Marietta Valdez and her children were in Roswell visiting family when a neighbor called her with the tragic news that her home was on fire. The family drove back from Roswell that day to find their whole home a loss.
Audio recordings of 911 calls made in connection with the lightning strike that sent five eighth-grade Las Cruces football players and one adult coach to the hospital have been released.
The owners of Las Posta restaurant in historic Old Mesilla took to Facebook to announce the recent passing of one of the most popular and "beloved" birds at the restaurant
The Picacho Middle School eighth-grade football player struck by lightning is still in critical condition. Although 13-year-old Hunter Keffer remains hospitalized, the Las Cruces Sun-News reports he is now breathing on his own and is no longer on life support.