The Santa Fe New Mexican, Oct. 3, 2014

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Balloon Fest begins

Santa Fe home sales see dip

Brothers to test skills at ‘Fright Night’

JPMorgan data breach may hit over 80 million

No traffic problems are expected for those who leave early from Santa Fe for annual event. LOCAL NEWS, B-1

Homebuying season is sluggish in the city, but county areas see rise. PAGE B-1

Pat Jr. and Brandon Holmes grew up watching their father train boxers. SPORTS, B-5

Massive summer cyberattack puts consumers and businesses on guard.

I expect of [deputies] is to bring honesty and integrity back to “theWhat department. And to treat the residents of our county with respect.” James Lujan, sworn in to replace Tommy Rodella as Rio Arriba County sheriff

ON OUR WEBSITE: Watch former Dixon Apple Orchard owner Becky Mullane blast Land Commissioner Ray Powell in a campaign ad for Aubrey Dunn at www.santafenew mexican.com.

Lujan looks to revamp image of sheriff’s office Rodella’s replacement in Rio Arriba no stranger to legal woes

ELECTION AD WATCH: LAND COMMISSIONER RACE

By Nomaan Merchant and David Warren The Associated Press

By Steve Terrell The New Mexican

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James Lujan, a former deputy with the Rio Arriba County Sheriff’s Office, is sworn in as the new sheriff Thursday. Lujan had been fired by Sheriff Tommy Rodella and then defeated Rodella for the Democratic nomination for the position in the June primary election. Lujan was appointed to take over Rodella’s term following the latter’s conviction on civil rights and gun charges. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN

By Uriel J. Garcia

ESPAÑOLA week after Rio Arriba County Sheriff Tommy Rodella was convicted of federal felonies, a onetime political opponent of the former lawman was sworn in to replace him. County commissioners voted 3-0 Thursday to appoint James Lujan, 53, who said he will try to bring “honesty and integrity back to the department.” Lujan, who had worked as a deputy for eight years before he was fired by Rodella, is running unopposed for sheriff in the November general election after defeating Rodella in the June primary. Lujan will serve out Rodella’s term through the end of the year before he starts his own four-year term in January.

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By Alan Fram The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Gun control groups say this is the year they finally go toeto-toe with the National

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Rifle Association and match their foe’s imposing campaign spending for congressional candidates. Their long-awaited financial parity with the gun lobby, however, underscores the importance of timing in politics. Firearms violence has faded as a top tier public concern, a turnabout from the issue’s high profile immediately following the December 2012

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DALLAS — Four members of a family that the U.S. Ebola patient had been staying with were confined to their Texas home under armed guard Thursday as the circle of people possibly exposed to the virus widened to about 100 and Liberian authorities said they would prosecute the patient for allegedly lying on an airport questionnaire. The unusual confinement order was imposed after the family had failed to comply with a request not to leave their apartment, according to Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins. Texas State Health Commissioner David Lakey said the order would help ensure the four can be closely watched, including checking them for fevers over the next three weeks. “We didn’t have the confidence we would have been able to monitor them the way that we needed to,” he said.

Please see EBOLA, Page A-5

The New Mexican

Obituaries

Michael Throne of Española congratulates Lujan after he was sworn in by the County Commission. Lujan said he plans to enforce a strict dress code for deputies in the department.

Rodella automatically lost his position when he was convicted last Friday of violating the civil rights of an Española man while

massacre of 20 first-graders and six aides at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The subject barely registers in polling that shows voters far more focused on the economy and terrorism. This week’s Associated Press-GfK poll showed fewer than 1 percent of likely voters named guns as the

Please see GUN, Page A-4

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brandishing a firearm during a road-rage incident. Lujan tapped Martin Trujillo to

Please see SHERIFF, Page A-4

Howard John Baumgartel III, 66, Santa Fe Enrique Martinez Sr., 86, Upland, Calif., Sept. 28 Charles F. Jackline, 90, Santa Fe, Sept. 27

Edna Pearl Reid (Hickman), 69, Española, Sept. 29 Gayle Joanne Travis Luchessa, 83, Santa Fe, Sept. 17 Lorenza Wilson Duarte, 69, Española, Sept. 28 PAGE B-2

Today Partly cloudy. High 72, low 40. PAGE A-6

Meticulous FAA tower attack unleashed chaos in minutes

Gun safety groups armed with cash to battle NRA Shootings that had spurred call to action are distant memory for voters

Family with ties to Ebola patient detained Man recovering in Dallas may face prosecution in Liberia for lying on form

Ex-orchard owner slams Powell in rival’s spot In the first major television commercial in the state land commissioner’s race, the former owner of a Northern New Mexico apple orchard rips into incumbent State Land Commissioner Ray Powell Jr., saying Powell hurt her family even more than fire and floods. The 30-second commercial, called “Dixon’s Apple Orchard Destruction,” was produced for Republican Aubrey Dunn Jr., Ray Powell who is trying to unseat Democrat Powell. But Dunn himself never appears in the ad, and former orchard owner Becky Mullane, who does almost all the talking in the spot, Aubrey Dunn never mentions Dunn. Mullane is the granddaughter of Fred and Faye Dixon, who started the orchard in the 1940s on an old dude ranch on the Spanish land grant known as Rancho de la Cañada. The orchard was known for its Champagne apples, a pale yellow variety. Here’s the text of the ad: Becky Mullane: In 2011, the Las Conchas forest fire destroyed our fam-

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Gabrielle Giffords

Former congresswoman is face of organization backing candidates who aim to curb firearm access.

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Officials laud controllers’ work to restore air traffic flow amid Chicago blackout By Alan Levin Bloomberg News

WASHINGTON — The first radio links with pilots were lost just as the pre-dawn crush of flights into Chicago began. Air-traffic controllers in a nondescript Federal Aviation Administration build-

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ing about 40 miles from the city switched to backup channels. Then those failed. They tried emergency connections, which also went dead. Within minutes, the radar feeds, flight plans and other data that controllers rely on to direct more than 6,000 aircraft each day above five states had vanished as a fire was being set in the communications room one floor below. The attack was thorough and carried out by someone who knew the system intimately — down to pulling back steel sheathing on data

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