Halloween arrives Monday, Oct. 31, in Rio Rancho and, no doubt, you’ve been seeing area yards in the City of Vision becoming festive for the “spookiest night” of the year.
Attorneys made closing arguments Tuesday in a seven-week trial in Santa Fe in which New Mexico alleges that lax opioid dispensing by pharmacy giant Walgreens helped unleash an ongoing addiction crisis in the state.
It wasn’t easy and it wasn’t necessarily expected, but Rio Rancho High School’s 3-2 volleyball victory in the RAC not only ended the Rams’ 10-match losing streak to Cibola, but kept them in the hunt for the District 1-5A title.
Twenty-five years ago, Patti Williams was an assistant city attorney. She wound up representing a couple of elephants found in a circus truck parked outside a local hotel, where they were in ill health. Williams brought legal action to confiscate the elephants, one of whom, Irene, pictured here, is still at the zoo, although she is having some eye issues at the moment.
GasBuddy, which surveyed 307 stations in the Albuquerque area, said Monday that average gasoline prices in Albuquerque have risen 25.1 cents per gallon in the last week, averaging $3.80/g today.
Winning three of four sets against their city foe for the third time in a row, visiting Cleveland High outlasted Rio Rancho (26-24, 18-25, 25-12, 25-17) in a loud and obviously pink-oriented Rams Athletic Center on Oct. 6.
After a tumultuous nine days that included two shelters-in-place due to weather, a community-wide effort to air out soaked balloons, two minor balloon crashes and a mad dash to locate a stolen giant bee, balloons took to the skies Sunday morning to put an exclamation point on the 50th Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
Rio Rancho High School junior quarterback Noah Nelson says he’s ready to get back on the field after missing a few weeks with a leg injury, but his replacement at QB, sophomore JJ Arellano, says there’ll be some competition.
New Mexico is among the top five in the United States for rental scams, according to a recent report. The state’s reported scams per 1 million people: 1.89.