ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin signed copies of her new book for three hours at Hastings Books, Music & Videos in Roswell yesterday. A crowd of more than 1,000 people had formed about an hour before the event started. Some Palin fans arrived 24 hours or more before the event was to start.
DENVER (AP) — Federal authorities in Colorado are reviewing a 2002 file on a Muslim cleric who communicated with the shooting suspect at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas. The cleric -- Anwar Al-Awlaki -- is a New Mexico native who attended Colorado State University before moving in 2002 to Yemen, where he is at large.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A 57-year-old man has been indicted by a Bernalillo County grand jury on nine felony counts for engaging in and recording sex acts with a California teenager in his Albuquerque home. Edward S. Christy was arrested Nov. 9 when sheriff's deputies found the missing 16-year-old girl in Christy's home.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Game Commission meets later this week to consider earlier application deadlines for big-game licenses. The state is proposing moving the application deadline for licenses for deer, elk, antelope, ibex, bighorn sheep, Barbary sheep and javelina from early April to mid-March.
