School districts and state-run charters across New Mexico are struggling to deal with a reduction in specialized funding for smaller schools.

Rio Arriba Sheriff James Lujan filed a response to the civil rights violation complaint against himself and former deputy Jeremy Barnes over Barnes’ May tasing of an Española Valley High School student with special needs, claiming Barnes’ use of force was justified and denying that he failed…

A Rio Arriba County Detention Center inmate who allegedly hit a sheriff’s deputy with his own patrol car in a July attempt to evade arrest briefly escaped jail custody earlier this month after being left unattended in the jail’s parking lot.