News Headlines for Alcalde, 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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Early settlers pushed into New Mexico (Clovis News Journal)
Editor’s Note: This is the second of three articles about two of Roosevelt County’s earliest settlers, Doak Good and Jim Newman. One of the biggest land deals in United States history helped bring about the settlement of the barren plains of Eastern New Mexico.

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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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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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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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New Mexico accused of violating 'free exercise' of religion (WorldNetDaily)
The state of New Mexico is being accused of violating the U.S. Constitution's guarantee of "free exercise" of religion because of a ruling that a Christian husband-and-wife photography team must pay a $6,600 penalty for refusing to shoot pictures at a same-sex "commitment" ceremony.

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Flash Food Warning Issued For Lincoln County, North Central New Mexico (KOAT Albuquerque)
The National Weather Service in Albuquerque has issued a flash flood warning for central Lincoln County in central New Mexico until 2:30 p.m. At 12:31 p.m. law enforcement officials reported flash flooding from a thunderstorm near Nogal or about 14 miles east of Carrizozo. The storm producing flash flooding was nearly stationary.

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