News Headlines for Albuquerque, New Mexico

New Mexico State point guard transfers to Wyoming (Sports Illustrated)
Wyoming has filled its final scholarship position of the 2008-09 recruiting class with the addition of New Mexico State transfer JayDee Luster.

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Source: New Mexico officer went to El Paso seeking information on Apache Homelands Casino poker tournament (Las Cruces Sun-News)
LAS CRUCES — A uniformed officer with the state of New Mexico visited an El Paso pueblo two weeks ago, seeking information about participants in a poker tournament hosted last month by the Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma, said one pueblo official.

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Mexico City examined in 'First Stop in the New World' (San Francisco Chronicle)
First Stop in the New World Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century By David Lida Riverhead; 336 pages; $25.95 You might expect a boosterish screed, a mocking polemic or at least globalization theory from so grandiosely titled a book. But in "First Stop...

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Booknotes: New Mexico writer examines unsolved murder (El Paso Times)
NM writer examines unsolved murder - University of New Mexico Press author Paula Moore is scheduled to sign copies of her book "Cricket in the Web" at 2 p.m.

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Network1 opens new office - Mexico (Business News Americas)
Brazilian product distributor Network1 International has launched operations in Mexico through an office led by the new general director and partner Ignacio Leñero, InfoChannel reported.

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New Mexico Man Kills Father 7/4/08 CBS 7 Staff July 4, 2008 (CBS 7 West Texas)
A New Mexico man is killed after his son shot him in the head during a domestic dispute. Just before 11 o’clock last night, Lovington police responded to a 911call in the 1300 block of West Avenue.

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Gibbons teen named Alberta’s High School Rodeo Queen Will compete for national rodeo queen title in New Mexico (Fort Saskatchewan Record)
A Gibbons teen recently named Alberta’s high school rodeo queen by the Alberta High School Rodeo Association (AHSRA) is heading down south later this month to compete in the Queen Pageant at the National High School Finals Rodeo in New Mexico.

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New Mexico's back-to-school tax holiday is Aug. 1-3 (2 p.m.) (Las Cruces Sun-News)
SANTA FE - The fourth annual Back-to-School Tax Holiday will be from Aug. 1-3 in New Mexico. Families could save as much as $47 in taxes if they spend $600 on school clothes, and there are added savings for computer purchases and other school supplies.

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Produce From Mexico To Be Inspected For Salmonella (Central Florida News 13)
As the salmonella outbreak grows, new regulations begin Monday for certain produce shipped out of Mexico.

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Beef recall expands into New Mexico (Alamogordo Daily News)
SANTA FE (AP) A nationwide recall of certain ground beef because of fears of E. coli contamination expanded Thursday to New Mexico.

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