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  • Texas recruiter pleads guilty

    CMI staff

    A Texas military recruiter faces up to nine years in prison after pleading guilty Friday in Albuquerque federal court to charges he drove to Clovis to solicit sex from a child. Arnold Gonzalez, 26, of Midland, Texas, a U.S. Army recruiter, was arrested May 2 in an undercover Internet sting conducted by the Curry County Sheriff. Undersheriff Wesley Waller said Gonzalez drove from Oklahoma City to Clovis to engage in sex with a person he believed was a 12-year-old girl. He was actually corresponding with sheriff's...

  • Texas recruiter pleads guilty

    CMI staff

    A Texas military recruiter faces up to nine years in prison after pleading guilty Friday in Albuquerque federal court to charges he drove to Clovis to solicit sex from a child. Arnold Gonzalez, 26, of Midland, Texas, a U.S. Army recruiter, was arrested May 2 in an undercover Internet sting conducted by the Curry County Sheriff. Undersheriff Wesley Waller said Gonzalez drove from Oklahoma City to Clovis to engage in sex with a person he believed was a 12-year-old girl. He was actually corresponding with sheriff's...

  • In search of ponies: Animal idioms hard to pin down

    Sharna Johnson CMI columnist

    "Runs like a scalded dog," the words jumped out from a column of classified advertisements. Having never seen a scalded dog run, and having never heard the phrase, the only logical conclusion to be reached was that the owner of the pickup truck in question was boasting that the truck was fast. Either that or the truck yelped and whined while it ran. It's hard to imagine where a saying such as that one originated but obviously somebody at some point saw a scalded dog run and was struck enough by the moment to turn around and p...

  • In search of ponies: Animal idioms hard to pin down

    Sharna Johnson CMI columnist

    "Runs like a scalded dog," the words jumped out from a column of classified advertisements. Having never seen a scalded dog run, and having never heard the phrase, the only logical conclusion to be reached was that the owner of the pickup truck in question was boasting that the truck was fast. Either that or the truck yelped and whined while it ran. It's hard to imagine where a saying such as that one originated but obviously somebody at some point saw a scalded dog run and was struck enough by the moment to turn around and p...

  • In search of ponies: Animal idioms hard to pin down

    Sharna Johnson CMI columnist

    "Runs like a scalded dog," the words jumped out from a column of classified advertisements. Having never seen a scalded dog run, and having never heard the phrase, the only logical conclusion to be reached was that the owner of the pickup truck in question was boasting that the truck was fast. Either that or the truck yelped and whined while it ran. It's hard to imagine where a saying such as that one originated but obviously somebody at some point saw a scalded dog run and was struck enough by the moment to turn around and p...

  • McGee: Take an attorney's advice

    Grant McGee CMI columnist

    So I'm kickin' back in my recliner at The Stucco Hacienda, watching the TV, when one of those ads comes on for a lawyer. You know the ones: "CALL ME IF YOU NEED SOMEONE TO 'KICK REAR AND TAKE NAMES IN COURT FOR YOU." Well, it doesn't actually say that, but you get the idea. How do you know this lawyer is all that and a bag of chips just based on a TV ad? I thought back over the years about trying to find a good lawyer. There's always a family friend if you still live in the home town. But there was this one time I thought I...

  • McGee: Take an attorney's advice

    Grant McGee CMI columnist

    So I'm kickin' back in my recliner at The Stucco Hacienda, watching the TV, when one of those ads comes on for a lawyer. You know the ones: "CALL ME IF YOU NEED SOMEONE TO 'KICK REAR AND TAKE NAMES IN COURT FOR YOU." Well, it doesn't actually say that, but you get the idea. How do you know this lawyer is all that and a bag of chips just based on a TV ad? I thought back over the years about trying to find a good lawyer. There's always a family friend if you still live in the home town. But there was this one time I thought I...

  • Twelve dead, 50 injured in Colorado shooting

    Eyewitness Jacob Stevens, 18 Hugs his mother Tammi Stevens AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A gunman in a gas mask barged into a crowded Denver-area theater during a midnight premiere of the Batman movie on Friday, hurled a gas canister and then opened fire, killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others in one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history. When the gas began to spread, some moviegoers thought it was a stunt that was part of the "The Dark Knight Rises," one of the most highly anticipated films of the s...

  • Twelve dead, 50 injured in Colorado shooting

    Eyewitness Jacob Stevens, 18 Hugs his mother Tammi Stevens AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A gunman in a gas mask barged into a crowded Denver-area theater during a midnight premiere of the Batman movie on Friday, hurled a gas canister and then opened fire, killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others in one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history. When the gas began to spread, some moviegoers thought it was a stunt that was part of the "The Dark Knight Rises," one of the most highly anticipated films of the s...

  • Witnesses recount Colorado shootings

    Judy Goos, center left, hugs her daughter's friend, Isaiah Bow, 20, while eyewitnesses Emma Goos, 19, left, and Terrell Wallin, 20,right (AP photo/Barry Gutierrez) AURORA, Colo. (AP) — An eager audience forgoing sleep to take in the midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises" instead were witnesses Friday to a bloody mass shooting at a suburban Denver movie theater. Police said a man clad in black threw a canister that spewed smoke before he opened fire.Witnesses said that a...