New Mexico

At one point, Sheriff John Allen said one of the boys raised the gun and pulled the trigger, but it malfunctioned.

Federal officials accused Joel Cano of destroying the cellphone of a Venezuelan man who was in the country illegally and allegedly staying on property the recently resigned judge owns.

Federal authorities are investigating an early morning fire that damaged the entryway to the headquarters of the Republican Party of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Gene Hackman’s estate had filed a petition to block the release of bodycam footage. Newly released footage from the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office reportedly falls outside of that scope.

New Mexico officials held a news conference to share new details in the deaths of actor Gene Hackman, his wife and their dog.

An investigation continues into the deaths of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa, as authorities say they’re investigating the fatalities as “suspicious,” as Natalie Martinez reports.

Oscar winner Gene Hackman, his pianist wife Betsy Arakawa and one of their dogs were found dead in their Santa Fe home Feb. 26. Learn about the couple’s private life in the years before their deaths.

Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza provided an update on the investigation into the death of actor Gene Hackman and his wife.

Police say the couple, who married in 1991, were found with their dog after a neighbor called police to do a welfare check.

Alexander Ortiz was arrested last year in connection with the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Alianna Farfan, according to police. 

The house made famous by the “Breaking Bad” TV series is up for sale. The owners of the otherwise unassuming home in one of Albuquerque’s older neighborhoods are hoping that the property’s role in the long-running series will help them fetch upwards of $4 million.

Authorities say a 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the deaths of four family members in a rural area southeast of Belen.

Skulls found on a New Mexico property earlier this month were obtained online and are not related to the case of a woman who went missing in 2019, the Lea County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday.

Authorities in New Mexico are investigating whether the discovery of human remains, including up to 20 human skulls, in a home could be tied to a woman’s disappearance in 2019.

Charles Thomas “Chuck” Coleman was the only person aboard a small plane when it went down during the Las Cruces Air and Space Expo in New Mexico.

Miles Teller paid tribute to Charles Thomas “Chuck” Coleman after his death in a plane crash at the age of 61 Oct. 20. Coleman had helped train the cast of Top Gun: Maverick.

One balloon partially caught fire and another struck a radio tower.

A former top official in U.S. nuclear weapons research at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories has died after an automobile crash in New Mexico. Charles McMillan was 69.

Not many people know the world’s first detonation of an atomic bomb was on U.S. soil. It would be weeks later that humanity would witness the power of atomic weapons when bombs were dropped on Japan during World War II.

Federal authorities offered a reward for information about those responsible for igniting a pair of New Mexico wildfires that killed two people and destroyed hundreds of homes in the past week.