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BUGS TAKE BITE OUT OF TOURISM NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s bedbugs have climbed out of bed and marched into landmarks like the Empire State Building, Bloomingdale’s and Lincoln Center, causing fresh anxiety among tourists who are canceling Big Apple vacations planned for the height of the holiday season.
THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
October 26, 2010
Obama assails GOP on campaign push
WOONSOCKET, R.I. (AP) — President Barack Obama attacked Republicans with gusto Monday as he plunged into a final week of midter m election campaigning, but his party’s prognosis remained darkened by the feeble economy and his itinerary was designed largely to minimize losses. Nor was his greeting totally friendly in a state where Obama has pointedly declined to endorse his party’s candidate for governor. Obama can “take his endorsement and shove it,” declared Democrat Frank Caprio, battling Republican-turned-independent Lincoln Chafee in a Rhode
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www.roswell-record.com Island gubernatorial race rated tight in the polls. Chafee endorsed Obama during the 2008 campaign for the White House. In a little more than five hours in the state, Obama was booked for a factory tour and for a pair of fundraisers that party officials said would bring in $500,000. He said Republicans had driven the economy into a ditch and then stood by and criticized while Democrats pulled it out. Now that progress has been made, he said, “we can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can
Three-vehicle accident
come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.” Democrats relied on more than the president’s time to boost their chances in the final days of the campaign. There was the matter of federal funds, too, in the form of an estimated $2.5 billion in grants announced during the day to provide high-speed rail service in Califor nia, between Chicago and Iowa, and elsewhere. Administration officials left it to Democratic lawmakers to make the announcements, and they did, stressing the job-creating potential of the expansions. Some Republicans expressed objections to the funding in a time of record
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President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the DCCC reception at the Rhode Island Convention Center inProvidence, R.I., Monday.
deficits.
Eight days before the
election, the principal
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Roswell boys get No. 3 seed Story lines abound in GHS, RHS matchup Who needs the Fall Classic?
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A three-vehicle-accident on North Main Street and Berrendo Road halted traffic for more than an hour on Monday. Minor injuries were reported.
Roswell boys get No. 3 seed The New Mexico Activities Association released the soccer state championship brackets on Sunday and two local teams made the cut. - PAGE B1
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Man arrested after child shot accidentally Roswell Police Department arrested Frank Miller, Sunday, on charges of first-degree child abuse and being a felon in possession of a firearm. Police were called to Roswell Regional Hospital after Miller, 48, brought his 8-year -old son suf fering from a gun- shot wound. According to a family member who refused to give his name “it was a stupid accident.” Detectives were called in, and the investigation led them to believe the child was shot with a homemade firear m belonging to Miller. Detectives also determined that Miller has a
prior felony conviction, leading to the charge of felon in possession. Police contacted Children, Youth and Families Department about custody. “The important issue is that he (Miller) acted unsafely,” said T ravis Holley, RPD public information officer. “The gun wasn’t being kept appropriately, and he (Miller) wasn’t supposed to be in possession of a firearm in the first place.” The child was flown to a Lubbock hospital. He is expected to recover. Miller is being held at the Chaves County Detention Center with a $50,000 bond
Candidate fined for missing finance reports MATTHEW ARCO RECORD STAFF WRITER
A candidate seeking election to the Chaves County Commission will be fined more than $400 for failing to submit campaign finance reports by the Secretary of State’s Oct. 11 deadline, agency officials indicated. Eloy Ortega Jr. failed to submit his second general election campaign finance report about two weeks after its due date. He is the only local candidate on the upcoming Nov. 2 ballot who isn’t up-to-date with his reports. Judge Eugene De Los Santos — who is running uncontested for re-election to Magistrate Court See REPORTS, Page A3
uncertainty concerned the
Hearing held in Vega case
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JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER A pre-trial conference was held in Judge Charles C. Currier's Fifth Judicial District courtroom to assess the progress for the murder trial of David Vega. Vega , 47, is accused of killing his son, Christopher Lee Vega , 25, and his son's girlfriend, Alyssa Michelle Montgomery, 31, on May 10. The shooting deaths followed a day of domestic disturbances. On May 9, police officers were called to the home at 1007 Rancho Road twice before Vega was arrested around 8:30 p.m. on a petty misdemeanor charge of disorder-
Church trying to replace roof JONATHAN ENTZMINGER RECORD STAFF WRITER
Immanuel Church of God in Christ, located at 1002 N. Union Ave., is looking to replace its roof. According to church pastor and local educator at Monterrey Elementary, Louis Accardi, the church’s roofing project has hit a number of road blocks. The primary blockade was made known to him by his adjuster, Brian Arnold. “He looked at this roof and he said, ‘You know what, we’re not allowed to go up there and just fix it — it’s against regulations,’” Accardi said. “They’re supposed to completely re-do it, because it has so many layers of shingles. You’re not allowed to have that many layers of shingles.”
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The church has been in the community for 73 years and had its anniversary on Oct. 8. Accardi, an unpaid minister, said that the entire roof would have to be stripped down and new shingles would have to be placed on it. In addition, the company that originally made the building’s shingles is no longer in business, which is yet another road block for Immanuel. Accardi said that the roof has sustained hail and water damage, in addition to leaking. To his knowledge, the church hasn’t had a new roof in a number of years, possibly decades. The inner part of the sanctuary shows a powerful triangular struc-
Karzai’s office gets cash from Iran, US
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai acknowledged on Monday that he receives millions of dollars in cash from Iran, adding that Washington gives him “bags of money” too because his of fice lacks funds. U.S. of ficials said the money flowing from Tehran was further proof that Iran is playing a double game in Afghanistan — wooing the government while helping Taliban insurgents who are fighting U.S. and NATO forces. The United States has itself used cash as a weapon in the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq — from local development projects to win public support, to salaries for Iraqi insurgents who switched sides, to cash payoffs to influential community leaders willing to back the U.S. and its allies.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai talks to the President of Tajikistan Emomalii Rahmon in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday. Karzai told reporters Monday that once or twice a year Iran gives his office $700,000 to $975,000 for official presidential expenses. He said the U.S. has known about the Iranian assistance for years and that Washington also gives the palace "bags of money."
Karzai said that once or twice a year, Iran gives his of fice $700,000 to $975,000 for official presidential expenses. “This is transparent. This
is something that I’ve even discussed while I was at Camp David with President Bush,” Karzai told a news See MONEY, Page A3