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Vol. 121, No. 245 75¢ Daily / $1.25 Sunday
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It’ll cost another penny to mail a letter next year. The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that it will raise postage rates on Jan. 27, including a 1-cent increase in the cost of first-class mail to 46 cents. It also will introduce a new global “forever” stamp, allowing customers to ... - PAGE A6
October 12, 2012
Biden, Ryan at each other on everything DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — At odds early and often, Joe Biden and Republican Paul R yan squabbled over the economy, taxes, Medicare and more Thursday night in a contentious, interruption-filled debate. “That is a bunch of malarkey,” the vice president retorted after a particularly tough Ryan attack on the administration’s foreign policy.
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each other,” Ryan said later to his rival, referring to Democratic pressure on Biden to make up for President Barack Obama’s listless performance in last week’s debate with Mitt Romney.
There was nothing listless this time as the 69year-old Biden sat next to the 42-year old Wisconsin congressman on a stage at Centre College in Kentucky.
Ryan said in the debate’s opening moments that U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens had been denied sufficient
security by administration officials. Stevens died in a terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11.
“Not a single thing he said is accurate,” Democrat Biden shot back. Biden and Ryan seemed primed for a showdown from their opening moments on stage, and neither seemed willing to let the other have the final word. They interrupted each other repeatedly — See DEBATE, Page A3
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Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan during the vice presidential debate, Thursday.
Council approves sidewalk repair
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INSIDE SPORTS
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Israel Nava takes his dogs, Luna and Skylar, for a run while skateboarding through Cahoon Park, Thursday morning.
COYOTES BLANK ROCKETS
In football, teams run the ball early and continue to do so in hopes of wearing a defense out during the course of the game. The same can be used in futbol and on Thursday the Roswell boys soccer team did just that in its match against Goddard. The Coyotes dominated possession early and that pressure wore out a thin Goddard defense as Roswell scored three second-half goals in a 4-0 victory. For the first 10 minutes, neither team mounted much of a push offensively, but from the 11th ... - PAGE B1
TODAY’S OBITUARIES
• Betty Jo Morgan • Baunita Mae Scott • Edwina Dale Reeves - PAGE A6
Controls failure led Gateway Brass plays at Pearson to fake NMFA audit
SANTA FE (AP) — The state’s top securities regulator said Thursday a fake audit at the New Mexico Finance Authority went undetected for months and was distributed to investors because of a complete breakdown of the agency’s management and oversight. Securities Division Director Daniel Tanaka told a legislative committee Thursday the release of the audit with misleading financial information was a “catastrophic systemic failure in the controls surrounding the audit progress.” NMFA ex-controller Greg Campbell has been indicted for securities fraud and forgery, but a legislator complained that no top execu-
tives are facing criminal charges. A grand jury declined to indict the authority’s chief operating officer. “I think the brother has taken the hit for everyone above him and I think that is so unfair,” said Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton, D-Albuquerque. Campbell and Stapleton are African-American. She described Campbell as the “fall guy” and said others should lose their jobs or be charged. As controller, Campbell was responsible for accounting operations at the authority. He was supervised by the chief operating officer. Regulation and Licensing See NMFA, Page A3
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A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration technician holds several pounds of Mexican meth confiscated in the St. Louis area.
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playing Wednesday in Ruidoso. USAF Band of the West, from Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, has about 45 total members in its unit, which is split into eight per for ming ensembles. Together the ensembles travel about 125,000 miles a year, providing more than 300 performances to military and civilian audiences in Texas, Arizona, New MexNoah Vernau Photo ico and Louisiana. Jerome Oddo, band U.S. Air Force Band of the West ensemble Gateway Brass superintendent, said performs at Pearson Auditorium, Thursday evening. Gateway Brass plays showcase Southwestern patriotic arrangements NOAH VERNAU Americana music at Pear- tailored specifically to the RECORD STAFF WRITER son Auditorium. ensemble’s instrumentaThe six-member brass tion, which features two U.S. Air Force Band of the West ensemble Gate- quintet made Roswell its trumpets, a euphonium, way Brass soared into second stop of a five-city Roswell, Thursday, to tour in New Mexico after
Cartels flood US with cheap meth
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City Council met Thursday night and passed initiatives that will keep Roswell beautiful and entertained. The New Mexico Department of Transportation agreement was approved during the meeting. Funding will be supplied to repair the bricks on Main Street from approximately 11th to Alameda streets and from the Hondo River to the Spring River. The total project will cost $76,000 with $56,000 coming from the Highway Department. City Engineer Louis Najar said that the decorative brick sidewalks and the regular sidewalks in the downtown area will be
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mexican drug cartels are quietly filling the void in the nation’s drug market created by the long effort to crack down on American-made methamphetamine, flooding U.S. cities with exceptionally cheap, extraordinarily potent meth from factory-like “superlabs.” Although Mexican meth is not new to the U.S. drug trade, it now accounts for as much as 80 percent of the meth sold here, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. And it is as much as 90 percent pure, a level that offers users a faster, more intense and longerlasting high. The cartels are expanding into the U.S. meth market just as they did with heroin: developing an inexpensive, highly addictive form of the drug and sending it through the same pipeline already used to funnel marijuana and cocaine, authorities said.
See METH, Page A3
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Centennial launch
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Washington Avenue Elementary students gather for a rocket launch for The Centennial Rocket Education Project in which 100 schools across the state participated with the launches occurring at 10:30 a.m., Thursday. The educational project commemorates New Mexico’s Centennial celebration. The Department of Cultural Affairs contributed funding to purchase the rockets.