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OBJECTIONS AGAINST DETROIT BANKRUPTCY DETROIT (AP) — The city’s biggest employee union, retirees and even a few dozen residents filed objections Monday to Detroit’s request for bankruptcy protection, the largest municipal filing in U.S. history and a ... - PAGE B5
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THE VOICE OF THE PECOS VALLEY
Valley Meat’s stop order in question
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As the 30-day temporary stop order on Valley Meat Co.’s horse slaughter operation nears an end, local law enforcement is prepping for a possible onslaught of protesters and media at the facility. Chaves County Sheriff Rob Coon said plans are in place to handle whoever might show up on the twolane country road in front of owner Rick De Los Santos’ small plant. “The main goal is to keep the road open,” Coon told county commissioners last week. “What goes on behind the gate is none of our business.” Valley Meat’s plan to proceed as the nation’s first horse slaughter operation since 2007 was stopped temporarily by Albuquerque-based U.S. District
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Judge Christina Ar mijo Aug. 2. But a recent attempt by animal activists to escape from paying a courtordered bond to Valley Meat and another plant might have disrupted the timeline. The Humane Society of the United States, the animal rights group that spearheaded the lawsuit against the USDA to halt inspections at Valley Meat and other U.S. plants, filed a new motion last week to have the ruling clarified. Armijo signed an order Friday that has put the case back on shaky ground. Following the court ruling, HSUS and the other plaintiffs were ordered to put up a bond of $495,000 to Valley Meat and another plant in Sigourney, Iowa, to cover financial losses following Armijo’s ruling.
Jill McLaughlin Photo This anti-horse slaughter billboard on Second Street is sponsored by EquiArmy NDO.net and The American Horse Rescue Network. The groups could not be located for comment.
The animal rights activists now claim the temporary restraining order is “potentially invalid,” and that the bond has “dramatic financial implications”
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for the animal-welfare groups. The USDA, and the two horse meat processing plants, have until Wednesday to respond to the ani-
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mal rights groups’ motion for the review of the bond and temporary restraining
Obama urges for rules
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Three years after President Barack Obama signed a sweeping overhaul of lending and high-finance rules, execution of the law is behind schedule with scores of regulations yet to be written, let alone enforced. Meeting privately with the nation’s top financial regulators on Monday, Obama prodded them to act more swiftly. The president’s push comes as the five-year anniversary of the nation’s financial near -meltdown approaches. The law, when passed in 2010, was considered a milestone in Obama’s presidency, a robust response to the cri-
Lawyer: San Diego United Way kicks off campaign mayor in settlement talks SAN DIEGO (AP) — An attorney for a woman suing San Diego’s embattled mayor for sexual harassment said Monday the two sides are in settlement talks but declined to say whether a possible resignation was being discussed. Lawyer Gloria Allred, who represents Mayor Bob Filner’s former communications director, said a retired federal judge is mediating the negotiations. She added the talks are ongoing and she couldn’t comment further. It wasn’t known if Filner was present for the talks, but he was seen earlier in the day entering the same downtown office building where the mediation took place. Allred said she and her client would not be returning Tuesday. Filner is facing a recall effort prompted by a cascade of sexual harassment allegations that also led the entire City Council and many leading Democrats to call for him to step down. “He needs to resign,” City Councilman Kevin Faulconer said Monday as he headed into City Hall. “He doesn’t represent us, and he does not represent this city.” Faulconer was later seen entering the building where Filner was spotted by KFMB-TV in San Diego. The councilman referred questions to the city attorney’s office, which declined to comment. See MAYOR, Page A3
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JILL MCLAUGHLIN RECORD STAFF WRITER
United Way of Chaves County kicked of f its 2013 campaign Monday with the help of a full banquet room at the Civic Center. “It just shows how much support we get from the community,” said this year’s Board President Clarissa Gonzales-Adams. Gonzales-Adams said the regional United Way organization was “really excited” for the campaign. “We know we’re going to have a great year,” Gonzales-Adams told the luncheon crowd. This year’s Campaign Compadres, organizations that donated funds to
Jill McLaughlin Photo Board President Clarissa Gonzalez-Adams, right, hosted Monday's United Way of Chaves County's 2013 campaign kick-off.
cover the campaign costs are Ar mstrong Energy Corp., Century Link, Eastern New Mexico Medical Center, Eastern New Mexico University-Ros-
well, KOBR-TV, Lovelace Regional Hospital-Roswell, Ritter & Co., The See UW, Page A3
Egypt: Court ruling raises possibility of a free Hosni Mubarak
AP Photo Supporters of Egypt's ousted President Mohammed Morsi clash with the Egyptian security forces in the eastern Nasr City district of Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday.
CAIRO (AP) — A court ruling Monday raised the possibility of jailed ex-president Hosni Mubarak walking free soon, a move that would fuel the unrest roiling the country after the autocratic leader’s successor was removed in a military coup. Underscoring the growing anger over Mohammed Morsi’s ouster, suspected Islamic militants ambushed two minibuses carrying offduty policemen in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, forcing the men to lie on the sand and shooting 25 of them dead. “They were marked in advance by the attackers,”
said Ashraf Abdullah, who heads the police branch the victims belonged to. He said the assailants checked the IDs of the men, who were not in unifor m, to ensure they were policemen before opening fire. The brazen daylight attack raised fears that the strategic desert region bordering Israel and the Gaza Strip could be plunged into a full-fledged insurgency. In a separate development early on Tuesday, police detained the supreme leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist group from which Morsi hails, according to
security officials and state television. They said Mohammed Badie was captured in an apartment in the eastern Cairo district of Nasr City. That’s where Morsi’s supporters held a six-week sit-in protest that was cleared by security forces last Wednesday. The private ONTV network showed footage of a man the network said was Badie after his arrest. In the footage, a somber looking Badie in an off-white Arab robe, or galabiyah, sits motionless on a sofa as a man in civilian clothes See EGYPT, Page A3