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• Meta Purges Legal Advertisements Recruiting Plaintiffs for Social Media Addiction Lawsuits

  Published: Apr 11, 2026

  Section: Science & Tech

  Meta has initiated a sweeping deactivation of advertisements on Facebook and Instagram from law firms seeking clients for social media addiction litigation. The policy shift follow...

• Clovis Police Identify Primary Shooter in ‘Project Drunk’ Mass Shooting as Manhunt for Teenage Suspect Continues

  Published: Apr 2, 2026

  Section: Crime

  New Mexico authorities have named 18-year-old Enrique Juarez Padilla as the alleged gunman in a March 22 mass shooting that killed a 21-year-old woman. Clovis Police Chief Trevor T...

• Tranquelino Benito Romero Faces Trial for December Chase as Federal School Assault Lawsuits Advance

  Published: Mar 29, 2026

  Section: Crime

  Tranquelino Benito Romero was arrested following a high speed pursuit in New Mexico involving firearms and narcotics discoveries. The 24 year old's latest criminal charges coincide...

• New Mexico Parents Tyler Janousek and Trenaty Lewis Charged After Six Week Old Infant Sustains 29 Fractures

  Published: Mar 26, 2026

  Section: Crime

  Authorities in Lea County have charged 25 year old Tyler Janousek and Trenaty Lewis following a medical evaluation of their newborn daughter that revealed extensive physical trauma...

• Navajo Nation Resident Cisco Whitehorse Pleads Guilty Following Federal Investigation Into Series of Violent Shooting Incidents

  Published: Mar 24, 2026

  Section: Crime

  Cisco Whitehorse, 43, has admitted to federal firearms charges after a year long string of shootings on the Navajo Nation that left at least one victim wounded. The Torreon man, a...

• Hobbs Teenager Faces First Degree Murder Charges Following Fatal Abuse Investigation of Eight Month Old Infant

  Published: Mar 19, 2026

  Section: Crime

  A 17 year old mother in Hobbs, New Mexico, has been charged with murder after her infant daughter succumbed to catastrophic injuries including brain trauma and bone fractures. Pros...

• Santa Fe Judge Awards Stolen Truck Resold on Facebook to State Agency Following Legal Dispute

  Published: Mar 18, 2026

  Section: Crime

  A complex legal battle over a stolen 2000 Chevrolet Silverado concluded in a Santa Fe courtroom Tuesday with a judge awarding the vehicle to a New Mexico state agency. The truck, w...

• New Mexico Authorities Launch Long Overdue Search of Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch Amid Stolen Artifact Claims

  Published: Mar 12, 2026

  Section: Jeffrey Epstein

  Law enforcement officials have initiated a search of the 7,400 acre New Mexico estate formerly owned by the late financier following new revelations in Department of Justice files....

• Federal Agents Join Search For Missing Retired Air Force Major General William Neil McCasland

  Published: Mar 12, 2026

  Section: Politics

  Federal investigators have officially joined the search for retired Major General William Neil McCasland who disappeared from his Albuquerque home nearly two weeks ago. The 68 year...

• New Mexico Launches Task Force to Combat Years-Long Sexual Assault Kit Backlog and Address Forensic Staffing Crisis

  Published: Mar 6, 2026

  Section: Crime

  New Mexico officials have authorized a specialized task force to investigate why sexual assault examination kits are taking an average of two and a half years to process, despite a...

• New Mexico Approves Comprehensive Bipartisan Probe into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch

  Published: Feb 17, 2026

  Section: US & Canada

  New Mexico lawmakers have authorized a bipartisan truth commission to investigate alleged sex trafficking at Zorro Ranch, the estate owned by the late Jeffrey Epstein. The inquiry...

• Intel Scraps $300 Million Manufacturing Pact with Tower Semiconductor

  Published: Feb 14, 2026

  Section: Companies & Industry

  The semiconductor giants enter mediation as the U.S. chipmaker pulls back from a post-merger-collapse production agreement.