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Las Cruces – Every Monday at 7:51am, Fred Martino speaks with Las Cruces Sun News Business Editor Brook Stockberger.

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Las Cruces, NM – The Associated Students of New Mexico State University is in a heated debate over funding trips for humanitarian efforts.
KRWG's Melissa Aguilera reports.

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Texas – Gov. Rick Perry says special teams of Texas Rangers supported by about 200 Texas National Guard members will be deployed to the Mexican border to deal with increasing violence there because the federal government has failed to address the problems.

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New Mexico – Legislators say spending cuts of at least 4 percent may be needed to plug a more than $400 million hole in the state budget.

Lawmakers and officials in Gov. Bill Richardson's administration held a closed-door meeting Thursday to consider how to solve a projected budget deficit this year.

The chairman of a House budget committee, Rep. Henry Kiki Saavedra, says legislators and the administration disagree over spending cuts.

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New Mexico – The Forest Service has received $22 million in federal stimulus funds for 38 New Mexico projects.

Regional Forester Corbin Newman says projects have included roads and trails maintenance, recreation facility improvements, watershed restoration, abandoned mine cleanup and hazardous fuel treatments.

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New Mexico – It's time again for the biggest show in New Mexico.

The State Fair opens its 16-day run in Albuquerque for the 71st year. Gov. Bill Richardson and other dignitaries will attend the opening ceremony Friday morning at the remodeled Villa Hispana.

State Fair commission chairman Luke Otero is inviting all New Mexico residents to attend.

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Las Cruces, NM – This week New Mexico State University hosted a statewide Graduation Summit sponsored by Lt. Governor Diane Denish. As KRWG's Vanessa Dabovich reports Denish and other state legislators say they hope the conference will help to decrease the high school dropout rate in New Mexico.

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Las Cruces – Fred Martino speaks with Kristie Arslan, Executive Director of the National Association of the Self-Employed. The group says health care reform legislation is missing a key element--equal treatment for the self-employed, who currently do not receive a tax deduction for health insurance costs.

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Texas – A new report from a nonpartisan think tank urges U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to keep better records about its detention system.

The report is being released Thursday by the Washington-based Migration Policy Institute.

It says there are gaps in information kept about the more than 33,000 people in the system that holds immigrants awaiting court hearings or deportation.

The gaps include whether a detainee is dangerous or might have a claim to U.S. citizenship.

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El Paso – Authorities have identified a body found in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, with its severed arms crossed and placed on its chest as a Texas man kidnapped from his El Paso-area home.

The El Paso County Sheriff's Department says 30-year-old Sergio Saucedo was abducted from his Horizon City house Sept. 3. His mutilated body was found Tuesday in the Mexican border city across the Rio Grande.

Sheriff's spokesman Jesse Tovar says it's apparent that the spillover of the drug violence plaguing Juarez and much of Mexico has happened.