Vado News

About 40 years ago when cotton was king, jets of steam shot up from the Southwest Irrigated Cotton Growers warehouse on Compress Road where steam-compressed cotton bales were loaded into rail freight cars standing on a spur line.

The state Office of the Medical Investigator has ruled that the deaths of 2 Dona Ana County children were accidental.

Dona Ana County families displayed the homes they spent several months helping to construct on Sunday during an open house for a new sweat-equity housing development in a community near Vado.

The City of Las Cruces and Dona Ana County will host the fourth round of Vision 2040 public input meetings the week of October 19th.

A 5-year-old girl and her 3-year-old brother who wandered away from a family gathering in Vado are dead after drowning in a pool of rain water that had collected over recent weeks in the southern New Mexico community.

Getting doused with pesticides is the first memory Sebastian Coral has of the United States.

New Mexico Department of Public Safety officials said 18-year-old Raul Maldonado died after losing control of his 2008 Mazda M3I.

The Dona Ana County District Attorney's Office has decided not to prosecute a case against a woman who allegedly tried to run over her boyfriend, the Dona Ana County Sheriff's Office said.

An ex-stripper may face charges after allegedly trying to run over the father of her 2-month-old baby boy when he tried to prevent her from returning to the strip club Friday night, according to Dona Ana Sheriff's Office investigator Bo Nevarez.

A second south county parent in just four months has been charged with child abuse resulting in death.

A Vado mother is under arrest and charged wtih child abuse resulting in the death of her 1-month-old son.

The following indictments were returned by a 3rd Judicial District Court grand jury on June 11: Steven Estrada, 19, 157 Swannack, Vado, is charged with intentional child abuse resulting in great bodily harm on May 29.

Two parents of infants in Dona Ana County are being investigated in separate incidents of child abuse.

Some locals sarcastically joke that the stretch of dairy farms along Interstate 10 south of Las Cruces should be re-named "Buenos Aires" . It's a reference to a less than aromatic sector of I-10 in southern New Mexico, not a reflection on the capital of Argentina.

Arson is the suspected cause of a fire that burned a house in Vado early Friday morning.

A Vado father was arraigned Tuesday in magistrate court after being charged with abusing his 3-week-old son on Friday.

Top Story Headlines EPPD: Eastside murder related to Juarez Drug Cartel Car catches fire at downtown El Paso parking garage A Ford Expedition SUV caught fire on the top floor of a parking garage Wednesday in Downtown El Paso, according to dispatchers from the El Paso Fire Department.

A 19-year old Vado man stands charged with intentional child abuse of his three-week-old son.

State water experts say the snow pack in New Mexico melted very quickly this year, in some cases a month earlier than last year.

The last New Mexico water supply forecast of the season holds no surprises and few changes.