Police said Chavarria and 47-year-old Jerry Romero were captured on video taken from the Budget Inn motel at 922 South 1st St. taking a sobbing woman from the motel and into the back seat of a Red SUV.
One year after the disastrous flood on July 8, 2025, that claimed the lives of two children and one adult, local government is focused on rebuilding with renewed safety measures and projects geared toward improving the community.
In one of two rule changes announced Monday, June 22, the Interior Department reduced from $500,000 to $25,000 per well the minimum bond oil companies must post to pay for cleaning up abandoned wells.
Leanne Gandy, a Republican from Tatum, came out on top over Republican Dan Lewis of Artesia by a 8-vote margin. Gandy received 999 votes to Lewis’ 991 votes.
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright earlier this year called for removal of the so-called ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) principle that guides how the agency limits worker exposure to radiation at nuclear facilities.
The Environmental Protection Agency was the latest government entity, and by the far the largest, to resist the amendment offered by the state in April that would require more nuclear waste from within New Mexico sent to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant for disposal.
