AP New Mexico

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Mustapha Amzil and C.J. Noland scored 23 points apiece to lead New Mexico to a 103-89 victory over Fresno State on Tuesday night. Amzil added five rebounds for the Lobos (11-3, 3-0 Mountain West Conference). Noland made 11 for 17 shots. Donovan Dent scored 17. Zaon Collins led the Bulldogs (4-10,

BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — Former South Dakota State player and assistant Dan Jackson has been hired as the Jackrabbits’ new head coach, the school announced Tuesday night. Jackson takes over for Jimmy Rogers, who left for Washington State after leading the Jackrabbits to the Football Championship Subdivision semifinals. Jackson was Idaho coach Jason Eck’s defensive

CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — Investigators are trying to determine what caused a mechanical failure that resulted in 20 workers inhaling toxic fumes at a cheese manufacturing plant in eastern New Mexico. The Curry County Sheriff’s Office reported that more than a dozen workers were transported to area hospitals by ambulances and private vehicles Monday morning

AP Basketball Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Longtime coach Jack Hartman and Utah State star Wayne Estes, who was tragically killed while trying to provide help at the site of an auto accident after his final game, are among eight coaches and players who will be posthumously inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall

Associated Press NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Raegan Beers had 19 points, 12 rebounds and four blocks to help No. 9 Oklahoma beat New Mexico State 82-64 on Sunday. Sahara Williams added 18 points and Payton Verhulst scored 15 as the Sooners won their 16th straight home game to close out their non-conference slate. It was

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — Corey Camper Jr.’s 15 points helped UTEP defeat NAIA-member Northern New Mexico 79-60 on Saturday night. Camper shot 7 for 12, including 1 for 3 from beyond the arc for the Miners (10-3). Otis Frazier III added 12 points while shooting 4 for 7 (1 for 4 from 3-point range)

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Christian Cook had 11 points in New Mexico State’s 85-52 victory against NAIA-member University of the Southwest on Saturday night. Cook shot 4 for 8, including 2 for 5 from beyond the arc for the Aggies (7-6). Jaden Harris scored 11 points while shooting 4 for 4, including 3 for

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Mustapha Amzil scored 14 points as New Mexico beat Colorado State 76-68 on Saturday. Amzil added five rebounds for the Lobos (10-3, 2-0 Mountain West Conference). Donovan Dent added 14 points while going 7 of 16 from the field while they also had six assists. C.J. Noland had 11 points

Associated Press The Native American Church is considered the most widespread religious movement among the Indigenous people of North America. It holds sacred the peyote cactus, which grows naturally only in some parts of southern Texas and northern Mexico. Peyote has been used spiritually in ceremonies, and as a medicine by Native American people for

Associated Press HEBBRONVILLE, Texas (AP) — In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings. It’s only here and in northern Mexico that the bluish-green peyote plant can be found growing naturally, nestled under thorny mesquite, acacia and blackbrush. For many Native

Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The conclusion of a criminal case against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer clears the way for a related civil lawsuit by relatives of the deceased woman and efforts to depose the actor under oath, attorneys for plaintiffs in the civil suit said Tuesday. At

Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico prosecutors won’t pursue an appeal of a court’s decision to dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting on a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie, the Santa Fe district attorney’s office announced Monday. Special Prosecutor Kari Morrissey withdrew the

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico prosecutors withdraw appeal of dismissed case against Alec Baldwin in fatal movie set shooting.

AP Sports Writer The NCAA appealed Monday the preliminary injunction granted by a U.S. federal judge giving Diego Pavia another year of eligibility even as the organization’s Division I board of directors granted a waiver allowing athletes in a similar situation as the Vanderbilt quarterback to play in 2025-26. When U.S. District Judge William L.

Associated Press Federal officials have joined with the state of Arizona to begin fulfilling a settlement agreement that was reached with the Hopi Tribe nearly three decades ago, marking what tribal officials described as a historic day. Government attorneys filed condemnation documents on Friday to transfer dozens of square miles of state land into trust

CANYON DE CHELLY NATIONAL MONUMENT, Ariz. (AP) — Commercial air tours will soon be prohibited over Canyon de Chelly National Monument in northeastern Arizona under a plan approved this week by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Park Service. The park service said in a statement that the plan was was signed Thursday and

SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) — Western New Mexico University’s president, who has faced scrutiny over his spending on overseas trips and his wife’s use of a university credit card, resigned Friday as part of a deal that guarantees him a new job and $1.9 million. Joseph Shepard’s resignation comes after an investigation by the New

AP Science Writer SAO PAULO (AP) — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons (3.6 metric tons) — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Robert Carpenter helped lead New Mexico State over Northern New Mexico on Thursday night with 13 points off of the bench in an 87-50 victory. Carpenter shot 5 of 11 from the field, including 1 for 5 from 3-point range, and went 2 for 3 from the free-throw line for

The Associated Press The blob on the satellite image is a rainbow of colors. An analyst digitally sharpens it and there, highlighted in red, is the source: a concrete oil pad spewing methane. In the 75,000-square-mile (194-square-kilometer) Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico, the most productive oil and gas region in the world, huge

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Donovan Dent finished with 40 points for New Mexico in a 78-71 victory over VCU on Wednesday night. Dent added five rebounds for the Lobos (9-3). Nelly Junior Joseph scored 15 points while shooting 5 of 11 from the field and 5 for 8 from the line and added 11 rebounds.

AP Sports Writer NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Diego Pavia reacted to a federal judge granting his preliminary injunction Wednesday allowing the quarterback to play the 2025 season the same way he celebrated upsetting then-No. 1 Alabama in October. “VANDY WE (expletive) TURNT,” Pavia wrote on social media with a 100 emoji. U.S. District Judge William

ST, JOHNS, Ariz. (AP) — Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren is the new Apache County attorney, becoming the first Navajo woman to hold the position. The county Board of Supervisors held a special meeting Monday to appoint a new county attorney following the vacancy left by Michael Whiting, who has been accused of misusing public monies and threatening

DENVER (AP) — Colorado State and Utah State have filed a lawsuit saying the Mountain West is engaging in “extraordinary and unauthorized actions” to penalize the five schools leaving the conference for the Pac-12. Boise State, Fresno State, San Diego State, Colorado State and Utah State announced in September they planned to join the Pac-12

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — Christian Cook had 19 points in New Mexico State’s 72-69 victory over Southern Utah on Monday night. Cook went 8 of 13 from the field (2 for 4 from 3-point range) for the Aggies (5-6). Peter Filipovity scored 18 points while going 6 of 10 and 6 of 6 from

Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Political turmoil erupted within one of the largest Native American tribes in the U.S. as the attorney general for the Navajo Nation announced that an investigation had cleared the tribal president of sexual harassment allegations by the vice president. Even as results of the investigation were announced Monday,

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday established a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and a driving force behind Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs after the Great Depression. Perkins is “one of America’s greatest labor leaders, and

CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — Three children have died in an overnight house fire south of Clovis. Five other people survived and were being treated at a Texas hospital, authorities said Sunday. Curry County investigators said emergency crews were dispatched to the home about 2:30 a.m. Saturday and firefighters found a modified single-wide trailer home engulfed