Santa Fe New Mexican, November 1, 2014

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HBO kicks off miniseries ‘Olive Kitteridge’ based on n the book, TV Book, Inside

Locally owned and independent

Hello Kitty is ‘cute-cool’ 40 years later

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Starting in Japan, Hello Kitty has become a global phenomenon, and the character celebrates a milestone Saturday. PAGE A-2

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Court halts Martinez’s work-for-food program

Funds for tsunami victims missing

A work requirement for 80,000 food stamp recipients was put on hold while a judge considers if a state agency’s regulations are valid. PAGE A-7

The state police are looking into what happened to about $39,000 raised by Native American artists for Japanese victims. PAGE A-7

Father seeks answers in teen girl’s death

The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo rocket explodes Friday during a test flight in Southern California.

Man sought police aid in finding missing daughter and bringing her home before she and her boyfriend were found dead

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Spaceship explosion rattles industry

Duke City, feds reach agreement on police reform

1 pilot killed in California; New Mexico spaceport sends condolences By Joel Achenbach and Drew Harwell

Changes address claims of force, shootings

The Washington Post

The world’s first spaceship designed for tourists exploded in midair and crashed to the floor of the Mojave Desert on Friday, killing one test pilot, severely injuring another, and leaving the young industry of commercial space rattled and heartbroken. SpaceShipTwo was supposed to become a shuttle to space for Virgin Galactic, the company founded by celebrity entrepreneur Richard Branson. The company planned to move operations early next year to Spaceport America in Southern New Mexico for a final round of test flights and then begin commercial flights from the quarter-billion-dollar, taxpayer financed spaceport. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the crew and families and to our friends and colleagues at Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic,” the New Mexico Spaceport Authority said in a statement. “We will continue to work with and lend our support to Virgin Galactic through this tragedy and in the coming months as we move forward.” Christine Anderson, the authority’s executive director, didn’t want to comment on the explosion or what effect the developments might have on Spaceport America and the future of commercial space travel. It was an elegant spacecraft, with a narrow body and flashy wings, and it had been handcrafted in a hangar at the Mojave Air and Space Port, about 95 miles north of Los Angeles. The company had hoped to start commercial flights soon, rocketing passengers above the atmosphere at

By Russell Contreras The Associated Press

The Associated Press

Saturday was supposed to be the day that Brittany Maynard killed herself. She still might do it, but her latest message seems to suggest she intends to live, at least for a while. Regardless, this 29-year-old woman suffering from terminal

Index

Calendar A-2

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Please see POLICE, Page A-5

PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

INSIDE

By Staci Matlock The New Mexican

u Programs help parents with difficult teenagers. PAGE A-4

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namarie Estrella Ojeda was a beautiful girl with a big smile, a neat freak who liked to read and did well in school despite learning challenges. She loved to fish and wanted to be a veterinarian. She played basketball and volleyball at Ortiz Middle School, where she was an eighth-grader, and she liked to help her dad cook. The middle child of five, Anamarie was particularly close to her sister Iyshia, who was one year older. “Iyshia and Ana, growing up, they would just stick to each other,” said their father, Raul Ojeda. “They were inseparable.” Divorced, Raul Ojeda, 38, has full custody of his daughters, he said. “I wanted them to have more of a family structure and be near their brothers and sisters,” Ojeda said. “I wanted them to succeed in anything they wanted. I wanted them to thrive in their goals, finish school. She was starting off her teenage years OK.” All wasn’t perfect, her father

Raul Ojeda, the father of Anamarie Ojeda, speaks about his daughter’s death and her relationship with Venancio Cisneros at his home on Tuesday.

admits. At age 12, Anamarie got busted for possessing marijuana paraphernalia. Then earlier this year, she met an older boy, and by summer, she was disappearing from home with him, Ojeda said. He tried to convince her it was a bad relationship, one that would break her heart. She didn’t listen. By fall, she had dropped out of

Terminally ill woman reconsiders By Sharon Cohen

school. Her father had filed one missing person report after another with police and searched for her himself. On Oct. 25, residents on a dirt road off N.M. 14 south of Santa Fe found 13-year-old Anamarie shot to death in a car along with her boyfriend, Venancio Cisneros, 18. She was shot once. Cisneros was shot multiple times. No one has been arrested in the killings, and no officials have suggested that Ojeda’s relationship with Cisneros was in any way connected to the crime. But wrapped around the horror of the teens’ murders is the question Anamarie’s family members are asking: Why was she in the car at all after all of her father’s efforts to convince her to end the relationship with Cisneros and all of her father’s attempts to enlist the police

ALBUQUERQUE — The U.S. Justice Department and New Mexico’s largest city have reached an agreement to overhaul Albuquerque’s police department amid several accusations of excessive force, agreeing to reforms that include new training and protocols for investigating officer shootings. The deal announced Friday also orders the force to be independently monitored and calls for the changes to be in place within four years. Damon Martinez, the U.S. attorney for the district of New Mexico, said at a news conference that the agreement represents a new chapter for Albuquerque and will “ensure effective policing and build community trust for our police officers.” City and federal officials have spent hundreds of hours discussing overhaul plans in the months after a Department of Justice report found in April that officers showed a pattern of using excessive force. The police department serving a city of about 560,000 people has faced scrutiny for 41 police shootings — 27 of them fatal — since 2010. The fatal shooting of a homeless man in March sparked protests around the city after video footage appeared to show the man surrendering during a standoff. Attorney General Eric Holder said the agreement will transform the culture and practices of the Albuquer-

A shrine is in Raul Ojeda’s Santa Fe home for his daughter, Anamarie Ojeda, 13. She was found shot to death with her boyfriend, Venancio Cisneros, 18, in his car Oct. 25 in a south-side neighborhood.

Please see SHIP, Page A-6

Woman had planned to end her life today

Riot police stand guard in downtown Albuquerque in March, following a protest over police shootings. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

brain cancer has shared her journey to death with a transfixed world. Some have cheered her, while others have decried her choice and pleaded with her to let nature take its course instead. Maynard’s very public decision has made the right-to-die movement something real and immediate for a generation of millennials too young to have confronted their own mortality. Her youth, candor and simple but moving plans — to die in the Oregon bedroom she shares

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Comics B-12

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Crosswords C-7, C-11

with her husband — have attracted a global following: A YouTube video has more than 9.3 million views; her fund’s website has been visited more than 4 million times, including from such far-flung places as Tajikistan, Iceland, Syria and Burkina Faso. “It’s changed everything for us in terms of awareness,” says Barbara Coombs Lee, co-author of Oregon’s death-with-dignity law and president of Compassion & Choices, which

Please see ILL, Page A-5

Lotteries A-2

Opinion A-11

Sports B-1

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Vivos Entre Los Muertos El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia Day of the Dead and 20th-anniversary celebration, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., call 992-0591 for details. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo

Time Out B-11

Stocks B-5

BREAKING NEWS AT WWW.SANTAFENEWMEXICAN.COM

Fall back

Obituary Tonita Payton, PAGE A-10

Daylight saving time ends. Set clocks back an hour before bedtime. AP

Today Partly cloudy. High 66, low 43. PAGE A-12

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