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Rapist freed in ’08 charged in Montana Toby Griego pleaded guilty to local teen’s 1997 attack
By Tom Sharpe The New Mexican
Toby Griego, who pleaded guilty to raping a Santa Fe teenager in 1997 — and was accused of taking photos up the skirts of young women in the downtown area 10 years later, when he
was free on parole — has been arrested on rape charges in Billings, Mont. Griego, 41, was arraigned Monday on 26 felony charges, including rape, robbery and kidnapping, plus three misdemeanor charges, in connection with two incidents in May and July. He remains jailed in lieu of a $1 mil-
lion bond. Griego is charged with breaking into the homes of two women while they were asleep and their roommates were not home, then binding, photographing, robbing, and physically and sexually assaulting the women in their homes, cars, various bank parking lots
and near a Billings canal. The circumstances of the alleged rapes in Billings are similar to the one in Santa Fe 16 years ago. The victim, Kelley Hollingsworth, now 32 and a dentist in Santa Fe, has previously
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Toby Griego
Atalaya about-face?
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan
A jury unanimously voted to sentence man to die for murder conviction in mass shooting at Fort Hood. The shooting killed 13 and wounded more than 30.
‘He is not now and will never be a martyr’
Neighbors’ complaints could spur million-dollar changes to school plans
Families relieved by rare death sentence for Fort Hood shooter By Molly Hennessy-Fiske
Los Angeles Times
FORT HOOD, Texas — A military jury handed down a rare death sentence Wednesday to Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of murder last week for the mass shooting at this central Texas Army post that killed 13 and wounded more than 30. The jury president, the highest-ranking colonel on the panel, announced the sentence in the afternoon as more than a half dozen victims’ relatives looked on from the gallery. Hasan, who refused to shave his beard for religious reasons, stared at the colonel as she explained that for the multiple murders, he should be forced to forfeit all pay, dismissed from the military and “put to death.” Once she finished, Hasan shifted his gaze — staring straight ahead, blinking, betraying no emotion. Several of the jurors stared back. One sighed.
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Adrian Mendoza, right, with C&C Sevices Commercial Construction, removes old bricks and other debris from the Atalaya Elementary School building on Wednesday. Plans for the building site, now in the demolition stage of a major overhaul, could change after neighbors voiced concerns about the height of a proposed gymnasium. LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
By Robert Nott The New Mexican
Texting for toddlers? LeapFrog Enterprises and VTech Holdings revamp devices to allow children as young as 3 the ability to send messages safely to Grandma. PAge A-2
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Stepology: Tap Into the Now! Tap dancers’ showcase, including Santa Fean Elise Gent’s D’Jeune D’Jeune African Dance Ensemble, accompanied by locals Bert Dalton and John Bartlit, 7:30 p.m., the Lensic, $15-$35, 988-1234, ticketssantafe.com. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
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Index
Frank Acosta, 76, Santa Fe, Aug. 24 Teresa G. Bonal, 93, Santa Fe, Aug. 20 Enrique Martinez, 61, Pueblo, Colo., Aug. 16 Volker De La Harpe, Santa Fe, Aug. 25 Pauline Krissman, Aug. 21 William Conant, Aug. 24 PAge A-10
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Atalaya school plans show a 33-foot-tall gymnasium atop roughly 5 feet of earthen fill on the north side of the property. COURTESY IMAGE
At issue is the Santa Fe school district’s plan to build a roughly 33-foot-tall gymnasium atop roughly 5 feet of earthen fill on the north side of the Atalaya property, intended to make the gym site level with the rest of the campus on
Camino Cabra. Though the district often publicized its plans to renovate the Atalaya campus, which first opened in 1971, officials apparently
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aced with growing criticism of a planned Atalaya Elementary School gymnasium that would block neighbors’ views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Superintendent Joel Boyd said Wednesday he is open to revising plans for the building. But he cautioned that such a decision would likely cost the district at least $1 million and would have to be made within two weeks in order to ensure that the east-side school — where construction on the gym was halted last week — reopens as scheduled in the autumn of 2014. “The best solution is still not going to be popular with everyone,” the superintendent said. Boyd’s comments came near the end of a lengthy and often contentious community forum Wednesday evening that attracted about 70 people — mostly residents of the Atalaya neighborhood — at the Randall Davey Audubon Center & Sanctuary on Upper Canyon Road.
90,000 uninsured expected to join health care program in 2014 By Barry Massey
The Associated Press
As New Mexico prepares to provide medical services to more uninsured residents, Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration is retooling the state’s largest health care program in hopes of achieving two difficult goals: making people healthier while reining in Medicaid costs.
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Editor: Ray Rivera, 986-3033, rrivera@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Cynthia Miller, cmiller@sfnewmexican.com
Nearly 90,000 uninsured New Mexicans are expected to enroll in Medicaid next year under terms of the federal health care law that allowed states to expand eligibility for the program while having the federal government initially pay the tab. Also starting in January, the state Human Services Department will roll out a revamped Medicaid program known as “Centennial Care” that’s intended to better coordinate the services provided to needy New Mexicans by doctors, dentists and nurses, as well as mental health and
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An early glimpse at Old Man Gloom Zozofest, a new community event hosted by the Kiwanis Club at the Santa Fe Railyard on Friday, will give Zozobra fans a first peek at the massive marrionette. LOcAL NewS, A-6
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