Roosevelt County News

A 54-year-old Curry County woman and a Quay County infant are among four New Mexicans who died from the H1N1 flu virus this week, according to the state Department of Health.

The Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office teaming up with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish worked several operations over the weekend in Roosevelt County that ended with multiple arrests and criminal citations.

Dianne Parker works for Portales Muncipal Schools. Background: Parker is from Nebraska but has lived in Portales more than 30 years.

Milk prices are rebounding but dairy owners expect it will take years for them to recover from almost a year of prices so low that they couldn't break even.

Friday was Roosevelt County Detention Center Interim Administrator Charles Perez's last day on the job.

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Traveling by horse and buggy, the Rev. Joel Givens traversed the small communities of Roosevelt County in the early 1900's, visiting homes and small congregations.

An inmate who escaped Thursday afternnon from the Roosevelt County Detention Center was recaptured about 1 1/2 hours later.

Portales has very few vacancies among residential rental properties, which underlines the need for more housing to sustain population growth, the local economic development director says.

When the American Cancer Society's annual Great American Smokeout takes place on Thursday, much attention will be paid to helping people with a bad habit try to quit.

As far as the Wofford kids are concerned, they chose their parents. When they needed a permanent family, three of the five children decided they wanted Sherill and Alan Wofford of Portales to become their parents.

Two men were fined and one sentenced to jail after pleading guilty Oct. 21 to poaching charges.

Two Portales men have been fined after pleading guilty in separate poaching cases.

Carol Morgan, RN, nurse manager for the New Mexico Department of Health in Portales, received the Excellence in Public Health/Community/School Nursing award, presented by ITT Technical Institute at the 2009 Nursing Excellence Awards.

Roosevelt County agriculture producers are fighting dwindling water supplies and high costs with a number of water conservation methods.

An area county commissioner fears efforts to rejuvenate the declining lesser prairie chicken populations by the New Mexico Game and Fish authorities might effect wind turbine development for landowners.

Curry County and Roosevelt County Sheriff's deputies teamed up to arrest three people in the last four days, including the brother of accused killer Noe Torres.

On Friday October 30, 2009, Deputies with the Roosevelt County Sheriff's Office and Officers with the Portales Police Department conducted a Narcotics search warrant in the 600 block of South Roosevelt Road S. During execution of the search warrant Jeffrey Gutierrez, DOB: 04-08-88, was arrested and charged with Possession of Marijuana, Possession ...

Roosevelt County Commissioners have approved a memorandum of understanding to get an indoor arena at the county fairgrounds.

Roosevelt County commissioners are expected today to approve money for moving an existing building from Colorado to Portales, where it will serve as a new indoor arena at the fairgrounds.