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Jesse Morgan, left, looks on during a May Day rally Tuesday, May 1, 2012, in Atlanta. While a black preacher told a crowd of about 100 immigration activists that incarcerated blacks and detained illegal immigrants faced similar challenges, Morgan stood to one side of the May Day protesters holding a large sign that read "Radical Queers Resist. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Shift on marriage energizes immigration activists

Jeri Clausing The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 9:48am

Shift on marriage energizes immigration activists

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By JERI CLAUSING

Associated Press

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N.M. horse racing industry backs reforms, oversight

Jeri Clausing The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 1:16pm

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The horse racing industry Wednesday lined up behind a proposal to adopt tougher oversight and penalties at the state's tracks, which were recently identified as having the worst safety record in the nation.

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EDDIE MOORE/The Associated Press) Matt Sheldon (left) and Heather Prichard hike up the Santa Fe, N.M. Ski area o Tuesday. The season came to a close for the lifts on Sunday. But with several inches of new snow skiers, snowboarders and snowshoers are not finished yet.

New Mexico grabs the snow in unique Western ski season

Jeri Clausing The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 8:11pm

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Western ski resorts are wrapping up one of the most unusual and unpredictable snow seasons in recent memory.

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A March 11, 2012 image shows skiers heading toward the slopes at Sandia Peak Ski Area near Albuquerque, N.M. New Mexico, traditionally warmer and with less reliable snowfall than its northern neighbors, this weekend celebrates the end of an unexpectedly good season that overcame forecasts of drought. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Western ski resorts wrapping up unpredictable season

Jeri Clausing The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 10:42am

Western ski resorts are wrapping up one of the most unusual and unpredictable snow seasons in recent memory.

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Police involved in shootings got 'bounty' checks from union

Jeri Clausing The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, March 23, 2012 - 4:35pm

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Albuquerque police officers involved in a rash of fatal shootings over the past two years were paid up to $500 under a union program that some have likened to a bounty system in a department with a culture that critics have long contended promotes brutality.

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Longmont police respond to three separate weather-related accidents as snow falls on Colo. Hwy. 66 at Francis Street in Longmont, Colo., on Monday, Dec. 19, 2001. A major storm is bringing blizzard conditions to Colorado's southeastern corner, where ranches and farms have been hit hard by drought. (AP Photo/Longmont Times-Call, Richard M. Hackett)

Deadly snowstorm halts travel across Great Plains

Jeri Clausing, Roxana Hegeman The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, December 20, 2011 - 11:00am

WICHITA, Kan. -- Fierce winds and snow that caused fatal road accidents and shuttered highways in five states, crawled deeper into the Great Plains early Tuesday, with forecasters warning that pre-holiday travel would be difficult if not impossible across the region.

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(The Associated Press) This undated aerial view shows the Los Alamos National laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. While much of the public outcry over Los Alamos in recent years has focused on lagging cleanup efforts of radioactive waste and hazardous runoff into the canyons, earthquake danger and the potential for catastrophic releases of radiation from existing facilities was front and center at a recent meeting in Santa Fe of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.

Questions swirl around $6 billion nuclear lab

Jeri Clausing The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, December 4, 2011 - 5:14pm

SANTA FE, N.M. — At Los Alamos National Laboratory, scientists and engineers refer to their planned new $6 billion nuclear lab by its clunky acronym, CMRR, short for Chemistry Metallurgy Research Replacement Facility. But as a work in progress for three decades and with hundreds of millions of dollars already spent, nomenclature is among the minor issues.

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(PAUL BEATY/The Associated Press) U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., speaks to protestors outside the Hyatt Regency during the Mortgage Banker’s Association’s Annual Convention in Chicago, Monday, Oct. 10, 2011. Traffic in Chicago’s downtown business district was snarled by hundreds of demonstrators who were protesting about a number of issues, including high unemployment, foreclosures and lagging school funding, what organizers called “Take Back Chicago.”

Voters with housing woes giving up on politicians

Jeri Clausing The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 25, 2011 - 9:58am

MESA, Ariz. — Like just about everyone in the Phoenix area, Jen Pollock has lost several neighbors to foreclosure and short sales. And, like hundreds of thousands of others in Arizona, Pollock and her husband are upside down on their mortgage, owing about twice as much as their suburban house is now worth.

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(The Associated Press) This undated image provided by the Los Alamos National Laboratory shows lab contract worker, Kevin Miller examining a truck excavated from a location called Area B on lab property in Los Alamos, N.M. Over the past three years, lab workers laboring under highly specialized containment domes built literally just a mile or so from downtown Los Alamos -- have pulled up everything from a truck believed to have been used at the first nuclear test bomb explosion to whiskey bottles, calendars and about twice as much toxic waste and soil as had been thought to be buried at what is known as Area B.

Los Alamos under renewed environmental scrutiny

Jeri Clausing The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 4:55pm

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. — Pickup trucks believed present at the world’s first nuclear bomb test, coke and whiskey bottles, a calendar and a toothbrush are just a few of the items unearthed by a cleanup of one of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s original toxic dump sites, where the detritus of the 1940s Manhattan Project was strewn through some of northern New Mexico’s most scenic mesas and canyons.

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In this photo taken July 14, 2011, a puppy is held at the Gallup Humane Society in Gallup, N.M., after being quarantined with other healthy dogs for shipment to Colorado for adoption. The Navajo Nation - and many other tribal lands - are struggling to control a growing problem of stray, feral or just neglected and loose dogs. (AP Photo/Jeri Clausing)

Deadly dog packs roam Navajo Nation attacking livestock, people

Jeri Clausing The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, August 16, 2011 - 1:59pm

GALLUP, N.M. -- The 55-year-old man was found lying on the side of the road on the Navajo Nation, a pack of dogs mauling him relentlessly. Emergency workers chased them away, but the pack -- their ribs sticking out -- kept trying to circle back.

It was not determined whether the dogs or a seizure felled Larry Armstrong as he went for a walk near his rural home last December. An autopsy report said he died from the bites, but investigators were unable to determine if he was even conscious when he was attacked. Regardless, the case vividly underscored the problems the Navajo Nation -- and many other tribal lands -- have with stray, feral or just neglected and loose dogs.

On the vast Navajo Nation, wildlife and animal control manager Kevin Gleason estimates there are four to five dogs for each of the more than 89,000 households -- or as many as 445,000 dogs, most of which roam unchecked, killing livestock and biting people with alarming regularity.

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