New Mexico lawmakers push funds to test rape kits backlog
The Senate and House advanced measures to spend 2.3 million and 1.2 million respectively to hire forensic scientists and expand lab capacity for untested rape kits. Cabinet Secretary Fouratt urged 1.7 million previously, detailing 5,400 untested kits across 125 agencies, with most in population centers. Albuquerque police and Bernalillo County rely on city lab. others send kits to DPS lab for processing.
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Cisco McSorley
Albuquerque
Senate Finance Committee
House of Representatives
Sarah Maestas Barnes
House Judiciary Committee
Barnes
Cates
Fouratt
Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office
Department of Public Safety
Chavez Names Recreation Center Sparks Roswell Talk
Roswell City Council Committee reviews naming the new recreation center after César Chavez after earlier delays. Parks and Recreation Commission on Jan. 11 recommended the Chavez name, with design by Huitt-Zollars and an estimated cost of 7 to 9 million dollars. Construction could start after 2018 with a 12 month design phase and a year of build time. The site has not yet been chosen.
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Roswell
Yucca
General Services Committee
City Hall
César Chavez
Parks and Recreation Commission
Chavez
National Farm Work
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United Farm Workers Union
Dennis Kintigh
Parks Commission
Huitt-Zollars
Albuquerque
Yucca Recreation
Roswell teacher waives appearance in sex abuse case
Kellie N. Hurst, 23, a Roswell Independent School District substitute, faces two felony counts of fourth degree criminal sexual penetration and one misdemeanor for distributing sexually oriented materials to a minor. The case stems from encounters with a then 16 year old Roswell High student in 2015 and includes a docket call waiver and not guilty plea on file.
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Hurst
Steven Bell
Kellie N. Hurst
Roswell Independent School District
Roswell High School
Woman injured as Chavez-Ramirez arrested after pub brawl
Roswell police responded to Farley's Food Fun & Pub on 1315 N Main St after a verbal dispute between a male customer and a group of bikers escalated into a physical fight between two women. Angelica Chavez-Ramirez, 38, was identified as the instigator, arrested on one misdemeanor public affray and two misdemeanor battery charges with a $1500 cash bond.
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Food Fun & Pub
Roswell
N. Main St
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Angelica Chavez-Ramirez
Chavez- Ramirez
Chavez-Ramirez
Chavez-Ramierez
Chaves County
Bethany Freudenthal
Lawmaker questions test based third grade retention plan
A prominent Republican senator signals educators should decide retention for struggling readers rather than favoring parents or politicians. She supports reading proficiency but warns against automatic promotion based on a single test and cites Florida and Oklahoma practices as context. The House plans a Tuesday hearing on Rep. Monica Youngblood’s bill to let districts decide retention beginning 2017-18 with exemptions and interventions.
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Susana Martinez
Sen
Gay Kernan
R-Hobbs
Kernan
Republican Front
Martinez
Florida
Oklahoma
Monica Youngblood
Albuquerque
Public Education Department
Youngblood
House
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