Hantavirus has taken the life of a 22-year-old Otero County woman. Meanwhile, a 36-year-old lawyer accused of killing a pedestrian in Santa Fe and then fleeing the scene initially told police he hadn’t been drinking.

In Albuquerque, a Sandia National Laboratories solar energy researcher is a finalist in Discover Magazine’s “The Future of Energy in 2 Minutes or Less” contest.

And down south it appears that Hal Mumme is out as football coach after four years at New Mexico State University.