05-27-2011

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Roswell Daily Record

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EHV-1 CAUSE OF CONCERN

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Concerned about the threat of a catastrophic outbreak of a herpes virus among wild horse herds in the West, national animal advocates on Thursday called on the federal government to keep potentially infected domestic horses away from mustangs and burros on public lands - PAGE A3

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City, RISD break ground for school

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City and school officials, parents and smiling youngsters gathered at a Roswell park, Thursday, to break ground on the future home of a brand new elementary school. Roswell Independent School District officials said they were looking forward to the fall of 2012, when they will able to usher children inside the new Missouri Avenue Elementary School building. The groundbreaking marked the first time the district had built a new elementary

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school in more than 60 years. “It’s exciting to work on (improving and updating) all of our schools,” said Michael Gottlieb, RISD superintendent. “It’s extremely exciting to build a new school.” The last time a new school was built by the district was Goddard High School, which was completed in 1965, he said. Recently, updating was done on Berrendo and Sierra middle schools, and University High School. The district is also currently revamping Sunset Elementary School. RISD’s school board president, Mackenzie Hunt,

called Roswell residents’ dedication and support for the project “awe inspiring.” The building is paid for largely from the state’s Public School Capital Outlay Commission, which matches 72 percent of the funding when residents pass the necessary bonds to cover the remaining 28 percent. Local state elected officials were present during the groundbreaking and expressed their satisfaction with the project. “We set out to improve all the schools in the state and we’ve done it,” said Senate See RISD, Page A6

Fire destroys Historic District home

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Julia Russell fits her cousin Andrew Sedillo with an extra hard hat during groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Missouri Avenue Elementary School, Thursday morning. Andrew will be entering the third grade at Missouri Avenue, and Julia, the fourth.

County to keep road

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Four homes were evacuated and one was destroyed Thursday evening on South Lea Avenue near West Alameda Street. Fire officials said they were investigating the cause of the blaze that fully engulfed the Historic District home. Officials said the home was vacant and no injuries were reported.

HEAT WIN EAST FINALS

CHICAGO (AP) — LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh joined to win a championship. Well, now they have their shot. James scored 28 points, Wade added 21, and they led a furious rally in the final minutes as the Miami Heat eliminated Derrick Rose and the Chicago Bulls 83-80 in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals on Thursday. James and Wade were simply spectacular down the stretch, each scoring ... - PAGE B1

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Congress extends Patriot Act 4 years

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress on Thursday passed a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists. Votes taken in rapid succession in the Senate and House came after lawmakers rejected attempts to temper the law enforcement powers to ensure that individual liberties are not abused. Following the 250-153 evening vote in the House, the legislation to renew three terrorism-fighting authorities headed for the president’s signature with only hours to go before the provisions expire at midnight. With President Obama currently in Europe, the White House said the president would use an autopen machine that holds a pen and signs his actual signature. It is only used with proper authorization of the

president. Obama will be awakened by 5:45 a.m. in France so he can review and approve the bill and authorize his signature, the White House said. A short-term expiration would not interrupt ongoing operations but would bar the government from seeking warrants for new investigations. Congress bumped up against the deadline mainly because of the stubborn resistance from a single senator, Republican freshman Rand Paul of Kentucky, who saw the terrorist-hunting powers as an abuse of privacy rights. Paul held up the final vote for several days while he demanded a chance to change the bill to diminish the government’s ability to monitor individual actions. The bill passed the Senate 72-23.

In a 3-2 vote, Chaves County commissioners denied requests to vacate a county road that is surrounded by private and public hunting land during a special business meeting Thursday. The requests to vacate became controversial when state Department of Game and Fish officials and sportsmen claimed closing the road would deny or restrict access to public hunting grounds. Chairman Greg Nibert, along with commissioners James Duffey and Richard Taylor, voted to deny the See ROAD, Page A6

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State stocks Lake Van with catfish Children at Lake Van inspect a catfish about to be released into Lake Van, Thursday.

Dexter’s Lake Van received its first summer shipment of about 900 pounds of catfish, Thursday. The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish delivered the first of three or four annual shipments of about 500 catfish to the lake. “This is part of our Big Cat program,” said Shawn Denny, the agency’s southeast

area fishery manager. “This is the first one of the season.” Game and Fish purchases the fish from Arkansas and delivers them to 15 water areas statewide. The average weight for the catfish delivered to the lake is about 1.5 pounds. Denny says there is a two-fish limit on what an angler can catch from the lake.

Serbia arrests Mladic on war crimes charges; faces life See PATRIOT, Page A6

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Bosnian printing house workers prepare today’s issue of the country's newspaper, San, in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — After 16 years on the run, a frail and haggard Ratko Mladic was hauled before a judge Thursday — the first step in facing charges for international war crimes, including the slaughter of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica in 1995. No longer the fearsome, bull-necked military commander, Mladic was arrested by intelligence agents in a raid before dawn at a relative’s house in a village in

northern Serbia. The act was trumpeted by the government as a victory for a country worthy of European Union membership and Western embrace. Mladic, 69, was one of the world’s most-wanted fugitives. He was the top commander of the Bosnian Serb army during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war, which killed more than 100,000 people and drove another 1.8 million from their homes. Thousands of Muslims and Croats were killed, tortured or driven out in a campaign

to purge the region of nonSerbs. He was accused by the U.N. International Criminal T ribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for the massacre of Muslims by Bosnian Serb forces in easter n Bosnia and the relentless four-year siege of Sarajevo. On Thursday evening, Mladic walked haltingly See SERBIA, Page A6


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