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CHANTILLY, Va. (AP) — The space shuttle Discovery went out in high-flying style. After three spectacular spins above the nation’s capital, the world’s most traveled spaceship completed its final flight and was ready to become a grounded museum relic. But what an exit. Discovery took victory laps ... -PAGE A5
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SANTA FE (AP) — New Mexico this year is celebrating 100 years of statehood, but many people still confuse the Land of Enchantment with its south of the border neighbor. And some who do know the state think it’s nothing but a boring desert wasteland they would only visit on the way to Arizona or Colorado. Tourism Secretary Monique Jacobson hopes to finally change some of those perceptions with a new $2 million statewide branding campaign that puts a heavy focus on the state’s unique culture and outdoor adventures. It also gives the state a new logo, “New Mexico True.” Development of the campaign, which tourism officials launched on Tuesday, has been Jacobson’s almost sole focus since taking over the department last year. Jacobson is the daughter of a Taos Ski Valley hotel owner who returned to New Mexico a year ago after spending several years in marketing with Quaker See IMAGE, Page A9
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky’s starting lineup of three freshmen and two sophomores did most everything together. Now, they will go their separate ways in the NBA. Freshmen Anthony Davis, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist... - PAGE B1
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Secret Service prostitution scandal escalated Tuesday with the disclosure that at least 20 women had been in hotel rooms with U.S. agents and military personnel just before President Barack Obama arrived for a summit with Latin American leaders. The head of the Secret Service said he had referred the matter to an independent government investigator.
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Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, shuttling between briefings for lawmakers on Capitol Hill, was peppered with questions about whether the women had access to sensitive information that could have jeopardized Obama’s security. Sullivan said the 11 Secret Service agents and 10 military personnel under investigation were telling dif ferent stories about who the women
were. Sullivan has dispatched more investigators to Colombia to interview the women, said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. “Some are admitting (the women) were prostitutes, others are saying they’re not, they’re just women they met at the hotel bar,” King said in a telephone interview. Sullivan said none of the women, who had to surrender their IDs
The burgeoning scandal has been a growing election-year embarrassment for Obama, who has said he would be angry if the allegations proved to be true.
At the White House, Obama was asked at the end of a Rose Garden event whether he believed SulliSee SCANDAL, Page A9
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Sebastion Rodriguez views a stereoscope as classmate Ray Horton waits his turn during a field trip made by fourth
Local students step back to the past graders from East Grand Plains Elementary to the Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico, Tuesday morning.
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Fourth-grade students from nine area schools are getting a sense of how different life was in the late 1800s to the mid-1900s,
participating in tours and activities at the Historical Center for Southeast New Mexico Museum and Museum Archives. The history program started Monday and will continue through May 7, as a host
New shrimp-like species found in cave ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — Scientists have discovered a new shrimp-like species in a gypsum cave in southeastern New Mexico, only a few dozen miles from the famous caves at Carlsbad Caverns National Park. The species of amphipod was unknown before being discovered about a month ago in the Burton Flats area east of Carlsbad, said Jim Goodbar, the Bureau of Land Management’s senior cave specialist. The agency announced the discovery Tuesday. Blind, about a half-inch long and almost translucent, the amphipod was found in a subterranean
“This could have been disastrous,” King said.
at the hotel, were minors. “But prostitutes or not, to be bringing a foreign national back into a secure zone is a problem.” King said it appeared the agency actually had “really lucked out.” If the women were working for a terrorist organization or other antiAmerican group, King said, they could have had access to information about the president’s whereabouts or security protocols while in the agents’ rooms.
pool inside a cave no more than 80 feet from the surface. The cave had been explored before, but samples had never been taken of the water until a biological inventory was done as part of plans to expand potash mining in the area. For Goodbar and other cave researchers, short of rocketing into space, the depths of the earth represent one of the last unexplored frontiers for humankind. “You never know what you’re going to find down there,” Goodbar said. “One of the interesting things about this is these guys, these critters have been down there for tens
of thousands of years, millions of years and we’re just getting around to finding them.” More surveys of the area are planned, Goodbar said. The new species has not been named, but officials said it has been grouped with the Parabogidiella (para-boGIDDY-ella) genus, which was first described in 1980 by John Holsinger with the Biological Sciences Department at Old Dominion University in Virginia. An amphipod expert, Holsinger said Tuesday the species found near
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of volunteers provide students with a unique look at what has changed since the early years of, and preceding, New Mexico statehood. The program begins with an hour in the
Archives building, where four activity stations allow students to join in enterprises more than 100 years old. Stations include lessons in making homemade butter and apple
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Roswell area firefighters participate in EMS training drills concentrating on trauma, behind the Wool Bowl, Tuesday.
Pablo Martinez seeking election to District 58 seat JULIA BERGMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER
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Pablo Martinez
Pablo Martinez, a Democrat and longtime educator, says he is seeking election to the District 58 House seat. Martinez is challenging Rep. Candy Spence Ezzell, R-Roswell, for the seat, which encompasses Chaves County. This is not the first time the two have faced each other. Martinez ran against Ezzell, the incumbent, for the District 58 seat in 2006. Martinez, the seventh of thirteen children, was born into a family of farm-
ers and ranchers. At 18, he joined the U.S. Navy, serving four years of active duty. He was honorably discharged in April 1964 and served two years of inactive reserves.
Now retired, Martinez’s career in public education spanned nearly 30 years. He spent four years at Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell, where he established two programs: University Year for Action, an academic program for low-income and minority students, and the Roswell Job Corps. Most of Martinez’s career as an educator was spent with the Roswell Independent
School District. He worked primarily as a social studies teacher at University High School. As a for mer teacher, Martinez said he, along with other educators, doesn’t feel social promotion is an effective education strategy. “We feel that the child needs to be prepared to go on to the next level. As a result of that we, as educators, are going to be fighting social promotion,” he said. Advocating for a collaborative approach to education, Martinez said, “There’s an old saying that it takes a village to educate a child, In most parts
of America today people are saying, ‘You’re the teacher. You educate my child,’ If there’s not a strong influence within the parental area towards education then it’s going to be more dif ficult for teachers and educators to accomplish that.” Describing the needs of the southern part of the state as often forgotten, Martinez said, “I would like to see our part of the state become a little more aggressive in saying, ‘This is what we need. Help us with these things.’” Some of these needs
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