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Three people died late Wednesday in an overnight fire at a mobile home in Chaparral, N.M. The victims are believed to be a 20-year-old woman, a 17-year-old boy and a 14-month-old girl, investigators said.

Women can delay having their first Pap test for cervical cancer until they turn 21 and many can wait longer to go back for follow-up screenings, according to new guidelines being released today by a major medical group.

Washington, DC -- Women should have their first cervical cancer screening at age 21 and can be rescreened less frequently than previously recommended, according to newly revised evidence-based guidelines issued today by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and published in the December issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Gabe Sanchez, a political science professor at the University of New Mexico, talks about the legacy Bruce King leaves behind.

Last week, a serial rapist, Robert Howard Bruce, was arrested in Pueblo, Colorado.A What had appeared at first to be a case of a local Peeping Tom going a step too far by trying to bomb a local policeman's house because he did not want the policeman to testify against him, has turned into a national, if not international affair.A Because of this ...

Young women should have their first Pap test no sooner than age 21, regardless of when they become sexually active, say new guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Women can delay having their first Pap test for cervical cancer until they turn 21, and many can wait longer to go back for follow-up screenings, according to new guidelines released today by a major medical group.

The University of New Mexico soccer player suspended indefinitely for rough play during a match November 5th, is speaking out for the first time, saying she deeply regrets her actions and is seeing a psychologist.

Violence is quite widespread in men's football , especially as you move further down the leagues to the lower skill levels.

The University of New Mexico has been awarded $20 million from the National Science Foundation for a project that aims to create a clearinghouse of scientific data about life on Earth and the environment that sustains it.

Veteran small business advocate Minda McGonagle has returned to the National Federation of Independent Business as the New Mexico state director.

A human rights group has learned that members of al-Shabab have killed yet another leader of an underground church in the Somalia capital of Mogadishu.

During the holidays enjoy a day, afternoon or night out at a local Albuquerque Theatre.

With 18- to 24-year-olds at high risk for getting swine flu, the University of New Mexico campus is taking some extra precautions.

Earlier this year the University of New Mexico set guidelines to control the flu on campus, a plan put to the test after a freshman died from the disease on Wednesday.

Police combed through an apartment complex in northeast Albuquerque Saturday to look for clues in the citya s latest homicide.

Gov. Bill Richardson says the University of New Mexico has received a $41 million federal grant for the state's supercomputer.

Phone counseling to help smokers kick the habit won't do much if it doesn't include callbacks or other follow-up strategies, new research shows.

A man accused of beating a woman to death with a baseball bat and burning her body has died after was found hanging by bed sheets from his cell bunk on Wednesday night.

A group intervention aimed at reducing alcohol and sexual risk behaviors in adolescents in juvenile detention centers may alter risky behaviors, according to a randomized, controlled study published online Nov.