Lea County Commissioner Pat Sims is a registered Republican but a Libertarian at heart. He calls his cows Democrats. “They’re always sitting around, waiting for a handout,” he said. He has homes on ...

When Mark Scott steps into the Santa Fe city manager position Monday, he will become the highest-paid city employee. His salary of $225,000 — a notable increase over the $182,000 earned annually by ...

Split nearly down the middle, the results of the 2024 presidential election brought elation, fear, hope and despair. For at least the next four years, Peter Simonson is going to look away. "That's one ...

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A former detective with the Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office was sentenced Friday to nearly three years of supervised ...

UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) — The death of an inmate at Marcy Correctional Facility, who was beaten by correctional staff in December, has been ruled a homicide, prompting a statement from Governor Kathy ...

DALLAS (KTVT) — No one said getting out of prison was easy, but Christina Melton Crain isn’t sure people know exactly how hard it can be. “When they get off the bus, they’ve been given $ ...

The City of Las Cruces remembers the life and legacy of a slain police officer, one year after he was killed in the line of ...

Former Las Cruces police Officer Brad Lunsford was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the 2022 shooting death of ...

Brad Lunsford, who was taken into custody and will be sentenced at a later date, faces up to nine years in prison.

The 2022 police shooting happened after police were called to a Chevron gas station after a store clerk accused a man of stealing beer.

A Texas man who murdered his strip club manager and another man, then later prompted a massive lockdown of the state prison system when he used a cellphone smuggled into death ...