TODAY'S TOP STORIES: Cattle abuse
A livestock auction in eastern New Mexico has been targeted for the second time this summer by The Humane Society of the United States for alleged “gross mistreatment” of downer cattle — animals too sick to stand or move on their own, according to the Albuquerque Journal. This incident from New Mexico follows the largest beef recall in U.S. history earlier this year after secretly recorded videotape showed California meat plant workers using forklifts and electric prods on immobile animals to get them to the slaughterhouse.
In Las Cruces, five-time world champion boxer Johnny Tapia and his wife Teresa Tapia made a public plea Wednesday for the return of a championship belt and ring that were stolen from their Las Cruces home earlier in the week. The Las Cruces Sun-News story says that the Tapias are "heartbroken" over the theft. Johnny Tapia said the memorabilia had more than just monetary value because he had hoped to pass the items along to his three children. "I just want my stuff back," Tapia said.
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that after more than a decade of planning, a massive residential and commercial development project slated to be built on state land south of Santa Fe seems to be falling apart. The State Land Office confirmed Wednesday that D.R. Horton Inc. — which had planned to build 2,780 homes and nearly 2 million square feet of commercial space on 1,813 acres of state land along N.M. 14 — pulled out last week.
The story states that the collapse of the San Cristobal Village project would cost the Land Office a total of about $6 million in potential revenue that would have been generated by the sale or lease of the homes and business that were to have been built.
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