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Rio Rancho, New Mexico is located in Sandoval County. Zip codes in Rio Rancho, NM include 87174, 87124, and 87144. More Rio Rancho information.

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Thursday | PETA

Blog Post: City Cancels Ringling's Scheduled Shows

Update: Rather than follow in Rio Rancho's compassionate footsteps, the New Mexico State Fair has decided to allow Ringling Bros.

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Wed May 30, 2012

Reuters

New Mexico wildfire now biggest in state history

Raging fire engulfs some of the rugged terrain off of Forest Rd. 141 in the Gila National Forest, New Mexico, in this handout photo supplied by the United States Forest Service on May 30, 2012.

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Tue May 29, 2012

KOB-TV

Copper thieves knock local radio station off the air

Static is what ESPN Radio 101.7 The Team listeners heard when they tuned in on Monday.

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Mon May 28, 2012

KRQE Albuquerque

Unmarked grave gets headstone

ALBUQUERQUE - Her daughter died of a prescription drug overdose and the man who gave her the drugs dumped her body on the side of the road.

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Fri May 25, 2012

KOB-TV New Mexico

Memorial Day events and closures

The city of Rio Rancho will hold a Memorial Day parade and remembrance ceremony on Monday beginning at 10 a.m. The parade will head east from Country Club Drive down Southern Boulevard, and end at the Veterans Monument Park located on Pinetree Road adjacent to the Esther Bone Memorial Library.

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KOB-TV New Mexico

Body found near Rio Rancho home identified as missing man

Sandoval County Sheriff's deputies confirmed on Friday the human remains found outside a Rio Rancho home belong to Elvis Delaney.

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KASA-TV Albuquerque

Face of FOX Takes on central NM

This week I was one of the luckiest guys in all of New Mexico for this really is the land of ENCHANTMENT.A This week on New Mexico STYLE I visited and explored just some of the many villages and city's New Mexico has to offer.A Rio Rancho www.cityofvision.com A Rio Rancho is indeed the city of vision with it's eyes turned to the future.A I was also ... (more)

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Business Journal

New Mexico Health Institute signs lease in Rio Rancho

NMHI, the largest private cardiology practice in the state, will open its 11th facility this summer at 2240 Grande Ave., just east of Presbyterian Rust Medical Center.

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KOAT-TV

Residents fed up with water leak

Residents of a Rio Rancho neighborhood say a reoccurring water leak keeps creating a stream down Brenda Road,A near Fifth Street.

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KRQE Albuquerque, New Mexico

Mom: Son injured, ignored by school

RIO RANCHO, N.M. - Anthony Candelaria, 8, was in music class at Maggie Cordova Elementary School in Rio Rancho, when he said he tripped and came down hard on his right arm.

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Thu May 24, 2012

KOB-TV

Summer's coming - here's what to do with the kiddos

Summer break officially kicks off at the end of this week for a lot of New Mexico students and it has a lot of parents wondering what to do with them this summer.

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Wed May 23, 2012

KOAT-TV

Rio Rancho schools mull private security

A proposal that could see contracted, private security personnel patrolling Rio Rancho school events is causing a stir with a small, but vocal group of local mothers.

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KRQE Albuquerque

Drug raid nets guns, child-abuse charge

RIO RANCHO, N.M. - A drug raid in Rio rancho turned up more than just drugs. Agents also made a disturbing find inside a little boy's backpack.

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KOB-TV New Mexico

Police arrest man in connection with missing Rio Rancho man's death

Police say they have arrested a Rio Rancho man in connection to the homicide of another Rio Rancho man who went missing in 2007.

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KRQE Albuquerque, New Mexico

Hewlett Packard, General Mills job cuts

ALBUQUERQUE - Hewlett Packard plans to eliminate nearly 30,000 jobs, which is about 10 percent of it's workforce.

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Tue May 22, 2012

KASA-TV Albuquerque

Three-car crash sends one to hospital

RIO RANCHO, N.M. - A three-car crash in Rio Rancho Monday night sent one person to the hospital.

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KOAT-TV

Rio Rancho drug bust

During the search, investigators said they found three handguns, one assault rifle, ammunition and methamphetamine and other narcotics related items.

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PETA

Urges Tingley Coliseum to Reject Ringling's Abusive Shows

Peter Dinklage asks fans to join him in making kind choices by not hurting animals or asking others to hurt animals for them.

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Mon May 21, 2012

KOAT-TV

Free lunch available to school children in some cities

Most local cities have a supplemental free lunch and breakfast program to help make sure no child goes hungry just because school is out.

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KASA-TV Albuquerque

Face of Fox, Elias Gallegos, kicks off Day One of "Chasing the Fox" with a visit to Rio Rancho.

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