Roswell News

The early out schedule for today and Thursday for Carlsbad Municipal School District students follows: Emmitt Smith Preschool - last full day is today.

The New Mexico Game Commission will be meeting in Roswell to consider revising the hunting season for squirrels and grouse and the renewal of a lease that would allow access to state trust land.

In a bid to set the record for longest distance solar flight, Andre Borschberg will pilot the Solar Impulse airplane from Phoenix to Dallas.

Alamogordo Democrat Leslie Endean-Singh has announced her candidacy for the 2nd Congressional District seat now held by Republican Steve Pearce.

Historian David Barton will discuss the next part of "Evidence of America's Spiritual Heritage" as part of the American Heritage Series at 6:30 p.m. today in the Conference Center at First Baptist Church, 112 N. Alameda St.

Just when motorists were becoming used to the temporary traffic lights at the intersection of Lea and Canyon streets, the New Mexico Highway Department has removed them.

Harvesting horses by Ari LeVaux Barring an act of Congress, Valley Meat Company in Roswell, N.M., will soon become the first horse slaughterhouse in the U.S. since 2007, when the nation's last equine abattoir closed its doors.

He's also one of the best paid, raking in $115,000 a year as chief deputy secretary at the Department of Health-more than even Gov.

Valley Meat Co. in Roswell has become the focal point for arguments over horse over-population in the same way ants become the focal points of bored boys with magnifying glasses.

Hondo Iris Farm is celebrating Mother's Day_Extravaganza Saturday and Sunday. There will be picnic tables, music and a variety of Iris flowers in bloom.

While not all of the former Congress members at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure last week were convinced that we are being visited by aliens, they all did say they were impressed by the high level of credibility of some of the witnesses they heard from.

Austrian Pilot Felix Baumgartner's "Red Bull Stratos" attempt to free fall from a record altitude of 120,000 feet was just delayed because of weather conditions.

A pet overpopulation problem in southern New Mexico is now spilling into the metro area.

The USDA has approved the first domestic horse slaughter facility in the United States since Congress lifted a five-year ban on such facilities in late 2011.

Skywatcher Joel Dykstra sent this photo of the solar eclipse taken on May 20, 2012.

Voters booted Republican Dan Foley from office after a decade in the New Mexico Legislature, and within months he began collecting taxpayer-financed pension benefits - even though he was only 39 years old.

Rather than any transparency, there has been a lead shield for more than 60 years around information from the U.S. government concerning its investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects .

Heightened security measures following the Boston bombings have led to the cancellation of 1 of New Mexico's largest triathlons.

Monte Shriver speaks about his research in to the alleged UFO crash in Hart Canyon in 1948 during an interview on Monday.

The original civilian investigator of the crash in Roswell, New Mexico is in town to give a lecture at MVCC on Tuesday.