Bent News

New Mexico's attorney general is asking the state Supreme Court to deny an appeal request for imprisoned cult leader Wayne Bent.

For more than two months, Paul Saenz has been harvesting from the bumper crop of apples at Mendoza Orchards in Bent.

The leader of an apocalyptic sect who is serving 10 years in prison for sexual misconduct with teenage female followers is on what he terms a religious fast.

Every time I lower my expectations of the human race, something comes along and slaps me on the head and says, "Snap out of it!" Well, that's what happened last Saturday.

CerA n St. Vrain, a close associate of Charles Bent and Kit Carson, ranks as a major figure in 19th-century New Mexican history.

Painter Ember Soberman, a participant in the Mano y Mente artist-in-residence program, works on a painting April 13 in Tularosa.