Las Cruces News

LAS CRUCES >> Dona Ana County Sheriff's deputies arrested a 35-year-old man for negligent child abuse after three toddlers were seen wandering unattended around a Mesilla Park neighborhood for several hours.

A crane lifts a piece of the Las Cruces High School bridge during construction Friday on El Paseo Road.

A crane lifts a piece of the Las Cruces High School bridge during construction Friday on El Paseo Road.

Artist Tomi LA Pierre creates a sculpture during the the Las Cruces Farmers and Crafts Market on Wednesday evening.

LAS CRUCES >> A woman traveling through Las Cruces told Dona Ana County Sheriff's investigators she was abducted from a local truck stop and then taken to the Rio Grande where she was allegedly sexually assaulted.

LAS CRUCES >> A two-vehicle crash on Highway 70 has temporarily closed eastbound traffic between the Interstate 25 interchange and Rinconada Boulevard, according to a Las Cruces Police Department news release.

LAS CRUCES >> Bird hunting along 30 miles of the Rio Grande in southern New Mexico will be officially permitted by Sept.

Friday: Partly cloudy with a 20% chance of showers and storms. El Paso 96/73. Las Cruces 94/70.

LAS CRUCES >> Garrey Carruthers had a head start when he became New Mexico State University's 27th president last summer.

NMSU Photo Graciela Unguez, a biology professor in the New Mexico State University College of Arts and Sciences, contributed to a published research article in a "Science" magazine.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) July 10--LAS CRUCES -- For the ninth consecutive year, the Center for Digital Government and the National Association of Counties, or NACo, have named Dona Ana County's website among the 10 best in the United States for counties with populations under 250,000.

Ruidoso benefits from increase of visitors in state. Midtown remains busy Thursday despite rain showers.

LAS CRUCES >> A former Las Cruces Police Department detective pleaded guilty Thursday to molesting a young girl between 2004 and 2009, the second case involving child sex crimes that he has admitted to since April.

A puppy gets close to the camera while have a social with a family on Thursday at the Animal Services Center of the Mesilla Valley.

Aaron Scott has been the farm manager at the New Mexico State University's Agricultural Science Center at Clovis for 10 years.

New Mexico State Film Office Director Nick Maniatis said he is looking into a proposal that would give game and app developers a tax break similar to that offered TV and film producers.

Officials struggling to fund a recently restructured state-wide program that helps hospitals pay for care provided to the uninsured say there is significant confusion over the changes and plenty of blame to go around.

Shari V. Hill - Sun-News file photo New Mexico State University Housing Director Julie Weber shows a two-bedroom, one-bathroom home in the student family housing area of campus last year.

The casting call for the Missoula Children's Theatre production of "The Secret Garden" will take place at 10 a.m. Monday at the Rio Grande Theatre, 211 N. Main St. There are roles for students entering first grade through 12th grade.

Good Samaritan >> There are truly good Samaritans in town. On July 3, I left my purse in a Walmart shopping cart.