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- U.S.The Santa Fe New Mexican
Monarch butterfly, Pecos pupfish up for endangered consideration in 2025
Jan. 1—In 2024, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service made several major decisions to declare New Mexico species endangered or threatened — or not. Here's a recap of some of those decisions and a look forward into what 2025 might hold for the state's species. Listed Dunes sagebrush lizard Not a creation of Frank Herbert's imagination, this rare lizard found in southeastern New Mexico's shinnery ...
- U.S.The Santa Fe New Mexican
Empty Stocking Fund, Jan. 2, 2025
Jan. 1—The Empty Stocking Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation in partnership with The Santa Fe New Mexican is a community benefit project first started by The New Mexican 43 years ago. Each year, hundreds of people receive aid from the fund during the holiday season to help cover rent payments, medical bills, utility costs, car repairs, home improvements and other needs. Who it helps: ...
- PoliticsThe Santa Fe New Mexican
Governor appoints former Republican state senator to PRC
Jan. 1—Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has appointed a former Republican state senator and oil and gas lawyer to a six-year term on the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission. Greg Nibert, of Roswell, beat out five other final candidates for the role, including outgoing commissioner James Ellison, who was vying for another term after being appointed by Lujan Grisham in January 2023 to a two-year ...
- U.S.The Santa Fe New Mexican
Forest management on tribal lands to ramp up with federal grant
Jan. 1—The Jemez Mountains once acted like a sponge. That was before the 2011 Las Conchas Fire, at the time the largest wildfire in New Mexico history, covering 156,000 acres. More than a decade later, downstream communities are still feeling the effects, said James Calabaza, the Indigenous lands program director for the Colorado-based nonprofit Trees, Water and People. Sediment has been ...
- U.S.The News-Press
New Orleans terrorist attack: 2 Fort Myers women, Canterbury grads, among the injured
Eisele is a student at the University of Georgia and Idelson attends San Diego State University.
- U.S.WSB Cox articles
Surveillance video shows car smash into Smyrna pizza place to steal ATM
This isn't the first time this restaurant was targeted by ATM thieves.
- U.S.NBC News
Malfunctioning security bollards were removed from Bourbon St. before truck attack
Security barriers in New Orleans that were intended to protect pedestrians from vehicles but at times malfunctioned were removed for replacement before an attacker drove a pickup truck into a crowd along Bourbon Street.
- U.S.WSB Cox articles
Georgia fans leery of going to Sugar Bowl following attack along Bourbon Street
Shamsud-Din Jabbar was identified as the suspect who drove down a crowded Bourbon Street, killing at least 15.
- U.S.The Guardian
At least 15 killed and 30 injured in New Orleans as truck drives into crowd
Driver of pickup truck that rammed into people in French Quarter shot dead after exchanging gunfire with police
- U.S.New Hampshire Union Leader, Manchester
2 arrested in stabbing outside Mall at Rockingham Park in Salem
Jan. 1—An 18-year-old Manchester man was charged with attempted first-degree murder in connection with a stabbing outside the Mall at Rockingham Park last week in Salem, police said. Ronald Joseph Marino III, 18, was arrested Tuesday and a 14-year-old boy was arrested Monday, said Capt. Jason Smith of the Salem Police Department. The 14-year-old boy's name and residence were not released ...
- U.S.New Hampshire Union Leader, Manchester
Ban on minors marrying and getting sex reassignment top new laws
Jan. 1—An end to minors legally getting married or having sex/gender reassignment surgery along with the final repeal of the income tax on unearned investments top the new laws that ring in the new year. Those were among the 381 bills that lawmakers passed and Gov. Chris Sununu signed in 2024. Other statutes that took effect on Wednesday create a mandatory newborn screening for the ...
- U.S.WSB Cox articles
New Year’s Eve party ‘got out of control,’ leaving 1 dead, 2 others shot outside Atlanta nightclub
Witnesses say two people got into a fight inside the club and it spilled out into the parking lot where shots were fired.
- U.S.The Guardian
Suspect in deadly New Orleans vehicle attack was 13-year US army veteran
Texas man, 42, who was killed by police, served in Afghanistan and held rank of staff sergeant
- U.S.Louisiana Illuminator
New Orleans house fire linked to Bourbon Street terror attack, attorney general says
NEW ORLEANS — A fire at a home in the St. Roch neighborhood Wednesday morning is connected to the terror attack that took place just minutes away in the French Quarter, according to Louisiana’s attorney general. At least 15 people were killed and 35 injured when Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, of Texas drove a pickup truck […]
- U.S.The Star Press
Muncie police continue efforts to find missing local woman
Anyone with information on Howard's whereabouts is asked to call Muncie police detectives at 765-747-4867 or MPD dispatchers at 765-747-4838.
- U.S.Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine
Drugs, guns and stolen property seized before Hiram man's arrest
Jan. 1—HIRAM — Deputies arrested a local man on drug trafficking charges Tuesday after executing a search warrant at a Tripptown Road home, according to an Oxford County Sheriff's Office Facebook post. Mark O'Brien, 37, was charged with two counts of aggravated trafficking of schedule drugs, two counts of furnishing schedule drugs, three counts of unlawful possession of schedule drugs, one ...
- BusinessPress-Republican, Plattsburgh, N.Y.
Gas prices down again in New York
PLATTSBURGH — The national average price of gasoline decreased after three weeks, down 3.0 cents from last week, and stands at $2.98 per gallon, and in New York state, prices are down 1.2 cents from a week ago, standing at $3.08 per gallon Monday according to GasBuddy’s survey of 6,118 stations in New York. Prices in New York are 4.1 cents lower than a month ago and 24.3 cents per gallon lower ...
- U.S.Detroit Free Press
Unidentified human remains found near site of annual Electric Forest festival
The Michigan State Police Sixth District announced earlier this week the discovery of human remains near the site of the Electric Forest festival
- U.S.WFXT
An aspiring nurse, football star and father of 2 among the dead in New Orleans attack
An 18-year-old girl dreaming of becoming a nurse, a father of two and a former Princeton football star suffered fatal injuries when the driver of a white pickup truck sped down Bourbon Street, packed with holiday revelers early Wednesday morning.
- U.S.The Herald Bulletin, Anderson, Ind.
South Madison Fire Territory looking to expand
Jan. 1—ANDERSON — Several local towns and townships are considering becoming a part of the South Madison Fire Protection Territory. Adams Township, Stony Creek Township, Markleville, Lapel and Ingalls are all looking to form a new South Madison Fire Territory starting in January 2026. The current fire territory includes Pendleton and Green and Fall Creek townships. "All three departments will ...
