The santa fe new mexican, nov 20, 2013

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Heirloom goods flavor holiday feast with nostalgia Taste, C-1

Locally owned and independent

SFCC leader seeks job hearing Community college staff speak out on the president after board puts Ana “Cha” Guzmán on leave. LocaL news, B-1

Choices for grads The Santa Fe school board approves graduation guidelines for its 600 seniors. LocaL news, B-1

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

City park spending raises concerns Advisory panel wants answers after report on $30 million in park improvement funds shows discrepencies. LocaL news, B-1

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‘Where was the threat?’ Experts question use of force by state police in minivan shooting

By Chris Quintana and Andrew Oxford The New Mexican and The Taos News

National law-enforcement experts on Tuesday questioned how New Mexico State Police handled a traffic stop that devolved into chaos on the

outskirts of Taos last month. The New Mexican asked three criminal justice professors to weigh in on issues surrounding the recently released video of the Oct. 28 incident, which shows one officer firing at a minivan carrying five children as the uncooperative driver tries to flee. The dashboard-camera video of the incident has captured national attention and prompted concerns about

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A state police officer fires on a van full of children driven by Memphis, Tenn., resident Oriana Ferrell near Taos on Oct. 28. IMAGE TAKEN FROM VIDEO

abortion ban defeated 55% OF VOTERS REJECT CLOSELY WATCHED BALLOT MEASURE IN ALBUQUERQUE

DWI HOMICIDE CASE

Man faces charge in death of passenger Woman ejected from truck suffers head injury By Uriel J. Garcia

The New Mexican

Anti-abortion advocates recite the rosary and picket in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Albuquerque on Tuesday, while the city’s voters were rejecting a proposed ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The first-of-its-kind ballot measure was closely watched by both sides in the abortion fight, traditionally waged at the state and national levels. PHOTOS BY JUAN ANTONIO LABRECHE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

By Jeri Clausing

The Associated Press

ALBUQUERQUE oters in New Mexico’s largest city soundly defeated a ban on late-term abortions Tuesday in a municipal election that was being closely watched as a possible new front in the national abortion fight. Voters rejected the measure 55 percent to 45 percent following an emotional and graphic campaign that brought in national groups and hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising. The campaign included protests that compared abortion to the Holocaust and displayed pictures

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of aborted fetuses. A coalition of groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and Planned Parenthood, called the results a huge victory for Albuquerque women and families. “Albuquerque families sent a powerful message today — they do not want the government interfering in their private medical decisions,” Micaela Cadena, with the Respect ABQ Women campaign, said in a statement. “Dangerous, unconstitutional laws like the one we rejected today have no place in Albuquerque, no place in New Mexico, no place anywhere in our nation.”

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Phil Leahy of Albuquerque stands on a ladder overlooking Planned Parenthood, waving anti-abortion literature.

NMAA to decide fate of schools

JFK ASSASSINATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY

Jackie Kennedy’s grief-stricken agent finds peace telling his story By Pamela Huey

Secret Service Agent Clint Hill, center, follows Jacqueline Kennedy to the grave of her slain husband, President John F. Kennedy, in Arlington National Cemetery on Nov. 28, 1963.

Star Tribune

MINNEAPOLIS — Secret Service agent Clint Hill heard the third rifle shot that exploded the back of President John F. Kennedy’s skull that November day 50 years ago in Dallas. “It was the sound of something hard hitting something hollow.” He had already seen the president grab his throat and lurch to the left after the first shot. Using every bit of his strength and with the driver hitting the gas, Hill somehow pulled himself onto the back of the presidential limousine to get to first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, who was at that very moment — in shock — climbing on the trunk toward him.

ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

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Index

Calendar a-2

Classifieds c-3

Comics a-8

Lotteries a-2

Opinion a-7

Police notes B-2

Editor: Ray Rivera, 986-3033, rrivera@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Cynthia Miller, cmiller@sfnewmexican.com

Sports B-5

A 24-year-old Santa Fe man faces a charge of vehicular homicide after a Monday afternoon incident on the city’s south side in which his girlfriend, a passenger in his Toyota pickup, apparently fell out of the moving truck, landed on the pavement and suffered a fatal head injury, police said Tuesday. Santa Fe police issued a news Moses release saying that Trujillo Jennifer Martinez, 24, had not been wearing a seat belt, and that officers are investigating whether she was “possibly pushed out of the truck, jumped out, if the truck’s door was closed improperly or if the truck has a faulty door.” The driver, Moses Trujillo, 1891 Esplendor St., told police he had been drinking prior to the incident, which occurred shortly before 3 p.m., according to an officer’s affidavit. Trujillo told investigators that Martinez “flew out of the vehicle” while he took a turn from Portavela Street onto Esplendor Street, a residential street just south of Zia Road. According to the report, he said he was turning the corner at about 15 to 20 mph when Martinez fell out. He “slammed on the brakes, ran out, called 911” and saw that she

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The waiting game is about to end when it comes to high school classifications and athletic alignments. sPoRTs, B-5

Today

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Cloudy. High 57, low 33.

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Richard Mccord The author discusses his book No Halls of Ivy: The Gritty Story of the College of Santa Fe, 5:30 p.m., Fogelson Library, Santa Fe University of Art and Design 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, no charge. More events in Calendar, Page A-2

Time Out c-8

Travel c-2

Main office: 983-3303 Late paper: 986-3010

obituaries Jessie Cleofitas Borrego, 75, White Rock, Nov. 16 Javier Jose Ortega, 34, Nov. 16 Leon Aron Mellow, 72, Nov. 14 Page B-2

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