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 ...

The New Mexico Department of Justice filed an effort Thursday to block outgoing university President Joseph Shepard from ...

Citing “greed, self-dealing, and arrogance,” Raúl Torrez announced a civil suit aimed at recovering the $1.9 million buyout awarded to WNMU’s outgoing president ...

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 ...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is seeking to stop outgoing Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard ...

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

"We reached out to his attorney and asked him to voluntarily submit that payment to the court — he refused to do that," NM Attorney General Raúl Torrez said.

The Western New Mexico University Board of Regents is out amid a controversial $1.9 million payout they approved for the ...

It will be a happy new year for Joseph Shepard, the outgoing president of Western New Mexico University (WNMU), who is scheduled to receive a $1.9 million ...

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

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