Valencia County News

Malachi Coleman, 16, pleaded guilty to burglary in exchange for testimony against two other teens involved in 2011 murder of Joann Quintana .

The New Mexico State Police is asking for the public's assistance in locating Francisco Garcia, 35, who is believed to have been involved in a May 23 home invasion and robbery in Tome, which is south of Los Lunas.

A A Valencia County reserve sheriff's deputy faces charges that he sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl while armed with a gun.

LOS LUNAS, N.M. - A pest first found in Valencia County apple orchards two years ago emerged early this year bringing with it the threat of economic damage to commercial growers.

A teenager who faced a murder charge in the death of a 41-year-old Belen woman has received a plea deal.

They are looking for Ruben Ortega-Alvarez, who they believe killed Martha Garcia-Caderecha and shot her husband in the chest.

New Mexico State Police say a second man has been arrested in connection to the shooting of a 10-year-old boy in Valencia County.

The New Mexico Attorney General's office is considering criminal charges against a Los Lunas auction business after four emaciated horses were found struggling for life.

Just before 2 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, deputies found the body of 33-year-old Martha Garcia Caderecha just a few hundred yards away from her home in Meadow Lake.

LOS LUNAS, N.M. - An animal-protection group is offering a reward for information on a cruelty case where an underweight dog was found dragging 25 pounds of chain.

Community Briefing: Idea to have private group run Zilker Botanical Garden put on hold; Buda council to hold budget workshop As part of a technology change, commenting will not be available on some articles for a number of months.

ALBUQUERQUE - A Valencia County reserve sheriff's deputy is in trouble with the law Wednesday morning after being accused of raping a teenage girl.

A reserve deputy with the Valencia County Sheriff's office is accused of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

Officers with Valencia County animal control uncover a home crawling with cats, and now they have no where to put the animals.

ALBUQUERQUE - Valencia County deputies are looking for two people after a man was shot in the chest at his home in Meadow Lake around midnight.

The Valencia County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in finding a woman possibly connected to a late Monday night shooting in Los Lunas.

Lawyers argued Wednesday whether Benjamin Hilburn's 8-year-old sister should testify in his murder trial.

A mighty wind, the man behind statehood, 800 fraud suspects and more in Thursday's Five Things to Know Before 5. 5. Navajo Technical College in Crownpoint is the first tribal school to be accredited by the American Culinary Federation.

The New Mexico Corrections Department is launching an investigation into charges that a warden thwarted an FBI inquiry into an alleged rape of an inmate by a guard.

BOSQUE FARMS, N.M. - They are barely adults, all are in big trouble, and police say one is on the loose and dangerous.