car following her arrest at a club.

School photo flap goes national

Amanda Goodman — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:26:21 GMT

A racy photo submitted for a high school yearbook has garnered national attention.

Aztec city manager arrested

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:45:14 GMT

Aztec's mayor and members of the city commission plan to meet in closed session to discuss the recent arrest of the town's city manager.

Judge tosses confession in homicide

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:50:49 GMT

A district judge has ruled a man's statements to police hours after a May 29 killing will be excluded from trial because police officers violated the man's constitutional right to remain silent.

Man gets 180 days for cursing

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:57:42 GMT

A northwest New Mexico man will be sitting in jail for the next six months after telling a judge what he thinks of her in some rather unflattering terms.

Police chief nephew stabbed to death

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:31:15 GMT

The nephew of the Grants Police Chief was stabbed to death. Sources say the weapon used was a sword.

Code Talker Billy Crosby dies at 85

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:04:53 GMT

Billy Crosby, one of hundreds of Navajo Code Talkers who used their native language to confound the Japanese and help win World War II, has died at the age of 85.

Competency raised for man who aimed gun

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:48:58 GMT

An attorney representing a northwest New Mexico man who pointed a gun at police officers Dec. 15 during an hour-long standoff has raised the issue of whether his client is competent to stand trial.

New Mexico’s digging out of the storm

Jessica Garate — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:55:32 GMT

The latest storm buried western New Mexico and Grants was no exception, getting pounded with up to 14 inches of snow.

Swastika branding victim speaks out

Amanda Goodman — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:44:10 GMT

Two men owned up to their roles in branding a mentally disabled Navajo man with a swastika last year in Farmington

Two plead guilty in swastika branding

Bill Diven — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:41:39 GMT

Two men accused of branding a mentally disabled Navajo man with a swastika pleaded guilty to federal hate-crime charges Thursday.

Lawyer: Swastika branding just a prank

Thu, 05 May 2011 17:03:11 GMT

A jury has been selected and will begin weighing evidence against one of three men charged with branding a man with a coat hanger.

Trial begins in swastika branding case

Wed, 04 May 2011 19:53:45 GMT

Jury selection is underway in Aztec today in the trial for the first man charged with branding a Nazi symbol into a man's arm.

Owner disturbed by swastika brand

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:17:54 GMT

The owner of a McDonald's restaurant in Farmington says he was extremely disturbed by an incident last spring in which three former restaurant employees were accused of branding a swastika on a developmentally disabled Navajo man.

McDonalds sued over swastika branding

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:31:14 GMT

Relatives of a developmentally disabled Navajo man who was branded with a heated swastika have filed a civil lawsuit against McDonald's Corp. and the owner of a New Mexico restaurant.

Swastika case suspect denies guilt

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:12:41 GMT

A New Mexico man pleaded not guilty Monday to federal hate-crime charges in the case of a mentally disabled Navajo man who had a swastika branded on his arm with a hot metal clothes hanger.

Tribe signs memo about swastika case

Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:54:58 GMT

The Navajo Nation is scheduled to sign a government-to-government agreement Wednesday with city officials in Farmington, where three white men are accused of branding a swastika on the arm of a mentally disabled Navajo man.

Feds file hate charges in swastika case

Bill Diven — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:13:45 GMT

Three Farmington men have been indicted on federal hate-crime charges for allegedly burning a swastika into the arm of a mentally challenged Navajo man, the U.S. attorney's office announced Friday.