Artesia News

Artesians band together to protest NMEIB proposal

Sep 1

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Artesia citizen David Harris, right, voices his opposition to a proposal by the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (NMEIB) to Felicia Orth, NMEIB hearing officer, during a public hearing held at the Artesia Center today. Artesians were nearly-unanimous in their opposition to the proposal, which is aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions by oil producers and other industries by three percent annually, beginning in 2012. Jason Watkins photo)

By ASHLEY TRUJILLO
Daily Press Staff Writer

Concerned Artesia citizens, oil and gas industry employees and area farmers poured into the Artesia Center Tuesday morning, voicing a nearly-unanimous opposition to a pair of proposals for a statewide cap on greenhouse gas emissions (GGHs). Read the rest of this entry »

Some bunker down, some flee as Earl approaches US

Sep 3

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This satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Earl taken Friday Sept. 3, 2010 at 12:01 a.m. EDT. Hurricane Earl was downgraded to a Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds near 105 mph. National Weather Service meteorologist Hal Austin said the eye of the hurricane was expected to get as close as 55 miles east of the Outer Banks about 2 a.m. Friday. (AP Photo/NOAA

BUXTON, N.C. (AP) — Hurricane Earl’s center has passed east of Cape Hatteras on North Carolina’s coast as the storm’s powerful gusts and driving rains churned over the Outer Banks and is being felt in southeastern Virginia.

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Tags: Accidents and disasters, Business, Disaster planning and response, Emergency management, General news, Government and politics, Industrial products and services, Industries, MIKE BAKER, Natural disasters, Norfolk, North America, North Carolina, State governments, Storms, United States, Virginia, Weather

Police: Attack on Pakistan minority mosque kills 1

Sep 3

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide attack on a mosque belonging to a minority sect killed at least one person and wounded several others in northwest Pakistan on Friday, police said.

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Tags: Asia, General news, Lahore, Pakistan, RIAZ KHAN, South Asia, Terrorism, War and unrest

Gates visits US forces in southern Afghanistan

Sep 3

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U.S. Marines in the background provide security as a Marine and a U.S. Army Task Force Shadow flight medic, right, rush a Marine wounded in an explosive attack across a field to a medevac helicopter, west of Lashkar Gah, in southern Afghanistan Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. Aeromedical teams with the 101st Airborne's Task Force Destiny provide the fast medical evacuation of those wounded throughout southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

COMBAT OUTPOST SENJERAY, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he saw and heard evidence the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy is taking hold in critical Kandahar province.

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No hunting in Neb. recreation areas until Sept. 7

Sep 3

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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska Game and Parks officials want outdoorsmen to remember that hunting isn’t allowed in state recreation areas until after Labor Day.

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