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Report details teen’s drug death 14-year-old reportedly took five doses of Ecstasy before attending Duke City concert

“they were not her parents and cannot tell her what to do,” according to investigative documents released Thursday by the New Mexico State Police. The documents, comprising more than 130 pages of Hannah Bruch emails, detectives’ notes and witness statements, offer the most detailed look yet at the circumstances surrounding the Aug. 11 death of Santa Fe High student Hannah Bruch.

By Chris Quintana The New Mexican

A 14-year-old Santa Fe girl who died after an all-night concert in Albuquerque took five doses of “intense” Ecstasy with her friends, who said they didn’t try to stop her because

According to the documents, Bruch died at University Hospital with a heart rate more than double the normal rate. Ecstasy was likely the cause, according to preliminary autopsy results discussed in emails between investigators. Bruch’s friends also took a dose or two of the Ecstasy blend, known as “Molly,” the documents say. An email from University of New Mexico pathologist Dr. Cecilia Wu to investigators said she was “fairly certain that either

Rain leaves mess in Rio Arriba

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proposal seeks bus service to ski basin

Francis pushes pastoral church vision, decries ‘small-minded’ rules

‘Green’ pioneer Santa Fe resident Maxine S. Goad, who championed to protect the state’s groundwater, will be honored Saturday by the Sierra Club for her lifetime of conservation work. LoCAL, C-1

“We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. I have not spoken much about these things, and I was reprimanded for that.”

If approved, new route would provide public transportation from Hyde Park Road to Ski Santa Fe By Bruce Krasnow The New Mexican

If Taos can do it, if Los Alamos can do it, if Boulder, Colo., can do it, then Patti Bushee wonders why Santa Fe can’t run a public bus to its beloved ski area. Bushee, a Santa Fe city councilor who is running for mayor in the March 4 election, serves as the city representative on the North Central Regional Transit District board. She is submitting a formal request to the board for a new bus route to serve Hyde Park Road and Ski Santa Fe. If the route is approved, ski area employees, tourists and outdoor recreationists could use public transportation to travel the 14 miles from downtown to Ski Santa Fe. The transit district’s current buses are free, and Bushee said she thinks the district has the money in its budget to provide the new service. There are a lot of obstacles to initiating the route by

Pope Francis

6 seniors strong After switching positions, Sundevils quarterback hopes to make most of final year at McCurdy School. SportS, B-1

Please see BUS, Page A-4 Pope Francis waves to faithful Sept. 1 after reciting the Angelus prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Francis said Thursday that the Catholic Church had become obsessed by ‘smallminded rules’ about how to be faithful and that pastors should instead emphasize compassion over condemnation when discussing divisive social issues of abortion, gays and contraception. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Pope calls for ‘a new balance’ By Michelle Boorstein and Elizabeth Tenety The Washington Post

today Partly sunny. High 75, low 53. pAge C-4

obituaries Donald R. Fellows, 86, Santa Fe, Sept. 15 Debbie Starr, Poway, Calif., Aug. 25 Art White, Santa Fe. Sept. 10 pAge C-2

Index

Calendar A-2

Rio Arriba County residents face destruction, begin cleanup as floodwaters recede. LoCAL, C-1

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ope Francis made a significant push Thursday toward his vision of a more pastoral, less doctrinaire Catholic Church, saying the church has sometimes “locked itself up in … small-minded rules” and dismissing criticism that he hasn’t spoken enough on issues such as abortion and homosexuality. In his first substantive interview since becoming pope, Francis told a group of Jesuit journals that although he embraces traditional church teachings, he’s “not a right-winger.” He placed himself with regular Catholics, saying “thinking with the church” doesn’t mean “only thinking with the hierarchy of the church.” “We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. I have not spoken much about these things, and I was reprimanded for that,” he told the Rev. Antonio Spadaro, an Italian Jesuit, who conducted the interview. “But when we speak about these issues, we have to talk about them in a context. The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.”

Classifieds C-5, D-2

Comics B-6

Lotteries A-2

But even without disputing Catholic doctrine, Francis went further than before in critiquing the institutional church, promoting a more accessible, lay-centered Catholicism than his predecessor, Benedict XI. “We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel,” the pope said in the 12,000-word article, based on interviews conducted by a fellow Jesuit, the Rev. Antonio Spadaro, editor of La Civilta Cattolica, a Rome journal for the religious order. The interview appeared likely to fuel a debate that has persisted since Francis was elected pope this spring in Rome. Can he hold on to the millions of Catholics who occupy both ends of the spectrum: Left-leaning Catholics who might be inspired by his inclusive speech and gestures, along with traditionalists who might not approve? In New Mexico, Allen Sánchez, executive director of the New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops, which has lobbied the state Legislature in favor of parental notification before a minor can obtain an abortion and against legislation allowing domestic partnerships for gays and lesbians, said the pope was not “parting with the theology or the teachings of

Opinions A-5

CENSUS REPORT

426K 106K N.M. sees hike in poverty rate Total number of New Mexico residents who had incomes below the poverty level in 2012.

Total number of New Mexico residents who had incomes below the poverty level in 2000.

By Barry Massey

The Associated Press

New Mexico has backpedaled since 2000 on a problem that’s long plagued the state — poverty. More New Mexicans lived in poverty last year than in 2000, according to a report released Thursday by the Census Bureau. Only Mississippi had a poverty rate higher than New Mexico in 2012. An economist with a social advocacy group mostly attributes the rise in poverty to the state’s economic slide since 2008. “We’ve had a terrible recession,” said Gerry Bradley, research director for New Mexico Voices for Children. “With a construction-led recession, we were really hammered. It was awful.” A fifth of the state’s population, about 426,000 people or 20.8 percent, had incomes below the agency’s poverty thresholds last year. That’s an increase of 106,000 residents since 2000, when the poverty rate was 18 percent. A single parent with two children would be living in poverty if they had income of less than about $18,500 last year, according to the thresholds used by

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Police notes C-2

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Sports B-1

Time Out B-5

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Generation Next D-1

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