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GEORGE JONES DIES
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — George Jones, the peerless, hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic “He Stopped Loving Her Today,” has died. He was 81. With one of the most golden voices of any genre, a clenched, precise ... - PAGE B3
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NMMI dumps Alumni Association
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The New Mexico Military Institute officially terminated its ties to its Alumni Association this week after the association failed to meet financial reporting standards, the school announced Friday. The termination ended a nearly 50-year partnership between the non-profit alumni group and NMMI.
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Alumni relations will continue after a transition period as NMMI establishes its own alumni office at the campus.
“The Board of Regents has done its due diligence,” said NMMI spokesman Carl Hansen. “They are sorry they have had to take this action, but they have had to take that action because of their responsibility of oversight of the school and many other questions that
La Villa plants ‘Tony’
The Alumni Association will continue to operate out of its current campus office until a transition agreement can be reached with NMMI, Hansen said.
will have to be asked of by the association.” Alumni Association executive director Jim Lowe was not available for comment Friday. NMMI Board of Regents
notified the Alumni Association beginning in February that it had 60 days to provide audited financial statements or face termination from NMMI. According to Regent
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The Alumni Association had a month to demonstrate an acceptable plan, but failed to do so. The association was incorporated as a non-profit in 1964
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president Stephen Paternoster, the association failed to maintain an financial acceptable accounting system and provide audited statement to the Institute.
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Residents of Emeritus at La Villa watch as Maintenance Director Tony Gaustad, left, and Carlos Garcia plant a crabapple tree in the backyard of the facility, Friday morning. Gaustad said the tree replaces another one that uprooted months ago due to weather conditions. “What the wind destroyed, we’re going to put back,” he said. Residents decided to name the tree “Tony” after Gaustad.
Judge Charles C. Currier sentenced Steffanie Kautz to seven years, followed by two years of probation, Friday, in the death of 14-year -old Breana Bodge. Kautz pleaded no contest to the lesser charges of voluntary manslaughter and possession of a controlled substance last week. Initially, Kautz was charged with child abuse resulting in a death of a child, a first-degree felony that could carry a sentence of life imprisonment, because the girl was in her care at the time. The teenager died without medical treatment in May 2011 as a result of a diabetic coma. Her body was found in a Kautz’s apartment. Deputy District Attorney Michael Murphy recommended 9.5 years in prison, asking that the sentences for the two charges run consecutively. On the charges of voluntary manslaughter, the State requested a sentence of six years, with a one-year enhancement as
Public Defender free Controllers to return; flight from governor’s rule delays sway both houses MUSIC HALL ERUPTS ON 2ND DAY
NEW YORK (AP) — Manti Te’o and Geno Smith provided the sizzle previously missing from the NFL draft. Te’o is headed to San Diego, Smith is a Jet, and Radio City Music Hall shook with the kind of noise usually heard in stadiums when they were selected. The theater rocked with two picks within minutes of each other Friday night. Te’o, the Notre Dame AllAmerica linebacker, was chosen sixth in the second round by the ... - PAGE B1
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ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — New Mexico’s largest law firm is getting a makeover. Not a paint-the-wallsand-hang-new-art sort of redo, but a much more fundamental one: The Public Defender Department is gaining its independence. After the 2012 approval by voters of a constitutional amendment taking the department out from under the governor, the Legislature this year passed a law creating the new framework. An 11-member commission will oversee the department and appoint the chief public defender, who until now has been selected by — and answer-
able to — the governor.
SANTA FE (AP) — The state Court of Appeals has overtur ned damages against Attorney General Gary King for withholding public records requested by a lawyer handling a pay discrimination case against King.
the $100-a-day damages against the attorney general in 2011. However, King still faces the prospect of damages if the case goes back to the judge for a revised order.
The Public Defender Department provides criminal defense for indigent adults and juveniles, handling about 72,000 cases a year in trial and appellate courts. It has a budget of $41 million and offices in 11 cities. Some members of the legal community have wanted for years to detach the agency from the Governor’s Office, arguing that having the gover nor — whoever it is — as the boss can create conflicts of interest and inject politics where it doesn’t belong.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Furloughed air traf fic controllers will soon be heading back to work, ending a week of coast-tocoast flight delays that left thousands of travelers frustrated and furious. Unable to ignore the travelers’ anger, Congress overwhelmingly approved legislation Friday to allow the Federal Aviation Administration to withdraw the furloughs. The vote underscored a shift by Democrats who had insisted on erasing all of
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Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, during a press conference on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, to criticize the FAA’s plan to furlough air traffic controllers because of forced budget cuts.
Appeals Court nixes damages against NM attorney general
The court ruled Thursday that a district judge in Albuquerque failed to provide evidence to support
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The damages were to accrue until King provided records requested by Albuquerque lawyer Daniel Faber, who estimated Friday that they had reached
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about $61,000 by the time all the materials were released.
King spokesman Phil Sisneros said the attor ney general’s office calculated the damages to be about $15,300, and that it does not think Faber is entitled to damages for the time “between the first and last production” of records.
happen next in the lawsuit. One possibility is that District Judge Beatrice Brickhouse will have a chance to redo her order and award damages with the legal findings that the Appeals Court said were missing. Farber also has an option of asking the state Supreme Court to review the Court of Appeals decision.
Faber said he was reviewing the decision and couldn’t comment on it. Sisneros said the attorney general hasn’t decided on what step to take, including whether to ask the Court of Appeals to reconsider its ruling.
shirt with frills on the front tucked into a pink shinlength skirt. “This is so nice,” Moore said of her party. “I never expected any of this. Thank you, all of you, so very, very much.” Always grateful and having learned never to take anything for granted,
Moore was born on April 16, 1911, in Ellis County, Okla. Although she had a brother two years her senior, her sister was three years younger. “Of course, I was raised on a farm, and my mother
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Helena Moore, 102, says she’s ‘blessed’ for what she’s been given It’s uncertain what will
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AMY VOGELSANG RECORD STAFF WRITER
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Helena Moore feels blessed for everything she has been given throughout her life. She celebrated her 102nd birthday April 16.
The piano sings out the classic “Jesus Loves Me” tune as folks gather in the La Villa-Emeritus Assisted Living common room. A beautifully decorated white cake with pink roses has “Happy Birthday Helena” scrawled in perfect pink script. Helena Moore is 102 years old, but looking at her, one would never know. She is alert as ever, and incredibly spry in a white
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