Restaurants help state with contact tracing

623 Views   Customers can leave name and number with restaurants they visit ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Contact tracing is how the state health department finds out where infected people have been and who they’ve been around. KOAT has learned that some New Mexico restaurants are helping the state with that.

Second stimulus checks: Why your next $1,200 payment isn’t in the mail

802 Views   WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released the GOP coronavirus aid plan this week which included a second round of stimulus checks.  While many Americans will welcome news of another direct payment, it could be a while before you see the cash.

3.7 earthquake strikes northeast New Mexico

553 Views   CAPULIN, N.M. — A 3.7 earthquake rocked parts of New Mexico Thursday morning. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the earthquake struck around 9:04 a.m. in the area of Capulin. Residents in Los Alamos, Jemez Springs, Española and Santa Fe said they felt the tremor. No damages or injuries have been reported.

Police: Ex-New Mexico deputy hoarded lost evidence in home

754 Views   LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A former sheriff’s deputy in southern New Mexico has been arrested on accusations of tampering with evidence after detectives say a cleaning crew found boxes of guns and case files at his foreclosed home.