One of Ted Turner's ranches in southern New Mexico will be the new home for a pair of Mexican gray wolves and their pups as federal wildlife managers look
New Mexico Reinstates Job Searches For Unemployment Benefits –
KUNM News, KRQE-TV
New Mexicans who have received unemployment benefits during the pandemic must start actively seeking work again this week.
The New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions yesterday reimplemented the federal requirement for claimants to make at least two work searches each week. The searches must be logged in order to certify the benefits.
KRQE-TV reports the department says they’re discontinuing the pandemic-era waiver because spread of COVID-19 is down and more employers are beginning to hire again.
Over 81,000 New Mexicans are collecting unemployment benefits.
New Mexico Releases List Of Applicants For Marijuana Panel
SANTA FE - The state Supreme Court on Friday upheld a lower court decision allowing the no-bail pretrial release of an 18-year-old with no prior criminal history who is accused of a string of residential burglaries in Albuquerque.
The ruling rebuffs public prosecutors who say risks to the community in the case linking as many as 80 nighttime burglaries in homes where people slept can t be mitigated by electronic tracking devices and supervision.
Justice Michael Vigil announced the court s decision following oral arguments Friday and an hour of private deliberations by the high court. The state failed to argue or prove . that no conditions of release will reasonably protect the safety of any other person or the community, Vigil said. The court will affirm the decision of the district court.
LOPD: Justices Affirm Pretrial Release Ruling In Public Defender Case Targeted By Bernalillo District Attorney
From the Law Offices of the Public Defender:
SANTA FE The New Mexico Supreme Court Friday affirmed a 2nd Judicial District Court judge’s ruling allowing a teenager accused of multiple home burglaries to await trial under strict conditions of release on house arrest.
The Second Judicial District Attorney’s Office asked the court to reconsider the pretrial detention of Jesse Mascareno-Haidle, 19, after failing twice to convince two judges to hold him in jail pending his trial. T
he prosecutor’s office claims Mascareno-Haidle is a suspect in some 80 burglaries, but has only charged him with three alleged incidents.