Berino News

A group of Anthony and Berino residents is upset about a recent land-use decision that would allow a meat processing plant to be built down the road from an elementary school in the area.

The first-ever jail sentence for cockfighting charges in Do-a Ana County was handed down this week, county animal control director Curtis Childress said.

The U.S. Marshals Service is looking for six men who walked away from a Las Cruces halfway house for prison inmates transitioning to full release.A The Dona Ana Sheriff's Department says seven men left the Charities Halfway House early Saturday, but one was captured at his mother's house in Berino.

A 19-year-old Anthony man has been arrested on charges of shooting a shotgun at two women, a 2-year-old and a 2-month-old in late August, according to documents filed Thursday in Magistrate Court.

Some DoA a Ana County officials say they're concerned the county doesn't appear to be in line to receive much federal economic stimulus money for infrastructure.

Some locals sarcastically joke that the stretch of dairy farms along Interstate 10 south of Las Cruces should be re-named "Buenos Aires" . It's a reference to a less than aromatic sector of I-10 in southern New Mexico, not a reflection on the capital of Argentina.

Two drive-by shootings were reported in Dona Ana County on Thursday, and four men were taken into custody following a vehicle pursuit, investigators said.

No arrests have been made following two drive-by shootings last week that resulted in the death of a 21-year-old Las Cruces man and the hospitalization of an 18-year-old Berino man.

When the New Mexico Legislature was debating a bill to ban cockfighting, supporters of the brutal blood sport argued that the new law would simply drive the cockfighters underground, not end the activity.