Susana Martinez

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — The owner of a Roswell, N.M., slaughterhouse is defending his plan to become the first plant in the nation since 2007 to handle horses after an outcry from politicians and animal activists. In interviews with the Roswell...

The man who chased down a suspected child abductor and saved a 6-year-old girl from what could have been a horrible fate was honored as a hero Friday. But he is also gaining a new kind of celebrity: as a poster child of sorts for immigration rights in...

So Marco Rubio, Florida's junior senator and Republican rock star, says he won't accept an invitation to be his party's vice presidential candidate next year. He's been the presumptive pick among many pundits. He has a lot going for him: young, telegenic,...

Virgin Galactic spaceport: Las Cruces, N.M., officially joined the list of the nation’s major space centers Monday when a newly completed terminal and hangar facility was turned over to British billionaire Richard Branson and his commercial space...

A long-standing artist community and celebrity vacation destination, Santa Fe has a new rising star -- one it hopes will help the state’s film industry, which was thrown into jeopardy earlier this year, regain its footing as a leading production...

New Mexico's Game Commission on Thursday night voted to stop assisting the federal effort to restore Mexican gray wolves in the Southwest, the latest step by new Republican Gov. Susana Martinez's administration to reverse her state's green course....

Rick Perry is leading in the polls, but is the GOP presidential candidate ready for his moment in the debate spotlight? There's no doubt that the governor of Texas is a confident speaker and that he can speak confidently about......

Pegasus Global Holdings designs "The Center" as a testing ground for new technologies...

In another thread, GregJ speculates that Herman Cain and Rick Santorum are looking like "solid" vice presidential picks for whomever the GOP nominee ends up being (assuming, as I think most of us do, that it won't be Cain or......

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — After two decades of debate about the risk of executing an innocent person, Illinois abolished the death penalty Wednesday, a decision that was certain to fuel renewed calls for other states to do the same. Gov. Pat Quinn,...

NEW YORK -- Revelers smooched and cheered the famous ball drop in New York's Times Square as the largest New Year's Eve celebration in the U.S. ushered in 2011. Most tried to set aside concerns about the worldwide economic downturn as partiers from New...