Raúl Torrez also filed a complaint seeking to end Joseph Shepard's separation agreement, which the lawsuit calls an ...

The New Mexico Attorney General is taking aim at Western New Mexico University and sending the message that rewarding the ...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez says nearly $2 million was already paid out to former Western New Mexico University President Dr. Joseph Shepard despite Torrez taking action to stop those ...

Mounting scrutiny over a multimillion-dollar exit package for an outgoing president prompted the regents to resign.

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is taking outgoing Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard and all five members of the Board of Regents to court over a $1.9 million buyout ...

Shepard and the regents have been under the microscope for more than a year after a 2023 Searchlight New Mexico investigation ...

The president, who led the university for 13 years and faced criticism for his spending, received an exit package that will ...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Monday filed an emergency motion in court to stop Western New Mexico University ...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed a motion to block a $1.9 million buyout for the departing president of Western ...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez has filed a court motion to block a $1.9 million severance payment to former WNMU ...

Raúl Torrez called the payment to Joseph Shepard “an egregious misuse of public funds and a betrayal of the Board's ...

SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) — More members of the embattled board of regents at Western New Mexico University have resigned, a ...