NMSU study on red light cameras shows mixed results

University of New Mexico study on red-light enforcement cameras in Albuquerque. LAS CRUCES - Four years after traffic enforcement cameras were installed at some of the busiest intersection in town, debate still rages as to whether they have improved safety or merely acted as a revenue generator for the city, as some alleged from the start.And, a $30,000 study being conducted by New Mexico State ...

Garlic Vitamin B Las Cruces readers share their strategies for dodging mosquitoes

LAS CRUCES - Health officials offer their common-sense advice to avoid mosquito bites. Remove standing water around your house. Wear DEET-based repellent. Stay inside in the morning or evening. After all, West Nile virus is nothing to ignore, already infecting five people in Doña Ana County, and a 12 others statewide. It's much worse in Texas. Sun-News readers have their own, ...

Vandals knock out park camera seeking flasher

The equipment was placed in Mariposa Park on Thursday to help police in identifying a man who they said exposed himself at least four times. But early Saturday morning, the unit captured footage of two people causing major damage to the ...

Rio Rancho man donates car to veteran in Oklahoma

Fleitcher survived the tornado by locking himself, his wife and two children in a closet in his Moore, Okla., home, according to officials at the Armed Forces Reserve Center in Oklahoma ...

Boom first sign of problem on I-5 bridge

The first sign for a truck driver that something was wrong on a bridge on Interstate 5 that collapsed into Washington's Skagit River was the sound of a "boom," a federal investigator said ...