Otero County News

Rep. Harry Teague, D-N.M., takes questions from members of his 2nd Congressional District constituency Thursday at the Otero County Administration Building.

A 24-year-old man is charged with breaking into McGinn's Pistachio Tree Ranch Country Store on June 13 after he was identified through videotape from the store's surveillance camera Friday, an Otero County Sheriff's Department spokesman said.

The Bureau of Land Management is treating 65,000 acres of federal, state and private land in southern New Mexico with herbicides to remove shrubs and restore grassland.

For Las Cruces residents who find the "safe-and-sane" fireworks ordinances in place in the city too restrictive, a quick trip to Mesilla will get you a little more bang for your buck, but officials and residents here hope everyone will be respectful of the law - and their neighbors.

Four Mescalero Apache maidens will celebrate their coming of age ceremony during the July 4 holiday weekend, one of the tribe's major events of the year and a chance for the public to glimpse a moment of important tribal tradition.

Crews in Cloudcroft are still cleaning up from a downpour that flooded the village's high school and several roads.

Teresa Elena Maes, of Albuquerque, was arrested on a New Mexico Department of Corrections order for alleged failure to comply with conditions of probation.

Graciela Guerra was sentenced Monday morning to life in prison for the brutal stabbing death of her daughter-in-law, Brenda Guerra, on May 13, 2008.

I know the economy is not in very good shape. When I read about possible school closings at Holloman Air Force Base and in Otero County, it is sad that our children and their parents are being uprooted from a secure setting to an unknown one.

Jessica Apodaca, 32, of the 1100 block of Uranus, turned herself in to the Department of Public Safety on a Municipal Court warrant for alleged failure to pay fines.

A 27-year-old Alamogordo man is being held at the Otero County Detention Center on a $500,000 bail bond after a 7-month-old child died from a fall at a home in the 600 block of Arnold Lane on June 8, a Department of Public Safety spokesman said.

Testimony continued Tuesday in Graciela Guerra's murder trial in Otero County's 12th Judicial District Court.

Saturday was the opening day for the Alamogordo Farmers Market. More than 50 customers were waiting in line when market president Ray Metcalf, of Alamogordo, unlocked the gates at 7:30 a.m. The market is located in Frontier Village at the Otero County Fairgrounds.

Maxine Alderete, 33, of the 1400 block of Cuba Avenue, was arrested after a traffic stop on a District Court warrant for alleged failure to comply with conditions of release.

The Alamogordo City Commission talked Tuesday about changing their meetings to an earlier time in the evening, but wound up voting it down.

Fire officials say they're planning increased enforcement of fireworks rules in Dona Ana County for the upcoming Fourth of July holiday.

Kevin Smith, 41, of 310 N. White Sands Blvd., was issued a citation for alleged trespassing.

Abdelsalam Husein, 49, of Las Cruces, was issued a citation for alleged selling without a license.

An Otero County grand jury brought down four separate indictments against a Chaparral man and three Alamogordo men in four unrelated cases May 26.

He's been all over the world - Okinawa, Main-land Japan, Australia, El Salvador and the Philippines - those kinds of places that being a U.S. Marine would afford a soldier in an overseas tour.