Columbus News

Spencer Fields, 33, of Deming, was arrested on a magistrate court warrant for failure to pay fines.

Candi Munday, 22, of Deming, was arrested for driving under the influence, aggravated assault on a household member and battery against a household member.

I live in the flat, scruffy desert of southwestern New Mexico, a half-hour from the Mexican border town of Palomas.

During the last, December 10, 2009, meeting of the Luna County Board of Commissioners meeting, Dr.

A Columbus woman reports her identity has been used for employment in Albuquerque.

Christmas is just around the corner and the search is on for sponsors for the many needy families in the border town of Puerto Palomas, Chihuahua.

It's not too late to shop locally and support a non-profit, all-volunteer charitable organization.

Fransico "Pancho" Villa , general/caudillo in the Mexican Revolution. Villa was a part of Carranza's constitutional forces against Victoriano Huerta .

A 1986 Toyota and a 1993 Dodge Daytona, each valued at $700, were taken from the 700 block of San Miguel.

Federal prosecutors Tuesday dropped the case against a customs officer on trial on charges of improperly issuing an immigration document to his girlfriend and then bullying her when federal agents wanted to make an arrest.

Columbus Elementary Pre-School students received a very special surprise visitor on Thursday, the last day of 2009 school year.

The Cobre High School Junior Class will hold a Ham and Turkey Bingo 2 p.m. Sunday at Cobre High Cafeteria.

Organizers of the annual "Camp Furlong Day" are hoping the Luna County Board of Commissioners comes through with funding for their event.

Anna Smith, right, and her sisters Sarah, left, and Jessica shopped together, with Florida Mountain VFD's Kristy Rasberry in Saturday's Shop With a Cop program at Big Kmart.

Sapphire Energy will receive $104.5 million in federal funding to build a commercial scale, algae-based biofuel operation near Columbus in southern New Mexico.

USDA Rural Development State Director Terry Brunner congratulated the community of Columbus, New Mexico, which will benefit from $54.5 million in USDA Rural Development funds to Sappire Energy .

The violence in Palomas has thrust Maria Lopez into the job of mayor. Early in November a friend in Deming told me she'd heard that drug dealers had taken over Palomas, and that there was no city government.

Emmanuel De La Garza, 18, of Deming, was arrested on two magistrate court warrants for failure to pay fines.

Columbus Police reported Sunday afternoon Dr. Roberto Fierro, a Palomas, Mexico, dentist, was still in the hands of men who kidnapped from his clinic at gunpoint last Wednesday afternoon.

"Joy!" the annual Christmas show, opens at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at WNMU's Fine Arts Center Theatre.