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AG: Man To Serve Two Years In Prison For Violating Probation For Extreme Cruelty To Animals

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AG News:
 
ALBUQUERQUE ― Attorney General Hector Balderas announced Wednesday afternoon that Shaun Anaya, who was on probation for an Office of the Attorney General case and is a 13-time convicted felon, was found by Second Judicial District Judge Angela Jewell to have violated his probation for committing extreme cruelty to animals and possession of marijuana. 

The Office of Attorney General Hector Balderas asked Judge Jewell to impose the maximum penalty of 1,421 days in prison, which included habitual enhancements. 

Anaya was sentenced to two years in the Department

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BLM Oil And Gas Lease Sales Generate $360 Million In 2017

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BLM News:

WASHINGTON, D.C.

― In advancing the administration’s goals of promoting America’s energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) state offices in 2017 generated nearly $360 million from oil and gas lease sales, an 86 percent increase over the previous year’s results of $192.5 million. 

Among these sales, which together were the highest in nearly a decade, rights to a total of 949 parcels, covering 792,823 acres, were sold.

“Oil and gas lease sales on public land directly support domestic energy production and the President’s energy dominance and job growth

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YMCA Little Youth Basketball Registration Opens Today

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YMCA News:

Registration opens today for YMCA Little Youth Basketball for grades K-1st for the YMCA’s developmental co-ed Little Youth Basketball program. Practices and games are two times per week in Los Alamos or White Rock March 6 through April 19. 

Players, coaches and team parents are needed.

This program provides an introduction to basketball for girls and boys. Mini-sized balls will be used on 8’ baskets to allow players to learn proper shooting technique. 

Focus will be on developing coordination and learning the basic rules of the game. Volunteer coaches and team parents

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House Judiciary Committee Passes Comprehensive, Bipartisan Public Safety Package

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STATE News:

SANTA FE

― A bipartisan, comprehensive public safety package has passed the House Judiciary Committee. 

The package includes bills sponsored by Reps. Nate Gentry (R-Albuquerque), Antonio “Moe” Maestas (D-Albuquerque), David E. Adkins (R-Albuquerque), Reps. Elizabeth Thomson (D-Albuquerque), and Daymon Ely (D-Corrales). 

This package is a bipartisan effort to keep New Mexico communities safe by using a framework that addresses crime across the entire criminal justice system.

“We spent months working with people in every part of the criminal justice

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Photovoltaics Class Takes Readings On Campus

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Ryder Devenhall marks the shadows as seen in the pyranometer while Jesse Hesch and Mitch Frank look on at UNM-LA. Students in Don Davis’s Photovoltaics class at the college use a pyranometer to do solar site analysis on campus. By taking readings at various locations, they can measure solar obstructions and chart the overall available solar resource. Photo by Nancy Coombs/UNM-LA Read More

Proposal To Bolster New Mexico Lottery Scholarship Passes House Education Committee

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STATE News:

SANTA FE — The House Education Committee voted 11 to 2 Wednesday to approve House Bill 147. This legislation sponsored by Rep. Jim Smith (R-Sandia Park) will bolster New Mexico’s lottery scholarship program. 

HB 147 gives the New Mexico Lottery Authority (NMLA) the freedom to encourage sales through larger prize payouts by removing the requirement that the NMLA transfer 30 percent of its gross revenues to the tuition fund. 

It protects students by establishing a $38 million floor for the tuition fund annually. This floor sets a mandatory minimum amount; if NMLA ever

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Community Invited To N3B Meet And Greet Monday

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N3B News:

Newport News Nuclear BWXT – Los Alamos (N3B) the contractor awarded the new Los Alamos legacy cleanup contract is hosting a meet and greet event for the public to learn more about the company.

Community members may drop in at anytime between 4-7 p.m., Monday, at Cottonwood on the Greens Restaurant, 4244 Diamond Dr. Light refreshments will be provided. 

Learn more at www.hii.nb3.com.

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Obituary: John Richard Lilley Sr. Jan. 24, 2018

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JOHN RICHARD LILLEY, SR.
Jan. 24, 2018

John Richard Lilley, Sr. died suddenly at home on January 24th, 2018. 

He was born in Fall River, MA in 1934. In 1946, he moved with his family to Southern California, eventually landing in the San Diego area, where he graduated from Point Loma High School. 

After receiving his Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from University of California, Berkeley, he moved in 1956 to Richmond, WA to work at Hanford. While there, he met and married Doris Wherry in 1957, with whom he had two children, John Jr. and Sherre. He also received his Master’s Degree in Physics

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LANL: Novel Computational Biology Model Accurately Describes Dynamics Of Gene Expression

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Yen Ting Lin of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group is working with researchers at Duke University to develop mathematical models that may help explain the role that gene expression plays in conserving circadian rhythms in biological organisms. The research was highlighted in Royal Society Interface. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Using a simple analytical framework for random events within a predictable system, computational biologists have found a new way to accurately model certain forms of gene expression, including the body’s 24-hour internal

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Bill To Fund Domestic Violence Services Passes First Committee

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STATE News:

SANTA FE – Today, a bill to fund domestic violence services throughout the state of New Mexico passed the House Health and Human Services Committee. 

House Bill 159 is sponsored by Reps. Christine Trujillo (D-Albuquerque), Joanne J. Ferrary (D-Las Cruces), and Elizabeth Thomson (D-Albuquerque) and funds domestic violence services through the Children, Youth and Families Department.

“We know that one in four women is a victim of domestic violence and that most often, that violence is perpetuated by a close family member or friend. Funding this program will better

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