More states are joining a growing move to stop death penalties because of the high cost involved. The move, spearheaded by Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, has on its side the states of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and New Hampshire which are pushing for legislations that will repeal the death penalty.

O'Malley said death penalties cost three times compared to homicide cases. With the economic crisis gripping the nation, previous death penalty advocates like New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, are reconsidering their position.

The family of Geronimo has sued the U.S. government, Yale University and the secret society Skull and Bones to recover from them the remains and artifacts of the legendary Apache warrior.

The suit Geronimo v. Obama, 09-cv-303 filed Tuesday by 17 descendants of Geronimo asked the U.S. District Court in D.C. to compel the defendants to return the bones and burial items of Geronimo in their possession and reveal what they know about what happened to the remains. The suit is also seeking compensatory damages.

The Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory in New Mexico is missing 67 computers, including 13 that were lost or stolen in the last year.

Of the thirteen missing computers lost or stolen in the past 12 months, three were taken from a scientist's home in Santa Fe, N.M., on Jan. 16, and a BlackBerry belonging to another employee was lost "in a sensitive foreign country," according to lab officials.

Federal officials on Tuesday announced the arrest of a New Mexico man suspected of sending 65 hoax letters containing blackboard chalk powder to banks and government offices in October.

Special agents and postal inspectors arrested Richard Leon Goyette, 47, Monday at the airport in Albuquerque, said officials of the U.S. Attoryney's Office for the Northern District of Texas, the Dallas FBI and the Fort Worth Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. Goyette appeared before a federal magistrate in Albuquerque and will be returned to Texas to face the charges.

Federal officials on Tuesday announced the arrest of a New Mexico man suspected of sending 65 hoax letters containing blackboard chalk powder to banks and government offices in October.

Special agents and postal inspectors arrested Richard Leon Goyette, 47, Monday at the airport in Albuquerque, said officials of the U.S. Attoryney's Office for the Northern District of Texas, the Dallas FBI and the Fort Worth Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. Goyette appeared before a federal magistrate in Albuquerque and will be returned to Texas to face the charges.