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State police: Teen pointed toy gun at cops By Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican
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The gun that a 16-year-old El Rito boy pointed at Española police before he was shot dead earlier this month was a toy, New Mexico State Police disclosed Monday. State Police Chief Pete Kassetas identified the gun as a
“black Edison cap gun with brown colored grips.” Surveillance video reviewed by state police investigators showed two Española officers, Jeremy Apodaca and Richard Trujillo, approach Victor Villalpando near Riverside Drive and Corlett Road on the morning of June 8 in response to a 911 call made by the teen.
Villalpando pointed the toy gun at them, and Apodaca fired a single shot in response, state police said. Villalpando was taken to Presbyterian Española Hospital, where he died after an unsuccessful surgery. “Just like we always said, nobody who knew Victor would’ve ever thought he had a gun,” said Villalpando’s older
brother, Jonah Shure, 24, on Monday. “So I guess we were right.” After the shooting, then-Española Public Safety Director Eric Garcia, now Santa Fe’s police chief, said Villalpando had a gun, but he never identified the make or model.
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Two defendants push for case to be heard in Children’s Court. Page a-7
Jail guard quits after fatal DWI accident
High court largely upholds agency’s ability to regulate power plant By Adam Liptak
Police say El Rito man caused head-on collision that killed two men By Uriel J. Garcia
The New Mexican
A Rio Arriba County jail guard resigned Monday after state police said he caused a drunken-driving crash that killed two men Thursday on U.S. 84. Justin Romero, 26, of El Rito was arrested and booked into Santa Fe County jail on two felony counts of vehicular homicide Justin while under the Romero influence of alcohol and on a misdemeanor count of resisting an officer, the New Mexico State Police said in a news release. Romero was driving a 1997 Ford pickup, traveling northbound on U.S. 84 in Rio Arriba County, when he crossed into the southbound lane and struck a 2004 Pontiac sedan head on, authorities said. The two
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Obituaries Erika D. Lozoya, 19, Santa Fe, June 20 Cruzita “Mary” Penderanda, June 20 Daphne Nowell Riley, Santa Fe, June 19 Madeline Marie Tapia, 80, June 18 Page a-9
Egypt convicts three Al-Jazeera reporters Sentencing draws widespread outrage from rights groups. Page a-5
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Ricky Rodriguez, 29, with the Holy Faith break dancers, spins on his head Monday during the kickoff performance for the 2014 Santa Fe Bandstand on the Plaza. From left, Joy Binder, of New Jersey, and Emily Fern Dayton, of Oregon, dance during the opening of the 2014 Santa Fe Bandstand. The kickoff event included performances from brass band Mil-Tones as well as Terra Simien and the Zydeco Experience. This year, there will be 100 free performances every day until Aug. 28. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS THE NEW MEXICAN
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday handed President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency a victory in its efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources like power plants, even as it criticized what it called the agency’s overreaching. “EPA is getting almost everything it wanted in this case,” Justice Antonin Scalia said in summarizing the decision from the bench. “It sought to regulate sources it said were responsible for 86 percent of all the greenhouse gases emitted from stationary sources nationwide. Under our holdings, EPA will be able to regulate sources responsible for 83 percent of those emissions.” Scalia said the agency was free to do so as long as the sources in question “would need permits based on their emissions of more conventional pollutants.” That part of the decision, which effectively sustained regulation of nearly all the sources the agency had sought to regulate, was decided by a 7-2 vote. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justices Anthony M.
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U.S. hinterlands court Chinese firms
John Rippel USA marks milestone
Attracted to narrowing wage gaps, plunging energy prices, China invests $14B to bring companies to America
More than 40 years after opening his first store, John Rippel’s space maintains that “full-ofeverything feeling.” Page a-12
By Paul Wiseman
The Associated Press
PINE HILL, Ala. — Burdened with Alabama’s highest unemployment rate, long abandoned by textile mills and furniture plants, Wilcox County desperately needs jobs. They’re coming, and from a most unlikely place: Henan Province, China, 7,600 miles away. Henan’s Golden Dragon Precise Copper Tube Group opened a plant here last month. It will employ more than 300 in a county known less for job opportunities than for lakes filled with bass, pine forests rich with wild turkey and boar and muddy roads best negotiated in four-wheel-drive trucks. “Jobs that pay $15 an hour are few and far between,” says Dottie Gaston, an official in nearby Thomasville. What’s happening in Pine Hill is starting to happen across America. After decades of siphoning jobs from the United States, China is creating some. Chinese companies invested a record $14 billion in the United States last
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Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, left, listens to Roger Zhang, president of Golden Dragon U.S.A., during a tour of the new Golden Dragon copper tubing plant in Pine Hill, Ala. JAMIE MARTIN/ALABAMA GOVERNOR’S OFFICE
year, according to the Rhodium Group research firm. Collectively, they employ more than 70,000 Americans, up from virtually none a decade ago. Powerful forces — narrowing wage gaps, tumbling U.S. energy prices, the vagaries of currency markets — are pulling Chinese companies across the Pacific. Mayors and economic development officials have
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Luci Tapahonso: graceful Resonance in This Distant Land Talk and reading by the first Navajo Nation poet laureate, 7 p.m., Peterson Student Center, St. John¹s College, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca, 670-2339, no charge.
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