Former Republican Congressional candidate Gary Smith is accused of slashing more tires than those of his opponent Janice Arnold-Jones.

Albuquerque police officers don't always turn on their lapel cameras.

Is Governor Susana Martinez trying to throw a wrench in New Mexico's Medical Cannabis Program?

Time Warner ditched Current TV after Al-Jazeera purchased it.

"The Widower" curry dish has six million Scoville units. Cayenne pepper has about 40,000 Scoville units.

No more Asperger's syndrome.

John Sheardown, a Canadian war hero and key player in six Americans' escape from Tehran in 1980, died last Sunday.

This Navy film about the dangers of bath salts will infotain you.

A New Mexico company is selling Breaking Bad bath salts.

The family of Albuquerque attorney Mary Han is suing APD, claiming police screwed-up the investigation into her purported suicide.

Is fracking in Rio Arriba County's future?

Albuquerque city councilors may overturn the minimum wage increase that was approved by voters last week.

David Petraeus abruptly resigned from his position as director of the CIA after his extramarital affair was exposed by the FBI.

George Clooney won the election for Obama.

Seattle Police Department explains the marijuana laws that will go into effect December Sixth.

You will probably not be allowed to hunt giant octopus in Seattle's Puget Sound anymore.

The 2011 World Press Photos contest winners.

Denmark is getting rid of the "fat-tax" that was applied to certain foods last year.

Babushkas who live in the Chernobyl "dead zone."

This song celebrating Thanksgiving may cause you to step in front of a bus.

George Takei joins the ranks of Facebook users angry about the money-grubbing EdgeRank filter.

Obama was declared the winner of the presidential contest in Florida.

Does fact checking matter if politicians continue to lie after their fabrications have been exposed?

Republicans were surprised Romney lost because they believe Rush Limbaugh and Fox news.

On this day in 1969 Sesame Street premiered.

New Mexico's Spaceport development has problems.

Yes, you can play golf at the Angola Penitentiary golf course.

The ex-controller of the New Mexico Finance Authority has been indicted.

Unintentional, run-away double entendre strikes when Jill Biden introduces the Vice-President.

The Rio Arriba County Sheriff's Department planned to buy a boat three days after cutting hours of service due to lack of funds.

150 years of lesbians photo gallery.

Verdict in the Amish beard-cutting case: "Mullet guilty in beard case."

A woman ate a "Stellanator" in Omaha.

A weird effigy of Obama was lynched in Austin.

This may be the first good, in-depth news item about bath salts.

Groundbreaking video illustrates the best way to clean mushrooms.

Not so groundbreaking: we are running out of fish.

An Intel worker called the police because a coworker put a "kick me" sign on his back. And people kicked him.

Some companies are instructing employees NOT to use work email after hours.

Snoop Dogg was the celebrity guest on The Price is Right yesterday.

Like many before her, Fiona Apple was busted for pot possession at the Sierra Blanca border checkpoint.

Hypnotic map of the 2012 presidential election swing states.

"Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up, that's all." Happy birthday Joan Jett and Nick Cave.

This week Clifford Grindstaff wrote about sister rap pop duo the Millionaires, whose self-indulgent, hedonistic music is the perfect soundtrack for a zombie apocalypse. Hear the vapidity live tomorrow night at the Launchpad.

Undercover APD officer goes to "Chinese massage" parlour, asks for massage and then arrests woman when she agrees to give a massage.

Susana Martinez and some legislators use their personal email for state business and some say that excludes those emails from public records requests.

NM Governor Martinez doesn't like Obama's executive order allowing children of illegals to gain legal status. Washington Post says newly made citizens will take our jobs.

Is Obama going to go after the weed vote?

The British recovered a lost WWI submarine with an interesting history.

In this bath salts freakout the guy was scared he was going to be eaten.

The "Kindness in America" author actually shot himself.

"Forest Boy" was lying.

New Jersey wine competes with French wine.

Lacey Wildd wants to get a thirteenth breast enlargement even though her tits could explodde.

Swedish authorities failed to prove that explicit Manga qualifies as child pornography.

Meet AJ Weberman, Bob Dylan's single most obsessed fan.

Website posts The Oatmeal's cartoons without permission, then threatens to sue when the cartoonist pointed this out.

Check out this bizarre David Hasselhoff commercial.

Ten terrible tattoos of hard rock hideousness.

Babies in cellophane!

It's finally over.

Reverend Stang retired from leading the Church of the Subgenius because he is tired of the asshole membership.

Happy Captain Picard Day!

Thousands take to the streets of Russia to protest Vladimir Putin a day after authorities raided the homes of protest leaders.

The world-renowned Trevi fountain is slowly crumbling due to cuts to the funding of Rome’s monuments.

Danny Boyle’s £27m opening ceremony for the London Olympics features real animals and rain-producing clouds.

175 structures have been destroyed by the Little Bear fire in Ruidoso.

A pair of lungs is discovered on a Los Angeles-area sidewalk.

The Los Angeles Kings win Lord Stanley’s Cup, the first in the club’s 45-year history.

Bank of America plans to spend $50 billion over the next 10 years to fight climate change.

A group of Japanese astronomers in Hawaii find the oldest galaxy to be discovered.

A man suspected to be high on bath salts strips naked and goes after a three-year-old girl in Miami.

A man gathering material about a book about kindness in America is shot and wounded in West Virginia.

Tokyo reclaims its place as the world’s most expensive city.

23 gravestones vanish at a Civil War cemetery in Washington, D.C.

The town of Middleborough, Mass. can now slap you with a $20 fine for swearing in public.

Happy National Beef Jerky Day! Here’s a portrait of sasquatch made entirely of jerky.

Those in power across the middle east continue to try and buy their citizens off

Bath Salts mimic the effects of cocaine and LSD. Really?

Speaking of wild drugs, who hasn't wanted to try snake venom?

After the venom, why not finally do this?

Cool slide show on mass movement of rural male Chinese to cities. Anyone who can give me a synonym for rural that starts w/ an M gets a kudo.

Fake Rahm Emanuel is even better than fake Andy Rooney on Twitter. If you start a week ago the feed reads kind of like Into The Wild w/ interns and baked beans.

Sunflower Market founder Michael Gilliland busted on suspicion of soliciting a minor for prostitution. Jeez.

Illinois ponzi scheme.

NY Post probably had the best cover depicting Mubarek resignation.

Sheep are smarter than.... smarter than you thought, anyway.

"Flowers wilt. Chocolates melt. Roaches are forever."

On this day in 1950, Einstein warned against the hydrogen bomb.