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New Mexico hosts No. 19 San Diego State after LeDee's 31-point outing

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January 13, 2024

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New Mexico hosts No. 19 San Diego State after LeDee's 31-point outing

San Diego State Aztecs (14-2, 3-0 MWC) at New Mexico Lobos (13-3, 1-2 MWC)

Albuquerque, New Mexico; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST

FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Lobos -3.5; over/under is 150.5

BOTTOM LINE: No. 19 San Diego State faces the New Mexico Lobos after Jaedon LeDee scored 31 points in San Diego State’s 81-78 victory over the San Jose State Spartans.

The Lobos have gone 8-0 at home. New Mexico averages 10.4 turnovers per game and is 13-2 when it has fewer turnovers than its opponents.

The Aztecs have gone 3-0 against MWC opponents. San Diego State is second in the MWC with 38.1 rebounds per game led by LeDee averaging 8.8.

New Mexico’s average of 6.3 made 3-pointers per game is 1.0 fewer made shot on average than the 7.3 per game San Diego State gives up. San Diego State has shot at a 45.1% clip from the field this season, 4.0 percentage points higher than the 41.1% shooting opponents of New Mexico have averaged.

The matchup Saturday is the first meeting this season between the two teams in conference play.

TOP PERFORMERS: Donovan Dent is scoring 15.7 points per game and averaging 2.8 rebounds for the Lobos. Jaelen House is averaging 15.4 points and 3.2 rebounds over the last 10 games for New Mexico.

Lamont Butler is averaging 8.4 points and 3.3 assists for the Aztecs. LeDee is averaging 17.7 points and 7.2 rebounds over the past 10 games for San Diego State.

LAST 10 GAMES: Lobos: 8-2, averaging 81.3 points, 38.6 rebounds, 16.0 assists, 11.6 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 46.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 67.4 points per game.

Aztecs: 9-1, averaging 74.6 points, 38.1 rebounds, 11.9 assists, 6.5 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 45.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 63.1 points.

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

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Retired Wright-Patterson general mentioned in UFO report missing in NM

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March 4, 2026

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Retired Wright-Patterson general mentioned in UFO report missing in NM

A retired U.S. Air Force general, Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, has been reported missing in New Mexico.
McCasland formerly commanded the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
His name was mentioned in a 2016 WikiLeaks email release in connection to UFO research.

A retired U.S. Air Force general who once commanded a research division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, has gone missing in New Mexico.

This is what we know.

McCasland commanded Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office has issued a Silver Alert for Maj. Gen. William Neil McCasland, 68, who has been missing since last week, Newsweek reports. He was last seen on Feb. 27 in Albuquerque. McCasland is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs about 160 pounds. He has white hair and blue eyes, and he has unspecified medical issues, per the sheriff’s office, which is worried about his safety.

McCasland was the commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, according to his Air Force biography. He managed a $2.2 billion science and technology program as well as $2.2 billion in additional customer-funded research and development. He joined Wright-Patterson in 2011 and retired in 2013.

He was commissioned in 1979 after graduating from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in astronautical engineering. He has served in a wide variety of space research, acquisition and operations roles within the Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office.

McCasland mentioned in WikiLeaks release in connection to UFOs

McCasland was described as a key adviser on UFO-related projects by Tom DeLonge, UFO researcher and guitarist for Blink-182, Newsweek reports. The general’s name appears in the 2016 WikiLeaks email release from John Podesta, then Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager.

In emails to Podesta, DeLonge said he’s been working with McCasland for months and that the general was aware of the materials DeLonge was probing because McCasland has been “in charge of the laboratory at Wright‑Patterson Air Force Base where the Roswell wreckage was shipped,” per Newsweek.

However, there is no official record of DeLonge’s claims, and McCasland has neither confirmed nor denied it.

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base home to UFO project

The Dayton Air Force base was home to Project Blue Book in the 1950s and 60s, according to “The Air Force Investigation into UFOs” published by Ohio State University.

During that time, it logged some 12,618 UFO sightings, with 701 of those remaining “unidentified.” The U.S. government created the project because of Cold War-era security concerns and Americans’ obsession with aliens.

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Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch is finally being scrutinized like his island

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March 4, 2026

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Jeffrey Epstein’s New Mexico ranch is finally being scrutinized like his island

Though the alleged sex trafficking on Jeffrey Epstein’s Caribbean island, Little Saint James, has dominated the national discourse recently, another Epstein property has largely stayed out of the news — but perhaps not for long. A ranch outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, that belonged to the disgraced financier has been the subject of on-and-off investigations, and many are now reexamining what role the ranch may have played in Epstein’s crimes.

What is the ranch in question?

Epstein first purchased the ranch in 1993, and it made his seven-story Manhattan penthouse “look like a shack,” he said to Vanity Fair in 2003. Recently released photos by the Department of Justice “provide a look inside the tightly guarded gates” of the compound, said the Santa Fe New Mexican, including images that “show Epstein and others posing” throughout the ranch. In addition to the main house, Zorro Ranch also had a “three-bedroom lodge and off-the-grid log cabin as well as a 4,400-foot airstrip with an aircraft hangar and helipad.”

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Why is the ranch being investigated?

Given the isolated nature of Zorro Ranch, there are numerous allegations about “what role the secluded spot played in sexual abuse or sex trafficking of underage girls and young women,” said The Associated Press. Several of Epstein’s public victims have claimed they were trafficked at the ranch, but “New Mexico leaders say there has never been a thorough investigation of the criminal activity that may have occurred” on the property, said the Times.

There was previously a minimal investigation into the ranch, which was “taken over by federal prosecutors in 2019, and then apparently fizzled, according to New Mexico officials and recently unsealed records,” said the Times. However, unlike Epstein’s other properties, federal agents “did not appear to have ever searched Zorro Ranch,” according to a report from The Guardian. Officials were “paying attention to Paris, Little Saint James, New York and Miami, but they didn’t pay attention to Zorro Ranch,” Eddy Aragon, an Albuquerque radio D.J. and Epstein researcher, told the Times.

Following public pressure related to Epstein, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez recently “ordered that the criminal investigation into allegations of illegal activity at Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch be reopened,” the New Mexico Department of Justice said in a press release. But since Epstein’s 2019 death, the ranch has come under new ownership, meaning an investigation may not be simple.

After the most recent batch of Epstein documents was released, the “claims in the documents have proved impossible to ignore,” said the Times. Most notable is a 2019 email alleging that in the “hills outside the Zorro, two foreign girls were buried on orders of Jeffrey and Madam G,” the latter apparently referencing Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. “Both died by strangulation during rough, fetish sex.” The sender of the email was “redacted by the DOJ,” said CNN. It is “not clear that those allegations have been investigated by law enforcement.”

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What to know: Election Day 2026 in Rio Rancho

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March 3, 2026

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What to know: Election Day 2026 in Rio Rancho

Polls are now open in Rio Rancho where voters are set to elect a new mayor and decide several key measures Tuesday.

RIO RANCHO, N.M. — Rio Rancho voters are set to elect a new mayor and decide several key measures Tuesday in one of New Mexico’s fastest growing cities.

Voters will make their way to one of the 14 voting centers open Tuesday to decide which person will become mayor, replacing Gregg Hull. These six candidates are running:

Like Albuquerque, Rio Rancho candidates need to earn 50% of the votes to win. Otherwise, the top two candidates will go to a runoff election.

Regardless of who wins, this will be the first time Rio Rancho voters will elect a new mayor in over a decade. Their priorities include addressing crime and how fast the city is growing, as well as improving infrastructure and government transparency, especially as the site of a new Project Ranger missile project.

The only other race with multiple candidates is the District 5 city council seat. Incumbent Karissa Culbreath faces a challenge from Calvin Ducane Ward.

Voters will also decide the fate of three general obligation bonds:

$12 million to road projects
$4.3 million to public safety facility projects
$1.2 million to public quality of life projects
- e.g., renovating the Esther Bone Memorial Library

The polls will stay open until 7 p.m.

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