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Man Confesses To Murder

(SENTINEL Photo/Chuck Wentworth)

HELP ARRIVES – NM State Police and a Las Cruces SWAT team showed up Monday in response to a man that had barricaded himself in a travel trailer and refused to come out.

By Frances Luna
SENTINEL

Drugs and money are said to be the reason for a stabbing that claimed the life of a 50-year-old Truth or Consequences man sometime Sunday night.

Monday morning, January 16, a woman phoned police to have them check on the welfare of a man in the 1500 block of Upson Street after her daughter had received a text message from a person claiming to have killed a man. The text also said the man planned to kill himself.

Another call was received by Sierra County Regional Dispatch by another woman who said she had gone to the home of Nathaniel Emerick on Upson to get ready to go cut wood. The woman told police that there was no answer, so she entered the home...

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Listening To Concerns

(SENTINEL Photo/Chuck Wentworth)

By Chuck Wentworth
SENTINEL

U.S. Senator Tom Udall and New Mexico Health Department Secretary Dr. Catherine Torres, M.D., joined for a visit with T-or-C New Mexico State Veterans' Home (NMSVH) residents and staff Thursday afternoon, January 19.

After taking a tour of the facility, both dignitaries met with a small group of residents to discuss a variety of veteran-related issues. Prior to the start of the afternoon's scheduled gathering, Senator Udall took the opportunity to share a few personal moments with one of NMSVH's resident veterans...

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Local Dog Nominated
To 'Pet Hall Of Fame'

(Courtesy Photo/John Young)

WONDER DOG - Whiskey (left) stands with his owner, Tina Parks, and Dr. Bill Cardwell, DVM.

By Dr. Bill Cardwell, DVM

Tina Parks and her dog, "Whiskey," were recently nominated to the New Mexico Veterinary Medical Association "Pet Hall of Fame"

Tina Parks of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico had a lung lobe removed in September 2008 for a coccidioidomycosis infection. Her pancreas was removed in October 2008 for a pancreatic cancer.

She is doing very well and proceeding with a near normal life, except for glucose testing many times daily and lots of insulin and other medications.

Tina is a registered nurse and had worked for me as a technician for a period of time and is doing so again on Saturday mornings when she is off her weekday job.

Tina wrote the following story about Whiskey:

Whiskey, a brindle Boxer-Pit mix, turned 7 on July 29. We got her from the animal shelter when she was four months old.

I had a surgery October 30, 2008 and got home right before Thanksgiving. Whiskey immediately started acting protective of me and going

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