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Dueling candidates storm Ohio
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WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) — Slipping in states that could sink his presidential bid, Republican Mitt Romney declared Wednesday that “I care about the people of America” and can do more than President Barack Obama to improve their lives. In an all-day Ohio duel, Obama scoffed that a challenger who calls half the nation “victims” was unlikely to be of much help.
ANDY WILLIAMS DEAD AT 84 BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — For the older — OK, squarer — side of the generation gap, Andy Williams was part of the soundtrack of the 1960s and ’70s, with easylistening hits like “Moon River,” the “Love Story” theme and “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” from his beloved Christmas TV specials. - PAGE A6
approach Romney’s reflected what he is up against: a widening Obama lead in polls in key states such as Ohio, the backlash
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September 27, 2012
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from a leaked video in which he disparages Obama supporters as government-dependent people who see themselves as victims, and a campaign imperative to make his policy plans more plain. With under six weeks to go, and just one week before the first big debate, Obama’s campaign reveled in the latest public polling — but tried to crush any sense of overconfidence. The day’s setting was Ohio, where Obama’s momentum has seemed to be growing. It’s also a state no Republican has won the
White House without carrying. Romney, eager to project confidence and brush aside suggestions that he was faltering, went after working-class voters outside Columbus and Cleveland before rolling to Toledo. Obama rallied college crowds at Bowling Green State University and Kent State University, reminding Ohioans their state allows them to start casting ballots next week. Early voting has already begun in more than two dozen other See OHIO, Page A3
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In August, President Barack Obama campaigns in Virginia, and Mitt Romney campaigns in Wisconsin.
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These jewelry pieces, many handmade, are part of hundreds of items that were put on public display by the Chaves County Sheriff’s Office in connection with a recent rash of burglaries, with the intention of returning the goods to their rightful owners.
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The Chaves County Sheriff Office held a show-
ROCKETS AT EAGLES, FRIDAY Philadelphia is synonymous with cheese-steak sandwiches, Chicago is synonymous with deep-dish pizzas and Hobbs is synonymous with up-tempo basketball. First-year football coach Charles Gleghorn is trying to make Hobbs synonymous with quality football. His biggest test to date comes on Friday when the Eagles host the top-ranked Goddard Rockets at Watson Memorial Stadium. And it will be a clash of two completely different offensive philosophies. - PAGE B1
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ing of items confiscated as a result of search warrants issued in association with a series of burglaries linked to Victoriano Carrasco, 29.
To date, the items have led to victims in the county and in Ruidoso. As of 11 a.m., Monday, the SO made its first connections to burglaries that took
place in Roswell. According to Sgt. Raul Alvarez, the search warrants took Sherif f’s
(AP) — VAUGHN Vaughn’s police chief resigned Wednesday, leaving the town with just one certified member on its police force — a drug-sniffing dog named Nikka. Dave Romero, attorney for the town, said Wednesday that police Chief Ernest “Chris” Armijo decided to step down after news stories reported that he wasn’t allowed to carry a gun because of his criminal background. “He decided the attention was distracting,” Romero said. State officials said Armijo couldn’t carry a gun since acknowledging that he owed tens of thousands of dollars in delinquent child support payments in Texas. Ar mijo also faces new felony charges after being accused of selling a town-
Hobbs Egypt’s Morsi assumes major role in Mideast man dead in crash
A Hobbs man was killed in a head-on collision near US 82 mile marker 111, east of Artesia, Wednesday morning. New Mexico State Police responded to a twovehicle crash involving a gold, 2001 Plymouth Neon driven by Luis Aguirre, 79, of Hobbs, and a semi truck driven by Kevin Evans, 38, of Tucumcari. Aguirre was traveling west on US 82, when he crossed the center line and crashed head-on with the semi truck. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Evans was transported to University Medical Hospital in Lubbock with a possible broken back.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Egypt’s new President Mohammed Morsi assigned himself the heavyweight’s role in the Middle East on Wednesday, declaring in his first speech to the United Nations that the civil war raging in Syria is the “tragedy of the age” and must be brought to an end. In a wide-ranging address that touched on all major issues confronting the region, Morsi also decried Israeli settlement-building on territory Palestinians claim for a future state and condemned a film produced in the United States that denigrates Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. He urged all U.N. member nations to join in an effort to end what he called “the catastrophe in Syria” that pits the regime of Bashar Assad against opposition forces trying to end 40 years of dictatorship. More than 30,000 people have been killed in the 18-month conflict.
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Though vacant now, the Eastern New Mexico State Fairgrounds will soon be quite lively. The Junior Livestock Show begins Saturday with the dairy goat competition.
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Morsi has called for Assad to step down and said Wednesday that “the bloodshed in Syria and the humanitarian crisis that has unfolded must be stopped.” Morsi, an Islamist and key member of the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood, opened his remarks to the U.N. General Assembly by celebrating himself as Egypt’s first democratically elected leader who was swept into of fice after what he called a “great, peaceful revolution” that overthrew Hosni Mubarak. He then quickly inserted himself into the thorniest issues in the Middle East, demanding that the United Nations grant membership to the Palestinians, with or without a peace agreement with Israel. The Palestinians are expected to again ask for U.N. recognition and formally make application to the world body in November, after the U.S. presidential election. President Barack Obama said when the Pales-
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Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi addresses United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday.
tinians sought recognition last year that Washington would block the move until there was a peace deal with Israel. The focus of IsraeliPalestinian negotiations, which
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Quitting driving: Families key; docs have role
WASHINGTON (AP) — Families may have to watch for dings in the car and plead with an older driver to give up the keys — but there’s new evidence that doctors could have more of an influence on one of the most wrenching decisions facing a rapidly aging population. A large study from Canada found that when doctors war n patients, and tell driving authorities, that the older folks may be medically unfit to be on the road, there’s a drop in serious crash injuries among those drivers. The study, in Thursday’s
New England Jour nal of Medicine, couldn’t tell if the improvement was because those patients drove less, or drove more carefully once the doctors pointed out the risk. But as the number of older drivers surges, it raises the question of how families and doctors could be working together to determine if and when age-related health problems — from arthritis to frailty to Alzheimer’s disease — are bad enough to impair driving. Often, families are making that tough choice between safety and inde-
pendence on their own. By one U.S. estimate, about 600,000 older drivers a year quit because of health conditions. The problem: There are no clear-cut guidelines to tell who really needs to — and given the lack of transportation options in much of the country, quitting too soon can be detrimental for someone who might have functioned well for several more years. It’s never an easy discussion. Unlike in most of the U.S., doctors in much of See AGING, Page A2