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Judge puts hold on Valley Meat
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ALBUQUERQUE — A federal judge ruled Friday in favor of animal activists to halt U.S. horse meat slaughter until the USDA completes further environmental analysis. “The injunction is in place as of this moment,” said Chief U.S. District Judge Christina Armijo Friday afternoon. Valley Meat near Roswell will not open Monday, as
planned.
Armijo set a bond hearing Monday for all parties, including attorneys for the plant in Sigourney, Iowa, the Yakama Nation in Washington, and the plaintiffs.
Valley Meat’s attorney, A. Blair Dunn, said he will seek $10 million for the Roswell plant and the plant in Missouri he represents from the plaintiffs to cover financial impacts caused to the companies by the delay.
“It’s what I expected,” Dunn said, following Armijo’s judgment. “(The ruling) is just not supported. We’re going to now focus on how to protect the economic interests of the plant and the economic interest of Roswell in the future.”
The Humane Society of the U.S., Front Range Equine Rescue, and the other plaintiffs, some from Roswell, argued the USDA did not properly carry out a full review of all environmental impacts before issu-
ing a grant of inspection to Valley Meat June 28, and a plant in Iowa a few days later. Specifically, plaintiffs were concer ned about drugs present in race horses. The USDA argued the permit was issued correctly and all permits were compliant with guidelines that considered horse meat inspections.
Lead plaintiff attorney Bruce Wagman argued emotionally about what he called a “shocking display of denial” by the USDA to
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issue the per mits in the past two months. “The defendant decided to leap, rather than look,” Wagner told Armijo. “Shoot now, rather than wait. The environmental harms are great.” Armijo asked Wagman a few times to provide solid evidence. “These are all known facts,” she told Wagman at one point. “What you’re saying here is speculation. See JUDGE, Page A3
WASHINGTON (AP) — The accomplishments are few, the chaos plentiful in the 113th Congress, a discourteous model of divided government now beginning a five-week break. “Have senators sit down and shut up, OK?” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid blurted out on Thursday as lawmakers milled about noisily at a time Sen. Susan Collins was trying to speak. There was political calculation even in that. Democrats knew the Maine Republican was about rip into her own party’s leadership, and wanted to make sure her indictment could be heard. See CONGRESS, Page A3
N ea rly 70 year s lat er, N Y WWII airman finally home ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — At Melrose Market, the windows facing the street were decorated with American flags and a sign that read: “Thank you and Welcome Home Sgt. Dominick Licari.” Organizations and business owners along Route 5 posted signs in Licari’s honor Friday. The World War II airman died in combat almost 70 years ago in the South Pacific, but his remains were only recently identified. Finally, at just after 9 p.m., he returned home to Frankfort, 70 miles west of Albany. “We just thought it would be a nice tribute for him for giving his life for our country,” said grocery store owner Linda LaValla. “It’s good to know that
they take the time years later to find our servicemen and bring them home. It’s closure for everybody.” Veterans’ groups, businesses and residents along a 10-mile stretch of New York’s Mohawk Valley paid tribute to Licari. Honor guards from Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion chapters were posted along Route 5 as the vehicle procession carrying his casket left the New York State Thruway at Little Falls and traveled to Frankfort, funeral director Vincent Iocovozzi told The Associated Press. A commercial flight carrying his casket arrived at the Albany airport and military pall bearers carried the casket from the
plane to the hearse Friday evening, Iocovozzi said. Licari’s brother, sister and several nieces and nephews were at the airport to accompany his casket back home, with the Patriot Guard motorcycle riders providing an escort, the funeral director said. “There’s only one word that describes this: unbelievable,” said Iocovozzi as he arrived in Frankfort with Licari’s remains. He said hundreds of people lined the streets waving flags, crying and holding signs as they made the jour ney to the funeral home. “He’s a man who has been dead longer than
See AIRMAN, Page A3
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Above: An undated photo provided by the Licari family shows World War II airman Sgt. Dominick Licari, right, with other airmen.
Right: An undated photo provided by the family, shows World War II airman Sgt. Dominick Licari, whose remains were identified nearly 70 years after his plane and two others slammed into a remote, junglecovered mountainside in the South Pacific.
Kintigh: Giving the community the help it needs JILL MCLAUGHLIN RECORD STAFF WRITER
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Dennis Kintigh has spent much of his life seeing a side of the Roswell community some people often don’t. Since January, Kintigh has worked for the Chaves County Sheriff’s Department as a detective. He’s currently working one homicide case, burglaries and a rape case. He recalled the story of interviewing a young woman about a case recently. She was in her 30s, addicted to heroin and
living in a hotel. “It’s distressing and tragic that it’s out there. We need to confront issues we’re not confronting. One of those is drug addiction,” he said. “We need to come up with a way to try to deal with the hurting, broken people. “It’s a great community, but it needs some help,” Kintigh said.
The father of two walked away from two engineering degrees and a Master of Science degree in computer science to enter four years of a military space program. He then started working in Los Angeles for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which brought him and his wife to Roswell from the Washington, D.C.,
field office in 1992. It was then that Kintigh started working with narcotics investigations. “I spent the next 14 and a half years working primarily in drugs,” he said. The Roswell office covered 25,000 miles of southeastern New Mexico territory. After a brief time working in the oil fields, Kintigh entered state politics, serving two terms in the state Legislature. After his last term ended, he asked to be hired as a See SPOTLIGHT, Page A3