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Santa Fe man convicted of two counts of first-degree murder may face life in prison By Nico Roesler The New Mexican
A Santa Fe County jury deliberated for just an hour and a half Thursday afternoon before
convicting Arthur Anaya on two counts of first-degree murder. Anaya, 54, could face life in prison when he is sentenced Wednesday, May 29, for fatally shooting 16-year-
Arthur Anaya is handcuffed after the jury’s guilty verdict Thursday at District Court. Anaya was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of his tenants in a dispute over $100 in rent.
old Austin Urban and 51-year-old Theresa Vigil in January 2012 during a dispute over $100 in late rent. Urban was living part-time with his girlfriend, Natalie Vigil, and her mother, Theresa Vigil, in a trailer on Anaya’s south Santa Fe property when Anaya shot both Urban and Theresa Vigil in the face.
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Bragging rights CAPITAL HIGH GRADUATION
We are not ‘the south-side school.’ “ We are not ‘the other school.’ We are
Capital High School — and we are rising.” Laura Carthy, Capital High teacher
End of line for train to Lamy Santa Fe Southern axes tourist excursions, citing poor revenues By Tom Sharpe The New Mexican
Capital Arts Production Academy honors student Taylor Velazquez cheers Thursday as his name is called to receive his diploma during Capital High School’s graduation for the Class of 2013. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
By Robert Nott The New Mexican
V
ictoria Vargas said there’s a whole new world waiting for her now that she has graduated from high school. Vargas, 18, was one of about 210 Capital High School seniors who participated in Thursday morning’s commencement at the Capital athletic field. Vargas is off to study biology at New Mexico
State University. “I’m nervous, but it feels good,” she said as she lined up with other seniors in the school’s gym before the event. Nearby, senior Lucas Apodaca, 18, spoke of his plan to join the U.S. Air Force this summer. “I’m pumped,” he said. “Now I start on my life.” He said his Air Force recruiter stressed the importance of a high school graduation and told him he can earn college tuition money on the GI Bill. Still, there
is a touch of sadness to leaving Capital, he said, because “everyone is going their separate ways. I doubt I’ll see most of these people again.” For 18-year-old Tiffany Herrera, her diploma “means a whole lot. I’m in the top 10 percent of my class. I worked hard — late nights, early mornings. This shows that hard work pays off. I didn’t have to drop out. If you stick to the route, you’ll get it
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Los Alamos doc arrested on assault charges Wife accuses man of threatening her with ax; neighbors allege he shot his own cat with arrow
By David Salazar The New Mexican
A 42-year-old Los Alamos doctor accused of threatening his wife with an ax and harassing neighbors is being held without bail in the Los Alamos County jail. Los Alamos police on Wednesday arrested Dr. Pavel Mourachov on charges of harassment, extreme
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told her that he hated her and that he had “ripped hoses from the engines of our two cars” to keep her from leaving. The doctor’s wife says she locked the couple’s gun room and barricaded herself in their guest bedroom. However, she states, her husband used an ax to gain access
animal cruelty and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon against a household member. An arrest affidavit notes that his wife earlier this week filed a petition for protection from domestic abuse with the First Judicial District Court. In a statement attached to the petition, the woman tells police that in September 2012, a drunken Mourachov
The Santa Fe Southern Railway won’t be running tourist trains between Santa Fe and Lamy this summer. Company officials said last October that they were shutting down for the season as usual. But this week, the board chairman said he had laid off all 11 or 12 full-time staffers, as well as a similar number of seasonal employees, at that time, and he doesn’t expect to operate at all this year. ”There is no money in the passenger business, and we’ve had kind of a national recession for the last four years, roughly,” Karl R. Ziebarth, the company’s primary owner since 2006, told a meeting of the Lamy Community Association on Wednesday. “So we shut down in October, and we’re looking for funding to get fired back up again. And we have a couple of things going, but we can’t tell you that any of them are going to succeed.” Asked what it would take to resume running the excursion train, Ziebarth, an independent transportation consultant who lives in Dallas, said money. “We keep working at it,” he said. “You know, Santa Fe Southern, in some ways, has always been of a community kind of a venture. We put it together to save service into Santa Fe. It’s been 20 years now, more than 20 years, since we took the plunge, and I can’t say we’ve done very well by it, but at least we’ve kept the railroad alive, at least until recently.” The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway reached Lamy in 1879, but it took two more years to build a 16-mile spur into the capital city. In 1991, the successor to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway announced it was closing the spur, so
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