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4 dead in RIAC plane crash
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JONATHAN ENTZMINGER RECORD STAFF WRITER
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Ask any softball coach what they would like to see their team improve upon and two things will certainly be near the top of their list — pitching and two-out hitting with runners in scoring position. For Roswell coach Art Sandoval, his team was on the top of its game when it came to those two facets of the game on Saturday. - PAGE B1
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Four Gulfstream employees were killed in the crash of a twin-engine Gulfstream G650 luxury jet at Roswell International Air Center at about 9:30 a.m., Saturday. The FAA released some information on the accident, which took the lives of the two pilots and two flight test engineers on board. The names had not been released by presstime, Saturday. “The plane was in the midst of taking off whenever the wing dipped to the right and struck the ground,” Lynn Lunsford, FAA spokesman, said. “The aircraft then hit the pavement and the landing gear collapsed. As it was sliding, the aircraft
Thousands gather at WSMR Trinity Site 20 apply See CRASH, Page A3
Emergency vehicles converge on the site of the fatal plane crash at RIAC, Saturday.
public only two days a year. “We had to say we saw it,” said Thomas Wolfe, of Las Cruces, who toured the site with his father Gary. Officials estimated that about 3,000 people turned out, and WSMR public affairs specialist Lisa Blevins says that some of the tourists trekked to Ground Zero from far reaches of the globe, like Easter n Europe, Italy and Germany. Swarms of people gathered around tour guide volunteers giving history lessons about the bomb’s assembly and detonation on July 16, 1945. “This is Jumbo,” one Emily Russo Miller Photo tour guide said, pointing From left, Arlen Abraham and Andy Lash, two atomic tourists from San Francisco, examine the to a huge steel cylinder levels of radiation of trinitite with a hand-held Geiger-Müller counter particle detector, at Trinity that once encased the Site on White Sands Missile Range, Saturday. bomb to contain the TNT explosion and prevent tourists made their bianbomb was detonated in EMILY RUSSO MILLER plutonium from being lost nual pilgrimage to a vast, 1945. RECORD STAFF WRITER desolate stretch of desert Trinity Site is a national should the explosion fail. in south central New Mex- historic landmark on The guide went on to say Thousands of local and ico Saturday, to stand White Sands Missile inter national atomic where the first atomic Range and is open to the See TRINITY, Page A3
100 walk for MS; raise $10K for the cause JONATHAN ENTZMINGER RECORD STAFF WRITER
More than 100 pairs of feet took stride at Cahoon Park, Saturday, during Walk MS: Roswell 2011. The event, in its second year in Roswell, raised about $10,000, according to Maggie Schold, development manager for National Multiple Sclerosis Society. “The event is designed to raise awareness and fun for MS programs and MS research,” Schold said. “The reason we do this is, that MS is the number one disabling disease of young adults.”
Nationwide, MS affects 400,000 people and about 3,000 people in New Mexico. The disease af fects women two to three times as often as men. “It’s a very unpredictable disease,” Schold said. “For some people, it comes and goes. It can be very scary.” Schold inferred that no one is exempt from getting MS, a disease of the central nervous system that interrupts the flow of information between the brain and the body. “It tends to hit people in
Lawrence Foster Photo
After completing the MS walk, members of the walk “For Liz” group pose for photos at Cahoon Park, Saturday. Liz was Elizabeth Mooney, the wife of Dr. Richard Mooney, who passed away March 3, after battling MS for years.
Mark Wilson Photo
for city position
The city of Roswell’s human resources department said Friday that about 20 individuals submitted applications to fill the City Hall position of assistant city manager. The deadline for submitting applications was 5 p.m. on Friday, said Stacye Hunter, the city’s human resources director. Additional applications may also be accepted by mail early in the week if they are post-marked by Friday before the cutoff time. “After we get (all the applications) we will review them,” said City Manager Larry Fry. “I don’t know for sure what we’re going to have yet in ter ms of the make up and mix of the (candidate) pool.” Fry said he may have a better idea sometime next week of possible candidates. The job is described as, “(A) highly responsible, manager, advanced professional and administrative work” position, according to the city’s of ficial job description. The salary ranges from more than $65,700 to nearly $84,000, according to the job description. Currently, there are two vacancies for assistant city manager positions. Fry said he only intended to fill one of the positions. Minimum requirements for the position include either a master’s degree in public administration, business administration or a related field and two years administrative management experience, or four years administrative experience and a four -year degree.
Afghans riot over Quran-burning in Fla.: 2 days, 20 dead See MS, Page A3
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Afghan soldiers are visible through the broken front window of a car believed to have been used by attackers outside the gate of a NATO base in Kabul, Saturday.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghans rioted for a second day Saturday to protest the bur ning of a Quran in Florida, killing nine people in Kandahar and injuring more than 80 in a wave of violence that underscored rising anti-foreign sentiment after nearly a decade of war. The desecration at a small U.S. church has outraged Muslims worldwide, and in Afghanistan it further strained ties with the West. On Friday, 11 people were killed, including seven
foreign U.N. employees, in a protest in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. The protests come at a critical juncture as the U.S.-led coalition gears up for an insurgent spring of fensive and a summer withdrawal of some troops, and with Afghanistan’s mercurial president increasingly questioning international motives and NATO’s military strategy. Two suicide attackers disguised as women blew themselves up and a third was gunned down Saturday
when they used force to try to enter a NATO base on the outskirts of Kabul, NATO and Afghan police said. Earlier in the week, six U.S. soldiers died during an operation against insurgents in easter n Afghanistan near Pakistan, where the Taliban retain safe havens. President Hamid Karzai expressed regret for the 20 protest deaths, but he also further stoked possible anti-foreign sentiment by See RIOT, Page A3