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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

Inside Room 101 of Ted Chavez Hall on the main TVI campus in Albuquerque, students are studying magic. Eager learners zip, zoom, hustle and bustle around the room, weaving among cameras, tables, cords, microphones, chairs, tripods, lights and each other. Instructors bark out strange incantations, phrases such as, “I want power to all my taps!” … Read more

On the edge of the Rio Grande, next to the Angostura Dam, Randy the test dummy was causing a problem. The 165-pound doll – half-submerged in the cold water – refused to float farther into the river despite prods with sticks by officials from the Bernalillo County Aquatics Program. No, it wasn’t a case of … Read more

A brown-haired boy walks up to the counter of the Westgate Library on Albuquerque’s far West Side and asks branch manager Stephanie Miller where to find books on the Holocaust. “Are you doing an assignment?” Miller asks. “I just really want to read about it,” the boy says. Miller leads him to the nearby shelves … Read more

To give an idea of what the Blue Dragon Cafe is all about, co-owner Norman Everett, sitting in overalls and a ski cap at one of the cafe’s tables, tells a story from October. It was around the presidential debates. The Dragon was packed. In one room, poets recited their work for a contest of … Read more