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VOTERS DEDICATED DESPITE ODDS WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s always grousing about the many people who don’t bother to vote. But look at it the other way: An estimated 133 million Americans will cast ballots in Tuesday’s election. ... - PAGE A3
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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at a Virginia campaign rally at The Patriot Center, George Mason University, in Fairfax, Va., Monday.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The White House the prize, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney raced through a final full day of campaigning on Monday through Ohio and other battleground states holding the keys to victory in a
tight race. Both promised brighter days ahead for a nation still struggling with a sluggish economy and high joblessness. “Our work is not done yet,” Obama told a cheering crowd of nearly 20,000 in chilly Madison, Wis., imploring his audience to give him another four years. Romney projected optimism as he neared the end of his six-year quest for the presidency. “If you believe we can do better. If you believe America should be on a better course. If you’re tired of being tired ... then I ask you to vote for real change,” he said in a Virginia suburb of the nation’s capital. With many of the late polls in key states tilting slightly against him, he decided to campaign on Election Day in Ohio and Pennsylvania, where he and Republicans made a big, late push. The presidency aside, there are 33 Senate seats on the ballot Tuesday, and according to one Republican official, a growing sense of resignation among his party’s rank and file that Democrats will hold their majority. The situation was reversed in the
House, where Democrats made no claims they were on the verge of victory in pursuit of the 25 seats they need to gain control. National opinion polls in the presidential race made the popular vote a virtual tie. In state-by-state surveys, it appeared Obama held small advantages in Nevada, Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin — enough to deliver a second term if they endured, but not so significant that they could withstand an Election Day surge by Romney supporters. Both men appealed to an ever smaller universe of undecided voters. More than 30 million absentee or early ballots have been cast, including in excess of 3 million in Florida. The state also had a legal controversy, in the form of a Democratic lawsuit seeking an extension of time for pre-Election Day voting. There were other concerns, logistical rather than legal. Officials in one part of New Jersey delivered voting equipment to emergency shelters so voters displaced by Superstorm Sandy last week could cast ballots. New York City made arrangements for shut-
Housing for Sandy’s victims?
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Residents line up for bundles of food at an American Red Cross station in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, Monday, in New York.
CINCINNATI (AP) — Peyton Manning had no trouble clearing those two interceptions out of his head and leading a fourth-quarter comeback. “I’ve been there before,” the four-time MVP said. And no one’s ever been better at it. - PAGE B1
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BRONCOS BEAT CINCY
November 6, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) — Government leaders are turning their attention to the next crisis unfolding in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy: finding housing for potentially tens of thousands of people left homeless. The Federal Emergency Management Agency said it has already dispensed close to $200 million in emergency housing assistance and has put 34,000 people in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area up in hotels and motels.
But local, state and federal officials have yet to lay out a specific, comprehensive plan for finding them long-term places to live, even as cold weather sets in. And given the scarcity and high cost of housing in the metropolitan area and the lack of open space, it could prove a monumental undertaking. For example, can enough vacant apartments be found? Will the task involve huge, Hurricane Katrina-style encampments of trailer homes? And if so, where will
authorities put the trailers? In stadiums? Parks? Authorities cannot answer those questions yet. “It’s not going to be a simple task. It’s going to be one of the most complicated and long-term recovery efforts in U.S. history,” said Mark Merritt, president of Witt Associates, a Washington crisis management consulting firm founded by former FEMA director James Lee Witt. Tactics that FEMA used in
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President Barack Obama at a campaign event at the Fifth Third Arena on the University of Cincinnati campus, Sunday, in Cincinnati.
tle buses to provide transportation for some in hard-hit areas unable to reach their polling places.
Judging from the long early voting lines in some places and the comments made in others, the votSee CAMPAIGN, Page A2
About one-third of NM voters have cast ballots SANTA FE (AP) — Candidates across New Mexico made last-minute appeals to voters Monday, but more than a third of the state’s electorate already had cast ballots on the eve of Election Day. According to the secretary of state’s office, nearly 453,000 New Mexicans had taken advantage of early and absentee voting as of Monday. Democrats accounted for about 219,400 of those voters, or 48 percent, and about 167,500 or 37 percent were Republicans. Nearly 53,000 votes had been cast by independents unaffiliated with a party and more than 12,000 were by voters registered with other parties, such as Libertarians and Greens. In New Mexico, 47 percent of registered voters are Democrats and 32 percent are Republicans. With polls set to open at 7 a.m. Tuesday, candidates and political parties focused on making certain their supporters participated in an election that will decide who controls the White House and Congress, as well as the Legislature and county offices across New Mexico. Republican Gov. Susana Martinez traveled the state with U.S. Senate candidate Heather Wilson, with stops scheduled in Santa Fe, Clovis, Hobbs, Las Cruces, Farmington and Albuquerque. “We have to make sure everybody votes because every vote counts,” Martinez said at a chilly, early morning rally outside the GOP campaign headquarters in Santa Fe. Democrats made similar efforts to woo voters and encourage them to go to the polls. Democratic Sen. Tom Udall joined with Senate nominee Martin Heinrich and congressional candidate Michelle Lujan Grisham for a midday rally targeting students at the University of New Mexico. See VOTING, Page A2
Roswell woman arrested for sex abuse Syrian chaos deepens as JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER
A Roswell woman, Beverly Kirkpatrick, 42, was arrested in Artesia, Monday, at Park Junior High School where she works as a science teacher. Numerous charges were filed against her, including five counts of criminal sexual penetration of a minor under the age of 13, five counts of kidnapping and five contributing to the delinquency of a minor, on Friday in Clovis Magistrate Court. The incidents took place out of state in Davenport, Wash. The Sheriff’s Department of Lincoln County, Washington, contacted the Clovis Police who in turn contacted Artesia to make the arrest. According to the affidavit of criminal complaint, the incidents occurred when the victim was a 6-year-old child in foster care with Kirkpatrick and her husband Richard Glascoe. It was the child’s adoptive mother who reported the abuse to the police after the victim told his adoptive mother he was forced at gun point, handcuffed to a wall and threat-
ened by Glascoe. The record states the child was forced to watch as Glascoe abused a 1-year-old girl. At the time, Glascoe and Kirkpatrick were fostering seven children. “The couple were together when the incidents occurred. The charges stem from Clovis and took place between May 7, 2003, and Dec. 28, 2008,” said Sgt. Linell Smith, spokesman for APD. “We believe there were multiple victims of these acts.” The APD was contacted later by Clovis, and patrol and school resource officers were sent to apprehend Kirkpatrick. “Richard Glascoe is currently incarcerated on similar charges,” Smith said. The teacher divorced her husband and assumed a previous name. According to New Mexico Court Case Lookup, Glascoe pleaded guilty to a number of charges in several different lawsuits filed in Clovis, with one case presenting 15 charges of criminal sexual penetration of a minor and criminal sexual contact. In another case heard in 2009, he had been charged with nine counts of CSP and CSC.
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rebels, Palestinians fight
BEIRUT (AP) — New chaos engulfed Syria’s civil war as Palestinian supporters and opponents of the embattled regime were swept up Monday in intense fighting in Damascus, while rival rebel groups clashed over control of a Turkish border crossing.
The rare infighting — accompanied by car bombs, airstrikes and artillery shells that killed or maimed dozens of people — heightened fears that if Syrian President Bashar Assad falls, the disparate factions battling the regime will turn on each other.
Beverly Kirkpatrick
Overall, he was named in four cases with more than one charge of CSC/CSP filed during the period of 2007 and 2009. In one, he was accused of intimidation and retaliation of a witness. “Glascoe either pleaded guilty, no contest or was found guilty of the charges,” Smith said. Smith urged members of the public to contact detectives at APD (575-746-500) if they had been victims or witnesses to any other crimes. “Our purpose in releasing this information is not to embarrass the school district, but to find any other potential victims,” said Smith.
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A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car near an army checkpoint in Hama province, killing 50 soldiers in one of the deadliest single attacks targeting proAssad troops in the 19-month uprising, according to activists. Eleven civilians died when a bomb exploded in a central Damascus neighborhood, state media said, and activists reported at least 20 rebels killed in an air raid on the northern town of Harem. “It’s the worst-case scenario many feared in Syria,” said Fawaz Gerges, director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics. “It’s an all-out war.”
The fighting in the capital of Damascus was some of the worst since July, when rebels took over several neighborhoods, only to be bombed out by regime forces days later. Shortly after those battles, rebels moved on Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, and it has become a major front in the civil war since then. The attacks on the two main cities have demonstrated new organization and capabilities of rebel forces as well as a determination to press their uprising despite the deaths of more than 36,000 people in almost 20 months of fighting.
When Syria’s unrest began in March 2011, the country’s half-million Palestinians struggled to stay on the sidelines. But in recent months, many Palestinians started supporting the uprising although they insisted the opposition to the regime should be peaceful.