Regional

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Deming – Deming's Municipal Airport is slated to receive a chunk of nearly $7 million allocated to airports statewide.

Nearly $500,000 has been awarded to the city to perform a rehabilitation on an approximately 6,000 foot runway.

Deming's community services director Aaron Sera said it's going to be a two-inch mill, an overlay, to rehab the runway and fix some cracks.

Sera said the fix is intended to last five years.

Final approval must come from Congress through the Federal Aviation Administration.

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New Mexico – New Mexico's acting insurance chief has signed an order suspending a rate increase settlement with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico.

The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission, which oversees the Insurance Division, says acting insurance superintendent Johnny Montoya signed the suspension order Tuesday.

A public hearing has been scheduled for August 25 in Santa Fe.

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Texas – A government watchdog group today filed a complaint against Gov. Rick Perry's campaign -- saying it failed to properly disclose how it spends money at the Governor's Mansion and at his temporary residence.

Since 2001, Perry's campaign has spent more than $800,000 under the loosely defined category of "mansion expenditures."

Texans for Public Justice claims the campaign violated disclosure laws by failing to itemize the spending.

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Juarez, Mexico – Mexico is asking a federal court in Arizona to declare the state's new immigration law unconstitutional.

Lawyers for Mexico on Tuesday submitted a legal brief in support of a lawsuit challenging the law.

The law generally requires police investigating another incident or crime to ask people about their immigration status if there's a "reasonable suspicion" they're in the country illegally.

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New Mexico – Official results of New Mexico's primary election show that about 28 percent of New Mexico's eligible Democratic and Republican voters cast ballots.

The state Canvassing Board certified the results of the election on Tuesday.

Turnout in the primary was up from the 2006 gubernatorial primary election when 22 percent of voters participated. However, turnout in this year's election was down from the 2002 gubernatorial primary when nearly 34 percent of registered Democrats and Republicans cast ballots.

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El Paso – About 200 people rallied outside the U.S. Border Patrol El Paso headquarters, protesting the shooting death of a 15-year-old Mexican boy by a patrol agent earlier this month.

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Las Cruces – The Las Cruces Police are investigating a robbery that occurred in the drive-through lane of a downtown bank on Tuesday morning.

Shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 22, Las Cruces Police were called to the Bank of the Rio Grande at 421 N. Water St. after a man was reported to have stolen a deposit bag from a customer who was conducting business in the drive-through lane.

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Anthony, NM – DASO Investigators are currently conducting an on-going investigation resulting from a child, five years old, being transported to Providence Hospital, El Paso, on Sunday, June 20, with "multiple injuries and unconscious."

According to Sheriff's Investigator Mark Sanchez, Sheriff's Deputies were dispatched to Providence Hospital at approximately 2:11 p.m. Sunday.

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Las Cruces – Students from the Aztec Youth Academy in Las Cruces recently completed a tree planting project that offered valuable lessons in community forestry and landscape design.

The project, funded by the New Mexico Forest Re-Leaf Program, involved planting 27 native or well established trees around the John Paul Taylor Education Center.

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New Mexico – A federal judge in Denver is holding hearings to help determine a new sentence for former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio on insider trading convictions.

Nacchio was sentenced in 2007 to serve six years in prison, pay $19 million in fines and forfeit $52 million, but a federal appeals court ruled the sentence was too harsh because a judge miscalculated Nacchio's net gains from stock sales allegedly based on insider information.

By Vanessa Dabovich

Las Cruces, NM – In an effort to conserve water in the hot summer months the Las Cruces Water Conservation Program is providing information on alternative forms of irrigation. KRWG's Vanessa Dabovich reports

By Vanessa Dabovich

Las Cruces, NM – The City of Las Cruces has entered the second phase of its Water Conservation Program and new goals and codes are on the way for residents. KRWG's Vanessa Dabovich reports

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Las Cruces – New Mexico State University researchers are developing a new technology that may lead to greater understanding of meteoric events in the Earth's atmosphere by recording images of events that occur in the night sky while most of us sleep.

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Las Cruces – Every Monday, Fred Martino speaks with Las Cruces Sun News Business Editor Brook Stockberger.

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Texas – Gov. Rick Perry says his first trip to China has led to increased exposure for Texas in Asia.

Perry, in a conference call from Taiwain on Monday, told reporters that he held talks with two Chinese companies that are interested in making investments in Houston and in Corpus Christi. Specifics were not released.

Perry also says he took part in conversations that could result in direct flights from Texas to Shanghai and Beijing, with routes including Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston.