A Carlsbad man who was shot while being chased by police officers in July bled to death about a week later due to a bullet wound to a critical artery in his leg.
Eddy County Fire & Rescue Chief Joshua Mack has been named Fire Chief of the Year by the New Mexico Fire & EMS Expo. Chief Mack received the award during the annual event held in Socorro, New Mexico, on Saturday, Oct. 11.
The monks were accompanied by longtime religious volunteer Lim Kien, who has devoted more than 11 years to supporting the spiritual growth and well-being of the Buddhist community within the facility.
A 29-year-old Carlsbad man was found dead at the Eddy County Detention Center on the morning of Oct. 9, hours after he was incarcerated and after jail staff said the man had a “medical emergency.”
An alleged scheme to steal crude oil out of pipelines in the Carlsbad area and sell the product in West Texas led to federal charges for five men arrested last month.
Carlsbad’s iconic underground rock formations were left inaccessible for the past two weeks as federal agencies shut down with Congress locked in a partisan stalemate over legislation to fund the government’s operations.
Holloman Air Force Base and the Sacramento Mountains Foundation co-sponsored a free screening of the Lois Lipman movie “First We Bombed New Mexico” at the Flickinger Center for Performing Arts on Saturday, October 11.
