The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) articles from October 2004

The Albuquerque Tribune (Albuquerque, NM) archives from October 2004

Fists and funds still at the core.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... Byline: Shea Andersen SANDERSEN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3621 Election '04 Congressional candidates are tying up loose ends, but they are keeping a hand free for slugging. Richard Romero is still on the money trail. And U.S. Rep....

Leading by example.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... Byline: Jennifer W. Sanchez jsanchez@abqtrib.com / 823-3610 Bandelier Elementary's Nikki Dennis says her fourth-grade teacher changed her life, and now she tries to use what she learned in her own work When Nicolette Dennis was in...

Monkey see, monkey do: Aping nastiness of politicians.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... Byline: Kate Nelson Commentary With just three days of mud-flinging to go, how about we trip down the lanes of logic and wonder what would happen if all of us talked the way the candidates talk? Cue the gloomily ominous music, the...

One person killed in South Valley crash.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... Byline: Tribune staff IN BRIEF Bernalillo County Sheriff's deputies are investigating a collision in the South Valley that killed one person. The two-vehicle wreck happened at 11:50 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Coors...

Tribune's first photographer remembered for humor, tales.(Weekend)(Obituary)
October 30, 2004... Byline: Ollie Reed Jr. oreed@abqtrib.com / 823-3619 In 1956, while touring the Southwest in search of history, Andy Gregg and his wife, Fay, ran out of money in Albuquerque. Andy Gregg, who knew one end of a camera from the other...

Armenta is named new Qwest boss.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... Byline: Nancy Salem NSALEM@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3675 Western telecom giant Qwest has chosen the leader of Albuquerque's Hispano Chamber of Commerce as the leader to take its New Mexico operations into a troubled and challenging period of...

Judge wars overlooked this season.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... Byline: Joline Gutierrez Krueger JGLENN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3603 Election '04 Key congressional races and a slugfest for the presidency leave the judicial branch starved for attention. What's a judicial candidate to do? Ron...

Unification in the slow lane.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... Byline: Ed Asher EASHER@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 Albuquerque's road bond issue seems to have put the debate over city/county unification in the shadows. Supporters of the proposition to consolidate city and county governments have...

Trail Mix.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... White House SPLIT UP President Bush today is in Wisconsin, Michigan and Florida. Vice President Dick Cheney is in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa. John Kerry is in Wisconsin, Iowa and Ohio, and his running mate John Edwards stumps in...

THE MISSING.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... Byline: Mike Garcia mgarcia@abqtrib.com / 823-3660 YAFL SUPER BOWLS For La Cueva East Juniors coach Danny Knee, Super Sunday will be different. His shadow will be gone. In the Knee family, the week leading up to Super Sunday...

Coach's pep talk sets a forward in motion.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... Byline: Richard Stevens rstevens@abqtrib.com / 823-3663 SCORPIONS HOCKEY It's not that New Mexico Scorpions forward Mike Oliveira was in coach Bill McDonald's dog house or should we say ice house? But two games into the Central...

Sandia win streak snapped at 18; coach: We needed it.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... Byline: Jeremy Fowler jfowler@abqtrib.com / 823-3614 Prep volleyball The streak is over. The Sandia volleyball team, riding an 18-game unbeaten streak this season, lost to district rival Cibola in five games. The scores in...

Daytona (bad), Schumacher (good) among best, worst of 2004.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... Byline: Charles Googe Commentary The auto racing season isn't quite over, but here are my best and worst of 2004: Best race: The IRL in Chicago in September was great. Side-by-side action the entire race. And Indy 500 winner Buddy...

YAFL SUPER BOWLS.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... VALLEY PEE WEES Team members in no particular order are Dustin Johnson, Chris Carrillo, Dimitri Olivas, Damien Archibeque, Nicholas Branch, Cody Roberts, Robert Armijo, Seth Mello, Jordan Velasquez, Chris Garcia, Seamus Davidson, Bo...

YAFL SUPER BOWLS.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... SOPHOMORE DIVISION (11-year-olds) CIBOLA SOUTH VS. LA CUEVA EAST 2 p.m., Milne Stadium ABOUT THE COUGARS Coach: Don Gassoway. Assistants: Charlie Nieto, Figgy Feagaimaalii, Danny Jarrett, Jeff Williams, Dominic Garcia....

Make-or-break week for Dallas.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... Byline: Mike Garcia Commentary THE NFL: Week 8 SMART MONEY You can bet Dallas head coach Bill Parcells will have plenty of pink slips tucked into his waistband when the Cowboys take on the streaking Detroit Lions on Sunday. ...

Arndt's ankle is Achilles' heel.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... Byline: Iliana Limon ILIMON@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3632 UNM BASKETBALL The stationary bike is basketball purgatory for forward Lindsey Arndt. Arndt, a senior on the University of New Mexico women's basketball team, can't seem to...

Five-goal 2nd half lifts Eldorado.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... Byline: Jeremy Fowler jfowler@abqtrib.com / 823-3614 GIRLS SOCCER RIO RANCHO This could have been Eldorado girls soccer coach Tom Hirschman's halftime speech against Rio Rancho: "Girls, if you play well in the second half, you...

The Tribune recommends.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... A recap of our endorsements in Tuesday's elections The Tribune is endorsing, with only a few exceptions, in contested races in which Bernalillo County voters have a say. For a full version of our endorsements, visit The Tribune's Web...

Clinton appearance will delay concert.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... Byline: Tribune staff IN BRIEF Former President Clinton's campaign rally for John Kerry on Sunday in Albuquerque will delay the start of a New Mexico Symphony Orchestra concert by 15 minutes. The NMSO said it wants to avoid...

Twin Mountain gets Coors deal.(Weekend)
October 30, 2004... Byline: Tribune staff IN BRIEF Albuquerque's Twin Mountain Construction will be the general construction and design contractor for the $84 million rebuilding of the Coors Boulevard and I-40 interchange, the New MexicoDepartment of...

Qwest picks new leader.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Nancy Salem NSALEM@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3675 Hispano Chamber CEO to take over Loretta Armenta, longtime president and CEO of the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce, will take over as president of Qwest New Mexico on Dec....

Hello, punkin.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Sue Vorenberg svorenberg@abqtrib.com / 823-3678 JUST 'ROUND HALLOWEEN Still searching for THE GREAT PUMPKIN? Sellers say they have him and his hefty kin, and they swear they're not out of their gourds. On a night this...

Sheriff: Bush to visit city Monday.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Shea Andersen SANDERSEN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3621 Election '04 President Bush will make a stop in Albuquerque on Monday, the day before the election and the final day of the 2004 presidential campaign, the head of his campaign...

Worker bungles possible, clerk says.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Ed Asher EASHER@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 Officials said they can safeguard against computer snags, but human errors by frenzied hired hands are likely. After all the preparations, all the training, all the computer debugging,...

Crews battle fires at two homesites.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Staff reports IN BRIEF Four houses that were under construction in Southwest Albuquerque were destroyed by fire this morning, said Albuquerque Fire Department spokeswoman Lt. Lynn Reule. The unoccupied houses were being...

Duo helps mend battered Alabama.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Sue Vorenberg svorenberg@abqtrib.com / 823-3678 Fallen trees, missing rooftops and downed power lines smeared the landscape of Mobile, Ala., when Gary Edwards and Lorenzo Santana arrived. The view was awful, but the...

Students' mock election hands Bush an early lead.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Susie Gran SGRAN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3682 The kids like Bush. President Bush was the early favorite of New Mexico students based on 58 schools reporting their mock election votes to the secretary of state. Voting took...

Early voting, requests for ballots favor Dems.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Ed Asher EASHER@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 Democrats have jumped out to an early lead in Bernalillo County in two categories. Those are: number of absentee ballots mailed to voters and number of votes cast in early voting. ...

Registration signatures, other items questioned.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Ed Asher EASHER@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 Suspicious voter registration cards and forms continue to show up in Bernalillo County. As of Thursday, 25 people had complained they received voter registration cards in the mail with...

Scorps owner gets to root for Rayz too.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Richard Stevens rstevens@abqtrib.com PRO HOCKEY The owner's box at the New Mexico Scorpions hockey game tonight will be a box divided. Scorps' owner Doug Frank will be a man divided, too half Scorpions, half Corpus...

LEAPIN' LOBOS.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Jeff Carlton jcarlton@abqtrib.com / 823-3662 MEN'S SOCER: UNM4, DENVER 1 With a victory over the Pioneers, the pack avenged a losswhile jumping closer to an NCAA berth Jeff Rowland's black eye is proof the University of...

Lobos licking chops awaiting freshman QB.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Iliana Limon ILIMON@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3632 Colorado State quarterback Caleb Hanie couldn't be more wet behind the ears if you dunked him in the ocean. The true freshman will make his second career start when the Rams take on...

Cibola hopes momentum carries on road at Hobbs.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Jeremy Fowler jfowler@abqtrib.com / 823-3614 The bus ride home was silent, but players all wanted to ask the same question. Is this for real? The Cibola Cougars were fresh off a stinging 35-17 loss to Rio Rancho on Oct....

Levin's in the hunt at World.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: STAFF REPORTS LOBO SCENE University of New Mexico golfer Spencer Levin enters today's second round of the World Amateur Team Championships tied for 12th place out of 198 competitors. Levin, a junior, is representing the...

She's packin' but won't go postal.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: M.J. Wilde Commentary Every year, we here at the paper participate in a raffle for charity. This is a chance for people on staff to raffle off services like two weeks of housecleaning or cooking lessons and baked goods. Or a...

Time slip.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Michael Halstead mhalstead@abqtrib.com / 823-3684 Once, 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' had moviegoers transfixed every weekend in Albuquerque. These days, the cult classic usually shows up only at Halloween. Still, fandom...

Cue the tuba: 1925 'Lost World' will reel to band.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Michael Halstead mhalstead@abqtrib.com / 823-3684 What was once lost is found again; what was once old is made new. The Guild Cinema and friends are dusting off a long, lost sci-fi classic and giving it a brand new twist. ...

DRAMATIC AND TRAUMATIC.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... The person who said you have nothing to fear but fear itself never saw these flicks ranked by Trib staffers as most likely to leave you screaming in your nightmares For some Tribune staffers, it's the rampant cello march in "Jaws." ...

Crews battle fires at two homesites.(Afternoon)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Staff reports IN BRIEF Two houses were on fire this morning at Pritchard Creek and Round Rock Southwest, said an Albuquerque Fire Department dispatcher. Fire and rescue personnel were called to the scene about 5 a.m. By 6:30...

Airman trained at Kirtland base.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Staff reports IN BRIEF An airman killed recently in Afghanistan trained in Albuquerque. Airman 1st Class Jesse Samek, 21, of Rogers, Ark., died Oct. 21 when the HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter he was aboard crashed during a...

Zoo will hold Halloween event.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Staff reports IN BRIEF The Rio Grande Zoo will hold its annual Halloween event, the Zoo Boo, from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday. Up to four kids in costume will be admitted free with each paying adult. Admission for adults is...

Swap batteries with time change.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Staff reports IN BRIEF Bernalillo County Fire Chief Bett Clark advised residents to change the batteries in their home smoke detectors when they set their clocks back to standard time this weekend. "Smoke alarms are the...

Graduates to pad firefighter ranks.(Evening)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Staff reports IN BRIEF The newest ranks of Albuquerque firefighters were scheduled to graduate from the Albuquerque Fire Academy today, Fire Chief Robert Ortega said. The graduates will add 31 personnel to the city's...

Feds compensate firefighting costs.(Afternoon)
October 29, 2004... Byline: Staff reports IN BRIEF The federal government has approved more than $1 million in grants to cover the cost to New Mexico of fighting the Atrisco Fire, one of two fires that roared through the Rio Grande bosque in Albuquerque...

Surprise? Where?(Evening)
October 28, 2004... Byline: Shea Andersen SANDERSEN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3621 Election '04 Other presidential campaigns have had to cope with an October Surprise that undoes an opponent. But local observers say they're not expecting to be all shook up...

Foe-free candidates lend hands to allies.(Evening)
October 28, 2004... Byline: Shea Andersen SANDERSEN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3621 For Sen. Sue Wilson Beffort, an Albuquerque Republican, it means a few hours of letter-writing to voters. For House Majority Leader Danice Picraux, an Albuquerque Democrat, it...

15 schools now meet standards.(Evening)
October 28, 2004... Byline: Susie Gran SGRAN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3682 Fifteen of 31 Albuquerque schools reviewed by state officials have new ratings they can be proud of, while 13 schools will have to work harder to improve. The ratings are based on...

Board OKs West Side plan.(Evening)
October 28, 2004... Byline: Susie Gran SGRAN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3682 The unanimous vote for a $454.25 million school-construction plan was a vote for a new West Side high school, said Robert Lucero, West Side member of the Albuquerque Board of Education. ...

MOCK (YEAH) VOTE (YEAH).(Evening)
October 28, 2004... Byline: Susie Gran SGRAN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3682 With 91 percent registered to cast ballots, today's presidential 'election' is more than just fun and games for Rio Rancho middle-schoolers RIO RANCHO - Some girls in seventh grade...

Senator, mayor blast tunnel idea.(Evening)
October 28, 2004... Byline: Ed Asher EASHER@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 ELECTION '04 A national preservation group says tunneling could be the best alternative to a Paseo del Norte road extension. Tunneling to the northwest of the Petroglyph National...

Early, absentee voters are on record pace.(Evening)
October 28, 2004... Byline: Asher By the end of today, election officials estimate, more than 50,000 Bernalillo County residents will have cast early ballots. Early voting is running at a pace of about 7,000 people per day this week, County Clerk Mary...

That 1960 city.(Evening)
October 28, 2004... Byline: Frank Zoretich fzoretich@abqtrib.com / 823-3623 Municipal boundaries dating back nearly a half-century provide a key reference point in Albuquerque's growth Although vastly outgrown and impossible in most places to...

Gym named for veteran teacher.(Evening)
October 28, 2004... Byline: Jan Jonas JAN'S CLAN Barbara Anderson isn't a fixer. She's more of a listener and a guide. Kids "know you can't solve their problems, but they know you can listen to them," she says. "Kids want that person they can...

neighborhood NEWS.(Evening)
October 28, 2004... STREET SMARTS HILDEGARDE DRIVE Ever wonder whether developers have trouble coming up with street names? In laying out the Academy Acres Subdivision, planners named this street in honor of a dachshund belonging to Jim Berg, one...

Cockfighting's bloody, cruel - and must stop.(Evening)
October 28, 2004... EDITORIAL As an otherwise progressive state with an enchanting national reputation, New Mexico has a character flaw that needs correcting legal cockfighting. The practice, in which dueling roosters' legs are outfitted with blades,...

Fans in Duke City have Boston in common.(Evening)
October 28, 2004... Byline: Jeremy Fowler jfowler@abqtrib.com / 823-3614 WORLD SERIES 04 For visiting Boston native Rachel Seward, the only comparable scrapbook memory may be giving birth or getting married. And even those could fall short to her...

Big? Oh, yes. Mean? Not yet.(Evening)
October 28, 2004... Byline: Jeremy Fowler jfowler@abqtrib.com / 823-3614 YAFL The potential of YAFL standout Rio Mares has not gone unnoticed. But then how can you not notice a 6-foot-3, 291-pound 14-year-old? Cibola High School coach Ben...

Utes' run could mean big cash for UNM.(Evening)
October 28, 2004... Byline: Iliana Limon ILIMON@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3632 LOBO FOOTBALL The Lobos plan to be frugal, if they grab their first piece of the BCS money pie. If Utah remains undefeated and earns a spot in a Bowl Championship Series game,...

AD guarantees bowl for 6-5 Lobos.(Evening)
October 28, 2004... Byline: Iliana Limon ILIMON@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3632 Don't scratch Las Vegas off the holiday travel plans just yet Lobos fans. Athletics Director Rudy Davalos says the University of New Mexico football team, with a 4-4 record, still...

Nearly all to touch floor vs. Eastern.(Evening)
October 28, 2004... Byline: Jeff Carlton jcarlton@abqtrib.com / 823-3662 UNM BASKETBALL Ryan Wall won't play. Neither will Chad Toppert. But everyone else is likely to see court time Monday in the Lobos' exhibition game at The Pit against Eastern...

No winners in a Bush-Kerry scenario.(Evening)
October 28, 2004... Byline: The Linz THE GREAT ONE The Lindsey Line The Linz is confused about all this mudslinging in the big presidential race. The mudslinging part isn't what confuses The Linz. The Linz understands mudslinging. Heck, let's face...

N.M. barraged.(Evening)
October 27, 2004... Byline: Shea Andersen SANDERSEN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3621 Election '04 Outside supporters flood in, trying to sway a swing state. Count among them two soap opera stars. The out-of-towners keep pouring in. Not just Democratic...

Thousands rally and wait for Kerry.(Evening)
October 27, 2004... Byline: Shea Andersen SANDERSEN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3621 The hip joints along Central Avenue were the place to be coming and going from John Kerry's Civic Plaza rally. As the crowd trickled in to the plaza early Tuesday evening, Lt....

Crash victims 'a good bunch'.(Evening)
October 27, 2004... Byline: Joline Gutierrez Krueger JGLENN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3603 Tammie Lamphere had not yet gotten around to developing her wedding photos when she learned her husband of four months would not be coming home again. Nor would four of...

'Green Grocer' hits again.(Evening)
October 27, 2004... Byline: Arthur Simoni asimoni@abqtrib.com / 823-3609 A bandit the FBI calls "Green Grocer" has struck again, for his eighth suspected robbery in 1 1/2 months, FBI officials say. Given the moniker because he chooses bank branches...

REAL GOAT-GETTERS.(Evening)
October 27, 2004... Byline: Ollie Reed Jr. oreed@abqtrib.com / 823-3619 These herders and hobbyists know all about breeds, cheese and whether the hoofed creatures have a taste for tin Linda Grilli warns a visitor to the dairy goat pavilion not to pet...

Lovelace: Vaccine release 'a start'.(Evening)
October 27, 2004... Byline: Sue Vorenberg svorenberg@abqtrib.com / 823-3678 The state Health Department's release of 9,000 doses of flu vaccine to Lovelace Health Care Systems in Albuquerque is welcome news, a spokesman said. Lovelace Hospital and HMO...

Prescribed burns may cloud sky.(Evening)
October 27, 2004... Byline: TRIBUNE STAFF Smoke will be visible in the areas of Torreon and Manzano for the rest of the week if the Mountainair Ranger District of the U.S. Forest Service continues with a prescribed burning program in the Manzano Mountains,...

Hispanics may gain seats on Nov. 2.(Evening)
October 27, 2004... Byline: James W. Brosnan BROSNANJ@SHNS.COM / (202) 408-2701 WASHINGTON - Congress could see its first Hispanic senator from a state other than New Mexico, and elsewhere Hispanics are likely to make gains in state legislatures, says the...

Clerk can open, sort ballots early.(Evening)
October 27, 2004... Byline: Ed Asher EASHER@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 Election '04 Amid the crush of early voting and absentee ballot returns, Bernalillo County Clerk Mary Herrera got a bit of news that might ease her Election Day. The state Attorney...

Watching feet never fails for lineman.(Evening)
October 27, 2004... Byline: Iliana Limon ILIMON@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3632 UNM FOOTBALL For University of New Mexico defensive end Evroy Thompson, survival and success all come down to feet. Thompson, a 5-foot-10, 240-pound junior, is dwarfed by most...

Cornerbacks snag ball without much help.(Evening)
October 27, 2004... Byline: Iliana Limon ILIMON@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3632 WOLF TRACKS Lobos cornerbacks Brandon Payne and Gabriel Fulbright are feasting on pass-happy opponents. The University of New Mexico players lead the Mountain West Conference...

TRIB TAKES OUR VIEWS ON THE NEWS.(Evening)
October 27, 2004... THE BORDER The Border Patrol last week began training its new agents at an academy in Artesia. Previously, agents were trained in Glynco, Ga., and Charleston, S.C. The Trib's take: The development is good news for New Mexico and...

THE BETTER CHOICE.(Evening)
October 27, 2004... Byline: Eddie Chuculate Commentary Indians at least have promises from Kerry; from Bush, cutbacks One big reason we're hearing so much campaign rhetoric concerning American Indians this year is because swing-state New Mexico has a...

Bouquets & brickbats.(Evening)
October 27, 2004... EDITORIAL Brickbat: mud U.S. House District 1 candidates Richard Romero and Heather Wilson say they'll run warm-and-fuzzy campaign ads during this last week before Election Day, instead of the muck-stained, sleazeball, negative ads...

A day in the courts.(Evening)
October 26, 2004... Byline: Joline Gutierrez Krueger JGLENN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3603 Unrelated charges for a murder suspect keep him before judges Prosecutors have dropped a charge of battery on a peace officer, but Jeffrey Galindo's legal troubles are...

Clerk: Vote breaks records.(Evening)
October 26, 2004... Byline: Ed Asher EASHER@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 Election '04 While the 2004 general election is already setting records, Bernalillo County Clerk Mary Herrera has a set a record herself. Herrera has decided that from now until...

Getting the scene.(Evening)
October 26, 2004... Byline: Frank Zoretich fzoretich@abqtrib.com / 823-3623 Forensic photographer Jerry Goffe captures images so precise that lawyers can use them to help prove or refute a case Jerry Goffe loves to photograph birds and other wildlife...

Plaza stench will stink up Kerry's visit.(Evening)
October 26, 2004... Byline: Ed Asher EASHER@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3602 Something stinks on Civic Plaza and it isn't politics. Workers preparing for Democratic presidential contender John Kerry's visit this afternoon reported the foul smell Monday. A city...

Fans in red put bars in the black.(Evening)
October 26, 2004... Byline: Sue Vorenberg svorenberg@abqtrib.com / 823-3678 The World Series has changed Albuquerque's famed "red or green?" question to "red or red?" Fans clad in red the color of both the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals are...

CORRECTION.(Evening)
October 26, 2004... Correction:See story," All you can devour", 10/22/2004 page A1. A story Friday should have said former Bella Vista Restaurant co-owner Alfi Guelfi died two months ago. The Albuquerque Tribune seeks to correct factual errors and...

Gang member to testify in riot.(Evening)
October 26, 2004... Byline: Joline Gutierrez Krueger JGLENN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3603 The attorney for a self-avowed gang member says his client is a "walking dead man" for agreeing to testify against three co-defendants in an August 1999 prison riot that led...

Younger students get shot at voting.(Evening)
October 26, 2004... Byline: Susie Gran SGRAN@ABQTRIB.COM / 823-3682 More than 20,000 New Mexico students will vote Thursday in the National Student Parent Mock Election. It will be the first time for New Mexicans to participate, said Valerie Vigil,...