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DALLAS, Dec. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ The Dallas-based trial firm Lyons & Simmons has filed a negligence lawsuit against San Antonio-based Sapphire Aviation on behalf of the estate of Houston resident Paul David Cobb, one of five people killed in a 2018 crash of a Bell UH-1H helicopter in rural northern New Mexico.
According to reports, the group flew by private jet from Houston on Jan. 17, 2018, to Raton, New Mexico, where they transferred to the Huey helicopter for a short flight to Emery Gap Ranch for a birthday party. Lifting off just after sunset, the helicopter crashed into a plateau in a mountainous rural area 11 miles from Raton. Mr. Cobb, a 67-year-old veteran of the Pasadena, Texas, Police Department, survived the initial impact but sustained skull and rib fractures and internal hemorrhaging that left him unable to flee the fire caused by the crash. He ultimately died from his injuries.
All schools in New Mexico will remain closed through the remainder of the academic year.
The plaintiffs in a lawsuit over educational resources in New Mexico filed a request with the First Judicial District Court on Wednesday to order the state to provide computers and high-speed internet access to thousands of at risk students who lack tools for remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
An estimated 23 percent of the New Mexico population lacks broadband internet service, according to the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty (NMCLP). The nonprofit, which is providing legal counsel to the plaintiffs of the Yazzie-Martinez lawsuit, estimated that 80 percent of Native Americans living on tribal lands do not have internet services at all.
The plaintiffs in the landmark Yazzie/Martinez education funding lawsuit are asking a district court to order state public and charter schools to provide at-risk students computers and adequate internet access as they deal with the coronavirus pandemic.
The expedited motion, filed Tuesday in First Judicial District Court, claims the state has failed to provide those children â especially in rural districts and those serving predominantly Native American students â with the tools necessary for remote learning. It stated schoolsâ failure to provide the necessary technology âhas caused and continues to cause them to be denied a sufficient education required by the State Constitution and ordered by this Court.â
The plaintiffs in the landmark Yazzie/Martinez education funding lawsuit are asking a district court to order state public and charter schools to provide at-risk students computers and adequate internet access as they deal with the coronavirus pandemic.
The expedited motion, filed Tuesday in First Judicial District Court, claims the state has failed to provide those children â especially in rural districts and those serving predominantly Native American students â with the tools necessary for remote learning. It stated schoolsâ failure to provide the necessary technology âhas caused and continues to cause them to be denied a sufficient education required by the State Constitution and ordered by this Court.â
New Mexico State Police is investigating claims that a Rio Arriba County winery owner facing a murder charge built a bunker on his property that he intended to use to kill a man who he says committed rape.
Timothy Lopez, owner of Wicked Kreations Winery, is accused of fatally shooting Thomas âDerickâ Velarde at a gas station in Alcalde during an argument late last month. Lopez, who remains in custody, is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Friends of both Velarde, who was 58, and Lopez, 53, told state police that they recalled conversations with Lopez in which he told them Velarde had raped a woman and he planned to âsniperâ Velarde from a bunker he allegedly built on the northwest side of his property, according to an affidavit filed in First Judicial District Court earlier this week.