Nearly 130 years after Pat Garrett gunned down Billy the Kid, Governor Bill Richardson may pardon Billy the Kid, to the dismay of Garrett’s descendants, who ardently oppose the pardon, reports The Farmington Daily Times.
Rio Arriba County administrator Richard Montoya leveled charges of nepotism and unethical conduct against County Manager Tomas Campos, according to The Rio Grande Sun reports.
New Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative General Manager Wayne Sowell expressed concern this week after he was unable to find records of payments the Co-op should have received from its collection agency, reports The Rio Grande Sun.
The Taos News reports the chief ‘s clerk office of Taos refused to hand over public court records to the newspaper after the New Mexico Supreme Court passed a new law aimed at protecting personal information such as birthdays and social security numbers from being released in public records.
Top officials and scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Japan met this week to launch a multimillion dollar project that will set new standards for alternative energy use worldwide, reports The Los Alamos Monitor.