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Sunday, 12 August 2007 Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney won the Iowa straw poll yesterday after receiving 31 percent or 4,516 of the 14,302 ballots cast. The Iowa straw poll, held at Iowa State University is part political rally, part summer festival, part fundraiser designed to give an early indication of Republican sentiment in the state before the caucuses. Sportsbook.com has Mitt Romney at 7 to 2 odds to become the Republican Candidate for President of the United States in 2008 after his victory on Saturday. Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee surprised the rest of the field by coming in second...

Opening the investigation into the combat death in Afghanistan of NFL defensive back Pat Tillman, Chairman Henry A. Waxman of the House Committee On Oversight and Government Reform said about fatalities there and in Iraq, Each death has its own compelling story. Each brought incalculable grief for the soldier’s family and...

The Deming Headlight reports today that illegal immigration through the Deming corridor is down sixty to sevent percent. The Border Patrol here bases that claim on their assertion that "apprehensions" are down that much in what it says "used to be the second-highest traveled in the nation."

Mexican Government & AIDS Healthcare Foundation to Partner in New Free AIDS Clinic in Cancun Sun, 15 Jul 2007 22:33:06 GMT Author : AIDS Healthcare Foundation Category : PressRelease [Editor's Note: AHF is a New York-based foundation] CANCUN, Mexico, July 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AIDS Healthcare Foundation isjoining forces with federal, state and local governmentalbodies in Mexico to partner together in a new, free AIDS clinic in Cancun, Quintana Roo-Mexico's newest community-based compre-hensive HIV/AIDS clinic- which will provide medical care and life-saving antiretroviral treatment to people living with HIV/AIDSin the region. The entire of the story

Little Luna County, New Mexico, among the top three--if not the poorest--county in the nation, is creating a cross-Mexican border health care program. The program is now in the planning stage. Don Brickner of the Deming Headlight staff covered the story locally. He characterizes the program as "binational"....