08/11/2005

News (Las Cruces Sun-News). The Las Cruces City Council unanimously approved the sale Wednesday of $33 million in gross receipts tax revenue bonds that will, in part, be used to pay for the construction of a new city hall complex and new city pools. [Yahoo! News - Search Results for Las+Cruces] 8:44:48 AM    comment []

News (Alamogordo Daily News). A flame lit by embers from the first atomic bomb, which exploded over Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, smoldered into ashes Tuesday at Trinity Site on White Sands Missile Range, the birthplace of atomic weapons. [Yahoo! News - Search Results for "WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE"] 8:43:28 AM    comment []

Richardson orders flags at half-staff in honor of Garza. SANTA FE, N.M. Governor Bill Richardson issued an executive order today that flags in New Mexico be flown at half-staff in honor of an Army Ranger from Texas who died in Afghanistan last week. [New Mexico - Topix.net] 8:42:12 AM    comment []

08.10.05 Man Thrown From Horse, Crawls 4 Days to Find Help (KVIA). EL PASO, TX. - An amazing story of survival out of Southern New Mexico, as man is thown from his horse, injured and crawls through the desert for 4 days. Leslie Jones considers himself a cowboy through, working as a ranch-hand near Cotton City (NM). [Yahoo! News - Search Results for "Southern New Mexico"] 8:40:20 AM    comment []