Ruidoso Downs News

Ruidoso Patrol Officer Tillman Freeman and Sgt. Mike Weaver responded to Motel 6 on U.S. 70 May 3 for a report of a possible narcotics exchange.

Public transportation in the Ruidoso area will be cut to a five-day per week offering.

Elmo Silva Jr. looks at the deputy district attorney during a hearing in District Court Friday on a motion Silva filed to attempt to get more credit for time served in prison on a 1990 conviction for rape, false imprisonment and attempted murder.

In this Sept. 6, 2010 file photo, owner Jose Trevino Morales, center, acknowledges the crowd as he stood with the trophy after Mr.

After listening to more than a dozen representatives of external agencies asking for help with their annual budgets, Lincoln County commissioners tentatively approved about $326,000 in requests, cutting more than $45,000 from initial submissions for the Fiscal Year 2013-2014 preliminary budget.

The past association of the attorney for Lincoln County with a private garbage hauler is being questioned by officials of Greentree Solid Waste Authority as they try to secure a court ruling on responsibility for a debt repayment.

The allowed use of water in Ruidoso Downs has gotten squeezed some more. A notice issued Monday by Mayor Gary Williams moved the city to Stage 3 water rationing restrictions.

In a request to the City Council, the chair of the board asked that the ordinance that established the board be amended to allow the appointment of Ruidoso Downs business owners or their employees to the economic development panel.

The company that developed a small shopping center in Ruidoso Downs including the Magic Forest Restaurant and Pub has filed suit in connection with a water leak that undermined the property that included three buildings.

Lincoln County's business retention gross receipts tax for this fiscal year is on track to deliver more revenues than the year July 2011 through June 2012.

Ruidoso Police officers Curtis Rogers and Sgt. Lawrence Chavez responded to a report of a domestic incident in the 200 block of Fourth Street at 1:24 a.m. April 9. The victim reported she was in the bedroom asleep when Charles Malfitano, 56, came home from watching a basketball game at a local restaurant.

Walmart customers got more than they bargained for when someone called saying there was bomb at the superstore.

Pictured is one of the 14 bedrooms at the Nest Domestic Violence Shelter at 26374 US Highway 70 in Ruidoso Downs.

Just 10 days after Hubbard Museum of the American West Director Jim Kofakis departed the financially stretched museum owned by the city of Ruidoso Downs, the two curators at the facility told city officials they also will resign.

A decision on whether the county can send Commission Chairman Jackie Powell as a second representative along with its previous appointee Commissioner Mark Doth was postponed last month to allow Authority Attorney Angie Schneider time to research the issue.

Spinning, like all handcrafts, was developed to meet basic needs of survival in a harsh environment.

Fire restrictions that prohibit outdoor smoking and charcoal grilling will soon kick in for Ruidoso and Ruidoso Downs.

Officials for the village of Ruidoso and the city of Ruidoso Downs have announced the entities are implementing fire restrictions this week in light of ongoing drought conditions.

Now, the man who helped raise Ruidoso Downs and Zia Park in Hobbs into successful operations, is happy to have a chance to build on the success already in play in southern Dona Ana "I knew it was a product that we could keep building on," said Baugh, the new general manager at Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino.