Berino News

TOPICS ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos marks the passings of John O'Connor III , former ambassador James Lilley , former New Mexico Governor Bruce King and photographer Evelyn Hofer .

The gray clouds held their rain until mourners began to leave the cemetery after the town's first casualty of the Iraq war was laid to rest Saturday.

The Department of Defense has identified 4,350 American service members who have died since the start of the Iraq war and 905 who have died as a part of the Afghan war and related operations.

A New Mexico soldier has died from wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit in Iraq last week.

The Associated Press= As of Monday, Nov. 9, 2009, at least 4,362 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

A group of Anthony and Berino residents is upset about a recent land-use decision that would allow a meat processing plant to be built down the road from an elementary school in the area.

The first-ever jail sentence for cockfighting charges in Do-a Ana County was handed down this week, county animal control director Curtis Childress said.

The U.S. Marshals Service is looking for six men who walked away from a Las Cruces halfway house for prison inmates transitioning to full release.A The Dona Ana Sheriff's Department says seven men left the Charities Halfway House early Saturday, but one was captured at his mother's house in Berino.

A 19-year-old Anthony man has been arrested on charges of shooting a shotgun at two women, a 2-year-old and a 2-month-old in late August, according to documents filed Thursday in Magistrate Court.

Some DoA a Ana County officials say they're concerned the county doesn't appear to be in line to receive much federal economic stimulus money for infrastructure.

Some locals sarcastically joke that the stretch of dairy farms along Interstate 10 south of Las Cruces should be re-named "Buenos Aires" . It's a reference to a less than aromatic sector of I-10 in southern New Mexico, not a reflection on the capital of Argentina.