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OPINION: Housing funding from Legislature is a game changer for Albuquerque and Bernalillo County

Albuquerque Journal 30 Mar 2025
Among other major investments, the state budget bill includes $80 million for housing that will be shared by Bernalillo County (BernCo) and the City of Albuquerque (COA) ... Barbara Baca represents District 1 on the Bernalillo County Commission.
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At the Races: Spring fever

Roll Call 27 Mar 2025
Howie Morales “not ruling out” a bid and Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman, the father of Boston Red Sox infielder Alex Bregman, revealing a “big announcement” on April 10.
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Juvenile crime divides lawmakers

Ruidoso News 27 Mar 2025
Andrea Reeb, R-Clovis and a former prosecutor, who had worked with Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman to develop the bill ... Bernalillo County Deputy DA Troy Gray testified that between 2022 ...
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Failed GOP candidate turned attempted political killer. Why did he do it?

Star Gazette 25 Mar 2025
He pressured members of the Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners to refuse to certify the results of the election, but despite Peña’s pressure, the commissioners certified the results ... Bernalillo ...
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Failed New Mexico GOP candidate turned attempted political killer. Why did he do it?

Las Cruces Sun News 25 Mar 2025
He pressured members of the Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners to refuse to certify the results of the election, but despite Peña’s pressure, the commissioners certified the results ... Bernalillo ...
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Teens sentenced in drive-by shooting that killed a 5-year-old Albuquerque girl

Times Union 25 Mar 2025
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M ... Democratic Gov ... Prosecutors in Bernalillo County announced the sentences for the two brothers and one of the other defendants in social media posts. Two other defendants also were sentenced ... on Aug. 13, 2023 ... .
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Deadly hit-and-run in New Mexico brings juvenile justice challenges into focus

Journal Gazette 25 Mar 2025
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M ... Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman says the children's code is antiquated, but efforts failed to get the Democratic-controlled Legislature to expand the types of violent crimes juveniles could be charged in as adults ... .
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OPINION: Bipartisan solution would put more police on the streets

Albuquerque Journal 21 Mar 2025
The political climate these days feels tense ... Cindy Nava is the Senator in New Mexico District 9 representing Sandoval County and part of Bernalillo County. Craig Brandt is the senator in New Mexico District 40 representing Sandoval County ....
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A joy ride in a stolen car ends as kids kill a bicyclist. Should they face murder charges?

Usatoday 21 Mar 2025
Police initially said the 11-year-old was too young to face murder charges, but the Bernalillo County District Attorney's Office later clarified that was not the case.
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A stolen car joy ride ends as kids kill a NM bicyclist. Should they face murder charges?

Las Cruces Sun News 21 Mar 2025
Police initially said the 11-year-old was too young to face murder charges, but the Bernalillo County District Attorney's Office later clarified that was not the case.
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Third juvenile arrested in deadly hit-and-run crash that killed bicyclist in New Mexico

Fox31 Denver 20 Mar 2025
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M ... The three suspects, who were 15, 12 and 11 at the time of the crash, are now in custody ... “Like bump him?”. “Yeah, just bump him ... (The Bernalillo County District Attorney’s Office said he will face murder charges in the case ... .
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Red flag laws are increasingly being used to protect gun owners in crisis

The CT Mirror 18 Mar 2025
More than half of last year’s petitions were in Bernalillo County, the state’s most populous jurisdiction and home to Albuquerque, the capital ... Popkin, who until 2022 served as Montgomery County ...
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Judge finds probable cause to charge Otero County deputy with murder

Albuquerque Journal 15 Mar 2025
Bernalillo County District Attorney Sam Bregman earlier this month charged Jacob Diaz-Austin, 28, of Las Cruces, in the June 25 death of 17-year-old Elijah Hadley in a highway median near Mescalero.
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