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Investigative reporter Colleen Heild of the Albuquerque Journal documented how Barreras got hired at the dawn of the Richardson administration in 2002 at the Department of Children, Youth and Families despite the fact that he had been fired in 1997 from the state Corrections Department for alleged financial wrongdoing; how he later was hired at the Transportation Department -- at the same time he was a consultant for an Albuquerque architectural firm that was part of a controversial DOT redevelopment project; and how Barreras got a 15 percent pay raise during a time of a so-called salary freeze.

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He died Sunday in Albuquerque of pulmonary failure after several months of declining health, the Albuquerque Journal reported.

According to the Albuquerque Journal, the Patriot battalion will deploy for the Middle East in about six weeks.

Boise State (13-0) got the other, from Greg Archuleta of the Albuquerque Journal in New Mexico.

A spokeswoman for Madrid's congressional campaign told the Albuquerque Journal the ad's charges were "100 percent politically motivated baloney.

An editorial in the Albuquerque Journal supported the new legislation but called on the federal government and the United Network for Organ Sharing to make haste in developing a regional sharing system that would benefit the sickest patients first in the region.

``It's still a wide-open competition,'' New Mexico coach Rocky Long told the Albuquerque Journal.