May is Older Americans Month and Las Cruces Senior Programs will have a celebration for the entire community from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, May 31, at Munson Center, 975 S. Mesquite St.

Seniors, as well as City staff of all ages, are invited to enjoy free food, music, and dancing. The 2018 Older Americans Month theme is “Engage at Every Age.”

  LAS CRUCES, NM – Today, the New Mexico State University (NMSU) Board of Regents finalized performance-based relationship with its incoming Chancellor and President, offering its new leadership team nationally competitive base salaries, with expectations and self-funding incentives for increased student enrollment and retention, research revenue, and alumni giving. NMSU Regents selected Dr. Dan Arvizu and Dr. John Floros to lead the University following a competitive national search.

ALBUQUERQUE – Two Mexican Nationals who were arrested last week in connection with seizures of large quantities of cocaine made their initial appearances yesterday in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M.  Miguel Angel Nava-Dominguez, 32, is facing cocaine trafficking offenses arising out of the seizure of more than 12 pounds of cocaine at a U.S.

A collaboration of federal and state agencies, a grocery store chain and New Mexico State University researchers has produced a way to help participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children program maximize use of available supplemental benefits, including their cash-value benefits for authorized fruits and vegetables.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A swath of northwestern New Mexico's oil and gas country would be off limits to drilling under proposed federal legislation that seeks to make permanent a buffer zone that has kept development away from Chaco Culture National Historical Park and other sites held sacred by Native American tribes.

The measure introduced Tuesday by U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich would prevent future leasing or development of minerals owned by the federal government within a 10-mile radius around the park.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico state lawmaker insists in video released by police Tuesday that she had not consumed any alcohol, but the officer who stops her says he can smell it as he handcuffs and detains her on suspicion of drunken driving.

"Are you kidding me?" Rep. Monica Youngblood, an Albuquerque Republican, says after she is placed in a police vehicle. "I fight for you guys every time I get the chance. Seriously."

Crimson Research, a center housed in New Mexico State University’s College of Health and Social Services, has received a grant from the Paso del Norte Health Foundation to continue work connecting professional staff in Otero County to different types of mental health training.

Entirely externally funded, Crimson Research provides comprehensive program implementation, program evaluation, survey design and basic or applied research services to community, academic and government organizations.

Commentary: With the recent commemoration of two major milestones in my long and very happy relationship with The University of Texas at El Paso—45 years as a faculty member and 30 years as UTEP’s president—I have concluded that this may be an appropriate time to begin bringing to a close this chapter in my higher education story, nearly all of which I have joyfully spent at UTEP.  I am therefore announcing today my plans to retire as UTEP’s president once a successor has been officially appointed and assumed the position.

Thomas Branigan Memorial Library, 200 E. Picacho Ave., begins its summer hours of operation Sunday, with those hours continuing through September 3.

During the summer, the library will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and will be closed on Sundays through Labor Day.

The library will return to its 7-day-a-week schedule on September 4.