Today's News

SANTA FE -- Five former Robertson High football players will stand trial on charges of kidnapping, sexual assault and conspiracy for their roles in alleged attacks during a preseason camp.

The five young men, who were juniors at RHS before getting booted from school due to the camp scandal, are accused of holding several underclassmen against their will and sodomizing them with a broomstick. The alleged attacks took place Aug. 12 and 13 during a preseason "team-building" event at Western Life Camp in the Gallinas Canyon.

The state auditor’s office last week revealed that the Albuquerque-based Region III Housing Authority was a “center of abuse and management.” But State Auditor Hector Balderas said the state’s other regional housing agencies also had big problems, including the one in northeastern New Mexico.

His office’s report showed that the Albuquerque authority reimbursed board members and employees for such things as flowers, booze, a Las Vegas trip, a private club membership and a designer briefcase.

Robertson High School students took home the bulk of awards handed out at the annual Mathematics Engineering Science and Achievement regional fair at Wilson Complex last week.

The regional fair featured 16 schools from the state’ northeastern district and three school districts from the north central part of the state. Projects that place first, second and third will compete at state in Albuquerque. After that the top three will go on to the national competition.

A man died Sunday morning as the result of a single-vehicle accident near the town of Tecolote, state police said.

The man was driving a 1999 Dodge pickup truck southbound on the frontage road only feet from the Tecolote intersection about 11 a.m. when his vehicle went off the pavement on the east side of the road, came back onto the road and then rolled. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. There were no passengers.