A man was shot in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Monday night as protesters tried to tear down a bronze statue of a Spanish conquistador outside the city museum. Authorities later announced that the statue would be removed until next steps could be determined.The man was in a “critical but stable” condition, police said.The FBI confirmed…
A man was shot after gunfire erupted at a demonstration in New Mexico on Monday, where protesters attempted to topple a bronze conquistador's statue outside an Albuquerque museum, authorities said.The man was taken to a local hospital where he was listed in critical but stable condition, police said.“The shooting tonight was a tragic, outrageous and unacceptable act…
A man in his 50s from San Juan County is the first human case of the West Nile virus infection in New Mexico so far this year.“At a time where all of us are focused on COVID-19, we still must remember common seasonal viruses like West Nile,” said Department of Health Secretary Kathy Kunkel. “West…
More than a century after living through the Spanish flu pandemic, a 108-year-old New Mexico man survived COVID-19, according to a local report.Phil Corio told the Albuquerque Journal that he’d thought he had the flu when he went to the hospital more than a month ago.“I’m OK,” he told the paper. “I didn’t even know…
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham invoked the state’s Riot Control Act to slow the spread of coronavirus and sealed off the roads into and out of the hard-hit city of Gallup, she announced Friday.To help control a surging outbreak in the city,…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…