Columbus News

A reporter flees the biggest cartel of all - the Mexican Army. - By Charles Bowden.

U.S. Border Patrol agents, responding to an emergency signal, rescued a Southern California man early Tuesday morning in the desert northwest of Columbus.

Turn out for the Deming Tea Party, held on the Fourth of July at the Leyendecker Plaza drew between 45-50 local patriots, according to Tea Party officials.

Senate Bill 166 revises the crime of stalking, to include cyberstalking and other use of technological devices for stalking.

"Stalking is a continuance of behavior, so it takes more than one report (to show a pattern). Sometimes, they (victims) won't come in until some months later and say someone has been doing it," said Luna County Sheriff's Sgt. Joy Mullins.

The new law extends stalking violations to use of emails and other electronics. Records of such use may be subpoenaed for court use.

Agents from the Deming U.S. Border Patrol Station nabbed a man with a felony record as he entered the United States from Mexico Tuesday night.

According to the U.S Attorney's Office, 20-year-old Leondardo Escalante from Columbus, N.M., has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess and distribute marijuana and cocaine.

U.S. Border Patrol agents in Deming located a tourist from California on Tuesday morning after he became lost in the New Mexico desert.

The Obama administration is developing plans to seek up to 1,500 National Guard volunteers to step up the military's counter-drug efforts along the Mexican border, senior administration officials said Monday.

Marblehead art pottery; pre-war German and Japanese character canes; Sioux artifacts; and the first book printed in Wyoming.

The state will have a sobriety checkpoint in Luna County this weekend. The location and time were not disclosed.

It seems strange to Dr. Christopher Meuli that in the desert, water is treated like garbage.

The new Columbus Elementary School is scheduled to open in less than a month. Deming Public Schools is working toward July 22 as the first day for students, but opening is contingent on installation of pumps to maintain adequate water pressure and volume.

A former Mesilla deputy marshal, now on the Columbus Village payroll, could face disciplinary action by the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy for a September DWI that was not reported, the academy director said Tuesday.

Heritage educator Sylvia Brenner, right, guides 'History Detectives' host Eduardo Pagan through the interpretive center at Pancho Villa State Park in New Mexico.

This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," June 18, 2009. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

The following letter by Janet Contreras was featured on Glenn Beck's radio show last Tuesday. It strikes a populist chord that goes beyond party lines to unify the silent majority of Americans who are fed up with "business as usual".

Children from Mexico cross to Columbus, N.M., for school, but parent-teacher conferences are no longer held on the Mexican side.

In this scene from History Detectives that will air at 7 p.m. MDT today on PBS, from left are Professor Eduardo Pagan, investigator, Dedra Kolste, subject of the show from Olympic Peninsula of Washington State; and Richard Dean Historian/Archivist of Columbus, N.M. The mystery is whether a watch fob given to Dedra Kolste by a neighbor many years ...

This Dec. 16, 2008 photo provided by Judy Keeler shows Bobby Pierce, deputy director of the New Mexico Livestock Board examining a section of a Normandy-styled barrier fence along the U.S.-Mexico border that has sunk into the ground near Columbus, N.M. Some border ranchers and livestock experts in New Mexico say the Department of Homeland Security ...

"Before the police chief here sought political asylum in the United States, after his deputies had all run away because of the kidnappings and killings, this was a nice little town to get your teeth cleaned." More scare tactics from the media. It still is a nice little town! Maybe it's time to go visit Dr. Salazar and get the old amalgam out.