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At first, there were 80 nominations, from which 21 were recognized for the 23rd annual Governor’s Award for Outstanding New Mexico Women.

Then came the naming of two to the New Mexico Women’s Hall of Fame — and the first ever to win the award from Las Vegas.

At a banquet on Friday in Albuquerque, local soup kitchen and library volunteer Carol Durham became an honoree into the New Mexico Women’s Hall of Fame. She joins 50 other women to have received the honor since its inception 22 years ago.

Las Vegas has long had an ordinance on the books regulating the size of campaign signs. But it hasn’t been enforced because a former city attorney apparently deemed in unconstitutional.

But the new city attorney, Carlos Quinones, disagrees altogether. After doing some research, he said he has found that it’s constitutional for a community to regulate campaign sign sizes.

The current ordinance prohibits signs larger than 6 square feet in residential neighborhoods and those more than 32 square feet in nonresidential zones.

More than 50 protesters on Thursday took a message to the front doors of the hospital: “Negotiate now.”

The group, which included Alta Vista Regional Hospital employees, demonstrated starting at 11 a.m. at all four corners of Las Vegas’ busiest intersection — Seventh Street and Mills Avenue.

Many of the cars passing by honked their horns in support throughout the lunch hour. Many demonstrators held yellow union flags; others waved signs with messages such as “People before profits” and “Appreciate-negotiate.”

A man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for invading a home last year, the district attorney said.

On Aug. 28, Robert Sandoval was convicted on a charge of aggravated battery, a second-degree felony, and was sentenced to five years of supervised probation, District Attorney Richard Flores said in a statement. Georgia Vigil was also sentenced in the case, Flores said.