Gonzales said the two obtained federal money for work they didn’t perform and services they didn’t provide by submitting false invoices. He said Gutierrez and Kupfer also tried to obstruct an audit by the Election Assistance Commission and to conceal the funds that they had stolen.

New Mexico has a sexual assault problem, with rape rates rising recently (one in four women in the state reports having been raped). It's in this context that Rep. Brown thought it would be a grand idea to make it harder for abortion providers to help rape victims, even though New Mexico has one of the few in the country that can help victims late in their pregnancies. It's possible that Rep. Brown is unaware that New Mexico has a clinic that serves rape victims who often have to travel far to get help. It's also possible that she knows.

The ribbon-cutting event took place slightly more than two years after a fire that damaged the former structure — an old grocery store built in the '50s — and gutted an adjacent building. Many attendees commented that the modern structure was a marked improvement over its predecessor.

Addressing a crowd outside the entrance, [Gov. Susana] Martinez said it's "truly vibrant and reflective of the hard work and the enthusiasm that will take place under this roof.

State District Judge Mannie Arrieta didn't find enough evidence of vote irregularities or fraud to overturn the outcome of the city's March 2012 mayor's race.

"He wanted us to prove 89 votes" were invalid, Hernandez said. "And it's almost impossible to do. We don't have the kind of resources we need to prove those facts."

Lee Einer submitted a proposed petition to the County Clerk’s Office on Sept. 26 and asked her to sign off on the wording so that he could begin circulating it. The home rule petition seeks to force the county to appoint a charter commission to prepare a new charter for the county. Specifically, the petition requests a charter that recognizes a community bill of rights within San Miguel County, that bans the extraction of oil and gas within the county and that elevates the Bill of Rights above rights claimed by corporations operating in the county.

Adopting the language and legal beliefs of the Sovereign Citizens’ movement, Lujan, and another woman, Marcie Martinez, have argued that the state of New Mexico is a fictional entity that cannot claim to be an injured party, as it does in all criminal cases brought against “living, breathing human beings.”

“What we’ve forgotten is that mankind created government,” explained Martinez, a weapons engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory. “If we’re the ones who create government, how can we be under their jurisdiction?”