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Man gets probation in cyber-sex sting

An Albuquerque man has been sentenced to 18 months' probation for child solicitation by computer and attempted criminal sexual penetration.

Matthew Ward, 41, must register as a sex offender, Attorney General Patricia Madrid announced Tuesday. Ward's sentence also prohibits him from accessing the Internet while on probation.

Ward pleaded guilty in July to the child solicitation charge and no contest to the other charge.

He was arrested in an Albuquerque park in January after corresponding in an Internet chat room with an undercover agent who was posing as a 14-year-old girl and setting up the park meeting.

Las Vegas marine interred at ranch

SAN GERONIMO - A 23-year-old Marine who was killed in Iraq has been laid to rest at his family's ranch in northern New Mexico.

Lance Cpl. Shane P. Harris of San Geronimo was killed Sept. 3 in Al Anbar province while conducting combat operations with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force based in Twentynine Palms, Calif.

A few hundred people turned out Tuesday at the Harris ranch to honor the Marine. Friends and family followed a 17-mile funeral procession from Las Vegas to the ranch west of town.

Coalition contests falcon protection

SANTA FE - A coalition of environmental groups has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, saying the agency's decision this summer to designate the northern aplomado falcon as an experimental population strips the bird of needed protections.

The Fish and Wildlife Service decided in July to reintroduce the falcon to its historical home in the Chihuahuan desert grasslands of New Mexico and Arizona.

The falcon, listed as endangered in 1986, has been seen sporadically in New Mexico and Arizona, but has only successfully nested once since the 1950s.

The agency has classified the birds as a nonessential experimental population, which means birds in the two states will no longer be considered endangered.

The environmental groups contend in a federal court filing Monday that the birds should have greater protection.