TODAY'S TOP STORIES: Hit list raises concern
Not surprisingly, a report of a Mexican drug cartel hit list was the most e-mailed story for the Las Cruces Sun News this morning. The Luna County Sheriff would not divulge the names of the 15 to 20 people on the list, but they are said to be current or former residents of Doña Ana, Luna and El Paso counties and from as far away as Albuquerque, among other locations, the Sun News reports.
Meanwhile, Thomason Hospital in El Paso is back to normal after nearly two weeks in lockdown to protect a Mexican police official and his deputy assistant, both of whom had been brought in for treatment of gunshot wounds, the paper reports. The officers suffered the gunshot wounds in Nuevo Casas Grandes, about 150 miles southwest of El Paso in Chihuahua state.
This is the second time the hospital has been placed on heightened security for the treatment of high-level Mexican officials since the beginning of the year, the paper said..
The Albuquerque Journal reports that a judge has ruled that evidence about other public construction projects, including the district courthouse and the Metropolitan Detention Center, can come in at the public corruption trial over the Metropolitan Courthouse.
Northern New Mexico community leaders attending a briefing and rare tour at Los Alamos National Laboratory this week were assured "we're going to be here for a while," the Los Alamos Monitor reports.
Deputy Laboratory Director Jan Van Prooyen talked up the lab's positive news, while acknowledging uncertainties in “the nuclear policy direction,” “the squeeze on science,” “recapitalization of the infrastructure” and “maintaining the people pipeline” of technical expertise at the laboratory, the Monitor said.
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