Las Cruces News

Brook Stockberger/Sun-News New Mexico Secretary of Economic Development Jon Barela speaks at MVEDA's monthly luncheon on Tuesday at the Hotel Encanto de Las Cruces.

While it may not sound like breaking news to some of us, researchers are forever looking at our eating habits and buying patterns to better understand why we choose one food over another, particularly why, sometimes, we make the wrong choices.

Courtesy Photo From left are Bill Madden, Richard Dean and Fritz Wagoner laying out survey plans for the historic First Aero Squadron Army airstrip in Columbus, NM.

LAS CRUCES >> More than 1,300 city workers will be required to take an ethics course after several employees were recently charged with various offenses involving city property, officials announced.

Sun-News Gert Wolschon, 94, reacts on Tuesday after receiving hugs and a Hershey's chocolate bar from Jaelyn Juarez, 9, left, and other Valley View Elementary School students who interviewed her for a living history project at the Munson Senior Center.

Courtesy photo Resident Nancy Simmons shows a sample of glass cullet at a recent SCSWA glass recycling sub-committee meeting.

LAS CRUCES >> The 4th annual Welcome Home Day for Vietnam veterans will be held starting at 8 a.m. on March 29 at Las Cruces Veterans Park, 2651 N. Roadrunner Parkway.

LAS CRUCES >> "A Nightmare in Las Cruces," the documentary film about the 1990 Bowling Alley Massacre, will be shown for a week at Video 4, starting Friday.

Las Cruces' own Diane Basler-White is set to compete in CMT's reality competition series "TATTOO TITANS" at 9 p.m. March 15. The series features four of the country's best tattoo artists competing each week in challenges that are meant to test each artists' abilities.

LAS CRUCES >> New Mexico State University officials are upping efforts to retain students while enrollment continues to fall across the school's five campuses.

Parking lot sale: La Casa Domestic Violence Shelter parking lot sale will take place from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. March 31 at 800 S. Walnut, St. The sale includes appliances, furniture, collectibles, dishware, household items, books, lots of electronics and many other quality items.

LAS CRUCES >> An audit of the Mesilla Marshal's Department found no wrongdoing related to the law enforcement agency's recent spending of federal grant money.

LAS CRUCES >> New Mexico State Police are continuing their investigation into the stabbing death of an inmate at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility on Friday night.

LAS CRUCES >> A Las Cruces lawmaker who missed the recent legislative session because he was recuperating said Monday he plans to return several thousand dollars he collected in per-diem payments.

LAS CRUCES >> Dona Ana County is seeking applications from residents interested in serving on the Planning and Zoning Commission, a seven-member board of volunteers whose members review land-use and development matters at twice-monthly public hearings.

A federal jury in Las Cruces exonerated Luna County of all claims filed against in a 2011 lawsuit.

An ancient metal ax is embedded in the skull of a Spanish conquistador from the late 1600s, found in Northern New Mexico, in a new exhibit, "The Skull Beneath the Skin: Forensic Anthropology of the Human Cranium" at NMSU's University Museum in Kent Hall at University Avenue and Solano Drive.

Courtesy Photo A scene from the documentary "Never The Same: The Prisoner of War Experience."

A sentimental monster with a "Mom" tattoo goes into battle in Luke Navarro's "Homesick," currently on exhibit at The Trunk, 1690 S. Valley Drive.

LAS CRUCES >> Southern New Mexico's growing reputation as a mecca for the arts and arts aficionados gets a boost from the annual Las Cruces Arts Fair, which organizers have called an "important signature fine arts event in the Southwest."