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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has completed its $12.5 billion purchase of device maker Motorola Mobility in a deal that poses new challenges for the Internet’s most powerful company as it tries to shape the future of mobile computing. - PAGE B3
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• Kids to Parks Day all kinds of fun • Survivors take first Walk for Hope lap • NMMI Keeps Roswell Beautiful • Mayor honors RPD officers • Vander Hulst signs with Cedarville
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County trims $1.6M from budget
ATLANTA (AP) — The NFL made thigh and knee pads mandatory equipment for the 2013 season, something the players’ union was not pleased with. Atlanta Falcons president Rich McKay, chairman of the competition committee, said Tuesday at an owners meeting that because this is a playing rule, the league can apply it unilaterally. “We have a vote of the membership and can implement,” McKay said. “Some of us felt we were remiss that we took it out of the rule book — high school and college makes it mandatory ... - PAGE B1
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Iraqi Foreign Affairs Minister Hoshyar Zebari during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Tuesday.
The tentative accord — announced as envoys headed to the Iraqi capital for negotiations — is likely to be used by Iran as added leverage to seek concessions from the West on sanctions. But U.S. officials
have shown no willingness to shift into bargaining mode so quickly, setting the stage for possible tense moments after talks set for Wednesday resume in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone. Still, Iran’s move raises the pressure on the West for some reciprocal gestures to keep dialogue on track and further highlights Tehran’s apparent aims of opening a long giveand-take process over its nuclear ambitions. A major breakthrough in the impasse was not
expected in Baghdad, with officials and experts saying both sides will seek to enough demonstrate progress to keep the process moving forward. That could cool down worries in inter national markets over possible military action, but reinforce the suspicions of Israeli leaders who claim Iran seeks only to buy time to keep up its production of nuclear fuel. Iran’s envoys, meanwhile, promoted the BaghSee IRAQ, Page A3
JULIA BERGMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER
The County Commission reviewed a proposed budget free of layoffs, cuts in services, employee benefits and pay, that maintains a high quality of operations within departments, keeps county roads maintained and prepares for the expansion of the Chaves County Detention Center. During their budget workshop Tuesday morning, commissioners examined a general operating budget consisting of more than $23 million in projected spending for the 20122013 fiscal year. The final
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That’s a lot of food; thanks, Roswell The Rev. Hector Torres of Neighborhood Church loads boxes of food received as part of Harvest Ministries Postal Carrier’s Food Drive, Tuesday.
NOAH VERNAU RECORD STAFF WRITER
The generosity of Roswell and Chaves County can be measured
in about five-and-a-half tons.
The annual Postal Carrier’s Food Drive generated 10,876 pounds of food on May 12, a bounty of
boxed and canned goods that will be distributed by Harvest Ministries to 12 agencies throughout Chaves County beginning today.
Harvest Ministries personnel weighed and sorted all of the food over the course of four days last week, and inspected all of
See FOOD, Page A3
School district gives Mike ‘A woman who. ...’: Stories court females Gottlieb super send-off See BUDGET, Page A3
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BAGHDAD (AP) — Iran made the first move Tuesday in attempts to gain an edge in nuclear talks with the U.S. and other world powers: It agreed in principle to allow U.N. inspectors to restart probes into a military site suspected of harboring tests related to atomic weapons.
GOOGLE COMPLETES BIG DEAL
May 23, 2012
JULIA BERGMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER
Although his retirement does not become effective until June 30, Roswell Independent School District Superintendent Mike Gottlieb was sent off with a message from a representative of each of the district’s schools. A 30year veteran of the district, Gottlieb was honored at his retirement party, Tuesday, by a packed Convention Center. Mark Wilson Photo Each representative joked that their school or Michael Gottlieb chats with Kayla Cordero, left, and Karen Sorey during a farewell get-together at the Civic Center, Tuesday. Cordero and Storey, both teachers at Military See SUPER, Page A2 Heights Elementary, are also retiring.
Norman Allen gets 12 years in prison The U.S. District Court in Albuquerque sentenced Norman Allen, 50, of Dexter, to 12 years in prison to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for possessing a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. The judge also ordered Allen to pay $500 in restitution to the victim in a child por nography image that was found on his computer. Allen also was ordered to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
Allen was originally arrested by Chaves County
Sherif f’s Of fice in April 2011, on 101 counts of sexual exploitation of a child. U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales said that Allen was sentenced based on his guilty plea to Count 3 of a three-count indictment charging him with one count of distribution of child pornography and two counts of possession of child pornography. According to court records, the investigation began when the New Southwest Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force revealed that Allen was of fering child pornography images
through a peer-to-peer filing sharing program in December 2010. As a result of the investigation, the Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant at Allen’s residence in Dexter in April 2011. Officials seized computers and computer-related media. Allen was indicted on federal charges on July 13, 2011. He has been in federal custody since that time.
Allen entered a guilty plea on Jan. 23, 2012, under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attor ney’s See ALLEN, Page A2
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mitt Romney’s courtship of female voters in his typical campaign speech sounds a bit like a movie’s casting call. Woman Whose Husband Took an Upholstery Class. Woman Who Is Going Back To College. Woman Who Owns Duplexes. Romney’s campaign won’t identify these women, making it impossible to check the accuracy of the Republican presidential candidate’s accounts. It’s unclear whether they even know of their cameos in Romney’s campaign. But they’re serving an important role as he looks to narrow the advantage President Barack Obama has with female voters. The latest Associated Press-GfK poll found women favor Obama by 54 percent to 39 percent — largely in line with the 2008 “gender gap” that helped him win the White House. With women making up roughly 52 percent of the electorate, Romney needs to gain ground with these voters to have a better shot at winning the White House. Less than six months before the election, polls show it’s a competitive race overall. Women historically tilt toward Democrats. And this spring’s national debate over access to contraception hasn’t helped GOP candidates.
Romney’s advisers are aware of the hurdle, and the campaign is working to overcome it. Ann Romney has taken on a prominent role in the campaign. She’s almost always by her husband’s side in an attempt to soften — critics say humanize — the hard-edged for mer business executive. And Romney, himself, has started highlighting women’s stories of economic success — or hardship — in the speech he delivers once or more a day at campaign appearances. He often starts by telling audiences about some of the women he meets when he holds private meetings with voters before larger public events. The tightlipped campaign has repeatedly refused to allow reporters to attend most of those small gatherings or provide lists of attendees, leaving it to Romney, himself, to fill in the blanks. “In some of the towns that I go to, I ask to get a group of women business owners, and I meet with them. I have them describe their experiences,” Romney told supporters at a fundraiser here last week. A look at some of the women Romney says he has met during his presidential bid: •Woman Whose Husband Took an Upholstery Class Romney often recounts See ROMNEY, Page A2