Socorro News

When the giant radio galaxy Messier 87 unleashed a torrent of gamma radiation and radio flux, an international collaboration of 390 scientists happened to be watching.

A pair of summer storms collided over southern Socorro County on Sunday, and dumped heavy rains that caused significant flash flooding.

A pair of brothers face charges of trafficking heroin following a June 17 bust in Luis Lopez.

Nineteen-year-old Rafael Gamez stared straight ahead as District Judge Edmund "Ted" Kase III accepted a plea agreement and sentenced the Socorro teenager to six years in prison for his role in the beating and stabbing death of Garrett Joe.

Along with the tell-tale signs of the season that are cropping up, so, too, are complaints from some citizens who are concerned with the number of teens hanging out late at night.

The university has introduced plans for a geothermal plant and graduate engineering program.

Two months after beginning their search for a missing Polvadera woman, Socorro County Sheriff's deputies are ready to start over.

By profession, Jim McLain works as a facility manager at New Mexico Tech. But on his own time, the Socorro native has carved himself a niche in the world of woodturning.

The two PGA Professionals serve about a mile apart as hosts at their respective courses for this month's 42nd PGA Professional National Championship.

HighWire Abstract The existence of impulsive S to S-wave reflections off an extensive sillshaped magma body on many local microearthquake seismograms near Socorro, New Mexico, allowed a straight-forward least-squares inversion to determine an S-wave velocity crustal model.

Hundreds of Socorro-area residents turned out to honor members of the New Mexico National Guard Wednesday as the unit prepares for its August deployment to Iraq.

Socorro will salute a National Guard unit that will soon be deployed to Iraq by hosting an "Old-fashion Patriotic Picnic" on the Plaza on Wednesday, June 10.

The body of a Corrales woman who was last seen in Los Lunas in early April was discovered late Saturday night in a wooded area of Socorro County.

Sandra Sanchez's ex-boyfriend Joe Easley, who's a person of interest in her murder, was ready to surrender to Los Lunas Police Monday, but that's because he thought there was a warrant for his arrest.

Investigators identified a body found Sunday near Socorro, N.M. as that of a woman missing from Valencia County.

Representatives of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission will be in town Monday, June 8, for a public information meeting regarding ongoing issues and concerns with the Socorro Electric Cooperative.

The interviews and public presentations are complete. A trio of candidates vying for the vacant Socorro High School principal's post was in town Monday, June 1, for formal interviews and informal introductions to the community.

Talk about an intimidating golf shot. There's only one tee box at the Elfego Baca Shootout, and it's perched 2,550 feet above the hole and nearly three miles away.

The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public input on a proposed high-voltage power transmission line to be built across southern New Mexico and Arizona.

How the grandmothers led us to a long-forgotten fort and Indian agency. Story and photos by Jerry Eagan Last August, on a return trip from Albuquerque, my wife and I stopped at the marvelous El Camino Real Museum near Socorro.