Palomas, Mexico News

Lydia Deisch, 4, of El Paso, flips through the pages of "La Llorona: The Weeping Woman," as her family shops for unique books and clothing Sunday at the Border Book Festival at the Cultural Center de Mesilla.

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Children from Mexico cross to Columbus, N.M., for school, but parent-teacher conferences are no longer held on the Mexican side.

A promise to help develop legislative proposals to improve border safety was delivered Wednesday in Santa Teresa as Lt.

In a town famous for Pancho Villaa s ransacking, the purloining still occurs; this time horses and mules are not disappearing, but taxpayer money is.

I have found it very easy just to park at Wal-Mart or other nearby shopping centers and walk the couple of blocks into Agua Prieta, Mexico.

Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano has had a rough start in her new white house position.

Despite the initial apprehension surrounding the H1N1 virus having passed, Deming schools are continuing to take precautions.

More than a dozen gunmen in pickup trucks hemmed in a police patrol Monday in western Mexico, killing three officers and seriously wounding two others, authorities said.

Seven bodies were recently unearthed in a desert area near the small town of Palomas, Mexico, across the border from Columbus, N.M. The bodies were found Wednesday by Chihuahua state police in two graves after an anonymous call reported the location of the victims, state officials said Friday.

Pictures at an exhibition, poverty in Palomas. There was a very interesting photo exhibit in Deming in early April.

Perhaps my neighbor has the best outlook on how most people in this area view the diverse cultures that co-exist in southern New Mexico.

When it comes to dealing with H1N1, one New Mexico school district faces a challenge like no other.

This dusty little border town with almost no visible means of support has been seeing something of a boom in the past year: Brand-new Lincoln Navigators and Cadillac Escalades with flashy hubcaps are parked just off the bleak main drag.

Two creative co-ops are opening doors of economic opportunity for people in Palomas.

Been following the swine flu in Mexico and elsewhere. Made me wonder how well we are set up to deal with it here, there being no vaccine for it.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will be busy today touring the international border with Mexico from El Paso to Nogales, Ariz.

Without the narcos , Palomas is calmer but poorer. About 8,500 new army troops and 2,300 federal officers have moved into Juarez.

The cell phone rang as Jorge Aguirre walked to a friend's funeral in Juarez, Mexico, last November -- a funeral for a fellow journalist who, Aguirre says, was assassinated for the critical stories he wrote.

ODESSA Leticia Diaz, 48, of Odessa, died Friday, March 20, 2009, in Odessa. Rosary is scheduled to be said at 7 p.m. today at Acres West Funeral Chapel.