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Brazil kicks off World Cup with a win Host nation beats Croatia 3-1 in opening game. Page B-5
Quest for Tesla turns political
Attack on priests leaves one dead
Sen. Tim Keller says the state isn’t doing enough to court company, but governor calls comments “reckless.” Page B-1
An injured priest administers last rites to his dying fellow clergyman, who was fatally shot in Phoenix. Page a-3
The Washington Post
IRBIL, Iraq — Iraq was on the brink of falling apart Thursday as al-Qaida renegades asserted their authority over Sunni areas in the north, Kurds seized control of the city of Kirkuk and the Shiite-led government appealed for volunteers to help defend its shrinking domain. The discredited Iraqi army scrambled to recover after the humiliating rout of the past three days, dispatching elite troops to confront the militants in the central
By Uriel J. Garcia
The New Mexican
The 911 call of a “suspicious person” that set off a deadly confrontation between Espa-
ñola police and 16-year-old Victor Villalpando on Sunday morning was made by Villalpando himself, state police said Thursday. State police, who are investigating Villalpando’s shooting death by an Española officer, said Villalpando had called 911 on Sunday morning and reported that a suspicious person was armed with a gun
and hitting himself with a stick. In the phone call, Villalpando identified himself as “James,” state police said in a statement. When officers arrived, Villalpando “pointed a weapon” at them, and one of the officers fired a single shot, the statement said. Those were among the few details investigators have
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U.S. ordering local cops to stay quiet on surveillance
Douni Roger, left, a summer school math teacher for Santa Fe Public Schools, helps Jerome Cross, 17, with his geometry work recently at Santa Fe High School, while Shania Cunningham, 17, center, and Shanaya Garcia, 17, work on their lessons. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
By Robert Nott The New Mexican
departments withholding materials or heavily censoring documents in rare instances when they disclose any about the purchase and use of such powerful surveillance equipment. Federal involvement in local open records proceedings is unusual. It comes at a time when President Barack Obama has said he welcomes a debate on government surveillance and called for more transparency about spying in the wake of disclosures about classified federal surveillance programs.
By Jack Gillum and Eileen Sullivan
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has been quietly advising local police not to disclose details about surveillance technology they are using to sweep up basic cellphone data from entire neighborhoods, The Associated Press has learned. Citing security reasons, the U.S. has intervened in routine state public records cases and criminal trials regarding use of the technology. This has resulted in police
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Today A thunderstorm this afternoon. High 85, low 53. Page a-6
Obituaries Dan Kevin Hall, May 13 Page B-2
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Agency says boy, 16, reported himself as a ‘suspicious person,’ pointed weapon
town of Samarra and claiming that it had recaptured Tikrit, the home town of the late Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein, whose regime was toppled by U.S. troops sweeping north from Kuwait in 2003. But there was no sign that the militant push was being reversed. With the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and Syria now sweeping south toward Baghdad, scattering U.S.-trained security forces in its wake, the achievements of America’s eight-year war in Iraq were rapidly being undone. Iraq now seems to be inexorably if unintentionally breaking apart, into Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish enclaves that amount to the de facto partition of the country.
By Loveday Morris and Liz Sly
Index
State police say 16-year-old Victor Villalpando made the 911 call that set off a deadly confrontation between him Española police on Sunday.
Cost of catching up
Militants push Iraq to brink of collapse Obama weighing U.S. military intervention
State police: Teen called 911 before fatal shooting
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Kokesh facing 15 years in prison Ex-Santa Fe resident and a liberterian activist Adam Kokesh convicted of drug and gun charges. Page a-4
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Shanaya Garcia, 17, works on Algebra 2 at Santa Fe High School during a recent summer school session. The district is offering summer school programs at every grade level for the first time this year. But it also is asking high-schoolers — or their parents — to put down $50 per halfcredit that will be returned upon completion of the program as an incentive to keep kids in school.
We used to not charge students, and maybe “ 20 kids would show up. They would come and go as
they please. We found that there has to be some sort of personal investment. If they are able to complete their course, they get the money back.”
Capital High Principal Channell Wilson-Segura
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