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Doña Ana County’s $14.3 million emergency operations center is nearly complete and will include a backup regional dispatch center and training facility.
New Mexico schools and youth organizations can request free virtual or in-person DOJ training aimed at preventing online child exploitation and helping adults recognize warning signs.
Jerimiah Angel Castillo Zubiran, 18, will remain jailed pending trial after a judge granted prosecutors’ pretrial detention motion in an Idaho Avenue shooting case.
Court records allege an 18-year-old Las Cruces man opened fire on three people after an encounter near an Idaho Avenue gas station. Prosecutors are seeking pretrial detention.
Las Cruces officials are moving toward a new automated traffic-enforcement program as the city weighs speed cameras, red-light cameras, mobile units and privacy safeguards.
Pancho Garcia was sentenced to 23 years in prison for the 2025 shooting death of Las Cruces school bus driver Juan Lujan.
Las Cruces and NMSU police issued 155 traffic citations during a three-hour enforcement operation along University Avenue on the first day of fall classes.
Non-heroin opioids accounted for nearly 44% of New Mexico treatment admissions among young adults in 2023, up from about 11% a decade earlier.
Javon Fielder, 17, pleaded guilty to eight felony counts in the 2025 burglary of Strykers Shooting World in Las Cruces.
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