…3/7-09: new, low prices

45º in ABQ; 53% humidity at 6A…Winter Weather Advisories; twenty children busted for buying, selling and using cocaine, most were Las Cruces students, one was on probation; drunk driver who has been freed is on parole has to get a job a pay restitution, $135 per month, wear an ankle brace & a GPS tracker, plus perform fifty hours of community service; NE Heights killer has still not been captured; did science teacher grabbed a student, ripped the boy’s shirt, and injured the youngster; the smash & grab robber who struck ‘big box’ stores was sentenced to fifteen years in jail; a tribute to Pink Floyd at Route 66 Casino; Blowing Dust which could reach 55 mph in most of NM; snow showers, up to one foot, in N NM & T’storms near Santa Fe; drunk woman who was headed for jail, had consumed more than half a bottle of Southern Comfort, killed her biological children in a car crash: this was the driver’s fourth DUI, then left the scene of the crime; Brad made an Apple Cobbler; ‘more than one way to eat meat’; nearly 50K are out of work in NM; Schmidley gave head coach a hefty raise of $91K before the hiring & salary freeze, so his wages would be ‘competitive’; could a driver who stopped at the Ninety-Eighth at Central truck stop, near I-40 could be linked to the W Mesa murders; PM R/R was crowded, would not pick up riders at San Mateo; no outdoor burning across NM; dead body identified by tattoos; traffic on a SunPort bridge at I-25 came to a halt as a steal plate covering an expansion joint fell off; a 10% utility price hike?; ‘handmade works of art you can walk on’; cedar pollen is very high; build a better cock fighter, then ship them to MX; singers performing in the Duke City that are considered ‘NATL treasures’ in Africa; Evelyn also believes in “don’t tempt fate” philosophy; suburb: a word not used in NM; Duke City woman jailed for abusing her four children; parts of N NM received almost a foot of snow; body found in the Bosque, near the Rio Grande;

Obama approves embryonic stem cell research, frees FED money; airplane has crashed off S CA coast, details are scarce during the AM; near Lubbock five people, three of them children, were killed in collision involving a car & an SUV; build a better Plavix?; ‘everything is coming up ‘Watchmen’; at a cost of $100 million to make; one person thinks ‘Watchmen’ will be the first flop of 2009; two professional film critics think the movie is worth seeing, but its glory will fade soon, and it will make money in DVD sales; people should spend twenty minutes a day outside, in the sun; two contestants injured while training for ‘Dancing with the Stars’; OH man who murdered his family, killed himself; MX giving CO books to learn Spanish; four arrested, part of a NV who want to overthrow the GOVT; female skier killed by avalanche in central ID; 650K jobs lost during February; did America ‘promote’ inter-racial marriages?; 12.5 million people are unemployed, 500K in retail sales; man flashed himself in front of two young girls at O’Fallon lemonade stand; after 60 years, Circuit City is closing…its HQ was located in Richmond, VA; number of jobless could reach 11.3%, if the number of people who have given up looking for work is included; with the new state budget approved, CA can pay its citizens again; gas explosion leveled three Bozeman buildings; CA bookkeeper embezzled almost $10 million; there is a foreclosure every thirteen seconds;

satellite seeking parallel Earths; eight people killed in PAK car blast; tower construction around the world are facing hard times; Spain records its fifth Mad Cow Disease; American male was one of three victims found beheaded in MX; try to talk to the Taliban…or at least elements of the militant, those that are less radical;