Chaves County News

Officials in southeastern New Mexico are continuing a fight with the federal government over where flooding is or is not likely to occur.

Editor's note: Police logs are provided to the Daily News by the Alamogordo Department of Public Safety.

As Gov. Bill Richardson ponders budget-cutting bills sent him by the recent special session of the Legislature, the Department of Corrections is saying it could close the Roswell Correctional Center eliminating 65 jobs.

The Department of Health is tracking hospitalizations and deaths to determine if there is a change in the severity of the disease.

The New Mexico Department of Health reported this past weekend the 13th death in the state related to the H1N1 virus.

Healthy people worried about H1N1 swine flu and those with mild, flu-like illnesses are showing up at emergency rooms and clinics, bogging down New Mexico's health system with requests for tests and medicine, a key state health official said Thursday.

The New Mexico Department of Health announced Wednesday that a 28-year-old man from Lea County has died from swine flu.

New Mexico Department of Health officials said Friday the H1N1 flu virus is widespread throughout the state, and announced the deaths of three children who had no previous chronic medical condition.

The state Health Department says a 17-year-old girl from Chaves County has died from swine flu.

Usually police and fire departments work together to save lives, but this time a drunken Roswell firefighter with a gun put lives in danger, according to the Chaves County Sheriff's Department.

A hail of bullets flew in a Roswell residential area late Wednesday morning killing a man engaged in a gunbattle with police officers.

The New Mexico Department of Health announced that a 51 yearold woman from Lea County was confirmed with West Nile Virus.

Red laser dots danced across the fronts of jail cells as masked officers swarmed into the pod, taking positions on top of tables and along the upper tier.

The New Mexico Department of Health's community-wide obesity prevention program, Healthy Kids, Las Cruces, has been named by the HSC Foundation one of the top 10 models in the nation for helping to reduce childhood obesity.

Associated Press August 10, 2009 Roswell, New Mexico - A man wanted in Texas for indecency with a child has been arrested in southeastern New Mexico.

Associated Press August 10, 2009 Roswell, New Mexico - A man wanted in Texas for indecency with a child has been arrested in southeastern New Mexico.

Associated Press August 10, 2009 Roswell, New Mexico - A man wanted in Texas for indecency with a child has been arrested in southeastern New Mexico.

Associated Press August 10, 2009 Roswell, New Mexico - A man wanted in Texas for indecency with a child has been arrested in southeastern New Mexico.

A man wanted in Texas for indecency with a child has been arrested in southeastern New Mexico.

When Eddy County pledged $100,000 as its share of a revenue guarantee to American Eagle a subsidiary of American Airlines to provide air service between Roswell and Dallas, county leaders fully expected the county to be called upon for the money.