Today's News

The man who authorities say was drunk when he lost control of his vehicle and crashed pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges related to the deaths of his five passengers.

Mario Trujillo, 55, faces a sentence ranging from 12 to 25 years under the terms of the plea agreement, though he will get credit for the time he has already spent behind bars. The sentencing hearing has been tentatively set for June 5.

District Attorney Richard Flores said his office will ask Judge Eugenio Mathis to impose the maximum sentence under the agreement.

Lynette Diaz lives thousands of miles away from the place she once called home.

Diaz, a 1987 graduate of West Las Vegas High School, lives in Christchurch, New Zealand. There Diaz, along with her two teenage sons have a good life that includes Diaz’s evolving music career. Her passion for music was not so evident while she was here in the Meadow City.

She said she became interested in music by “accident.”

Rudolph Muniz, the Mora County man charged with vehicular homicide and other crimes in connection with a Feb. 3 drunken driving crash in Las Vegas, is behind bars at the San Miguel County Detention Center.

Muniz, 52, who was hospitalized after the crash and who left before police could apprehend him, was caught in the Albuquerque area this past Saturday. He was transported to the San Miguel County jail on Wednesday.

Muniz is facing vehicular homicide, two counts of causing great bodily injury by vehicle and one count of driving under the influence.

In 1912

Tuesday, March 12 — For the purpose of inspecting the state rifle range and camping grounds, three miles northwest of Las Vegas, with the view of selecting a site for general mobilization and joint maneuver grounds, Brigadier General Ramsey D. Potts, commander of the central division of the United States Army . . . was in Las Vegas yesterday.