Roswell Daily Record THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
Vol. 122, No. 258 75¢ Daily / $1.25 Sunday
October 27, 2013
Police investigate second homicide in a week JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER
Another homicide occurred Friday night around 7:30 p.m. near the intersection of Cherry Street and Edgewood Avenue. Daily Record The received official confirmation around 8 a.m. Saturday when it was reported that investigators were then still at the scene. The name of the victim will not
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be released until family members are notified. The Friday night incident represents the seventh homicide of 2013 in Roswell. If one includes the murder of Tacorey Singleton, the Friday night homicide is the eighth in Chaves County as a whole. The Edgewood homicide also is the second reported homicide this week. Police responded to a shooting call, around 1 a.m. Thursday, in the parking lot of
Variety Liquor Store and Lounge, 1100 W. Second St., where officers discovered 25-year -old Victor Oaxaco, who succumbed to his injuries. At this stage of their investigation, the police are not willing to say if the two homicides and the other shooting incidents inside the city limits are connected. It has been a dark week in Roswell, starting Monday morning when two officers,
one from the Roswell Police Department and one from New Mexico State Police, were injured, and a man and one woman were killed following a shoot-out and a multi-car accident on Hwy. 285. Later that night, an RPD officer was dispatched to Eastern New Mexico Center, 405 W. Country Club Rd., to take a report about a shooting in Roswell. The following day, a release reported an ongoing inves-
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Zombie Walk a bloody good end to breast cancer awareness campaign
The undead strut to the song “Thriller” during the Thrill the World Roswell and Zombie Walk at the Roswell Convention Center, Saturday.
exposed spines and allaround blood and gore overran the Roswell Convention and Civic Center Gashed faces, eyes Saturday. falling from their sockets, Attendees said they were
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thrilled with this year’s Funds raised by the Thrill the World/Roswell event will go toward the Zombie Walk, which Chaves County Cancer included a dance, costume contest and march down See WALK, Page A2 Main Street.
2 sought in armed robbery case
T he R os w el l P o l i c e De p ar tm en t s e e ks t wo men following an armed robbery that took place Saturday, Oct. 19, when two male subjects entered Kmart, 1705 St. Main St., and held up a cashier at gunpoint. The subjects fled with an undisclosed amount of cash. The media was notified ab o u t t h e e v e n t o n Wednesday, Oct. 23, when police announced that a man had been arr ested the previous day in connection with the crime, one Michael Trujillo, 21. D e te c ti ves ar e n ow so l ic it i n g t he p u b li c’ s as s is ta nc e i n l oc a t i ng Hector Alonzo, 21, who is
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co ns id er ed a p er s o n of interest. An arrest warrant has been secured for 31-year-old George Ortiz, a suspect in the ar med robbery. Anyone with infor ma-
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tigation in the 300 block of Oakwood Street, after a man who went to a residence to collect a debt was shot multiple times and hospitalized for his injuries.
The investigation of the midnight shooting led to not one, but three searches of a residence in the 3000 block of Encanto Drive, Tuesday evening, where explosive devices were located. People from adjacent homes were evacuated.
The area from Futura, Delicado and Encanto drives to Vista Parkway was blocked for nearly two days as the Roswell Police Federal Department, Bureau of Investigation, Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and the New Mexico State Police Explosive Ordnance Division searched the home, with Roswell Fire Department on standby assist.
Teacher unions want to slow evaluation plan
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — New Mexico’s two teacher unions want the state Public Education Department to slow its implementation of a new evaluation system for teachers and schools. The National Education Association is considering legal action, while the American Federation of Teachers New Mexico is threatening to withdraw support for renewal of a waiver that allows the state more flexibility under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Patrick Sanchez, head of the National Education Association in Las Cruces, told the Albuquerque Journal that teachers have reached a boiling point over the department’s plan. “It’s pretty fierce, close to nuclear,” he said. The system has provoked protests and talks of a teacher strike in Albuquerque as well as criticism from teachers and others around the state. Critics say the system places too much weight on student achievement and allows for classroom observations to
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be done by someone other than the school principal or assistant principal.
The American Federation of Teachers was among a group of lawmakers and teachers who filed a legal petition last month against the department, seeking to stop the system from being implemented for the first time this year. The petition claims some elements of the administrative rule establishing the evaluations conflict with state law and are illegal.
On Friday, the NEA board passed a resolution authorizing its leadership team to look into legal action against the evaluations. A decision could come as soon as next week.
NEA New Mexico executive director Charles Bowyer said the union has worked with the department for several months to develop a collaborative process but hasn’t seen the kind of openness it had hoped for.
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t i on a bou t t he w her eabouts of Alonzo or Ortiz, sh ou ld co nt act t he Roswell Police Department (575-624-6770), or Crime S t op per s (1 -8 88- 59 48477).
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Macy and pal Tori await the start of the Rio Pecos Kennel Club's Creep ‘n Crawl Dog Walk at Cahoon Park, Saturday morning.
Reforma de SCP require cambios en el uso de impuestos del condado TESS TOWNSEND RECORD STAFF WRITER
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The English version of this story ran Friday, Oct. 25. Miércoles, el periódico tendrá un artículo de seguimiento sobre como los cambios de SCP van a afectar proveedores de salud en Chaves County. Una refor mación del programa Sole Community Provider (SCP) en New Mexico, que es arreglado
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por el programa de Medicaid, requerirá un plan nuevo de fondos para algunos programas en hospitales en todo el estado inscritos en el programa. Se espera que la nueva encarnación de SCP, Safety Net Care Pool, tenga inicio en 2014.
Medicaid también cambiará su nombre y será remodelado el año próximo. Empezando en enero, el nuevo nombre de Medi-
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caid será Centennial Care.
icas.
En Chaves County (Condado), hospitales Eastern New Mexico Medical Center (ENMMC) y Lovelace Health System participan en SCP. Cuando Safety Net se inicia, estos hospitales recibirán mas compensación para reclamaciones de Medicaid, y menos fondos para compensar reclamaciones de pacientes sin seguro de salud quienes no pueden pagar sus facturas med-
El estado de New Mexico esta remodelando SCP para calificar para una renuncia especial del departamento federal Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), que supervisa los programas Medicare y Medicaid. La renuncia permite que New Mexico maneje su programa de Medicaid según directrices especiales determinadas por el estado.
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TODAY’S OBITUARIES PAGES A6 & A7 • IRENE BOWERY MONTGOMERY • BUENAVIDA L. ADAJAR
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ENTERTAINMENT .....B8
Como una parte de la refor macion de SCP, el Human Services Department (HSD) de New Mexico, que maneja Medicaid en el estado, ha propuesto cambios para el uso de una porción de impuestos de los condados. Según las propuestas de HSD, el estado manejaría una parte de los impuestos que los condados contribuyen a SCP. El
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OPINION .................A4 SPORTS .................B1 WEATHER ..............A8 VISTAS...................C1