Deming News

DEMING >> A Luna County Florida Mountain volunteer firefighter registered a blood-alcohol content more than two times the legal limit after the county vehicle he was driving was pulled over by a Deming Police officer.

Hanging on to shirt tails from last year's inaugural event, the Deming Pride has organized its first annual Deming Pride: Celebrating Pride and Equality Festival for Friday and Saturday, July 18-19, at Voiers' Park.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson will visit a temporary immigration detention center in southeastern New Mexico on Friday and meet with officials in Texas about the ongoing humanitarian immigrant crisis, the department said Thursday.

A shy Adam Fofana, 13, sends out a message to all of his classmates and the Deming community.

An Agriculture Lease Renewal Workshop is scheduled to help State Land Office lessees fill out renewal applications in Deming on Monday.

Western New Mexico University-Deming Senior Program Advisor Elizabeth Davila presented staff computer technician Michael Temple with a certificate awarding him WNMU-Deming Staff Member of the Month.

A City of Deming employee working for the Deming Police Department was involved in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday morning directly in front of City Hall at 309 S. Gold St. The driver of the white vehicle was pulling out of John Strand Municipal Building when she was struck by another vehicle.

Headlight Photo Richard Holguin shakes hands with Deming Mayor Benny Jasso during the grand opening of his Wheelchair and Walker business at its new location 1204 Columbus Road.

Headlight Photo Jimmy Herrera, a former Deming High graduate and now a deputy fire chief in Las Cruces, presented the Rachel Herrera Female Scholarship to graduate Alexa Chumpitaz during the DHS Scholarship and Awards Night held in May at the Deming Public Schools Auditorium.

DEMING >> A Houston, Texas, man fell to his death Monday at Spring Canyon State Park, 15 miles south of Deming adjacent to Rockhound State Park.

Timothy Baeza, left, a Western New Mexico University-Deming student, explains his poster presentation "Sample Acquisition and Processing for Natural Product Studies in Wasps" at the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation Symposium on Thursday, June 26. Baeza was one of 12 Summer Community College Opportunity for Research Experience students ... (more)

DJ Robert Ramirez donated his "Ground 'n' Pound" Entertainment Service for the Deming Visitor Center Fourth of July celebration Friday at the Luna County Courthouse Park on Friday.

April and Chris Nesin made a stop at the Deming Municipal Airport as part of their "Retracing the Flight of Passage" sky tour.

Jasmine Palos rides atop the third place Blake's Lot-A-Burger float during the Fourth of July Parade and Celebration Friday in Deming.

James Efferson Photo The Village of Columbus and Luna County are joined in a Memorandum of Understanding regarding law enforcement duties in the the village located 30 miles south of Deming.

Headlight Photo Ultimate Frisbee was a big hit for the older kids during the City of Deming Summer Youth Recreation Program at the Hofacket Campus of Deming High School.

Headlight Photo The Perales Boys, from left, Deryk, 21, Jordan, 16, and Aaron, 13, man the TNT Fireworks stand in the Walmart Supercenter parking lot.

Two US Army Black Hawk helicopters prepare to land at the Deming Municipal Airport Tuesday afternoon.

Curious puppies are anxious to see what jolly St. Nick brought them at the Deming Animal Shelter.

What began as a call for help early Wednesday morning resulted in a Deming man arrested for threatening employees with a shotgun at several local business.