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- Category: Front Page News
Sheriff's Department Sued for False Arrest and Malicious Prosecution
By Frost McGahey
Sheriff Raul Villanueva, Captain Cesar Torres and deputies Ventura, "Andrew" Salas, and Justin Foster have been named in a lawsuit by Jeremy Spurgeon. Jeremy's ordeal with the sheriff's department began when he swerved to miss a deer.
On August 13, 2023, Jeremy was driving his 2016 Hyundai on Racetrack Road late at night when a deer jumped out in front of him. He did an abrupt right turn, crashed off the side of the road and his damaged car came to rest in a vacant field. At the time, Jeremy was 20-years-old and a student at WNMU.
He didn't want to wake his parents because it was late so he called his brother to come pick him up and take him home. At that time he was living with his parents. His father is an Iraqi war veteran and a former Silver City police officer. Jeremy was not hurt, but the car was damaged. He was going to report the accident in the morning.
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By Lynn Janes
On April 30, 2026, the candidate forum was held for the Silver City District 2 primary election to happen on June 2, 2026. It took place at the WNMU Besse Forward Global Resource center. The forum had Eloy Medina (incumbent) and Gilbert Guadiana facing off.
Nick Seibel, Silver City Daily Press publisher, moderated the forum. The candidates received questions from the attending audience, online audience, and the Press writer Jo Lutz. Each would answer the same question and had two minutes.
They started out with a three-minute opening statement.
- Category: Local News Releases
Monday, Apr. 27
Hit and run
Highway 180 and Boulder Street
Caller advised a street light was knocked over and glass is on the walkway.
Thursday, Apr. 30
Larceny
Dollar General
Caller reported his bicycle was stolen from in front of the store/bicycle was recovered and returned to owner.
- Category: Front Page News
Willow Creek Subdivision downgrades to Level 2 "SET" evac status
Acres: 5,650
Start Date: 4/20/2026
Location: 15 Miles East of Glenwood, NM
Personnel: 219
Containment: 21%
Cause: Lightning
Summary:
- Category: Front Page News
Photos by Paul Michaud
A long race ended the 2026 Tour of the Gila, with some surprises and some champions retaining the red jersey for most of the race. Link to full result at the bottom.
- Category: Front Page News
Photos by Mary Alice Murphy, with two of the unicyclist by Paul Michaud
The photos are of various races of the Downtown Silver City Criterium portion of the Tour of the Gila on Saturday, May2, 2026. They include photos of some of the amateur races, including Women 1, 2, 3,4, 5, the Men 3, the Men 1, 2 and then the citizen races, with children ages 3 and 4 years old, next were 5 and 6 years old, followed by 7-9 year-olds, the 10-12 year-olds and the 13-16 year-olds. Some had to be broken down into a girls race and a boys race because of the large numbers of registrations. The last group did a full loop of the race from start line back to finish line and included those from 16 years old through adults, including a unicyclist, who finished the loop ahead of a few bicyclists.
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