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CBS 7 Staff June 15, 2009 4:30 PM 70 mile per hour winds bent the police department's communication tower in half.

Eddie Garcia CBS 7 News June 15, 2009 JAL, NM - The national weather service said they believe that 70 to 80 mile an hour straight-line winds ripped through the community Sunday afternoon.

CBS 7 News Staff June 15, 2009 Jal, NM - Portions of a New Mexico Town are still without electricity after a destructive hail storm knocks down power lines.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ] major cleanup on lang_tools, now everything is in working order and even the lambdas seem to be working well.

It will be costly and take some time to implement the state's new euthanasia law for animals in Tucumcari and Quay County, according to the city's police chief.

A looming June deadline has Clovis working to switch from the gas chamber to lethal injection as a mechanism for killing unwanted animals.

ALBUQUERQUE A New Mexico Lottery player with a winning PowerballA ticket worth $10,000 has until April 23 to claim the prize.

Two southern New Mexico towns that have euthanized animals in gas chambers say they need training and more personnel to put the animals down by lethal injection as required by a new state law.

Although Carlsbad's animal shelter stopped using gas chambers to euthanize animals almost three years ago, a statewide ban on this type of euthanasia will go into effect in June calling for a more "humane" alternative.

New Mexico is becoming the 18th state in the nation to prohibit the euthanizing of animals in gas chambers.

A new state law will prohibit euthanizing animals in gas chambers. Gov. Bill Richardson signed legislation into law on Monday that prohibits the use of carbon monoxide gas chambers to kill dogs and cats at animal shelters.

As of June, crossing international borders between the United States, Mexico and Canada will require U.S. citizens to have a passport book or a passport card.

Fourth-graders at Mettie Jordan Elementary in Eunice took home baby trees they could plant, thanks to Lea County Community Federal Credit Union.

The New Mexico House passed two bills Thursday aimed at curbing animal cruelty. One measure increases the penalties for those who cause death or great bodily harm to animals by mistreating or abandoning them.

Measuring state workers: A measure by freshman Sen. Sander Rue, R-Albuquerque, would measure the productivity of state government employees.

Leaving your pooch alone in the car on a hot day could be a misdemeanor crime if it resulted in death or injury, under an expansion of New Mexico's animal cruelty laws approved by the House.

The city commission's recent decision to stay with carbon monoxide and reject euthanizing unwanted animals by lethal injection may have just run out of gas.

A state senator, along with newspaper owners and insurance companies, say a plan by the state to hire a company to create a Web site to make it quick and easy to retrieve driver's license information could make ...

Hiring additional teachers and freeing up more space in classrooms and schools has been the effect of enrollment growth on three Lea County school districts and Seminole Independent School District.

The New Mexico Department of Health is working with about 73 schools across New Mexico to immunize children against the flu this year.