LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - An employee of a tree removal business is hospitalized after being stung multiple times by a large swarm of bees in downtown Las Cruces. City fire officials say the 52-year-old man scaled a large cottonwood as he and three other workers began cutting the tree's limbs yesterday when the bees started to swarm. The man is in serious but stable condition and two other employees were treated for strings.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Police say they've arrested the third suspect in a robbery and fatal shooting at an Albuquerque convenience store and gas station. A criminal complaint says Eloy Aguilar and two other young men face charges of murder, armed robbery and tampering with evidence in the death of store employee Chad Mercer early Tuesday. Police tracked them through a GPS on three cell phones that were stolen from people in the parking lot.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico's top security regulator says potential fraud within a state financing authority extends beyond a faked financial audit that has national credit rating agencies considering whether to downgrade its bond ratings. The disclosure came yesterday as the New Mexico Finance Authority's governing board scrapped a plan for an outside law firm to investigate how the audit was faked.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Parcels in New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma netted more than $28 million in the BLM's quarterly oil and natural gas lease sale. The agency says 35 federal parcels were sold. Bids for 14 parcels in New Mexico brought in more than $25 million, including the highest bid of all -- $12,600 for an 800-acre parcel in Lea County. New Mexico will receive more than $12 million from the sale.
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