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Judge: Las Cruces can keep its logo

LAS CRUCES - A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that sought to stop the city of Las Cruces - a name that means the crosses in Spanish - from using three Christian crosses on its logo.

Three plaintiffs had contended the city government's use of crosses violated the First Amendment by endorsing and advancing a religion.

U.S. District Judge Robert Brack disagreed, saying the city's use of the crosses could be considered secular. The stylized logo features three overlapping crosses in the center of a sun.

Paul Weinbaum, one of the plaintiffs, said he will appeal. He sued the Las Cruces schools on similar grounds. That case is set for trial Nov. 27.

State pays family over shooting death

SANTA FE - A northern New Mexico family has been paid $235,000 to settle a lawsuit over the shooting death of a Chimay¢ man by a State Police agent during a drug investigation.

Leo Lopez, 44, was shot three times in the upper back on Sept. 22, 2004. His family sued the following year, alleging Officer Sean Wallace shot the unarmed man without provocation, then denied him medical treatment as he bled to death.

A Rio Arriba County grand jury cleared Wallace in Lopez's death, and State Police officials have refused to confirm that Wallace was the officer who fatally shot Lopez. The agency has denied requests to inspect incident reports from the shooting.

Police have said undercover officers in an unmarked car pulled over Lopez in Chimay¢, and that after officers got out and identified themselves, he backed his truck toward them. That's when he was shot.

Border mayors say no to fence plan

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico - Mexican and U.S. border mayors signed a document Friday denouncing U.S. plans to build new border fences.

In the document, the mayors of Eagle Pass, Texas, and Ciudad Acuna and Piedras Negras, both in the Mexican border state of Coahuila, declare the U.S.-Mexico border an area for union and solidarity, not division.

"From El Paso to Brownsville, Texas, we're against building the wall. . . . That's why we're here today to support our neighbors," said Eagle Pass Mayor Chad Foster.

Last month, President George W. Bush signed a bill to build the fencing and add more vehicle barriers, lighting and infrared cameras.

Mexican President Vicente Fox has called the plan "an embarrassment for the United States."