Mescalero News

Alphonso Holden, 58, of the 900 block of Mescalero, was arrested on a Municipal Court warrant for alleged failure to pay fines and released to the custody of the court.

After nearly a century of ministering to the Roman Catholic faithful in Tularosa and on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, the Franciscan presence in Tularosa and in Mescalero will no longer remain.

Tuesday in federal court in Las Cruces, Allen Stafford Smith, 53, a member of the Mescalero Apache Nation, was sentenced to a 121-month prison term for his child sexual abuse conviction.

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A resident of the 800 block of San Miguel reported that sometime between April 6 and May 5, someone entered his storage unit at GCW Self Storage and removed several tools and two stackable toolboxes.

After nearly a century of ministering to the Roman Catholic faithful in Tularosa and on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, the Franciscan presence in Tularosa and in Mescalero will no longer remain.

The second Mescalero Warrior Challenge brings the New Mexico's own Coty "Ox" Wheeler back home for a bantamweight bout against Freddie Lux at 7 p.m. Saturday at Inn of the Mountain Gods in Mescalero.

Marisa Rice, left, and Lala Chino of Mescalero wince at the weekly necessity of a visit to the pump, despite recently dropping gas prices.

The homeless man charged with the brutal assault on a Ruidoso restaurant employee was arraigned in Carrizozo Magistrate Court Tuesday and Judge Martha Proctor increased his bond to $700,000 cash.

Twyla Rayne stands atop Alamo Mountain on Otero Mesa. Twyla is a direct descendant to the great Apache leader and warrior Cochise.

Terrence Charles Blake, 28, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation pled guilty to an indictment charging him with aggravated sexual abuse in federal court in Las Cruces Monday afternoon.

An employee of the local McDonald's was found in a field behind the restaurant 11 hours after her attacker beat, raped, strangled and stabbed her in the neck.

A federal decision in 2009, to bolster law enforcement on the Mescalero Apache Indian Reservation and three other tribal communities around the country has had a local impact on crime.