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Colonias to Get Centennial Boost

Bordering Mexico, Dona Ana County hosts 37 federally-designated colonias with a combined population of about 100,000 people.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - New Mexico state Senator Mary Kay Papen has taken many a memorable truck ride on the bumpy roads of the numerous communities in her district called colonias. The Dona Ana County lawmaker says she even once donned work boots to wade through a street where sewage was spilling onto the surface.

“Very deplorable conditions,” Papen recalls.

Bloodshed in Juarez: 15 Killed in 11 Hours

How many have to die before something changes? The answer seems far away.

(CIUDAD / SALEM) - Perhaps the term "drug war" has been so greatly abused in America that people fail to realize there is a real drug war taking place no more than a stone's throw from the U.S. border with Mexico.

The rate of death from the drug war in Mexico absolutely smokes anything taking place in the Mideast, at least on the average day.

Special Feature: Solidarity with a Besieged Sister City

Ciudad Juarez has an estimated population of 1-1.3 million people.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - New Mexico State University criminal justice Professor Cynthia Bejarano has long heard the painful stories and seen the sorrowful faces from the violence raging away in Ciudad Juarez just forty-five minutes south of her Las Cruces campus.

Lately, students have had loved ones attacked and normal back-and-forth family visitations disrupted in their binational community.

The Mexican History and Geography Gap

Juarenses are a tough lot, and many people are hunkering down and doing all they can to survive in and improve a place they call home.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Mexico and the border are once again big news. Stories fill the press about Michele Obama and Hilary Clinton traveling south of the border to show their support for an embattled government.

Report after report comes in about the latest atrocities in the so-called narco-war.

NIFI Comes to New Mexico

Examining a a contemporary movement to help immigrants become farmers in New Mexico.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - Cecilia Tamez has worn many hats and lived lots of struggles. The resident of Radium Springs, New Mexico, once had a store in Las Cruces that sold custom-made dresses for traditional quinceaneras and weddings.

She’s run an independent trucking business, and battled cancer. But there is something that harkens Tamez back to the land.

New Mexico`s Governor Orders National Guard to Patrol Mexican Border

The move follows the shooting death of an Arizona rancher.

(SANTA FE) - Governor Bill Richardson, after meeting with top law enforcement officials this morning, ordered the National Guard to patrol the border with Mexico and ensure the safety of New Mexico citizens.

Governor Richardson is also urging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense to increase the federal law enforcement presence at the border and make that presence permanent.

Suspect in Brooke Wilberger Case Joel Courtney Arrives Back in Corvallis

Brooke Wilberger has never been found, but prosecutors believe they still have the goods on Joel Courtney who will soon go on trial.

(CORVALLIS, Ore.) - Benton County District Attorney John Haroldson, Corvallis Police Department Captain Jon Sassaman, and Benton County Sheriff Diana Simpson held a joint media conference to announce the arrival of Joel Courtney in Benton County today.

Courtney is alleged to have murdered Brooke Wilberger nearly four years ago after she was abducted in Corvallis.