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A man who identified himself to the Albuquerque Journal as Ryan Martinez, of East Mountains, pulls a gun during a rally outside the Rio Arriba County building in Española, N.M., Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023. The man scrambling at lower left was not shot. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal via AP)

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A man is shot and wounded as tempers flare in New Mexico over the statue of a Spanish conquistador
By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press
Thu,09/28/23-2:51PM , 65 Reads
ESPANOLA, N.M. (AP) — Chaos erupted Thursday as a gunshot rang out during a protest in northern New Mexico where officials had planned to install a statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate, an event that county officials had already postponed anticipating that tempers would flare.
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A ramshackle compound is seen in the desert area of Amalia, N.M., on Aug. 10, 2018. Two firearms charges were dismissed Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, amid preparations for trial against an extended family arrested in a 2018 law enforcement raid on the compound in northern New Mexico and the discovery of a young boy's decomposed body. (AP Photo/Brian Skoloff, File)

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Abduction and terrorism trial after boy found dead at New Mexico compound opens with mom's testimony
By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press
Wed,09/27/23-1:57AM , 81 Reads
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal prosecutors presented tearful testimony Tuesday from the mother of a sickly toddler who was whisked away from his Georgia home by relatives without her permission to a remote desert encampment in northern New Mexico where he died.
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A ramshackle compound is seen in the desert area of Amalia, N.M., on Aug. 10, 2018. Two firearms charges were dismissed Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, amid preparations for trial against an extended family arrested in a 2018 law enforcement raid on the compound in northern New Mexico and the discovery of a young boy's decomposed body. (AP Photo/Brian Skoloff, File)

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Jury selection opens in terrorism trial of extended family members dating to 2018 New Mexico raid
By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press
Sun,09/24/23-11:08PM , 48 Reads
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Jury selection began Monday in federal court as members of an extended family confronted kidnapping and terrorism charges stemming from the search for a missing 3-year-old boy by agents who raided a squalid New Mexico encampment in 2018.
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New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks at the Arcosa Wind Towers, Aug. 9, 2023, in Belen, N.M. Grisham on Friday, Sept. 8, issued an emergency public health order that suspends the open and permitted concealed carry of firearms in Albuquerque for 30 days in the midst of a spate of gun violence. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

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New Mexico governor amends order suspending right to carry firearms to focus on parks, playgrounds
By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press
Fri,09/15/23-1:46PM , 49 Reads
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday narrowed an order that broadly suspended the right to carry firearms in and around Albuquerque to apply only to public parks and playgrounds where children and their families gather.
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