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Justices limit Voting Rights Act
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NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street focused on good news about the economy, sending stocks higher Tuesday. After weeks of worrying over how the economy will weather a pullback in the Federal Reserve’s stimulus, traders were encouraged by three reports. - PAGE A6
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INVADERS LOSE 2ND STRAIGHT
For just the third time this year, the Roswell Invaders are losers of back-to-back games. Roswell fell to White Sands for the second straight night, 6-3, at Joe Bauman Stadium, Tuesday. On Tuesday, the Invaders again went up early, but let the lead slip away. In the seventh, Roswell tied it for the second time and took the game to the ninth deadlocked at 3. - PAGE B1
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the requirement in the Voting Rights Act that all or parts of 15 states with a history of discrimination in voting, mainly in the South, get Washington’s approval before changing the way they hold elections. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for a majority of conservative, Republican-appointed justices, said the law’s provision that determines which states are covered is unconstitutional because it relies on 40-
to happen any time soon. President Barack Obama, the nation’s first black chief executive, issued a statement saying he was “deeply disappointed” with the ruling and calling on Congress to update the law. But in the South, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said that, while the requirement was necessary in the 1960s, that was no longer the case. See VOTING, Page A3
ILISSA GILMORE RECORD STAFF WRITER
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate passage of historic immigration legislation offering citizenship to millions looks near -certain after the bill cleared a key hurdle with votes to spare. A final vote in the Senate on Thursday or Friday would send the issue to the House, where conservative Republicans in the majority oppose citizenship for anyone living in the country illegally. Some GOP lawmakers have appealed to House Speaker John Boehner, ROhio, not to permit any immigration legislation to come to a vote for fear that whatever its contents, it would open the door to an
Music is in the air this week at Grace Community Church as its Fine Arts Camp celebrates a decade of fostering creativity and self-expression in children and establishing itself as a training ground for future artists. For years, camp director Mary Hale had dreamed of starting a summer fine arts camp for children to inspire their creativity and confidence. She said the dream became a reality after reading “The Dreamgiver” by Bruce Wilkinson. “The emphasis of that book was to dream big,” she said. Since the beginning, Hale’s dream has continued to grow. During the camp’s first year, it had 90 campers and a staff of 11. This year, the camp has 280 campers and a staff of more than 125. Hale said it’s the camp’s biggest year yet.
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Youngsters get a kick out of a karate class during the 10th annual Grace Fine Arts Camp at Grace Community Church, Tuesday.
“It’s been a wonderful evolution,” she said. “We just kept adding staff and children kept coming.” Word of mouth has
helped the camp, with children from all over the city attending; many of which aren’t members of Community Grace
Church. For five days, the camp offers classes in music, as
Search for new judge continues UFO fest promises See SENATE, Page A3
JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER
The selection process for a replacement for magistrate judge, District 2, continues. Unlike the nomination of district judge, with a panel to interview the candidates and make recommendations to Gov. Susana Martinez, the office of magistrate judge is strictly a gubernatorial appointment. Communications director Enrique Knell for the governor’s office said four people have applied for the position: Bobby Arnett, Larry Rogers, Keith Rogers and Ivey Hendrix. “Initial interviews are taking place this week. I’m
afraid I don’t have an estimate for you on when the process will be completed,” he said. The website for application to the post of magistrate judge has consistently shown no vacancies since early May when Judge Eugene De Los Santos contacted the governor’s office about his retirement. His last day in office took place on May 31. In the interim, Magistrate Judge John Halvorson hears all magistrate cases. On Tuesday, magistrate Court had 25 preliminary hearings. Today, Halvorson has 30 sentencing hearings scheduled, for a
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wild ‘family fun’
JILL MCLAUGHLIN RECORD STAFF WRITER
Organizers for this year’s UFO Festival on July 5-7 finalized the event schedule Tuesday, revealing several family-friendly and thrilling alien-related events. “It’s going to be pretty wild, I guarantee you,” said Dusty Huckabee, director of MainStreet Roswell. MainStreet Roswell and the International UFO
Museum have joined forces again this year to provide an exciting schedule that promises to offer lectures, parades, water games, food, guests, displays and new flying saucer and alienrelated evidence. “There will be all kinds of goodies,” said museum Operations Manager Mark Briscoe. “It’s a good time. Everybody has fun.”
Growing fire makes matters worse for ranchers in state
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This June 23 photo released by the U.S. Forest Service shows a fire burning in southern New Mexico's Gila National Forest.
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year-old data and does not account for racial progress and other changes in U.S. society. The decision effectively puts an end to the advance approval requirement that has been used to open up polling places to minority voters in the nearly half century since it was first enacted in 1965, unless Congress can come up with a new formula that Roberts said meets “current conditions” in the United States. That seems unlikely
Senate Arts camp encourages creativity close to passing reform
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A deeply divided Supreme Court threw out the most powerful part of the landmark Voting Rights Act on Tuesday, a decision deplored by the White House but cheered by mostly Southern states now free from nearly 50 years of intense federal oversight of their elections. Split along ideological and partisan lines, the justices voted 5-4 to strip the government of its most potent tool to stop voting bias —
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ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — A furious wildfire torching through the mountains of southern New Mexico’s Gila National Forest has grown to 127 square miles, forcing some ranchers to ship their cattle out of state as the blaze burns through entire grazing areas. The Silver Fire was still about 5 miles west of the nearest community, but it has left ranchers in this drought-stricken corner of the state with few choices for feeding their cattle. State agriculture officials said the combination of drought and fire has forced some ranchers to ship what remaining cattle they have to other
areas, including South Texas. “There are poor range conditions statewide,” said Les Owen, a range resource specialist with the New Mexico Department of Agriculture. “Finding grass that doesn’t have some cattle on it or some areas of rangeland that haven’t been destocked because there’s just no grass left is nearly impossible in New Mexico.” Agriculture officials have reached out to the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management in an effort to find public or even private land where any displaced ranchers might be able to graze their cattle
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while the Silver Fire continues to eat up parts of the Gila forest. While forest officials had already limited the number of cattle allowed on the Gila this year due to the dry conditions, at least 150 cattle were forced from one allotment due to the fire. There have been no reports of livestock lost, officials said. In all, wildfires have burned more than 192 square miles around New Mexico over the past month, and managers assigned to the Silver Fire expected that blaze — the largest currentSee FIRE, Page A3
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