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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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13 Investigates: The million dollar slab
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Chairman of the State’s Legislative Finance Committee calls it, “a real abuse of taxpayer dollars.” Albuquerque’s Cultural Services Director doesn’t “think that anyone...
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Up, up and away: Albuquerque’s million dollar balloon blunder
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It was a $1,000,000 blunder. “We’ve seen planes and trains and automobiles related to government waste. But now an amusement ride? That’s a whole new low,” said...
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Accused felon hired to teach at APS school
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – How does a high profile fraud suspect, out on bond, awaiting trial on multiple felonies, end up in a public school classroom? “I’ve seen a lot of good and bad over eight years,...
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2014 Best of Barker
Here is a look back at the top Larry Barker investigations of 2014. In the past year, 13 Investigates has exposed a gang at the BioPark, a $1 million mistake at APS and caught on tape, city workers...
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Teacher reinstated despite felony fraud charges
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Days after kids came back to LBJ Middle School from winter break, so did a long-absent history teacher. William “Kal” Kalinowski. Despite pending felony charges for fraud and...
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13 Investigates: Bosses caught embezzling employee money
Update 2/5/2015: Tri-County’s CEO Kim Hamstra was fired from the company following KRQE News 13’s investigation. The company has selected Zach Cordova, an employee on the advisory board, to be the...
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Undercover Investigation: Lies, local sales and city incompetence
SANTA FE (KRQE) – It’s a tale of lies, deception and government incompetence. And it has been going on for years in Santa Fe’s historic district. Special sales offering bogus discounts are illegal....
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News 13 Investigation: The Red River Sting
RED RIVER, N.M. (KRQE) – To most people, Red River is the name of a picturesque mountain town. However to some New Mexicans, just the mere mention of ‘Red River’ will likely get a bitter reaction. An...
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Sticker shock: Secrets of hospital billing revealed
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – It’s a health care system gone wrong. “I was terrified and I went in and I was totally gullible. They could have told me it was going to cost $1,000,000 an hour and I would have...
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Land owner getting paid after Hollywood blunder
ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – It’s a major movie blunder exposed by News 13’s Larry Barker. A blockbuster film that tells the story of a Navy Seal team in Afghanistan, has been the center of another battle in...
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Hard to digest: The fiasco that cost taxpayers millions
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It was a colossal blunder and a glaring example of government waste and incompetence at its worst. The snafu is costing taxpayers millions of dollars to correct. At the...
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Poisoned Waters: New Mexico Danger Zones
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – They are ‘danger zones’ hidden away, lurking all over the state. Most are the result of toxic environmental mishaps — literally underground rivers of poison. Read: New...
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New developments in a 2015 KRQE News 13 Investigation
TAOS, N.M. (KRQE) – It was January 2015. A blinding snowstorm nearly obscured the office of a small northern New Mexico health care agency. Outside Tri-County Community Services it was peaceful, even...
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Taxpayers on the hook for UNM Bigfoot expedition
GALLUP, N.M. (KRQE) – There’s only one way to describe what’s happened at the University of New Mexico. Bizarre. “I didn’t know about this until you contacted us to bring it to our attention,” said...
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The most dangerous truck fleet in New Mexico
SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – There are federal laws on the books to protect the motoring public from unsafe trucks on the road. So why is a ragtag fleet of run-down and poorly maintained commercial size...
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The Negligence Files: Tens of millions secretly paid out for government wrong...
SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s an obscure state government program shrouded in secrecy. It impacts taxpayers to the tune of tens of millions of dollars every year. These huge state expenditures are so...
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The Best of Larry Barker 2016
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The 2016 edition of the Best of Larry Barker takes a look at some of his best investigations this year. We will chase Bigfoot and follow the money trail showing how tens of...
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40 years of Larry Barker
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Larry Barker has been doing groundbreaking investigations for 40 years. In this special, we are taking a look back at some of Larry Barker’s favorite investigations. Larry’s...
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