General demoted for sexual harassment at Tinker AFB
Brigadier general Robert T. Newell was reduced to colonel after an Air Force inquiry found inappropriate conduct with a female subordinate. The case involved two embraces while pursuing intimate relations and was tied to activities at Tinker Air Force Base. He will retire voluntarily and did not appeal the ruling.
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Oklahoma City
Air Force
Robert T. Newell
Joe LaMarca
Air Combat Command
Langley Air Force Base
Ken Ellis
552Nd Air Control Wing
Tinker Air Force Base
Newell
Ellis
LaMarca
Tinker
Weather forecast Friday with mild warmth and winds
Friday brings partly cloudy skies and warmer air with south to southwest winds of 10 to 20 mph by midday. Friday night and Saturday remain partly cloudy with a cooler day Saturday. highs near 69 and lows around 35.
Rhino shot after zoo breakout
Zookeepers shot and killed a rhinoceros after it escaped its enclosure crossed a highway and charged a veterinarian who hoped to tranquilize it. In a separate item on Page 11, the Lady Rockets won their tournament opener.
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Lady Rockets
County Rejects Local Offer to Buy ENMMC
Chaves County Commission will continue bidding for Eastern New Mexico Medical Center despite a local offer from ENMMC Board of Trustees. County Manager Quintana said the proposal was incomplete and unacceptable and the county will hire Cain Brothers to solicit bidders starting Jan. 8. Local concerns about process and local control were voiced by Commissioner Eloy Ortega.
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Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
Chaves
Cain Brothers
Quintana
Eloy Ortega
Commission
Ortega
Roswell cleanup urges proper disposal of Christmas trash
Roswell residents are asked to place wrapping paper in regular bins and stack excess trash by fences to avoid hindering pickup. Extra bags will be collected by rear loading trucks over the next two weeks. Christmas trees will be mulched through Keep Roswell Beautiful and the sanitation department, now in its eighth year, recycling about 1,000 trees annually.
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Roswell
Roswell Beautiful
Tom
Rice
Sanitation Department
Sanitation
Gailanne Dill
KRB
Ancient bowl at UFO Museum linked to extraterrestrials
The International UFO Museum and Research Center hosts an exhibit on ancient cultures and contact with intelligent life. A new artifact, a 600-year-old Equator bowl on loan from Stephen E. LaChapelle of Worldtel Interactive, features six figures with space helmet like heads, fueling the debate on prehistoric alien contact.
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Deon Crosby
International Ufo Museum and Research Center
Crosby
Stephen E. LaChapelle
Worldtel Interactive Inc
Santa Monica
Calif
Equator
LaChapelle
Mike Pettit
Stephen LaChapelle
Califf
Roswell
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Tim Fuller
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New Mexico
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Abby
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Islas
Rhino
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