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  • Topes Notes 05-18-12

    Albuquerque blasted in series opener Thursday night
    A few days ago, the Albuquerque Isotopes were on a roll, but since then they’ve lost three straight contests, including being on the wrong end of a waxing to start a long homestand.
    The Isotopes were thumped by the Sacramento River Cats 16-5 at Isotopes Park Thursday. The River Cats pounded out 18 hits and scored 11 times in the first three innings to cruise to the win.
    Unfortunately for the Isotopes, the River Cats are expecting slugger Manny Ramirez to join the team this weekend as Ramirez starts a rehab assignment.

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  • Local results from soccer league play

    Here are the results for Los Alamos Football Club teams from Week 8 of Duke City Soccer League play:

    On the girls side, U11 Hotshots earned a 2-1 win over the NM Rush Swoosh. The defense of Kaitlin McGrane, Anna Rose Matuszak, Lauren Stubben and Shelly Doyle was solid.
    The midfield was controlled by Amy Littleton, Anna Lemke, Paulina Burnside, and Marie Lee. Alyssa Parker, Kaya Krantz, and Leah Wolfsburg used creative combination plays to create scoring opportunities.
    Wolfsburg scored the first goal off an assist from Littleton, while Parker scored the second goal on a left-footed shot to the far post.

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  • Burnside is off by just 1 second Tuesday

    Paulina Burnside just missed out on a perfect prediction at this week’s Atomic City Roadrunners’ Pace Race.
    This week’s race was Tuesday. It was run on the trails near Guaje Pines Cemetery.
    Burnside was the top predictor Tuesday, missing her finish time by just one second. Her prediction was one of several that came within a 10-second differential. Other top predictions on Tuesday were made by Emily Pittman (3 seconds), Nickol Strother (4 seconds), Nathan Burnside (5 seconds) and Lynn Bjorklund (8 seconds).
    The fastest finisher on the 1-mile course was Bob Weeks, who had a finish time of 13:52. Inez Ross finished in 16:03.

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  • Arizona Fire Covers 12 Square Miles

    Officials in Arizona expect wind to keep spreading north of Phoenix. The fire has already burned 12 square miles.

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  • Today in History for May 18th
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  • New Military pass for parks

    The National Park Service announced that on May 19,  Armed Forces Day,

    they will begin issuing an annual pass offering free entrance to all 397

    National Park Service areas for active duty military members and their

    dependents. This military version of the America the Beautiful National

    Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass also permits free entrance to

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  • Weekend eclipse photos?

    Tell us about your eclipse experience and send us your eclipse photos to lanews@lamonitor.com.

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  • Udall to speak in LA Friday

    On Friday, U.S. Senator Tom Udall will speak at the groundbreaking ceremony for the New Mexico Consortium (NMC) Biological Research Laboratory in Los Alamos.
     
    Construction of the laboratory, and the ensuing research, is the product of a partnership from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos County and NMC.
     

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  • Census: Minorities Now Surpass Whites in Births

    For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady immigration growth that is now slowing.

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  • LA Urgent Care founder arrested for patronizing prostitute

    Dr. Richard Lieberman, the founder and medical director of New Mexico MedWorks, Urgent Care Santa Fe, Los Alamos Urgent Care and Valley First Care in Española, was arrested in Albuquerque Wednesday after being caught in a compromising situation.

    According to the criminal complaint, Lieberman, whose practice is primarily in Santa Fe, allegedly was spotted in his black BMW SUV on Central Avenue in Albuquerque where he was seen by detectives picking up a prostitute around 11:30 a.m. Detectives say they saw Lieberman and the woman, who was identified as Josalane Harrison allegedly snorting from a nasal spray bottle at a traffic light.

    Police followed the couple to the woman’s apartment complex.

    Detectives questioned them.

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