Number of ATV injuries concerns UNM surgeons
(AP) - A new study by two UNM surgeons reveals troubling trends when it comes to all-terrain vehicle related injuries in the state.
According to the study, someone is admitted to the UNM Hospital trauma center about three times a month with injuries from an ATV wreck, and often the victim is a child or teenager who was not wearing a helmet.
More than one in three of the cases involves a head injury, and the patient needs surgery nearly 40 percent of the time - a rate one surgeon calls "incredible."
Three people found dead in Albuquerque apartment
(AP) - Detectives are investigating a "grisly" crime scene in an apartment where three people died, Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White said.
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A man called authorities around noon Sunday after going to the southwest Albuquerque apartment to visit a friend and finding that person dead, White said.
Sheriff's deputies found the bodies of two men and a woman.
"We've called out every available detective we have in the department to assist," White said.
The case is being investigated as a homicide.
Albuquerque soldier killed by homemade bomb in Iraq
(AP) - A 27-year-old Albuquerque soldier was killed when a homemade bomb was detonated near his patrol vehicle in Ad Duilayah, Iraq.
Spc. Jeremy E. Christensen of Albuquerque was killed Saturday, Army spokeswoman Martha Rudd said Monday.
Christensen was assigned to 1st Squadron, 4th Armored Cavalry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division in Schweinfurt, Germany, which had been deployed to Iraq.
Rudd said no other people were injured or killed in the attack. Such explosives are a common way soldiers in Iraq are killed, she added.
Helicopter crashes in fog, kills seven U.S. soldiers
BRUCEVILLE-EDDY, Texas (AP) - An Army helicopter carrying seven soldiers crashed and burned in the fog Monday after hitting a web of support wires on a TV transmission tower whose warning lights had been knocked out in a storm last week, officials said. Everyone aboard was killed.
The UH-60 Black Hawk, bound for the Red River Army Depot in Texarkana, went down in a field about 30 miles northeast of Fort Hood. The fog was so thick when emergency crews arrived, they could not see more than halfway up the tower, authorities said.