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A Harley for a hero Medal of Honor recipient Petry receives new set of wheels Artists find success at dueling markets Organizers report strong sales at Indian Market and Indigenous Fine Art Market. PAGE B-1
Ordinance’s impact still murky; authorities working to draft policy
Zozobra organizers predict big crowd Nearly 10,000 tickets sold for 90th annual burning. PAGE B-1
By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican
Foley, others tortured Islamic State accused of waterboarding hostages. PAGE A-2
Obama sets no timeline for action on immigration By Jim Kuhnhenn
Medal of Honor recipient and retired U.S. Army Master Sgt. Leroy Petry climbs onto the Harley-Davidson Tri Glide Ultra Classic three-wheel motorcycle he received Thursday at Thunderbird Harley-Davidson in Albuquerque. PHOTOS BY CLYDE MUELLER/THE NEW MEXICAN
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WASHINGTON — With a selfimposed deadline looming, President Barack Obama said Thursday he still intends to act on his own to change immigration policies but stopped short of reiterating his past vows to act by the end of summer. Obama raised the slim hope that Congress could take action on a broad immigration overhaul after the midterm elections in November. He said that if lawmakers did not pass an overhaul, “I’m going to do what I can to make sure the system works better.” But for the first time since pledging to act by summer’s end, he signaled that such a target date could slip. He said the administration had been working to reduce the flow of unaccompanied minors attempting to cross the border and noted that the number of apprehensions at the border had fallen in August. “Some of these things do affect timelines, and we’re just going to be work-
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By Milan Simonich The New Mexican
ALBUQUERQUE t age 35, Leroy Petry’s legs ache from old bullet wounds and his right hand is a silvery metal prosthesis. Yet, Petry said, the gold Medal of Honor around his neck is a greater worry than any injury and more daunting to him than any physical pain. “I tell people it’s a lot of weight on your shoulders,” said Petry, who was raised in Santa Fe and then blossomed into an American hero on foreign battlefields. He said living as a Medal of Honor recipient is harder than anything he did to receive the decoration, America’s highest award for valor in combat. Petry wants to acknowledge every person who thanks him for his service and live up to every one of their expectations. In his world, he can never allow himself to have a bad day. Ordinary people and battle-tested combat soldiers are in awe of Petry. He served six tours in Afghanistan and two in Iraq. Petry said his focus was on doing his duty and protecting his buddies in the Army Rangers. But his heroism six years ago brought him the Medal of Honor and the flood of attention that comes with it. Petry was on center stage again Thursday, an hour
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Dot Bossard takes a photo of her 2-year-old grandson, Trenton Bossard of Los Lunas, with Petry as Petry’s grandmother, Bertha Petry, looks on.
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WINSLOW, Ariz. — A dusty, barren field in the shadow of a busy Arizona interstate was for decades a place where children played freely, teenagers spooked themselves on Halloween and locals dumped trash, seemingly unaware of the history beneath them.
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Inside cotton sacks, burlap bags and blankets buried in the ground are the remains dating back to the 1930s of stillborn babies, tuberculosis patients, and sick and malnourished Native Americans from Winslow and the nearby Navajo and Hopi reservations. It’s hard, if not impossible, to know where each grave, some just 18 inches deep, is located at the Winslow Indian Cemetery. The aluminum plates and crosses that once marked them were trampled on, washed away or carried off.
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MARIJUANA MUNCHIES u Cannabis cuisine rises in wake of legalizations. PAGE A-4
New regulations at Grand Canyon Groups of hikers and runners will soon need a permit for rim-to-rim excursions, officials say. PAGE B-4
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Navajo archaeologist Kim Mangum picks up a wooden cross at a cemetery in Winslow, Ariz. FELICIA FONSECA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Despite the City Council’s surprise vote Wednesday to decriminalize possession of an ounce or less of marijuana, how the new ordinance will play out on the streets is up in the air. The ordinance calls for making possession of small amounts of marijuana the lowest law enforcement priority with a maximum $25 fine. It does not legalize marijuana, and the possession of an ounce or less remains prohibited. But Santa Fe police — along with sheriff’s deputies and state police troopers who happen to be patrolling city streets — will still have the discretion to charge offenders under sterner state laws. District Attorney Angela “Spence” Pacheco said the new ordinance is a “non-issue” for the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office. “From the DA’s perspective, it really doesn’t impact us,” she said. “We follow state law, and police officers, including city of Santa Fe police officers, always have the option of filing a case in Magistrate Court versus Municipal Court.” Dale Lettenberger, the Santa Fe Police Department’s deputy chief of operations, echoed a similar sentiment during Wednesday’s council meeting. “It’s going to be the discretion of the officer,” Lettenberger told councilors. “The officer can either write the administrative citation [in Municipal Court] or cite into Magistrate Court.”
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Woman unearths Native cemetery’s forgotten history Arizona welfare worker on mission to identify 600 buried in field
Questions linger after councilors reduce pot penalties
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