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Recent snowfall helps, but is not enough for resort; other areas, including Sipapu Ski Resort, will open for Thanksgiving. PAGE A-6
FERGUSON, MO., POLICE SHOOTING
No indictment spurs violence No charges: Mother of slain teen says system has ‘failed us again’
Wave of anger: Decision sets off protests in Missouri and elsewhere
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Neal Cassidy’s screed to author Jack Kerouac, said to inspire ‘On the Road,’ discovered. PAGE A-2
Hagel bows out as defense secretary Growing global crises test Pentagon, Obama The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Under pressure from President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel submitted his resignation Monday amid White House concerns about his effectiveness and broader criticism from outside about the administration’s Middle East crisis management. The president said he and Hagel had determined it was an “appropriate time for him to complete his serChuck Hagel vice.” Hagel, a former Republican senator, never broke through the White House’s notably insular national security team. Officials privately griped about his ability to publicly communicate administration policy and more recently questioned whether he had the capacity to oversee new military campaigns against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. Hagel is the first high-level mem-
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A group of protesters in Ferguson, Mo., turn over a police vehicle Monday shortly after the announcement of the grand jury decision not to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old. See page A-5 for more on the protests. DAVID GOLDMAN/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
By Monica Davey, Julie Bosman and John Eligon The New York Times
CLAYTON, Mo. St. Louis County grand jury has brought no criminal charges against Darren Wilson, a white police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, more than three months ago in nearby Ferguson. The decision by the grand jury of nine whites and three blacks was announced Monday night by the St. Louis County prosecutor, Robert P. McCulloch, at a news conference packed with reporters from around the world. The killing, on a residential street in Ferguson, set off weeks of civil unrest — and a national debate — fueled by protesters’ outrage over what they called a pattern of police brutality against young black men. McCulloch said Wilson faced charges ranging from first-degree murder to involuntary manslaughter. Word of the decision set off a
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Against the team of hackers, the poor car stood no chance. Meticulously overwhelming its computer networks, the hackers showed that — given time — they would be able to pop the trunk and start the windshield wipers, cut the brakes or lock them up, and even kill the engine. Their motives were not malicious. These hackers worked on behalf of the U.S. military, which along with the auto industry is scrambling to fortify the cyber defenses of commercially available cars before criminals and even terrorists penetrate them. “You’re stepping into a rolling computer now,” said Chris Valasek, who helped catapult car hacking into the public eye when he and a partner revealed last year they had
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Push may be coming for public land transfers Lesley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown, hugs a man Monday as she listens to the announcement of the grand jury decision in Ferguson, Mo. CHARLIE RIEDEL/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
new wave of anger among hundreds who gathered outside the Ferguson Police Department. Police officers in riot gear stood in a line as demonstrators chanted and threw signs and other objects toward them as the news spread.
been able to control a 2010 Toyota Prius and 2010 Ford Escape by plugging into a port used by mechanics. These days, when Valasek isn’t working his day job for a computer security firm, he’s seeing how Bluetooth might offer an entry point. Automakers are betting heavily that consumers will want not just the maps and music playlists of today but also Internetenabled vehicles that stream movies and the turn dictation into email. The federal government wants to require cars to send each other electronic messages warning of dangers on the road. In these and other connections, hackers see opportunity. There are no publicly known instances of a car being commandeered outside staged
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Comics B-12
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ALBUQUERQUE — New Mexico’s most powerful water planning commission voted Monday to notify the U.S. Interior Department that it wants to take advantage of federal funding to build a diversion and storage system along the Gila River, a project that is expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars and take decades to complete. The Interstate Stream Commission also decided during its meeting in Albuquerque that some of the money should go toward municipal conservation efforts and other projects aimed at stretching the droughtstricken region’s water supplies. State Engineer Scott Verhines, New Mexico’s top water official and a member of the commission, said the point of regional water planning is to identify and implement strategies to balance supply and demand. He said the options approved by the commission will do that for cities and farms in southwestern New Mexico. Verhines conceded he’s concerned about the costs of the projects as well as the ability of the state and local governments to pay. “However, I’m personally unwilling to preclude the development of this water for New Mexico by preventing
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Automakers join forces to drive away savvy car computer hackers By Justin Pritchard
Contested project includes water storage system, municipal conservation efforts By Susan Montoya Bryan
Literary letter found
By Julie Pace and Robert Burns
Panel OKs diversion plan for Gila River
Lotteries A-2
AG seeks judge’s removal Raphaelson fights push to leave after falling short at ballot. PAGE A-6
“The system failed us again,” one woman said. In downtown Ferguson, the sound of breaking glass could be heard as crowds ran through the streets.
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Obituaries Minnie “Ermenia” Quintana, 91, Española, Nov. 21 Benton E. “Steve” Stephenson Jr., 80, Santa Fe, Nov. 29 Maria Luisa Rascon, 83, Santa Fe, Nov. 20 PAGE A-8
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Today Sunny but cold. High 43, low 21. PAGE A-12
Opinion A-11
L.A. glam-metal band, Moby Dick and Poncho Delux open, 9 p.m., Skylight, 139 W. San Francisco St., $15 in advance at holdmyticket.com, 21 and older. More events in Calendar, A-2 and Fridays in Pasatiempo
Environmental, hunting groups raise concerns over state control By Staci Matlock The New Mexican
A movement to transfer millions of acres of federal public land to individual state control could gain political traction both in New Mexico and across the West with recent election gains by Republicans, opponents fear. Proponents of federal land transfers say states can do a better job of managing forests and grasslands on millions of acres of federal lands in New Mexico. In addition, the state would get a larger share of revenue from oil and gas royalties and leases on federal lands which it could use to manage those lands, said Rep. Yvette Herrell, R-Alamogordo. She twice introduced legislation to transfer public lands to the state, but it failed to pass. Herrell has said she plans to reintroduce a land transfer bill in the 2015 session. Opponents say the federal land transfer movement is just a way for private companies to gain control over public resources and it is the public that stands to lose. The New Mexico Wildlife Federation, a sportsmen’s association, opposes federal land transfer bills as do environmental groups. “The great majority of sportsmen and citizens
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