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Oscar de la Renta, fashion icon, dies
Startup engineers new methods to save crops without dangerous pesticides. Business, A-7
The designer shaped the wardrobe of socialites and Hollywood stars for more than four decades. Page A-2
Sweeping recall stems from deadly air bags
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Local nurses say they need Ebola training
Company says switch to vendor-only system is painful, but necessary
By Hiroko Tabuchi and Christopher Jensen The New York Times
Emails obtained through a public records request express frustration over the police chief’s actions.
Chief’s personnel decisions rile other officials The New Mexican
From left, Kirsten Gibson, Colton Winchester and Nicola Woolley stop Monday to shop and buy a few items from Luz Maria Anrango at Jackalope. Jackalope, a Santa Fe institution for 38 years, has fallen on hard times and is switching to a vendor-only system. Photos by Jane Phillips/The New Mexican
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Jackalope is selling all the merchandise it owns at 50 percent off as the company prepares to switch to a vendor-only system.
Shock jock and radio personality Don Imus is selling his 2,400-acre ranch east of Santa Fe that he developed into a cattle ranch for children affected by cancer. Imus said Monday he is selling the property because he and his family believe they can support more charitable foundations with funds generated by the sale. He Don also said he hopes Imus to sell the ranch to a group interested in continuing the goal of the nonprofit Imus Ranch. “It’s a fabulous facility,” Imus said in a telephone interview. “We hope it lives on as something to benefit kids.” A real estate listing shows the asking price is $32 million. Realtor Craig Huitfeldt said he publicly listed the property for sale within the past week. The Imus Ranch is near the small community of Ribera, about 45 miles
WASHINGTON — Earth is on pace to tie or even break the mark for the hottest year on record, federal meteorologists say. That’s because global heat records have kept falling in 2014, with September the latest example. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday that last month the globe averaged 60.3 degrees Fahrenheit. That was the hottest September in 135 years of record keeping. It was the fourth monthly record set this year, along with May, June and August. NASA, which measures temperatures slightly differently, had already determined that September was record-warm. The first nine months of 2014 have a global
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Don Imus’ N.M. ranch on market for $32M The New Mexican
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Garcia scolded by city manager, HR director for not following protocol
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By Chris Quintana
A week after a false alarm at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, nurses say they are not prepared to cope with an actual case of the disease.
Financial troubles force Jackalope restructuring
Regulators urge owners to ‘act immediately,’ fix more than 5M vehicles
ORLANDO, Fla. — Hien Tran lay dying in intensive care this month after a car accident, as detectives searched for clues about the apparent stab wounds in her neck. An unlikely breakthrough arrived in the mail a week after she died from her injuries. It was a letter from Honda urging her to get her red Accord fixed, because of defective air bags that could explode. “The air bag,” said Tina Tran, the victim’s twin sister. “They said it was the air bag.” Tran became at least the third death associated with the mushrooming recalls of vehicles containing defective air bags made by Takata, a Japanese auto supplier. More than 14 million vehicles from 11 automakers that contain the air bags have been recalled worldwide. After Tran had crashed her car, the air bag, instead of protecting her, exploded and sent shrapnel flying into her neck, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office said. On Monday, in an unusual warning, federal safety regulators urged the owners of more than 5 million vehicles to “act immediately” to get the air bags fixed.
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or decades, Jackalope has been an institution on Cerrillos Road. It’s been the place to buy a fountain for the patio and learn how to install it. Or to find rugs and pottery to decorate your casita in Santa Fe style. Or to watch prairie dog antics with the kids. Heck, even out-oftowners have gotten a kick out of browsing for folk art and garden décor in the ambience of a Mexican mercado. But the company has recently fallen on hard times. In an email last week to an artist who sells her work at the Cerrillos Road store, Brooks SaucedoMcQuade, son of founder Darby McQuade, said that the company’s bankruptcy attorney had advised the business to stop payments for everything but utilities and payroll. That means consigners won’t get paid, at least not now. Meanwhile, the business is restructuring. Jackalope is selling off the last of the merchandise it owns and switching to a vendor-only system. Saucedo-McQuade said it was a hard decision for the family, but the only option.
Santa Fe City Manager Brian Snyder reprimanded police Chief Eric Garcia earlier this month for making personnel decisions without his approval, including one that potentially violated employment law. “I am extremely concerned,” Snyder wrote to Garcia in an email at 7:53 p.m. Oct. 7. “This is the second time this has occurred within the past couple months and I find it unacceptable and insubordinate.” The chief’s unilateral personnel decisions drove Snyder to vent a stream of six complaints in the email, one of several obtained by The New Mexican under a public records request. Garcia, who became police chief in June after holding a similar position in Española, was chastised again on the same day after the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office raised concerns about a tweet in which the department announced the hiring of a sheriff’s deputy on Twitter before the deputy had given notice. “We should be building relationships with the [Sheriff’s Office] not stepping on them,” Snyder wrote in a
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Some sun. High 65, low 45.
Earth heading for hottest year on record Obituaries
By Seth Borenstein The Associated Press
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Beachgoers in Huntington Beach, Calif., seen through a fisheye lens, cool off during a heat wave last month. September set a new mark for global heat, and meteorologists say Earth is now on pace to tie the hottest year ever recorded, or likely break it. Chris Carlson/The Associated Press
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