ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — When you go to the New Mexico State Fair, you may need to grab some dinner, so why not make it a three-course fried creation?

There are the usual staples, like corn dogs and turkey legs, a lemonade to wash it down – but then there are the more unique foods.

In this year’s Unique Foods Contest, there were two winners:

• Conductor’s Corn Dog (Gravy Train in the food court)

“We fry that nicely. Crack it open, then we’ve got jalapeño cheese sauce, bacon, fried cheese curds, hatch green chiles on it and then we got a hatch green chile, pickle aioli on it as well,” said Darren, of Gravy Train. “We’re always lookin for unique food ideas that we go to. This one, we’ve had so many people all over the country tell us these corn dogs are exceptional so we thought, why not build on that?”

• Belgian Waffle Green Chile Cheeseburger (Rex’s Hamburgers, south of the Natural Resources Building)

“It’s a green chile cheeseburger, waffle bun and a maple green chile syrup drizzle on it,” said Rex, of Rex’s Hamburgers. “Everything in New Mexico is gonna have a little green chile. I mean that’s just the way it is. So Pat, he said we gotta add a little green chile to this maple syrup. We’re gonna make this thing work.”

If you’d like to spice it up, there is the deep-fried carne asada taco. They have grilled carne asada with fresh Monterey Jack cheese. The taco is then dipped in a special batter and “deep-fried to perfection,” then served with homemade spicy salsa.

You can find that at Quesada’s Mexican at Heritage and Main Street.

Here are the other Unique Foods at the fair:

• Street Taco Grilled Cheese
• Cheese Love Grill (Heritage and Main Street)

“Hand-diced and seasoned carne asada with fresh Monterey jack cheese and house-made green chile on sourdough, grilled to toasty perfection.”

• Dessert Chimichanga
• Fried Fantasy (food court)

“Sweet chimichanga made with a flour tortilla and filled with cream cheese wrapped in smoked bacon, deep fried to a golden brown and smothered in cinnamon sugar, strawberry and chocolate sauce.”

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Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed the lawsuit against Snap Inc. Thursday in state court in Santa Fe. In addition to sexual abuse, the lawsuit claims the company also openly promotes child trafficking, drugs and guns.

Last December, Torrez filed a similar lawsuit against Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, saying it allows predators to trade child pornography and solicit minors for sex on its platforms. That suit is pending.

Snap’s “harmful design features create an environment where predators can easily target children through sextortion schemes and other forms of sexual abuse,” Torrez said in a statement. Sexual extortion, or sextortion, involves persuading a person to send explicit photos online and then threatening to make the images public unless the victim pays money or engages in sexual favors.

“Snap has misled users into believing that photos and videos sent on their platform will disappear, but predators can permanently capture this content and they have created a virtual yearbook of child sexual images that are traded, sold, and stored indefinitely,” Torres said.

In a statement, Snap said it shares Torrez’s and the public’s concerns about the online safety of young people.

“We understand that online threats continue to evolve and we will continue to work diligently to address these critical issues,” the company based in Santa Monica, California, said. We have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in our trust and safety teams over the past several years, and designed our service to promote online safety by moderating content and enabling direct messaging with close friends and family.”

According to the complaint, minors report having more online sexual interactions on Snapchat than any other platform, and more sex trafficking victims are recruited on Snapchat than on any other platform.

Prior to the lawsuit, New Mexico conducted a monthslong undercover investigation into child sexual abuse images on Snapchat. According to Torrez’s statement, the investigation revealed a “vast network of dark web sites dedicated to sharing stolen, non-consensual sexual images from Snap,” finding more than 10,000 records related to Snap and child sexual abuse material in the last year. This included information related to minors younger than 13 being sexually assaulted.

As part of the undercover investigation, the New Mexico department of justice set up a decoy Snapchat account for a 14-year-old named Heather, who found and exchanged messages with accounts with names like “child.rape” and “pedo_lover10.”

Snapchat, the lawsuit alleges, “was by far the largest source of images and videos among the dark web sites investigated.” Investigators also found Snapchat accounts that openly circulated and sold child abuse images directly on the platform.

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) – A New Mexico man was killed in a crash Wednesday night in Meade County.

Austin Wagoner, 37, of Albuquerque was driving west on US 54 when he crossed the center line and and drove through the median. His 2016 Kia Forte struck a culvert and vaulted over U160, then rolled.

The vehicle then vaulted again over a barbed wire fence and came to rest.

Wagoner was pronounced dead at a Dodge City hospital. He had no passengers and there were no other vehicles involved in the crash.

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