TODAY'S TOP STORIES
Two Texas women were seriously wounded by gunfire while driving in Juarez, and a Chihuahua state investigator became the fourth police officer killed in three days, as the death toll from drug violence in this border city rose to 410 for the year, the Las Cruces Sun-News.
Parents were camped out in front of Albuquerque schools early Friday morning in an attempt to save hundreds of dollars on summer child care by securing their children spots in summer recreation programs, KOAT Channel 7 reports.
Meanwhile, the city of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County report a shortage of lifeguards, delaying opening of some pools, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
A hundred head of longhorn cattle were to be herded through the city of Roswell Friday as the kick-off event to Old Chisum Days, the Roswell Daily Record reports. This is the second year the Chaves County Rodeo Associaiton has hosted the three-day event, named after 19th century trail boss and former resident John Chisum. Festivities include tours of Chisum's historic Jinglebob Ranch (so named because the ears on Chisum's cattle were split, making the bobbing of the lower ear readily recognizable as Chisum's "brand" during trail drives).
The Las Cruces paper also reports that former Gov. Garrey Carruthers is one of five candidates being considered in a closed session this morning by the New Mexico State University Board of Regents as replacement for NMSU President Mike Martin, who has accepted a job in Baton Rouge, La. Carruthers is currently dean of the university's business college.
A ghost story involving a severed arm, based partly in fact, is luring trespassers to an abandoned amusement park nicknamed "Tragic Landing" in East El Paso County, according to another story in the Sun-News.
A meadow jumping mouse native to New Mexico -- and the only mammal known to have 18 teeth -- is at the center of a controversy between ranchers, farmers and the state Department of Game and Fish, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports. A state district judge has put a state commission recovery plan for the rodent on hold, saying the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy district, made up of thousands of irrigators, hadn't had proper notice of the proposal.
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Since this round-up was posted, Ashley Meeks of the Las Cruces Sun-News has reported that Garrey Carruthers is out and James L. McDonough is in as New Mexico State University’s interim president, selected on a 4-1 vote by the regents. Read the whole story in the Sun-News at http://www.lcsun-news.com/news/ci_9502506.