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Higher Education Center opens
Los Alamos alumna new Croatian president
Buckeyes win college football championship
John Fox out as Broncos coach
The facility gives students the opportunity to attain degrees without leaving the city. LOCAL NEWS, A-5
At a school known for producing researchers, the election of Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovi, who graduated in 1986, is creating a buzz. LOCAL NEWS, A-5
Cardale Jones leads Ohio State past Marcus Mariota and Oregon 42-20, completing a remarkable in-season turnaround. SPORTS, B-1
Decision by John Elway comes on heels of Denver’s latest playoff meltdown. SPORTS, B-1
Gov. unveils $6.3B budget proposal
Officers charged in Boyd’s death
Plan has emphasis on public education, with $68M in new spending on schools
ABOVE: Officers Dominique Perez, left, and Keith Sandy were charged Monday with murder in the shooting death of James Boyd.
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ALBUQUERQUE POLICE DEPARTMENT VIA THE ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL
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Gov. Susana Martinez’s budget office on Monday announced its $6.3 billion budget recommendation for the fiscal year that begins July 1. It strays little from the Legislature’s budget proposal, except the governor aims to advance her education reform agenda with the INSIDE spending package. In size, Martinez’s plan is compau Highlights of rable to the budget the Legislative the governor’s proposal. PAGE A-4 Finance Committee unveiled Friday. Both are based on $141 million in u General fund revenue growth, a figure that’s been reserves are state steadily declining along with falling lawmakers’ best oil prices. friend. PAGE A-10 “We’ve taken a responsible approach to spending that prioritizes available dollars on reform in education and improving economic growth,” Martinez said during a news conference at a Las Cruces elementary school. “I am confident that we will once again be able to come to agreement with the Legislature on a responsible budget that continues to prioritize these critical goals and
Please see PLAN, Page A-4 In an image taken from a video shot March 16, an officer confronts James Boyd, 38, during a standoff in the Sandia foothills, before police fatally shot the homeless man. Two Albuquerque officers were charged Monday in the indicident that led to violent protests and brought new scrutiny to the police department. ALBUQUERQUE POLICE DEPARTMENT/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO
Bernalillo County district attorney opts to bypass grand jury; hearing will be open to public By Russell Contreras The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE wo Albuquerque police officers were charged with murder Monday in the shooting death of a knife-wielding homeless man that led to violent protests and brought new scrutiny to the police department amid a federal investigation. The decision to bring murder charges comes at a time when police tactics are under intense review nationwide, fueled by the fatal
T Gov. Susana Martinez presents her $6.3 billion budget proposal Monday at a Doña Ana Elementary School in Las Cruces. ANDRES LEIGHTON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
County, hospital sued in teen’s overdose death Lawyers say negligence played part, claim there were cover-up attempts By Chris Quintana The New Mexican
Staff at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center and the Santa Fe County youth detention facility failed to properly care for a 17-year-old who died of a heroin overdose while in county custody, claims a lawsuit filed on behalf of her estate. The state District Court complaint includes details about the death of Desiree Gonzales not included in previous accounts of what happened the night she died and accuses county employees of attempted cover-ups. “Her cries for help in the form of altered mental state, chest pain, anxiety, gasping for air, gurgling noises during breathing and completely stopping breathing were all ignored,” wrote attorneys Lee Hunt and Santiago Juarez. “The defendants demonstrated conscious disregard for the health and safety of Desiree Gonzales.”
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The teen died in the early morning hours May 8 at the hospital, where she was taken after a guard found her unresponsive at the Santa Fe County youth detention cenDesiree ter on Airport Road, Gonzales the sheriff’s office has said. Hours earlier, Gonzales had been discharged from the hospital following a naloxone treatment for a heroin overdose, the sheriff’s spokesman reported. The drug, often known by the name Narcan, is used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. In addition to the hospital and the county, defendants named in the 16-page lawsuit include a deputy warden, a county youth administrator, two county corrections officers, a county nurse and a hospital doctor. Attorney Aimee Bevan is the personal representative of the estate of Gonzales, who is survived by her divorced parents and a stepmother. Bevan declined to comment on the
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City, we’re going to know. The public is going to have that information,” District Attorney Kari Brandenburg said. Police said SWAT team member Dominique Perez and former detective Keith Sandy fatally shot James Boyd, a mentally ill
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shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old in Ferguson, Mo., and the chokehold death of another unarmed man in New York City. Grand juries declined to charge officers in those cases, leading to large protests. Acknowledging the frustration over the secrecy of the proceedings in those cases, the Albuquerque district attorney said she would bypass the grand jury process and instead present the murder case to a judge at a preliminary hearing that will be open to the public. “Unlike Ferguson and unlike in New York
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By Jamey Keaten
PARIS — As many as six members of a terrorist cell involved in the Paris attacks may still be at large, including a man who was seen driving a car registered to the widow of one of the gunmen, French police said Monday. The disclosure came as France deployed 10,000 troops to protect sensitive sites — including Jewish schools and neighborhoods — in the wake of the attacks that killed 17 people last week. Brothers Chérif and Saïd Kouachi and their friend, Amedy Coulibaly, were killed Friday by police after a murderous spree at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher supermarket. The three all claimed ties to Islamic extremists in the Middle East.
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Two police officials told The Associated Press that authorities were searching the Paris area for the Mini Cooper Hayat Boumeddiene registered to Hayat Boumeddiene, Coulibaly’s widow. Turkish officials say she is now in Syria. One of the police officials said the cell consisted of about 10 members, and that “five or six could still be at large,” but he did not provide their names. The other official said the cell was made up of about eight people and included Boumeddiene. One of the other men believed to be part of the cell has been seen driving Boumeddiene’s car around Paris in recent days, the two officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were
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