A fire started in Northern Socorro County Tuesday and has burned 97 acres. Fire crews are continuing to secure and establish ...

Socorro County has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who alleges he was forced to live surrounded by his own waste in a county jail cell with no running water for weeks, ...

SOCORRO COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – A former inmate is getting a multi-million-dollar payout after he said he was held in a New Mexico county jail cell for days without food and water. Jessie Chavez ...

Ted Valenzuela 2025 Ted Valenzuela, lifelong resident of Socorro, New Mexico passed away peacefully on March 7, 2025. He was surrounded by his loving family. Ted was a long-term and dedicated employee ...

SOCORRO, New Mexico (KOAT) — Socorro County Detention Center is being accused of abusing an inmate who was held in solitary confinement. Steven Allen, director of the New Mexico Prison and Jail ...

SOCORRO, N.M. – A man was awarded a $2 million settlement in federal court because of how he was treated inside the Socorro County Detention Center. Jessie Chavez suffers from severe mental illness.

Socorro County settled two million dollars in a lawsuit for the alleged civil and constitutional rights violation of Jessie ...

At last week’s City of Socorro meeting, Mayor Ravi Bhasker announced he would prepare documents to formally request from the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A man accused of killing his girlfriend in Socorro County in 2022 was arrested during a law enforcement operation in Albuquerque Monday. Agents with the New Mexico ...

Socorro County Detention Center is being accused of abusing an inmate who was held in solitary confinement. Steven Allen, director of the New Mexico Prison and Jail Project, said his client, who ...