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  • Alamogordo, N.M. Sept. 20, 2001. Two F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter depart Holloman Air Force Base. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Gamma for TIME)



  • pvcNVALFIRE1/6-28-07/ASEC. An unidentified Bernalillo County firefighter douses a smouldering area with water as fire fighters from Station 1 in the North valley and Station 12 in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque put out a small fire that had erupted along a ditch bank near North Guadalupe Trail, photographed Thursday morning June 28, 2007. no one was injured in the fire. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)


  • pvcGALLE2/2-29-08/RR. Lucas Galle (CQ), right, of Rio Rancho battles Daniel Gonzales (CQ), left, Friday night in Albuquerque Feb. 29, 2008. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvc022409a/2-24-09/asec. An investigator holds what appears to be a human femur as the search continues in a 100-acre crime scene at 118th and Dennis Chavez SW where the remains of 10 people have been found, photographed Tuesday February 24, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvc032709j/3-27-09/asec. Pyrotechnics are set off as the bull riders are introduced at the start of the Ty Murray Invitational at The Pit, photographed Friday March 27, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvc103009b/10-30-09/sports. Johnathan Hernandez, age 8, the son of boxer Marcos Hernandez, shadow boxes at his dad's boxing club inside a converted church, photographed Friday Oct. 30, 2009. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)


  • pvc033109a/3-31-09/asec. Bernaillo County firefighters from station four Freeman Faust (CQ), center, Luis Padilla (CQ), left, and Lt. Brian Lynch (CQ), right, prepare to extinguish a fire engulfing an abandoned Ford pickup truck near Douglas and Ronald Rd SW. Tuesday morning March 31, 2009. No-one was injured in the fire. According to an unofficial comment from a Bernalillo County Sherrif's Deputy who had responded to the fire, so far this year around twenty vehicles have been abandoned on the southwest mesa, many of which had been torched. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvcTOME1/3-25-05/JP4/WEST. Pilgrims braved the elements to journey to the top of El Cerro in Tome on Good Friday to commemorate the crucifixion of Jesus, photographed Friday March 25, 2005. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)


  • pvcVIAFUNERAL1/8-23-06/JP2/WEST. Natividad Marta (CQ), right facing camera, and Elizabeth Montoya (CQ), back to camera, console one other next to the body of Marta's daughter Nayeli Villanueva (CQ), left, before the funeral at Holy Family Catholic Church on Atrisco SW, photographed Wed. Aug. 23, 2006. Montoya was Nayeli's teacher from 8th grade through high school at Rio Grande and said of the deceased teen "She was the perfect student, the student every teacher wanted, she always got straight A's, she always had a great attitude, there was never a bad anything from her". (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvchelo2/6-26-03/jp3/asec. Blackhawk helicopters pass each other towing water buckets on their way to drop their payloads on smouldering hot spots on both sides of the Rio Grande near Montano Blvd, Thursday morning photographed June 26, 2003. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • IMMIGRANT RALLY pvcMEXICAN3/4-10-06/JP2/ASEC. With Mexican flags waving and fists raised, a car of supporters drives past marchers in a National Day of Action rally along Third Street near Civic Plaza, photographed Monday April 10, 2006. (PAT VASQUEZ-CUNNINGHAM/JOURNAL)


  • pvcpeaceprot2/3-15-03/jp2. Dozens of APD officers suited-up in riot gear stand at the ready on Gibson Blvd. near the Truman gate entrance to Kirtland AFB as an anti-war activist flashes the peace sign from the sidewalk, Saturday March 15, 2003. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)

  • pvcfiretrain1/2-5-03/jp3/asec. Recruits from the Albuquerque Fire Department Training Academy participate in a

  • pvcprotfol3/3-20-03/jp3/asec. APD officers wearing full riot gear with attack dogs stand at the ready as a tear-gas cannnister erupts with smoke and gas at Central Ave. and Cornell SE while protestors in an anti-war rally/march shut down Central Ave. Thursday March 20, 2003. (Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal)