By S. Derrickson Moore, Las Cruces Sun-News, N.M. Jul. 3--ROSWELL --You can have an out-of-this-world experience -- and maybe even get the chance to appear on national TV -- at Roswell's UFO Festival today through Monday.

ROSWELL, N.M. - Ross Savedra fought aliens to rescue his girlfriend, then popped the question in an out-of-this-world proposal. Savedra, 32, staged his elaborate proposal Sunday afternoon for Ariana Ash, 23, with the help for family members and Roswell's UFO Museum.

The sports editor of the Roswell Daily Record has been fired for fabricating part of a news story about a golf tournament in which he quoted a fictional character from the movie "Caddyshack." In Colorado, a newspaper dropped a contributor's weekly column after an author in California alleged he had lifted whole passages from her book.