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El Paso – A potentially deadly situation was averted yesterday after Border Patrol agents, helped rescue ten migrants who were put in a perilous situation by a smuggler in an attempt to elude authorities.

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El Paso – Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today highlighted the United States' significant progress in securing the U.S.-Mexico border one year after the Obama administration announced the Southwest Border Initiative a series of unprecedented steps to crack down on Mexican drug cartels by deploying additional personnel and technology, increasing information sharing, working closely with the Mexican government, and improving federal coordination with state, local and tribal law enforcement authorities.

By Carrie Hamblen

March 27th, 2010 – George Jarden and Dave Edwards from the upcoming show "Gee and Ess and I" at the Rio Grande Theater. On the program, they talk about the concept of the performance, the music, how the production came together and what they hope the audience will take away from the performance.

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Silver City – The Western New Mexico University Museum is happy to announce the arrival of its newest short-term exhibition. Costumes Through Time and Space, on display from April 1 through June 30, 2010, features the creativity and artistry of Silver City residents Duane and Kathryn Elms. Duane, WNMU Director of Information Technology, and his wife Kathryn have selected some of their finest historical reproductions and costumes to help celebrate the University Museum's 35th Anniversary.

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New Mexico – At 15, high school sophomore Coloradas Mangas knows all too much about suicide.

He's recently had several friends who took their own lives.

Coloradas, a member of the Chiricahua Apache tribe, lives on the Mescalero Apache Reservation in New Mexico, where have been five youth suicides since the start of the school year. All were his friends.

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New Mexico – Representatives from a national American Indian group are urging New Mexico's pueblos and tribes to participate in the 2010 Census.

The National Congress of American Indians' southwest area vice-president, Derek Valdo, was in Albuquerque on Thursday as part of campaign to encourage Indians and other Americans to fill out their census forms.

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Juarez, Mexico – A government report says Mexican criminal organizations have more than doubled heroin production in a year and have cemented their grip as the predominant wholesale suppliers of illicit drugs in the United States.

The National Drug Threat Assessment concluded Thursday that Mexican groups were the only drug trafficking enterprises operating in every region of the United States.

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Las Cruces – KRWG is part of local news initiative announced on Thursday in Washington D-C.

Public radio and TV stations across the country will receive more than $10 million dollars over the next two years to boost local news coverage.

The money comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting .the organization that allocates federal funding for the system.

At individual stations like KRWG, the CPB investments are small, enough to pay for a full time reporter at each station.

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New Mexico – A New Mexico Department of Health program that provides early intervention for at-risk young children has improved in all eight categories measured in an annual report card.

The report card for the Family Infant Toddler program is submitted to the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs and looks at various aspects of the program, including how local providers perform.

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Texas – The Texas Workforce Commission says the state's unemployment rate held steady at 8.2 percent in February despite the loss of 13,000 jobs.

The job losses announced Thursday offset a revised January gain of 12,600 jobs. The Texas work force grew by 40,200 and now stands at 12.1 million workers.

The state's jobless rate remained below the national figure of 9.7 percent.

Commission Chairman Tom Pauken says the jobless rate appears to have stabilized but that the recession is still negative affecting the Texas economy.

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El Paso – An immigration board says a former federal drug informant can't be deported to his home country of Mexico because he would be tortured "either directly by government agents or indirectly by government agents turning him over to the cartel."

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Mexico City – President Barack Obama's administration named 54 alleged Mexican drug cartel lieutenants and enforcers as drug kingpins.

The announcement today comes under a law that allows the U.S. government to freeze the alleged kingpins' bank accounts and penalize their business associates.

The action carried out as part of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act involves members of the Gulf Cartel and a gang of former Gulf cartel hit men known as the Zetas.

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Elephant Butte – The state will offer free boating safety courses starting this weekend at Elephant Butte Lake State Park.

State law requires anyone born in 1989 or after that date to take a safety course before operating a motorboat.

The State Parks Division will offer a class on Saturday at Elephant Butte. Classes are also scheduled at the lake on April 24, May 22, June 12, July 31, Aug. 28, Sept. 25, Oct. 30 and Nov. 13.

To reserve a space in an Elephant Butte class call 575-744-5998.

By Vanessa Dabovich

Las Cruces, NM – A new report from Environment New Mexico sets a goal for solar energy use in the country and several advocates say we have the tools locally to meet the challenge. KRWG's Vanessa Dabovich reports

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New Mexico – Gov. Bill Richardson has vetoed a proposed tax on food, but signed other tax increases that will raise about $170 million to help balance the state budget next year.

The governor used his line-item veto powers Wednesday to reject a proposal that would have reinstated the gross receipts tax on food at the rate imposed by local governments, which averages about 2 percent statewide.