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Parts of behavioral health audit unsealed
Some holiday joy: Gas dips under $2
State aims to lure young lottery players
Sundevils beat Demonettes
Judge orders release of report that
Prices for gasoline are in a slow-
To shore up scholarship fund, agency
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absence in loss. PAGE B-5
Racing time, family scours forest for missing man Actor Randall Park, center, portrays North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Columbia Pictures’ The Interview. COURTESY ED ARAQUEL/COLUMBIA PICTURES-SONY
INSIDE u U.S. weighs response to North Korea cyberattack. PAGE A-5
Bill calls for special licenses to alert clerks
Martin offers up theater for ‘Interview’
By Anne Constable The New Mexican
Jean Cocteau owner chastises ‘cowardice’ over hacker threats By Daniel J. Chacón The New Mexican
In contrast to major movie theater chains’ reluctance to show a comedy that parodies North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Santa Fe resident and Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin is offering to screen the film George R.R. at the Jean CocMartin teau Cinema. The Interview, staring Seth Rogen and James Franco, has been pulled from every major theater chain because of threats of terrorist attacks by computer hackers linked to the North Korean government, which led Sony Pictures Entertainment to cancel the film’s Dec. 25 release. “For what it’s worth, the Jean Cocteau Cinema will be glad to screen THE INTERVIEW (assuming that Sony does eventually release the film for theatrical exhibition, rather than streaming it or dumping it as a direct-toDVD release), should it be made
Laurence Longwell’s vehicle, covered in snow Thursday, remains parked near the Santa Fe ski basin, where family members believe he left it Friday before disappearing on a hike. Friends and family of Longwell, 29, have continued looking for him even as rescue officials have scaled back their search. PHOTOS BY JANE PHILLIPS/THE NEW MEXICAN
State search winds down with few clues in frozen wilderness, frustrating loved ones By Uriel J. Garcia The New Mexican
riends and relatives of a missing man struck out in search parties Thursday in a desperate attempt to find him in snow-covered mountain terrain high above Santa Fe, even as a search-andrescue team scaled back its efforts. Laurence Longwell, 29, was reported missing Friday after he didn’t show up for work at Santa Fe Community College. The search has focused on trails around the Santa Fe ski basin, where his car was found abandoned. About a half-dozen people gathered early Thursday in the Winsor Trailhead parking area, where Longwell’s 1997 black Honda Civic sits partially
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Speedy online price war stumps shoppers Tech tools help retailers undercut rivals all day long By Anne D’innocenzio The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Online shopping has become as volatile as stock market trading. Wild, minute-byminute price swings on everything from clothes to TVs have made it difficult for holiday shoppers to “buy low.” A growing number of retailers are using software that changes online prices based on demand, competi-
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tion, inventory and other factors. The main goal is to undercut rivals when necessary, and raise prices when demand is high and there’s no competitive pressure. But the new online tools can change the price on a single item — say, a sweater — dozens of times throughout the day. And that can leave shoppers confused about when they can get the best deal. Take Aishia Senior, who recently watched the price on a coat she wanted rise and fall several times between $110 and $139 in a
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Longwell’s sisters Sasha Wilcoxon, left, and Kumara Wilcoxon, center, and their friend, Kate Russell, examine a map of the area where they have been searching for Longwell.
buried under snow. Then they went off into the Santa Fe National Forest in pairs. The state Search and Rescue team stopped searching for Longwell on
Wednesday evening after using a state police helicopter, dogs and ground teams to hunt for him over a period of several days. The team had searched
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Cuba, U.S. prisoner swap unveils long spy drama Rolando Sarraff Trujillo
Cuban man, who served as CIA spy, was released from prison, but his location is unknown.
INSIDE u Obama may lift Cuba restrictions on his own. PAGE A-4
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CIA mole held since 1996 after helping ID Cuban agents in America By Mark Mazzetti, Michael S. Schmidt and Frances Robles The New York Times
WASHINGTON — He was, in many ways, a perfect spy — a man so important to Cuba’s intelligence apparatus that the information he gave to the CIA paid dividends long after Cuban authorities arrested him and threw him in prison for nearly two decades. Rolando Sarraff Trujillo has now been released from prison and flown out of Cuba as part of a swap for three Cuban spies imprisoned in the
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United States that President Barack Obama announced Wednesday in a televised speech. Obama did not give Sarraff’s name, but several current U.S. officials identified him and a former official discussed some of the information he gave to the CIA while burrowed deep inside Cuba’s Directorate of Intelligence. Sarraff’s story is a chapter in a spy vs. spy drama between the United States and Cuba that played on long after the end of the Cold War, decades after Cuba ceased to be a serious threat to the United States. The story — at this point — remains just a sketchy outline, with Sarraff hidden from public view and his work for the CIA still classified. Chris Simmons, who was the chief
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State Rep. Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, was filling his car’s tank at a convenience store gas pump one day several years ago when he saw a man walk out with a plastic bottle of cola and two Jack Daniel’s miniatures. Egolf said he watched as the man poured himself a Jack and Coke and got into his car. The man blew Brian Egolf into his ignition interlock — mandatory in New Mexico after a drunken-driving conviction — and drove off. Egolf alerted authorities but has no idea if the man was ever picked up by police for drinking and driving. The experience gave him an idea, he said: What if the man’s driver’s license indicated he was not allowed to buy alcohol? If the clerk had asked to see such an ID before selling the man whiskey, the man might have been denied — or he might not have attempted to buy alcohol at all, Egolf figured. This month, Egolf pre-filed a bill that would allow the state Motor Vehicle Division or a court to prohibit alcohol purchases by people driving on an ignition interlock license. Normally, a driver’s license is revoked after a person is found guilty of driving drunk. In order to legally drive, the person must obtain an ignition interlock for his or vehicle and a restricted license. Under Egolf’s bill, the license also would clearly specify that the person is prohibited from purchasing alcoholic beverages. The bill would apply not only to driver’s licenses but also to other identification cards used by people whose licenses have been revoked for DWI and
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Obituaries Fred M. Reid, 86, Santa Fe, Dec. 11 Angelina (Angie) Carter, Dec. 15 Donna Gilcrease Cady, Dec. 3, Texas John Aloysius Martin, 92, Dec. 13 Arquimedes “Kimo” Castro, Dec. 6 Marilla Oaks Jenks, Dec. 14 PAGE B-2, B-3
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