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View Comments LAS CRUCES – Community members are invited to join a parade Saturday to show support for Manny Lopez, 12, who has been battling cancer for almost five years and recently relapsed for the fourth time. Lopez was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, in 2016. He has since then been in remission three times and relapsed four times. His mother, Diana Talamantes, said doctors told her they had done all they could for Lopez, but his case is now terminal. “In November, he had scans done and it showed no cancer anywhere. And then in February he went for scans again and ...

From Staff and Wire Reports ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Classrooms in some New Mexico schools were scheduled on Monday to allow in-person education for the first time this semester. In-person classes were temporarily suspended by the state for two weeks earlier this month to prevent a feared increase in COVID-19 cases, the Albuquerque Journal reported Sunday. Small groups of students with disabilities were allowed to attend classes, but schools offering other in-person classes had to shut their doors and teach remotely. The New Mexico Public Education Department was unable to provide a count of scho...

  Small pods of Special Education classes and Athletics training resumed Tuesday for students in Las Cruces Public Schools, while staff members lined up to receive the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.  Under guidelines established by the New Mexico Public Education Department, in-person learning for some special education students will start this week at Centennial High School, Conlee Elementary, East Picacho Elementary, Fairacres Elementary, Hermosa Heights Elementary, Jornada Elementary, Las Cruces High School, Lynn Middle School, MacArthur Elementary, Mesa Middle School, ...