Jessica Onsurez, news editor for The USA Today Network NM covers the area's top stories each week on Alamogordo NOW. This week, a Lincoln County man dies of plague, a former Alamogordo firefighter is sentenced in child pornography case, it's filing day for candidates, and the teacher of the year has been named.
Plague claims the life of a Lincoln County man and more
![The bacterium that causes the plague travels around on fleas. This flea illustration is from Robert Hooke's Micrographia, published in London in 1665.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c0eda0f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2788x1568+0+0/resize/880x495!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fimg%2F2017%2F06%2F30%2Fflea3_wide-29160f6542e4f85bee8a4b37f89321eeffb36143.jpg)
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