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Today's News

  • BP cuts pipe, plans to lower cap over Gulf spill

    METAIRIE, La. (AP) — BP sliced off a pipe with giant shears Thursday in the latest bid to curtail the worst oil spill in U.S. history, but the cut was jagged and placing a cap over the gusher will now be more challenging.

    BP turned to the shears after a diamond-tipped saw became stuck in the pipe halfway through the job, yet another frustrating delay in the six-week-old Gulf of Mexico spill.

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  • Firefighters chart progress containing Jemez wildfire

    JEMEZ SPRINGS, N.M. (AP) — Forest Service officials say a wildfire burning in the Jemez (HAY'-mehs) Mountains northwest of Albuquerque was 35 percent contained by Thursday night after charring about 1,400 acres.

    Evacuations have been lifted for the Seven Springs community and the Fish Hatchery but remain in effect for campers in the Fenton Lake State Park due to use for fire suppression.

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  • BP crude washes into Florida

    GRAND ISLE, La. (AP) — Waves of gooey tar balls crashed into the white sands of the Florida Panhandle on Friday as BP engineers adjusted a sophisticated cap over the Gulf oil gusher, trying to collect the crude.

    Even though the inverted funnel-like device was set over the leak late Thursday, crude continued to spew into the sea in the nation's worst oil spill. Engineers hoped to close several open vents on the cap throughout the day in the latest attempt to contain the oil.

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  • New aid ship heads to Gaza, Israel vows to stop it

    ISTANBUL (AP) — An aid ship trying to break the blockade of Gaza could reach Israel's 20-mile (32-kilometer) exclusion zone late Friday, an activist said, but Israel's prime minister has vowed the ship will not reach land.

    The dueling comments suggest a potential new clash over Israel's three-year-old blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip — and come only four days after an Israeli commando raid on a larger aid flotilla left nine activists dead.

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  • 06-04-10 Update

    Eric Sardinas performs

      Los Alamos Summer Concert Series presents Eric Sardinas at 7 p.m. Friday at the Holiday Inn Express, Entrada Business Park.

    Summerfest

      Summerfest 2010 will be from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday at the Pajarito Mountain ski area. The Aspen lift will be open to hikers. Music and beer fest will be from noon-5 p.m. with brews from 10 New Mexico breweries.

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  • Blaze is 35 percent contained

    JEMEZ SPRINGS — Forest Service officials report that the wildfire burning in the Jemez Mountains northwest of Albuquerque was 35 percent contained by Thursday night after charring about 1,400 acres.

    Officials say the fire is burning on the Santa Fe National Forest about six miles northwest of Jemez Springs and a half-mile southwest of Fenton Lake State Park.

    It was reported to be at 1,925 acres Wednesday night but the acreage was reduced to 1,405 acres Thursday night due to more accurate mapping.

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  • Foundation to host workshop

    Within the top-secret laboratories in New Mexico, the largest and most destructive weapon in history was born. In just 27 months, Manhattan Project scientists from around the world combined recent discoveries in nuclear physics with innovative engineering solutions to create the world’s first atomic bombs. While it has been 65 years since the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the legacy of the atomic bomb profoundly impacts New Mexico and the world today.

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  • Colo. man went on solo mission to kill bin Laden

    DENVER (AP) — An American construction worker has been detained in the mountains of Pakistan after authorities there found him carrying a sword, pistol and night-vision goggles on a solo mission to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden.

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  • Ariz. lawmaker takes aim at automatic citizenship

    PHOENIX (AP) — Emboldened by passage of the nation's toughest law against illegal immigration, the Arizona politician who sponsored the measure now wants to deny U.S. citizenship to children born in this country to undocumented parents.

    Legal scholars laugh out loud at Republican state Sen. Russell Pearce's proposal and warn that it would be blatantly unconstitutional, since the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.

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  • Day of Enchantment photo contest draws more than 10,000 entries

    SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico tourism officials say interest in their eight-week photo contest has been spectacular.

    People have submitted 10,000 entries in the Day of Enchantment photo contest and nearly 120,000 votes have been cast on a website the Tourism Department developed for the competition. The site has had about a half-million views over the past few weeks, and the contest just passed its mid point.

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