Las Cruces News

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."

LAS CRUCES >> A plain brown building directly across from the Meerscheidt Recreation Center is going to get a much-needed paint job by local teens in an upcoming aerosol art camp.

LAS CRUCES >> Each year the Community Foundation of Southern New Mexico manages a variety of scholarships that were created in memory, through endowments.

The Santa Fe New Mexican reports 34-year-old Javier Enrique Molina had ties to inmates who were all part of the same gang at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility in Las Cruces.

LAS CRUCES >> Last week's two shootings in Chaparral came nearly a month after public complaints about a crime surge throughout the small and mostly rural community in far southeast Dona Ana County.

LAS CRUCES >> A village of Dona Ana-based water provider is seeking money for large projects that would boost water or sewage treatment in three areas of the county.