Criminal Offenses

The US Senate Banking Committee on Feb. 2 unanimously approved a new regimen of anti-Iran sanctions which will for the first time threaten to punish the global financial telecommunications network - nearly all...

By Scott Bobb (VOA- Jerusalem) Palestinian protesters, angered by the policies of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, threw shoes, sticks and stones at his convoy as he entered the Gaza Strip for a brief...

By IsraelNationalNews.com Chief of General Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, painted a worrying picture of the military threat to Israel in a speech at the annual Herzliya Conference on Wednesday. "The threats against...

The Santa Fe Police Department is investigating the following reports: * A thief took a water heater from a house in the 1300 block of Maez Road and drove away in a blue...

Byline: Tom Sharpe If the two-story structure going up near the Old Main prison south of Santa Fe looks familiar, that's because it's a replica of Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan. Filming...

Byline: Steve Terrell Despite the concerns of Senate Rules Committee Chairwoman Linda Lopez about Corrections Secretary-designate Gregg Marcantel, the state Senate on Wednesday confirmed Marcantel for the job. The vote was 38 to...

Byline: Tom Sharpe The Old Main prison south of Santa Fe is cold and dark, with rusty metal, broken glass and fire-stained walls where a bloody prison riot left 33 prisoners dead 32...

Last year proved to be difficult to describe. The economy didn't experience a double-dip recession as some had feared, though recovery is too strong a word to describe it. The Eurozone did not...

Byline: Staff and wire reports New judge in case of manslaughter State District Judge T. Glenn Ellington recused himself from a Rio Arriba County man's vehicular-manslaughter case Monday after the defense showed that...

Byline: Geoff Grammer The mud has been slung and the gloves are off in the First Judicial District Attorney race. Lloyd Drager, a former Santa Fe prosecutor, is using the community's most recent...

Byline: Phaedra Haywood Santa Fe County jail officials cooperate with immigration and customs agents to the extent required by law, no more, no less, according to Santa Fe County Attorney Steve Ross. At...

Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety released the 2012 Roadmap to State Highway Safety Laws, the ninth annual report grading all 50 states and Washington, D.C., on adoption of 15 basic traffic safety...

Hailstorms in Australia, tornadoes in the southeastern U.S. and windstorms in northern Europe: We're in the second month of the year and already receiving hints that 2012 may be shaping up to equal...

When John Fogerty musically asked "Who'll Stop the Rain?" 40 years ago, he was pondering the world's disquiet. But given the economic and insured damage from natural catastrophes that deluged the U.S. and...

City and county law-enforcement protocol must require that caregivers of children (schools) be informed of a situation within three miles involving the apprehension of a mentally disturbed felon who is terrified and with...

Brent Beckley, co-founder of Absolute Poker, a Costa Rica-based online gambling website, pleaded guilty to charges pertaining to conspiracy to commit money laundering and bank fraud and conspiracy to violate U.S. Internet gambling...

Frank Cetter, 73, who allegedly managed illegal online gambling in Costa Rica for the Lucchese crime family, was brought to U.S. Court in New Jersey, reports The Star-Ledger (Dec. 29, 2011). More than...

Mari Carmen Aponte will no longer be the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, reports Reuters (Dec. 13, 2011). Her nomination was blocked by the U.S. Senate--11 votes short of the 60 she needed....

The United States is removing all Peace Corps volunteers from Honduras, and scaling back in Guatemala and El Salvador, reports The Tico Times (Dec. 23, 2011). The Peace Corps, the government-run volunteer body,...