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Throughout an interior aglow with polished tiles and flawless wooden desks, there is an aroma of something new – flower petals tinged with bleach, gentle but sharp, a jump-start of hope. Cubicles, formed by soft gray dividers, many still awaiting their first piles of paperwork, fill the center of one room. Ringing them are offices … Read more

Josh Center didn’t go to Burning Paradise movie rental store to become a zombie, but when the opportunity arose, it was too good to pass up. After all, the 26-year-old Albuquerque resident says his “big love” is horror movies, and this particular application to act in a locally shot zombie flick required no eating of … Read more

The election of a pope can mean relief, hope and happiness for many, but for companies supplying religious goods, it means something else: a mini business boom. “I have the order form right here that I’m going to fax today,” said Paul Garson, owner of Garson & Sons religious goods store at 2139 San Mateo … Read more

With the passing of the pope, people nationwide have pondered the life and death of one of history’s most beloved pontiffs – along with an Italian restaurant chain’s decision to remove his busts from private dining rooms. The Buca di Beppo chain intended its action as a show of respect to the memory of John … Read more

Inside Garson & Sons religious goods shop on San Mateo Boulevard Northeast, 61-year-old Grace Gutierrez picked up a tiny cardboard box and excitedly shook out a set of rosary beads and a book covered with a picture of the recently deceased pope. “I love his teachings,” she said. “I love my faith.” The $22.95 book-and-rosary-beads … Read more

When searching for a soul, common wisdom would encourage a long gaze into the window of the eyes, perhaps a chat with a priest. But with the customized self-expression being sold by a couple of New Mexico companies, torsos and car bumpers might be a better place to look for someone’s inner self. Using the … Read more

It was nothing more than a worn-out flower. It was lying on the ground, Jessie Ponce de Leon remembers. Easy to pass up. But her son, Albert Rosales, then about 5 years old, bent down and grabbed it. He asked his mother if she would store it in her purse. She wondered why but stashed … Read more

Outside Herman Molina’s cargo container workshop at Sandia National Laboratories, the housing units for an airborne atmosphere analyzer and a dashboard-mounted license plate reader sit on a patch of the gated labs’ secretive desert grounds. Molina, a technical consultant at the Albuquerque labs, took about 40 hours to build the units. The 25-year veteran of … Read more

Two members of the military stationed in New Mexico requesting discharge as conscientious objectors have taken their case to U.S. District Court in Albuquerque. First Lt. Eric Riley of the United States Army Reserve and Spc. Preston Betts of the California Army National Guard filed documents with the court Thursday to postpone their deployment to … Read more

With the average cost of gasoline hitting $2.11 a gallon around the state, New Mexico motorists are feeling the pinch at the pump. But for local nonprofits, that pinch can turn into a punch. Roadrunner Food Bank, which provides food to impoverished New Mexicans, is likely to order about 2 million pounds less of food … Read more