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New Mexico author dies

Deputy pleads not guilty in death

Juan Estevan Arellano was a Chicano writer on New Mexico culture. PAGE B-1

Police: Chan on phone with girlfriend as fellow lawman gunned down

School district tax increase defended Superintendent Joel Boyd said the district faced a critical need to improve technology. PAGE B-1

Roxanne ‘Rocky’ Lara is a first-time

Hispanic candidate in New Mexico who is trying to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce.

10 1st-time Latino candidates run for Congress

By Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican

The Santa Fe County deputy accused of killing a fellow deputy at a hotel in Las Cruces pleaded not guilty Wednesday in his first courtroom appearance as new details

emerged about the fatal hotel shooting. Police say Deputy Tai Chan, 27, shot and killed Deputy Jeremy Martin, 29, at the Hotel Encanto early Tuesday after a night Tai Chan of drinking and “a heated argument” that started at a bar. Investigators have said the deputies were spending

the night in Las Cruces after transporting a prisoner to Safford, Ariz. Chan is being held in the Doña Ana County jail without bond, which his lawyer, John Day, said is not unusual. The attorney also said he expects Chan to be placed in protective custody, away from the general inmate population, which is standard procedure when a law enforcement officer is held in custody. A criminal complaint filed Wednesday in the Doña Ana County

Santa Fe woman performs psychic cleansing of homes, hotels, businesses

u Latinos don’t necessarily support Democrats, poll says. PAGE A-5 u A campaign in Alaska tries to shame voters to ballot box. PAGE A-5

Paranormal investigator Jane Phillips cleanses ‘portals’ earlier this month from a home on the south side of Santa Fe. The family had been dealing with strange energy for several years, they said, and they were hopeing Phillips could help clear the area. JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN

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t’s near dusk on an autumn eve, and ghostbuster Jane Phillips is working through a two-hour cleansing of a spacious house on the south side of town. She handles two dousing rods like a gunfighter working a pair of sixshooters as she moves from room to room to get rid of what she calls “discarnate energy.” We’re not talking just about ghosts and poltergeists in this case — but possible demonic forces and extraterrestrial beings.

Phillips, 63, is aware of skeptics and those who refuse to believe in ghosts. “I have to believe,” she says. “I see them all the time.” The homeowners — who do not want their names published in the newspaper — called Phillips after receiving some positive referrals about her work. Since moving into the house eight years ago, the family members say, they have faced a number of unsettling experiences. Clinging vines in the living room once reached out for one of the

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INSIDE u A quarantined nurse who does not have Ebola symptoms defies state.

By Jeff Donn and Garance Burke

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Members of the Department of Defense’s Ebola Military Medical Support Team dress with protective gear during training at San Antonio Military Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. ERIC GAY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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A plan for the city to provide armed police officers at Capital High School and Santa Fe High was brought to a screeching halt Wednesday by city councilors. In a nutshell, councilors gave the plan an “A” for effort but an “F” for execution. Councilors said they supported the concept of making schools safer, but they thought the plan wasn’t properly vetted. They demanded that it first go through the council’s committee process, especially since it has a fiscal impact. Several councilors said they had found out about the plan in the newspaper earlier this month after the Santa Fe school board voted to approve the deal, which calls for placing an armed officer at each high school. “We’re clueless on it. We are. We’re all clueless,” City Councilor Ron Trujillo said.

Please see OFFICERS, Page A-4 And it doesn’t help that Halloween is near. “These energies are dark energies, and Halloween is a dark holiday,” she says. “It will ramp it up.” With Halloween on Friday, many people’s thoughts may turn to the paranormal for a few days. But Phillips concentrates on supernatural and otherworldly entities every day of her life. She performs psychic cleansings of houses, hotels, businesses and restaurants (“Bad or poorly prepared food may not be the only reason that your customers choose to not come back to your restaurant,” her brochure notes.)

Training, staffing fall short of need

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U.S. health care unready for Ebola, review finds

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The Associated Press

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Magistrate Court provided new details of the episode. But neither the court document nor police have given a reason as to why the accused deputy might have fired at Martin as

City Council likes idea, but blindsided by plan

By Luis Alonso Lugo

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u Read the complaint, hear the 911 audio and more at our website, www. sfnewmexican.com.

Ghost whisperer sends Officers in school dark energy packing program

Hopefuls trying to use heritage to draw voters WASHINGTON — First-time congressional candidate Norma Torres tells people in her Los Angeles-area district that there is no more critical time to vote than now, even as she acknowledges “great disillusion” may cause many Hispanics to sit out Election Day. “There’s nothing sexy on the ballot, no ballot measure to mobilize people” said Torres. And no Norma Torres presidential contest this year. She and fellow Democrat Christina Gagnier are in a race to succeed Democratic Rep. Gloria Negrete McLeod, who is quitting Capitol Hill after just one term and trying to win election to a county board of supervisors. “My message is that now it’s more

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The U.S. health care apparatus is so unprepared and short on resources to deal with the deadly Ebola virus that even small clusters of cases could overwhelm parts of the system, according to an Associated Press review of readiness at hospitals and other components of the emergency

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medical network. Experts broadly agree that a widespread nationwide outbreak is extremely unlikely, but they also concur that it is impossible to predict with certainty, since previous Ebola epidemics have been confined to remote areas of Africa. And Ebola is not the only possible danger that causes

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concern; experts say other deadly infectious diseases — ranging from airborne viruses such as SARS, to an unforeseen new strain of the flu, to more exotic plagues like Lassa fever — could crash the health care system. To assess America’s ability to deal with a major outbreak, the AP examined indicators of readiness: training, staffing, funding, emergency room shortcomings, supplies and protection for health care workers. AP reporters

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INSIDE u The City Council rejects downtown project over standards. PAGE B-1

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King Lear Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, 7:30 p.m., Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., $13.50-$100, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.

Today Sunny. High 69, low 36. PAGE A-12

Obituaries David Marshall Smith, 71, Santa Fe, Oct. 2 Ramon Eloy Sena, 85, Santa Fe Bobby C. Borrego, 24, Santa Fe, Oct. 26 Eugenie H.

Miller, 84, Oct. 21 Francine Juliet Vitetta Smock, 65, Santa Fe, Oct. 26 Jeremy Martin, Oct. 28 Anamarie Star Ojeda, 13, Santa Fe, Oct. 26 PAGE A-10

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