NM 128 road improvements moving forward Christina Holt/News-Sun The New Mexico Department of Transportation is moving forward with plans to make roadway improvements to New Mexico Highway 128 in the Jal area and west towards Eddy County. The project is estimated to cost about $430 million to reconstruct New Mexico Hwy. 128 from the Texas state line east of Jal …

Authorities say all five people killed in a fiery crash in southeastern New Mexico’s oil country were from Texas. New Mexico State Police say the crash happened Thursday morning on a state road east of Jal when the driver of a pickup truck crossed the center line into eastbound traffic and collided head-on with a tractor-trailer rig. Officer Ray Wilson …

Hwy. 128 has 2nd fatal wreck within a week NEWS-SUN STAFF REPORT A southern Arkansas man died Monday morning after a two-vehicle crash on State Highway 128 in Lea County. It is the second fatal crash within a week on the state highway which travels east/westbound from the New Mexico-Texas state border, through Jal to N.M. 31 near Loving. At …