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WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney was released from the hospital Tuesday, 10 days after getting a new heart, his office said. Cheney, 71, received the organ from an unknown donor on March 24 at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va. - PAGE A3
April 4, 2012
Mitt takes Wisconsin, Maryland, DC
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Mitt Romney tightened his grip on the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night, sweeping primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington D.C., with time left over to swap charges with President Barack Obama.
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THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
The victories enabled Romney to pad his alreadywide delegate lead over Republican rival Rick Santorum, who flashed defiance in the face of pressure to abandon his own candi-
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dacy in the name of party unity.
Wisconsin was the marquee contest of the night, the only place of the three on the ballot where Santorum mounted a significant ef fort. Romney’s victory there marked his fourth in little more than a month in a belt of industrial states that also included Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois.
Returns from 15 percent of the state’s precincts showed Romney with 43 percent of the vote to 38
percent for Santorum, 11 percent for Ron Paul and 6 percent for Newt Gingrich. Returns from 25 percent of Maryland’s precincts showed Romney with 48 percent of the vote to 30 percent for Santorum, 11 percent for Gingrich and 9 percent for Ron Paul. With 43 percent precincts counted in Washington, Romney had 68 percent of the vote to 13 percent for Paul and 11 per-
‘We see the bad moon arising’
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Obama assails GOP
Mitt Romney at a primary election night rally in Milwaukee, Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In combative campaign form, President Barack Obama accused Republican leaders on Tuesday of becoming so radical and dangerously rigid that even the late Ronald Reagan, one of their most cherished heroes, could not win a GOP primary if he were running today.
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INSIDE SPORTS Vultures circle and a nearly full moon looms over Roswell, Monday evening.
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Obama, in a stinging speech to an audience of news executives, had unsparing words for Republicans on Capitol Hill as well as the man he is most likely to face of f against in November, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. The president
Insects attack piñons Tornadoes rake Dallas area, NOAH VERNAU RECORD STAFF WRITER
NMMI BESTS GHS
One of the hardest transitions for singles players in tennis is the move to doubles. Much of a singles match is played from the baseline, but in doubles net play can be the difference in winning and losing a match. In NMMI’s match against Goddard on Tuesday, the Colts’ first doubles team of Jose Gonzalez and Federico Sanchez dominated at the net, leading NMMI to a 9-0 win over the Rockets. In their first doubles match, Gonzalez and Sanchez squared off against Goddard’s Tristan Collar ... - PAGE B1
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Lincoln National Forest personnel announced that findings from a recent field visit indicate increased decline for piñon in the Sacramento Ranger District near High Rolls, a circumstance they said is due to drought and an infestation of piñon needle scale insects. The insects, known to attack drought-stressed piñon, might increase in population and kill surrounding trees that are healthy. Land managers are determining how to lessen the infestation’s impact, working with several organizations to slow the tree decline. Meanwhile, thinning treatments have proven to reduce stress on piñon, boosting their resistance to insects and disease. “Just because we’ve been so dry for so long here in the Lincoln National Forest,
it stresses all the vegetation,” said Peg Crim, Lincoln National Forest public affairs officer. “So that is the part that is concerning. Trees that are real dry and don’t have enough water aren’t going to be as healthy and be able to ward off insects and disease. That’s part of why we’re seeing these kinds of problems. It all works together.” Lincoln National Forest silviculturist Kathy Wallace commented, “If current drought conditions persist, tree stress and mortality will likely continue to increase in 2012.” Along West Side Road near High Rolls, a fuel moisture monitoring site was established in March 2011 by the Sacramento Ranger District to measure the live fuel moistures of the predominant tree species and to determine the area’s fire hazard. See INSECTS, Page A2
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injure more than a dozen
DALLAS (AP) — Tornadoes and violent storms raked through the Dallas area Tuesday, crumbling the wing of a nursing home, peeling roofs from dozens of homes and spiraling big-rig trailers into the air like footballs. More than a dozen injuries were reported. Overtur ned cars left streets unnavigable and flattened trucks clogged highway shoulders. Preliminary estimates were that six to 12 tornadoes AP Photo had touched down in North Texas, senior A funnel cloud begins to form in southern Dallas county National Weather Service before a tornado touched down in Lancaster, Texas, Tuesmeteorologist Eric Martel- day. lo said. But firm numbers Paul Beck said 10 people taken to a hospital with would only come after were injured, two of them minor injuries after survey teams checked severely. Three people swirling winds clipped the damage today, he said. were injured in Arlington, In suburban Dallas, including two residents of See TORNADOES, Page A2 Lancaster Police officer a nursing home who were
Wings holds anniversary party NM water official rejects NOAH VERNAU RECORD STAFF WRITER
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Wings for L.I.F.E. director Shelly Currier and Mayor Del Jurney at the Boys & Girls Club, Sunday.
Wings for L.I.F.E. welcomed more than 100 people to its anniversary party on Sunday at the Boys & Girls Club, the site where the program has worked to empower youth and families across the community for five years. Wings originally started in Roswell in 2005 as an af filiate of Albuquerque’s Wings for L.I.F.E., but in 2007, the city’s program became its own 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, meeting at the club twice a month on Sundays, from 6 to 7:30 See WINGS, Page A2
San Augustin application
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — The state’s top water official has denied a request from a New York-based commercial venture that sought to drill more than three dozen wells in western New Mexico.
Rural residents, one of the state’s largest irrigation districts and others had described the application by Augustin Plains Ranch as a moder n-day water grab. They argued it flew in the face of a western water doctrine that has been in place for more than a century to keep speculators from profiting off the sale of water to thirsty users. State Engineer Scott Verhines announced Monday
that he denied the request because it was vague, too broad and the ef fects of granting it could not be reasonably evaluated. He said he considered the overall impacts the proposal would have on New Mexicans. “As our society becomes increasingly dense in urban areas, we remain encouraging to innovations in water movement around the state,” Verhines said. “However, reasonable applications are those that identify a clear purpose for the use of the water, include reasonable design plans and include specifics as to the See WATER, Page A2