Birds flock to snack on seeds at a feeder following a rain storm Wednesday afternoon in Northern Area. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com Read More
New Mexico State Police Probe Double Homicide In Rio Arriba
NMSP News:
TRES PIEDRAS — New Mexico State Police Officers were called Aug. 1 when two individuals were found deceased in their residence near Tres Piedras in Rio Arriba County.
State Police officers responded and identified the two decedents as Nathan Faccio, 46, and Nirvana Sisneros, 47.
New Mexico State Police Investigations Bureau was called to investigate this homicide. Agents have conducted numerous interviews and executed multiple search warrants during the course of the investigation.
Agents do have a person of interest, but no arrests have been made at this time.
Anyone with information Read More
AHCA/NCAL: COVID-19 Testing Positivity Rates And PPE Supply Shortages For Nursing Homes Across Nation
State-By-State Breakdown: COVID-19 Testing Positivity Rates Among The General Population. Courtesy/AHCA
State-By-State Breakdown: Percent Of Nursing Homes With Less Than One Week Supply Of PPE And COVID-19 Testing Positivity Rates Among The General Population. Courtesy/AHCA
AHCA News:
Using data from Johns Hopkins University, the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL) compiled a state-by-state breakdown of the positive COVID-19 test rate and number of nursing homes in those states.
The second page includes data, released July 30, Read More
New Mexico Sports Hall Of Fame Cancels Class Of 2020
By NMHOF Board
The New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame (NMSHOF) will not have a class of 2020, and will instead honor the 2019 class next spring during its annual celebration weekend and banquet.
This week, the NMSHOF Board of Directors unanimously voted on the change.
The annual Induction Banquet previous scheduled for last April was postponed due to the Covid-19 shutdown. The Charity Golf Classic is scheduled for April 10 at Twin Warriors Golf Club with the banquet slated for April 11 at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
The board has started working on the Class of 2021 and are now accepting nominations. Read More
Library Conversations: Have Recipe, Will Travel
LIBRARY News:
Eating new and delicious food is one of the best parts of traveling. Anyone missing that adventure should consider this an invitation to a virtual meal and conversation with library staff.
Try a new recipe and come ready to talk about it. Share the story of favorite travel meal experience and learn about some excellent cookbooks that may be borrowed from the library.
The virtual meal and conversation begins at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13 on Zoom to connect over food, recipes and stories.
Visit https://tinyurl.com/y4w9fput for the Zoom. Or go to https://losalamoslibrary.org and click Read More
Daily Postcard: Foggy Morning Surrounds Black Mesa
Daily Postcard: A foggy morning earlier this year surrounds Black Mesa, a sacred mountain on the San Ildefonso Pueblo reservation. Photo by Janet Apodaca Read More
New Mexico Governor, Officials Provide COVID-19 Update
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Dr. David Scrase along with Cabinet Secretary Katrina Hotrum-Lopez of the Department on Aging and Long-Term Services host a remote news conference this afternoon to provide an update on New Mexico’s COVID-19 response. Screenshot/LADP
Chart from a remote news conference by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and state officials this afternoon to provide an update on New Mexico’s COVID-19 response. Screenshot/LADP
Chart from a remote news conference by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and state officials this afternoon to provide an update on New Mexico’s COVID-19 response. Read More
Take Guided ‘Tour’ Of SuperCam On New Mars Rover
Mars Technica podcast gives listeners a virtual peek inside the most versatile instrument aboard the Perseverance rover. Courtesy/LANLLANL News:
- Mars Technica is a new, limited- series podcast where experts talk about the science behind the Mars Perseverance mission.
NASA’s new Perseverance rover, which just started its seven-month journey to Mars, carries on board what is likely the most versatile instrument ever created to understand the planet’s past habitability: SuperCam—and a new podcast will tell listeners all about it.
“SuperCam sits on the rover’s mast and has a laser that
Santa Fe Activist Shares Hiroshima Day Recollections
Photograph of Hiroshima shortly after the dropping of the atomic bomb. Photo by Shiegeo Hayashi
Stephen Fox
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
bjgordon@ladailypost.com
On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. At least another 60,000 would be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout.
On Aug. 6, 1945, the American bomber Enola Gay dropped a five-ton Read More
