A Texas A&M freshman and a Utah football player friend have been killed in a car crash in New Mexico, authorities have confirmed. …read more
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Deputies: NM man, granddaughter both shot in head near Route 66 Casino
A 74-year-old New Mexico man has been arrested after deputies say he shot both his brother and an 11-year-old girl in the head. …read more
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Remembering George Mitchell And His Paradox
By Loren Steffy, Contributor I was traveling last week when I received the news that oil pioneer George Mitchell had died. On the long drive through New Mexico to the Albuquerque airport, I found myself thinking about the last time I visited Mitchell at his office in downtown Houston. He gave me a book that most of you have probably never heard of or read: The Barnett Shale Play: The Phoenix of the Fort Worth Basin. A History. It is, of course, the story of how the company he founded, Mitchell Energy and Development Co., developed the techniques for hydraulic fracturing. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
Domestic oil production on rise in Western states due to technology, private land production
North Dakota and Texas get all the press when it comes to America’s domestic oil boom, but production is increasing dramatically in several other states in the American West. According to the Energy Information Administration since 2010 oil production has increased 64% in Colorado, 51% in Oklahoma, 46% in New Mexico, 45% in Utah and 23% in Wyoming.
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In the Kitchen With Georgia O'Keeffe
By Regina Schrambling I was also presented with amazing alderwood-smoked salt and some super-aromatic New Mexican chile powder, so I can’t whinge that my consort went to Santa Fe and all I got was a couple of postcards. They’re pretty great, too: Georgia O’Keeffe making a stew and pouring tea at her ranch back in the early Sixties. Bob was regretting not buying a cookbook, but I reminded him I already own it, thanks to a good friend, and it’s pretty great, too. O’Keeffe’s art and very long life have always fascinated me, and her cooking/gardening side is just as intriguing. According to this book, by her onetime caretaker, Margaret Wood, she started to grow her own fruits, vegetables and herbs because the alternative required a 70-mile drive over dirt roads to the nearest store. And she used them every day in every way. The recipes are a great mix of healthful (O’Keeffe was quite taken with contemporary nutrition theories) and indulgent, and they reflect where she lived. If you’re in New Mexico, you develop a taste for enchiladas and posole. Some of the more unusual recipes are for fried locust blossoms and for a garlic sandwich: Slice baguette, butter and pave with garlic slices. Top with second slice. I hadn’t read this book in years, and what really strikes me today is how modern it feels. Local, seasonal, organic were all adjectives for O’Keeffe’s food; her staff dried or canned what couldn’t be used fresh, and she even ground her own wheat to bake her own bread. She lived to nearly 100, so that may be the right recipe.
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Jury selection begins in NM for last defendant accused in 2010 slaying of Oklahoma couple
Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday for an Arizona inmate who escaped from prison and is accused of killing an Oklahoma couple who were traveling through New Mexico. …read more
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Parents of dead NM woman struggle with acquittal
The parents of a New Mexico woman whose husband was acquitted of murder say they still believe former Albuquerque police officer Levi Chavez killed their daughter.
Joseph and Theresa Cordova told the Albuquerque Journal (http://bit.ly/13oAoz0 ) and KOAT-TV (http://bit.ly/18ozpjN ) on Thursday that the verdict is hard to take.
A Sandoval County jury on Tuesday acquitted Chavez of first-degree murder and evidence tampering in the 2007 killing of their daughter, Tera Chavez.
Joseph Cordova says he and his wife are disappointed but they don’t blame the jury because jurors weren’t allowed to hear some possible evidence about the alleged motive.
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Research team developing model for sustainable desert living
Team ASUNM, a collaborative effort between Arizona State University and the University of New Mexico, has come together to address the inefficiencies of urban sprawl and to create a model for sustainable desert living that has been dubbed SHADE, or Solar Home Adapting for Desert Equilibrium, an entry in the Solar Decathlon 2013 competition that takes place October 3–13, in Irvine, Calif. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org
Air Force drone crash closes remote Florida highway
An Air Force drone being tested at a nearby base crashed on takeoff Wednesday near a remote stretch of a Florida Panhandle highway. Officials say no one was injured but the road would be closed into Wednesday night.
The Air Force closed Highway 98 west of Panama City and east of Mexico Beach because of possible fires from the crash. Officials said the drone has a limited, 24-hour battery life and would be inactive after the battery depleted.
According to an Air Force fact sheet, the QF-4 is tested at nearby Tyndall Air Force Base and at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. The plane is a modified F-4 Phantom aircraft, which has been in use since the 1950s.
Public information officials at Tyndall released a brief statement about the crash and declined to answer specific questions about the drone or the reason for the crash.
James Lewis is a military technology expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and said the QF-4 was likely used for target practice by Tyndall’s F-22 Raptor pilots.
“It is an older fighter plane they have modified for use as a target,” Lewis said. “The QF-4 is not a drone in the way we normally think of drones. It is not used for anything other than to be shot down. It is an old aircraft that would otherwise be sold for scrap.”
The Air Force fact sheet said the plane is controlled remotely, simulates enemy aircraft maneuvers and missiles are fired at it. An explosive device in the plane destroys it if it becomes uncontrollable, the fact sheet said.
Highway 98 hugs the Gulf Coast and is a popular route for tourists looking for scenic drive from Panama City to Florida’s Big Bend region.
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Pregnant Woman Struck by Lightning, Gives Birth
A pregnant New Mexico woman has survived a bolt from the blue to give birth to a bouncing baby girl. Kendra Villanueva and the baby’s father Ian Gordon were watching fireworks with friends on July Fourth when lightning struck both of them in the front yard of an Albuquerque home…. …read more
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AAP Weighs In On Home Birth
By The Huffington Post News Editors
The safety of home birth is hotly debated, and now another major medical group has waded into the fray. The American Academy of Pediatrics on Monday issued its first guidelines for the care of newborns in planned home births.
The policy says the academy agrees with the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ view that hospitals and birthing centers are the safest settings to have a baby, but the group also believes in women’s right to make their own informed decisions. The aim of the new statement is to help establish guidelines for newborn care, not to comment on home birth in general, Dr. Kristi Watterberg, a professor of pediatrics at the University of New Mexico and the lead author, said.
“There are standards for caring for babies who are born anywhere,” Watterberg told HuffPost. “This is to reiterate that the same standards should be met for” all of them.
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Checking The Pulse Of U.S. Entrepreneurship: Vital Signs Slightly Off
The rate of business creation dipped over the last year, says the just-released Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity. Roughly 514,000 new businesses were born in the U.S. each month last year, down 5.3% from 2011. Why? Fewer men jumped in (women held their own). Maybe, too, the study indicates, it’s because the labor market is starting to improve and fewer people are willing to take a more risky job. While the overall rate for immigrants is down a smidgen for the same period, immigrants were nearly two times as likely as U.S.-born to start a business. Where are the hottest spots for startup rates? Montana, Vermont, New Mexico, Alaska and Mississippi.
Colorado River tops 2013 endangered waterways list
An advocacy group is calling the Colorado River the nation’s most endangered waterway.
An annual American Rivers report being released Wednesday doesn’t call pollution the problem. It instead cites drought and demand.
The federal Bureau of Reclamation said the same thing last December.
The Colorado River supplies cities including Denver, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Phoenix. The report says that over the next 50 years, the river will run short of supply for the more than 40 million people it serves in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
Already, the river is drained of nearly every drop before it reaches Mexico.
The Flint River in Georgia ranks second in the American Rivers report, due to the threat that it’ll run dry. The San Salba River in Texas ranks third.
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How hacking fixed the worst video game of all time
According to urban legend, a landfill somewhere in the small city of Alamogordo, New Mexico, bulges with millions of copies of the worst game ever made—a game that many observers blamed for the North American video-game sales crash of 1983. Atari’s bubble burst because of a little alien.
In December 1982, Atari released E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari 2600, and critics quickly labeled it the worst game of all time. In light of many more-recent debacles—I’m looking at you Aliens: Colonial Marines and SimCity—granting “worst game ever” status to E.T. in perpetuity seems somewhat unfair. Nonetheless, this primordial Atari 2600 title continues to top “worst of” charts, including our own, time and time again.
So why should you give it another chance? Because code hackers managed to fix some of the games most glaring problems, and now it’s actually fun to play.
What went wrong?
When Atari finally got the rights to the E.T. name in late July 1982, it wanted to make the game a holiday-season sales hit. Steven Spielberg chose Howard Scott Warshaw (designer of both Yars’ Revenge and Raiders of the Lost Ark, two of the best Atari games ever) to design the game, and Atari established a schedule that gave him just five weeks to do the job.
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Police: Man traded McDonald's food for sex
ALBUQUERQUE, April 15 (UPI) — Police in New Mexico said they arrested a man who allegedly bought a woman McDonald’s food in exchange for sex.
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New Mexico umpire allegedly threatens to eject teen baseball players from game for speaking Spanish
Baseball coaches from a New Mexico high school say they will file a formal complaint against an umpire who allegedly told a Latino player to stop speaking Spanish during a game.
Emmanuel Burciaga, an assistant coach at Gadsden High School, told the Albuquerque Journal that umpire Corey Jones told the Gadsden first baseman to speak only English or face ejection during a game in Alamogordo on Tuesday.
After Burciaga asked Jones, the first-base umpire, about the admonishment, Jones said, “Anyone who speaks Spanish — coaches or players — will be ejected,” according to Gadsden High School baseball coaches.
Burciaga said he told Jones, “Our players will not stop speaking Spanish, and they will not be ejected.” Burciaga said Jones then “came walking toward me and said, `Another word from you, Coach, and you will be ejected.”‘
The home plate umpire, who is bilingual, intervened in the mid-game conflict and told Jones there was no rule prohibiting players from speaking Spanish on the field, Burciaga said. The other umpire assured Jones that he understood Spanish and would put a stop to any foul language, Burciaga said.
The school said it plans to file a complaint with the New Mexico Activities Association, the governing body of the state’s high school sports.
“I’m not trying to get him (Jones) fired,” Burciaga said. “My goal is to educate the person.”
Burciaga also said that after the second umpire backed up the Gadsden High coaches’ position that no rule prohibited their players from speaking Spanish on the diamond, Jones appeared furious.
Jones declined to comment to the Albuquerque Journal. No phone number was listed for him.
Dusty Young, associate director of the NMAA, said the organization will investigate the dispute if a complaint is received. The NMAA executive director would have the final say on disciplinary action if any is deemed warranted, Young said.
The Gadsden Independent School District bumps up against the Mexican border and has a student body that is 97 percent Latino.
Gadsden eventually lost to Alamogordo, 10-0.
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Hugo Chavez's chosen heir Nicolas Maduro wins Venezuela presidency
Venezuelan electoral officials say voters have narrowly elected Hugo Chavez‘s hand-picked successor as president in a razor-close special election Sunday.
Winner Nicolas Maduro campaigned on a promise to carry on Chavez’s self-styled socialist revolution, and defeated a two-time challenger who claimed the late president’s regime has put Venezuela on the road to ruin.
Officials say Maduro defeated Henrique Capriles by only about 300,000 votes. The margin was 50.8 percent to 49.1 percent.
Hours earlier, Maduro’s campaign had strongly hinted at victory. Campaign chief Jorge Rodriguez smiled broadly during a news conference and summoned supporters to the presidential palace, where Chavez’s supporters gathered to celebrate the late president’s past victories. And he warned that Maduro’s camp would not allow the will of the people to be subverted.
Capriles and his campaign aides immediately lashed out at Rodriguez’s comments.
Ramon Guillermo Aveledo, a Capriles campaign coordinator, suggested the government was trying to steal the election.
“They know perfectly well what happened and so do we,” he said at a hastily called news conference. “They are misleading their people and are trying to mislead the people of this country.”
A war of words erupted on Twitter.
Capriles suggested fraud was in the works , tweeting: “We alert the country and the world of the intent to change the will of the people!”
In an earlier tweet, Capriles urged his supporters not to be “desperate and defeated.”
But former Information Minister Andres Izarra tweeted, “To Miraflores! Long Live Chavez!”
Independent security analyst Rocio San Miguel tweeted that Interior Minister Nestor Reverol was also meeting with senior military commanders.
Bill Richardson, the former New Mexico governor and longtime U.S. ambassador-at-large who came to witness the election, told The Associated Press that both candidates had assured him they would respect the outcome of the vote.
“I’m not here as an election observer, but I met with both candidates — Maduro, yesterday, and Capriles today. And I’m hopeful because both told me they would respect the rule of law and the will of the people,” Richardson said.
Maduro, the 50-year-old longtime foreign minister to Chavez, pinned his hopes on the immense loyalty for his boss among millions of poor beneficiaries of government largesse and the powerful state apparatus that Chavez skillfully consolidated.
Maduro’s campaign was mostly a near-religious homage to the man he called “the redeemer of the Americas,” who succumbed to cancer March 5. He blamed Venezuela‘s myriad woes on vague plots by alleged saboteurs that the government never identified.
Capriles’ main campaign weapon was to simply emphasize “the incompetence of the state,” as he put it to reporters Saturday night.
Maduro’s big lead in opinion polls was cut in half over the past two weeks in a country struggling with the legacy of Chavez’s management of the world’s largest oil reserves.
Millions of Venezuelans were lifted out of poverty under Chavez, but many also believe his government not only squandered, but plundered, much of the $1 trillion in oil revenues during his tenure.
Venezuelans are afflicted by chronic power outages, crumbling infrastructure, unfinished public works projects, double-digit inflation, food and medicine shortages, and rampant
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Tensions up in Venezuela after polls close
Voters chose Sunday between the hand-picked successor who campaigned to carry on Hugo Chavez‘s self-styled socialist revolution and an emboldened second-time challenger who warned that the late president’s regime has Venezuela on the road to ruin. Tensions rose soon after polls closed as both sides hinted at victory and suggested the other was plotting fraud.
Jorge Rodriguez, the head of the campaign for acting President Nicolas Maduro, said he couldn’t reveal the results before electoral authorities did but strongly suggested Maduro had won by smiling and summoning supporters to the presidential palace, where Chavez’s supporters gathered to celebrate the late president’s past victories. And he warned that Maduro’s camp would not allow the will of the people to be subverted.
Opposition challenger Henrique Capriles and his campaign aides immediately lashed out at Rodriguez’s comments.
Ramon Guillermo Aveledo, a Capriles campaign coordinator, suggested the government was trying to steal the election.
“They know perfectly well what happened and so do we,” he said at a hastily called news conference. “They are misleading their people and are trying to mislead the people of this country.”
Capriles also suggested fraud was in the works in a Twitter message: “We alert the country and the world of the intent to change the will of the people!”
In an earlier tweet, Capriles urged his supporters not to be “desperate and defeated.”
Bill Richardson, the former New Mexico governor and longtime U.S. ambassador-at-large who came to witness the election, told The Associated Press that both candidates had assured him they would respect the outcome of the vote.
“I’m not here as an election observer, but I met with both candidates — Maduro, yesterday, and Capriles today. And I’m hopeful because both told me they would respect the rule of law and the will of the people,” Richardson said.
Maduro, the 50-year-old longtime foreign minister to Chavez, pinned his hopes on the immense loyalty for his boss among millions of poor beneficiaries of government largesse and the powerful state apparatus that Chavez skillfully consolidated.
Maduro’s campaign was mostly a near-religious homage to the man he called “the redeemer of the Americas,” who succumbed to cancer March 5. He blamed Venezuela‘s myriad woes on vague plots by
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These 6 States Tax You the Least
By Dan Caplinger, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
Anywhere you go in the U.S., you’ll still have to pay taxes. But choosing low-tax states to live in can free you from your tax burden a lot faster than in other parts of the country.
The nonprofit Tax Foundation created Tax Freedom Day as a way of easily comparing the relative amount of taxes that people pay to federal, state, and local revenue agencies. You can do the same simply by taking the total you pay in tax and dividing it by your income, telling you what percentage of the year you spend paying your fair share of taxes.
For the U.S. overall, Tax Freedom Day won’t come until this Thursday, April 18, and as we saw yesterday, some states will have to wait quite a while longer before they can declare independence from taxes. But in several states, Tax Freedom Day has already come and gone. Let’s look at the six least-taxed states in the U.S., along with a brief explanation of what makes their taxes so much lower than the rest of the country.
6. South Dakota, April 4
South Dakota makes the list for a couple of key reasons: It doesn’t have an individual income tax, and it doesn’t charge businesses on their corporate income, either. The state gets its income from property and sales taxes, but a state sales tax of 4% with local taxes of about 1.8% still doesn’t raise the total burden too far. Property taxes average less than $1,150 per person.
4 (tie). New Mexico, April 3
Where New Mexico stands out is in low property taxes, with an average of just $633 each year. By comparison, a 4.9% top income-tax rate and a 5.125% sales tax actually bring in a fairly substantial amount of tax, with the state’s per-person sales and excise tax liability among the top quarter of states across the nation. Corporate income-tax rates are also fairly high at 7.6%, although the rate is low enough to have enticed chipmaker Intel to move to the area in the early 1980s and gradually expand its production facilities over time.
4 (tie). South Carolina, April 3
South Carolina‘s tax rates don’t seem all that attractive, with a 7% maximum individual income-tax rate and a 6% sales tax. But low property taxes of just over $1,000 on average help keep total taxes down, and a relatively small business presence leads to very low corporate-tax revenue.
3. Tennessee, April 2
Tennessee’s claim to tax fame is that its 6% income tax applies only to interest and dividend income, leaving wages untouched. Property taxes of less than $800 are also extremely low, although a sales tax of 7% helps the state raise needed revenue. A flat corporate-tax rate was probably one incentive that attracted shipping giant FedEx to locate its headquarters in Memphis.
1 (tie). Mississippi, March 29
Mississippi earns high honors on the list with its
From: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/04/14/these-6-states-tax-you-the-least/
Trial to start in Zetas cartel racehorse case
One of Mexico‘s most powerful and violent drug cartels intended a racehorse-buying operation to be a clandestine means of laundering its illegal proceeds in the United States, prosecutors say.
But the millions of dollars spent — sometimes in the form of duffel bags stuffed with cash — on horses named with names such as Number One Cartel and Mr. Ease Cartel, it wasn’t long before authorities learned of the alleged scheme and reined it in.
The federal investigation resulted in indictments last year against 18 individuals. Now, at least four of the accused in the money laundering scheme, including the brother of two of the top leaders of the Zetas drug cartel, are set to go on trial Monday in an Austin federal courtroom.
The trial, which could last up to six weeks, is expected to offer insight into the internal workings of the Zetas, as well as highlight what some cartel experts say was a rookie mistake by an organized crime outfit: drawing attention to yourself.
“It’s just sort of flashy, ostentatious behavior that is not smart if you are involved in organized crime,” Howard Campbell, a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso who has studied drug cartels, said of the racehorse-buying operation’s high profile.
Federal authorities have accused Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, believed to now be the leader of the Zetas drug operation, of setting up the horse operation that his younger brother, Jose Trevino Morales, ran from a sprawling ranch near Lexington, Okla. The operation spent millions of dollars buying horses in California, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, prosecutors said.
Authorities allege Jose Trevino Morales and his wife, who had lived in North Texas before moving to Oklahoma, did not have the means to support the ranch operation, which bought, trained, bred and raced quarter horses throughout the Southwest, and that drug money paid for everything.
Neighbors said those who worked with the ranch spent lots of cash, bought land and made improvements at a time when others in the industry were struggling financially.
Workers at the Ruidoso Downs Race Track and Casino in New Mexico said Jose Trevino Morales‘ stables were known as the “Zetas’ stables.”
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Antonio, which is handling the case, declined to comment
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