TODAY'S TOP STORIES: It's confirmed. Mountain lion killed man.
It’s been confirmed that a mountain lion killed a man who’s body was found near his home last week in southwestern New Mexico. This is only the second killing in New Mexico of a human by a mountain lion in modern history, with the first being the 1974 death of a young boy in Arroyo Seco, just north of Taos. Rick Winslow, a Game and Fish large carnivore biologist, told Rene Romo of the Albuquerque Journal that such killings by mountain lions are uncommon, but that “Attacks by wildlife may become more frequent as our growing population expands into the urban-wildland interface.’’
John Fleck reports for the Albuquerque Journal that most of Albuquerque didn’t curtail driving by much in April when gas prices were rapidly rising. At the same time, though, the ABQRide bus system saw an additional 2,000 riders per day in April. Still waiting on May data, Fleck looked to Ruben Baca, of the New Mexico Petroleum Marketers Association, for data on gasoline sales—reports in recent weeks from members of the association suggest sales are down five to ten percent in the state’s urban areas compared to this time last year.
Steve Terrell writes for the Santa Fe New Mexican that Steve Pearce is “demanding” that Tom Udall debate him pronto on energy issues, but is being put off by the Udall campaign until the fall. Pearce characterizes Udall as an “extreme environmentalist” while Udall’s campaign says the only thing Pearce ever offers as a solution to the energy crisis is to “drill, drill, drill.” Brian Sanderoff says its a smart move for Pearce, who is behind in the polls and as well as campaign cash, to try to get out in front of the presidential campaign on an issue he feels he can exploit. Likewise, he tells Terrell, it’s smart for Udall, who is way ahead in the polls, to put him off until the Fall, thereby keeping the campaign relatively quiet.
The head of the El Paso sector DEA told Jose Medina of the Las Cruces Sun-News that a drug cartel hit list with names of Americans north of the border may just be a rumor. “Nobody has substantiated it. In other words, if it does exist, it hasn’t gotten to us yet,” John “Jack” Riley, special agent in charge for the El Paso DEA office, told the Sun-News.
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