ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Democrat Ray Powell is ending his bid for New Mexico land commissioner after finding out he has a rare auto-immune condition that affects the communication between nerves and muscles. Powell made the announcement Wednesday on social media, saying there’s a good probability he can live an active life with treatment but that if he were elected, …

Experts say photo of Billy the Kid, lawman is real deal By TERRY TANG, Associated Press Experts now believe a photo purchased at a flea market for $10 shows Billy the Kid standing with the lawman who ultimately killed him, making the snapshot potentially worth millions. Frank Abrams, a North Carolina attorney, first spotted the tintype photo in Asheville in 2011. …

Experts say photo of Billy the Kid, lawman is real deal By TERRY TANG, Associated Press Experts now believe a photo purchased at a flea market for $10 shows Billy the Kid standing with the lawman who ultimately killed him, making the snapshot potentially worth millions. Frank Abrams, a North Carolina attorney, first spotted the tintype photo in Asheville in 2011. …

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — Hundreds of mourners crowded into the tiny town of Sutherland Springs for the first Sunday service since a gunman stormed the First Baptist Church a week earlier, killing more than two dozen people in the worst mass shooting in Texas history. After an emotional sermon held outdoors under a massive white tent, congregants and the …

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico group that erected a monument on city-owned property honoring the Ten Commandments will move it to church property. The city of Bloomfield and the organization must move the monument after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving whether it could be displayed on public property, the Daily Times of Farmington …

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — The gunman who killed 26 people at a small-town Texas church went aisle to aisle looking for victims and shot crying babies at point-blank range, a couple who survived the attack said. Rosanne Solis and Joaquin Ramirez were sitting near the entrance to the First Baptist Church on Sunday when they heard what sounded like …

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — A gunman dressed in black tactical-style gear and armed with an assault rifle opened fire inside a small South Texas church, killing 26 people in an attack that claimed tight-knit neighbors and multiple family members ranging in age from 5 to 72 years old. Once the shooting started Sunday at the First Baptist Church in …

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office said Monday that “substantially inaccurate historical statements” don’t belong on display at the state Capitol as they seek a review of a Confederate marker that rejects slavery as an underlying cause of the Civil War. It was a clearer denunciation than Abbott’s office originally gave last week following a private meeting …

CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — The founder of an eastern New Mexico halfway house is facing his ninth drunken driving charge. The Eastern New Mexico News reports Randall Pruit was arrested Saturday in Clovis after he was spotted driving erratically. A criminal complaint says the 54-year-old told police he had been drinking but refused to perform field sobriety tests. He was …

BLOOMFIELD, N.M. (AP) — A group that erected a monument honoring the Ten Commandments six years ago on city-owned property in a small New Mexico city will remove the monument and put it on private property within 30 days. Kevin Mauzy, the group’s founder, said it will be placed at a prominent location after the U.S. Supreme Court last week …