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Vol. 122, No. 151 75¢ Daily / $1.25 Sunday
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IRS ALSO SCREENED LIBERAL GROUPS The Internal Revenue Service’s screening of groups seeking tax-exempt status was broader and lasted longer than has been previously disclosed, the new head of the agency acknowledged Monday. Terms including “Israel,” “Progressive” and “Occupy” were ... - PAGE A6
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Silver Fire expected to grow this week
SILVER CITY (AP) — A nearly 119-square-mile wildfire bur ning in the mountains of southern New Mexico’s Gila National Forest will likely grow larger this week due to expected hot, dry weather, fire managers said Monday. The erratic Silver Fire gained strength over the weekend with high winds as firefighters were forced to shift resources from the northern parts of the inferno where it’s expanding into Animas Canyon and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness. Crews were scheduled to construct indirect fire lines in the northwest part of the blaze and prepare to possibly start fires along the west to clear out potential fuel such as trees and brush. Close to 500 firefighters are battling the massive blaze that is still 20 percent contained. No structures have been lost. Crews have begun reduc-
ing fire fuels around the community of Cooney and started examining Hermosa where a few residents live on ranches. Officials said those communities are not directly threatened. “No one is in danger in those communities at this time,” information officer Connie Birkland told the Silver City Sun-News. “We’re just taking precautionary measures.” Early in the fire, crews at the camps in the Mimbres Valley and outside Hillsboro were using water from local wells. As the fire has grown, fire officials became worried about causing long-term effects to residents’ water supply. The crews’ water now comes from Bear Canyon Reservoir, a source they’re less likely to seriously deplete, Birkland said. Matt Reidy’s Norther n Arizona Incident Management Team also is scheduled to transfer the fire Monday to John Pierson’s New Mexico Incident Man-
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This Sunday photo released by the U.S. Forest Service shows a fire burning in southern New Mexico's Gila National Forest.
agement Team. Residents of the Mimbres Valley were expected to see more fire vehicles and some additional firefighters. Meanwhile, crews in the
Super Moon a super beauty
Pecos Wilderness continued to fight a stubbor n 6square-mile blaze that remained zero percent contained. Of ficials announced
Domino effect car wreck
• Sheriff’s Office names shooting victim • Homicide • Parents arrested for child abuse • Roswell man pleads guilty to unlawful ... • Goddard’s Aston, Gomez win silver medals
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DARCIS SHOCKS AT WIMBLEDON LONDON (AP) — Just like that, in a span of 15 days, Rafael Nadal went from French Open champion for a record eighth time to firstround Grand Slam loser for the only time in his career. Limping occasionally ... - PAGE B1
TODAY’S OBITUARIES
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INDEX
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The “Super Moon” rises Sunday evening over Roswell.
An accident at the intersection of East Second and North Main streets, around 10:30 a.m. Sunday, had quite literally a knock-on effect. A vehicle driven by 61year-old Jose Medina was traveling southbound on Main Street when it ran the red light. The driver hit a vehicle that was in the eastbound lane of Second Street. The driver either veered or the vehicle rebounded into oncoming traffic, colliding with a third and a See WRECK, Page A3
Snowden not on flight to Zimmerman portrayed as vigilante Cuba; whereabouts unclear SANFORD, Fla. (AP) — HAVANA (AP) — Confusion over the whereabouts of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden grew on Monday after a jetliner flew from Moscow to Cuba with an empty seat booked in his name. Aeroflot said earlier that Snowden had registered for the flight using his U.S. passport, which the United States recently annulled. The founder of the WikiLeaks secrets-spilling organization, Julian Assange, insisted he couldn’t go into details about where Snowden was, but said he was safe. Snowden has applied for asylum in Ecuador, Iceland and possibly other countries, Assange said. An Aeroflot representative who wouldn’t give her name told The Associated Press that Snowden didn’t board Flight SU150 to Havana, which was filled with journalists trying to track him down. Two AP journalists on the flight confirmed after it arrived Monday evening in Havana that See NSA, Page A3
TODAY’S FORECAST
HIGH .104˚ LOW ....67˚
Monday the entire Santa Fe National Forest would be closed for the protection of human health and safety as crews worked to get a handle of the wildfire.
George Zimmerman was fed up with “punks” getting away with crime and shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin “because he wanted to,” not because he had to, prosecutors argued Monday, while the neighborhood watch volunteer’s attorney said the killing was self-defense against a young man who was slamming Zimmerman’s head against the pavement. The prosecution began
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George Zimmerman waits for his defense counsel to arrive
See VIGILANTE, Page A3 in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla., Monday.
Series of bomb attacks in Iraq during Shiite annual festival kill at least 42
BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of evening bombings near markets in and around Baghdad and other blasts north of the capital killed at least 42 people and wounded dozens of others Monday in the latest eruption of bloodshed to rock Iraq.
The attacks were the latest in a wave of violence that has claimed more than 2,000 lives since the beginning of April. Militants, building on Sunni discontent with the Shiite-led government, appear to be growing stronger in central and northern Iraq. The violence came as tens
of thousands of Shiites poured into the holy city of Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, for the annual festival of ShaSee IRAQ, Page A3 AP Photo
Shiite Muslim worshippers gather at the holy shrine of Imam Abbas during the annual festival of Shabaniyah, which marks the anniversary of the birth of the ninth-century Shiite leader known as the Hidden Imam, in Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday.