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Albuquerque Fire Lieutenant Vic Padilla (left) feels the chest of Robert Stevenson, a 44-year old homeless man, as Albuquerque city firefighters pull him up from the North Diversion Channel at Mongomery Blvd NE on Wednesday afternoon. Stevenson crawled into the tunnels at Eubank and Lomas to get out of the rain and was caught by rapidly rising waters. Stevenson later died of his injuries.
Residents of To'hajiilee take cover as police searched the Navajo community west of Albuquerque for suspects in two killings. Two people were shot to death Monday in back-to-back armed robberies at convenience stores near To'hajiilee. Three suspects were arrested.
Jon Armijo (left), game warden for the Santa Fe district of the state Game and Fish Department, and Fernando Clemente Jr., a Game and Fish intern, lure bighorn ewes using salty chips and crackers under the netting of a trap set for them in the Gold Hill area of Carson National Forest northwest of Taos. Clemente led a group of salt-craving sheep about three-quarters of a mile from the peak of Gold Hill down to the trap area using a package of eight crackers. He whistled and clicked at the sheep to get them to follow him. "I had a long walk and not enough crackers," Clemente said. After eight ewes and two lambs were successfully trapped, his colleagues dubbed him "the sheep whisperer."
Searchers from the New Mexico State Police and the Tres Piedras and Taos fire departments finish gathering paper fragments from the site of an airplane crash on U.S. 64 west of the Taos gorge bridge as the first part of the recovery operation. Both people on board the Westwind 1124 executive jet pilot Dallas Whitman, 34, and Theodore Haiser, 48 died in the crash Friday afternoon. The aircraft, registered to Richmor Aviation of Hudson, N.Y., was on a flight from Las Vegas, Nev., to Taos.
Sandy Gilmore plucks melted remains of a glass bowl out of the ashes of her home in Alto. "There is nothing here," she said. "I'm going to find little treasures, but there's really nothing left." Gilmore's home was one of 28 destroyed by the Kokopelli Fire on Saturday.
Eight-year-old Miguel Stanley (center) watches his mother, Rosa, read his fall grade report at McCollum Elementary School while his twin, Alvin, waits his turn. The twins began the school year among thousands of third-graders in New Mexico who weren't reading at grade level. Since then, the twins' reading scores have steadily improved.
Debbie Romero directs her 5-year-old grandson, Andrew Romero, toward the grave of her son and Andrew's father, Carlos Romero. Carlos was shot to death on the Santa Fe Plaza on Sept. 5, 1997, a week before Andrew had his first birthday. Andrew knows all too well what happened to his father, a fate that also befell Carlos' dad.
Albuquerque police arrest a demonstrator at a protest against the war in Iraq. 17 people were arrested during the demonstration that ended with police using tear gas to clear Central Avenue.
Distinctive in an orange jumpsuit, an inmate from the state Forestry Division's Emergency Response Force follows a firefighter from the Silver City Hotshots as they scrape a new fire line at the Ponil Complex Fire in northern New Mexico. Twenty-two former inmate firefighters are now working professionally in the field. "We believe we have the ability to rehabilitate these guys," said Brian Henington of the state Forestry Division. "We're giving them something they've never had: a sense of accomplishment."
Like a glamorous ghost, Natalie Olson dances with Alex Basinger after claiming the queen's tiara at Highland High School's prom. Her arm shows scars from a near-fatal crash with a suspected drunken driver seven months ago. She escaped from a coma and cheated death, but life is not the same. The pain ended her adolescence. The recovery tests her family. Now, at age 18, Olson faces a future that depends on getting past a weakened memory - one that makes it hard to know what is real and what is imagined.
New Mexico author John Nichols welcomes a gray jay to his hand while hiking near Taos in search of bighorn sheep. "It's not easy to find bighorns," he says. "Often they're hard to locate because of weather and snow and they camouflage very well. It's kind of a game to see if I can find where the bighorns are."
Byron Laurie (right) and Kevin Elder goof off after the weekly Monday meeting at the Tricklock Performance Space. The 13-member Tricklock Company, which changed its name from Riverside Repertory Theatre Company in 2002, has been staging avant-garde productions since 1994. "This is sort of like our family," says ensemble co-founder Joe Pesce. "We're at that kind of trust level with each other."
Reflections in the water show (from right) Richard Stevens, his daughter, Kelsey, 10, nephew Donovan Best, 13, and son, Trevor, 15, taking advantage of a warm spring day to fish the Jemez East Fork. The slow-moving East Fork is a good area to introduce younger children to fishing.
At a press conference given by Albuquerque Chief of Police Gerald T. Galvin and several of his high ranking officers about the fatal shooting of Benson Murphy by police officers, the police distributed to the media a photograph of the eight inch knife that Murphy was allegedly armed with.
Larry Anderson, a navajo marine corps veteran of the Vietnam war, does a general blessing with herbal tobacco on Senator John Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz Kerry (obscured) for their travel and family at the Inter-Tribal Ceremonial at Red Rock State Park in Gallup on Sunday. "Senator Kerry has earned some feathers here," Anderson said after the visit.
David Avila (left) and Dan Carrillo (right) pray with other members of the Joshua's Vineyard congregation over Ruben Garcia, who describes himself as a former gang member,drug dealer and drug user. Pastor Gerald Martinez says that since the church was established in a former gang house, "the war zone" has become "God's Block."
New Mexico photographer Toby Jorrin is located in Albuquerque, just hours from the Mexico border. As an editorial and advertising photographer, he will do newspaper and magazine assignments, news or feature stories, advertising, corporate, commercial, wedding, public relations and industrial photography, at any location in both digital and film formats. Easy driving access to El Paso, TX, Odessa, TX, Midland, TX, Amarillo, TX, Denver, CO, Colorado Springs, CO, Phoenix, AZ, Tucson, AZ, Flagstaff, AZ, Juarez, Mexico, Santa Fe, NM, Taos, NM, Rio Rancho, NM, Las Cruces, NM, Roswell, NM, Los Alamos, NM, the Navajo Reservation, Big Bend National Park, etc.
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