Medical professionals had a warning on Roybal's condition, the special session may be meaningless, and federal stimulus gets sucked into the ether.

SFR has learned that one of the principals in the company that wants taxpayers to help build a cinema in the Railyard has been charged several times with writing bad checks. But Richard Jaramillo’s background is not the only suspicious thing about Railyard Co LLC.

Beginning at noon, Oct. 17, the New Mexico Legislature convenes for a “special session.” What makes it so special? Take this quiz and find out!

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In each of the recent, highly publicized domestic violence cases, the couples lived in housing projects, trailer parks and other less-than-chic corners of Santa Fe. This fact appeared to confirm what some already assume. But those who work in the field—knocking on doors after the neighbors hear screaming, consoling a weeping woman afraid for her life—know nothing could be further from the truth.

Local leaders say they are finally ready “to protect survivors of domestic violence…and to hold perpetrators of domestic violence accountable,” according to a Santa Fe County press release. It is, after all, “Domestic Violence Awareness Month.” What’s the plan?

Charity takes a hit as the famed Buckaroo Ball realizes that it has become a working class operation.

In 2009, staff writer Corey Pein began examining domestic violence in Santa Fe and in New Mexico from a variety of perspectives and through dramatic cases that were under-reported in the mainstream media. What he uncovered is a shocking persistence of domestic violence, habitual abuse and resistance to meaningful reform at all levels of enforcement and treatment for perpetrators as well as insufficient support for victims.

With some 2,300 homes for sale around the Santa Fe, a couple of dozen condos in the mostly empty northside Zocalo development near a busy highway are getting all the attention. If nothing else, it shows the power of advertising.

The ongoing case of security guard Phillip Glock and the trial of Carlos Fierro.

With more spark than a Frontline documentary and less pretense than whatever Michael Moore has cooking, American Casino is the best film so far to explain the US economic crisis, and the only one with an original hip-hop score about the collapse of the mortgage-backed securities market.