Stabbing death: 'We will never get over this'
A 45-year-old man who was beaten and stabbed to death in September was good-natured and had a talent for home improvement projects, music and making people laugh, his four sisters said Friday. But Chris Rose's brutal death at the hands of two homeless men — coupled with the fact that he lived for as long as a few hours after the men left him to die in the Santa Fe River — torments the women, they said during a sentencing hearing for the man accused of stabbing their brother to death. ...
Ex-state official disputes drunken driving arrest
The lawyer for a former state Cabinet secretary who was set to take a new job in the Obama administration this month said his client wasn't drunk at the time she was stopped. Attorney Dan Marlowe acknowledged that Cindy Padilla, 48, did have a breath-alcohol content of 0.08 — the legal driving limit — when she was pulled over last month near the intersection of Guadalupe Street and Montezuma Avenue. However, he also pointed out that a second reading indicated a breath-alcohol content of 0.0 ...
Lawmaker: Behavioral health system close to collapse
State officials plan an emergency meeting Tuesday to deal with what some say is quickly becoming a crisis for some behavioral health providers. OptumHealth, which has a state contract that could be worth up to $1 billion over four years, is late in paying many service providers, leaving some in a financial bind, the state says. "This is real close to a total systems collapse," state Sen. Dede Feldman, vice chairman of the Legislature's interim Health and Human Services Committee, said. ...
Smokers likely target in effort to fix state budget
Veteran tobacco lobbyist Bobby McBride knows he'll be spending a lot of time early next year trying to convince state legislators to kill an attempt to raise taxes on cigarettes. "I've represented tobacco companies for 20 some years and every year I've been here, there's been a bill to raise tobacco taxes," McBride said in an interview this week. "We're always the whipping boy." But this year, facing a deficit currently estimated at $650 million, the state might be cracking its whip ha ...
Trail Dust: Book tells story of legendary outdoorsman
In mid-1961, I was working on the Marvin Ake ranch in the San Agustin Plain southwest of Magdalena. One morning I walked over to the barn on some errand. Mr. Ake was standing by a strange mud-caked pickup, talking with a big-hatted visitor. He waved me over and said, "I want you to meet someone." Then he introduced me to Quentin Hulse. The name meant nothing to me at the time. We shook hands, exchanged a few pleasantries, and I continued on my errand. After Hulse was gone, the hea ...
Six nominated for Santa Fe judgeship
The state Judicial Nominating Commission on Friday sent the names of six lawyers to Gov. Bill Richardson, who will appoint one of them to the 1st Judicial District Court bench. The governor has 30 days to make the appointment to replace Judge James Hall, who is retiring effective Dec. 31. If he's not satisfied with the recommended applicants, he can reject them all and ask for further applicants. The 17 members of the commission, who are appointed by a variety of sources including the ...
Local news in brief, Nov. 7, 2009
Backhoe and grader still missingThe Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office issued an alert to other law agencies Friday to be on the lookout for two large pieces of construction equipment — a backhoe and a grader — that were stolen earlier this week and may be on their way to Mexico or elsewhere. Lt. Ken Johnson said both were taken late Wednesday or early Thursday from a residential construction site at 50 Old Las Vegas Highway. Johnson said the thieves broke through a fence and appa ...
Queries stall asphalt plant at landfill
An asphalt plant that was scheduled this month to start using rock blasted from Santa Fe's regional landfill is on hold following complaints from nearby residents who say they were caught unaware. The state Environment Department's Air Quality Bureau more than a year ago issued permits for the "hot-mix" plant at Caja del Rio landfill, southwest of Santa Fe. However, neighbors who only recently got wind of the project met with landfill executive director Randall Kippenbrock this week to voi ...
A chance to settle outstanding traffic tickets, before sweep
Santa Feans with arrest warrants issued because of traffic offenses will have a chance to take care of their cases without going to jail first. Defendants must show up at the Santa Fe County Magistrate Court at 8 a.m. on Nov. 21 to take advantage of the court's warrant forgiveness program, according to a news release from the state Administrative Office of the Courts. The program will not apply to defendants with warrants based on domestic-violence or drunken-driving cases. In additi ...
Area groups skipping out on audits
Even after state Auditor Hector Balderas warned 71 local agencies including schools and cities that their audits are late, 34 groups haven't turned in audit reports — and haven't explained to his office why not. In an attempt to remedy the situation, Balderas said Thursday he will forward the names of those scofflaw agencies to the Attorney General's Office. "I think it's really egregious that we identified them as at-risk, asked them to submit a report and they didn't submit a report, ...
GAO report: Valles Caldera Trust lacks solid plan
The group charged with managing the Valles Caldera National Preserve is five years behind schedule and suffers from weak planning, a new federal report says. The U.S. Government Accountability Office, which released its latest review of the preserve on Oct. 30, notes the Valles Caldera Trust has fallen short in its efforts to meet mandates Congress set for the Jemez Mountains property. Most problems stem from a mandate that the preserve pay for itself and be free of federal financial help b ...
Gene Edward Franchini, 1935-2009: Former chief justice had ‘passion for life and the law’
Former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Gene Edward Franchini, who died Wednesday, opposed mandatory sentencing, the death penalty and government secrecy. Franchini, 74, collapsed from a heart attack while addressing first-year law students at The University of New Mexico during his annual lecture on ethics. "He was an authentic person with exemplary integrity," Supreme Court Chief Justice Edward L. Chavez said in a written statement. "His passion for life and the law was contagious." ...
FBI says arrest made in slaying of N.M. nun
ALBUQUERQUE — Federal agents descended on a small community on the Navajo Indian reservation early Thursday to make an arrest in the slaying of a nun whose body was found in her home on church property. The FBI said it arrested one person in Navajo in the death of 64-year-old Sister Marguerite Bartz, but declined to provide other details. The nun's body was discovered after she didn't show up as scheduled for Sunday Mass in a neighboring community. "I'm sure that community hasn't ...
Local news in brief Nov. 6, 2009
Man stabbed at south-side mall A 21-year-old man was stabbed in the abdomen Wednesday night at Santa Fe Place mall, police said Thursday. The man said another man in a car confronted him about 7 p.m., then stabbed him in the left side of his stomach, said Sgt. Jason Wagner, a city police spokesman. The victim sustained serious injuries and was taken to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, where he was expected to live, Wagner said. No description of the man who did ...
Police notes Nov. 6, 2009
The Santa Fe Police Department is investigating the following reports: • Officers arrested Edna Gonzales-Montoya, 48, 21 Camino de Pastores, on Wednesday and charged her with unlawful use of a license. Today's location of the Santa Fe police mobile speed trap: • 7:30 a.m. to 8 a.m.: Monterrey Drive between Santa Rosa Drive and San Juan Drive, near Kaune Elementary. After 8:30 a.m.: Hyde Park Road and Camino del Este. ...
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