Dona Ana County News

In June, Dona Ana County animal control responded to a house on King Edward Drive where they found over 30 cats.

Dona Ana County's election supervisor has been appointed to the standards board of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

Dona Ana County Clerk's Office Election's Supervisor Bob Bartelsmeyer has been appointed to the Standards Board of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission by Mary Herrera, New Mexico Secretary of State.

New Mexico health officials say a 4-year-old boy from San Juan County is among the latest state residents to die from the swine flu.

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

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.

A former Topeka school paraprofessional who received probation for sexually assaulting a student has been indicted on one charge of sexually assaulting the same boy in New Mexico.

A Las Cruces couple charged in the death of a baby in their care received a March court date.

It's actually been an ongoing battle for a couple of years now and the dispute is between Dona Ana County Sheriff Todd Garrison and his sergeants.

Shannie Corral and Robert O'Brien both attend New Mexico State University and thought it would be nice to take a hike during one of the rare days Las Cruces is overcast.

The chances for rain will diminish overnight after a thunderstorm brought rain and strong winds to Dona Ana County and far West El Paso this evening.

Over 30 community, business and health care leaders attended an H1N1 question and answer session on Monday.

Dona Ana County is accepting pre-applications for the Community Development Block Grant Program.

The City Council today got behind a plan to protect more than 300,000 acres of mountains, wilderness and other scenic areas in Dona Ana County, N.M. The council voted 6-0 to back a bill sponsored by U.S. Sens.

New Mexico lawmakers who want tax hikes as part of a plan to fill a $650 million budget gap suffered a setback Sunday when a Senate committee ruled such increases can't be considered during the special legislative session.

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.

A Las Cruces man has been charged with second-degree murder, accused of using a baseball bat in the 2006 beating death of his father.

A 46-year-old Dona Ana County man has been sentenced to eight days in jail and fines after being found guilty of cockfighting.

Columbus Mayor Eddie Espinoza and Luna County Sheriff Raymond Cobos said Friday they saw no immediate threat to Luna County in the aftermath of Thursday's kidnapping and killing of Palomas, Mexico, Mayor Estanislao "Tani" Garcia Santelis.

Four reportedly dangerous inmates remained at large Sunday after escaping from a Las Cruces halfway house early Saturday morning.