"The main reason was the South Fork Fire last year that burned directly west of Ruidoso," Grzywacz said. "The soil wasn't able to absorb any of the rainfall, and it runs right down into Ruidoso. Normally, if you had that vegetation still there, it could absorb it. For the Ruidoso monsoon season, it was above average rain but not record rainfall."

The loss of three lives to flash flooding in the mountain village of Ruidoso is “unfathomable and unfair,” New Mexico’s governor said Thursday, as

Alex Morgan, one of the best women's soccer players in U.S. history, announced her retirement from the game last fall. “I’m retiring. I have so much clarity about this decision,” said Alex Morgan in her retirement video last September. “It has been a long time coming, and this decision wasn’t ...