Roswell Daily Record
Vol. 122, No. 182 75¢ Daily / $1.25 Sunday
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The fee dispute between Time Warner Cable and CBS Corp. took an odd turn when the cable giant announced it was turning off the broadcaster... - PAGE B6
July 31, 2013
Manning found guilty on 20 charges FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — In a split decision, U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was acquitted Tuesday of aiding the enemy — the most serious charge he faced — but was convicted of espionage, theft and nearly every other count for giving secrets to WikiLeaks, a verdict that could see him spend the rest of his life in prison.
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THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
The judge, Ar my Col. Denise Lind, deliberated over three days before delivering a decision that denied the government a precedent that freedom of press advocates had warned could have broad implications for leak cases
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and investigative journalism about national security issues. From the courtroom to world capitals, people struggled to absorb the meaning of a ruling that cleared the soldier of a charge of aiding the enemy, which would have carried a potential life sentence, but convicted him of 20 of 22 counts that, together, could also mean life behind bars. Manning faces up to 136 years in prison if given maximum penalties in a sentencing hearing that starts Wednesday. It is expected to last most of August. The 25-year -old soldier
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stood quietly at attention in his dress uniform, flanked by his attor neys, as the verdict was delivered. He appeared not to react, though his attorney, David Coombs, smiled faintly when he heard “not guilty” on the aiding the enemy charge. When the judge was done, Coombs put his hand on Manning’s back and whispered something to him, bringing a slight smile to the soldier’s face.
“We won the battle, now we need to go win the war,” Coombs said later, outside the courtroom. “Today is a See MANNING, Page A3
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Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Tuesday, after receiving a verdict in his court martial.
Board opposes prairie dog relocation
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Abigail Ashcraft leads her Reserve Champion pig out of the arena during the Chaves County 4H and FFA Fair at the Eastern New Mexico State Fairgrounds, Tuesday morning
A&M PLAYER KILLED IN NM Damontre Moore helped recruit Polo Manukainiu to Texas A&M and remembered the day the two met. Manukainiu was still in high school, even then a fearsome figure... - PAGE B1
TODAY’S OBITUARIES • John Robert (Darrell) Jones • Marie Smith • Franklin “Phil” Downs • Melvin Neal • Nellie Brady - PAGE A7
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Community Health System Inc. plans $3.9B acquisition Community Health Systems Inc. plans to spend $3.9 billion to acquire Health Management Associates Inc. in a deal that would create a giant U.S. hospital chain just as the health care overhaul starts funneling millions of newly insured people into the health care system.
But Community Health wants to buy its fellow hospital operator at a discount, with shareholders assuming some of the risk that the company faces from federal investigations. Investors panned that idea, at least initially, by
sending shares of Health Management plunging Tuesday after the deal was announced. Community Health, based in Franklin, Tenn., plans to pay a combination of cash and stock valued at $13.78 for each HMA share. It also will make an additional contingent value right payment of up to $1 per share depending on how the investigations play out. Naples, Fla.-based Health Management, also known as HMA, said Tuesday it has received a
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Semi overturns
Daniel Ivey (left), 11, sits with instructor Tom Day, Tuesday afternoon, learning how to launch his own handmade rocket at ENMU-R’s Kids Kollege.
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Police and fire personnel tend to an overturned semi in the southbound lane of U.S. 70 about 20 miles north of Roswell, Tuesday morning.
Creativity takes flight at Kids Kollege AMY VOGELSANG RECORD STAFF WRITER
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Chaves County Commissioners want no part of a federal plan to relocate an unwanted population of prairie dogs currently burrowing holes across Clovis. As a result, the commission will hold a public hearing Thursday, Aug. 15, on an ordinance that would prohibit the importation and relocation of prairie dogs and other rodent pests into or within Chaves County, commissioners decided Tuesday. Clovis City Commissioners already unanimously decided in mid-July to decline a request by an Albuquerque group to capture the squirrel-like creatures and move them to a Bureau of Land Manage-
“Three! Two! One! Blastoff!” The kids’ voices rang loud and clear out at Eastern New Mexico UniversityRoswell Tuesday afternoon. The countdown was followed by a loud “POP!” as homemade rockets were launched into the air. An annual event, ENMUR once again hosted Kids Kollege, a week-long series of classes that kids between the ages 8 to 14
can sign up for. One of the more popular and exciting classes was Rockets, where kids built and launched their own soon-to-be-airborne contraptions. Although a difficult decision to choose rockets over dinosaurs, Daniel Ivey, 11 (and almost 12), ultimately decided on rockets. “I thought it would be cool to do it again like I did in Cub Scouts,” he said. Ivey is from Atlanta, but his grandma Margaret Johnson lives in Roswell, and she brought him and
his brother to experience Kids Kollege. “(We have them) come for the educational experiences,” she said. They could only choose two classes, however, and it was not an easy choice. “They would have liked to do all of them,” Johnson said about the class picking process. Also watching a grandchild launch rockets was grandpa Ted Hitchcock, whose 8-year -old grandSee KOLLEGE, Page A3