| January 4, 2009 | -
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson declined to accept the post of commerce secretary in Obama's cabinet, citing ongoing investigations into New Mexico's awarding contracts to a financier who donated money to political funds linked to Richardson.
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NYT
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| March 11, 2007 | - The scandal surrounding the firing of eight federal prosecutors continued to unfold as it became clearer from congressional testimony that the attorneys had resisted political pressure from the White House to subordinate law enforcement priorities to partisan politics. Karl Rove admitted that he had passed along complaints from the New Mexico
Republican Party chairman about U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, who had referred to the scandal as an “overblown personnel matter.” One day there will be a new attorney general,“ said Senator Arlen Specter. “Maybe sooner rather than later.”
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Baltimore Sun
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| February 16, 2007 | -
New Mexico placed 500 talking urinal-deodorizer cakes in public bathrooms.
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AP via NYT
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| September 20, 2006 | - The Food and Drug Administration announced that it had found the “smoking gun” of bacteria-infested spinach in a refrigerator in New Mexico.
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CNN
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| June 8, 2006 | - President George W. Bush traveled to Artesia, New Mexico, to address the Border Patrol Academy and suggested that immigrants had better learn to speak good American. “I knew I was in pretty good country when I saw all the cowboy hats,” he said. “And I think I saw one guy spitting in a can.”
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San Francisco Chronicle
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| March 18, 2006 | - In New Mexico a Mescalero Apache family was suing the producers of the Steven Spielberg-produced TV show "Into the West" for cutting the hair of eight-year-old actress Christina Ponce. Mescalero tradition forbids cutting a girl's hair before she reaches puberty; the filmmakers trimmed Ponce because they were short of Indian boys.
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BBC News
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| February 11, 2006 | - In New Mexico a V.A. nurse who wrote a letter criticizing the Bush Administration to her local newspaper was under investigation for sedition.
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Editor & Publisher
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| January 10, 2006 | - Further investigation showed that it may have been the wind rather than a burning mouse that caused a house fire in New Mexico. The homeowner held to his story, however: “I have an awful hate for those critters.”
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CNN.com
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| January 8, 2006 | - A man in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, caught a mouse and threw it into a pile of burning leaves; the mouse, on fire, ran back into the man's house, which then burned down.
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BBC News
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| July 26, 2005 | -
New Mexico announced its first case of bubonic plague in two years. “Plague,” said a New Mexico man who contracted the illness in 2002, “changes your life forever.”
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TheNewMexicoChannel.com
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| April 29, 2005 | - The Clovis, New Mexico, police locked down a middle school, closed off several streets, and placed officers on rooftops before discovering that what they thought was a weapon carried by a student was actually a thirty-inch burrito.
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AP
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| January 14, 2005 | - A New Mexico woman was sued for embezzling Girl Scout cookies.
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KOBTV.com
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| May 28, 2004 | - The first U.S. case of West Nile virus in 2004 was reported in New Mexico.
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New Scientist
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| April 3, 2001 | -
Catholics in Santa Fe, New Mexico, were upset about a photographic collage depicting the Blessed Virgin in a two-piece swimsuit made out of roses.
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| November 14, 2000 | - After spending time in the custody of child welfare authorities, a three-year-old toddler weighing 120 pounds was returned to her parents in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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