Public Safety

Bear Walks Inside Betty Ehart Senior Center At Lunchtime

Photo by Carlos Baldonado

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post

caclark@ladailypost.com

A bear spotted roaming around the parking lot of the Ponderosa Pine Apartments today at 3000 Trinity Dr., is thought to be the same bear that entered the Betty Ehart Senior Center around noon today at 1101 Bathtub Row.

Readers began alerting the Los Alamos Daily Post that a bear had entered the senior center.

“I can confirm that there was a bear in our senior center building,” Executive Director Bernadette Lauritzen told the Post over the phone, adding that the bear had the same appearance as the one spotted Read More

NMPJP: Whistleblower Ousted For Raising Concerns About Rodent Infestation At New Mexico Women’s Prison In Grants

In February 2019, NMPJP filed a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of two women incarcerated in what is described as a rodent infested prison in Grants. Now NMPJP has filed a civil rights lawsuit on behalf of former prison employee Nicole Ramirez, who shares her story about being harassed and threatened by leadership at the prison after filing a written complaint about the infestation. Courtesy photo

NMPJP News:

In February 2021, the New Mexico Prison & Jail Project (NMPJP) filed a lawsuit on behalf of Susie Zapata and Monica Garcia, two inmates whose civil rights were violated because of their Read More

New Mexico Supreme Court Justice Barbara Vigil To Retire

Justice Barbara J. Vigil. Courtesy photo

Supreme Court News:

SANTA FE – Justice Barbara J. Vigil plans to retire from the New Mexico Supreme Court at the end of June. She is the longest-serving member of the current Court.

Justice Vigil joined the state’s highest court in December 2012, and was Chief Justice in 2014-16.

The justice was a district court judge in the First Judicial District of Santa Fe, Rio Arriba and Los Alamos counties from 2000 until her election to the Supreme Court. She became chief judge of the district in 2011. For 10 years while on the district court, she presided over Read More

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