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stalled across the country and traffic lights went out, causing widespread jams in New Delhi. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asked office workers to go home and rushed generators to coal mines to rescue trapped miners. By evening, power had been restored to New Delhi and the remote northeast, and much of the northern and easter n grids were back on line. Electricity officials said the system would not be back to 100 percent until today. The blackouts came amid consumer anger with the recent increase in power fees, including a 26 percent hike in Delhi, that government of ficials said were needed to pay for the steep rise in fuel costs. The Confederation of Indian Industry said the two outages cost business hundreds of millions of dollars, though they did not affect the financial center of Mumbai and the global outsourcing powerhouses of Bangalore and Hyderabad in the south. Like many, the group demanded a widespread refor m of India’s power sector, which has been unable to keep up with the soaring demand for electricity as the economy expanded and Indians grew more af fluent and energy hungry. India’s Central Electricity Authority reported power deficits of more than 8 per-
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and Rescue departments were dispatched to 1423 E. Fourth, Odessa, close to midnight, after receiving a call about a man who had been wounded. Upon arrival, the first responders discovered Charles Jennings, 62, dead. Four days later, Marcus Kristopher “Ar kansas” Lacy was listed by the OPD as a person of interest. Starting on July 18, they posted Lacy’s picture on their website while he hitchhiked to Roswell and turned himself in to the Sheriff’s deputies where he confessed to the murder. “He (Lacy) called in with information on the murder. He said he thought he saw the guy (the victim) here in Roswell. I believe his conscience was bothering him,” Sherif f’s Lt. Daniel Ornelas said. The investigator from the Sheriff’s Office called OPD to confirm that a
cent in recent months, and many economists said the power deficit is dragging down India’s economy. Part of the problem is that India relies on coal for more than half its power generation and the coal supply is controlled by a near state monopoly that is widely considered a shambles. The power deficit was worsened this year by a weak monsoon that lowered hydroelectric generation, spurred farmers to use pumps to irrigate their fields long after the rains would normally have come and kept temperatures higher, keeping air conditioners and fans running longer. The opposition said officials should have located the first fault and fixed it before getting the whole system back on line Monday. “The power minister owes an answer to the prime minister, owes an answer to the nation why this is happening,” Bharatiya Janata Party spokesman Prakash Javadekar said. Instead, as part of a planned Cabinet shuffle, Shinde was promoted in the middle of the day to the powerful job of home minister, putting him in charge of the nation’s inter nal security even as the power crisis dragged on. By contrast, the power chief in the state of Uttar Pradesh was summarily fired by his chief minister Monday for his handling of the first power crisis. homicide had occurred on the date provided by Lacy and under similar circumstances as described by the suspect. The investigator received an affirmative response. The Odessa PD arrived in Roswell the next day to question the suspect. Lacy made a full confession, telling officials that he had stabbed Jennings during an argument over a bottle of whiskey. Lacy reported to the Sherif f’s Of fice that he was the one who contacted OPD to report Jennings had been wounded. Based on information obtained from the Chaves County Sheriff’s Office, OPD obtained an arrest warrant charging Lacy with first-degree murder. Sheriff Rob Coon said that the next step is extradition. Lacy will remain at the Chaves County Detention Center until he can be extradited to Texas. He is being held without bond.
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Corporation members met with CITE [pronounced “city”] officials last Thursday in Albuquerque to learn more about the project, which EDC executive director Bob Donnell said presents an enticing opportunity for Roswell. “This is a long-ter m project in regards to the construction, as well as to the scientific lab operation and the testing that will go on there,” Donnell said. “So we’re talking 20-, 30-, 50- year projects. This is not one that’s going to be here and gone in a couple years down the road. It’s just too massive of a project for that.” The facility will take several years to build, involving about 3,500 people in its construction, and would employ at least 350 to 375 people in high-paying, fulltime positions, Donnell said. Donnell said EDC learned in Albuquerque that Roswell is presently one of five communities in New Mexico under consideration. He said Roswell offers CITE a lot of assets, including flat land, rail service, fiber optics, New Mexico Military Institute, a university, an airport and a skilled workforce. “There are many, many pluses,” Donnell said. “We also have the quality of life — the museums and golf courses and other things like that, which are important for their workers. So there are many reasons why Roswell would be attractive to them. “... But it’s still a competition. We know that we’re still competing against other communities.” CITE of ficials have stated that the 3-milewide, 5-mile-long testing lab would be modeled
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that will work with the acreage, one that will work with all the obstacles that are out there like the flagpole that can’t be moved,” he said. As for the money received for the project, Corn said, “It’s enough to get the job done ... so far the dollar amount that the irrigation companies ... what they’ve given me as an initial number, I’ve got the money to cover it.” He added, “I don’t think there’s going to be any meaningful water put on
after the mid-sized American city of Rock Hill, S.C., and would be complete with highways, houses and commercial buildings, thus enabling researchers to conduct testing without interfering in the daily lives of inhabitants. The idea of an entire city with unoccupied homes, which will be equipped with everything from plumbing to appliances, has created national fanfare, causing many to dub the proposed facility a “ghost town.” Regarding the catchy label, Donnell said he disagrees with its implication. “I don’t want to build one, you don’t want to build one — no one wants to build a ghost town,” he said. “This is a scientific lab.” Donnell said that in addition to jobs directly involved with the facility, CITE would attract other research companies to Chaves County, likely creating a number of indirect jobs. He said CITE is already working with other companies throughout the world for testing, and that many of those operations would come to the area if the city is ultimately chosen. “It’s not only good for us and New Mexico, it’s good for the United States,” he said. “We’ll be thee location in the United States for testing all types of products, and so why wouldn’t we want that here? “Why wouldn’t we want those customers to come to Roswell and spend a month in Roswell, living or working here, and testing their product? To me, it’s too much of a dream idea, an outstanding idea, for us not to consider at this point.” Donnell said EDC plans to submit its proposal by the end of the week, and that he expects a decision on a CITE location before the end of the calendar year.
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the cemetery, we’re at Aug. 1 now, to do any good in this growing season. I’m very optimistic and very hopeful that we can start next March. That doesn’t mean we won’t get stuff in place, and test the system and make sure it operates the way it’s supposed to this year.” In addition to the irrigation system, Cor n said there is still a good deal of groundwork and labor on the supply side that needs to be completed. He plans to have the property mowed this week, and anticipates clearing the dead bushes and trees from the property very soon.
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ron said. New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada, the three swing states in the West, have been receiving money from the Republican National Committee. Damron estimated that the RNC has pumped $800,000 into New Mexico “for the operations of the six (Victory) offices, the field directors, the other directors that are running in the state.” Yet New Mexico still remains a T ier 2 state, with more focus being placed on Colorado and Nevada at the present time. In New Mexico, the Romney campaign will focus on the economy and redouble its outreach efforts to the Hispanic community. Damron said the Republican values of family, jobs and the economy resonate with many Hispanic voters. Both Romney and Obama have focused on garnering support from the Hispanic community, considered a vital demographic in this election. The Obama campaign contends that Romney’s key policies would be a detriment to the Hispanic community. In a written statement, Mahen Gunaratna, the New Mexico-Arizona communications director for Obama for America, stated, “New Mexico’s Hispanic community stands to lose the most from Mitt Romney’s insistence on tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, his drastic cuts to education funding for our children, and his opposition to equal pay for equal work for women. Gov. Romney is simply on the wrong side of every issue important to our Hispanic community.” As for the economy, Damron said, “The taxes that we currently have are too much taxes, the Bush
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On Monday, Rick Reese, owner of New Deal Shooting Sports, told the court that Roman was a boisterous braggart and he never took him seriously. Reese, 56, his wife, Terri, 49, and their sons, R yin, 20, and Remington, 25, are all on trial. Prosecutors claim the defendants sold 16 firearms to people who then smuggled the guns to cartel members in Mexico in July and
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tax cuts need to be reaffir med. The regulations that are put upon us as Americans, the situation with the health care, with ObamaCare ... is extremely important. There are 21 new taxes in that 2,700page legislation.” He indicated that Romney’s leadership in both the private and public sectors render him the better candidate to ease the country’s economic woes. Gunaratna said, “New Mexicans find Mitt Romney’s economic scheme familiar and troubling: more budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthy; fewer rules for Wall Street — the same formula that benefitted a few, but crashed our economy and punished our state’s middle class.” New Mexico, with five electoral votes, is primed for being a battleground state in a projected tight race between Obama and Romney. “There is a potential for complacency ... this is a Republican part of the state, Santa Fe is a democrat part. We all tend to get grouped in areas. If the Republicans are going to be successful, we’re going to need to not be complacent. And that means, ‘oh we know that Mitt Romney, Heather Wilson, Steve Pearce, are going to win this area, do I really need to (vote)?’ And the answer is yes you really do,” said Dennis Kintigh, Team Romney Chaves County coordinator. “I heard a comment the other day that really had me thinking. I think it’s accurate. ‘I don’t think the political process is what’s so divisive. I think the population is divided.’ I think the political environment reflects the deep political, philosophical differences that exist in this country,” Kintigh said.
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August of 2010. They are accused of selling 18 more guns to undercover agents and Roman. Roman testified last week against the Reeses.
Defense lawyers have maintained the Reeses followed all legal procedures during the undercover sales and kept detailed records.
Federal authorities arrested the family last August, seizing more than 1,200 firearms and nearly 2 million rounds of ammunition from their shop.
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