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KEVORKIAN DEAD AT 83
DETROIT (AP) — Jack Kevorkian, the audacious doctor who spurred on the national right-to-die debate with a homemade suicide machine that helped end the lives of dozens of ailing people, died Friday at a Detroitarea hospital after a brief illness. He was 83. Kevorkian died at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, ... - PAGE A7
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Edwards indicted in mistress cover-up
WINDERMERE, Fla. (AP) — Shaquille O’Neal changed from his gray T-shirt and sweat pants into a threepiece suit, then walked by some of the souvenirs he accrued during his NBA days for the final time as an active player. Framed jerseys from the likes of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Wayne Gretzky, Mark McGwire, Kirby Puckett, Steve Young and Jerry Rice. An NBA finals MVP trophy. Bottles of wine with labels bearing the “S” logo that he borrowed from Superman and essentially made his own. - PAGE B1
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John Edwards and at his daughter Cate, following a court appearance in Winston-Salem, N.C., Friday.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — John Edwards acknowledged he has “done wrong” and hurt others but strongly denied breaking the law after federal prosecutors charged him Friday with using $925,000 in under-the-table campaign contributions to hide his pregnant mistress during his 2008 run for president. The former U.S. senator and two-time Democratic presidential hopeful was indicted on six felony charges that he violated campaign finance laws in a desperate bid to protect
both his White House hopes and his image as a devoted family man. Edwards, 57, pleaded not guilty and was released without bail on the condition he surrender his passport and not leave the continental U.S. A former trial lawyer who won multimillion-dollar verdicts with the same formidable powers of persuasion that propelled his political career, he now faces the prospect of a lurid trial and the possibility of both prison time and the loss of his license to prac-
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tice law. “There’s no question that I’ve done wrong. And I take full responsibility for having done wrong. And I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I’ve caused to others,” Edwards said outside the courthouse. “But I did not break the law, and I never, ever thought I was breaking the law.” The charges came after a two-year FBI investigation into the former North Carolina senator’s use of See EDWARDS, Page A3
JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER
Stef fanie Kautz, 29, is charged with two counts of child abuse for the May 3 death of 14-year-old Breanna Bodge. The state’s first witness, Angelina Ortega Bodge, discussed her daughter Breanna’s diabetes and its treatment. “She was insulin dependent since she was 6-years-old.” She said Breanna could be picky in her choice of foods, but knew how to take care of herself, test her blood sugar and administer shots. Under cross-examination, Angelina admitted her relationship with Breanna’s father Michael Bodge was strained,
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Kids at the Roswell Boys & Girls Club compete in a dance-off Friday morning during the club’s summer program. The program offers a wide array of activities that run through the summer including swimming, gym activities, arts and crafts, a computer lab and three meals a day.
Ariz. fires force evacuations Bill Richardson on bribery witness list See TRIAL, Page A3
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June 4, 2011
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Wildfires burning through tinder-dry brush and timberlands in Arizona forced dozens of evacuations in three small communities, authorities said. The evacuation order for Paradise and East Whitetail Canyon in southeaster n Arizona went out Thursday night as strong winds pushed the so-called Horseshoe Two fire toward the towns, the Cochise County Sheriff’s office said. The nearby Chiricahua National Monument was closed as a precaution. Earlier in the day, people living in or staying in Alpine in eastern Arizona were ordered to evacuate by evening. A shelter was set up at Blue Ridge High School in Pinetop-Lakeside. There was no exact fig-
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Backed by a downtown skyline obscured by smoke from Arizona wildfires, Ross Aranda takes Hombre on their morning walk in Pat Hurley Park on Albuquerque’s west side, Friday. ure on the number of evacuees. Alpine is home to about 250 people, though not all live there
year-round. The Alpine blaze, known as the Wallow fire, See FIRES, Page A3
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and more than a dozen current and for mer judges could be called to testify in the trial of a Las Cruces judge accused of bribery. The officials are on a list of 28 potential witnesses for the trial of state District Judge Michael Murphy, who was indicted last month in the latest pay-toscandal with alleged ties to Richardson. Asked by the Albuquerque Jour nal if he would welcome a chance to take the stand, Richardson spokesman Gilbert Gallegos emailed that “Governor Richardson doesn’t comment on political witch hunts.” The witness list also includes 14 current and former state and federal judges and Melinda Whit-
ley, former chairwoman of the Doña Ana County Democratic Party. State District Judge Michael Murphy is accused of telling a potential judicial candidate that if she wanted a seat on the bench she needed to donate to the Democratic Party through a political activist linked to Richardson. Allegations in a special prosecutor’s report imply the practice was common in the district during Richardson’s time in office and that Edgar Lopez of Las Cruces delivered the payments to the for mer governor. Special prosecutor Matt Chandler has said the investigation is ongoing. Richardson called the accusations “outrageous and defamatory” and said
in 1992. She says her father, Haut, and the other men decided there needed to be a central location for collecting and archiving information, following growing intrigue beginning in the 1980s surrounding the Roswell Incident in 1947. “This is something that they worked so hard for,” said Shuster, citing the founders’ sacrifice of their
time and personal finances. “I just want to make sure it’s what they wanted, and maintain what they wanted.” Shuster graduated from Goddard High School and spent years living out of state, before returning to New Mexico to take up residence in Artesia. She lived
See WITNESS, Page A3
Julie Shuster: Something happened. Make up your own mind MATTHEW ARCO RECORD STAFF WRITER
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Julie Shuster, director of the UFO Museum and Research Center.
As director of the UFO Museum and Research Center, Julie Shuster says the position she’s held for more than a decade is mostly about keeping her father’s vision for the center alive, and inspiring curiosity and intrigue into the realm of the extraterrestrial. The Roswell native says her goal is to “protect the museum, Walter Haut and Glenn Dennis,” and maintain what the center’s three founders — Haut, Dennis and Max Littell — set out to accomplish when it opened
See SPOTLIGHT, Page A3