Man dies in Santa Fe County jail from apparent heroin overdose SANTA FE (AP) - A 33-year-old Espanola man has died of an apparent heroin overdose in a cell at the Santa Fe County jail, according to the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Department. Guards found Ivan Atencio unconscious Friday in a segregated cell at the jail where he was serving time after being convicted in April of fleeing officers during a January 2007 chase.
Chartwells took over UNM dining services June 6 and has already made changes to the SUB and La Posada. After receiving a great deal of student feedback on the subject, the Board of Regents reached a consensus in March to sign an eight-year contract with Chartwells instead of renewing one with Aramark.
Tim Donaghy seems prepared to take down the NBA. The disgraced referee, who pled guilty to charges that he bet on games he officiated, now dropped a bombshell. In a letter submitted by his lawyer, Donaghy alleges that it was in the best interest of the NBA to extend a series in 2002, between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Sacramento Kings, to seven games.
El agua es la vida - "water is life." For the community of San Antonio, N.M., there isn't a more apt saying. In the 1800s, the village served as a small farming and ranching community. People kept goats - one of the only animals suited to graze the area's rocky climate - and grew small fields of squash, corn and chile.
Daily Lobo: Your name sounds Italian. Are you from Italy? Lisa Bevilacqua: My family is originally. I'm from Philadelphia. DL: When did you come to New Mexico? LB: I came on the fifth of June - I'm here for the flamenco festival. I come and take classes every day for eight days.
Editor, The United Nations has been diplomatically trying to persuade Myanmar leaders for a long time. They tried by sending envoys. They talked with beautiful diplomatic words, but people have already known in advance that they cannot realistically hope for anything before the U.
Staff Report UNM women's javelin star Katie Coronado finished second at the NCAA Championships in Des Moines, Iowa, on June 14. Securing the silver medal, Coronado broke a school record with a throw of 179-6. Coronado will compete at the USA Olympic Trials in two weeks.
Editor, We seem to have shot ourselves in the foot by demanding a campus food service other than Aramark. The MarketPlace, formerly the healthiest shop in the SUB, has vanished in the interest of making room for Mondo Subs. The previous sandwich shop offered various types of bread, vegetables and condiments, allowing students a wide variety in sandwich-making options.
Editor, Back in 1991, I was halfway through graduate school when I started watching "Meet the Press." I was completing a master's degree in public administration with the intention of running for the Cleveland city council in 1993. Over the next 17 years, I have never missed a show and have always been awestruck by the method used by Tim Russert to question his guests.
Hulk smash? In the pseudo-sequel to the 2003 super-flop "Hulk," he most definitely does. That's a good thing. It's rare enough that a movie gets a second chance, and the Hulk franchise most definitely was not going to get a third try. It's not quite a direct sequel to the aforementioned flop - in fact, the only real plot point that carries over is Bruce Banner fleeing to Brazil.
For J.R. Giddens, in his senior year as a Lobo, the season didn't end so giddy. On back-to-back occasions, Giddens released two shots that came tantalizingly close to dropping - one in the Mountain West Conference Tournament against Utah and one against Califonia in the NIT.
Ingrid Kloet has lived a long, healthy and productive life despite being diagnosed with HIV 21 years ago. Kloet now works as an HIV/AIDS case manager at First Nations Community HealthSource in Albuquerque. She said she uses her personal experience to help others overcome despair when they are diagnosed.
Although it is tucked away a mere two miles from UNM's Main Campus, South Campus houses all athletic facilities, including the office of Athletics Director Paul Krebs. Coincidentally, what may seem to be just two miles can be viewed as just a place for the athletics department.
It's not easy to reduce the carbon footprint of a campus of 20,000, but UNM is taking strides to reach that goal. This month, a new sustainability policy came into effect on campus that will cause many changes across the University. Terry Horger, the program coordinator for Sustainability Studies, said this policy is the product of hard work from the program in cooperation with UNM's Policy Office.
Over the weekend UNM hosted the Latino Higher Education National Policy Summit, gathering more than 100 administrators, officials and students from across the nation. Cheo Torres, vice president of Student Affairs, said the group hoped to improve Hispanic success in higher education.
President David Schmidly will be teaching a class for the first time at UNM. The course, "Practical Lessons in Leadership," will explore the definition of leadership from many points of view. "My perspectives on leadership are actually more practical than they are theoretical," Schmidly said.
Coco Crisp went cuckoo, but it wasn't for Cocoa Puffs. Instead, Crisp, doing his best impersonation of Roy Jones Jr., was busy throwing haymakers at Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Jeff Shields. Proving he has more than a knuckleball, Shields went for the K.O. with what looked like an unavoidable knuckle-sandwich.
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