Raton News

The New Mexico Racing Commission visits Tucumcari on Thursday where it will hear investors' proposal for building a racetrack and casino at the edge of town.

Miners' Colfax Medical Center officials are working to correct problems cited during an inspection designed to ensure the Raton hospital is meeting standards required in order to receive federal Medicare and Medicaid payments, as well as standards set for state licensing.

The report from the inspection - officially called a "survey" - was recently delivered to MCMC, but will not be made public until the hospital's corrective-action plan is approved by the state Department of Health. MCMC has 10 days from July 7, when it received the report, to submit its corrective-action plan.

Governor Bill Richardson is inviting New Mexicans to meet with him in Raton, Las Cruces, Silver City and Farmington this week.

Q. Could you please tell me the name of the actor who played Wayne on Desperate Housewives ? He looked very familiar.

Eastern New Mexico University senior Justin Johnson is starting a local business, while wrapping up his education.

A hydrologist with the National Weather Service says New Mexico's monsoons are "kind of on schedule." But Ed Polasko says it depends on the part of the state.

Today, Congressman Pearce, candidate for U.S. Senate, begins a three day tour around northern and eastern New Mexico.

At the age of 87, Bill Bartlett knows everything there is to know about movie theaters.

The state attorney general's office will take to the U.S. Supreme Court an evidentiary question in a vehicular homicide case from Colfax County that involves Miranda rights - those relating to a person being informed by police that he has the right to remain silent and to have an attorney.

The New Mexico Supreme Court heard oral arguments in April in the case of a Texas man charged in connection with a crash on U.S. 87 involving his pickup truck and another pickup driven by a California woman who was killed in the collision. The crash occurred about a mile east of Raton in March 2005.

A Texas man with a criminal history that includes a prior drug-offense charge, is facing federal charges after officers in Colfax County found 36 pounds of heroin hidden in a SUV the man was driving last week.

Francisco Burciaga was driving north on Interstate 25 near the south end of Raton when he was pulled over by an officer for failing to use his turn signal correctly. The traffic stop led to a search of the SUV that yielded the heroin stashed in a false compartment behind the rear bumper cover, according to an affidavit filed in federal court in Albuquerque by a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officer.

Edmund Van De Valde was born in Albuquerque Feb. 19, 1921, and on June 21, 2008, he left his earthly family to join his heavenly family. We will miss him greatly.

He served in the Army Air Corp 305th Bombardment Group, 422 Bombardment Squadron in England during WWII. After this, he came back to Raton to marry the love of his life, Angie Oberosler, Aug. 2, 1945. In 1947 he went to work for Zia Corporation in Los Alamos, and then took a job in the Metal Fabrication Division of the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory until his retirement in 1982,

According to the Boca Raton News, Michael Bloomberg said, "The Vice President is nothing more than a symbolic political figurehead who is not able to make a significant overall difference" He also mentioned he ...

Forestry officials battle four blazes around N.M. A still from video of the Bonney and Pine fires submitted by a volunteer firefighter Two fires burning in southeastern New Mexico merged together over the ...

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Health Care Services Corporation is buying MEDecision Incorporated for about $121 million.

THE downward spiral of the economy has brought forth many changes. And while many complain about the tight dollar, it might not be a bad idea to see some of those changes as blessings in disguise.

Firefighters are coping with hot weather, rattlesnakes, rocky terrain and prickly vegetation as they try to corral a lightning-caused blaze that has scorched more than 20,000 acres in southeastern New Mexico.

Since Miners' Colfax Medical Center moved into its new facility late last year, there have been questions as to what to do with the old hospital building.

During Saturday's MCMC Board of Trustees meeting, hospital Chief Operating Officer Don Holl said there have been discussions with some postsecondary institutions regarding using that facility for educating medical and nursing students. He said Colfax County officials have indicated some interest in the old building for encouraging such a purpose.

Manuel Varela , associate professor of biology, and his research students have had a manuscript accepted in the peer-refereed Journal of Dairy Research.

Annie M. Zamora, 87, passed away June 8, 2008, in Raton. She was born May 24, 1921, in Cimarron, the daughter of Ricardo and Fidelia Maes Dorrance. She was a resident of Raton and a member of St. Patrick-St. Joseph's Catholic Church.

She is survived by her husband Lauriano "Larry" Zamora of Raton, sons Larry Zamora and wife Tina of El Paso, Texas, and Albert Zamora of Santa Fe, four grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

Recitation of the Most Holy Rosary will take place Wednesday, June 11, at 9:30 a.m. at St. Patrick St. Joseph's Catholic Church. Solemn Mass of the Resurrection will follow at 10 a.m. at St. Patrick-St. Joseph's Catholic Church with Father Daniel Balizan as the celebrant. Rite of committal and interment will follow at Mt. Calvary Cemetery.