Dona Ana County News

According to the most recent figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, both the city of Las Cruces and Dona Ana County have seen an increase in population.

As monsoon season hits, the same part of Anthony, N.M., must deal with flooding yet again.

If a second wave of swine flu broke out in Dona Ana County, officials said they will be more prepared.

Dona Ana County sheriff's investigators arrested a registered sex offender. Joseph Marcotte, 48, was charged with five crimes, including criminal sexual contact with a minor, criminal sexual penetration, and selling or giving alcohol to a minor.

Two Las Cruces men were arrested Friday in connection with an early-morning shooting that sent two other men to area hospitals with injuries, according to a news release from Las Cruces police.

The boy with Down syndrome who mysteriously showed up at the Santa Teresa border crossing earlier this week turned out to be missing from a shelter in Juarez, according to the Dona Ana County Sheriff's Department.

The Mexican consulate was given custody Friday of a boy with Down syndrome who was found alone at the Santa Teresa port of entry in southern New Mexico.

A Dona Ana County Detention Center inmate escaped Friday morning while in custody of guards.

In order to make room for a dozen pit bulls that were part of an ongoing legal case Dona Ana County officials were prepared to kill dozens of other dogs at the county shelter.

Dona Ana County Sheriff's Deputy Adrian Sanchez responded to a 911 call Monday around 3 a.m. after a woman said she and her two sisters were assaulted by another woman wielding a police baton.

An animal shelter in Arizona has gotten 33 exotic-breed cats that were turned over to authorities in southern New Mexico earlier this month.

Dona Ana County commissioners on Tuesday will consider terms regarding the transfer of 16 blue collar workers' jobs to a city-county body.

Associated Press - June 21, 2009 1:25 PM ET LAS CRUCES, N.M. - New Mexico officials captured and released a bear after it was spotted with a sheep it had just killed in the yard of a Dona Ana County farming community.

Dona Ana County Sheriff's investigators have located a Fort Bliss soldier who allegedly punched his girlfriend in the face Saturday in Las Cruces, Dona Ana County Sheriff's officials said.

Officials at a southern New Mexico county animal shelter say they'll have to euthanize more than four dozen dogs this week to make room for 12 pit bulls from an unresolved dog fighting case.

Water supplies to more than 60 residences in the Talavera subdivision east of Las Cruces are critically low, and residents are being asked to avoid using water unnecessarily until after the storage tanks serving the area can be refilled.

New Mexico Public Lands Commissioner Patrick Lyons says 2,220 acres of state trust land in Dona Ana County will be sold in September to create a commercial and industrial zone in Santa Teresa.

Dona Ana County has hired former Sunland Park Mayor Ruben Segura to manage a division in its Health and Human Services Department.

School is out, but some students are in detention for a big chunk of the summer break.

Associated Press - June 14, 2009 3:35 PM ET LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Some Dona Ana County officials say they're frustrated by the lack of federal economic stimulus money heading their way.