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Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday signed most of the legislation passed during this week’s special session of the New Mexico Legislature, according to a news release from her office.

A tax levy that was defeated in a special election in June – a setback that could cost Artesia General Hospital between $4 million and $7 million a year – is going before the voters again in this year’s general election on Nov 4.

Torres, 45 and an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, will remain in custody pending trial, which has not yet been scheduled.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday signed most of the legislation passed during this week’s special session of the New Mexico Legislature, according to a news release from her office.

The special session, the first of 2025, was called by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to address a sweeping list of topics including the state’s efforts to account for federal funding cuts enacted July 4 when President Donald Trump signed a spending bill known by supporters as the “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

The investigation by the Bureau of Land Management began in June 2025, when special agents received a tip that the men were using a vacuum truck to pump oil out of the lines owned by Plains All American Pipeline, storing it at a facility in Carlsbad and driving it to Texas for sale.

There are 40 cows and 1,760 acres participating in the virtual fence program.

Drug overdose-related emergency department visits also rose by 81% in Rio Arriba County, 131% in Santa Fe County and 206% in Taos County.

Information taken from Artesia Police Department arrest records and dispatch calls. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty.

The Artesia Recreation Center project is not being delayed amid the proceedings.