Securities Division Director Daniel Tanaka told a legislative committee that the release of the audit with misleading financial information was a “catastrophic systemic failure in the controls surrounding the audit progress.”

Wahlesah Dick is nearly 30 and a single mom. Her daughter, Macy Ridge, is 9 and she’s really into art. So much so, the two often spend Sunday afternoons between catechism class and 5 o'clock mass at the Museum of Contemporary Native Art in downtown Santa Fe. If Macy had her way she'd take home a multimedia painting by Debra Yepa-Pappan, one called Hello Kitty Teepee. "It has a pink and red and purplish TeePee with hello kitty on it," she describes," and a girl that has a traditional dress on."

A recent letter from RUS to the co-op states that RUS was suspending funding because the agency "did not receive official nor timely written notice from Kit Carson of the order of the Public Regulation Commission requiring Kit Carson to divest its broadband assets into a separate subsidiary."

The letter said that separating the Internet business from the electric utility would clearly create an “adverse material effect” on the project, compromising the terms of the co-op's contract with the government.

“Specifically, the sheriff never told any employee that they were an overweight slob or a fat slob,” Martinez said. “In addition, the sheriff never told Jennifer Vega-Brown (the former employee) that she was a whore, nor did he refer to anyone else in that manner at any time.”

Martinez also said the article inaccurately said Vega-Brown was fired because of her “job performance” and misstated her termination date.

Journal managing editor Karen Moses said Journal reporter Jeff Proctor recorded his interview with the sheriff, and the story accurately reflects the interview.

The prospect of oil and gas drilling has become a hot-button issue in San Miguel County over the last year, with many local residents packing City Council and County Commission meetings to demonstrate their opposition to it, particularly when it comes to hydraulic fracturing, a process whereby a large amount of pressurized water with chemicals is injected into wells and bores to crack rock and free oil or gas.

Drilling opponents argue that allowing drilling in San Miguel County will be detrimental to the environment and that drilling and fracking aren’t feasible in this area because of the massive amounts of water the industry uses and the fact that the water supply in the county is limited.

Supporters of the oil and gas industry have argued that it would bring jobs to the area and boost the local economy.

The vice chair of the committee, Sen. Phil Griego, D-San Jose, said the panel is expected to discuss the need to thin overgrown forests and ways to better fight wildfires.

"We're going to be looking at primarily what has happened since the fire and where Ruidoso is in regards to their availability of water," Griego said. "We're going to have a the state Engineer's Office there and look at the adversity that some of the people have gone through and see how we can prevent this from ever happening again."

After a two-day personnel hearing, former Luna County Detention Center warden John Krehbiel has been reinstated back at the facility in a detention officer position. [...] Krehbiel was fired the same day a criminal complaint was filed against him for allegedly and unlawfully releasing inmates without orders of release through a "Recidivism Reduction Program."

"Atmospheric conditions can be a big factor in why sonic booms occur," Croft said. "When it's colder and drier, sonic booms can be louder. We probably had a lot more complaints of sonic booms from February through April, but during the warmer months not so much so. But that could change once it starts getting colder again."