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Northeast begins digging out
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RANT PUTS FOCUS ON LAPD’S LEGACY LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer Dorner’s Christopher claim in an online “manifesto” that his career was undone by racist colleagues ... - PAGE B7
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — New Englanders began the back-breaking job of digging out from as much as 3 feet of wet, heavy snow Saturday and emergency crews used snowmobiles to reach shivering motorists stranded overnight on New York’s Long Island after a howling storm swept through the northeast. About 650,000 homes and businesses were left without electricity, and some could be cold and dark for days. Many roads across the New York-to-Boston corridor of 25 million people were impassable. Cars were entombed by drifts. And some homeowners woke up in the morning to find the snow packed so high they couldn’t get their doors open. “It’s like lifting cement. They say it’s 2 feet, but I think it’s more like 3 feet,”
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said Michael Levesque, who was shoveling snow in Quincy, Mass., as part of a work crew for a landscaping company. In Providence, where the drifts were 5 feet high and telephone lines encrusted with ice and snow drooped under the weight, Jason Harrison labored for nearly three hours to clear his blocked driveway and front walk and still had more work to do. His snowblower, he said, “has already paid for itself.” At least four deaths in the U.S. were blamed on the overnight snowstorm, including an 11-year-old boy in Boston who was overcome by carbon monoxide as he sat in a running car to keep warm while his father shoveled Saturday morning. See SNOW Page A3
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Clare Howard-Pike works to clear her car after an overnight snowstorm, Saturday in Concord, N.H. A howling storm across the Northeast left the New York-to-Boston corridor shrouded in 1 to 3 feet of snow Saturday, stranding motorists on highways overnight and piling up drifts so high that some homeowners couldn't get their doors open. More than 650,000 homes and businesses were left without electricity.
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Mina, a female Australian Shepherd Catahoula mix up for adoption, looks longingly at Diana Valencia during an Adoption Rally at Tractor Supply, Saturday.
Four apply for vacancy on the 5th Judicial District Court
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Down Syndrome Foundation of Southeaster n New Mexico hosted a workshop Saturday on Eastern New Mexico UniversityRoswell’s campus to provide resources and information to help teachers, administrators, therapists and parents better educate children. DSF was one of six organizations in the nation to receive a $10,000 grant from the National Down Syndrome Congress and Global Down Syndrome Foundation to present the workshop, said Executive Director Missy Holman, and it was the first of its kind in the state. One in 691 people is bor n with Down SynSee DSF Page A3
The District Judicial Nominating Commission will meet 9 a.m., Thursday, at the Chaves County Courthouse, 400 N. Virginia, to evaluate four applicants for the vacancy on the 5th Judicial District Court, following the death of the Honorable Ralph Shamas.
The applicants are James Hudson, a partner of Hinkle, Hensley, Shanor & Martin, LLP; Michael Murphy, chief deputy district attorney of the 5th Judicial District Court, John A. Phinizy II, assistant district attorney of the 5th Judicial District Court; and Judy A. Pittman, of Pittman Law Firm. The Commission meeting is open to the public. Those who would like to make public comments are asked to be present at the opening of the meeting.
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Siblings Julie, Zander and Jacob Morris show off their papel picado (cut paper) creations during a Second Saturday 2013 class, Eyes on Art, at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Saturday.
Economy to be President Obama’s focus in State of the Union WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will focus his State of the Union address on boosting job creation and economic growth at a time of high unemployment, underscoring the degree to which the economy could threaten his ability to pursue second-term priorities such as gun control, immigration policy and cliAP Photo
LEFT: President Barack Obama gestures during an Armed Forces Farewell Ceremony to honor outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Friday at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Arlington, Va.
mate change. Obama also may use Tuesday’s primetime address before a joint session of Congress to announce the next steps for concluding the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan by the end of 2014. Obama’s State of the Union marks his second high-profile speech to the nation in about three weeks, after his inaugural address Jan. 21 that opened his second term. White House aides see the two speeches as complementary, with Tuesday’s address aimed at providing See ECONOMY Page A3