Santa Fe New Mexican, June 27, 2014

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June 27, 2014

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Judge with ties to Santa Fe breaks gay marriage unanimity

City councilor in Española arrested

State workers to get salary increases

Judge Paul J. Kelly Jr. was in the minority in his opinion as the two other judges on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals panel found the U.S. Constitution protects the rights of gay couples to marry. Page B-1

Eric Radosevich is accused of pistol-whipping a man and shooting at his vehicle after flirting with his wife. Page B-1

Boosts from 13 cents to more than 50 cents for about 5,300 employees help resolve 6-year-old union contract dispute. Page B-1

Española man charged in death of daughter’s mother

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Suspect did not seek medical attention for woman until 3 days after alleged beating By Andrew Oxford The Taos News

TAOS — An Española man has been charged with murder after the mother of his 10-year-old daughter died this week of severe injuries allegedly sustained in a fight during a camping trip in the Carson National Forest. Angela Serrano, 41, was removed from life support at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe on Monday after several days of treatment. Serrano and Henry E. Wilton, 48, were camping with their daughter and friends at the Upper La Junta Campground near Tres Ritos when a fight broke out between Wilton and Serrano on June 15, according to an affidavit for Wilton’s arrest filed in Taos County Magistrate Court. Several individuals referred to in the affidavit said Serrano told them Wilton pushed her from a camper trailer before beating and kicking her in the head and torso. The incident left Serrano with pancreatic lacerations caused by extreme blunt force; full-thickness contusions of the bowels; and bruising of the face, back, knees, arms, shoulders and breasts, among other injuries, according to the arrest affidavit. Rather than seeking medical attention, New Mexico State Police reported, Wilton took Serrano to his Española home. During an interview with investigators, Wilton claimed Serrano was in and out of consciousness, vomiting and delirious June 16 and 17. It was not until three days after the incident, June 18, that Wilton called an ambulance. Serrano was initially transported to Presbyterian Española Hospital before she was transferred to Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, where state police investigators were dispatched that evening. A doctor told investigators Serrano lost approximately six units of blood and suffered from acute renal failure as well as the shut-

Environment Dept. comes under fire for not holding public hearing on radioactive waste By Staci Matlock The New Mexican

A doll rests on top of a bunk bed Thursday in one of the rooms at the immigrant detention center in Artesia. PHOTOS BY UAN CARLOS LLORCA/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ALBUQUERQUE — State environment officials on Thursday defended a decision to allow the U.S. Department of Energy to store highly radioactive waste in new containers without a public hearing. State officials told a panel of the New Mexico Court of Appeals during a hearing in Albuquerque that the new “shielded” containers are a safer, more efficient way to handle the waste. The hearing was held to air ongoing arguments in a 2-year-old case brought by the Southwest Research and Information Center, a nuclear safety watchdog organization. The case received relatively little notice when it was filed, but it has taken on new significance since a container at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad leaked radiation in February and forced regulators to shut down the underground storage facility. Investigators are still trying to determine the exact cause of the

Goal is to send immigrants home within 10 to 15 days ARTESIA detention center being opened in southeastern New Mexico to deal with the surge in women caught crossing illegally with children into the U.S. from Central America will be focused on deporting the immigrants quickly, officials said Thursday. During a media tour of the austere barracks at a federal law enforcement training center turned immigration jail, a senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement official said the goal is to process the immigrants and have them deported within 10 to 15 days to send a message back to their home countries

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KU star chosen first in NBA draft; Bulls take UNM’s Bairstow in second round. SPOrTS, B-5

By Barry Massey

The Associated Press

New Mexico’s highest court cracked down Thursday on small consumer loans carrying quadrupledigit interest rates. The state Supreme Court said highcost “signature loans” violated the state’s Unfair Practices Act and their interest-rate terms were “substan-

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that there are consequences for illegal immigration. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to talk publicly citing agency policy. About a month ago, border patrol agents were suddenly

overwhelmed by thousands of Central American immigrant children and women seeking to enter the U.S. Because officials had run out of room at holding

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New Mexico court restricts high-interest loans

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A federal employee unloads a crib Thursday outside the law enforcement trainee barracks that have been turned into an immigrant detention center in Artesia.

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The Associated Press

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tively unconscionable.” The justices capped interest rates at 15 percent for loans by two companies that had been charging an annual percentage rate between 1,147 percent and 1,500 percent. A $100 loan with a rate of 1,147 percent would carry a finance charge of about $1,000. The court ordered the lenders to make restitution, repaying consumers

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any finance charges they paid above 15 percent. The companies — Cash Loans Now and American Cash Loans — made the loans in the amount of $50 to $300 at offices in Albuquerque, Farmington and Hobbs. The companies’ lawyer did not immediately return a phone call or email seeking comment on the ruling and how many consumers would receive payments.

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Attorney General Gary King had filed a lawsuit against the lenders after receiving consumer complaints. “We consider it initially a huge win,” King spokesman Phil Sisneros said of the court ruling. Lawyers in the office, he said, were reviewing the decision to fully determine its effect on consumers and

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