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FORT HOOD ATTACK
Dispute over leave agitated soldier before fatal shooting
Advocates plan to build new hospital, push for N.M. to adopt ‘Kendra’s Law’ By Russell Contreras The Associated Press
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Police shootings renew call for state mental health resources ALBUQUERQUE — The recent fatal police shooting of a homeless camper who spent years in and out of jail and New Mexico’s only psychiatric hospital
has sparked a push for more mental health resources in the state and a law requiring people with severe mental illnesses to take medications or face involuntary hospitalization. New Mexico is one of only five states without a “Kendra’s Law,” and advocates say without it, police will increasingly find themselves in situations like the fatal March standoff with James Boyd, the 38-year-old transient who was shot and killed by police. That shooting launched
a violent protest in the city on Sunday and convinced Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry to ask the U.S. Justice Department to monitor the troubled police department amid a pending federal investigation. “I think it’s time for a law,” said Marilyn Salzman, president of the Rio Ranch chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. “The families of those struggling with mental illness have been
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Father says mental illness likely played a role in Lopez’s actions By Manny Fernandez
The New York Times
KILLEEN, Texas — The Army specialist at Fort Hood who killed three and wounded 16 of his fellow soldiers Wednesday had an angry dispute over a leave request shortly before the shooting rampage, a law enforcement official said Friday. After a meeting where he had sought a leave to attend to family matters, he was clearly agitated and disrespectful, said the official, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to discuss the investigation. Fort Hood officials and a spokesman for Army investigators declined Ivan Lopez to comment Friday about the meeting and its role in the shooting, but they confirmed in an afternoon news conference that the specialist, Ivan Antonio Lopez, became angry with soldiers from his unit before the attack. Two of those he killed were in his unit, a transportation battalion of the 13th Sustainment Command. Officials stressed that they had still not established a clear motive. But in an interview with a local Mississippi television station, Theodis Westbrook, of Smithdale, Miss., the father of Sgt. Jonathan Westbrook, who was wounded in the attack, said he was told that a soldier came to Fort Hood’s personnel office, where Jonathan Westbrook worked, to get a leave form. When one of the soldiers told the man to come back the next day to
Ulysses Yarbrough, 12, from La Mariposa Montessori School in Santa Fe, passes the microphone to James Cox, 12, from the Taos Charter School, during the final round of the state National Geographic Bee on Friday in Albuquerque. The winners of the state bee will compete in the national Bee in Washington, D.C. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
Final-round question stumps Santa Fe sixth-grader in geography competition By Phaedra Haywood
The New Mexican
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‘When the Stars Trembled in Río Puerco’
Yarbrough takes his seat after finishing in seventh place during the final round of Friday’s competition.
Teatro Paraguas and Recuerdos Vivos New Mexico present a play by Shebana Coelho based on oral histories of the Río Puerco Valley collected by folk historian Nasario García, 7:30 p.m. Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie, $15, discounts available. 424-1601. More events in Calendar, A-2
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U.S. finally regains jobs lost in recession By Christopher S. Rugaber
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anta Fe sixth-grader Ulysses Yarbrough was pumped after the preliminary round of the state National Geographic Bee held in Albuquerque on Friday. The La Mariposa Montessori School student was the only competitor out of 83 from around the state who correctly answered all eight questions in the bee’s preliminary round, making him the only student who didn’t have to participate in a tie-breaker to compete in the finals. “It feels great!” he said. “Last year there were quite a few 8’s. This year there was only me. I’m really excited because that gives me a clear opportunity to go to nationals.” Alas, Yarbrough’s elation was short lived. He was eliminated after
WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy has reached a milestone: It has finally regained all the private-sector jobs it lost during the Great Recession. Yet it took a painfully slow six years, and unemployment remains stubbornly high at 6.7 percent. The comeback figures were contained in a government report Friday that showed a solid if unspectacular month of job growth in March. Businesses and nonprofits shed 8.8 million jobs during the 2007-09 recession; they
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have since hired 8.9 million. But because the population has grown since the big downturn, the economy is still millions of jobs short of where it should be by now. Also, government jobs are still 535,000 below the level they were at when the recession began in December 2007. That’s why the overall economy still has 422,000 fewer jobs than it did then. As a result, most analysts were hardly celebrating the milestone. Heidi Shierholz, an economist at the liberal Economic Policy Institute, called it a “pretty meaningless benchmark economically.”
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