I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
An autopsy will determine whether the death of a six-year-old boy in Las Cruces was caused by the swine flu, according to the Las Cruces Sun-News.
Cody Scarborough, a first-grader at Colombia Elementary School, was pronounced dead about 5 p.m. on Tuesday. While officials say they have no indication that the child’s death was swine-flu related, preliminary autopsy results that should be available by Friday should determine whether the child had the virus.
New Mexico currently has no confirmed cases of swine flu, which is rapidly spreading across the globe. The first death outside of Mexico was confirmed today in Houston, where a two-year-old boy from Mexico died.
Scarborough was sent home from school on Tuesday with a fever. According to Sheriff’s Sgt. Joe Reynaud, he had no symptoms prior to Tuesday. Reynaud said the child’s death originally seemed to be caused by a heart attack but could have been caused by “anything from carbon monoxide to a birth defect.”
