Eddy County News

Authorities say an Eddy County Detention Center officer has pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana.

The CARC Inc. Farmhouse Bargain Store will have a $5-a-bag sale and a special sale on furniture from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today .

The Wall That Heals, the traveling Vietnam veterans memorial, will have opening ceremonies at 11:30 a.m. Thursday at 900 W. Brasher Road in Roswell.

Public access Channel 23 began filming Saturday on its pilot production of a movie with a decidedly local flavor.

The first court appearance for Benjamin Gamble, accused of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon in an incident that left another man with serious head injuries, came Friday afternoon in Magistrate Court.

A local man was arrested Thursday and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, while the victim of the alleged crime struggles for his life in a Lubbock hospital.

The Carlsbad Wind Symphony Board will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Room 101 at NMSU-C. For more information, call 885-0949. Wednesday Carnival, outhouse races, stick horse rodeo set CARLSBAD - Rodeo carnival booths will open at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Courthouse lawn.

A detention officer at the Eddy County Detention Center has been arrested after admitting to twice having sex with a female inmate while on duty.

Downtown Carlsbad came alive at 5 p.m. Saturday as onlookers began lining Canyon Street to watch the parade and enjoy the barbecue dinner that followed.

With threatening skies overhead and the remnants of heavy rains from Friday still in the grass, the 2009 Carlsbad Downtown Farmers' Market opened at 8 a.m. Saturday.

Marines from around New Mexico spent their weekend in Carlsbad for the annual state convention of the Marine Corps League.

When it comes to a choice between growing a business and keeping jobs or a rodeo arena for youth, the former wins.

CMC's Senior Circle, 2423 Bonita, will have Health Sense at 11:45 a.m. Friday. The topic will be "Senior Nutrition" with Susan Dade, a dietician at CMC and director of the Diabetes Self-Management Center.

New Mexico counties will share more than $37 million in payment in lieu of taxes funds, with Eddy County receiving the highest amount of $3.098 million.

The Carlsbad City Council on Tuesday approved a request to use the city Beach park area for a Tea Party Rally on July 4, and the action has drawn criticism from some residents.

More than two years ago, NMSU Carlsbad joined with area school districts, Carlsbad Community Department of Development, Washington Tru Solutions, the Jeff Diamond Law Firm and others to address two increasingly troublesome problems in Eddy County: the scarcity of affordable housing and lack of a trained workforce to build housing.

An Artesia teenager who fled the juvenile detention center at Springer has turned himself in to deputies in Eddy County.

From the largest big-city department to the smallest rural agency, New Mexico law enforcement officers are tackling an additional task this summer, courtesy of state money to cover officers' overtime during the "100 Days and Nights of Summer." During the actual 100 days of the program, Eddy County law enforcement will be hitting the streets and ...

For the first time, the only state-approved grower of medical marijuana is about to dispense the drug in New Mexico.

Two Artesia women are facing charges for allegedly helping an 18-year-old man escape from a juvenile detention center in northeastern New Mexico.