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Fiddle and Griddle fires up Main Street
Vol. 122, No. 138 75¢ Daily / $1.25 Sunday
June 9, 2013
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JILL MCLAUGHLIN RECORD STAFF WRITER
Toes were tapping starting early on the Chaves County Courthouse lawn as fiddlers young and old began competing for top prizes during the second-annual Fiddle & Griddle Contest. “It was a great day,” said Leona Rice. “I danced all day long.” Temperatures started out in the upper 80s with a slight cooling breeze as guitars accompanied fine fiddle players on stage. Onlookers sat in the stands, on lawn chairs, blankets or whatever they could find. As the day progressed and the desert sun hovered, temperatures fell shy of the 100 mark. The smell of oak and See FIDDLE, Page A3
TURKEY PROTESTS CONTINUE ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Police in Ankara fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse thousands of people protesting near government buildings ... - PAGE B6
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ABOVE: Jeff Salyards of Dead 2 Rights BBQ grills up some tasty treats during the 2nd Annual Fiddle & Griddle Festival,
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INSIDE SPORTS
Saturday.
LEFT: Karissa Nugent of Burleson, Texas, prepares for her
performance in the Junior Division of the 2nd Annual Fiddle &
2,000 continue NM fire fight
Griddle Festival, Saturday.
Don’t look down
WILLIAMS WINS FRENCH OPEN PARIS (AP) — Serena Williams knew, of course, that 11 years had passed since her only French Open championship. She also knew, of ... - PAGE B1
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David Duran Wilma F. Nail Jose “Pepe” Lujan Louis “Poppi” Kendrick William Smith Raymond Analla - PAGE B7
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A tower crew from Southwest Wireless repair damages to DFN Systems' wireless internet that had been disabled following a lightning strike that occurred during severe weather Sunday night.
Domestic violence cases often unreported
Beetle Mania
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — More than 2,000 firefighters pressed forward Saturday in battling two large northern New Mexico wildfires as smaller blazes popped up throughout the drought-stricken state, stretching resources and prompting more warnings. Officials said both the 29-square-miles Thompson Ridge Fire and the 15-squaremile Tres Lagunas Blaze remained 40 percent contained. The infernos were burning on opposite ends of the Santa Fe National Forest in northern New Mexico sending smoke to nearby communities, including Santa Fe. Smoke from the wind Thompson Ridge Fire is expected to bring smoke as far south as Albuquerque late Saturday and early Sunday thank to winds between the Valles Caldera National Preserve and Albuquerque, city environmental officials said. An evacuation order remains in effect for Thompson Ridge, Rancho de la Cueva and Elk Valley. Meanwhile, several small fires were reportedly burning in the Gila National Forest — the site of the state’s largest ever wildfire last year. The new fires were blamed on multiple lightning strikes from See FIRE, Page A3
JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER
Despite changes in laws, domestic abuse remains a problem nationwide. In Roswell, the police responded to 32 domestic cases during the week of May 31 to June 7. The cases ran the gamut from harassment, threats, verbal domestics, assault, aggravated assault, battery and aggravated battery of a household member to kidnapping. During the same seven-day period, eight were arrested on charges of battery of a household member. Some of those arrested are the subject of the previously noted incident reports. Others are not, and one person was charged twice for the offense, representing two separate incidents. The reports and arrests present only the tip of the iceberg. National statistics indicate that 72 percent of abuse cases go unreported. This suggests of the 38 reports/arrests, as many as 110 incidents occurred during the week May 31 through June 7. In 2004, The Journal of Epidemiology said the underreporting of domestic violence was the result of social silence, tolerance, and inhibition that still exists against the victims of violence. It is more often neighbors, rather than friends, family or the abused themselves, who contact the police. Domestic cases do not only include violence from one spouse upon another. It may be a child against a parent, sibling or other family members, or it may be a former See DOMESTIC Page A3
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Mr. Alien rides shotgun as the VW Beetles prepare for the Glow Show in the parking lot of the International UFO Museum on Saturday night.