Las Cruces News

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.

Congratulations to the Las Cruces Yankees 10U baseball team for winning the 2014 State Championship tournament in Rio Rancho on June 15. The Yankees returned to Las Cruces and also won the city league championship on June 24. The team will travel to Santa Fe on Friday to compete in the regional tournament in hopes to continue a successful season ... (more)

Water rushes in an arroyo on Wednesday at the corner of Highway 28 and Avenida del Panteon near Lorenzo Guerra's farm.

LAS CRUCES >> A Las Cruces baby girl is dead and her mother has been charged after she allegedly used blankets to muffle the infant's cries.

Starring in the Starlight Children's Theatre production of Gilbert and Sullivan's "Patience," are, from left, John Paul Andersen, May Harrington and Jacob Darmata.

Combination plate No. 3 offers a little bit of everything: a folded taco, flauta, chile relleno, chile con carne, rolled enchilada and beans and rice.

LAS CRUCES >> A couple of adults suspected of shoplifting at Kmart were also charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor because the woman's young daughter accompanied them.

LAS CRUCES >> A Las Cruces man has been arrested on charges of shoplifting and trying to elude officers inside a Walmart store.

LAS CRUCES >> El Paseo Road near Las Cruces High will be closed from 5 a.m. Friday through noon Saturday while crews install a walkway connecting the school with new construction across the street.

LAS CRUCES >> A Mescalero man was sentenced in Las Cruces federal court Wednesday to more than four years in prison for a sexual abuse conviction.

LAS CRUCES >> Deputies arrested a La Mesa man Tuesday after he allegedly chased his brother and nephew with a knife and threatened to kill them.

LAS CRUCES >> Though the Camino Real Regional Utility Authority might have made progress over the last decade toward resolving a long-standing feud between Dona Ana County and the city of Sunland Park over new development in the southernmost end of the county, the utility provider is now involved in a smaller-scale dispute with county officials.

The Las Cruces Fire Department battled an attic fire Tuesday evening at a duplex on the 2300 block of Dr. King Way.

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.

Music lovers didn't pay a dime Friday to see legendary singer/songwriter Don McLean in concert at the Field of Dreams.

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)

Sam and Abby Solomon go for a swim at Hotel Encanto on Tuesday. The Solomons, from Oregon, stopped in Las Cruces on their monthlong road trip.

Egan will give a talk titled "The Big Burn Teddy Roosevelt & The Fire That Saved America," based on his book of the same title.

I saw tears in the eyes of ranchers. These were tough men; men who could scrape a good living out of the rock and tumbleweeds in the harsh New Mexico deserts.