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Hantavirus death reported in county
Bulldogs’ loss makes history Albuquerque High’s football team breaks the state record for consecutive losses. SPORTS, B-5
Investigation underway to reduce risk to others, officials say the state Department of Health said Thursday. The death is the second case of hantavirus reported in New Mexico this year, according to the Health Department. An environmental investigation
By Bruce Krasnow The New Mexican
A 73-year-old woman has become Santa Fe County’s first-ever fatality from hantavirus pulmonary syndrome,
was underway Thursday at the home of the patient to help reduce the risk to others, said the department’s Dr. Chad Smelser.
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Drought persists Monsoons helped, but New Mexico still needs a good winter snowpack. LOCAL NewS, B-1
The deer mouse helps spread hantavirus to humans. Found almost everywhere in North America, the deer mouse likes woodlands but also turns up in desert areas. COURTESY JOHN GOOD/NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Gadgets in flight New gate-to-gate rules permit use of some devices on planes, but not phone calls. PAge A-3
Construction crew breaks gas line
State court narrows who must report child abuse By Barry Massey
The Associated Press
The Santa Fe Police Department closed a section of Airport Road from Calle Atajo to South Meadows Road on Thursday to fix a broken gas line. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
Morning accident forces temporary evacuations, Airport Road closure By Chris Quintana
The New Mexican
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ity contractors broke a natural-gas line during an Airport Road landscaping project Thursday morning, shutting down one of south Santa Fe’s major traffic arteries through the evening rush hour and temporarily displacing dozens of nearby residents. Eric Martinez, director of the city’s Roadway and Trails Engineering Division, confirmed late Thursday afternoon that crews had pierced a natural-gas
line while doing drilling work as part of a city project to install underground irrigation systems in Airport Road medians. The Santa Fe police and fire departments evacuated residents in two buildings at the Vista Alegre Apartments, 1489 Zepol Road, and tenants of a nearby shopping complex at about 11 a.m. Law-enforcement officials also closed Airport Road between Calle Atajo and South Meadows Drive while New Mexico Gas Co. crews worked to fix the damaged pipe, said Celina Westervelt, a
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Allan Tey, a resident of the Vista Alegre Appartments, waits at a bus stop Thursday on Calle Atajo for news that he can return to his home. The Santa Fe Police Department closed a section of Airport Road from Calle Atajo to South Meadows Road to fix a broken gas line. The line was damaged by a crew working on Zepol Road.
A state appeals court ruling that limits who is required to report suspected child abuse and neglect in New Mexico is being blasted by Republican Gov. Susana Martinez and Democratic Attorney General Gary King as a foolish decision that puts children in danger. The decision by the state Court of Appeals brought together the two rivals in the 2014 governor’s race. King’s office said it will ask the state Supreme Court to overturn the ruling, and Martinez’s office said she would take the issue up with the Legislature. The Appeals Court ruled Monday that only 10 categories of people listed in state law, including teachers and physicians, are required to report suspected child abuse to authorities. Under the court’s interpretation of the law, a relative who suspects a child is being abused would not be required to report it to authorities. A spokesman for the attorney general, Phil Sisneros, said the court’s narrow interpretation of the abuse reporting requirement “could place children in jeopardy.” Martinez, a former prosecutor, considers the ruling “terribly misguided,” said spokesman Enrique Knell. She plans to ask the Legislature to change the law to make certain all New Mexicans are obligated to report suspected child abuse. At issue is a state law whose wording could be interpreted multiple ways about who is required to report child abuse. The law states: “Every person, including a licensed physician; a resident or an intern examining, attending or treating a child; a law enforcement officer; a judge presiding during a proceeding; a registered nurse; a visiting nurse; a school teacher; a school official; a social worker acting in an official capacity; or a member of the clergy who has information that is not privileged as a matter of law, who knows or has a reasonable suspicion that a child is an abused or a neglected child shall report the matter immediately to” authorities.
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Obituaries
Sunshine. High 57, low 31.
Rodney Bustos, 60, Cuyamungue, Oct. 24 Glenn Carr, 57, Oct. 27 Stanton H. Hirsch, 90, Santa Fe, Oct. 29 Cecilia Martinez, 73, Tesuque, Oct. 28 Mark Lawrence Martinez, 62, Oct. 12 Myrna Neeff Wheeler, 75, Santa Fe, Oct. 29
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Why spy on allies? Even good friends keep secrets By Nancy Benac
The Associated Press
In geopolitics, just as on the playground, even best friends don’t tell each other everything. And everybody’s dying to know what the other guy knows. Revelations that the U.S. has been monitoring the cellphone calls of up to 35 world leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, have brought into high relief the open-yetoften-unspoken secret that even close allies keep things from one
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another — and work every angle to find out what’s being held back. So it is that the Israelis recruited American naval analyst Jonathan Pollard to pass along U.S. secrets including satellite photos and data on Soviet weaponry in the 1980s. And the British were accused of spying on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan in the lead-up to the Iraq War. And the French, Germans, Japanese, Israelis and South Koreans have been accused of engaging in economic espionage against the United States. But now the technology
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revealed by former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden has underscored the incredible new-millennium reach of the U.S. spy agency. And it is raising the question for some allies: Is this still OK? National Intelligence Director James Clapper, for his part, testified this week that it is a “basic tenet” of the intelligence business to find out whether the public statements of world leaders jibe with what’s being said behind closed doors. What might the Americans have wanted to know from
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Merkel’s private conversations, for example? Ripe topics could well include her thinking on European economic strategy and Germany’s plans for talks with world powers about Iran’s nuclear program. There is both motive and opportunity driving the trustbut-verify dynamic in friend-onfriend espionage: Allies often have diverging interests, and the explosion of digital and wireless communication keeps creating new avenues for spying on one
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Sleep in Sunday Don’t forget to set clocks back one hour at 2 a.m. Sunday.
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