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Two bodies found off N.M. 14 Sheriff’s office: Pair in car sustained gunshot wounds By Chris Quintana The New Mexican
The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the suspicious deaths of a young man and woman whose bodies were found with apparent gunshot wounds early Saturday
morning in a car parked in a neighborhood off N.M. 14. The discovery of the bodies has baffled residents in the small neighborhood, which is usually quiet, they said. Santa Fe County sheriff’s Capt. Adan Mendoza said neighbors called dispatch at 8 a.m. to report a vehicle
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with two bodies on East Ramada Way, a residential dirt road off Valle Vista Boulevard. New Mexico State Police officers arrived to investigate the scene Saturday afternoon, but later Saturday evening, the victims still had not been identified, and officials had just obtained a warrant to search the vehicle and to examine the bodies.
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Lawmakers want to extend, increase incentives for “green” projects. PAGE C-1
‘Cosplayers’ stars of Comic Con Officials say two bodies were found Saturday in a car on East Ramada Way. CHRIS QUINTANA/THE NEW MEXICAN
World Heritage Site’s future on the line as oil, gas producers close in on Chaco
Drilling threatens treasured canyon
By Rukmini Callimachi The New York Times
The hostages were taken out of their cell one by one. In a private room, their captors asked each of them three intimate questions, a standard technique used to obtain proof that a prisoner is still alive in a kidnapping negotiation. James Foley returned to the cell he shared with nearly two dozen other Western hostages and collapsed in tears of joy. The questions his kidnappers had asked were so personal (“Who cried at your brother’s wedding?” “Who was the captain of your high school soccer team?”) that he knew they were in touch with his family. It was December 2013, and more than a year had passed since Foley vanished on a road in northern Syria. Finally, his
By Anne Constable Pueblo Bonito in the Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The World Heritage Site is surrounded by one of the most productive oil and gas basins in the U.S.
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Today Mild temperatures and plenty of sun. High 73, low 44. PAGE D-8
Obituaries Eutilia Martinez Alarid, 100, Santa Fe, Oct. 19 Carmella Brennand (Gallegos), 62, Santa Fe, Oct. 20 Myrtle Elliott, Santa Fe, Oct. 23
Elizabeth W. “Betsy” Kiddy, 56, Sept. 29 Lala G. Martinez, 76, Oct. 23 Jacklyn Michelle Griego Tafoya, Oct. 15 Kenneth P. Truse, Oct. 14
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thousand years ago, Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico was the center of a thriving culture. Massive multistory buildings called great houses rose against a dramatic high desert landscape of mountains and mesas. Chaco was the ceremonial and economic center of the San Juan Basin with some 400 miles of prehistoric roads linking it to other great houses in the region. In some ways, it still looks like it did centuries ago. “Right now, you can stand at Pueblo Alto, look north and see a landscape that is substantially the same as what the Chacoans saw,” said Barbara West, former superintendent of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park. But that could be changing. Chaco, a World Heritage Site, is surrounded by one of the most productive oil and gas basins in the United States. In 2012, San Juan County ranked No. 1 in natural gas production and fifth in oil production in the state. And now new drilling technology is making the region, once thought to be played out, attractive to oil and gas companies. Thousands of new wells are possible, some close to land that is sacred to Navajos and Pueblo Indians of Northern New Mexico.
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An oil and gas wellhead flares in the Chaco Canyon area on Oct. 6. New drilling technology is making the region, once thought to be played out, attractive to more oil and gas companies. PHOTOS BY LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO/THE NEW MEXICAN
ON OUR WEBSITE u View a video about the plight of Chaco Canyon online at www.santafenewmexican.com.
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Native Music Festival Scatter Their Own, The Plateros, Saving Damsels, Delbert Anderson Trio and others, noon-6:30 p.m., Dance Circle, Institute of American Indian Arts, 83 Avan Nu Po Road, no charge.
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MARYSVILLE, Wash. — If the bullet-scarred American psyche has an archetype for a school gunman, it looks very little like Jaylen Ray Fryberg. He was not a loner or a known
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misanthrope — far from it. He was a football player with a million-dollar smile, popular enough to be elected homecoming prince of his freshman class at Marysville-Pilchuck High School. Just a week ago, he presided over homecoming festivities in a red shirt with black bow
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tie, suspenders and Converse sneakers. His close friends were there, too, the girls in frothy dresses built for twirling and the guys with boutonnieres and that residual, aching youthfulness that plagues freshman boys. When Fryberg pulled out a handgun in the school cafeteria on Friday, according to witnesses, he did not randomly
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target fellow students, nor did he point it toward authority figures. Instead, he fired at those very friends, killing one student and seriously wounding four others before killing himself. Family members identified two of the wounded victims as Nate Hatch, 14, and Andrew Fryberg, 15, and said they were
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