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Private paving smells of public scandal
Larry Barker Investigates TUCUMCARI, N.M. (KRQE) – To the casual observer one nicely paved Tucumcari driveway is just a driveway. But to law enforcement officials there’s something fishy about this...
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Tax rolls riddled with bogus farms
Larry Barker Investigates ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A palatial estate complete with a luxury home and manicured gardens and grounds in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque is an illusion of sorts. So are other...
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State on hook for insurance-deal payouts
Larry Barker Investigates SANTA FE (KRQE) – State employee Martin Hoefler could not have foreseen the unbelievable cold-hearted tragedy that unfolded last November. Martin was a firefighter with the...
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Killer walks halls as execution stalled
Larry Barker Investigators SAN JUAN COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – Meet 23-year-old Bobby Fry. As seen in this 1996 home video, he appears to be a low key guy and sometimes the life of the party. Whether...
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Counterfeits peddled as real Indian art
Larry Barker Investigates SANTA FE (KRQE) – They are fakes and frauds, counterfeits designed to deceive. But, it’s not just deception. It’s a crime to misrepresent Native American arts and crafts, in...
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Inside the case of the call-girl website
Larry Barker Investigates ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Dr. Chris Garcia is among New Mexico’s most respected educators in a career spanning 40 years. He has been a University of New Mexico professor, vice...
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Hollywood blunders in N.M. production
Larry Barker Investigates CHILILI, N.M. (KRQE) – The secluded landscape of juniper and piñon near Chilili is at the heart of an astonishing bamboozle worthy of a star-studded Hollywood thriller....
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Hollywood Hijinks in the New Mexico Outback: The Inside Story of Lone Survivor
A secluded New Mexico mountain meadow is the backdrop for an astonishing bamboozle worthy of a star studded Hollywood thriller. This is the untold story of “Lone Survivor” and how the New Mexico based...
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Rigged interlocks DWI drivers’ free pass
Larry Barker Investigates ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – They cut wires and bypassed sophisticated safeguards clandestinely for almost a year so that convicted drunken drivers could beat the system. At the...
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The Gang of Thieves: The inside story
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – From the outside, it looked like any number of other run-down auto-repair shops along Albuquerque’s East Central Avenue. But behind the ramshackle facade lay what police say was...
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Public employees take taxpayers for a ride
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – When Lacresia Rivera needed to run to the store, she did it in style. Rivera had a whole parking lot to choose from. Typically, she went with the Cadillac Escalade. It was a sweet...
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Web Extra Video: BioPark ‘Bad Apples’
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Surveillance video obtained by KRQE News 13 shows, irrefutably, that on some occasions, employees were taking money from the BioPark’s cash registers, hiding it under a counter,...
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The BioPark Gang: An undercover investigation
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Something was amiss at the Albuquerque BioPark. It was December, and staffers at the city’s Cultural Services Department were reviewing some year-end numbers: 1.2 million...
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The Gypsy Paver
Jerry Thorndyke wants you to think he’s a businessman. He’s got a fleet of trucks, a hot-mix spreader, a steel-drum roller and a handful of employees working for his construction company. Resources...
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ER Wait Watcher: Search New Mexico Hospitials
For each hospital in New Mexico, we chart the time, on average, that patients wait in emergency rooms before one of four outcomes: they see a doctor, they get sent home, they’re given pain medications...
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Report: America’s Emergency Care Environment, A State-by-State Report Card
New Mexico’s Report Card (America’s Emergency Care Environment, A State-by-State Report Card) For millions of Americans who experience sudden, serious illness or injury every year—and in the increasing...
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The Waiting Game: ER wait times
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Six hours. That’s how long an Albuquerque grandmother waited during a recent visit to the emergency room at a local hospital. “I got a pain in my chest and it took me to the...
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Hairy deal: Albuquerque beauty school caught faking student transcripts
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Edwin Abeyta and his business partner, Estevan Apodaca, are under a lot of scrutiny. Together they run the Elán Academy, an accredited beauty school in Albuquerque. A KRQE News 13...
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Spaceport America spending skyrockets, complex mostly vacant
SIERRA COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – Spaceport America was built with the idea to make New Mexico a leader in the aerospace industry by offering unique access to the heavens. The spaceport would be home to...
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Online ticket scalpers steal the show from New Mexicans
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Don Vaccaro is a high profile kingpin in a lucrative business he won’t talk about. It’s a booming, secretive industry that impacts anyone who has ever been to a major sporting...
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