Dona Ana News

As a New Mexico State University student in 1991, Larissa Gibbs signed up to be an ArtsFaire town crier.

Dona Ana sheriff's investigators, working an ongoing investigation, captured a Bobcat on Thursday.

A Las Cruces woman was arrested just after 2 a.m. Sunday after police say she ran over her boyfriend while drunk.

A man wanted by police for almost five days was found and arrested shortly after 2 a.m. Tuesday.

David Ramos Arenas, left, and his attorney, Kirby Wills, await the start of a sentencing hearing Tuesday morning in Judge Jerry Ritter's courtroom at the Otero County Courthouse.

The New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Committee will meet for two days -- November 2nd and 3rd -- in Room 307 at the State Capitol, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

A Dona Ana County grand jury has indicted a Las Cruces man on a charge of murder and a Milagro, N.M. man, who was on federal supervised release, on two kidnapping charges.

Three men were arrested and charged with commercial gambling, according to New Mexico State Police Lt.

Your recent editorial, "Treatment Plant would protect Precious Water," misses the entire point of the protest citizens have against the plant.

The National Weather Service, Storm Prediction Center, in Norman, Okla., has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for several southern New Mexico counties, including Dona Ana, Luna, Grant, Hidalgo and Sierra.

It's like the legislature just woke from a seven year slumber, and decided to, well, decided to start acting like a legislature.

The committee appointed by the Las Cruces School Board to develop new districts for the city's elementary and middle schools presented its proposal to the board Tuesday night.

Although Dona Ana District Attorney Susana Martinez calls herself a candidate for statewide office, its clear that the Republican candidate is a long way from having a statewide base of support.

Grammy-nominated vocalist, composer and arranger Perla Batalla will perform at the Rio Grande Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, the second in the Dona Ana Arts Council's 2009-10 Cultural Series.

Two suspects in an alleged armed robbery in Mesquite are being sought by the Dona Ana Sheriff's Office, according to a Friday afternoon news release.

Following an apparent flurry of activity a day earlier, Dona Ana County commissioners on Wednesday OK'd a revised agreement for spending the educational portion of a spaceport sales tax.

More Las Cruces schools are seeing a spike in absences among students and teachers this week as swine flu continues to spread.

A fugitive wanted by the Dona Ana Sheriff's Office for three weeks was apprehended Thursday afternoon.

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.

We turn on the tap, and there's the water. We flush the toilet, and away it goes.