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Details of fatal collision remain unclear Affidavit: Woman was alone in car despite her claims she was kidnapped millo led city police on a high-speed, wrong-way chase on Interstate 25 after claiming she had been kidnapped at knifepoint. The chase ended in a crash just north of Old Pecos Trail that killed Santa Fe police Officer Robert Duran, 43, of Rio Rancho and Frank Lovato, 62, of Las Vegas, N.M., a retired firefighter.

Officials initially reported police began pursing a white car around 11 a.m. Wednesday morning after

By Phaedra Haywood phaywood@sfnewmexican.com

A woman who has faced a series of criminal charges alleging she fled in a stolen vehicle while casting herself as a victim may have pulled a similar stunt in Santa Fe — with deadly consequences.

Search warrant affidavits filed this week in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court suggest Jeannine Jara-

receiving a report of a kidnapping and carjacking in progress at an apartment complex near St. Francis Drive. A man wearing a red shirt, black pants and a black jacket ran from the vehicle after the crash, police said. Officers from multiple law enforcement agencies searched for the suspect.

The affidavits indicate, however, Jaramillo was alone in the vehicle.

After avoiding the fatal multi-car collision involving at least two police vehicles and two civilian vehicles, the white Chevy Malibu came

to rest down an embankment on the west side of the highway. Santa Fe police Officer Julian Norris “observed the vehicle to be occupied by only the female driver,” an affidavit says.

The officer saw Jaramillo, 46, get out of the car on the driver’s side, according to the affidavit, filed

by New Mexico State Police. “At no time did Officer Norris see anyone else exit the vehicle.”

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Lujan Grisham signs legislation expanding free college program

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Tuition and fees will be covered for most residents to attend any state, tribal school

By Robert Nott rnott@sfnewmexican.com

The phone calls Greg Romero began receiving about Senate Bill 140 made him realize its potential.

The legislation essentially would offer free college tuition to New Mexico students at in-state schools.

Romero, president of the Associated Students of the University of New Mexico, knew that, he said, but he didn’t fully grasp the measure’s power until he heard from old friends who had long abandoned their college studies to work or support their families and were suddenly planning to return to school.

“They’d say, ‘I can go back to college now. I can get that degree I started and stopped because I had to go to work because I had a family,’ ” Romero said Friday, moments after Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the legislation into law.

SB 140, an expansion of the New Mexico Opportunity Scholarship, will make it possible for many New Mexico residents to attend college tuition-free. Funds included in the state budget for the program would cover all tuition and fees for degree-seeking undergraduate students attending any two- or four-year state or tribal college or university in New Mexico.

Before signing the bill at Western New Mexico University in Silver City, Lujan Grisham said the legislation will not only give more residents the chance to seek higher education but also will ease a burden way too many New Mexicans currently carry: student debt.

“Saddling students with insurmountable debt means they can’t start businesses, can’t buy houses; they don’t have real choices about their future,” Lujan Grisham said in an interview after the signing.

That debt creates “an incredible strain” on those students trying to get ahead after college, she said.

The Federal Reserve estimates in the second quarter of 2021, Americans owed $1.73 trillion in student loans. A 2020 Institute for College Access and Success report using 2018-19 data said the average student debt for New Mexicans is close to $21,000.

ABOVE: Luren Bellucci practices a yang tai chi sword form with instructor Jill L. Basso, owner and instructor of Desert Sage Tai Chi at Harvey Cornell Rose Park on Friday afternoon.

The group meets weekly to practice different forms incorporating yang tai chi sword form and stick form practice. The group took advantage of the warm moments on Friday, as the weather is expected to dip into cooler temperatures over the weekend.

Jill Carolan, under the instruction of Basso, finishes a weekly practice with the swimming dragon qi gong form Friday afternoon.

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U.S.: Nuclear disaster narrowly avoided amid Ukraine invasion

S.F. man ferries Ukrainians to safety

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MUKACHEVO, Ukraine — A top U.S. official said Friday that a Russian assault at a major Ukrainian nuclear facility had nearly caused devastating consequences for the world, even as the mayor of the port city of Mariupol warned that the city was “on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe.”

West of Mariupol in Kherson, a regional capital and the first major city to fall to Russian forces, a city council member said Russian equipment and soldiers were “absolutely everywhere” as supplies of food and other necessities begin to dwindle.

And in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, Russian troops have fired cluster munitions into at least three residential neighborhoods, according to a Human Rights Watch report released Friday.

The grim conditions nationwide on the ninth day of war since Russia invaded last week spawned an urgent appeal late Friday from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who urged Europeans to “take to the streets” to back Ukraine.

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Talking to Keith Crow — Santa Fe real estate broker and one-man refugee-extraction team — was impossible by telephone Friday.

But in a 12-question email interview, he painted a harrowing picture of the cost of war half a world away.

“The things I saw today,” he wrote in what amounted to a preamble, “will never be erased.”

Crow, apparently unable to watch Russia’s invasion of Ukraine without doing something to help the civilians most affected by it, last week flew to Poland from Santa Fe with the intention of helping refugees find safety. He rented a car (“Don’t tell them”)

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IN BRIEF Suicide bombing kills 56 at a Shiite mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide bomber struck inside a Shiite Muslim mosque in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar during Friday prayers, killing at least 56 worshippers and wounding 194 people.

No militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Both the Islamic State group and the Pakistani Taliban — a militant group separate from the Taliban in Afghanistan — have carried out similar attacks in the past in the area, located near the border with Afghanistan.

Peshawar police Chief Muhammed Ejaz Khan said the violence started when an armed attacker opened fire on police outside the mosque in Peshawar’s old city. The attacker then ran inside the mosque and detonated his suicide vest.

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For families, $6B deal with OxyContin maker is just a start

Erik Eck, a former member of the Latin Kings, stands in the doorway of his cell at the DuPage County, Ill., Jail last month, displaying tattoos that symbolize his status with the gang.

For those who lost loved ones in the opioid crisis, making sure the family behind OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma paid a price was never just about money. What many wanted was a chance to confront the Sackler family face to face, to make them feel their pain.

While some may get that chance — at least by video — under a tentative $6 billion settlement reached Thursday that also would force the Sacklers to pay out billions, the families still are coming away feeling empty, conflicted and angry yet again. There’s a bit of hope mixed in, too.

“I’d like to see the Sacklers bleed all they can, but the bigger picture for me is what they’re doing to clean up the mess,” said Vicki Meyer Bishop of Clarksburg, Md., who lost her 45-year-old son, Brian Meyer, in 2017. “We’re all so very worried about the next generation and the next child who will be lost.”

The Sacklers will get to hang on to a chunk of their $10 billion fortune and be protected from current and future civil lawsuits over opioids.

Some of the survivors of the opioid crisis and relatives of those who died will receive payments. But most will get just a few thousand dollars — not even enough to reimburse the cost of a funeral — and many more who have not filed claims already will be shut out altogether.

Biden to use federal purchasing power to boost U.S. manufacturing WASHINGTON — Goods can be purchased by the federal government with tax dollars if just 55 percent of their parts were manufactured here. On Friday, the White House signaled plans to unveil a new regulation upping that standard to 75 percent.

The new rule will update a 1930s-era law that requires the federal government to use taxpayer dollars on goods that are manufactured domestically.

Biden teased the long-promised “Buy American” rule change during his State of the Union address Tuesday.

Governments step in to protect food supplies as prices spike Governments around the world are taking steps to safeguard domestic food supplies after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine roiled trade and sent prices of key staples soaring.

Argentina and Turkey this week increased their control over local products, and Bulgaria is looking to build its grain reserves. Moldova, albeit a small shipper, temporarily banned exports of wheat, corn and sugar from this month.

Protectionist measures — which already picked up in recent years as the COVID-19 pandemic sparked worries about local supplies — could spell more bad news for global food trade. The war in Ukraine has brought crop shipments from much of the crucial Black Sea region to a halt, heightening fears of shortages of grain and sunflower oil.

That’s adding to soaring global food inflation, increasing the chance of export restrictions, said Abdolreza Abbassian, an independent analyst. Poor harvests have exacerbated tight supply, with global grain stockpiles expected to drop for a fifth year.

“It’s something one has to be worried about because we know it has happened in the past,” said Abbassian. “This is already a perfect storm. You don’t need that one.”

Sony and Honda announce joint project to make electric cars TOKYO — The Japanese electronics and entertainment giant Sony announced Friday it would team up with Honda to develop electric cars for sale as early as 2025, becoming the latest company to throw its hat into the burgeoning market for battery-powered vehicles.

Demand for electric cars is small but skyrocketing as concerns about climate change and tightening regulations on emissions push consumers into the market. But Japanese companies have lagged behind their competitors in developing the vehicles and are now scrambling to make up ground lost to fast-rising automakers like Tesla and traditional rivals like GM, which has pledged to go all-electric by 2035.

Honda previously announced plans to make electric cars in partnership with GM for the U.S. market.

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Inmates leaving gangs, stripping tattoos for jobs and better lives A novel gang-cessation program at a Chicago-area jail is giving inmates a chance to escape their former lives

By Michael Tarm Associated Press

WHEATON, Ill. nder penalty of a beating or death, Erik Eck pledged at age 13 to adhere to the Latin Kings’ first rule: “Once a King, always a King.” Tattoos that bedeck his entire body express his fealty forever to one of the largest gangs in the U.S. Now 36, the longtime gang enforcer is trying to leave anyway. He is seeking to scrub his past by erasing his tattoos through a new gang-cessation and jobs program he and 11 other inmates signed up for at a Chicago-area jail.

The Associated Press got exclusive access over two days to the first 12 inmates enrolled in the largely privately funded program at the DuPage County Jail and to their cellblock. For their safety, they’re isolated from the jail’s 500 other inmates, half of whom are in gangs.

Eck, jailed on burglary charges, earned the nickname “Hollywood” on the street for his swagger. But nightmares jarred him awake for days before he recently walked into the jail’s new tattoo-removal wing.

“This life is all I’ve ever known,” Eck said about agonizing over his decision to deface the tattoos that have been central to his identity for 20 years. “But it’s for the better.”

He added: “I feel like the change has officially begun.”

One goal is to land the inmates jobs in horticulture, welding and other fields they’re learning, said the program’s civilian director, Michael Beary. He said there’s booming interest among businesses scrambling to address pandemic-driven labor shortages.

Jobs training was available previously, but the gang tattoo emphasis was added this year.

“I used to beg businesses to hire these guys. Now they say, ‘As long as they show up for work, we don’t care what they did,’ ” said Beary, a longtime business owner and executive director of the nonprofit JUST of DuPage, founded by a Roman Catholic nun to develop reentry programs for inmates.

The inmates aren’t promised jobs or reduced sentences. But if they graduate, they do get help searching for work and relocating away from their gangs. A letter from the sheriff touts their participation.

To graduate, participants must have their gang tattoos removed or covered with other tats. It’s proof, said DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick, they’re serious about forsaking their old lives.

“It’s a point of no return,” he said. “It’s a commitment to themselves — and to us, that we aren’t wasting our time.”

The first tattoo Eck had covered was one on his arm of the Latin Kings’ initials.

Jail-sanctioned tattooist Tom Begley inked the image of a deer over it in a four-hour session in February. Covering all of Eck’s gang tattoos will take months.

A roaring lion — a favorite Latin Kings symbol — was recently converted to a roaring bear. Eck has to be careful to pick animals that aren’t other gangs’ symbols. A rabbit, he said, is out. It’s a symbol of the Two-Sixer gang.

Begley and his wife, Meagan Begley, of the suburban Electric Tattoo Parlor, jumped at the chance to lend their skills. Inmates painted

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a mural on a wall in the jail’s three-chaired tattoo studio. It says: “Hope, Purpose and Redemption.”

On a previous day, Tom Begley transformed a Satan Disciples tattoo on Jaime Marinez’s forearm from a Christian cross fashioned from rifles into the image of a vulture.

Nearby, Meagen Begley removed hand tattoos of 27-year-old Latin Count leader Gilberto Rios, wielding a pen-like tool to scrape off outer skin, then injecting a saline solution.

That pushes ink into a scab, which flakes away over several weeks.

“There’s lots of crying by them,” she said, but not due to the pain. “These tattoos have been their identity. [Giving them up] is very emotional.”

One she removed from Rios’ hand was a backward “D,” a symbol of disdain for Marinez’s gang.

The two chatted amiably, comparing tattoo work done on them that day.

“If they saw each other on the street,” Beary said, “they’d try and kill each other.”

Affluent DuPage County isn’t considered a hotbed of gangs. Mendrick, elected sheriff as a Republican, contends violent crime in his county is often committed by gangs from Chicago, in neighboring Cook County.

Mendrick is convinced the program, funded partly by church donations, will help reduce crime.

“I am a religious man,” he said. “I feel I am answering my calling.” Beary cites religion as a motivation, too.

The program also offers classes on the Bible, anger management and decision-making. And it provides counseling to drug-addicted inmates.

Once freed, Eck wants to own a business.

He believes he can apply leadership skills honed in his gang.

He’s blunt about the perks of gang life.

“Being a gang member in my neighborhood was better than being the president of the United States,” he said. “I wanted the cars, the women ... the power, the respect.”

The killing of his best friend two months before Eck was jailed a year ago began changing his perspective. It was an internal hit by a Latin King who coveted his friend’s higher perch in the gang hierarchy, Eck said.

“He took 16 bullets, four in the face. It was like, enough is enough,” said Eck, adding guilt at having hurt others also began weighing on him.

Other participants also cited trauma from years of gang violence as motivation for wanting out. Chicago police say most of the nearly 800 homicides in the city last year, the most in a quarter century, were gang-related.

In another tattoo session, Tom Begley traced a new image over a scar on Marinez’s chest from when he was shot last year at a stoplight.

The tattoo is of a clock set to 6:20, memorializing the date his father died of a heroin overdose on June 20, 2016. Marinez turns quiet when he mentions his dad.

The 21-year-old knows he’s putting himself in peril by spurning his gang.

“I don’t want to be doing this 50 years from now. … I know a lot of [adults] still in this life.

And it’s just eating them up,” he said.

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WASHINGTON — In a buoyant sign for the U.S. economy, businesses stepped up their hiring last month as omicron faded and more Americans ventured out to spend at restaurants, shops and hotels despite surging inflation.

Employers added a robust 678,000 jobs in February, the largest monthly total since July, the Labor Department reported Friday. The unemployment rate dropped to 3.8 percent, from 4 percent in January, extending a sharp decline in joblessness to its lowest level since before the pandemic erupted two years ago.

Friday’s hiring figures were collected before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has sent oil prices jumping and has heightened risks and uncertainties for economies in Europe and the rest of the world.

Yet the February hiring data suggest two years after COVID-19 sparked a nationwide shutdown and 22 million job losses, the disease is losing its grip on America’s economy. More people are taking jobs or searching for work — a trend that, if it endures, will help ease the labor shortages that have bedeviled employers for the past year.

In addition, fewer people are now working remotely because of the disease. A continuing flow of people back to offices could boost employment in urban downtowns. And the number of Americans who are delaying job hunts for fear of the disease fell sharply from January, when omicron was raging, to February.

“All signs are that the pandemic is easing its hold on jobs and the economy,” said Jane Oates, president of WorkingNation and a former Labor Department official. “Very strong numbers in very uncertain times.”

Other recent economic data also show the economy maintaining strength as new COVID-19 infections have plummeted. Consumer spending has risen, spurred by higher wages and savings. Restaurant traffic has returned to pre-pandemic levels, hotel reservations are up and far more Americans are flying than at the height of omicron.

Still, escalating costs for gasoline, wheat and metals such as aluminum, which are exported by both Ukraine and Russia, will likely accelerate inflation in the coming months. Higher prices and anxieties surrounding the war could slow hiring and growth later this year, though economists expect the consequences to be more severe in Europe than in the United States.

Inflation has already reached its highest level since 1982, with price spikes especially high for such necessities as food, gasoline and rent. In response, the Federal Reserve is set to raise interest rates several times this year beginning later this month. Those increases will eventually mean higher borrowing rates for consumers and businesses, including for homes, autos and credit cards.

Chairman Jerome Powell said this week he plans to propose the Fed raise its benchmark short-term rate by a quarter-point when it meets in two weeks. Powell has acknowledged high inflation has proved more persistent and has spread more broadly than he and many economists had expected.

One figure in Friday’s report could provide reassurance for the Fed’s policymakers as they assess inflation pressures: Average hourly pay barely grew in February. Higher wages, while good for workers, often lead companies to raise prices to cover their higher labor costs and thereby further heighten inflation.

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Court bars some public health rule expulsions of migrants at border

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WASHINGTON — The Biden administration can no longer use a public health rule to justify expelling migrant families who cross the border without documentation if doing so would subject them to persecution or torture, according to a federal appeals panel ruling issued Friday.

At the beginning of the pandemic, the Trump administration turned to the obscure provision of public health law, known as Title 42, issuing an order that gave border officials the authority to immediately turn migrants away at the Southwest border, even if they were seeking asylum.

The Biden administration has kept the order in place for all migrants except children who arrive at the border without a parent or guardian. Officials have said it falls to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to decide when the rule can be lifted. The agency’s next review of the policy will be in April.

“For now, the Executive may expel the Plaintiffs, but only to places where they will not be persecuted or tortured,” said the ruling, issued by a panel of the District of Columbia U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. To convey that, immigration law experts say migrants need to tell officials they are at risk of such an outcome. By law, that is done through a so-called credible fear hearing, a time-consuming step that immigration officials have largely been able to avoid during

the pandemic because of the public health rule.

Expulsions under Title 42 have proved an efficient way to expel immigrants living in the country illegally at a time when a record number have crossed the Southwest border.

The ruling does not apply to single adult migrants — only to families arriving at the border together. But the court’s opinion could make it harder for the administration to justify that no migrant is entitled to express a fear of persecution or violence.

Since the order was put in place in March 2020, more than 181,000 migrant families have been expelled under it. But that is only 25 percent of the families who have been caught crossing the border since then. Many have been allowed into the country to face deportation proceedings for a variety of reasons, including humanitarian exceptions.

Critics of the rule, including a number of public health experts, have said there is no public health benefit to expelling migrants to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the United States. The appeals panel appeared to agree.

“To be sure, as with most things in life, no approach to COVID-19 can eliminate every risk,” the panel wrote. “But from a public-health perspective, based on the limited record before us, it’s far from clear that the CDC’s order serves any purpose.”

The order, it added, “looks in certain respects like a relic from an era with no vaccines, scarce testing, few therapeutics and little certainty.”

Boston Marathon bomber death sentence restored times as many as the federal government WASHINGTON — The had put to Supreme Court on Friday death in the reinstated the death sentence previous six of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who decades. was convicted of helping carry There out the 2013 Boston Marathon was no disbombings. The vote was 6-3, Dzhokhar pute about with the court’s three liberal Tsarnaev Tsarnaev’s members in dissent. guilt, Judge The bombings, near the finish O. Rogeriee line of the marathon, killed Thompson wrote for the appeals three people and injured 260, court panel. But, she added, “a many of them grievously. A law core promise of our criminal enforcement officer was killed as justice system is that even the the brothers fled a few days later. very worst among us deserves Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar’s to be fairly tried and lawfully older brother and accomplice, punished.” died after a shootout with police.

“Just to be crystal clear,” In 2020, the 1st U.S. Circuit Thompson wrote, “Dzhokhar will Court of Appeals in Boston upheld remain confined to prison for the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s convictions, rest of his life, with the only quesbut ruled his death sentence tion remaining being whether the should be overturned because government will end his life by the trial judge had not questioned executing him.” jurors closely enough about their Thompson wrote the trial exposure to pretrial publicity and had excluded evidence concerning judge should not have excluded evidence Tamerlan Tsarnaev had Tamerlan Tsarnaev. been involved in a triple murder The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court to over- in 2011, which could have bolturn that ruing. After the justices stered an argument from defense agreed to hear the case, the Biden lawyers that he had dominated and intimidated his brother. administration continued to In a 2013 FBI interview, a friend pursue it, even though President of Tamerlan Tsarnaev named Joe Biden has said he will work to abolish federal executions and Ibragim Todashev admitted to participating with him in the the Justice Department under his administration has imposed a robbery of three drug dealers in Waltham, Mass., in 2011. But he moratorium on carrying out the added that Tamerlan Tsarnaev federal death penalty.

Until July 2020, there had been alone had slit the victims’ throats. no federal executions in 17 years. As Todashev started to write down his confession, he suddenly In the six months that followed, attacked the agents, who shot and the Trump administration executed 13 inmates, more than three killed him.

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Acting warden alleged to have silenced an employee attempting to report harassment

By Michael Balsamo and Michael R. Sisak Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department says it is gravely concerned about allegations a high-ranking federal prison official entrusted to end sexual abuse and cover-ups at a women’s prison known as the “rape club” may have taken steps to suppress a recent complaint about staff misconduct.

Deputy Regional Director T. Ray Hinkle is accused of attempting to silence a female employee who said she had been harassed by a manager at the prison — the federal correctional institution in Dublin, Calif. — by meeting with her personally in violation of established protocols.

“These allegations, if true, are abhorrent, and the Department of Justice takes them very seriously,” the Justice Department said in response to questions from the Associated Press about Hinkle’s alleged behavior.

Hinkle, who pledged to staff he would help Dublin “regain its reputation” during a stint as acting warden that ended this week, was also admonished by his bosses at the federal Bureau of Prisons for sending all-staff emails critical of agency leadership and policies.

In one email, Hinkle complained he was unable to defend himself in a news story about allegations he bullied whistleblower employees, threatened to close Dublin if they kept speaking up about misconduct, and stonewalled a Congresswoman who sought to speak candidly with staff and inmates at the prison last month.

Hinkle didn’t respond to email and text messages seeking comment. He previously said he was not authorized to speak with the media.

Four workers at Dublin, including a warden, have been arrested in the last eight months and charged with sexually abusing inmates. Several others are under investigation.

FBI agents were at the facility Tuesday and Wednesday questioning inmates and staff.

The Bureau of Prisons says Director Michael Carvajal will visit Dublin soon. Members of Congress say they’re also planning to visit as they seek to push back against agency interference and increase oversight of the crisis-plagued federal prison system. The Justice Department said it will say more in the coming weeks about actions it is taking to combat abuse at Dublin.

Hinkle’s management of Dublin in the wake of the sexual abuse arrests — at a time when he was supposed to be rooting out misconduct and boosting morale — has only heightened scrutiny of the facility and eroded trust among staff, inmates and top officials at Justice Department and Bureau of Prisons headquarters in Washington D.C. After receiving a copy of a memo the female employee

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The Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, Calif., shown in a 2006 file photo. The Justice Department says it is gravely concerned about allegations that a high-ranking federal prison official entrusted to end sexual abuse and cover-ups at a women’s prison may have taken steps to suppress a recent complaint about staff misconduct.

wrote out detailing her harassment allegations, Hinkle called her into his office at Dublin and spoke with her one on one, people familiar with the matter told the AP. The woman felt blindsided and, after the meeting, was reluctant to proceed with her complaint, the people said.

They were not authorized to speak about sensitive prison matters and did so on condition of anonymity.

The woman’s union had provided her memo to Hinkle, expecting that he, as the official in charge of the prison, would follow proper procedures to have her harassment complaint investigated. They expected him to respect her anonymity and did not anticipate he would attempt to speak to her on his own, the people said.

Under Bureau of Prisons policy, a warden who becomes aware of allegations of serious misconduct, such as sexual or workplace harassment, must report them immediately to the Office of Internal Affairs and must coordinate with that office before proceeding with an investigation.

Such matters are normally handled by trained investigators, not the warden. The policy also establishes protocols for interviewing with staff members about misconduct allegations, including ensuring they have union representation.

“There are accountability mechanisms in place, whether through the Equal Employment Opportunity Office, the Office of

the Inspector General, or even criminal prosecution, to ensure misconduct at all levels is met with the appropriate consequences,” the Justice Department said.

Hinkle was named Dublin’s acting warden after a previous warden, Ray J. Garcia, was arrested on charges he molested an inmate and forced her and another inmate to strip naked as he took pictures — images prosecutors say were later found on his government-issued phone and personal laptop computer. Garcia has pleaded not guilty. Two other workers pleaded guilty in recent weeks.

An AP investigation last month revealed rampant sexual misconduct at the prison and detailed a toxic culture that enabled it to continue for years. After that reporting, which included accounts of inmates being sent to solitary confinement or transferred to other prisons to silence them, workers and union leaders at the Bay Area lockup and other federal prisons told reporters they too were being threatened for raising alarms about misconduct.

The Bureau of Prisons has been plagued by crises in recent years, including criminal activity by employees, critically low staffing levels hampering responses to emergencies, the rapid spread of COVID-19, a failed response to the pandemic and dozens of escapes.

In a Feb. 24 email to Dublin staff after a news story detailed allegations he was bullying

employee whistleblowers, Hinkle wrote: “I will continue to be as transparent as possible regardless of how it makes me look. It’s not about me. It’s about raising FCI Dublin to a new level of professionalism and correctional excellence. We must continue to serve with integrity and respect, and to have the courage to address wrongdoing.”

But Dublin employees say Hinkle’s actions belied that message, and worked directly against the Justice Department’s efforts to reform the beleaguered prison.

The Justice Department has said it has zero tolerance for sexual misconduct. A new warden, Thahesha Jusino, took charge of the Dublin prison Monday.

That change had been previously decided.

In a statement, the Bureau of Prisons said it “takes seriously our duty to protect the individuals entrusted in our custody, as well as maintain the safety of correctional staff and the community” and allegations of misconduct are taken seriously.

“Incidents of potential criminal activity or misconduct inside BOP facilities are thoroughly investigated for potential administrative discipline or criminal prosecution,” agency spokesperson Kristie Breshears said.

She said the Bureau of Prisons was also “committed to fostering a workplace that is free of any type of harassment and will not tolerate harassing conduct by anyone in the workplace” and said employees who make harassment claims “will be protected against further harassing conduct or retaliation.”

Hours after the AP reported on allegations Hinkle was bullying employee whistleblowers, the acting warden emailed Dublin’s entire staff a link to the article and a warning they were not allowed to speak to reporters or leak prison emails. He also accused officials at Justice Department headquarters of not letting him and others defend themselves.

“For reasons beyond my scope of understanding, we are not allowed to defend ourselves,” he wrote in the message, which was obtained by the AP. That email followed another message Hinkle sent criticizing a California congresswoman who visited the prison earlier in the month.

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Vaccine data from the state Department of Health as of March 1 For more vaccine info, visit cvvaccine. nmhealth.org/public-dashboard.html Sign up to receive the vaccine: Visit vaccinenm.org or call 855-600-3453

COU N TIES AT GL A NC E 10 with most total cases Bernalillo: 145,179 Doña Ana: 62,348 San Juan: 40,313 Sandoval: 33,049 Santa Fe: 27,790 McKinley: 25,553 Chaves: 21,279 Lea: 19,125 Valencia: 18,341 Eddy: 16,950

Total cases in area counties Rio Arriba: 9,660 San Miguel: 5,703 Taos: 5,254 Los Alamos: 2,671 Excluded from county totals: 2,531 cases among federal detainees and 4,099 among state prisoners

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New Mexico recorded 381 new cases of COVID-19 and 16 additional deaths Friday, according to the state Department of Health.

Thirty of the new cases were in Santa Fe County. The counties with the highest numbers were Bernalillo, with 99; Doña Ana, 46; San Juan, 38; and McKinley, 32.

The deaths involved six people in Bernalillo County; two each in Chaves, Curry and Valencia; and one each in Quay, Rio Arriba, Sandoval and Torrance.

The number New Mexico deaths related to COVID-19 rose to 6,972, while the total number of cases recorded statewide amid the pandemic reached 513,311.

As of Friday, 197 people were hospitalized in New Mexico with COVID-19 complications.

The state’s seven-day positivity rate — the percentage of people who test positive for the virus out of the overall number of people who have been tested — was 6.5 percent.

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WASHINGTON — U.S. gas prices are rising at a record pace as Western sanctions on Russia’s financial and shipping industries cut off oil supplies from global markets and refineries struggle to keep up with surging demand.

The average price per gallon of unleaded gasoline jumped 9 cents at domestic service stations Friday to $3.84, according to AAA, after increasing by 7 cents Thursday. A week ago, drivers paid 26 cents less on average per gallon.

It’s the largest short-term price spike AAA’s data has ever recorded, spokesman Devin Gladden said. Its price-tracking records date to 2000.

More price hikes could be in store. Some analysts predict oil could reach $130 per barrel.

RBOB gas, a benchmark for pretax refined gasoline, traded close to $3.50 per gallon Friday up from $3.30 on Thursday.

Crude oil Friday afternoon traded for more than $112 a barrel, its highest mark since 2008.

The added expenses could have sweeping impacts for U.S. consumers, experts say. Recent wage growth has insulated some consumers from climbing prices, but gasoline alone contributed to a quarter of the 6.1 percent increase in inflation over the past 12 months.

And rising oil prices have rippling effects. As diesel prices increase, so does the cost of shipping goods through the country’s already rattled supply chains.

“I think people are going to have sticker shock,” Gladden said. “Even if they can purchase more because wages have increased, you also have to think about how the pandemic for a lot of families has made them more fragile than they ever have been. There’s a lot of social challenges at the moment that are compounded by higher prices.”

The U.S. fuel market was already tight before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine in late February, experts say, as pandemic restrictions in many states expired and consumers exercised pent-up buying power.

But harsh economic sanctions from the White House, European Union and Japan have thrust Russia’s financial system into chaos and severely curtailed businesses from conducting international trade. Russia’s main banks have

been isolated from eight of the world’s 10 largest economies.

Nearly half of the world’s container ships are barred from landing at Russian ports. Russian planes are banned from the skies above western Europe and most of North America.

Though the EU, which is heavily dependent on Russian natural gas and other fossil fuels, has not enacted energy sanctions, some international oil companies have announced plans to pull out of Russian energy investments.

“The bulk of Russia’s exports are already severely impacted

by Russia’s sanctions,” Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at tracking service GasBuddy, said in a briefing with reporters. “Russia’s oil supply has already essentially been made very difficult to obtain.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Thursday said she supported banning Russia energy imports to the U.S., a proposal that’s gained bipartisan momentum in both chambers of Congress. The Biden administration has so far avoided imposing energy sanctions, largely over concerns about rising fuel prices.

The White House announced Tuesday the U.S. and other world powers would tap 60 million barrels of oil from their strategic reserves to tamp down oil prices. But the release is a stopgap measure that international authorities say is only enough to stabilize the energy market for 30 days.

The dynamics of it come at a difficult moment on the American energy calendar.

Domestic refiners are beginning to transition production from higher-emission winter-blend gasoline to cleaner summer blends, which are more expensive to produce.

In a normal year, retail gas prices increase 50 cents per gallon from the end of February through their peak midsummer, said Jeff Lenard, a spokesman for the National Association of Convenience Stores, a trade group whose members sell close to 80 percent of the U.S.’s retail gasoline. That’s because of combination of rising consumer demand and the increased costs associated with summer blends, he said.

But 2022 is far from a normal year, and consumers have shown enthusiasm to travel and spend money after two years of taking pandemic precautions, De Haan said.

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The governor noted a college degree can lead to higher-paying jobs, even in trades like carpentry, electrical work and truck driving. Earning a certificate or degree in such trades can lead to jobs that pay well over $100,000 a year, she said.

“That’s a whole lot of money you’re going to make.”

Santa Fe Community College President Becky Rowley said in today’s workforce, “most students need some type of education or training to be able to get a job in a field that will provide them with some sort of upward mobility and a really productive and well-paying career.”

SB 140 will allow students to go to school part time if they have other obligations or return to school if they dropped out at some point, Rowley said. She added she believes the scholarship will lead to more New Mexico residents enrolling in colleges.

The bill does have eligibility requirements. Students would have to take between six and 18 credit hours during the fall and spring semesters. They also would have to maintain a 2.5 grade-point average.

Students who drop out of a college program or skip a semester would lose access to the funding. And the scholarship is not available to New Mexico residents who already have earned a bachelor’s degree.

Lujan Grisham first introduced a free college tuition plan in 2019. The proposal, estimated

at the time to cost $26 million, met with some resistance by administrators and legislators who thought college costs might balloon as a result.

Lawmakers allocated $17 million for the program in the 2020 regular session but made it available only to community college students. During a special session in June, the amount was reduced to $10 million in the face of a revenue decline largely caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

So far, over 10,000 scholarships have been awarded, according to the state Higher Education Department.

House Bill 2, the state budget bill, includes $63 million in nonrecurring funds to get the scholarship program going in July, according to the bill’s fiscal impact report. The program also would draw another $24.5 million from existing college endowments. The governor has not yet signed the budget.

Julia Furry, director of the auto technologies department at Santa Fe Community College, said the new scholarship is “huge” for students who feel they have been unable to afford to go to college.

“Now, with this Opportunity Scholarship, it’s going to take that stress off of a student,” Furry said. “For them it will be, ‘Oh good, I have school paid for. I don’t have to hold down two jobs. I can focus on my education, and the end result is a great degree and good-paying job.’ “

Years of neglect leave IRS in ‘chaos’

By Alan Rappeport New York Times

WASHINGTON — At the Internal Revenue Service’s sprawling Kansas City, Mo., processing center, teams of clerks earning $15 per hour work through the night, trying to help the agency clear a backlog of more than 20 million tax returns that are a year overdue.

The conditions are subpar: Scanners sputter, forcing workers to enter data by hand, staplers are scarce, and piles of tax documents overflow from carts.

“The general theme for the time I’ve been there has been chaos,” said Shawn Gunn, a clerk in the receipt and operations group at the IRS who started working at the facility in Kansas

City in June and is transitioning to become a tax examiner.

What’s happening in Kansas City provides a window into the problems plaguing the IRS, which is mired in a political and logistical mess that has frustrated taxpayers, angered lawmakers and put a key source of funding for President Joe Biden’s economic agenda in jeopardy.

Officials have warned of another rocky tax filing season ahead, saying it could be a “very frustrating tax season for both tax payers and tax professionals.”

Democrats have pointed to the tumult as evidence the agency needs more funding.

Biden has called for investing $80 billion in the agency over a decade to help crack down on

tax cheats, estimating that would raise $400 billion in tax revenue.

But tax-averse Republicans, who have spent years cutting the agency’s budget, have seized on the IRS’ problems as proof it should not be given more money or responsibility, with at least one lawmaker calling for the tax collector to be abolished.

Much of the agency’s current woes can be traced to those budget cuts, which have eroded the agency’s ability to function at a critical moment. Staffing shortages and antiquated technology have collided with a pandemic that kept much of the agency’s workforce at home while the IRS was turned into an economic relief spigot responsible for churning out checks and other stimulus payments to millions of Americans.

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FBI tactical squad members approach a command center Wednesday on Interstate 25 near Old Pecos Trail after a Santa Fe police officer and another motorist were killed in a multiple-car crash during a police pursuit.

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in an email Friday the agency was continuing its search for a suspect.

Police are still “working on identifying and locating a male suspect who was involved in this incident,” Officer Dusty Francisco wrote. He did not respond to follow-up questions about whether the agency still believes a man was involved in the incident.

After the crash, Jaramillo was transported to a local hospital, where she was treated for minor injuries and released, state police have said.

Just before midnight Wednesday, state police filed an affidavit seeking a warrant to search the Malibu. Magistrate David Segura signed a warrant for the vehicle late Wednesday night and two more warrants Thursday authorizing the state agency to search Jaramillo’s cellphone and obtain her DNA, fingerprints and clothing.

Jaramillo, who had not been charged with any crimes tied to the chase and crash by late Friday night, stuck to the kidnapping story in a Friday interview with a reporter from KOB-TV. The New Mexican was not able to reach her for comment.

History of charges Online court records show Jaramillo has a lengthy criminal history — with multiple charges of motor vehicle theft, shoplifting and burglary. In at least one case, she was found in possession of methamphetamine.

In September, the Cibola County Sheriff’s Office charged her with possession of a stolen vehicle, aggravated fleeing of a law enforcement officer and possession of a controlled substance after she was accused of failing to pull over when a deputy attempted a traffic stop and then fleeing at high speeds, sometimes on the wrong side of the road, as he pursued her.

When she was arrested, Cibola County Deputy Julian Armijo wrote in his report, Jaramillo said a man had been holding a knife to her neck and forced her to flee. “[She] stated every time she would try to stop the male subject would punch her in the stomach,” Armijo wrote. “[She] stated the male subject was hiding on the floorboard of the vehicle. However based on my observations during the pursuit and the contents of on the passenger floorboard this was not possible.”

The woman told police the man had been wearing a red shirt, black pants and black

hoodie, according to the report, but “it is believed there was only one occupant.”

Prosecutors asked the court to dismiss those charges a few weeks later, pending further investigation, court records show, but she was arrested again in October by a Cibola County detective investigating the theft of a CenturyLink bucket truck.

Deputies located the truck and found the woman not far from it, according to a statement of probable cause.

Detective Anthony Kemp noted the similarities between the two incidents. “[The woman] once again stated her boyfriend was with her, however after walking through the brush and cleaning the brush there was no male to be found and in the last case it was shown due to video that Jaramillo was alone.”

Jaramillo was wearing only pants and a bra and indicated a red shirt lying nearby belonged to the boyfriend, court records said.

Court records show that case was dismissed in November to allow for more investigation.

Mistaken identity Caught in the chaos of the investigation after the harrowing chase and tragic crash was an Alcalde man who was misidentified in a law enforcement alert as a potential kidnapping and carjacking suspect. State police have said they spoke with the man — whose photo and personal information were circulated on social media after the alert was issued — and ruled him out as a suspect.

Mark Thomas Lopez said in an interview Friday he was not involved in the incident, had never met Jaramillo and believed he was identified as a potential suspect based only on a name Jaramillo gave to police.

State police officers told him the alert would be taken down, Lopez said, but agencies around the state — including in Moriarty and Raton — continued to disseminate his photo and personal information, and someone posted it on social media.

After being contacted by concerned friends and relatives, Lopez said, Thursday he went to the state police office in Española to complain. The agency later cited the error in a news release, but Lopez wasn’t satisfied.

He said he fears his identity will be stolen because of the incident and intends to file a lawsuit.

Conflicting crash details Tom Falacienski, who lives near Eldorado, said he narrowly missed being involved in the Wednesday morning crash.

What he witnessed, he said in an

interview Friday, didn’t seem to match law enforcement reports of how the collision occurred.

State police Officer Ray Wilson, a spokesman for the agency, wrote in an email Thursday the crash involved two police units, the white car driven by the suspect and an uninvolved vehicle, later identified as a truck driven

by Lovato. In a subsequent news release, state police said five vehicles collided, including a blue car whose driver was treated for minor injuries.

Affidavits the agency filed Thursday — which refer to the case as a homicide investigation — say Norris saw the Malibu swipe a white truck, but it continued traveling far past the crash.

Falacienski said from his perspective, the Malibu appeared to pass through the scene untouched.

“I was about 100 yards, give or take, behind the accident,” he said. “I noticed traffic was bunching up a little. … Next thing I saw was the cop lights [and] the white car flying down in the left lane, coming right for us. Everyone who could tried to shift down into the breakdown lane.”

He said the Malibu “flew right past us. I don’t know how, but I saw it was untouched. … A split second later, the accident was in front of us. It was like an explosion — car parts flying up in the air, smoke … and everyone stopped looking at the white car and looked at that.

“My impression was the cop cars were in pursuit,” he said.

“Which would make sense because of the violence of the accident. They were right on top of us, so there was no breaking.”

Falacienski said he and other motorists spent hours at the scene.

About an hour after the crash, he said, he heard what sound like gunshots or “flash-bangs” coming from the direction of the Malibu.

When police finally led him and other stranded motorists off the highway about eight hours later, he said, they were taken back toward Santa Fe, and he saw the Malibu on the side of the road about half a mile from the crash scene.

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Russia attempts to stifle free speech and war coverage

By Anton Troianovski New York Times

Russia clamped down harder Friday on news and free speech than at any time in President Vladimir Putin’s 22 years in power, blocking access to Facebook and major foreign news outlets, and enacting a law to punish anyone spreading “false information” about its Ukraine invasion with up to 15 years in prison.

The crackdown comes as the Kremlin scrambles to contain discontent over the war in Ukraine and to control the narrative as Russia faces its most severe economic crisis in decades as a result of this week’s crushing Western sanctions.

Fearing prosecution, more independent Russian news outlets shut down Friday, and the BBC said it had suspended all of its operations in Russia.

Putin signed a law that effectively criminalizes any public opposition to or independent news reporting about the war against Ukraine. Taking effect as soon as Saturday, the law could make it a crime to simply call the war a “war” — the Kremlin says it is a “special military operation” — on social media or in a news article or broadcast. Announcements that the law was coming had already pushed Russian independent media outlets to shut down in recent days, and more followed Friday.

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A live broadcast in the studio of Echo of Moscow after the announcement Thursday that the station would shutter.

major Russian-language outlets that are based outside the country and to Facebook, the social network popular with the Western-looking urban middle class on which many have posted fierce criticism of Putin’s war.

Facebook, Russia’s internet regulator said, had engaged in “discrimination against Russian news media” by limiting access to pro-Kremlin accounts, including that of the Defense Ministry’s television channel. The decision was a blow

to internet freedom in Russia, where Western social networks have remained accessible despite Putin’s creeping authoritarianism.

For now, popular Russian social networks like VKontakte remain accessible, along with Instagram, Twitter and YouTube. But analysts expect a further crackdown, heightening the importance of messaging and social networking app Telegram, which the Kremlin tried and failed to block in 2018.

Russian officials say journalists writing critically about the war — or calling it a “war” or an “invasion” — are undermining the national interest, even referring to them as traitors.

The lower house of parliament, the State Duma, passed the law criminalizing “false information” about the armed forces Friday by a unanimous vote, and Putin signed it later in the day.

Vyacheslav Volodin, the Duma speaker, said that under the new law, “those who lied and made declarations discrediting our armed forces will be forced to suffer very harsh punishment.”

The text of the new law offered few details about what constituted an offense, but Russian journalists and Kremlin opponents take it to mean that any contradiction of the government’s statements on the invasion could be treated as a crime. Besides criminalizing the sharing of “false information,” it makes “discrediting” Russia’s use of its military in Ukraine, calling on other countries to impose sanctions on Russia or protesting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine punishable by fines and years of imprisonment.

It wasn’t immediately clear whether the law would apply to people inside Russia — such as foreign correspondents — producing content in a language other than Russian. But another senior lawmaker said citizens of any country could be prosecuted under it, and the

BBC — which has a large Russian-language service in Moscow as well as an English-language bureau — said it was halting its operations inside the country.

“This legislation appears to criminalize the process of independent journalism,” Tim Davie, director-general of the BBC, said in a statement. “It leaves us no other option than to temporarily suspend the work of all BBC News journalists and their support staff within the Russian Federation while we assess the full implications of this unwelcome development.”

The tensions were felt this week, among others, by Russia’s community of independent journalists, who found ways to publish and broadcast content harshly critical of the Kremlin despite Putin’s authoritarianism.

On Thursday, the pillars of Russia’s independent broadcast media, the Echo of Moscow radio station and the TV Rain television channel, shut down under pressure from the state.

Then Friday, the government said it would block access to Russian-language media produced outside the country: the websites of the Voice of America, the BBC, Deutsche Welle, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the popular Latvia-based news outlet Meduza. The reason: the systematic distribution of what it called false information about the “special military operation on the territory of Ukraine.”

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The flood of Ukrainians headed toward Poland and other Eastern European nations is part of what observers on the ground are calling the biggest humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War II, as Russian troops begin to encircle Ukraine’s capital Kyiv.

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and is commuting through a hunk of Eastern Europe, driving Ukrainians to safety at the Polish border.

“Last Friday, he called me and said he was going out of town,” said Pat Walker, the managing broker at Berkshire Hathaway Home Services. “I asked him, ‘Where are you going?’ and he said … he was going to try to get into Ukraine and help people get out.”

And since early this week, that’s just what Crow has done.

On Friday, Crow wrote he picked up a family at a train station in Lviv, the largest city in western Ukraine: a mother, grandmother and 4-year-old boy who had no place to stay and likely couldn’t get a seat on a bus headed west for at least a week.

By the end of the day, they were out of the country, thanks to Crow and his rental car.

“They were standing on the sidewalk, staring out across an intersection,” wrote Crow. “I asked if they would like a ride to Poland, and they accepted cautiously. The mom is an English teacher, so that certainly helped. While driving out of Lviv, through more roadblocks and checkpoints than I can recall, she told me they had no place to stay tonight or tomorrow and couldn’t get a seat on a bus for at least a week. They’re resting in Hrebenne [Poland] tonight, off to Germany soon.”

The flood of Ukrainians headed toward Poland and other Eastern European nations is part of what observers on the ground are calling the biggest humanitarian crisis in Europe since World War II, as Russian troops begin to encircle Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and other large cities farther east. News organizations on the ground report the scramble to leave the country is intensifying, especially in Lviv.

Crow wrote the changes on the ground, even since the early days of the conflict, are stark. On his first day, he was at a border crossing point in the city of Medyka, and there were relatively few people to help those fleeing Ukraine. The next day, he wrote, helpers outnumbered refugees.

“The Polish, and the entire population of the EU [European Union] have been phenomenal,” he wrote.

But war is ever-changing, and Crow wrote the sense of

foreboding — perhaps more accurately, impending trouble — is palpable.

“It’s not so much that I felt in danger, Keith Crow more that I knew danger was coming soon,” he wrote.

“Checkpoints are being manned by locals, all military is currently fighting at the hot spots.”

Interview question: When you’ve delivered someone to relative safety, what’s that like?

Crow: Like nothing I’ve ever felt. Peaceful, hallow, haunting knowing there are millions more that won’t get out.

Crow wrote he couldn’t sit back and “watch the fleeing” in Ukraine, adding he’d felt the same way as other disasters unfolded: Somalia, Serbia and elsewhere.

“I always felt guilty not doing something besides donating money. A hands-on approach is what I need,” he wrote.

Exactly how long Crow can stay hands-on is uncertain. He wrote he believes the window is closing for Ukrainians trying to escape. He says he doesn’t think much about his own personal safety, concentrating on “the men and women dying right now for no reason. I look at the people manning the checkpoint and I know they very well might be dead later this week. Humbling.”

His own plans for a return home are just as fluid. Asked about them, he wrote: “tbd.” In a separate, one-sentence email, he added: “Hopefully not in a coffee tin.”

Words like that, of course, concern his friends and co-workers.

“All the people here are really full of admiration for what he’s doing,” Walker said. “And in the recesses of everybody’s mind, a concern that he won’t come back.”

Question: Tell me something about a question I haven’t asked.

Crow: Please ask people to help in any way they can. Sell that extra watch you never wear, that set of golf clubs in the back of the closet.

Do something.

And finally, this: “Please please please don’t make me out to be some hero, as I’m not,” Crow wrote. “The heroes are the men and women civilians protecting their country. I’m just a guy giving rides.”

Because if Ukraine does not survive, the whole of Europe will not survive,” Zelenskyy said.

“If Ukraine falls, the whole of Europe will fall.”

As demonstrators in multiple European cities heeded the president’s call, Russia’s international isolation grew.

The country’s internet censor on Friday announced it would block access to Facebook, following days of escalating pressure on the social network. The BBC said it would suspend coverage from Russia in response to new legislation that it said “appears to criminalize the process of independent journalism.”

International companies such as Airbnb, Microsoft and Cogent Communications — a key internet provider — also cut ties.

Pressure on Moscow could escalate further in the coming days, with the Biden administration weighing a ban on crude oil imports. The United Nations’ top human rights body, meanwhile, voted decisively to set up a commission to investigate alleged Russian rights violations amid growing reports of potential war crimes.

But the limits to international willingness to come to Ukraine’s defense were also laid freshly bare, with NATO’s senior leader once again rebuffing Ukrainian demands to set up a no-fly zone.

The exact number of casualties caused by more than a week of fighting has been impossible to verify. The U.N. human rights office said Friday that at least 331 civilians had been killed, while Ukraine’s emergency services put the number of civilian fatalities much higher, at more than 2,000.

A U.N. statement said most of the casualties had been caused “by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multi-launch rocket systems, and missile and airstrikes.” Russia has acknowledged the deaths of about 500 of its troops, while Ukrainian officials claim that as many as 10,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or captured.

Russia’s seizure of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power facility, Europe’s largest nuclear plant, came after shelling that set part of the complex on fire, raising fears across Europe of a catastrophic accident.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog reported the blaze had not affected “essential” equipment and that Ukraine’s regulator reported no change in surrounding radiation levels. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm tweeted that the Energy Department also had seen no elevated radiation readings.

“The plant’s reactors are protected by robust containment structures and reactors are being safely shut down,” Granholm wrote. Even so, the blaze sparked international alarm and underscored the perils of a war fought around nuclear sites.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said Friday that the “world narrowly averted a nuclear catastrophe” with the strike and thanked Ukrainian operators for keeping nuclear reactors safe.

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Gutted cars following a night air raid in the village of Bushiv, Ukraine, on Friday. Russia’s war on Ukraine is now in its ninth day, and Russian forces have shelled Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, sparking a fire there that was extinguished overnight.

“Russia’s attack last night put Europe’s largest nuclear power [plant] at grave risk,” she said.

“It was incredibly reckless and dangerous.”

Zelenskyy said Friday that his country had “survived a night that could have stopped history” and that the attack on the nuclear facility could have been as bad as “six Chernobyls.”

Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations denied reports that the Russian military shelled the reactor, saying his country’s troops were actually offering “protection” for the facility — a claim that fellow ambassadors dismissed.

In Mariupol, Russian forces have been engaged in a “bombardment of critical civilian infrastructure” aimed at forcing the city to surrender, a senior western intelligence official said.

The city’s mayor, Vadym Boychenko, said officials were hoping talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials would establish a “period of silence” to restore utilities such as electricity and water. “We are simply being destroyed,” he said on his Telegram channel, noting the city has been under “merciless bombardment” from Russian forces over the past five days.

Kherson, meanwhile, faces a “global catastrophe” if a humanitarian corridor is not opened soon to allow civilians to be evacuated and for food and medicine to be delivered, the secretary of the City Council said.

“In Kherson, we are running out of food — literally, we can still last for maybe three, four days,” the city council secretary, Galina Luhova, said by telephone. “We’re running out of medicines; we’re out of baby food; we are running out of diapers; and we are running out of first aid in hospitals.”

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling on him to “immediately cease all hostilities” and allow access for humanitarian aid to Ukraine, according to a readout of the conversation from Berlin.

The Russian blitz to take Kherson may have revealed a larger strategy in southern Ukraine, where the Pentagon has said Putin’s forces have been

the most successful in gaining territory.

Clashes have spilled over into nearby Mykolaiv, a major city that feeds the Black Sea. Russians may want to capture Mykolaiv as a lane of advance to Odessa, the strategic port farther west. The Russian military could use the city as a way to support and reinforce any future amphibious landings at Odessa, a senior U.S. defense official said Friday, speaking on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the administration.

With the conflict now in its second week and Russia sending nearly all of its assembled military power into neighboring Ukraine, satellite images are providing glimpses of the scale of the invading force, as well as the devastation the fighting has wrought. Analysis of satellite imagery by the U.S. firm Maxar Technologies shows bridges and roads damaged and homes destroyed in towns and cities across the country.

In Chernihiv, a strategic northern city on a highway that links the Ukraine-Belarus border with Kyiv, the capital, and where a fierce battle has been waged in recent days, the images show damaged roads, bridges and homes. Some factories appear to have been leveled. On Friday, Chernihiv’s regional authority said in a Facebook post that Russian strikes killed 47 people, including nine women.

The images also continue to show a long Russian armored column north of Kyiv. That enormous convoy has remained stalled because of what Western officials say are logistical challenges and fierce resistance by Ukrainian forces, including the destruction of a bridge in the path of the convoy.

“We certainly believe that the Ukrainians blowing up that bridge absolutely had an effect on stopping and curtailing the movement of that convoy,” the U.S. defense official said. “But we also believe that they have hit the convoy at other places as well in direct attacks.”

The column, consisting of combat and logistics vehicles, is expected to bolster Russian’s strategy to encircle and lay siege to the capital, officials have said.

The convoy may also have stalled because Russians have not been able to seize the suburbs west of Kyiv, where antitank weapons have littered roads with destroyed vehicles and dead Russian troops. A significant blow to the Russian forces in the area are losses among its airborne soldiers, said Rob Lee, a Russia military expert and a senior fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Airborne troops are expected to move quickly against the enemy, but their lightly armored vehicles have become a burden as they’ve struggled to gain the initiative.

The convoy appears destined to help encircle Kyiv, but if the defenders can hold, Lee said, “they will stymie forces trying to begin the siege.”

Alarm over the fate of Ukraine’s cities has intensified amid growing evidence that Russian forces are indiscriminately targeting urban centers.

“We have seen the use of cluster bombs, and we have seen reports of use of other types of weapons which would be in violation of international law,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels on Friday.

In its report Friday, Human Rights Watch said it had documented the use of cluster munitions on the basis of two witness interviews and the analysis of 40 videos and images.

Some of these sources show the “explosion signatures and rocket remnants” consistent with the delivery of cluster munitions from 9M55K Smerch rockets, the group added.

Because of the indiscriminate nature of cluster munitions — they scatter over a wide area small bomblets that could explode even after the fighting has ended — Human Rights Watch claimed that Russia may have committed a war crime by using them.

“Using cluster munitions in populated areas shows a brazen and callous disregard for people’s lives,” said Steve Goose, the arms director at Human Rights Watch. “If these deadly acts were carried out either intentionally or recklessly, they would be war crimes.”

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Gov.: Divest from Russian assets

EDITOR’S NOTE: Today’s column is the second in a series on Padre Antonio Jose Martínez of Taos, considered by many as one of the state’s great religious and historical figures.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham urged the State Investment Council to immediately evaluate state portfolios and divest financial holdings “that may benefit the Russian government and its supporters in its war against Ukraine.”

“The State of New Mexico has substantial investments that may

P

adre Martínez was a fierce Mexican patriot. He served his flock in all areas: religious, temporal, spiritual and secular. He was also devoted to his land and the people of New Mexico. Not just a priest, Martínez served in the Mexican government as a representative of New Mexico.

Martinez was an advocate for literacy and education.

With the arrival of a printing press to New Mexico in 1834, brought on the Santa Fe Trail by Josiah Gregg, Padre Martínez, seeing the value of such an invention, printed the Cuaderno de Ortografía or Workbook of Orthography, a spelling primer that supported his vision.

Martínez was a man of the people, but a man nonetheless, setting aside his vows for passionate endeavors, fathering two children. This was not an uncommon practice in the Rob Spanish-speaking world, where priests Martinez sometimes had companionship that History Matters was unofficial and often ignored. He did find time to serve in the departmental assembly of New Mexico under the Mexican government in the 1830s and 1840s and also participated in the convention for the U.S. to annex the territory in 1848.

The first bishop assigned to New Mexico, Jean Baptiste Lamy, was a native of France, from a place where the currents of a Catholic heresy called Jansenism ran fierce and strong. Jansenism was a puritanical form of Catholicism that was strict and rigid. Lamy ran this course. Once, when he was a priest in Cincinnati, he suggested to his bishop

Lujan Grisham asks investment council to evaluate if state holdings funding Ukraine attack; spokesman says 0.025 percent of total in Russian stocks, bonds

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be directly or indirectly aiding the Russian invasion,” the governor wrote in a Friday letter to the agency. “This is unacceptable.

Not one penny should go toward furthering [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s brutality.”

The push from the governor, a Democrat seeking reelection in November, comes as other funds divest their Russian holdings in

response to the attack on Ukraine, which Lujan Grisham called unjustified.

“Thousands of Ukrainians have been senselessly murdered, and many more will likely perish in the upcoming days, weeks, and months,” she wrote.

The State Investment Council, which the governor chairs, manages more than $36 billion in permanent endowment and state funds, including about $1.84 billion for 23 other New Mexico government entities.

As of last week, about $7.9 million was invested in Russian stocks

and bonds, or 0.025 percent of the agency’s holdings, spokesman Charles Wollmann said.

“We have been looking at this, but … the Russian markets have been closed for the last week, so the securities in question aren’t trading,” he said. “Trading is halted on them, and we don’t know when that will resume.”

The exposure to Russian stocks and bonds come in “different flavors,” Wollmann said.

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South Meadows development vote postponed after debate runs late Planning Commission to make decision on approval of controversial project later as public comment runs until nearly midnight

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The Santa Fe Planning Commission voted late Thursday night to postpone a vote on a contentious plan to covert 22 acres of Santa Fe County-owned open space on the city’s south side into an affordable housing complex.

The nonprofit affordable housing developer Homewise is seeking to build 161 units of single-family affordable housing and a 6-acre park on the vacant lot along South Meadows Road, which is now used as an open space.

To clear the path for the development, Homewise is seeking to rezone the property to R-6 and R-21, allowing six homes per acre and 21 homes per acre. The entire 22.2acre space is now zoned as a park in the city’s general plan.

Dozens of supporters and critics of the project attended an hourslong meeting to comment on Homewise’s plan, but around 11:45 p.m. and after almost four hours of spirited public comment, Planning Commissioner Pilar Faulkner motioned to postpone the vote to avoid debating a controversial development at a late hour.

She also raised concerns about a suggestion to approve the rezoning request with a condition that a park is built, despite not having a development plan.

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Carlos Montoya finds a more efficient way to stroll along with his son Carter Wade-Montoya while on a walk at Franklin E. Miles Park on Friday. The warmer weather has brought out many Santa Feans this week, but rain is expected to move into the area over the weekend.

Dems use expanded convention voting process Official: Procedures already in place and not a response to GOP troubles

By Daniel J. Chacón

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The Democratic Party of New Mexico has positioned itself to avoid an embarrassing ending similar to that of its Republican counterpart when it tabulates delegate votes after its pre-primary nominating convention Saturday in Roswell.

Voting will remain open through most of Wednesday; Democrats will then count the ballots over a few days before announcing the results March 13 — more than a week after voting begins.

During the Republican Party of New Mexico’s pre-primary convention Feb. 26 in Ruidoso, an electronic voting system malfunctioned, forcing the GOP to switch to paper ballots — but not before some delegates left the convention in frustration without casting a vote.

The GOP, which had planned to announce its election results an hour after voting began, delayed the announcement by more than

11 hours “in the interest of election integrity” and then had to issue a correction in one of the contests Feb. 28. The next day, the Republican Party issued a news release to confirm the voting results and refute “speculation that some votes were not included.”

The Democratic Party said its plans for the convention aren’t based on the Republicans’ troubles.

“We decided to use absentee voting this year to make our elections more accessible for all delegates, including those who don’t yet feel comfortable attending an in-person event,” Miranda van Dijk, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Party, wrote in an email. “This decision was made in late 2021 and has nothing to do with the voting mess at the Republican convention.”

Democrats have planned to use absentee balloting since the convention date was set, a plan “consistently communicated” to delegates and the public, van Dijk wrote.

“In the past, voting took place in-person at the convention, but this is not a recent change,” she wrote. “DPNM adopted absentee balloting procedures into our rules at the 2020 Spring [State Central Committee] meeting, and has used

them for every party election conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, including to approve rule changes and nominate a candidate in the [1st Congressional District] special election.”

Those same procedures will be used for the election at the pre-primary nominating convention, she said.

Delegates will be able to vote through an electronic ballot or by phone until 9 p.m.

Wednesday. From Thursday to Friday, Democratic Party staff will be “validating and curing ballots,” van Dijk wrote.

The following Saturday, a representative from each campaign will have the opportunity to observe ballot counting via Zoom “as is required in our rules,” she wrote. Results will be announced when the convention is called back to order March 13.

It’s not just voting that will be different at the Democratic Party’s convention.

Unlike the GOP convention, where drew nearly 1,000 people, Democrats are requiring proof of vaccination against COVID-19 to attend the event. Masks also will be required indoors.

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City says streetlight project down to PNM 3,500 bulbs replaced in push to go carbon-neutral; about 2K owned by utility remain

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Out streetlights on San Ignacio Road in November. Public Works Director Regina Wheeler said the city has completed its portion of the streetlight conversion project but PNM still has to replace 2,000 of its bulbs. Wheeler also said the city is working with PNM to address outages among its streetlights.

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The city of Santa Fe’s portion of its streetlight conversion project reached its end last week when the last of 3,500 city-owned fixtures was converted to energy efficient bulbs, Public Works Director Regina Wheeler said.

The conversion project began Oct. 18 near the Santa Fe Regional Airport, with crews finishing the last leg of the project in the downtown area, according to city documents.

The $2.9 million project, part of the city’s push to go carbon-neutral by 2040, is expected to save the city $550,000 in electricity bills per year and reduce energy use by 50 percent to

60 percent.

The city’s streetlights were previously high-pressure sodium lights that have a shorter life span and a higher failure rate compared to LED lights, Wheeler said.

The city entered into a contract with Massachusetts-based Dalkia Solutions in February 2021 to convert approximately 5,500 streetlights in Santa Fe. About 2,000 are owned by Public Service Company of New Mexico, which entered into its own $420,000 contract with the city to convert its lights.

The status and brightness of Santa Fe streetlights has been controversial for years, and debate has continued even after the city began the process of making a conversion. Following a robust discussion over the proper Kelvin level — or color temperature — to protect evening vistas, the City Council voted in favor of 3,000 kelvin on main thoroughfares and 2,700 kelvin in residential neighborhoods.

Wheeler said last week she drove around the city at about 4 a.m. to test the road conditions following a midweek storm and she was proud of the way the conversion project is shaping up.

“They look so good and uniform,” she said. “I just think they look great.”

PNM spokesman Eric Chavez said residents can expect crews to start working on PNM’s lights after it finds a vendor to provide “smart node” technology for the conversion.

PNM’s lights can be found around the city, generally on major roadways.

He said after the utility finds a vendor, PNM will start a multimonth process to convert the lights.

The report notes a series of outages around town caused by existing damage to the poles or underground infrastructure, which in some cases can only be repaired by PNM. Wheeler said the city has been working with PNM to address the outages.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s governor unveiled a plan Thursday to create mental health courts in every county, allowing treatment for more homeless people with severe mental health and addiction disorders but also compelling some of them into care, a move that many advocates of homeless people oppose as a violation of civil rights.

Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a news conference he has no intention of rounding people up and locking them away. Instead, he said his plan would offer a way for people to get court-ordered psychiatric treatment, medication and housing, preferably before they are arrested.

Under the plan, which requires approval by the Legislature, all counties would have to set up a mental health branch in civil court and provide comprehensive and community-based treatment to those suffering from debilitating psychosis. People need not be homeless to be evaluated by a court.

But if approved, they would be obligated to accept the care or risk criminal charges, if those are pending, and if not, they would be subject to being held in psychiatric programs involuntarily or lengthier conservatorships in which the court appoints a person to make health decisions for someone who cannot.

“There’s no compassion stepping over people in the streets and sidewalks,” Newsom told reporters at a briefing at a mental health treatment facility in San Jose. “We could hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about the way the world should be, or we could take some damn responsibility to implement our ideas and that’s what we’re doing differently here.”

Newsom, a Democrat and former mayor of San Francisco, has made homelessness and housing a focus of his administration.

Last year, the Legislature approved $12 billion for new housing and treatment beds for the homeless, and this year Newsom has proposed an additional $2 billion, primarily to shelter people suffering from psychosis, schizophrenia and other behavioral health disorders.

It was not immediately clear how much the program might cost, although Newsom proposed in his budget this year more money for mental health services. He has called distressing behavior on the streets heartbreaking and maddening and says residents are right to complain government is not doing enough.

People with addiction issues or mental health disorders often pinball among

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom, speaking at a mental health treatment center in San Jose, Calif., on Thursday announces ‘Care Court,’ a program that would target people suffering from psychosis who have lost their ability to care for themselves.

various public agencies, namely hospitals, court and jail. There is no one place that manages the person’s health, offering steady and safe housing combined with resource intensive care and California, like the rest of the country, suffers from a shortage of treatment beds.

Cities and states across the country are grappling with growing homelessness, as well as mental health crises. Nearly a quarter of California’s estimated 161,000 unhoused residents have a severe mental illness, according to a 2020 count of homeless people required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Nationally, the figure was just over 20 percent of an estimated 580,000 unhoused residents.

Newsom’s plan could apply to an estimated 7,000 to 12,000 people, said Dr. Mark Ghaly, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency.

Compare that to just over 200 people forced into court-ordered treatment last year under Laura’s Law, a program for people with severe and persistent mental illness who may pose a risk to themselves or others, he said. The program is optional, and just over half of California’s 58 counties participate.

The governor said under his proposal, people would have a say in their treatment plan and have a public defender to represent them. Most important, the proposal allows a broader array of people, including family member or first responder, to refer

Business owner to run in primary for county commission

Justin Greene, the founder of the Santa Fe food delivery service Dashing Delivery, said Friday he plans to run for the District 1 seat Two Santa Fe County volunon the Santa Fe County commisteer firefighters in Stanley were barred from further service after sion.

In the past decade, according refusing to get vaccinated against to a news release, Greene has COVID-19.

The volunteers claimed religious advised and served on the Legislative Jobs Council, Pueblo of exemptions, which the county Tesuque Development Company rejected, then missed a March 3 deadline to comply with the policy and Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce Economic Development requiring them to receive two Committee. He is the co-founder COVID-19 vaccine doses. of Warehouse 21 and the Santa Losing the two volunteers Fe Teen Arts Center, the news should have minimal impact on release states. the firefighting teams that cover “As your Commissioner, I will roughly 440 acres in the county’s fight for a broadband solution and southern area, county spokesensure economic development woman Carmelina Hart said. projects in film, technology innovaThe Stanley Volunteer Fire tion, and tech transfer are built-in District still has seven respondnorthern Santa Fe County,” he ers, who assist larger entities stated in a news release. such as the Edgewood Regional Greene received a Master in Fire Station, she said.

Business Administration degree Residents shouldn’t feel from the University of New Mexthey are unprotected because ico and a bachelor’s degree in the Stanley volunteer team is architecture from Syracuse Unidepleted, she added. versity, the news release states.

The Edgewood station is fully For more information, visit staffed and responds around the www.justingreene.com. clock to fires in that area, plus the county has mutual aid agreements with fire departments in neighboring Torrance and Bernalillo counties, as well as the city of Santa Fe, Hart said.

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the person for help, he said. Care could last up to 24 months.

But the idea of compelling treatment rattled some, and the California State Association of Counties objected to the requirements put on counties. Other groups called on the need for more resources, which Newsom has proposed for additional psychologists and treatment beds.

“At this point there are a million questions and a million things that could go horribly wrong,” said Kevin Baker, director of government relations for ACLU California, in an email. He said homelessness is caused by skyrocketing housing costs “and we won’t solve homelessness, mental health, or substance abuse problems by locking people up and drugging them against their will.”

The Western Center on Law and Poverty pointed to a 2020 state audit that found many people put under conservatorship wound up with limited treatment and follow-up while the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office called the proposal a “Band-Aid” approach falling short of the fully funded mental health system California needs.

“As it stands, because of the drastic under-funding of our mental healthcare system, our clients are waiting [anywhere from] nine weeks to six months in jail for treatment,” the office said in a statement.

Still, others say that mandated treatment is necessary for some who are too sick to realize they need care.

Patrol agent in southern Arizona shows he was struck by bullets twice in the cheek, once in the chest and once in the abdomen.

The report was released Friday by the Pima County medical examiner for its autopsy of 32-yearold Carmelo Cruz-Marcos from Puebla, Mexico, for the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office, which is investigating the shooting.

Mexico’s Consulate in Douglas was involved in efforts to identify Cruz and contact his family.

Sheriff’s officials said the shooting occurred around 10 p.m.

Feb. 19 during an encounter between a Border Patrol agent and some migrants in the country illegally in a rugged mountainous area about 30 miles northeast of the border city of Douglas.

The agent’s name has not been released.

GLENDALE, Ariz. — The pilot of a fighter jet operated by a military contractor that crashed outside Phoenix last month reported a fuel problem and then a failure of the jet’s engine before he ejected and the plane went down in the open desert, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board.

The French-built Mirage F1 was flying out of Luke Air Force Base in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale on Feb. 10 on a mission to help train military fighter pilots from the training base.

The NTSB report says the pilot was flying with another contractor jet operating out of Luke as aggressors, planes that simulate attacks on competing fighters.

The two supersonic Mirage fighters split up to work in a military operations area northwest of Phoenix, and near the end of the activity the pilot reported there was a discrepancy in two cockpit fuel indicators.

The pilot left the training area when he reached minimum fuel levels and was flying back toward Luke when he said he lost fuel pressure and the engine quit, according to the NTSB report.

The pilot told investigators he tried to restart the jet’s engine, but that effort failed. When he determined he was too far away from Luke to get the plane safely on the runway, he steered the jet out into an open desert area and ejected.

The pilot suffered minor injuries, and the plane crashed about 16 miles northwest of the base. The wreckage has been recovered and will be examined by investigators who are trying to determine the cause of the crash.

The pilot’s identity has not been released, but he was flying for Airborne Tactical Advantage Co., a Newport News, Va., company that contracts with the military. The company, known as ATAC, is one of a growing number of contractors that fly aircraft

side of Bagdad, Ariz.

A family member reported Powers missing in June 2007 after he and Richards were last seen buying mining gear that April.

Powers’ disappearance remained unsolved until a 2016 cold-case investigation resulted in the discovery of Powers’ buried remains near a campsite used by the two men.

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City Land Use Department staff in a report on the request recommended denial of the project because it failed to explicitly include plans for a park, as required by the overlying Southwest Santa Fe Community Area Master Plan.

Staff suggested approval, however, if the commission included a condition for the developers to provide a preliminary development plan in three years that includes a 5-acre park and keeps 50 percent of the homes affordable.

Commissioners still expressed concerns.

“I’m still not convinced this is the best way to approach this,” Commissioner Dan Pava said.

The project received notable support from

affordable housing advocates, while some residents argued the project goes against the intended purpose of the space to provide a park.

The 22.2-acre site has been used as an open space and is one of the only park-like locations for the neighborhoods west of South Meadows since Santa Fe County bought the land with bond funds in 2001, planning to build a park. The park never materialized.

The city annexed the neighborhood in 2014 but declined to take ownership of the open space. The county paid off the bond in 2018.

Homewise has a contract with the county to buy the land for $1.7 million, with the condition that the Santa Fe City Council approve the applicants’ development plan.

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Ore. man convicted of murder of Ariz. mine claim partner PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Arizona jurors have convicted an Oregon man of second-degree murder and other charges stemming from the disappearance of a mining claim partner whose body was found buried in the desert a decade later.

A Yavapai County Superior Court jury in Prescott on Thursday convicted Anthony James Richards, 59, of Terrebonne, of second-degree murder in the killing of Larry Powers, the County Attorney’s Office said Friday.

Richards and Powers were partners in a mining claim out-

to help train military aviators and operates the F1 and other former military jets. It provides aggressor aircraft to help military fighter pilots learn their trade as well as other services to the military.

The crash was the second involving a Mirage F1 operated by a contractor in the past year. A jet operated by a different contractor crashed in Las Vegas, Nev., last year as the pilot came in to land at Nellis Air Force Base. The pilot — Nicholas Hunter Hamilton, 43, of Las Vegas, Nev. — died.

The May 24 crash happened after Hamilton had an in-flight emergency, and the plane crashed into a neighborhood, bursting into flames. Hamilton ejected shortly before the plane hit the ground.

Hamilton, a retired U.S. Air Force pilot, was working for military contractor Draken International.

The Mirage F1 is a supersonic, single-engine all-weather fighter that can also perform ground attack and reconnaissance roles.

It was designed in the late 1960s and saw service in the French air force before being retired in the mid-2010s. Other nations also operated the jet.

ATAC bought 63 retired French F1 jets and took possession of the last one in 2019, according to a posting on the company’s Facebook page.

Another crash of a military contractor aircraft happened in 2015 in southern Arizona, killing Marine Lance Cpl. Anthony T. DuBeau. The 23-year-old from Kenosha, Wis., was in a pickup providing safety oversight for a construction crew working alongside the runway at Marine Corps Air Station-Yuma.

A final National Transportation Safety Board report said the pilot of the BAE Systems Hawk jet took off at too low a speed on March 11, 2015. The British-built jet flying on a mission for the Air Force wobbled, veered off the left side of the base runway and eventually hit the pickup.

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are schools and taxpayers,” he said.

While the agency received the governor’s letter Friday Continued from Page A-6 afternoon, Wollmann reiterated a review was already underway. reporting that the originators “The thing is, there’s nothing of those indexes are going to really to be done at the moment remove the Russian companies in question, so that exposure will until the markets reopen,” he said. “Then we can make a take care of itself.”

Another holding, which makes decision and approach this in the least damaging way.” up the bulk of the agency’s Wollmann also said agency Russian investments, is through an emerging market manager, he investors monitor markets “on a daily, hourly basis” and were said. aware of “the way things were “The council will have to winding up” before the invasion review this and see how they started. Before the governor’s can best go about divesting the letter, others called for cutting most efficient way for optimal outcomes for beneficiaries, which ties with Russia.

Wollmann said the council is scheduled to meet March 22.

“Obviously, the governor is our chair, and her opinion’s critical to what we do,” he said. “The other council members, I don’t know how they want to approach this.

[The governor’s letter] wasn’t an executive order. It was a directive to evaluate portfolios, which we’ve been working on for a week now, so that’s underway; that’s happening. The rest of it, we just have to basically wait for the freeze to lift on those securities and see how the council wants to approach this.”

Follow Daniel J. Chacón on Twitter @danieljchacon.

FUNERAL SERVICES AND MEMORIALS CEDAR ATTANASIO/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signs one of a suite of education bills Tuesday to increase teacher salaries and benefits Tuesday. Hospitals are awaiting authorization of $171 million in funds from the legislative session that go toward their labor costs in New Mexico.

New Mexico hospitals request approval of financial support Associated Press

Hospital executives on Thursday urged New Mexico’s governor to sign off on a health care spending proposal that would devote $171 million to shoring up labor costs at hospitals and nursing homes.

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has until March 9 to vet an $8.5 billion spending plan from the Democratic-led Legislature for the fiscal year starting July 1. She can veto any portions of the budget.

In a public letter to the governor, the New Mexico Hospital Association describes financial and physical strain of the coronavirus pandemic on hospital staff that has left nursing departments depleted.

IN BRIEF UNM has shortage of donated cadavers ALBUQUERQUE — Fewer people in New Mexico are donating their bodies to science when they die, making training harder for medical students preparing for their careers.

The University of New Mexico Anatomy Lab said Friday it needs about 75 donated cadavers each year to train future doctors, but currently only has 18.

Amy Rosenbaum, director of the university’s anatomical donations program, says medical students missed out on working with real cadavers during the early part of the coronavirus pandemic when all teaching was virtual.

“Seeing it in 3-D and in person is the best way to teach,” she said.

The pandemic also has affected donations with mortuaries overwhelmed handling deaths and staffing problems, she said. Previously the university program accepted dona-

“Our challenges are sustaining the most precious resources, our people,” said the letter signed by chief executives from 25 hospitals across New Mexico.

Health care spending provisions passed by the Legislature in February would funnel $171 million toward labor costs at New Mexico hospitals.

Health care executives also are lobbying for an $11 million increase to rates of reimbursement payments to hospitals through Medicaid, as well as $15 million to expand nursing educating programs.

The governor also is weighing whether to sign off on a $1,000 personal income tax credit for resident nurses who work full time.

tions from across the state but now can only pick up cadavers within a 60-mile radius because of transportation issues.

Anatomy instructors may soon have to improvise when teaching students, said Rosenbaum.

“We’ve gone so far as to say maybe Group A can dissect one side of the body and Group B can dissect the other,” she said.

Calif. cop gets six years for shooting mentally ill man A California police officer was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for fatally shooting an unarmed mentally ill man during a slow-speed car chase in a wealthy San Francisco suburb.

An attorney for the man’s family called it “a watershed moment” and an example of progress being made in California and elsewhere in holding law enforcement accountable.

Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Terri Mockler said evidence showed 33-year-old Laudemer Arboleda was driving 6 mph as he tried

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to evade Danville police officer Andrew Hall, who fired a barrage of bullets into him that violated his own training and put fellow officers in danger.

Hall made “extremely poor choices,” the judge said, and Arboleda did not deserve to die for evading an officer.

“While he may have violated the law, it was no law that carried a sentence of death for him,” the judge said.

The victim’s mother, Jeannie Atienza, said in statement the sentence brings some closure to the family now that Hall has been held to some account.

They want Hall retried on the voluntary manslaughter charge that a jury deadlocked on in October. Jurors convicted Hall of assault with a firearm for the shooting.

“Our family has been through hell,” she said.

Atienza said it pained the family that it took nearly three years to bring charges against Hall, during which time he fatally shot another man, Tyrell Wilson, who was homeless and mentally ill.

MARY E. MARTINEZ It is with great sadness that The Martinez Family announces the passing of our beloved mother and matriarch Mary E. Martinez, age 77. She passed away February 25th after a courageous battle with Covid Pneumonia.

Mary was a dedicated wife, mother, sister, auntie, grandmother, great grandmother & godmother. She was born and raised in Las Vegas, New Mexico on May 9th, 1944 to Alfredo and Aurora Trujillo. She is preceded in death by brothers Gilbert, Leo, and sister Elaine.

She graduated from Robertson High School 1962 and in 1965 married her high school sweetheart, Pete Martinez II. As newlyweds they moved to Santa Fe in 1971 and Mary was able to realize her calling of taking care of others, as an RN. Mary was known for being a selfless and caring mother, and always giving of herself and her time freely. Her life’s pleasure was dedicating her life to raising her children and grandchildren. As a grandmother, she never told any of her grandchildren off, and spoiled them as much as possible. In her free time, she loved cooking her celebrated dishes from scratch; fresh Beans, Blue corn chicken enchiladas, Lasagna, and the family favorite, Dutch Chocolate Cake.

She loved to share meals and shop with her sisters; Elaine, Theresa, and Margie. She was a woman of deep faith and served as a Eucharistic minister at Santa Maria de La Paz. Mary is greatly missed and is survived by her three children: Liza, Pete, & Gabriel(Lori), and her 5 grandchildren: Angel, Crystal, Michael, Anjelica, & Ariel, her 5 great grandchildren: Kaydince, Mikaylah, Kianah, Keilani, and “JJ” plus numerous beloved nieces/nephews, and hijados.

Mary was described by many as an “angel from heaven”. We are sorrowful to be without you, but rejoice knowing you have gone to be with The Lord and are now watching over us.

Please join the family for memorial services to celebrate Mary’s life and say our last goodbyes.

All services to be held at Santa Maria de la Paz in Santa Fe, NM. (Richards Ave.): Rosary: March 10th at 7:00pm Funeral Services: March 12th at 10:00am Internment: Rosario Cemetery, Santa Fe, NM – Reception following at Santa Maria de la Paz

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Padre Martínez’s influence in N.M. went far beyond his role in church This, and the public challenging of the bishop by the old padre, led to Lamy excommunicating the sacraments be withheld from those who did Martínez in 1858. This effectively removed his not tithe to the church. His bishop firmly rebuked priestly faculties and separated him from church him. sacraments. Still, Martínez persisted ministering This strict form of Catholicism clashed with the to his flock of followers in Taos. It was a schism folk Catholicism of Padre Martínez, as well as the that would be a persistent problem for Lamy. enlightened teachings of the Jesuits of Durango, Just as Martínez was a harbinger for New MexMexico, who influenced the padre a great deal. ico’s entrance into Mexican nationhood in 1821, At first, the two priests worked well together. But so, too, was he a sentinel over New Mexico as it became a U.S. territory in 1848. He was politically when Lamy issued a Christmas pastoral letter in astute during our Mexican period and was a leader 1854 stating sacraments would be withheld if the in developing local policy for New Mexicans. It New Mexicans did not tithe, Martínez became was not so much that Martínez was pro-American furious. as he was pro-New Mexican.

He had, after all, secured a dispensation from As the winds of change swept through the tithing for the poor people of the New Mexico region, Martínez wanted what was best for his from the bishop of Durango. people, be they subjects of the Spanish monarch, Both men were of a keen intellect and likely suffered from some egotism. For decades Martínez citizens of the Mexican nation or the U.S. government. As his life passed from his body, he was said was a proud leader of Northern New Mexico in to exclaim the Society of Jesus would clear up the areas of religion, education and politics. At the heart of their conflict was Martínez’s disobedience mess between him and Lamy, and heal the schism created by the two men. and Lamy’s rigidity. Both men commanded attenHis prophecy came true, at least partially, as he tion and devotion from their followers and were died in 1867 — the year the Jesuits arrived in New defenders of what they believed to be right.

Mexico.

In 1856 after retiring as the priest in Taos, a niece of Martínez was to be married and wanted Rob Martínez, New Mexico’s state historian, writes her uncle to officiate the marriage. The new priest, a column about the state’s rich past every month in a haughty Spaniard named Taladrid, refused The New Mexican. View episodes of his YouTube Martínez this honor. The old warrior priest officiseries, New Mexico History in 10 Minutes, at tinyurl.com/NMHistoryin10. ated anyway. He believed God was on his side.

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MARGARITA “MARGIE” CELINA LUJAN LOPEZ 8/26/1934 - 2/20/2022 Our beloved Margarita “Margie” Celina Lujan Lopez, native of Santa Fe for 87 years was called to her eternal resting place to be with the Lord. She is preceded in death by her parents Zulema and Jose Lujan and reunited with her daughter Kathleen. She is survived by her children; Liz, Trish (Kiko), Tim, Joseph (Aurora), James, and Roberta.

Grandchildren; Jessica (Anastacio), Jamie (Elario), Brittany (Gabriel), Joshua, Jamila (Tim), Victoria (Marcos), Margarito (Reyna) and Lexi; StepGrandchildren; Manny, Ruben, Sarah, Great Grandsons; Aaron, Judah, Jeriah, & Jaiven.

Margie was a loving mom, grandma and devoted her life to caring for all her children, grandchildren and friends.

Serving as pallbearers are: Ruben Montoya, Joshua Montoya, Margarito Lujan, Danny Alire, Elario Montoya, Tim Sisneros, and Marcos Gallegos-Romero. Rosary and Mass will be on Monday, March 7, 2022 at 10:00 am at St. Francis Cathedral Basilica.

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U.S. should welcome Ukrainians with open arms The Washington Post

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he images linger in your mind: Ukrainian children pressed against the windows of a bus or train sobbing or waving goodbye to their fathers and other relatives who remain behind to try to fight off an unjustified Russian war on Ukraine. It’s easy to imagine this could be your family broken apart. These could be your children joining the more than 1 million refugees trying to flee Ukraine in the past week.

President Joe Biden sent a powerful message at his State of the Union, proclaiming: “We, the United States of America, stand with the Ukrainian people.” The White House has been quick to send humanitarian and some military aid and to enact punish-

ing sanctions on Russia to cut off Vladimir Putin’s ability to easily finance this war. But there is something else the White House must do soon: offer to take in refugees from Ukraine.

The White House took the right step Thursday to offer temporary protected status to Ukrainians currently in the United States on business, tourism or student visas.

This will ensure these people do not have to return to a war zone. It had bipartisan support and will make a life-changing difference to these families. About 75,100 Ukrainians in the United States will benefit from this move, according to a Department of Homeland Security estimate.

But temporary protected status does nothing to help with the swell of refugees

crossing the Ukrainian border daily. It’s heartening to see so many nations in Europe taking in the people fleeing Ukraine. Poland alone has taken in more than 500,000, with many Polish people offering rooms in their homes to the refugees and helping to rebuild a critical train route to make it easier for Ukrainians to flee. After years of Poland lurching away from democracy and the European Union, it’s a rapid turnaround Biden and top E.U. leaders should be quick to support, along with ensuring non-white refugees leaving Ukraine are also welcomed.

Beyond money, it would send a strong signal to Poland, Hungary and other nations taking in refugees if Biden were to announce the United States would accept tens of thousands of Ukrainians as

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State police ID crash victim as retired Las Vegas firefighter, March 3 Of course, the ones who died are the ones who were a vital part of our community: a retired firefighter and police officer. Just heartbreaking.”

Shannon Gallegos Prayers and condolences to the family and friends of the victims.”

Laurajean Abeyta Crime rate is increasing in Santa Fe, and first responders are also direct victims when combating criminals in our community. My condolences to the police officer’s and firefighter’s families.”

Sonia Perez What a tragedy.”

Maria Rosenberg ‘It is unclear if the woman/ victim knew the car thief.’

Let’s hope it’s not another domestic dispute.”

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THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: March 5, 1922: Strict enforcement of all the city ordinances of Albuquerque will start the first of March, and from that date all bicycles will be required to carry lights at night. This will also apply to wagons and buggies.

March 5, 1947: The senate today passed, 12 to 11, a bill which would authorize counties to adopt local option gambling, with Lieut. Gov. Joe Montoya casting the deciding vote. Montoya, with the vote tied 11 and 11 on its passage, explained his favorable vote by saying that it was a “recognized fact” that the bill will correct a “deplorable” situation.

March 5, 1972: An audit, hand-carried by city officials to Dallas, Tex., Friday was unacceptable, and funds for the Santa Fe Model Cities Program will continue to be withheld, Manuel Sanchez, regional director of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) told The New Mexican.

March 5, 1997: The request was routine, but the receptionist at the Santa Fe County Clerk’s Office wasn’t getting it.

“You want what?” she asked.

The two women repeated themselves. They wanted a marriage license application.

Obviously flustered, the woman went over to talk to a co-worker. She then came back and said County Clerk Rebecca Bustamante would see them in a few minutes. … Tuesday’s brief meeting ended and [the couple] walked out into the chilly February sunshine.

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well. (Biden allowed entry to about 76,000 Afghan refugees last year.) He can do this on his own, without Congress. This is yet another way to truly stand with the brave and industrious Ukrainian people and our allies around the world. It would also provide more workers for the U.S. economy.

This is already being called “Europe’s largest refugee crisis this century,” and it’s likely to get far worse in the weeks ahead.

One of the United States’ great moral failures in the 20th century was turning away some Jewish refugees during World War II and then not taking in more displaced people after the war, especially Jews who survived the Holocaust. Today’s leaders should not repeat that mistake. We should welcome Ukrainians with open arms.

COMMENTARY JACK TURBAN

Texas politicians are lying about transgender youth I

’m a physician who has dedicated his career to improving the mental health of transgender youths. I’ve treated kids so uncomfortable with their chests they bind them until they can barely breathe. I’ve seen cases of teens so distressed by their genitals they don’t go to the bathroom and wind up suffering intestinal damage; they’re often so hunched over it looks as if they want to disappear into themselves.

The dual traumas of their bodies developing in ways that don’t match their gender identity and the relentless harassment from their communities are overwhelming. A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found 35 percent of transgender teens had attempted suicide in the past 12 months.

Yet last month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and state Attorney General Ken Paxton worked together to label as “child abuse” standard-of-care medical practices for transgender youths that have been endorsed by major medical organizations, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. They also directed the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to investigate parents who help their children access such care.

A court for now is blocking investigation of parents.

This tragic mistake is on par with putting children with diabetes into foster care because their parents gave them their insulin.

Over decades, the medical profession has developed protocols to help young people align their bodies with who they know themselves to be. We start with fully reversible interventions (temporary puberty blockers) and move toward less-reversible interventions (e.g., testosterone or estrogen) while providing psychotherapy so teens can better understand themselves and make informed decisions. With this approach, we’ve seen young transgender people thrive. Abbott and Paxton want to undo that progress.

It’s clear Paxton hasn’t conferred with medical experts. He claims in a statement “the medical evidence does not demonstrate that children and adolescents benefit from” gender-affirming care. In reality, at least 14 studies have examined the impact of gender-affirming care on the mental health of youths with gender dysphoria and have shown improvements in anxiety, depression and suicidality.

Paxton repeats commonly parroted misinformation about transgender youths. He falsely implies most transgender adolescents will grow up to be cisgender (i.e., to identify with the gender they were assigned at

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birth). These data, hotly contested, apply to children who haven’t yet hit puberty, who are not candidates for gender-affirming medical interventions. Once a transgender child reaches the earliest stages of puberty, the point at which medical interventions are considered, it’s rare for them to later identify as cisgender. Studies of gender-affirming surgeries show regret rates between 0.3 percent and 0.6 percent. Of adolescents who start puberty blockers, only 1.9 percent choose to stop gender-affirming care.

Among the few adolescents who begin and then end gender-affirming interventions, some highlight the treatment as a necessary part of their journey to understand themselves. While some people might “de-transition” and regret gender-affirming interventions, these numbers are extraordinarily small in the context of the estimated 1.4 million transgender people in the United States. As with all medical interventions, potential risk of regret is weighed against potential benefit on a case-by-case basis. But this decision should be up to doctors and families, not politicians.

Paxton also claims gender-affirming care for adolescents results in “sterilization.” This is false.

Puberty blockers have been used for decades, and they don’t impair fertility. It’s possible — though not fully established — estrogen and testosterone might impair fertility, and, for that reason, guidelines recommend fertility-preservation counseling before starting these medications. While genital surgeries would of course have more dramatic implications for fertility, under current guidelines these procedures aren’t recommended for people younger than 18.

Parents helping their children through these transitions love their children. Yet Paxton, in seeking to label parents abusers, threatens to remove children from loving homes. Such separation results in trauma, along with physical and mental health issues, including depression, suicide attempts, decreases in IQ and even shorter life expectancy.

No parent should have to decide between going to prison and withholding necessary care from their child. Health policy needs to be driven by data and expertise, not misinformation and political rhetoric.

I hope Paxton and Abbot will not let their political ambitions cloud their responsibility to protect the welfare of children in their state, and I pray they will change course immediately.

Jack Turban is a chief fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine. This commentary was originally written for the Washington Post.

e are Republicans, Democrats and those unaffiliated with a party. We are conservatives, moderates and liberals. Many of us have long been active in politics, while some of us have been uninvolved — until now. But today, we agree we must speak out about a serious threat facing communities across the country.

Political extremism is that threat. It has fueled hatred. It has promoted false conspiracies and lies.

It has turned family, friends and neighbors against each other. And it must stop.

We want to be clear. We are not against principled partisanship from any political party or interest group. We are against any extremism whether from the left or right.

Yes, this is political, but it’s not only about politics. Fundamentally, it is about how we treat each other. Call it civility, respect or plain good manners. Democracy cannot survive without it.

Speaking up publicly against extremism right now is essential. Silence emboldens extremists. The last few years have shown that it will not go away just by hoping it will. We must do more.

Extremism is an issue facing the entire country.

But our best chance of influencing change is by focusing on it at the local level. If more of us become involved, we can rebuild politics in our local communities. It is possible to return to a sane and functional government.

We must do more than simply be against extremism. We must embrace an alternative set of political principles. We, the undersigned, agree these seven beliefs should guide us.

We believe political parties should vigorously compete over values, principles and ideas but also find common ground to solve problems and pass needed legislation. Gridlock is not an option.

We believe facts, supported by irrefutable evidence, are the basis for what to believe and how to act. No civilization can endure when its citizens believe there is no such thing as objective facts or truths.

We believe no one has a monopoly on the best public policy proposals. That means the ability to listen to and understand the sides of a debate are a prerequisite to finding practical solutions.

We believe public interest must come before party interest. This means putting what is right ahead of loyalty to a party or an individual party leader.

We believe problem-solving is more important than fundraising. Extremists line their pockets, then use the funds to amplify division instead of producing solutions.

We believe citizens should be free to run for office or volunteer to support the candidate of their choice without being threatened or harassed.

Extremism uses intimidation because it cannot stand up to independent, open-minded thinking.

Instead, it relies on the mentality of the mob.

We believe it is time to expect citizens to embrace individual responsibility. Extremists always talk about “freedom” but never mention the responsibility to the community that comes with it.

We, the undersigned, pledge: To support candidates who best embody these beliefs — regardless of political party.

To urge family and friends to oppose political extremism as if the well-being of the nation depends on it.

To speak up and speak out publicly, with friends over coffee or more publicly in media.

To get involved, vote and volunteer.

Endorse the pledge and have your voice heard at www.restorethebalance.org.

George Orbanek was the editor and publisher of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel from 1985 to 2008.

He is a center-right independent. Tim Sarmo is a former regional manager for the Colorado Department of Local Affairs. He was a longtime Democrat but is now unaffiliated. Both authors are founding members of Restorethebalance.org.

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Covid Vaccine Clinic Today @ 2pm. Advent Life Church has resumed weekly in-person meetings following the NMDOH safety guidelines.

Advent Life Church is an inclusive community that believes the closer we are to Jesus, the closer we are to who we could be as human beings. Every week we come together to learn how to imitate Jesus in our everyday life. So visit us! Whoever you are, whatever background, if you are tired, overwhelmed, lonely, or broken, come see us. Regular serviceSaturday at 10 A.M. Address: 62 A Van nu Po (across from the institute of American Indian Arts – IAIA). Find us on Facebook and YouTube by searching for Advent Life Church.

We are the Light Sunday service: 10:30 a.m., La Luz (Spanish service) at 3:00p.m., SoulCon (men’s group) Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., Bible studies Wednesday at 6:30 p.m., Women’s Support Group Thursday at 6:30 p.m., SOZO Youth Group (ages 12-18): Friday 6:30-10:00 p.m. For more information: 505982-2080 or www.tlmv.org.

B AP TIST First Baptist Church of Santa Fe Welcomes you to in-person worship at 10:30 a.m. on Sundays, masks are strongly recommended, or go to our website www.fbcsantafe. com to learn about our broadcasts. We offer Bible studies for all ages at various weekly times. For more information visit our website. Reed Redus, Senior Pastor; Randy Egan, Interim Music Minister. Chris Castorena, Associate Pastor of Family Ministry and Education.

CH R I S T IA N S CI ENCE First Church Of Christ, Scientist

The Celebration of Santa Fe Now in our 30th year as a lively, inclusive, eclectic, creative spiritual community. Join us in the collective energy of All-Embracing Love. As we remain closed, we invite you to join our virtual service via Zoom each Sunday at 10:30 am. For the zoom link, contact ken@kenshaw.net. Our speaker for Sunday March 7th is Devin Green, “Encounters with Healing.” The talks of our guest speakers are available as podcasts at www.thecelebration.org. The Celebration of Santa Fe, a Sunday Service Different.

P R E SB YT ER I A N Christ Church Santa Fe (PCA)

First Church of Christ, Scientist

Start your Sunday with insight and inspiration. Attend a Christian Science service to sing and pray together Santa Fe and gain a deeper understanding of the Bible. Find healing, security and stability, a sense of peace. You’ll leave inspired and refreshed, in the company of a community that cares. First Church of Christ Scientist, Santa Fe, 323 E. Cordova Rd. Sunday services, and Sunday School at 10 am, in church & on Zoom. Childcare available. Wednesday sharing 6:30 pm, in church & on Zoom Reading Room, Monday-Saturday, 10 am - 1 pm. ChristianscienceSantafe.com for more information.

EP I S CO PA L St. Bede’s Episcopal Church CELEBRATING GOD’S LOVE FOR ALL. We are a welcoming faith community as diverse as the many faces of Santa Fe. St. Bede’s has limited seating at Sunday services by reservation at 8 a.m. (in English) 10:30 a.m. (in English) and at 12:30 p.m. (in Spanish) following current safety guidelines. Additional services offered Tuesday 6 p.m. (in Spanish) and Wednesday 12:15 p.m. (in English). Online service access, Worship aides and other support information available on our web site. Visit www.stbedesantafe.org or call 982-1133 for more information.

The Church of the Holy Faith We welcome all people into an ever-deepening relationship with Jesus Christ. Sunday morning services at 7:30 in the chapel (spoken Eucharist), 8:30 (spoken Eucharist with congregational singing) and 11 (sung Eucharist with choir and congregational singing) in the church. Reservations encouraged through the church website (holyfaithchurchsf.org) or by calling the church (9824447) by Friday noon of each week. Walk-ins seating if space allows. 11 am service streamed through Holy Faith’s YouTube channel. Tuesday Taize service with Holy Eucharist at 6 pm. Holy Eucharist also celebrated Wednesdays at 12:10 pm in the chapel. No midweek reservations needed. All services masked.

JE W ISH Temple Beth Shalom Temple Beth Shalom is a welcoming, diverse, inclusive community -- celebrating Reform Judaism, exploring our connection with God, and dedicated to learning and pursuing justice.

Services are available online through links on our website (www.sftbs.org), and in person when the pandemic permits, on Friday evenings at 6:30 pm and Saturday mornings at 10:30 am. For information about pandemic requirements, membership, Shabbat morning study, or classes, check our website, call 505982-1376, or email us at info@sftbs.org. Tune in to KSFR on first and third Wednesdays of each month at 6:30 pm to hear “Soul Searching” with Rabbi Neil

NO N - DE NO MINATI ON A L Eckankar You are eternal Soul, a unique divine spark of the Creator, and can discover a more open awareness that brings inner harmony and a loving perspective on life. A six-week book discussion on “ECK Wisdom on Life after Death” will begin March 9, 6:00-7:00 p.m. Go to meetup.com/santa-fe-eckankar for details and to join. Drop in anytime—you don’t need to have the book. Or visit eckankar.org to learn about advanced spiritual living courses and your endless potential for creativity as Soul. For NM info: 1-800-8766704 or eckankar-nm.org.

Our Presbyterian church is located at Don Gaspar Ave and Cordova Road. Our focus is on the historical truths of Jesus Christ, His Love and Redemptive Grace...and our contemporary response. We worship in person at 8:45/10:45 AM this Sunday. Assoc. Pastor John Standridge will speak from Mark 2:13-17, on “The Scandalous Savior”. The 10:45 AM service live-streams via YouTube, Facebook and christchurchsantafe.org. Sunday Morning Study of the Westminster Catechism, 10:10 - 10:35. Gospel Journey for children streams 11am/available online and in person Sundays; loving, professional nursery care available 8:30 AM-12 AM Sunday. Thursday night activities for children/youth this week, 5-7 PM.

First Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) First Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) Proof of Covid vaccination and mask required to attend. Sunday: MorningSong 9:45am, Worship Service 11:00am. Wednesday: Morning Prayer 7:00am and Celtic EvenSong 5:30pm. Friday: TGIF Concert Series 5:30pm, Michael Tortorello, soprano. 208 Grant Ave — fpcsantafe.org — 505.982.8544

Westminster Presbyterian Westminster Presbyterian Church, 841 West Manhattan, Santa Fe, NM 87501 (505) 983-8939. Westminster Presbyterian Church welcomes old friends and new visitors alike to our in-person 11:00 a.m. Sunday worship. Proof of full vaccination and masks are required. We are a welcoming, open and affirming congregation and we use English and Spanish in our worship. Visit our website westminstersantafe.org for more information.

R US S I A N ORT H O DO X St. Juliana of Lazarevo Russian Orthodox Church St. Juliana of Lazarevo Russian Orthodox Church (3877 West Alameda, Santa Fe, NM) serves the Orthodox liturgy with Russian Music in English. Orthodoxy is the Faith of the Apostles, continuously transmitted by holy tradition. We are an old calendar parish of The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, serving Northern New Mexico. All are welcome to our services, for the God of all became Man on behalf of all and for all. Great Vespers Saturday evenings at 6:00, Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom Sunday mornings at 9:15. For information contact Priest David at iereidavid@yahoo.com or call at (505) 310-2805.

UN I T ED C HU R C H OF C H R I S T United Church of Santa Fe “Until an Opportune Time” 10:00 worship First Sunday of Lent, in-person and online. This Sunday, United kids and adults assemble hygiene kits for people in Ukraine and refugee camps in Eastern Europe. United provides 130 meals weekly from Felipe’s Tacos and Mucho Gourmet for Interfaith Shelter. Wednesday Lent Communion Service (12:15 to 12:45). “Love God, Neighbor, Creation” That’s our goal. Go to unitedchurchofsantafe.org to register for in-person events, access livestream, or donate for Ukraine, Afghan, Shelter meals or other appeals. Rev. Talitha Arnold, Pastor; Jacquelyn Helin, Music Dir./ Pianist; Bradley Ellingboe, Choral Director. 1804 Arroyo Chamiso (St. Michael’s Dr.)--505--988-3295

To add your service, call Charity at (505) 995-3808 or email charityv@sfnewmexican.com

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SECTION B Saturday, March 5, 2022 SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

BOYS CL A SS 5A T OURNAME NT

Demons, healed Lovato host Sandia Forward took nasty spill last week, injuring his right arm; Matadors’ size will challenge Santa Fe High

By James Barron

jbarron@sfnewmexican.com

The bus ride last week was somber for the Santa Fe High Demons.

The 74-60 loss to Los Lunas for the District 5-5A Tournament championship on Feb. 25 was humbling enough, but it was punctuated by the splint on the right arm of Demons senior forward P.J. Lovato. It was necessary after a nasty spill late in the game, and it

IF YOU GO u 7 p.m. today, Toby Roybal Memorial Gymnasium, No. 9 Sandia vs.

No. 8 Santa Fe High.

had his teammates wondering if he had played his last game after four sterling years in the program.

“I think that was on everybody’s mind coming back home from that game,” Santa Fe High head coach Zack Cole said.

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But young bodies have a way of healing almost miraculously, and Lovato was no different. He practiced all week, and he will see the court Saturday night when the eighth-seeded Demons (22-5) take on No. 9 Albuquerque Sandia (17-9) in the opening round of the Class 5A Tournament in Toby Roybal Memorial Gymnasium.

The two teams take to the floor at 7 p.m., with the winner advancing to play the winner of the No. 16 Las Cruces Organ Mountain/No. 1 Las Cruces game for the quarterfinals at the home of the higher seed.

Cole said having Lovato on the court is huge for Santa Fe High because he brings energy, Please see story on Page B-3

Santa Fe High’s P.J. Lovato, right, drives against an Española player Dec. 4 in the Bobby Rodriguez Capital City Tournament. He has overcome an injured right arm and will play Saturday against Sandia.

LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

GIRL S CL A SS 3A S TATE T OURNAME NT SFIS 40, SANDIA PREP 24

Fix OK’d to stem race bias in concussion settlement

Lady Braves race to win

By Maryclaire Dale Associated Press

PHILADELPHIA — Black retired football players who were denied payments for dementia in the NFL’s $1 billion concussion settlement can seek to be retested or have their claims rescored to eliminate racial bias in the testing and payout formula, under a revised plan finalized Friday.

Outrage over the use of “race-norming” in the dementia testing — which INSIDE assumed Black people have a lower cogniu Trade talk tive baseline score, overshadows making it harder for marginal class of QBs in free them to show mental agency. declines linked to u Combine football — forced will help clear the NFL and players’ up battle to be lawyers back to the No. 1 draft pick. negotiating table last PAGE B-4 year.

The revisions could allow many retired players to resubmit their claims and add $100 million or more to the NFL’s legal tab.

The NFL, through the fund, has paid out more than $800 million, nearly half for dementia claims. The dementia awards average about $600,000.

“Thousands of Black players stand to benefit from these changes to the settlement,” said lawyer Cyril V. Smith, who represents former players Najeh Davenport and Kevin Henry, whose 2020 race discrimination lawsuit brought the issue to light.

Senior U.S. District Judge Anita Brody in Philadelphia, who has overseen the NFL concussion case for a decade, dismissed their lawsuit but ordered the parties to address the problem. She approved the negotiated changes in an order filed Friday.

More than 3,300 former players or their families have sought awards for brain injuries linked to their playing days, more than 2,000 of them for moderate to advanced dementia.

The dementia cases have proven the most contentious, and only 3 in 10 claims have been paid to date. Another one-third have been denied, and the rest remain in limbo, often as the claim goes through several layers of review by the claims administrator, medical and legal consultants, audit investigators and judges.

In one recent ruling that shows the difficulty families have faced navigating the claims process, the reviewer bemoaned the long delays experienced by the widow of a former player found after his 2019 death to have advanced CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

His medical records show “progressive cognitive decline and unrebutted evidence that he suffered from CTE at the time of his death,” reviewer David Hoffman wrote.

“But those diagnoses, and the supporting medical records, do not fit into the settlement’s prescribed boxes for the claimed qualifying diagnosis [of dementia],” said Hoffman, an expert in contract law at the University of Pennsylvania law school.

The player, a Black man who was 57 when he died, also had his scores normed to account for his race, age, education and other factors, in keeping with the protocols used at the time.

According to Hoffman, his claim would not qualify for an award even if his tests were rescored under the new race-blind formula.

Please see story on Page B-4

PHOTOS BY GABRIELA CAMPOS/THE NEW MEXICAN

Santa Fe Indian School’s Madisen Valdez shoots against Sandia Prep’s Maddie Weisler on Friday in Pueblo Pavilion in the first round of the Girls Class 3A State Tournament. The No. 3 Lady Braves won 40-24 and take on No. 6 Socorro at home Tuesday.

Coach says No. 3 SFIS needed to slow down against Sandia Prep to avoid mistakes

By James Barron jbarron@sfnewmexican.com

T

he Santa Fe Indian School Lady Braves saw green lights most of Friday night.

Patricia Chavez wishes they would have seen red a few times and pumped the brakes.

There were plenty of scoring opportunities for SFIS throughout its Class 3A quarterfinal matchup Santa Fe Indian School’s Taryn Aguilar, right, battles for control against a Sandia Prep player.

against Albuquerque Sandia Prep in Pueblo Pavilion. It was just that Chavez, the Lady Braves head coach, said they just needed to slow down to convert them.

Far too often, the Lady Braves missed open teammates, rushed breakaway shots or just simply made bad passes to short-circuit those chances. Fortunately for them, they made more than enough baskets to fashion a 40-24 win to advance to the 3A quarterfinals on Tuesday night.

SFIS, seeded third in the tournament, will take on No. 6 Socorro at home for a spot in the Thursday semifinals that will take place in the The Pit. Duplicating the Lady Braves’ defensive effort would be great.

They forced 31 Sandia Prep turn-

overs and held the Lady Sundevils to just 7-of-39 shooting.

However, SFIS (19-6) committed 23 turnovers and missed 12 of its last 17 shots after a solid 14-for-30 start.

The Lady Braves also made just three of seven free throws overall, and just one of 10 3-pointers.

That one triple — by senior guard Jordan Torres with 4:08 left in the third quarter — handed the Lady Braves a 32-14 lead. They were on the verge of a blowout when they lost sight of knowing when to hit the gas pedal and when to take their foot off of it to set up the offense.

“We had a chance to really open it up there,” Chavez said. “Then we got a little selfish, a little careless and got out of system. And that created that lack of momentum and Please see story on Page B-3

GIRL S CL A SS 5A S TATE T OURNAME NT VOLC ANO VISTA 7 2, SANTA FE HIGH 28

Volcano Vista erupts to stomp Demonettes Santa Fe High ends season with winning record at 18-10

By Will Webber wwebber@sfnewmexican.com

ALBUQUERQUE — Sometimes there just aren’t enough rocks to take down Goliath.

Running headfirst into the buzz saw that is Volcano Vista, Santa Fe High’s girls basketball team saw its season come to an end Friday night in the opening round of the Class 5A State Tournament.

Forced into nearly three dozen

turnovers and getting shut out in the third quarter, the Demonettes were eliminated from the postseason with a 72-28 loss to the unbeaten and topseeded Hawks. Santa Fe ends its season with an 18-10 record while Volcano Vista (26-0) ran its winning streak to 40 games.

“We had moments where things were working, but as you can see, that’s a pretty good team they have here,” said Demonettes coach Nate Morris.

“You can try to do things against them, but they’re big, they’re fast and they have great athletes. And that defense, it never stops.”

For the uninitiated, defense is the

Sports editor: Will Webber, wwebber@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Richard Olmsted, rolmsted@sfnewmexican.com

name of the game at Volcano Vista.

The Hawks’ relentless pressure is best characterized as a swarm of black and white uniforms sprinting to the ball, choking off passing lanes and making life miserable for anyone trying to dribble through it or move the ball around it.

The Demonettes turned the ball over 11 times in a first quarter that was, for a while, surprisingly close. Volcano Vista started with an 11-0 run, getting half a dozen points from sophomore center Taejhuan Hill and a 3-pointer from Jaelyn Bates. Morris was forced to burn a timeout after the Hawks led 7-0 in less than two minutes.

Santa Fe High didn’t attempt its first shot until the 4:30 mark of the quarter, thanks to Volcano’s pressure. The Demonettes turned the ball over five times before freshman guard Alexis Espinoza got off the team’s first shot.

The team’s first field goal came at the midway point of the quarter when senior guard Olivia Montoya hit a midrange jumper that sparked a small rally.

A 10-2 run capped by a steal and pull-up transition jumper from the edge of the 3-point line by Laisha Diaz got the Demonettes within 13-10.

“The thing about our defense is Please see story on Page B-3 SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

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SCOREBOARD

Saturday, March 5, 2022

TODAY ON TV Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. All times local.

AFRICA LEAGUE BASKETBALL 10:30 a.m. ESPNEWS — SLAC vs.

DUC Dakar, Diamniadio, Senegal AUTO RACING 11:30 a.m. FS2 — NASCAR Cup Series: Qualifying, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas Noon FS1 — NASCAR Cup Series: Qualifying, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas 2:30 p.m. FS1 — NASCAR Xfinity Series: The Alsco Uniforms 300, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas, Nev. 5:30 p.m. CNBC — AMA Supercross: Round 9, Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach, Fla. COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 10 a.m. CBS — Alabama at LSU 10 a.m. ESPN — Arkansas at Tennessee 10 a.m. ESPN2 — Virginia at Louisville 10 a.m. FOX — Villanova at Butler 10:30 a.m. USA — Davidson at Dayton 11 a.m. ESPNU — Miami at Syracuse 11 a.m. SECN — South Carolina at Auburn Noon CBS — Kentucky at Florida Noon ESPN — Indiana at Purdue Noon ESPN2 — NC State at Florida St. 12:30 p.m. ESPNEWS — Pittsburgh at Notre Dame 12:30 p.m. FOX — Seton Hall at Creighton 12:30 p.m. USA — Rhode Island at St. Joseph’s 1 p.m. ESPNU — East Carolina at Wichita St. 1 p.m. PAC-12N — Stanford at Arizona St. 1:30 p.m. CBSSN — Missouri Valley Tournament: TBD, Semifinal, St. Louis 1:30 p.m. SECN — Georgia at Missouri 2 p.m. CBS — Oregon at Washington St. 2 p.m. ESPN — Texas at Kansas 2 p.m. ESPN2 — VCU at Saint Louis 3 p.m. FOX — DePaul at UConn 3 p.m. PAC-12N — California at Arizona 4 p.m. ACCN — North Carolina at Duke (Alternate Broadcast) 4 p.m. CBSSN — Missouri Valley Tournament: TBD, Semifinal, St. Louis 4 p.m. ESPN — North Carolina at Duke 4 p.m. ESPN2 — Iowa St. at Baylor 4 p.m. SECN — Vanderbilt at Mississippi 5 p.m. FS1 — Georgetown at Xavier 5:30 p.m. PAC-12N — Oregon St. at Washington 6:30 p.m. CBSSN — Boise St. at Colorado St. 6:30 p.m. ESPN2 — Ohio Valley Tournament: TBD, Championship, Evansville, Ind. 6:30 p.m. SECN — Mississippi St. at Texas A&M 7 p.m. FS1 — St. John’s at Marquette 7:30 p.m. ESPNU — Colorado at Utah 8 p.m. ESPN — Southern Cal at UCLA 8:30 p.m. CBSSN — San Diego St. at Nevada 8:30 p.m. ESPN2 — West Coast Tournament: TBD vs. San Francisco, Quarterfinal, Las Vegas 9 p.m. FS1 — UNLV at New Mexico 10:30 p.m. ESPN2 — West Coast Tournament: TBD vs. Santa Clara, Quarterfinal, Las Vegas COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) 9 a.m. CBSSN — Atlantic 10 Tournament: TBD, Semifinal, Wilmington, Del. 10 a.m. ACCN — Atlantic Coast Tournament: TBD, Semifinal, Greensboro, N.C. 10 a.m. FS1 — Big East Tournament: TBD vs. UConn, Quarterfinal, Uncasville, Conn.

11:30 a.m. CBSSN — Atlantic 10 Tournament: TBD, Semifinal, Wilmington, Del. 12:30 p.m. ACCN — Atlantic Coast Tournament: TBD, Semifinal, Greensboro, N.C. 12:30 p.m. FS2 — Big East Tournament: Marquette vs. DePaul, Quarterfinal, Uncasville, Conn.

1:30 p.m. BTN — Big Ten Tournament: TBD, Semifinal, Indianapolis

PREP SCORES GIRLS BASKETBALL

NMAA State Tournament First Round Class A Animas 57, Springer 42 Tohajilee 43, Reserve 39 Class 2A Menaul 52, Tatum 47 Class 3A Hatch Valley 40, Dexter 23 Socorro 42, West Las Vegas 35 Class 4A Kirtland Central 60, Miyamura 29 Class 5A Farmington 53, Eldorado 35 Hobbs 64, Piedra Vista 52 La Cueva 41, Sandia 32

TRANSACTIONS FRIDAY

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association NBA — Fined Cleveland head coach J.B. Bickerstaff an undisclosed amount for directing inappropriate language toward game officials and for failing to leave the court in a timely manner following his ejection in a game on Mar. 2 against Charlotte.

PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS — Signed F Drew Eubanks to a 10-day contract.

SAN ANTONIO SPURS — Converted the contracts of G Joe Wieskamp and F Devontae Cacok to NBA contracts.

Women’s National Basketball Association WASHINGTON SPIRIT — Signed F Tinaya Alexander to a one-year contract.

HOCKEY National Hockey League EDMONTON OILERS — Recalled D Philip Broberg

3 p.m. ESPNU — Southeastern Tournament: TBD, Semifinal, Nashville, Tenn.

4 p.m. BTN — Big Ten Tournament: TBD, Semifinal, Indianapolis 5 p.m. FS2 — Big East Tournament: TBD vs. Villanova, Quarterfinal, Uncasville, Conn.

5:30 p.m. ESPNU — Southeastern Tournament: TBD, Semifinal, Nashville, Tenn.

7:30 p.m. FS2 — Big East Tournament: TBD vs. Creighton, Quarterfinal, Uncasville, Conn.

COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (MEN’S) 8 p.m. PAC-12N — BYU at Southern Cal COLLEGE WRESTLING 9 a.m. BTN — Big Ten Tournament: Session 1, Lincoln, Neb. 6:30 p.m. BTN — Big Ten Tournament: Semifinals, Lincoln, Neb. FISHING 6 a.m. FOX — Bassmaster Series: 2022 Academy Sports + Outdoors Bassmaster Classic presented by Huk, Lake Hartwell, Greenville S.C. GOLF 10:30 a.m. GOLF — PGA Tour: The Arnold Palmer Invitational, Third Round, Bay Hill Golf Course, Orlando, Fla. 12:30 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour: The Puerto Rico Open, Third Round, Grand Reserve Country Club (Old), Rio Grande, Puerto Rico 12:30 p.m. NBC — PGA Tour: The Arnold Palmer Invitational, Third Round, Bay Hill Golf Course, Orlando, Fla. 3 p.m. GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: The Hoag Classic, Second Round, Newport Beach Country Club, Newport Beach, Calif.

9 p.m. GOLF — LPGA Tour: The HSBC Women’s World Championship, Final Round, Sentosa Golf Club — Tanjong Course, Sentosa, Singapore 2:30 a.m. Sunday GOLF — DP World Tour: The Kenya Open, Final Round, Muthaiga Golf Club, Nairobi, Kenya HORSE RACING 2 p.m. CNBC — 1/ST Saturday: Triple Crown Prep 2:30 p.m. FS2 — NYRA: America’s Day at the Races

NBA 6:30 p.m. ABC — Golden State at L.A. Lakers NFL 2 p.m. NFLN — NFL Scouting Combine: Defensive Linemen and Linebackers, Indianapolis NHL 10:30 a.m. NHLN — St. Louis at NY Islanders 1 p.m. ABC — Chicago at Philadelphia 5 p.m. NHLN — Boston at Columbus PARALYMPICS 7 p.m. USA — Men’s Para Cross-Country Skiing (18km Sitting) 8:30 p.m. NBC — Primetime: Paralympics Coverage (Taped) 8:30 p.m. USA — Para Snowboarding (Snowboard Cross Qualifying) (Taped) 10:05 p.m. USA — Sled Hockey (U.S. vs. South Korea) Midnight USA — Women’s Para Cross-Country Skiing (15km Standing) (Standing) RUGBY 6 a.m. CNBC — Premiership: Newcastle at Harlequins (Taped)

TENNIS 7 a.m. TENNIS — Lyon-WTA Semifinals 2 p.m. TENNIS — Davis Cup Qualifiers: U.S. vs. Colombia; Monterrey-WTA Semifinals from Bakersfield (AHL).

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Recalled G Cayden Primeau from Laval (AHL).

SEATTLE KRAKEN — Reassigned G Antoine Bibeau from Allen (ECHL) to Charlotte (AHL).

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Reassigned LW Pavel Gogolev from Toronto (AHL) to Newfoundland (ECHL). Recalled D Mac Hollowell from Toronto (AHL).

VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS — Promoted C Jake Leschyshyn from Henderson (AHL). Recalled G Jiri Patera from Fort Wayne (ECHL) to Henderson (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned G Zach Fucale to Hershey (AHL). Promoted LW Axel Jonsson-Fjallby from Hershey.

WINNIPEG JETS — Cleared RW Austin Poganski off waivers and reassigned to Manitoba (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer ATLANTA UNITED FC — Signed D Aiden McFadden to a short-term agreement for a match on Mar. 5 against Colorado.

COLORADO RAPIDS — Signed D Jackson Travis to a homegrown plyer contract.

VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC — Re-signed T Tosaint Ricketts to a one-year contract.

USL Championship INDY ELEVEN — Acquired G Elliot Pannicco on loan from Nashville SC (MLS). Acquired G Tor Saunders and assigned him to Chattanoga SC (USL League One).

ORANGE COUNTY SC — Acquired F Albi Skendi via transfer from Yeovil Town FC (National League).

NBA Phila.

Boston Toronto

W

39 38 34

L

23 27 29

PCT .629 .585 .540

Boys basketball — Class 2A/3A/4A/5A State Tournament, first round Class 5A — No. 9 Abq. Sandia at No. 8 Santa Fe High, 7 p.m.

Class 4A — No. 15 Abq. Hope Christian at No. 2 Taos, 6 p.m.

No. 14 Los Alamos at No. 3 Española Valley, 6 p.m.

Class 3A — No. 15 Dexter at No. 2 Las Vegas Robertson, 5 p.m.

No. 13 Tohatchi at No. 4 St. Michael’s, 5 p.m.

No. 9 Santa Fe Prep at No. 8 Crownpoint, 5 p.m.

No. 11 Santa Fe Indian School at No.

GB — 2½ 5½

6 Raton, 6 p.m.

No. 12 West Las Vegas at No. 5 Navajo Prep, 4 p.m.

Class 2A — No. 15 Peñasco at No. 3 Pecos, 6 p.m.

No. 13 Santa Rosa at No. 4 Escalante, 5 p.m.

No. 14 McCurdy at No. 3 Rehoboth Christian, 5 p.m.

Class 1A — No. 14 Coronado at No. 3 Mesilla Valley, 3 p.m.

Baseball — Black/Gold Slugfest at Hobbs: round-robin, Santa Fe High vs.

Hobbs, 12:30 p.m.; Pojoaque Valley vs. Los Lunas, 10 a.m.

St. Michael’s at Abq. St. Pius X Invitational: TBA Española Valley at Abq. Highland, 10 a.m.

Softball — Española Valley at Capital, 1 p.m.

Pojoaque Valley at Hobbs Invitational: TBA Abq. Academy at Los Alamos, 11 a.m.

SCORES

32 25

32 37

Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington Orlando

42 31 31 28 16

22 32 33 34 48

Milwaukee Chicago Cleveland Indiana Detroit

39 39 36 22 17

25 25 27 43 47

SOUTHEAST

CENTRAL

W

.500 .403

L

W

PCT

L

W

L

Memphis Dallas New Orleans San Antonio Houston

43 38 27 24 15

21 25 36 39 48

Utah Denver Minnesota Portland Oklahoma City

39 37 35 25 20

23 26 29 37 43

Phoenix Golden State L.A. Clippers L.A. Lakers Sacramento

50 43 34 27 24

12 20 31 35 41

NORTHWEST

PACIFIC

W

W

THURSDAY’S GAMES

GB

.656 .492 .484 .452 .250

— 10½ 11 13 26

.609 .609 .571 .338 .266

— — 2½ 17½ 22

PCT

GB

PCT

WESTERN CONFERENCE SOUTHWEST

8 14

GB

.672 .603 .429 .381 .238

— 4½ 15½ 18½ 27½

.629 .587 .547 .403 .317

— 2½ 5 14 19½

.806 .683 .523 .435 .369

— 7½ 17½ 23 27½

L

PCT

L

PCT

GB

GB

Atlanta 130, Chicago 124 Boston 120, Memphis 107 Miami 113, Brooklyn 107 Detroit 108, Toronto 106 Dallas 122, Golden State 113 Sacramento 115, San Antonio 112 L.A. Clippers 132, L.A. Lakers 111

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Longwood 79, NC A&T 65, OT SC-Upstate 72, Charleston Southern 62 Winthrop 68, High Point 51 Gardner-Webb 54, Campbell 53

MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE At Enterprise Center St. Louis, Mo.

QUARTERFINALS

MONDAY’S GAMES

DENVER 116, HOUSTON 101

HOUSTON (101) E.Gordon 4-7 0-0 11, Tate 5-10 0-0 10, Wood 7-12 8-8 22, Jal.Green 7-14 2-4 18, K.Porter Jr. 3-12 1-2 9, Martin Jr. 3-4 1-2 9, Sengun 5-10 1-4 11, Christopher 1-6 0-0 2, Mathews 1-5 1-1 3, Nix 0-1 0-0 0, Queen 2-2 1-1 6. Totals 38-83 15-22 101.

DENVER (116) A.Gordon 5-9 2-4 12, Je.Green 3-8 7-7 14, Cousins 10-14 8-9 31, Barton 4-10 1-2 11, Morris 4-8 0-0 10, JaM.Green 6-14 2-2 14, Campazzo 0-1 0-2 0, Forbes 3-9 0-0 7, Howard 0-0 0-0 0, Hyland 2-7 5-5 11, Reed 2-6 0-0 6. Totals 39-86 25-31 116.

31 29

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101 116

3-Point Goals—Houston 10-36 (E.Gordon 3-5, Martin Jr. 2-3, Jal.Green 2-6, K.Porter Jr. 2-8, Queen 1-1, Christopher 0-2, Tate 0-2, Wood 0-2, Sengun 0-3, Mathews 0-4), Denver 13-33 (Cousins 3-4, Morris 2-2, Reed 2-4, Hyland 2-5, Barton 2-6, Je.Green 1-3, Forbes 1-4, A.Gordon 0-1, JaM. Green 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Houston 44 (Sengun, Wood 10), Denver 41 (Cousins, JaM.Green 9). Assists—Houston 25 (Jal.Green 7), Denver 27 (Hyland 5). Total Fouls—Houston 21, Denver 21. A—16,254 (19,520)

UTAH (90) Bogdanovic 1-11 2-2 5, O’Neale 2-4 0-0 6, Gobert 4-4 2-6 10, Conley 1-8 0-0 2, Mitchell 5-18 1-2 14, Gay 0-5 1-2 1, J.Hernangomez 0-1 2-4 2, Paschall 1-1 2-2 5, House Jr. 4-7 0-0 11, Azubuike 1-2 0-0 2, Whiteside 6-7 1-2 13, Alexander-Walker 2-4 2-2 7, Butler 0-4 0-0 0, Clarkson 4-11 2-2 10, Forrest 0-2 2-2 2. Totals 31-89 17-26 90.

NEW ORLEANS (124) Hayes 2-4 1-2 5, Ingram 11-16 6-6 29, Valanciunas 2-6 0-0 4, Jones 1-4 0-0 2, McCollum 10-18 2-3 24, Clark 0-0 0-0 0, Johnson 2-3 1-2 5, Marshall 5-9 0-0 10, Murphy III 1-4 0-0 3, Temple 2-2 0-0 5, W.Hernangomez 5-9 3-4 13, Alvarado 3-8 0-0 7, Graham 2-6 0-0 6, Snell 4-8 0-0 11. Totals 5097 13-17 124.

21 30

25 30

118 112

ORLANDO (103) F.Wagner 5-14 0-0 11, Okeke 4-10 0-0 10, Bamba 5-9 3-3 14, Anthony 5-14 4-5 15, Suggs 4-16 6-6 15, Brazdeikis 3-3 0-0 6, Schofield 2-6 2-2 6, Lopez 1-3 2-2 4, Hampton 4-11 1-1 11, Harris 3-9 2-2 11.

Totals 36-95 20-21 103.

TORONTO (97) Barnes 4-15 1-1 10, Siakam 13-20 6-8 34, Birch 0-1 1-2 1, Flynn 7-14 2-4 20, Trent Jr. 2-12 0-0 4, Achiuwa 4-12 1-2 11, Banton 1-2 0-0 3, Young 1-5 0-0 2, Boucher 3-6 0-0 7, Champagnie 0-0 0-0 0, Mykhailiuk 1-4 0-0 2, Watanabe 1-2 0-0 3, Bonga 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 37-93 11-17 97.

ORLANDO TORONTO

27 23

21 16

24 21

31 37

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103 97

3-Point Goals—Orlando 11-37 (Harris 3-7, Okeke 2-5, Hampton 2-6, Bamba 1-3, F.Wagner 1-3, Suggs 1-5, Anthony 1-6, Schofield 0-2), Toronto 12-37 (Flynn 4-7, Siakam 2-3, Achiuwa 2-4, Banton 1-1, Watanabe 1-2, Boucher 1-3, Barnes 1-5, Mykhailiuk 0-1, Young 0-2, Trent Jr. 0-9). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Orlando 55 (Anthony 12), Toronto 54 (Siakam 14). Assists—Orlando 24 (Suggs 7), Toronto 22 (Flynn 8). Total Fouls—Orlando 18, Toronto 18. A—19,081 (19,800)

27 29

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90 124

3-Point Goals—Utah 11-41 (House Jr. 3-5, Mitchell 3-11, O’Neale 2-4, Paschall 1-1, Alexander-Walker 1-2, Bogdanovic 1-6, Butler 0-1, J.Hernangomez 0-1, Gay 0-2, Clarkson 0-4, Conley 0-4), New Orleans 11-36 (Snell 3-6, Graham 2-5, McCollum 2-6, Temple 1-1, Alvarado 1-3, Ingram 1-3, Murphy III 1-4, W.Hernangomez 0-1, Jones 0-2, Valanciunas 0-2, Marshall 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Utah 52 (Whiteside 12), New Orleans 52 (Ingram, W.Hernangomez 8). Assists—Utah 15 (Clarkson 4), New Orleans 29 (Ingram 6). Total Fouls—Utah 14, New Orleans 23. A—16,178 (16,867)

MINNESOTA 138, OKLAHOMA CITY 101 MINNESOTA (138) McDaniels 6-12 1-2 16, Vanderbilt 2-4 0-0 4, Towns 7-12 5-7 20, Beverley 2-8 1-2 7, Russell 5-11 5-5 17, Knight 0-0 1-2 1, Layman 0-0 0-0 0, McLaughlin 2-3 0-0 5, Prince 7-10 1-1 18, Reid 8-8 2-2 20, Beasley 5-11 0-0 15, Bolmaro 2-4 0-0 6, Nowell 3-7 0-0 7, Okogie 0-0 2-2 2. Totals 4990 18-23 138.

OKLAHOMA CITY (101) Bazley 1-3 0-0 2, Pokusevski 4-10 2-2 12, Roby 7-15 6-7 21, Gilgeous-Alexander 14-21 4-5 33, Mann 5-13 2-2 15, Sarr 2-2 1-2 5, Krejci 0-3 0-0 0, Maledon 2-10 3-3 8, Waters III 2-9 0-0 5. Totals 37-86 18-21 101.

MINNESOTA 32 45 31 30 — 138 OKLAHOMA CITY 34 26 27 14 — 101 3-Point Goals—Minnesota 22-47 (Beasley 5-10, Prince 3-5, McDaniels 3-7, Reid 2-2, Bolmaro 2-3, Beverley 2-7, Russell 2-7, McLaughlin 1-1, Nowell 1-2, Towns 1-3), Oklahoma City 9-35 (Mann 3-7, Pokusevski 2-5, Gilgeous-Alexander 1-3, Roby 1-3, Maledon 1-6, Waters III 1-8, Bazley 0-1, Krejci 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Minnesota 41 (Towns, Vanderbilt 8), Oklahoma City 39 (Roby 10). Assists—Minnesota 35 (Beverley 8), Oklahoma City 19 (Gilgeous-Alexander 7).

Total Fouls—Minnesota 17, Oklahoma City 16.

A—15,180 (18,203)

MILWAUKEE 118, CHICAGO 112

33 25

35 34

25 25

24 30

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117 114

MILWAUKEE (118) G.Antetokounmpo 12-22 10-19 34, Middleton 9-15 3-4 22, Portis 5-9 0-0 12, Allen 2-6 2-2 7, Holiday 10-20 3-4 26, Bembry 0-0 0-0 0, Ibaka 0-3 0-0 0, Nwora 0-2 2-2 2, Carter 3-4 0-0 8, Matthews 2-7 2-2 7, Wigginton 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 43-88 22-33 118.

CHICAGO (112) DeRozan 11-30 5-5 29, Vucevic 8-13 1-2 19, Thompson 2-4 0-0 4, Dosunmu 4-7 0-0 8, LaVine 13-26 1-3 30, Brown Jr. 2-2 0-0 5, Jones Jr. 2-3 1-1 5, Green 4-5 0-0 9, White 1-4 0-0 3. Totals 47-94 8-11 112.

CLEVELAND (119) Markkanen 3-7 0-0 6, Mobley 2-7 3-4 7, Allen 9-11 2-3 20, Garland 10-22 2-2 26, Okoro 7-8 8-9 22, Love 3-9 2-2 11, Osman 7-13 3-3 20, Stevens 2-4 1-1 5, Goodwin 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 44-82 21-24 119.

PHILADELPHIA (125) Harris 7-16 1-1 15, Thybulle 0-2 0-0 0, Embiid 7-14 8-9 22, Harden 6-10 11-12 25, Maxey 10-15 8-9 33, Millsap 1-2 0-0 2, Niang 6-9 0-0 17, Korkmaz 0-1 0-0 0, Milton 4-6 1-1 11, Green 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 41-75 29-32 125.

CLEVELAND PHILADELPHIA

43 30

28 33

28 34

20 28

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119 125

3-Point Goals—Cleveland 10-28 (Garland 4-8, Love 3-7, Osman 3-8, Markkanen 0-1, Okoro 0-1, Stevens 0-1, Mobley 0-2), Philadelphia 14-33 (Maxey 5-6, Niang 5-8, Milton 2-3, Harden 2-4, Korkmaz 0-1, Thybulle 0-2, Embiid 0-4, Harris 0-5). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Cleveland 41 (Love 10), Philadelphia 30 (Embiid 9). Assists—Cleveland 30 (Garland 19), Philadelphia 23 (Harden 11). Total Fouls—Cleveland 22, Philadelphia 24. A—21,391 (20,478)

DETROIT 111, INDIANA 106

INDIANA (106) Brissett 2-5 5-5 10, Hield 7-20 1-1 16, I.Jackson 4-10 4-8 12, Brogdon 9-23 6-8 26, Haliburton 3-8 1-2 8, Stephenson 0-4 0-0 0, J.Smith 5-12 1-2 12, Taylor 3-6 0-2 6, Washington Jr. 6-12 0-0 16. Totals 39-100 18-28 106.

DETROIT (111) Bey 8-15 3-4 25, Grant 2-7 4-6 8, Stewart 4-7 0-1 8, Cunningham 8-20 2-2 20, Joseph 2-6 2-2 7, Bagley III 9-16 0-1 18, Livers 2-4 0-0 5, Olynyk 2-4 0-0 6, Diallo 2-5 1-2 5, Hayes 1-6 0-0 3, McGruder 2-4 0-0 6. Totals 42-94 12-18 111.

INDIANA DETROIT

32 39

30 26

26 24

18 22

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106 111

3-Point Goals—Indiana 10-40 (Washington Jr. 4-8, Brogdon 2-5, Brissett 1-3, Haliburton 1-5, J.Smith 1-5, Hield 1-10, I.Jackson 0-1, Stephenson 0-3), Detroit 15-30 (Bey 6-8, Olynyk 2-2, Cunningham 2-4, McGruder 2-4, Hayes 1-2, Livers 1-2, Joseph 1-4, Diallo 0-1, Grant 0-1, Bagley III 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Indiana 55 (J.Smith 11), Detroit 52 (Stewart 13). Assists—Indiana 24 (Hield 9), Detroit 28 (Grant 5). Total Fouls—Indiana 16, Detroit 22. A—17,244 (20,491)

PHOENIX 115, N.Y. KNICKS 114

NEW YORK (114) Barrett 6-26 7-10 20, Randle 9-18 6-6 25, Robinson 8-8 1-2 17, Burks 5-9 2-3 16, Fournier 5-11 2-3 16, Reddish 3-5 0-0 6, Sims 0-1 1-4 1, McBride 0-0 0-0 0, Quickley 4-8 2-2 13. Totals 40-86 21-30 114.

PHOENIX (115) Bridges 6-11 5-6 20, Crowder 5-12 2-3 14, Ayton 4-10 0-0 8, Payne 6-16 5-7 17, Shamet 2-4 0-0 6, Craig 0-5 0-0 0, Johnson 11-16 7-8 38, Wainright 0-0 0-0 0, McGee 1-3 0-0 2, Biyombo 0-0 0-0 0, Holiday 3-8 3-3 10. Totals 38-85 22-27 115.

NEW YORK 24 PHOENIX 26

31 32

38 23

21 34

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114 115

3-Point Goals—New York 13-29 (Burks 4-6, Fournier 4-7, Quickley 3-5, Randle 1-2, Barrett 1-7, Reddish 0-2), Phoenix 17-34 (Johnson 9-12, Bridges 3-4, Shamet 2-2, Crowder 2-7, Holiday 1-1, Ayton 0-1, Payne 0-3, Craig 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—New York 49 (Robinson 15), Phoenix 33 (Crowder 7). Assists—New York 23 (Burks 6), Phoenix 28 (Payne 16). Total Fouls— New York 22, Phoenix 22. A—17,071 (18,422)

COLLEGE BASKETBALL MEN’S TOP 25 FRIDAY

At Ford Center Evansville, Ind.

SEMIFINALS

Murray St. 88, SE Missouri 74

SOUTHERN CONFERENCE

At Harrah’s Cherokee Center Asheville Asheville, N.C.

FIRST ROUND

The Citadel 84, ETSU 76, OT Mercer 81, W. Carolina 53

WEST COAST CONFERENCE At Orleans Arena Las Vegas, Nev.

SECOND ROUND

BYU 85, Loyola Marymount 60

ORLANDO 103, TORONTO 97

PHILADELPHIA 125, CLEVELAND 119

Atlanta at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Chicago at Phila., 5 p.m.

Houston at Miami, 5:30 p.m.

Portland at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Utah at Dallas, 6:30 p.m.

Golden State at Denver, 7 p.m.

New York at Sacramento, 8:30 p.m.

17 35

— —

3-Point Goals—Atlanta 13-36 (Hunter 3-5, Bogdanovic 3-8, Young 3-11, Gallinari 2-5, Williams 1-1, Huerter 1-2, Wright 0-1, Collins 0-3), Washington 14-29 (Caldwell-Pope 6-6, Avdija 3-4, Hachimura 3-4, Neto 1-2, Kispert 1-5, Bryant 0-2, Kuzma 0-6). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Atlanta 39 (Capela 12), Washington 41 (Bryant, Hachimura 6). Assists—Atlanta 18 (Young 8), Washington 37 (Kuzma 11). Total Fouls—Atlanta 16, Washington 29. A—15,927 (20,356)

Brooklyn at Boston, 11 a.m.

Phoenix at Milwaukee, 1:30 p.m.

Indiana at Washington, 4 p.m.

Memphis at Houston, 5 p.m.

Utah at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Cleveland, 5:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Denver, 6 p.m.

New York at L.A. Clippers, 8 p.m.

UTAH NEW ORLEANS

37 24

3-Point Goals—Milwaukee 10-31 (Holiday 3-6, Carter 2-3, Portis 2-4, Matthews 1-4, Middleton 1-4, Allen 1-5, Ibaka 0-1, G.Antetokounmpo 0-2, Nwora 0-2), Chicago 10-26 (LaVine 3-10, DeRozan 2-3, Vucevic 2-4, Brown Jr. 1-1, Green 1-2, White 1-4, Dosunmu 0-2). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Milwaukee 50 (G.Antetokounmpo 16), Chicago 40 (Vucevic 9). Assists—Milwaukee 20 (Middleton 7), Chicago 25 (Dosunmu 7). Total Fouls—Milwaukee 18, Chicago 23. A—21,259 (20,917)

ATLANTA WASHINGTON

SUNDAY’S GAMES

24 36

24 35

ATLANTA (117) Gallinari 3-9 2-2 10, Hunter 8-12 7-7 26, Capela 5-9 2-4 12, Huerter 2-7 0-0 5, Young 6-22 10-11 25, Collins 4-9 1-2 9, Bogdanovic 7-17 0-0 17, Williams 2-3 3-4 8, Wright 1-3 3-4 5. Totals 38-91 28-34 117.

WASHINGTON (114) Caldwell-Pope 10-12 2-3 28, Kuzma 9-21 4-4 22, Gafford 2-4 0-0 4, Kispert 4-10 0-0 9, Neto 3-9 0-0 7, Avdija 3-4 0-0 9, Hachimura 7-10 2-2 19, Bryant 6-8 0-0 12, Satoransky 0-1 0-0 0, Smith 2-6 0-0 4.

Totals 46-85 8-9 114.

Sacramento at Dallas, 3 p.m.

San Antonio at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

Orlando at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Phila. at Miami, 6 p.m.

Portland at Minnesota, 6 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 6:30 p.m.

20 26

32 28

ATLANTA 117, WASHINGTON 114

Detroit 111, Indiana 106 Phila. 125, Cleveland 119 Atlanta 117, Washington 114 Orlando 103, Toronto 97 Milwaukee 118, Chicago 112 Minnesota 138, Oklahoma City 101 New Orleans 124, Utah 90 Denver 116, Houston 101 New York at Phoenix, late

HOUSTON 26 DENVER 25

MILWAUKEE 25 CHICAGO 25

No. 1 Gonzaga (24-3) did not play. Next: WCC Tournament, Monday.

No. 2 Arizona (27-3) did not play. Next: vs. California, Saturday.

No. 3 Baylor (25-5) did not play. Next: vs. Iowa St., Saturday.n No. 4 Duke (26-4) did not play. Next: vs. North Carolina, Saturday.

No. 5 Auburn (26-4) did not play. Next: vs. South Carolina, Saturday.

No. 6 Kansas (24-6) did not play. Next: vs. No. 21 Texas, Saturday.

No. 7 Kentucky (24-6) did not play. Next: at Florida, Saturday.

No. 8 Purdue (24-6) did not play. Next: vs. Indiana, Saturday.

No. 9 Providence (24-4) did not play. Next: Big East Conference Tournament, Thursday, March 10.

No. 10 Wisconsin (24-5) did not play. Next: vs.

Nebraska, Sunday.

No. 11 Villanova (22-7) did not play. Next: at Butler, Saturday.

No. 12 Texas Tech (23-7) did not play. Next: at Oklahoma St., Saturday.

No. 13 Tennessee (22-7) did not play. Next: vs.

No. 14 Arkansas, Saturday.

No. 14 Houston (26-4) did not play. Next: at Memphis, Sunday.

No. 14 Arkansas (24-6) did not play. Next: at No. 13 Tennessee, Saturday.

No. 16 Southern Cal (25-5) did not play. Next: at No. 17 UCLA, Saturday.

WOMEN’S TOP 25 FRIDAY

No. 1 South Carolina (28-1) beat Arkansas 76-54.

Next: vs. Mississippi at Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, Tenn., Saturday.

No. 2 Stanford (27-3) beat Colorado 71-45. Next: TBD. No. 3 NC State (26-3) beat Florida St 84-54.

Next: vs. Virginia Tech at Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, N.C., Saturday.

No. 4 Louisville (25-4) lost to Miami 61-59. Next: NCAA Tournament, TBD. No. 5 Baylor (24-5) did not play. Next: vs. Texas Tech at Frank C. Erwin Jr. Special Event Center, Sunday.

No. 6 LSU (25-5) lost to Kentucky 78-63. Next: NCAA Tournament, TBD. No. 7 UConn (22-5) did not play. Next: vs. Georgetown at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasvillle, Conn., Saturday.

No. 8 Iowa St. (24-5) did not play. Next: at West Virginia, at Frank C. Erwin Jr. Special Event Center, Saturday.

No. 9 Texas (22-6) did not play. Next: vs. Oklahoma St., at Frank C. Erwin Jr. Special Event Center, Texas, Saturday.

No. 10 Michigan (22-6) lost to Nebraska 76-73.

Next: NCAA Tournament, TBD. No. 11 Maryland (21-8) lost to No. 14 Indiana 6251. Next: NCAA Tournament, TBD. No. 12 Iowa (21-7) beat Northwestern 72-59.

Next: TBD at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Saturday.

No. 13 Ohio St. (23-5) beat Michigan St 78-58.

Next: vs. Indiana at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Indianapolis, Saturday.

No. 14 Arizona (20-7) did not play. Next: NCAA Tournament, TBD. No. 14 Indiana (21-7) beat No. 11 Maryland 62-51.

Next: vs. No. 13 Ohio St. No. 16 North Carolina (23-6) lost to No. 21 Virginia Tech 87-80, OT. Next: NCAA Tournament, TBD. No. 17 BYU (25-2) did not play. Next: TBD at Orleans Arena, Las Vegas, Monday.

No. 18 Tennessee (23-7) beat Alabama 74-59.

Next: vs. Kentucky, at Bridgestone Arena Nashville, Tenn., Saturday.

No. 19 Oklahoma (23-6) did not play. Next: vs.

Kansas, at Frank C. Erwin Jr. Special Event Center, Saturday.

No. 20 Notre Dame (22-7) beat No. 25 Georgia Tech 71-53. Next: vs. Miami at Greensboro Coliseum Greensboro, N.C., Saturday.

No. 21 Virginia Tech (23-8) beat No. 16 North Carolina 87-80, OT. Next: NC State at Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, N.C., Saturday.

No. 22 Florida Gulf Coast (26-2) did not play.

Next: vs. North Florida, Sunday.

No. 23 Florida (20-10) lost to Mississippi 70-60.

Next: NCAA Tournament, TBD. No. 24 Georgia (20-9) did not play. Next: NCAA Tournament, TBD. No. 25 Georgia Tech (21-10) lost to No. 20 Notre Dame 71-53. Next: NCAA Tournament, TBD.

SKIING NEW MEXICO

Angel Fire — Wed 5:38a machine groomed 24 24 base 39 of 82 trails 60% open, 29 miles, 487 acres, 7 of 7 lifts, Mon-Thu: 9a-4p Fri: 9a-7p Sat: 9a-7p Sun: 9a-4p.

Pajarito — Wed 4:07a machine groomed 18 - 18 base 29 of 44 trails, 66% open 3 of 7 lifts, Fri: 9a4p; Sat/Sun: 9a-4p; Open Fri-Sun. Red River — Wed 6:50a machine groomed 24 - 30 base 60 of 64 trails 94% open, 7 of 7 lifts, MonFri: 9a-4p; Sat/Sun: 9a-4p.

Sipapu — Wed 5:14a hard packed machine groomed 18 - 24 base 38 of 43 trails, 90% open 6 of 6 lifts, Mon-Fri: 9a-4p; Sat/Sun: 9a-4p.

Ski Apache — Wed 5:47p machine groomed 24 - 24 base 30 of 55 trails 55% open, 3 of 10 lifts, Thu/Fri: 9a-4p; Sat/Sun: 9a-4p; Open Thu-Sun. Ski Santa Fe — Wed 5:26a machine groomed 45 45 base 83 of 86 trails 97% open, 6 of 7 lifts, MonFri: 9a-4p; Sat/Sun: 9a-4p.

Taos — Wed 6:58a machine groomed 46 - 60 base 100 of 110 trails, 91% open 1294 acres, 14 of 14 lifts, Mon-Fri: 9a-4p; Sat/Sun: 9a-4p.

Enchanted Forest XC — Wed 11:21a spring snow machine groomed 6 - 12 base 12 of 40 trails, 7 miles Mon-Fri: 9a-4:30p; Sat/Sun: 9a-4:30p.

NHLASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC

GP W L OT PTS GF GA

Tampa Bay Florida Toronto Boston Detroit Buffalo Ottawa Montreal

54 54 54 55 55 56 53 55

36 36 35 33 24 18 19 14

12 13 15 18 25 30 29 34

6 5 4 4 6 8 5 7

78 77 74 70 54 44 43 35

186 221 198 166 161 153 137 132

152 161 157 148 197 200 169 210

55 57 55 56 55 51 55 54

38 34 35 29 28 20 19 16

12 5 14 9 15 5 18 9 25 2 23 8 31 5 28 10

81 77 75 67 58 48 43 42

188 185 165 180 182 131 168 135

132 152 138 156 200 146 200 189

METROPOLITAN GP W L OT PTS GF GA Carolina Pittsburgh N.Y. Rangers Washington Columbus N.Y. Islanders New Jersey Philadelphia

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL

GP W

PACIFIC

GP W

Colorado St. Louis Minnesota Dallas Nashville Winnipeg Chicago Arizona

55 53 53 54 54 55 55 54

40 32 32 31 30 24 20 15

L OT PTS

11 15 18 20 20 21 27 35

4 6 3 3 4 10 8 4

84 70 67 65 64 58 48 34

L OT PTS

GF GA

219 191 200 159 166 166 138 124

155 146 171 157 155 170 188 196

GF GA

Calgary 53 32 14 7 71 186 130 Los Angeles 56 30 19 7 67 166 160 Edmonton 55 30 21 4 64 182 175 Vegas 55 30 21 4 64 177 162 Anaheim 56 26 21 9 61 165 172 Vancouver 56 27 23 6 60 158 161 San Jose 54 24 24 6 54 143 168 Seattle 56 17 34 5 39 144 199 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Washington 4, Carolina 0 Minnesota 5, Philadelphia 4 Pittsburgh 5, Tampa Bay 1 Florida 3, Ottawa 0 Vancouver 4, N.Y. Islanders 3 Chicago 4, Edmonton 3, OT Arizona 2, Colorado 1 Boston 5, Vegas 2 Montreal 5, Calgary 4, OT

FRIDAY’S GAMES

N.Y. Rangers 3, New Jersey 1 Los Angeles 4, Columbus 3, OT Buffalo 5, Minnesota 4 Tampa Bay 3, Detroit 1 Carolina 3, Pittsburgh 2, OT Dallas 4, Winnipeg 3, OT Vegas at Anaheim, late

SATURDAY’S GAMES

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Los Angeles at Buffalo, 11 a.m.

St. Louis at New Jersey, 11 a.m.

Dallas at Minnesota, 2 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Winnipeg, 5 p.m.

Seattle at Carolina, 5 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Vegas, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Anaheim, 6 p.m.

MONDAY’S GAMES

Florida at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at Boston, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Colorado at N.Y. Islanders, 5:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Calgary, 7:30 p.m.

PUERTO RICO OPEN SCORES FRIDAY

OHIO VALLEY CONFERENCE Brooklyn New York

Vancouver at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Nashville at San Jose, 6 p.m.

Calgary at Colorado, 8 p.m.

GOLF

BIG SOUTH CONFERENCE QUARTERFINALS

N. Iowa 78, Illinois St. 65 Loyola Chicago 66, Bradley 50 Missouri St. 67, Valparaiso 58

NEW ORLEANS 124, UTAH 90

SOCCER (MEN’S) 7 a.m. ESPN2 — Bundesliga: Bayer Leverkusen at Bayern Munich 8 a.m. USA — Premier League: Chelsea at Burnley 10:30 a.m. NBC — Premier League: West Ham United at Liverpool 5:30 p.m. FOX — MLS: LA Galaxy at Charlotte FC

ATLANTIC

Saturday

SATURDAY’S GAMES

MIXED MARTIAL ARTS 6 p.m. ESPN — UFC 272 Prelims: Undercard Bouts, Las Vegas

EASTERN CONFERENCE

LOCAL SCHEDULE

No. 17 UCLA (22-6) did not play. Next: vs. No. 16 Southern Cal, Saturday.

No. 18 UConn (21-8) did not play. Next: vs. DePaul, Saturday.

No. 19 Saint Mary’s (Cal) (24-6) did not play.

Next: WCC Tournament, Monday.

No. 20 Illinois (21-8) did not play. Next: vs. No. 24 Iowa, Sunday.

No. 21 Texas (21-9) did not play. Next: at No. 6 Kansas, Saturday.

No. 22 Murray St. (29-2) beat SE Missouri 88-74.

Next: TBD, Saturday.

No. 23 Ohio St. (23-9) did not play. Next: vs.

Michigan, Sunday.

No. 24 Iowa (22-8) did not play. Next: at No. 20 Illinois, Sunday.

No. 25 Alabama (19-11) did not playt. Next: at LSU, Saturday.

St. Louis at N.Y. Islanders, 10:30 a.m.

Chicago at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Ottawa at Arizona, 2 p.m.

Detroit at Florida, 4 p.m.

Boston at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Montreal at Edmonton, 5 p.m.

Seattle at Washington, 5 p.m.

At Grand Reserve Country Club Rio Grande, Puerto Rico Purse: $3.7 million Yardage: 7,506; Par: 72 Second Round Ryan Brehm Michael Kim Satoshi Kodaira Max McGreevy Callum Tarren Kiradech Aphibarnrat Sang-Moon Bae Patrick Flavin Tommy Gainey Christopher Gotterup Jim Knous Andrew Novak Matthias Schwab Mark Hensby Sung Kang Chad Ramey Chase Seiffert Rafael Campos Brice Garnett Bill Haas Ben Kohles Dawie Van der Walt Brandon Wu Aaron Baddeley Ricky Barnes Greg Chalmers Justin Lower Spencer Ralston Josh Teater D.J. Trahan Kevin Yu Scott Brown Rafa Cabrera Bello Chan Kim Cameron Percy Austin Smotherman Kyle Stanley Brian Stuard Vaughn Taylor Peter Uihlein Richy Werenski Joseph Bramlett Brian Davis Derek Ernst Matt Every Fabian Gomez Chesson Hadley Kelly Kraft Nate Lashley David Lingmerth Seung-Yul Noh D.A. Points Jared Wolfe Brett Drewitt Tyler Duncan Michael Gligic Jim Herman Mark Hubbard Kurt Kitayama Victor Perez Seth Reeves Austin Cook Robert Garrigus Scott Gutschewski Nick Hardy Bo Hoag Richard S Johnson Bryson Nimmer Curtis Thompson Trevor Werbylo Missed Cut Jason Bohn Kevin Chappell Andres Romero Brett Stegmaier Omar Uresti Bo Van Pelt Luke Donald J.J. Henry George McNeill Grayson Murray Carl Pettersson John Rollins Christian Salzer Heath Slocum Camilo Villegas Charlie Beljan Chris Couch Edward Figueroa Charlie Wi Joshua Creel John Huh Jonathan Kaye

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ARNOLD PALMER INVITATIONAL SCORES FRIDAY At Bay Hill Club Orlando, Fla. Purse: $12 million Yardage: 7,466; Par: 72 Second Round Viktor Hovland Talor Gooch Tyrrell Hatton Rory McIlroy Billy Horschel Sam Burns Paul Casey Beau Hossler Charles Howell III Patton Kizzire Martin Laird Cameron Young Hayden Buckley Russell Henley David Lipsky Jon Rahm J.J. Spaun Aaron Wise Gary Woodland Rickie Fowler Lanto Griffin Max Homa Stephan Jaeger Marc Leishman Troy Merritt Taylor Pendrith Ian Poulter Scottie Scheffler Brendan Steele Matt Fitzpatrick Lucas Herbert Graeme McDowell Adam Schenk Adam Scott Alex Smalley Davis Thompson Lee Westwood Danny Willett Cameron Champ Corey Conners Sergio Garcia Sungjae Im Matt Jones Si Woo Kim Chris Kirk Hideki Matsuyama Sam Ryder Brendon Todd Matthew Wolff Will Zalatoris Keegan Bradley Dylan Frittelli Lucas Glover Anirban Lahiri Kyoung-Hoon Lee Keith Mitchell Taylor Moore Sebastian Munoz Pat Perez Rory Sabbatini Greyson Sigg Nick Watney Christiaan Bezuidenhout Tommy Fleetwood Padraig Harrington Tom Hoge Zach Johnson Jason Kokrak Danny Lee Adam Long Denny McCarthy Maverick McNealy John Pak Thomas Pieters Chez Reavie Patrick Rodgers Nick Taylor Vince Whaley

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St. Michael’s loses 57-47 to Navajo Prep

By James Barron

jbarron@sfnewmexican.com

Sony Ruiz is through with moral victories.

What St. Michael’s head girls basketball coach wants is actual wins. She and the Lady Horsemen will have to wait until November to make that come to fruition.

St. Michael’s doggedly chased fourth-seeded Navajo Prep throughout Friday night’s Class 3A first-round game, but a stagnant offense that has been its weakness all season hit another dry spell.

The Lady Eagles used a 26-for35 performance at the free-throw line to escape with a 57-47 win.

They defeated No. 13 St. Michael’s in Farmington to advance to the quarterfinals.

They will play No. 5 Crownpoint in a District 1-3A showdown Tuesday night.

Meanwhile, St. Michael’s (10-19) will hope an offseason of work can be the elixir that turns close losses into wins.

“It’s a good moral win, but I’m tired of them,” Ruiz said. “We had six of those this year, where we were within a possession or two of winning, and we’re tired

of those. We want to win.”

The Lady Horsemen spent the evening in chase mode after Navajo Prep (21-6) took a 17-13 lead after a quarter.

They were within 25-21 late in the first half when the Lady Eagles scored six of the last nine points of the second quarter for a 31-24 lead.

The lead grew to 33-24 to open the second half, but St. Michael’s reeled off seven straight points to get within 33-31.

“The girls didn’t give up,” Ruiz siad. “We used a press-breaker we never ran before, and we adjusted our offense a little, and

the girls made the adjustment with us, which was good to see.”

Still, the pattern continued to repeat itself, as Navajo Prep upped the lead to 43-37 heading into the fourth. St. Michael’s, made one last push, cutting the margin to 47-44 on Carmen Pacheco’s putback with 90 seconds left.

The Lady Eagles finished with a 10-3 spurt.

Aniya Johnson and Amber Garcia each had 15 points to lead Navajo Prep. St. Michael’s countered with Lauryn Pecos’ 15 points, and Pacheco added 13.

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athleticism and leadership.

“We were worried about our guy,” Cole said. “He’s earned this opportunity to go out on his own terms in terms of leaving it all out on the court.”

Lovato’s presence will be crucial going up against a team that has won 13 of its last 16

games after a 4-6 start. That slow start coincided with the absence of 6-foot-6 senior forward Sean Johnson due to injury. In his 10 games back, Johnson leads the team with a 17.1 points-pergame average to along with six rebounds.

The Matadors’ size, length and ability to play a variety of styles offers Santa Fe High a tall task.

“They beat you up on the backboard, they get offensive rebounds and get second-chance points,” Cole said. “They can press you, they can sit in a zone.

They can play fast, they can play slow. Talentwise, they’re very impressive.”

The key for the Demons, Cole said, is to continue doing what they do best — which is to play

with high energy and use their quickness to their advantage.

“We can’t let them get to their comfortable plays, offensively,” Cole said.

“We got to contest all shots, because all of their guards can shoot. Big Sean will step out and shoot 3s. It’s really about contesting everything, with the philosophy of nothing easy.”

Ky. upholds Baffert’s suspension LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky racing officials have denied trainer Bob Baffert’s request to stay his suspension for a failed postrace drug test by Medina Spirit that led to his disqualification as Kentucky Derby winner.

Kentucky Horse Racing Commission board members on Friday voted 10-0 with three abstentions against the stay in a specially called meeting. KHRC stewards last week suspended the Hall of Fame trainer for 90 days with a $7,500 fine and disqualified the now-deceased colt for having the corticosteroid betamethasone in his system last May. Betamethasone is allowed in Kentucky but prohibited on race day.

Director Marc Guilfoil denied an initial request to stay the suspension, which was scheduled to start Tuesday but is delayed pending a March 17 hearing before Franklin County Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate.

Hovland has 2-shot lead at Bay Hill ORLANDO, Fla. — Viktor Hovland had the lowest round of the day with a 6-under 66 and is off to another great start at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. This time, he has a good idea what to expect on the weekend at Bay Hill.

Rory McIlroy got a sneak preview.

Hovland played Friday morning and set the target on a warm day with increasing wind, making seven birdies and a few key pars saves late in the second round. He posted a 9-under 135.

McIlroy played in the afternoon and was poised to catch him until his putter let him down on greens that were getting crisp and slippery. Tied for the lead, McIlroy missed a 4-foot par putt, putts from 8 feet on the next two holes for birdie and par, and he finished off his 72 by missing a good birdie chance from 15 feet. He was two behind along with past Bay Hill winner Tyrrell Hatton (68) and Talor Gooch (68), who won his first PGA Tour title in the final official event last year.

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Lady Brave Cameron Connors shoots over Sandia Prep players Friday in Pueblo Pavilion.

the second season — you can’t take anybody lightly,” Chavez said. “We’re on an equal playing field, and you got to be ready to play.”

And the Lady Braves will need to dis-

tinguish when they have the green light to attack the basket, and when it’s best to sit in traffic and wait for the next opportunity to come.

the ball, or I can shoot it or I can take it[into the paint]. “ I canI handle really want to take advantage of that to help this team.”

Santa Fe Indian School senior Taryn Aguilar

It also ushered in the running clock once the Hawks built a 35-point lead. The Demonettes scored only seven points in the game’s final 17-plus minutes.

The win sends Volcano Vista into Tuesday’s state quarterfinals against No. 8 seed Centennial. That game will also be played in Volcano’s gym, a place the school refers to as the Ring of Fire.

All eight games in Friday’s opening round saw the higher seed hold serve. That included Organ Mountain’s win over Albuquerque High; the Bulldogs are District 5-5A rivals to Santa Fe High, and the two were the only teams from that district to make the

RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — Ryan Brehm closed birdie-eagle for a 5-under 67 and the second-round lead Friday in the Puerto Rico Open.

Brehm is making his final start on a minor medical extension and needs to win or finish second alone to retain status. He is the only player in the field bogey-free through 36 holes.

“It would be wrong to say you don’t think about it, but realistically, since the beginning of this year we’ve just been trying to improve every day, every week,” Brehm said. “As long as we can do that, if we can take something away from each round, each situation, put some pressure on myself, we’re going to learn from it. Just enjoy the process of doing that really and we’re doing that.”

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Volcano Vista erupts to stomp Demonettes when it’s on, it tends to make a difference,” said Volcano Vista coach Lisa Villareal. “You see it more at the start of quarters. If we find a way to do it with that kind of energy all the time, that would make me happy.”

Considering that the Hawks shut the Demonettes out in the third quarter, it’s safe to assume Villareal went home Friday night pretty happy. It turned a 39-21 lead at intermission into a 55-21 margin at the end of the quarter. Coupled with buckets to close the first half and to open the fourth quarter, it was part of a larger 20-0 run that turned the game into a blowout.

BEIJING — The Winter Paralympics opened Friday in Beijing with the Russian athletes sent home, the Ukrainian team escaping a war zone to get to China and an impassioned call for peace.

Andrew Parsons, the president of the International Paralympic Committee, declared his horror at the fighting in Ukraine and called on world authorities to promote peace.

“Tonight, I want, I must begin with a message of peace,” Parsons said in brief remarks to the athletes and spectators at the Bird’s Nest stadium. “As the leader of an organization with inclusion at its core, where diversity is celebrated and differences embraced, I am horrified at what is taking place in the world right now.”

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, shortly after the Winter Olympics wrapped up in Beijing, is roiling the world. And the world of sports is no exception.

Paralympic organizers initially announced Russians and Belarusians would be allowed to compete in Beijing, but reversed course one day before the opening and expelled athletes from both countries. They cited tensions in the Athletes Village. The Russian Paralympic Committee called the decision “absolutely politicized.”

NEW YORK — Locked-out Major League Baseball players are starting a $1 million fund to support workers impacted by canceled games.

The players’ association said Friday the fund will be administered by the union and the AFL-CIO. It will be distributed to stadium workers and others caused financial hardship by baseball’s ninth work stoppage, which was in its 93rd day.

Spring training games failed to start as scheduled on Feb. 26.

Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday canceled the first two series for each team during the regular season, scheduled to start March 31. “Many aren’t seen or heard, but they are vital to the entertainment experience of our games,” union executive board members Andrew Miller and Max Scherzer said in a statement. “Unfortunately, they will also be among those affected by the owner-imposed lockout and the cancellation of games. Through this fund, we want to let them know that they have our support.”

The union listed broadcast and concession crews, electricians, ushers, security, transportation and janitors as among those needed for MLB games.

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Lady Braves race to win those bumps in the wall.”

Those bumps allowed Sandia Prep to cling to hope it could pull off a stunning comeback. At one point, the Lady Braves scored just two points in an 8-minute stretch.

Fortunately, the Lady Sundevils could do little more than hit six free throws and knock down a Mika Juan bucket in the low post to get within 36-24 with less than 2 minutes left.

Madisen Valdez finally halted the slump with a breakaway layup off a Taryn Aguilar steal with 1:17 left, as Sandia Prep committed its 29th turnover.

Aguilar, a senior who transferred from St. Michael’s to SFIS after her freshman year, tied for the team high with eight points, grabbed four offensive rebounds and had a couple of steals in one of her more complete games of the season.

It was a satisfying moment for Aguilar, who didn’t play for the varsity until this year after sitting out her sophomore year as a transfer, then playing at Capital as a junior when SFIS shuttered its athletic program during the pandemic for last year’s truncated 2021 season.

If anything, she benefited from the post skills she acquired while a Lady Horsemen, and the guard play she had to learn while a Lady Jaguar.

“I can handle the ball, or I can shoot it or I can take it [into the paint],” Aguilar said. “I really want to take advantage of that to help this team.”

For two and a half quarters, the Lady Braves took advantage of unselfish play and a suffocating defense to put Sandia Prep (11-15) in a huge hole. They eschewed the perimeter shot, going 12 for 24 from inside the arc as they pounded the paint for good looks.

In fact, every single shot SFIS made came inside of 5 feet until Torres’ 3. Chavez said the way her team ran the offense was almost flawless to that point. And that’s how the Lady Braves need to operate, she said.

“It was a great feeling to see some transition buckets,” Chavez said. “We were getting the ball to our outlet, and then getting a couple of easy buckets, which helped get our momentum going.”

Similar execution will be crucial against the defensive-minded Lady Scorpions, who eked out a 42-35 win over West Las Vegas in a 6-11 matchup in Socorro. Opponents are scoring just 38.8 points per game against Socorro, which Chavez said is a result of scrappy play and active hands on the defensive side of the ball.

“At this stage of the game — what I call

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Guo Yujie and Wang Zhidong carry the flag of China as they make their entrance during the opening ceremony at the 2022 Winter Paralympics on Friday in Beijing.

state tournament.

NOTES The only Santa Fe High player to score more than four points was senior Kabreya Garcia Romero with nine. She scored seven of her team’s 11 points in the second quarter. … Montoya and Espinoza each had four. … Michelle Malczewski’s long baseline jumper early in the fourth quarter was Santa Fe’s first field goal in the second half, one of just two the Demonettes made in the half. ... Santa Fe High says goodbye to six seniors, three of whom (Diaz, Espinoza and Garcia Romero) start. ... The team’s 18 wins were more than the previous two seasons combined, and the winning record was the first since the 2014-15 campaign.

ATLANTA — The U.S. Soccer Federation’s board of directors adopted a resolution Friday to ban discriminatory chants at all soccer matches sanctioned by the American soccer governing body.

The resolution says the federation should adopt a zero-tolerance policy on discriminatory chants and adopt FIFA’s threestep protocol, which calls for the match to be stopped and fans warned, the match to be suspended and players moved to the locker rooms, and the match to be abandoned.

The National Center for Lesbian Rights hailed the decision.

“While to many, it may seem like crowd chants at soccer matches may just be sophomoric attempts to distract the players on an opposing team, as a queer, Latino soccer fan, these discriminatory chants cut much deeper,” NCLR spokesman Christopher Vasquez said. “For LGBTQ Latinos, these chants — almost always using a highly-derogatory Spanish slur — create an atmosphere of hostility, recalling long-lasting memories of fear and rejection. We applaud U.S. Soccer for passing a ban on these homophobic chants.”

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NCAA football rules committee recommends targeting appeal Players ejected for offense in second half could be eligible to play the following game

By Ralph D. Russo Associated Press

Players ejected for targeting in the second half of a college football game could be eligible to play the following game after an appeal through the conference office, if a recommendation handed down Friday by the NCAA rules committee is approved.

After four days of meetings in Indianapolis, the committee also recommended penalizing all open-field blocks below the waist and creating an investigation process for allegations of a team faking injuries that could lead to conferences penalizing schools and coaches.

Recommendations need approval from the playing rules oversight panel in April and would go into effect next season.

The committee discussed changing

how the game clock is managed to shorten games by both time and number of plays, but decided not to act.

The average FBS game was 3 hours, 28 minutes last season and included about 137 offensive plays.

Shaving time and plays out of college football games has become a discussion point recently as conference commissioners considered possibly expanding the playoff, a move that could increase the maximum length of a season to 16 or even 17 games for a few teams.

Attempts to expand the College Football Playoff to 12 teams by the 2024 season failed and the soonest a new format would be implemented is 2026.

National coordinator of officials Steve Shaw said the number of plays per game has plateaued over the last six seasons after a slight decrease.

“But we have talked about at some point, do we need to address this if the season does get longer, because it is a longer playoff?” said Stanford coach David Shaw, the rules committee chairman.

The rules committee has been looking at ways to discourage the faking of

injuries, mostly by defensive players to slow down up-tempo offenses, for several years.

Steve Shaw said the committee remains apprehensive to implement in-game alterations.

The concern is a rule requiring players who are treated on the field to miss the remainder of an offensive possession would incentivize players who are actually hurt to play through an injury.

“So now for questionable game action, the institution or the conference can consult the national coordinator of officials to facilitate a video review. And if there are findings that will now go back to the conference office, and the conference office will deal with the institution, the coach, to get that corrected,” Steve Shaw said.

Suggested punishments were not recommended, but David Shaw said he would prefer coaches face “severe penalties” for coaching players to feign injuries. “This is one of those things that is getting taught that is unethical,” David Shaw said. “So as best we can to drive this out, hopefully, we’ll get some partnership from conference officials,

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Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields gets hit by Clemson linebacker James Skalski in the 2021 Sugar Bowl. Skalski was ejected for targeting.

conference commissioners, leaning on some of these coaches that are teaching things unethical.”

The targeting foul has been a constant point of contention among coaches, players and fans, but there has been no serious movement toward changing it. Targeting, implemented in its current form in 2008, results in a 15-yard penalty, plus the ejection of the flagged player.

Players ejected in the first half of a game do not have to miss the following

game. Players ejected at any point in the second half are required to sit out the first half of the following game.

Under the committee’s proposal, the conference office can submit a request to the national coordinator of officials to review a second-half targeting foul.

The committee recommended if it is “clearly, obvious” the targeting call was incorrect, it would be retroactively overturned and the player would be permitted to play in the first half of the following game.

NFL

Who will go No. 1?

Combine should help provide clarity to Jags

By Michael Marot Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — Kayvon Thibodeaux looked like a lock to be this year’s top NFL draft pick — until Aidan Hutchinson played his way into the conversation.

Now, with eight weeks until draft night, offensive linemen Ikem “Ickey” Ekwonu and Evan Neal are in the debate, too.

This four-man race to the top has become a hot topic at this week’s annual scouting combine and has rekindled a familiar question: Who’s No. 1? With no quarterbacks likely to be selected right away, the guys in the trenches are the favorites.

“You have to take the player you think is the best fit for the organization and makes the biggest difference,” Jacksonville Jaguars general manager Trent Baalke said earlier this week in Indianapolis.

“If that’s an offensive tackle, you do it. If it’s an edge rusher, you do it. This draft has a lot of unique players. There may not be that clear No. 1, but there are a lot of good football players at the top.”

Baalke’s job is to sort it all out in a draft that comes with several unique features.

First off, Baalke is drafting first for the second straight year; no team other than Cleveland has held that distinction since 1988.

The Browns picked No. 1 in 19992000 and 2017-18.

Plus, the Jags already have their franchise quarterback after taking Trevor Lawrence last year.

Lawrence’s presence presumably gives Baalke the option of adding either a coveted pass-rushing cornerstone, a massive pass protector who can keep Lawrence upright and healthy for years to come or a trade that could fill multiple holes.

The one seemingly virtual certainty: A seven-year run of quarterbacks going first or second will end. None is likely to even make the conversation.

Until recently, Thibodeaux, the All-American out of Oregon, appeared to be the odds-on favorite. He had seven sacks last

Talk over QB trades overshadows combine

By Schuyler Dixon Associated Press

An underwhelming free agent class for quarterbacks is overshadowed by the possibility of multiple big names changing teams, most notably Aaron Rodgers.

From the potential move of Rodgers out of Green Bay to the likely departure of San Francisco’s Jimmy Garoppolo despite the 49ers reaching another NFC championship game with him, trades, not courtships, are the talk of the QB market.

The constant chatter about Rodgers drowns out a change that would be equally seismic — Russell Wilson leaving Seattle.

Tension between Wilson and the Seahawks surfaced last offseason.

Now the issue is what’s best for the club’s future, although the Seahawks keep saying they’re STEPHEN BRASHEAR/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO not shopping the Super Bowl 48 Oregon defensive end Kayvon Thibodeaux, left, has been mentioned as the top pick in the NFL winner.

Draft. An obvious consensus pick is lacking this season.

“I love the East Coast, but I think the West Coast is better for me right now,” Wilson said Roman Gabriel to the Oakland season despite missing this week on NBC’s Today show, 21/2 games with a sprained ankle Raiders in the 1962 AFL Draft. responding to a question from a that slowed him through some “I wouldn’t be shocked if I other games. But with his stock went No. 1 overall,” Ekwonu said Washington Commanders fan.

“I’ve got people hitting me up apparently waning amid quesone day before working out. “I every day, all my friends and all tions about his consistency from feel like that is something I put that from the East Coast. But play to play, Thibodeaux went the work in for. I feel like when Seattle’s the place where I’m at on the offensive Friday. the time comes, I would deserve right now, and I love it, and it’s “I can’t really compare it to it.” great.” other guys and what they do Neal checked in at 6-71/2 and a Wilson has two years left on a because I know that I have great svelte 337 pounds after arriving contract with a no-trade clause, teams that I went up against, and on campus at 385. meaning he controls where I had a lot of great opportunities A three-year starter at Alahe would go. And that raises to show what I can do,” he said, bama, he helped pave the way another key question: Which describing his aggressive style. for two Heisman winners, two teams need a quarterback? WashIf Thibodeaux’s slide continstraight national championship ington is on a list perhaps topped Offensive lineman Ikem ues, Hutchinson could emerge as game appearances, and a 2020

by Tampa Bay and Pittsburgh “Ickey” Ekwonu the best. title. with the retirements of Tom The former Michigan star But what really turned heads Brady and Ben Roethlisberger. broke the school’s single-season makes sense for Jacksonville Rodgers’ stalemate with the was his viral video of a box jump. record with 14 sacks, led the after the Jags allowed 32 sacks Packers last summer ended with And if Neal’s name is called Wolverines to a Big Ten title and Lawrence finished near the an agreement to void the final first April 28, he would be the and their first playoff appearbottom of the league in passer year of his contract in 2023. The first Alabama player to earn the ance while becoming the third rating (71.9). club has said it will wait as long honor since Joe Namath was defensive player to finish as the It’s not clear yet which player as it takes for the MVP of the picked by the New York Jets in Heisman Trophy runner-up. He is the best lineman. past two seasons (four overall) to the 1965 AFL Draft.

Quarterdid it all after recovering from a Ekwonu got his nickname decide whether he wants to play back/halfback Harry Gilmer was fractured right ankle that ended from a former coach who taken No. 1 in 1948 and is the last for them, or play at all. his 2020 season. thought he looked like former If Rodgers seeks a trade, that member of the Crimson Tide Just don’t expect Hutchinson Bengals running back Ickey adds another domino among selected first in an NFL Draft. to make the pitch. He’d rather let Woods. Last season, Ekwonu teams seeking a starter in free Could the drought finally end his play suffice. was an All-American and the agency. Those pickings aren’t with Neal?

“I’ve been playing football ACC offensive lineman of the much past slim, if at all.

Stay tuned. for a long time, so I know what year.

“You have a whole lot of pressure is, I know the type of He’s the son of a doctor who Open market Alabama players that were player I am, and that calms me a played college basketball, a Jameis Winston arguably tops worthy of having the No. 1 spot, little bit,” he said. “I think we’re mother who ran high school the list of free agents because and for that to be me, that’d be all trying to be the best players track, and, at 6-foot-4, 310 New Orleans appeared on track we can be and whichever team pounds, seems to have combined extremely special. I feel like the to make the playoffs to start the whole state of Alabama would picks us is going to get a good the best of both worlds. post-Drew Brees era when Winplayer.”

Only two North Carolina State be proud,” Neal said. ston’s season ended with a left “What prospect wouldn’t want The bigger surprise might be players have gone No. 1 overall, torn anterior cruciate ligament to go No. 1 overall? That would the recent emergence of Ekwonu DE Mario Williams to the on Oct. 31.

Houston Texans in 2006, and QB be a dream come true.” and Neal, though it certainly The flip side is the Saints were winning (5-2 after the game in which he was injured) without leaning heavily on Winston as a passer. The 2015 No. 1 overall draft pick didn’t get a second about the risk of repeated concontract in Tampa Bay because used in dementia testing — between lawyers for the NFL, he threw too many interceptions one for Black people, one for the class counsel for the nearly cussions.

(88 in five seasons).

20,000 retired players, and Smith everyone else — was developed The 65-year settlement also Marcus Mariota is forever tied by neurologists in the 1990s as a and others representing Davengrants financial awards to to Winston as the No. 2 pick in crude way to factor in a patient’s ex-players with Alzheimer’s port and Henry. socioeconomic background. disease, Parkinson’s disease and that draft, and the other QB who Ken Jenkins and his wife, Amy also didn’t get a second contract.

Experts say it was never meant Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Lewis, have also fought for the Tennessee moved on, so Mariota to be used to determine payouts It does not cover CTE — which changes, gathering thousands of was Derek Carr’s backup in in a court settlement. some call the signature disease petitions and pressing the Civil Las Vegas the past two seasons.

However, it was adopted by of football — except for men Rights Division of the Justice both sides in the 2015 settlement diagnosed with it posthumously Could Mariota get another Department to investigate the chance to start? that resolved lawsuits accusing before April 2015, a deadline set alleged discrimination.

Mitchell Trubisky is perhaps the NFL of hiding what it knew to avoid encouraging suicides.

The binary scoring system

I wouldn’t “ be shocked if

I went No. 1 overall. I feel like that is something I put the work in for.”

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The vast majority of the league’s players — 70 percent of active players and more than 60 percent of living retirees — are Black.

So the changes are expected to be significant, and potentially costly for the NFL. The agreement to end race-norming follows months of closed-door negotiations

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A possible trade of Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers dominates discussions over a draft class lacking a big-name player.

the most intriguing option after a tumultuous stint in Chicago was followed by a year as Josh Allen’s backup in Buffalo. The Bears declined his fifth-year option.

Cam Newton didn’t show he has anything left in a reprise with Carolina, while Denver’s Teddy Bridgewater appears headed for his fourth team in four seasons.

Jacoby Brissett and Tyrod Taylor are backups at best.

Andy Dalton never gained traction in Chicago even though he signed expecting to be the starter after a year as Dak Prescott’s backup (and injury replacement) in Dallas. Everything changed when the Bears moved up nine spots in last year’s draft to get Justin Fields at No. 11.

Dalton, 34, and Ryan Fitzpatrick, 39, are the elder statesmen.

Fitzpatrick is coming off a hip injury that limited him to one start in Washington.

Let’s make a deal The Packers aren’t pretending to know what Rodgers will decide, and seem to be putting off all major roster decisions until he does. Rodgers said he would make up his mind before free agency, but the club has less than a week to decide whether to place the franchise tag on Rodgers’ top target, Davante Adams.

Given the movement last offseason of Carson Wentz (Philadelphia to Indianapolis) and Matthew Stafford/Jared Goff (a Los Angeles Rams-Detroit swap), it shouldn’t be difficult for Green Bay to engineer a trade.

There will be plenty of interested teams.

Garoppolo took the 49ers to the Super Bowl three seasons ago, when they lost to Kansas City. San Francisco fell to Stafford and the Rams in a surprising run to the NFC title game last season. But the front office has been clear that it’s ready to turn over the team to Trey Lance, the third overall pick in last year’s draft.

Garoppolo’s cap hit is a fairly manageable $27 million, particularly assuming he starts somewhere. However, any potential trade was complicated by recent surgery on his throwing (right) shoulder.

The outlook is still unclear for Houston’s Deshaun Watson, who faces civil lawsuits over allegations of sexual assault and harassment.

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Truth or Consequences 68 / 37

Silver City 56 / 30

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Las Vegas 58/41

Denver 38/21

Phoenix 69/44

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New Orleans 79/67

Mérida 96/66

Guadalajara 87/53

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The Northeast will see mostly cloudy skies with isolated rain and snow, highest temperature of 67 in Rome, Ohio. The Southeast will experience partly cloudy skies with the highest temperature of 85 in Tampa, Fla. In the Northwest there will be partly to mostly cloudy skies with isolated rain and scattered snow, highest temperature of 54 in Kennewick, Wash. The Southwest will see partly cloudy skies with isolated rain, highest temperature of 74 in Yuma, Ariz.

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March 5, 1988 - While snow blanketed eastern Kansas and northern Oklahoma, eight cities in North Dakota reported new record high temperatures for the date. The afternoon high of 61 degrees at Bismarck, N.D. was 27 degrees warmer than that at Chanute, Kan.

NATIONAL EXTREMES FRIDAY High

98° in Rio Grande, Texas

NIGHT SKY

Low

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Mercury 6:28 a.m.

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America’s pets also put on pandemic pounds People tend to indulge pets while stuck at home with them

By Aishvarya Kavi New York Times

6 p.m. on HBO Movie: F9 The Fast Saga Fast & Furious action franchise veteran Justin Lin returned to the helm of this 2021 installment, which he also cowrote with Daniel Casey. The story finds Vin Diesel, pictured, reprising his familiar role as former criminal turned street racer Dominic Toretto, who comes out of retirement to stop a nefarious plot with grave global implications that is headed by Dom’s younger brother Jakob (John Cena).

6 p.m. on LIFE Movie: Stolen by Their Father Adapted from Lizbeth Meredith’s memoir Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters, this new docudrama stars Sarah Drew as Meredith, who reluctantly allows her two young daughters to spend a noncustodial visit with their father (Kimonas Kouris). A few days later, she discovers her abusive ex-husband has kidnapped the girls and spirited them away to Greece. Lizbeth spends the next two years desperately searching for her daughters, despite dire threats from her ex.

7 p.m. on SHOW Movie: The Green Knight Writer-director David Lowery received widespread acclaim for this epic 2021 medieval fantasy, which both honors and deconstructs the classic 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Set in the England of King Arthur’s reign, the film stars Dev Patel as Sir Gawain, who takes up a challenge posed by another knight of mysterious origin.

7 p.m. on SUND Movie: Grease John Travolta trades his Saturday Night Fever disco duds for slicked-back hair and a leather jacket in this 1978 film version of the Broadway musical. He plays a tough 1950s high school student who is reunited with the shy Australian exchange student (Olivia Newton-John) he met the previous summer.

8 p.m. on CW World’s Funniest Animals Host Elizabeth Stanton welcomes actor Jayson Blair (Good Trouble) as her special guest for a new episode that features clips of such animals as perplexed penguins, outlandish owls, leering lizards, a husky who enjoys playing hide-and-seek and another dog who has made a new playmate out of the neighbor on the other side of a fence.

Atlanta 75/55

Dallas 82/62

Mexico City 79/59

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2 p.m.

Washington D.C. 62/51

St. Louis 74/48

Albuquerque 62/31

New York 45/42

Detroit 48/44

Chicago 66/42

Hermosillo 76/53

STATE EXTREMES FRIDAY

8 a.m. Sat.

TV TOP PICKS

Los Angeles 59/44

Las Cruces 69 / 38

City

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Minneapolis 43/28

Billings 32/18

Roswell 74 / 34

Alamogordo 75/52 s 66/40 s 60/30 s Las Vegas Albuquerque 70/48 pc 62/31 pc 53/23 pc Lordsburg Angel Fire 48/29 mc 38/16 ss 31/1 ss Los Alamos Artesia 81/48 s 73/36 s 69/26 s Los Lunas Carlsbad 84/46 pc 73/36 s 72/28 s Portales POLLEN COUNTS Chama 49/27 mc 39/15 ss 32/5 ss Raton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6,. .Low Ash . . . . . . Cimarron . . . . . . . . . . . 48/29 . . . . . .pc . . . 52/24 . . . . . .s . . .43/15 . . . . . rs . . . . .Red . River . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25, Juniper . . . Medium . . . . . . . . . . Clayton . . . . . . . . . . . 72/45 . . . . . .pc . . . 63/22 . . . . . .s . . .48/16 . . . . . mc . . . . .Rio . Rancho Cloudcroft 75/52 s 43/28 s 39/19 s Roswell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41, Elm . . . Medium . . . . . . . . . . Clovis . . . . . . . . . . . 76/48 . . . . . .pc . . . 65/35 . . . . . .s . . .64/23 . . . . . s. . . . .Ruidoso .

Crownpoint 53/42 pc 47/25 pc 36/20 ss Santa Rosa Source: https://www.cabq.gov/airquality Deming 74/44 s 68/33 s 58/22 s Silver City Socorro 57/43 mc 56/27 pc 47/18 rs Espan~ ola T or C Farmington 67/37 mc 54/27 mc 44/22 rs Taos Fort Sumner 78/51 pc 66/31 s 62/21 s Tucumcari Gallup 63/32 pc 48/21 mc 39/15 ss Univ. Park Grants 64/36 pc 54/22 pc 41/14 rs White Rock Hobbs 81/46 pc 71/40 s 72/30 s Zuni Las Cruces 80/52 pc 69/38 s 62/29 s TODAY'S UV INDEX

Low

H Seattle 48/35

San Francisco 58/44

High . . . . . . . .rating Friday's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Low ... . . . . . . . .Forecast Today's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 .............................................

High

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NATIONAL WEATHER

Alamogordo 66 / 40

AIR QUALITY INDEX

Moderate

41 / 19

Humidity (Noon)

Wind: SSE 10 mph

Clovis 65 / 35

Ruidoso 54 / 32

No outside watering from 10am to 6pm from May 1 to October 31.

For a complete list of requirements call: 955-4225 http://www.santafenm.gov/water_conservation

The UV index forecasts the ultraviolet radiation coming from the sun. The higher the number the more risk of sun damage to your skin.

45 / 25

Humidity (Noon)

39%

Albuquerque 62 / 31

A partial list of the City of Santa Fe's Comprehensive Water Conservation Requirements currently in effect:

Extreme

Partly Cloudy.

Wind: S 15 mph

Las Vegas 53 / 25

Taos Area Pecos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00" Yesterday . . . . . . . . . .Gallup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 . . /. 25 . . . . . . to Month . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00" . . . . . . . . . .48 . . /. .21. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Friday

Partly Cloudy.

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Humidity (Noon)

Clayton 63 / 22

Los Alamos Area Santa Fe .Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Los . . .Alamos . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 / 26 47 / 27 . . . . . . to Month . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00" ...............................................

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Raton 55 / 21

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Las Vegas Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trace Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Espan . . . .~.ola ........ . . . . . . to Month . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56 . . /. .27 .........

0-50, Good; 51-100, Moderate; 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive groups; 151-200, Unhealthy; 201-300, Very Unhealthy, 301-500, Hazardous Source: www.airnow.gov

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Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows.

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The following water statistics of March 3rd are the most recent supplied by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 0.892 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 3.293 City Wells: 0.0 Buckman Wells: 1.866 Total production: 6.051 Total consumption: 6.412 Santa Fe reservoir inflow: 1.20 Reservoir storage: 237.01 Estimated reservoir capacity: 18.56%

Tuesday

Partly Cloudy.

NEW MEXICO WEATHER

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NATIONAL CITIES

7 DAY FORECAST FOR SANTA FE Today

THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

Saturday, March 5, 2022

It had been a year since Henry’s last haircut, and Michelle Holbrook did not realize her 7-pound, goofy toy poodle was now almost 9 pounds. His cute, shaggy look not only obscured his weight, it also made it harder to resist his begging.

“He’s a little rascal,” said Holbrook, a medical researcher in Chicago. “He’ll hear me when I open the cheese drawer in the fridge, and he comes running.”

Henry, 7, is one of many food-motivated pets who have surprised their owners with their weight gain in the past two years. While veterinarians and pet owners mostly attribute the added pounds to an increasing urge to give in to bad habits during the coronavirus pandemic, pet obesity has long been an issue in the United States.

Banfield Pet Hospital, which runs more than 1,000 veterinary

MEL EVANS/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Golden retriever Ceili, right, stands in a small pool with a friend in a 2014 file photo. Female goldens should weigh 55 to 70 pounds, but overweight Ceili weighed 126 pounds.

clinics in the country, found nearly 40 percent of cats and almost 35 percent of dogs were diagnosed as overweight in 2020, up from less than 20 percent a decade ago. Banfield also saw a slight rise — about 2 percent — of dogs being diagnosed as overweight from March 2020 to December of that year, at the

beginning of the pandemic.

“We’re all having pandemic pounds come into play,” said Dr. Jennifer Bolser, chief clinic veterinarian for the Humane Society of Boulder Valley, in Colorado. For pets, as with humans, bad habits include overeating, too much snacking and not enough physical activ-

ity. People find it harder to not overindulge pets while stuck at home with them.

Anthony Osuna, a psychology resident, said he and his partner used to take Pavlov, their petite corgi, to dog-friendly beaches, malls and restaurants in Southern California. But when the pandemic shut things down, Pavlov, 6, lost enthusiasm for outings — even walks.

“I felt like we were disappointing him,” Osuna said.

“That contributed to a lot of humans’ weight gain — the additional snacks and the dessert ... that you would do just to make yourself feel better in the pandemic. And with him as well. We would buy him treats, we would give him snacks.”

Pavlov’s weight crept up to about 28 pounds, from 23, prompting Osuna to reduce his portions and restrict snacks (popcorn is a favorite).

A survey of pet owners by Pumpkin, a pet insurance company, and Fi, which makes smart dog collars, found more than 50 percent of dogs that gained weight during the pandemic did so alongside their owners

— some even when they were more active. A number of studies have also found humans and dogs can mirror one another’s emotions and stress levels.

Symptoms of stress and anxiety in dogs can vary. In a 2018 study published in the Journal of Veterinary Behavior, more than 80 percent of the owners observed thought their dogs displayed signs of emotional eating, or “stress eating” behavior when they were “unhappy.”

As owners return to pre-pandemic routines, pets can develop anxiety from other sources. Henry, Holbrook’s toy poodle, has developed separation anxiety when his owners leave for work. Other dogs have had limited socialization during the pandemic, leaving them unable to have healthy interactions with people and animals.

“The pandemic is one of those situations where you just have to be even more thoughtful,” Bolser said, adding that owners should plan for their pets’ long-term health.

“Preventing obesity will prevent and help minimize a lot of other health conditions.”

Meet the spongy moth, renamed to remove an offensive term Romani people welcome the change from ‘gypsy moth’ Sabrina Imbler

New York Times

The Entomological Society of America voted last week to adopt the common name “spongy moth” for the species Lymantria dispar. The moth had been nameless for about eight months, after the society removed the former common name — “gypsy moth,” based on a term many Romani people view as derogatory — from its list of common names in July.

“Spongy” refers to the moth’s fluffy, porous egg masses, which had inspired the species’ exist-

ing common name in France and French-speaking Canada: spongieuse.

The new name is effective immediately.

“I feel heartened,” Margareta Matache, instructor and director of the Roma Program at Harvard University, wrote in an email. “Romani people won an important victory today.”

“It takes an ethnic slur out of common parlance,” said Jessica Ware, president of the society and an entomologist at the American Museum of Natural History. “It’s going to have a really big impact.”

Matache, who was born in Romania, first learned about the moth’s offensive name when she moved to the United States in 2012.

“I felt devastated,” she said. “It was created by white Europeans, it carries a painful history and it’s offensive,” she added, noting some Romani groups in Britain embrace the term.

The Entomological Society of America maintains a list of approved common names for insects in order to standardize how people refer to species. In early 2021, the society adopted new rules banning references to ethnicities, races or groups of people in common names.

The lengthy renaming process began in July. The society officially removed the pejorative from L. dispar and Aphaenogaster araneoides, formerly called the “gypsy ant.” To select a new name, it assembled a group of entomologists, researchers and

professionals who work with the species, and people who identify as Romani, including Matache. The society also formed the Better Common Names Project, to review other common names that may be offensive or inappropriate.

The working group received hundreds of submissions from the public. It dropped some, such as “frowny cyclops,” because they were not serious suggestions. Many others were dropped because they were further variations on pejorative names or stereotypes of the Romani people.

“It felt like they were insisting to keep this insect related to Romani people,” Matache said, adding she was grateful to nonRoma members of the group

who pointed out this racism.

After the working group debated seven finalists, spongy moth emerged as the winner.

In North America, the moth is an invasive species that can strip trees and shrubs of their leaves, sometimes leading to tree death.

“It’s tremendously visible and very expensive to deal with,” said Leigh Greenwood, a program director at the Nature Conservancy. That will make updating the moth’s name wherever it is used is no easy feat.

“Websites, handouts, pesticide labels; both federal, state and international regulations,” Greenwood said. “It’s going to cost a lot of real money and time, and it’s important and worth it.”

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MISCELLANEOUS PUBLIC SAFETY REPORTER The Santa Fe New Mexican, a locally owned and independent newspaper in one of the nation’s most interesting capital cities, is looking for an ambitious public safety reporter who can juggle a range of daily stories while tackling more in-depth, longerformer enterprise pieces for the weekend editions.

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Salary is negotiable.

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Friday March 4th & Saturday March 5th. 10-4 Cash.

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PUBLIC NOTICE The U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration (EDA) is considering a request for Federal assistance from Santa Fe County to construct Segment 6 of the Rail Trail in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended, EDA is conducting an environmental assessment review and/or historic properties of the proposed project.

The project is Segment 6 of the Rail Trail from Santa Fe to Lamy. The project will be located starting at Spur Ranch Road and following the Rail Road to Highway285, for a approximately 1.8 mile segment. Project information is available for review at the Santa Fe County Administrative Complex at 100 Catron Street in Santa Fe New Mexico, (505) 995-2728.

If you have any information regarding potential environmental impacts associated with this proposed project, please provide it in writing to: LEGALS Regional Environmental Officer US Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration Austin Region 903 San Jacinto Blvd., Suite 206 Austin, Texas 78701 Or email: llarsen@eda.gov

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Friday March 4, Saturday March 5 10-4 Cash.

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LOST DEAF CHIHUAHUA.

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PUBLIC NOTICE The U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration (EDA) is considering a request for Federal assistance from Santa Fe County to construct Segment 6 of the Rail Trail in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended, EDA is conducting an environmental assessment review and/or historic properties of the proposed project.

LEGALS The project is Segment 6 of the Rail Trail from Santa Fe to Lamy. The project will be located starting at Spur Ranch Road and following the Rail Road to Highway285, for a approximately 1.8 mile segment. Project information is available for review at the Santa Fe County Administrative Complex at 100 Catron Street in Santa Fe New Mexico, (505) 995-2728.

If you have any information regarding potential environmental impacts associated with this proposed project, please provide it in writing to: Regional Environmental Officer US Department of Commerce Continued...

Economic Development Administration Austin Region 903 San Jacinto Blvd., Suite 206 Austin, Texas 78701

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Salary ranges are: TSS: $22.75 to $33.53/hr.

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PRE-PRESS TECHNICIAN The Santa Fe New Mexican is seeking a motivated individual to join the Pre-Press team as a PrePress Technician . Working on the production of multiple New Mexican publications, including our daily newspaper, as well as a wide variety of commercial publications and products.

The New Mexican offers a comprehensive and competitive compensation package and is an equal opportunity employer.

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PUBLIC NOTICE The U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration (EDA) is considering a request for Federal assistance from Santa Fe County to construct Segment 6 of the Rail Trail in Santa Fe County, New Mexico. Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended, EDA is conducting an environmental assessment review and/or historic properties of the proposed project.

The project is Segment 6 of the Rail Trail from Santa Fe to Lamy. The project will be located Continued... starting at Spur Ranch Road and following the Rail Road to Highway285, for a approximately 1.8 mile segment. Project in-

to place legals call: 986-3000

Comments received in the EDA Regional Office by 5:00 pm on March 31st, 2022, will be considered. A copy of the NEPA decisional document will be available upon request at the above EDA Regional Office.

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GRADUATE LEVEL 4. What was the name of the first man-made object to perform an orbital spaceflight?

Answer________ 5. What was Mir? Answer________ 6. For what does NASA stand?

Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 7. Who or what was Laika?

Answer________ 8. This car-size Mars rover is nicknamed “Percy.”

Answer________ 9. In 2019, President Donald Trump established this independent military branch.

Answer________ ANSWERS: 1. Neil Armstrong. 2. Yuri Gagarin. 3. John Glenn. 4.

Sputnik 1. 5. The first modular space station.

6. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

7. First dog in space. 8. Perseverance. 9. The United States Space Force.

SCORING: 24 to 30 points — congratulations, doctor; 18 to 23 points — honors graduate; 13 to 17 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 5 to 12 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 4 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you? (c) 2022 Ken Fisher

KENKEN Rules • Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 6 without repeating.

• The numbers within the heavily outlines boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners.

• Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.

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by Andrews McMeel

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH This is a feel-good day for your sign! That’s why you have a warm feeling in your tummy and you’re happy to be in your own skin.

Tonight: Be friendly.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH This is a wonderful day for group activities. You also will enjoy interacting with friends, but in particular, you will be confident when dealing with clubs, groups and organizations. Tonight: You are favored.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You look fabulous in the eyes of others today.

People in authority (bosses, parents, teachers and VIPs) admire you because you appear to be successful and affluent (even if you aren’t).

Tonight: Try something new.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHHH This is a fabulous day to travel or do anything that allows you to expand your experience of the world.

You want to broaden your horizons! You want to learn new things and discover adventure! You also will enjoy the company of people from other cultures and different backgrounds. Tonight: Check your finances.

THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

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D EA R A N N I E

Friend returns to an abusive man Dear Annie: I have a friend who my partner and I had a good friendship with until she got back together with her boyfriend. They lived behind us two years ago.

We would take care of their little dog while she worked. We love this sweet little girl and treat her like one of our own. Our friend’s boyfriend is scared of dogs after he was bitten by one years ago. It was rare that he would keep the dog during the day. He preferred to sit inside one of the fast-food restaurants or his truck talking to people, women mostly.

One night, they had a high argument, and he kicked her out. She doesn’t drive and had nowhere to go, so she came to us to talk, and we let her stay with us. He was furious. He wanted to control her so much. He expected her to wait on him. As the weeks went by, he would bring women over to spend the night with him, and this hurt our friend so much.

But she started to move on.

We found a new place to live, and the three of us and our dogs moved in. We cared about her and helped her out when we could. One of the rules was that no boyfriends could stay for more than a few days. But she started to get lonely, and in time, she and the old boyfriend were talking again.

She came to us and asked if he could spend the weekend with her. Before you know it, he had moved in with her. Because we have small dogs, he wouldn’t come through the front of the house. He uses the back door and complains about it. I don’t pay attention to him. I understand the fear thing, but my dogs were here long before him. Now the two of them are moving out.

So far, she hasn’t told us too

much about where they are going.

We are still taking care of her little pup. This is the fourth or fifth time they have broken up and gotten back together. She has changed and, to me, not for the better. Before, she was caring and nice. Now, she is slightly mean to us. He is always bad-mouthing us to our neighbors and friends.

My question is, if they break up again, should we let her back in with us?

I don’t want to be mean, but I’m tired of feeling used. She has a sister, but they don’t have room for her. We are enjoying having the house to ourselves. — In a Pickle in Georgia Dear Pickle: Your friend is very fortunate to have you and your partner to call friends. It sounds like you two have been a constant source of support and comfort for her over the years and throughout her toxic relationship.

Encourage your friend to walk away from this boyfriend for good. His emotional abuse, manipulation and need for control will only lead to more problems for her the longer she stays with him, and she surely deserves better. If she chooses to continue the relationship, there’s nothing more you and your partner can do. Caring for her dog, which you enjoy, is one thing. Opening your home off and on to someone who hasn’t learned their lesson is another. Your friend needs to be able to stand on her own two feet.

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SHEINWOLD’S BRIDGE

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH This is a good financial day for Leos. Gifts, goodies and favors from others will come your way. It’s an excellent day to ask for a loan or mortgage or to borrow something from someone else, because people are willing to help you. Tonight: Warm conversations.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You will enjoy schmoozing with members of the general public, as well as partners and close friends, because this is a feel-good day for so many people. You might encounter someone who is generous, warmhearted and willing to help you today. Lucky you!

Tonight: You feel healthy.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Work-related travel might be a special perk for you today. Certainly, you will expand your world in some way through your work, job or whatever task that you set for yourself today. Tonight: Socialize!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH Lucky Scorpios are on vacation today because this is a great day to party!

Confine your social activities to your “bubble” and enjoy yourself. Tonight: Tweak your digs.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Entertain family and friends at home today, to the extent that it is safe to do so, because you will enjoy relaxing at home with loved ones. Tonight: The power of positive thinking.

CRYPTOQUIP

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH Today you have a strong desire to learn and understand many things, because you want to expand your knowledge of the world around you. Tonight: Moneymaking ideas.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Business and commerce are favored today.

Move forward with moneymaking ideas, because you’re not afraid to think big.

Tonight: High energy.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHH You feel great today, especially physically and psychologically. You’re optimistic, confident and in a positive frame of mind.

Tonight: Enjoy solitude.

Georgia Nicols

The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle.

Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error. © 2022 by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Saturday, March 5, the 64th day of 2022. There are 301 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On March 5, 1770, the Boston Massacre took place as British soldiers who’d been taunted by a crowd of colonists opened fire, killing five people.

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THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

Saturday, March 5, 2022

TUNDRA

BABY BLUES

WITHOUT RESERVATIONS

PEANUTS

DILBERT

MACANUDO

LA CUCARACHA

RHYMES WITH ORANGE

ZITS

PICKLES

LUANN

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

NON SEQUITUR