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Sections of White Sands National Park in New Mexico remain closed after a U.S. Air Force F-16 jet crashed in the area.. White Sands past mile marker 3 has remained closed to the public since the ...
Juan Corral, Alamogordo Daily News April 25, 2024 at 12:00 PM Two people died in a three-car crash at the intersection of White Sands Blvd. and 10th St. on April 7.
White Sands National Park is located in southern New Mexico, on the north side of U.S. Route 70 approximately 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Alamogordo and 52 miles (84 km) northeast of Las Cruces, [2] in western Otero County and northeastern Doña Ana County. [54] The closest commercial airport is in El Paso, Texas, about 85 miles (137 km) away ...
On March 15, 2022, investigators in Arizona announced the identification of Gallegos's remains, almost 62 years after the discovery of her body. The child had been kidnapped from outside her grandmother's home in Alamogordo, New Mexico by two unknown individuals ten days prior to the discovery of her body. [5]
Alamogordo Daily News claims 1898 as its founding date, but a case can be made for 1896. A predecessor, the Chief, was founded in Tularosa as a weekly in 1896, then moved to La Luz the next year and changed its name to Sacramento Chief.
Two United States Air Force Northrop T-38 Talon supersonic jet trainers were destroyed in a mid-air collision that occurred during a training mission near Alamogordo, New Mexico. The aircraft were assigned to the 479th Tactical Training Wing out of Holloman Air Force Base. Killed were pilot instructor Captain Ross Alan LaTorra and his student ...
In addition to the local school system, Alamogordo is home to the New Mexico School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, founded in 1903, and a branch of New Mexico State University founded in 1958. [13]: 44, 58 The largest non-government employer in the city is the Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center with 650 employees in 2008. [54]
The Bataan Memorial Death March is an annual commemoration of the Bataan Death March attended by many of the survivors of the march, along with thousands of supporters from around the world, held at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.