Today's News

A Houston company has filed suit against Mora county and its three commissioners, alleging that the community rights ordinance adopted by the county last April violates the constitution and should be struck down.

The ordinance seeks to prohibit corporations from engaging in any oil and gas extraction in the county.

City fire crews and members of the Gallinas Volunteer Fire Department were busy responding to two separate fires late Monday and early Tuesday.

The first blaze broke out in a vacant building on Commerce Street, beneath the overpass. Crews were dispatched to that scene a little after 7 p.m. Monday.

Las Vegas Fire Chief Phillip Mares said the building had pretty much been gutted prior to the fire, although there was debris inside the structure that burned.

Mares said that fire appears to have been started by homeless people trying to stay warn.

The Associated Press

A court ruling says a police search that found 14 marijuana plants on a man’s property in a remote area of northern New Mexico violated his privacy rights.

The state Court of Appeals’ ruling says that’s because authorities didn’t have a warrant to conduct an aerial flyover that prompted the search.

The Albuquerque Journal reports that the ruling cites prior New Mexico court decisions and says privacy protections apply to targeted, warrantless police aerial surveillance.

The Literacy Council of Northern New Mexico is asking for short story writings to be displayed at the Literacy Fair this Saturday. Everyone is invited to submit a short story of four letter size pages or less with a 10-point font. All adult, high school, middle school and elementary writers will be recognized. Submissions may be mailed to The Literacy Council, P.O. Box 481, Las Vegas, N.M., 87701. All entries must be received by today (Wednesday).