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.
Allegations are being leveled against the Albuquerque Police Department in the homicide investigation of one of its own officers. The family of Tera Chavez, who was found dead in her home last October, has filed a lawsuit claiming that nine APD officers showed up outside of their jurisdiction at the Valencia County crime scene, according to KOB. The report goes on to state that one of the officers flushed a blood sample down the toilet and that APD officers removed a bloody sheet from the home.
Tera Chavez, the mother of two, died of a gunshot wound to the head. Investigators state that the weapon used in the incident was her husband’s police-issued gun. The death was initially ruled a suicide but later changed to a homicide. The lawsuit also states that Tera’s husband, Levi Chavez, had changed his wife’s insurance policy to cover suicide just 17 days before the murder.
Watch the video at KOB.
Read the lawsuit here. (pdf)
