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Small college defends lavish spending AG sues Meta WNMU president says global travel, home furnishings are means to an end for his job

By Joshua Bowling

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Administrators at Western New Mexico University, a small institution of some 3,500 students in Silver City, routinely spend tens of thousands of dollars on international trips and exorbitantly priced furniture from a retailer whose pieces can be found in the real estate pages of The New York Times and the pavilions of Walt Disney World.

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the university’s financial records shows that since 2018, WNMU President Joseph Shepard has made lengthy trips to Zambia, Spain and Greece in the name of courting international students and, by extension, their out-of-state tuition dollars.

On several such trips, which cost nearly $100,000 in the last five years, Shepard has been accompanied by other university executives, as well as members of the WNMU board of regents and his wife, former CIA operations officer-turned-author and congressional candidate Valerie Plame. All have traveled on the university’s dime.

Close to home, Shepard has spent at least $27,740 of university money at Seret and Sons, a Santa Fe treasure trove known for hand-carved doors, Indian dhurrie rugs and antique Tibetan

chests, to furnish his on-campus house.

It was a necessary expense, he told Searchlight, so he could effectively entertain potential donors at his home.

“You’re entertaining a class of people who are accustomed to, shall I say, the finer things in life,” Shepard said in a phone interview. Having more affordable furniture wouldn’t work, he explained. “Let’s say we would have gone out and bought IKEA furniture.

First of all, we’ll be replacing that every year.”

Despite the steep price tags on travel, lodging and furnishing for these officials, the university has never once conducted a cost-benefit analysis to review such spending, Shepard conceded. And for all the tens of thousands of dollars Please see story on Page A-4

over sex abuse of kids, teens on platforms

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Torrez says company not doing enough as predators use Facebook, Instagram as tools

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Calling Facebook and Instagram breeding grounds for predators who target and exploit children, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is suing the world’s largest social media company and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

The 227-page civil lawsuit filed in state First Judicial District Court late Tuesday alleges Meta Platforms Inc. “directs harmful and inappropriate material” at teens and preteens and allows adult predators to have unfettered access to them, leading to grooming and solicitation.

While a group of 33 states sued Meta in October alleging its social media platforms contain features that addict children and Raúl Torrez teens, Torrez said in an interview Wednesday that New Mexico is the first state in the nation to advance “this type of lawsuit,” which focuses specifically on child sexual abuse material and child sex trafficking.

“Some of the other lawsuits across the country have been primarily focused on mental health aspects, which we included in the lawsuit, but ours is the first in the country to actually spotlight the potential harm for predators to have access to children through these platforms,” he said.

Torrez’s complaint asserts Meta has “failed to stem the tide of damaging sexual material and sexual propositions delivered to children” even though it has long been aware of the sexual exploitation dangers its platforms present for children — all in the interest of profit.

“Meta’s conduct is not only unacceptable; it is unlawful,” the lawsuit states. “This action seeks to force Meta to institute protections for children because it refuses to do so voluntarily.”

Torrez said his office notified the other attorneys general New Mexico would not be joining the federal lawsuit filed in October because he wants to pursue what he called a more nuanced claim. He said he met with executives from Meta on Tuesday.

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Bronco Mendenhall is introduced to fans as the new head coach for the University of New Mexico football team at Wednesday’s men’s basketball game against UC Santa Barbara. Mendenhall was an assistant at the school from 1998-2002.

He arrived in Albuquerque on Tuesday and was introu Webber: duced to the crowd during Winning the second media timeout takes time. of Wednesday night’s men’s SPORTS, B-1 basketball game. Unlike his predecessor’s appearance in The Pit on the day he was hired four years ago, Mendenhall never addressed the crowd.

He walked to midcourt, waved to the fans, did a shoulder-high fist pump and headed back up the ramp toward the locker rooms.

The entire scene played out in 38 seconds as a video montage showed his arrival on a private jet with his family.

He is scheduled to make his first formal appearance at an introductory news conference Thursday morning.

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ALBUQUERQUE he University of New Mexico’s decadeslong quest to find a football savior has landed a blast from its past.

Bronco Mendenhall, a 57-year-old former Lobos assistant who spent 17 years as a major-college head coach at BYU and Virginia, has been hired to breathe life into a program that has meandered below .500 for most of its existence and hasn’t had a winning season since 2016.

Details of Mendenhall’s contract were not immediately available, but a UNM source said it’s a five-year deal similar to those handed out to previous coaches.

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to be returning to Albuquerque where we have many fond memories,” Mendenhall said in a prepared statement. “We welcome the challenge and opportunity of building a program of excellence. We are excited to get to know the players, assemble a world-class group of people, immerse ourselves in the community and truly make a difference at UNM.” Making a difference won’t be easy. It never has been.

The Lobos have failed to win more than four games in any campaign since 2016 and have gone 7-48 — and 2-22 at home — in Mountain West Conference games over that span. They’ve had losing records 41 times since 1965.

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Mass displacement repeating as Israel, Hamas battle for southern Gaza city Civilians who sought safety in the south find little as war spreads across territory

By Liam Stack, Shashank Bengali and Michael Levenson The New York Times

The Israeli offensive in the southern Gaza Strip has set off another mass displacement, as tens of thousands of distressed people flee to areas west and south of the main southern city, only to find shelters packed beyond capacity and a lack of basic necessities like food, medicine and water, aid agencies and the United Nations said Wednesday.

Humanitarian conditions in southern Gaza have grown increasingly dire as Israeli troops and Hamas fighters battle for control of Khan Younis, the region’s largest city. Having told Palestinian civilians since October to evacuate all of northern Gaza, the Israeli military is again urging them to move away from the fighting and into shrinking patches of land.

Israel has instructed people in an area that includes part of Khan Younis to leave for the southern border city of Rafah, already overcrowded with displaced people, or Al-Mawasi, an agricultural area near the Mediterranean Sea. But Palestinians in Gaza have seen deadly Israeli airstrikes in areas they were told would be safer, and aid groups say that Al-Mawasi, in particular, does not have the infrastructure necessary to ease the crisis.

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IN BRIEF Pomp greets Russia’s Putin as he begins visit to two Arab nations DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — President Vladimir Putin of Russia was greeted with pomp — including camels, horses, fighter jets and a 21-gun salute — as he arrived Wednesday for a rare trip to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, two oil-rich Gulf nations that have resisted pressure to take sides in the Ukraine war.

The talks touched on international crises, primarily Israel’s 2-month-old war with Hamas — a conflict that has played into his geopolitical aims by distracting Western leaders from the war in Ukraine.

The UAE president, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, called Putin his “dear friend,” at the start of their talks, while the Russian leader praised the relationship between the two countries.

“Without doubt, I will inform you about the situation with the Ukrainian crisis,” Putin told the Emirati leader in televised remarks.

Before his visit to Abu Dhabi, Putin had not traveled beyond China, Iran and the former Soviet states since he launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Small cargo plane takes off, flies and lands — with no pilot onboard Reliable Robotics Corp. said Wednesday it’s flown a small cargo plane on loan from FedEx Corp. without a human on board, a step toward the autonomous flight startup winning regulatory approval for its remote-pilot system.

In coordination with the Federal Aviation Administration, the 12-minute flight of the Cessna 208B Grand Caravan took off from and landed at Hollister Municipal Airport in Northern California on Nov. 21. A remote pilot handled all the radio calls and monitored the plane during the flight from about 50 miles away at the company’s command center in Mountain View, Calif.

It was Reliable Robotics’ second automated flight, after flying a much smaller Cessna 172 in 2019, as part of an effort to gain full approval from the FAA. Co-founder and CEO Robert Rose said he expects that within two years.

FedEx hasn’t committed to using the technology but said it’s looking for innovations to enhance service.

Texas man accused of killing six, including his parents, in two cities AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas man suspected of killing his parents in San Antonio and four others in Austin in a violent trail of separate attacks had cut off his ankle monitor from a previous misdemeanor domestic violence arrest, authorities said Wednesday.

The suspect, Shane James, 34, has already been charged with capital murder related to the killings in Austin that began Tuesday morning and ended with the suspect crashing his car that evening during a police pursuit.

Four people were found dead in two homes in Austin, and three others — two of them police officers — were shot and wounded in that city, more than 80 miles from the San Antonio area, officials said.

“We strongly believe one suspect is responsible for all of the incidents,” Austin interim Police Chief Robin Henderson said during a news conference early Wednesday.

Hip-hop mogul Sean Combs named in 4th lawsuit accusing him of rape NEW YORK — Hip-hop mogul Sean Combs, who was named in three recent lawsuits accusing him of rape, now faces a fourth complaint by a woman who says Combs and two other men gang-raped her in a New York recording studio 20 years ago, when she was 17 years old.

In the latest lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the woman, who is not named in the court papers, says the three men gave her drugs and alcohol and took turns raping her in the studio’s bathroom as she drifted in and out of consciousness.

In a statement, Combs said he “did not do any of the awful things being alleged” and called the lawsuits character assassination “by individuals looking for a quick payday.”

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Republican presidential candidates, from left, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy prepare before Wednesday’s final Republican presidential primary debate.

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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. our Republican presidential candidates were given several opportunities Wednesday to criticize former President Donald Trump, who was absent from the debate again. But they mostly targeted each other, with former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley taking the brunt of the attacks as she gets more interest from donors and voters.

With just over a month before the 2024 primary calendar begins, the debate demonstrated how firm Trump’s grip remains on the party.

But the focus on Haley reflected how other candidates perceive her as a threat to their chances of taking on Trump directly. Aside from former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, most the candidates have spent more time in debates going after each other than taking aim at Trump, reflecting the former president’s popularity among Republicans and what many see as diminishing returns in attacking him.

It was the last debate scheduled before Iowa’s GOP caucuses Jan. 15.

Trump remains dominant in national and early-state polls. And after holding counterprogramming rallies during the first three debates, he didn’t bother this time and instead went to a closed-door fundraiser. His campaign posted an ad during the debate focusing on President Joe Biden as both parties head toward a potential rematch of the 2020 election Trump lost.

Christie repeatedly tore into Trump on Wednesday and challenged Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to answer directly if he believed Trump was fit or unfit to be president again.

The crowd at the University of Alabama booed him at one point as he attacked Trump.

“His conduct is unacceptable. He’s unfit.

And be careful of what you’re going to get,” warned Christie, who has been alone among leading Republicans in his focus on the race’s clear front-runner.

“There is no bigger issue in this race than Donald Trump,” he said earlier.

DeSantis suggested Trump, who is 77, is too old for the job.

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“Over a four-year period, it is not a job for someone that’s pushing 80,” DeSantis said.

“We need someone who’s younger.”

Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy again raised his hand as a candidate who would support Trump even if he were convicted in any of the four felony indictments he faces. Ramaswamy accused his other opponents of bowing to Trump for years to secure political posts or financial gain, but the closest the 38-year-old ever came to criticizing Trump was to call for a new generation of leadership.

Haley stood silently during the extended discussion, and neither the moderators nor her rivals asked for her opinion.

The debate’s brief focus on Trump was a reprieve for Haley, who spent most of the debate on the defensive.

DeSantis accused Haley of backing down from media criticism and Ramaswamy suggested she was too close to corporate interests as she gets new attention from donors. He touted his own willingness to pick high-profile fights with his critics and went after Haley just moments into the debate, reflecting the rivalry between the two candidates reflected in dueling early-state television ads.

They also tussled over China, long an animating issue for conservatives worried about Beijing’s influence. Later in the debate, Haley credited Trump for taking a hard line with Beijing on trade but said he was too passive on other fronts, including allowing China to capture American technology for its own military use and purchase American farmland.

Interrupting Haley, DeSantis accused her of allowing Chinese investment in South Carolina when she was governor and suggested her corporate donors would never allow her to be tough on Beijing.

“First of all, he’s mad because those Wall Street donors used to support him and now they support me,” Haley retorted. She also accused DeSantis of being soft on Chinese investment in Florida.

The debate aired on the NewsNation cable network. Moderators were NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas, former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and Eliana Johnson of the conservative news site Washington Free Beacon.

Political concerns delay ban on menthol cigarettes

By Dan Diamond and David Ovalle The Washington Post

The Biden administration will further delay a long-awaited ban on menthol cigarettes after fierce lobbying from critics who warn a prohibition could anger some Black smokers who favor the products and could hurt President Joe Biden’s reelection prospects, administration officials said.

The administration is expected to announce Wednesday it plans in March to finalize federal rules that would lead

to menthol cigarettes being removed from the market, according to three officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss forthcoming regulations. The officials acknowledged that the process could be delayed still further because of pressure during an election year.

Officials originally planned to finalize the rules in August 2023 and later signaled to public health groups they hoped to finish them by January, although the resulting ban was not expected to go into effect for several years because of

anticipated legal challenges.

The debate over cracking down on menthol products comes as Biden ramps up his reelection campaign.

Democrats have already voiced concerns Biden’s flagging popularity could mean low turnout among Black voters whose political support propelled him to the White House.

More than 18.5 million people in the United States smoked menthol cigarettes in 2019. Among smokers who are Black, 81% choose menthols, according to the Centers for Disease Control

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Google took its next leap in artificial intelligence Wednesday with the launch of project Gemini, an AI model trained to behave in human-like ways that’s likely to intensify the debate about the technology’s potential promise and perils.

The rollout will unfold in phases, with less sophisticated versions of Gemini called “Nano” and “Pro” being immediately incorporated into Google’s AI-powered chatbot Bard and its Pixel 8 Pro smartphone.

With Gemini providing a helping hand, Google promises Bard will become more intuitive and better at tasks that involve planning. On the Pixel 8 Pro, Gemini will be able to quickly summarize recordings made on the device and provide automatic replies on messaging services, starting with WhatsApp, according to Google.

Gemini’s biggest advances won’t come until early next year when its Ultra model will be used to launch “Bard Advanced,” a juiced-up version of the chatbot that initially will only be offered to a test audience.

The AI, at first, will work only in English throughout the world, although Google executives assured reporters during a briefing the technology will have no problem eventually diversifying into other languages.

Based on a demonstration of Gemini for a group of reporters, Google’s “Bard Advanced” might be capable of unprecedented AI multitasking by simultaneously recognizing and understanding presentations involving text, photos and video.

Gemini will also eventually be infused into Google’s dominant search engine, although the timing of that transition hasn’t been spelled out yet.

“This is a significant milestone in the development of AI, and the start of a new era for us at Google,” declared Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, the AI division behind Gemini.

Google prevailed over other bidders, including Facebook parent Meta, to acquire London-based DeepMind nearly a decade ago, and since melded it with its “Brain” division to focus on Gemini’s development.

The technology’s problem-solving skills are being touted by Google as being especially adept in math and physics, fueling hopes among AI optimists that it may lead to scientific breakthroughs that improve life for humans.

But an opposing side of the AI debate worries about the technology eventually eclipsing human intelligence, resulting in the loss of millions of jobs and perhaps even more destructive behavior, such as amplifying misinformation or triggering the deployment of nuclear weapons.

“We’re approaching this work boldly and responsibly,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote in a blog post describing the company’s ambitious research combined with built-in safeguards.

Gemini’s arrival is likely to up the ante in an AI competition that has been escalating for the past year, with San Francisco startup OpenAI and long-time industry rival Microsoft.

Despite the anticipation surrounding Gemini in recent months, Alphabet’s stock edged down slightly in trading Wednesday.

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Campus shooter dead after killing 3

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Martin said she was texting The Associated Press friends and loved ones, hoping to receive word a suspect had LAS VEGAS, Nev. — A gunbeen detained. When another man killed three people and crit- professor came to the room and ically wounded a fourth Wednes- told everyone to evacuate, they day at the University of Nevada, joined dozens of others rushing Las Vegas before being killed in a out of the building. Martin had shootout with police, authorities her students pile into her car and said. The attack sent shock waves drove them off campus. through a city still scarred by “Once we got away from the deaths of 60 people in a 2017 UNLV, we parked and sat in mass shooting only a few miles silence,” she said. “Nobody said a away on the famous Strip. word. We were in utter shock.”

Reports of shots fired at about Students and the community 11:45 a.m. sent police swarming were alerted to the emergency onto the campus while students by a university post on X that and professors barricaded themwarned: “This is not a test. RUNselves inside classrooms and HIDE-FIGHT.” dorm rooms.

The university said the shooter At an evening news conferwas at the Beam Hall, Frank and ence, UNLV Police Chief Adam Estella Building, and that police Garcia said campus and local responded to an additional report police rushed to the scene, a of shots fired at the nearby stubuilding housing UNLV’s Lee dent union.

Business School, where two Student Matthew Felsenfeld university detectives killed the said he and about 12 classmates suspect during a shootout. barricaded their door in a buildAuthorities gave the all-clear ing near the student union. about 40 minutes after the first “It’s the moment you call your report of an active shooter. parents and tell them you love Sheriff Kevin McMahill said them,” said Felsenfeld, a 21-yearstudents had gathered outside the old journalism student. building to eat and play games. If Jordan Eckermann, 25, said he police hadn’t killed the attacker, was in his business law class in a “it could have been countless second-floor classroom when he additional lives taken,” he said. heard a loud bang that he thought “No student should have to came from a neighboring music fear pursuing their dreams on a class. college campus,” the sheriff said.

But then a piercing alarm went Authorities didn’t immediately off, sending students to their release any additional details feet. Some ran from the room in about the shootings, the victims, panic while others heeded the the suspect or a possible motive. professor’s urging to stay calm, Professor Kevaney Martin said Eckermann, who walked out took cover under a desk in her and was directed to an exit by a classroom, where another faculty law enforcement officer in a bulmember and three students took letproof vest holding a long gun. shelter with her.

UNLV’s 332-acre campus is “It was terrifying, I can’t even less than 2 miles east of the Las begin to explain,” Martin said. “I Vegas Strip. was trying to hold it together for It wasn’t immediately clear my students, and trying not to cry, how many of the 30,000 students but the emotions are something I were on campus. never want to experience again.”

The shooting occurred in a city

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — After rare quick action and agreement, negotiators at the United Nations climate summit finished their first week Wednesday in a more familiar place: the murky middle where momentum and roadblocks intertwine.

“Negotiations, as are often the case, are a mixed picture right now. We see big differences between individual states in some areas, but there is a will to make progress,” German climate envoy Jennifer Morgan said.

U.S. Special Envoy John Kerry said, “We have done a lot in this first week, and we’ve accomplished real things.”

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McCarthy’s resignation, which he announced in an opinion essay in The Wall Street Journal, will bring to a close Kevin a 16-year stint McCarthy in Congress in which he rose from a member of the self-proclaimed “Young Guns” — Republicans driving to build their party’s majority in the House — to the position second in line to the presidency.

It caps his spectacular downfall after just less than nine months as speaker, when the right-wing forces he and other establishment Republicans harnessed to power their political victories ultimately rose up and ran him out.

“I will continue to recruit our country’s best and brightest to run for elected office,” McCarthy said in announcing his plans in the Journal. “The Republican Party is expanding every day, and I am committed to lending my experience to support the next generation of leaders.”

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UNM athletics director Eddie Nuñez reportedly met with Mendenhall last weekend and put the final touches on their agreement prior to the induction ceremony of the College Football Hall of Fame, which Nuñez attended in Las Vegas, Nev., Tuesday night.

UNM did not comment on how many candidates were interviewed, but sources said there were at least three interviews in addition to Mendenhall’s.

“Throughout this process, we were looking for not just a proven winner, but a leader of men that has a clear vision for what our program can be,” Nuñez said in a statement. “Coach Mendenhall has twice taken over programs that were struggling, turning them into winning, championship programs. I look forward to having Bronco and Holly here and becoming assets for our great community and leading Lobo football.”

Every Lobos coach over the last half-century has lamented the challenges of the New Mexico post. From often-subpar facilities and funding to the lack of a reliable in-state Division I recruiting base, UNM has dealt with an inability to build a passionate fan base that helps attract and retain toplevel talent.

The rare coach to find success has typically bolted for higher-profile jobs with more resources, including Marv Levy (California), Joe Morrison (South Carolina) and Dennis Franchione (TCU). Franchione’s tenure was fol-

lowed by Rocky Long’s run from 1998 to 2008.

It’s because of Long that Mendenhall’s name is familiar to Lobos fans.

He was an assistant during Long’s first five years, helping develop the unique and sometimes dangerous 3-3-5 defensive scheme that turned Brian Urlacher into a college football hall of famer.

As the team’s defensive coordinator and associate head coach in charge of defensive backs, Mendenhall mastered Long’s attack and made it his calling card later in his career.

He left UNM for an assistant’s role at BYU in 2003. He took over as the Cougars’ head coach in 2005, launching an era in which he made 11 straight bowl games and won at least 10 games five times.

On paper, Mendenhall checks all the boxes for New Mexico, which fired Danny Gonzales last month. Mendenhall brings a wealth of head coaching experience, some Lobo roots and has been a formidable recruiter.

The ties to UNM, however, may have brought the hire full circle — or at least followed the Lobos’ recent pattern. Long was a UNM graduate and onetime assistant, as was Gonzales.

The results of other hires have been mixed: After Long’s departure, the Lobos named Mike Locksley, a celebrated assistant at Illinois, to head the program. His tenure was controversial and unsuccessful. Seeking to make a splash with its next coach, UNM brought in Bob Davie, a TV analyst who at one time had been Notre Dame’s head coach.

Davie got the Lobos to two bowl games, but was dismissed after a 2-10 season in 2019. His demise pushed Nuñez to look for someone who understood New Mexico football’s structural problems, which led him to Gonzales, a top Arizona State assistant.

Hailed as a hometown product whose love for UNM was just what the school needed, Gonzales often spoke of his playing days with the Lobos.

During his senior year he was coached by none other than Mendenhall.

Gonzales, who was fired with one year remaining on his original five-year deal, was buried under an avalanche of issues, ranging from the smoldering remains of Davie’s tenure to a debut season in 2020 shattered due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Lobos spent that abbreviated seven-game season in a Henderson, Nev., hotel thanks to health restrictions at home.

The introduction of the name, image and likeness agreement allowing players to make money for the first time and the one-year transfer portal — factors that continue to shape the sport — also took shape after Gonzales was hired.

While the details of Mendenhall’s contract remained unclear Wednesday night, Gonzales had a base salary of $400,000. Additional compensation pushed that annual figure over $700,000, a package that included a courtesy vehicle, country club membership, travel for his family and incentives that potentially could have earned him significantly more — such as coaching awards, team win totals, bowl appearances and academic achievements.

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Both sides reported intense gunbattles in Khan Younis, as well as continued air and artillery strikes — some of the heaviest combat in two months of war. An Israeli military spokesperson, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, on Wednesday warned civilians not to approach Salah al-Din Road, the main route connecting the city to northern Gaza, calling it “a battlefield” and “extremely dangerous.”

But with most of Gaza’s 2.2 million people displaced from their homes, and electricity and internet access in short supply, it is not clear how many of them can receive such messages.

The Israeli military on Tuesday released an annotated photo of senior Hamas military leaders, with five of the 11 labeled “eliminated.” The Israelis did not say when the photo was taken.

Satellite images captured Wednesday and analyzed by The New York Times show dozens of tanks on either side of Salah al-Din Road north of Khan Younis, as well as to the east of the city.

Underscoring the sense that no place in Gaza is safe, an airstrike Wednesday hit Rafah, on Egypt’s border, where thousands of civilians have sought refuge, and many are sleeping on streets or in empty lots in tents and makeshift shelters. A television station run by the Palestinian Authority reported that 18 people had been killed.

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A satellite image shows a closeup view of crowds of people, tents and shelters Sunday at Khan Younis College in southern Gaza. Israeli troops are now battling Hamas militants in the center of the city.

border crossing, was the only place in the territory where any humanitarian aid had been distributed after the collapse of a weeklong truce Friday led to the resumption of intense combat and aerial bombardment.

The number of civilians on the move in recent days could not be confirmed, but the latest migration came after Israel called Sunday for the evacuation of an area that was home to more than 620,000 people, according to the U.N. “Under international humanitarian law, the place where you evacuate people to must, by law, have sufficient resources for their survival — medical facilities, food and water,” said James Elder, a spokesperson for UNICEF. “That is absolutely not the case,” he

said. “They are these patches of barren land, they are streets or corners or any space in a neighborhood, half-built buildings. The common thing they have is no water, no facilities, no shelter from cold and rain, and particularly no sanitation.”

Desperate people who arrived in Al-Mawasi found little more than open ground, said Yousef D. Hammash, an employee of the Norwegian Refugee Council.

He said people scrounged for supplies to build rickety improvised shelters, fearful of the approach of winter.

“Thousands of people are building tents made of wood and plastic,” said Hammash, who fled Khan Younis with his family. “It doesn’t give any kind of protection, but it gives them a sense of safety.”

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spent on recruiting international students, just 64 of the university’s current 3,500 students have come from other countries, Shepard said, accounting for less than 2% of the total student body. In fact, more than one-third of those international students come from Mexico.

When asked about the expenses, Shepard told Searchlight to think of them as investments. The overseas trips factor into a “long game” to boost the school’s international population. As for the furniture, he said, it plays a critical unspoken role when he hosts fundraising events.

“The president’s house has to look presidential,” he said. “People expect it.”

‘Playtime for adults’ But to two former university leaders, the perceived level of opulence does not square with the area’s blue-collar history and current economic reality: Nearly 30% of the town lives beneath the poverty line, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. For the school’s former financial aid director, the issue was grounds to resign.

“As a director of financial aid who can go to jail for the [expletive] the school is doing … this is not worth the risk to me,” said Cheryl Hain, who resigned in 2019.

“Our taxpayers are funding playtime for adults.”

In addition to senior officials spending university money on international travel, the financial records show several reservations at high-end hotels in the United States. There are routine stays at La Fonda on the Plaza in Santa Fe during legislative sessions, a $12,000 expenditure to lease a 5,400-square-foot

home in Santa Fe for two months, and a one-night stay at a Scottsdale, Ariz., resort that totaled more than $1,000, including a $119 breakfast.

In a statement emailed to The New Mexican late Wednesday, a Western New Mexico official said the university “takes its fiduciary responsibility to taxpayers and the state seriously. The university adheres to rigorous fiscal standards to ensure that all dollars are maximized for the benefit of its students, faculty, staff, community and the citizens of New Mexico. This oversight includes not only its internal procedures, but also its board of regents and is independently audited every year.”

Julia Morales, vice president for compliance and communications at Western New Mexico, added officials believe items in the story “are lacking needed context” and most will be “addressed by the independent audit (requested by Dr. Shepard). All of the items have been previously presented, discussed and vetted with the Regents.”

The university, founded in 1893, is nestled between the Gila National Forest and a number of historic mines where Spanish, Mexican and American workers for more than a century extracted silver, copper and turquoise.

The university’s self-proclaimed mission is to represent “every segment of southwest New Mexico’s diverse population” as a “Hispanic-Serving Institution.”

Shepard took over as president in 2011 after working for more than 15 years at Florida Gulf Coast University in a number of roles, including chief financial officer, chief business officer and student affairs officer. He has an undergraduate degree from Northern

Arizona University, a master’s degree from the University of North Texas and a doctorate from Florida International University.

Shepard grew up in Buckeye, Ariz., a once-sleepy farm town on the outskirts of Phoenix that has for years made headlines for its newfound status as the fastest-growing city in the nation.

As president of WNMU, Shepard steers a nearly $75 million budget and collects a $365,000 salary — an increase of some $87,000 since 2020. He has prioritized, he said, increasing WNMU’s international relationships. In particular, he touts his administration’s success with Mexico, but admits that other ventures have been “a bust.”

“Has it been successful? We’ve got some good students out of it,” he said, demurring when asked if his international travel strategy is worth the cost.

“What’s the equivalent revenue from those students versus the amount of money expended? It’s a long game. It’s a long-term proposition. If we continue to get students over the next 10 years, it would be nice if it pays for itself. It probably already has.”

Beyond dollars and cents, there are benefits to the overseas trips that one “can’t calculate,” he continued. “A kid comes from Zambia, ends up here, forms friendships. A kid from Silver City would never even understand where Zambia was located. Your university becomes more globally accessible; your kid who grew up in Silver City all their life realizes the world’s a lot bigger.”

Shepard’s lifestyle far outpaces those kids from Silver City. For instance, one shopping spree — the nearly $28,000 outing at Seret and Sons — is more than what many Silver City residents earn in

AG sues Meta over sex abuse of kids, teens on platforms “I told them that my hope and expectation is that this is really a prompt for them to change their culture and to set a new priority which focuses on the safety of children before profits and growing their business,” he told The New Mexican.

A Meta spokeswoman said the company works with law enforcement to catch child predators.

“Child exploitation is a horrific crime and online predators are determined criminals,” Sophie Vogel said in an email. “We use sophisticated technology, hire child safety experts, report content to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and share information and tools with other companies and law enforcement, including state attorneys general, to help root out predators.

In one month alone, we disabled more than half a million accounts for violating our child safety policies.”

Torrez’s lawsuit disputes Meta’s defense. According to the complaint, his office’s monthslong undercover investigation indicates the company places profits before safety in its enforcement efforts.

Investigators created decoy accounts of children age 14 and younger. The investigation, according to the lawsuit, found that Meta has: ◆ Proactively served and directed children to a stream of egregious, sexually explicit images through recommended users and posts, even where the child has expressed no interest in such content. ◆ Enabled adults to find, message and groom minors, soliciting them to sell pictures or participate in pornographic videos. ◆ Fostered unmoderated user groups devoted to or facilitating commercial sexual exploitation of children. ◆ Allowed users to search for, like, share and sell child pornography. ◆ Allowed and failed to detect a fictional mother offering her 13-year old for trafficking and solicited the 13-year-old to create her own professional page and sell advertising.

“Meta has allowed Facebook and Instagram to become a marketplace for predators in search of children upon whom to prey,” the complaint says.

After Torrez filed the lawsuit, The Tech Oversight Project, a nonpartisan technology policy advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C., called for the Legislature to pass the so-called New Mexico Kids Code.

Introduced as Senate Bill 319 during the 60-day session earlier this year, the proposal, which was modeled after a law in the United Kingdom, received unanimous approval in a Senate committee but failed to advance further. It would have required high privacy settings by default and restricted the collection, processing, storage and transfer of children’s data, among other provisions designed to create a safe environment for children both online and offline.

California became the first state in the nation to pass such legislation last year, though the law is bogged down in litigation.

“Companies like Meta have known for years that they endanger kids, exposing them to unwanted sexual contact, and even making it harder for kids to report sexual harassment,” spokeswoman Marjorie K. Connolly said Wednesday in

a statement. “The findings are sickening and prove that in New Mexico, we need to act now by passing safety-by-design and privacy-by-default protections that keep young people safe.”

Torrez told The New Mexican he was shocked by what the investigation revealed. When he started as an internet crimes against children prosecutor in the Attorney General’s Office more than 15 years ago, “you really had to go into the dark reaches of the internet to try and find this type of material,” he said.

“This is not something that, frankly, I expected to find at such a large scale on these platforms,” he said. “It really is, as the complaint sets forth, a shocking amount of illicit content.”

Asked whether his office was pursuing criminal charges against adult predators, Torrez said he couldn’t comment on the specifics of any ongoing criminal investigation.

“But the public should rest assured that anytime we were able to identify a known user, we would refer that to the appropriate law enforcement authority in those respective jurisdictions, and we’ll continue to do that and monitor that,” he said.

“There’s a huge amount, and a lot of it, sadly, comes from interactions overseas,” Torrez added. “There are a lot of these people who were reaching out from all corners of the globe to try and have contact [with] what they believed to be a child on [Facebook] and on Instagram.”

Torrez said the lawsuit seeks to “change the culture” at Meta and force it to take “basic, common-sense steps to better protect children,” such as through age verification, a default setting for children’s accounts to be private, and preventing adults from contacting children they aren’t already connected with.

“We’re going to be asking a court for that kind of injunctive relief,” he said.

“But we also want Meta to take a deeper look at how its algorithm is organized to actually connect predators and vulnerable kids because right now, what it’s doing is, it’s actually connecting a group of victims with a group of predators, and it’s a function of the design features of the platform itself, and that’s fundamentally what has to change.”

While the Attorney General’s Office can recover money under the state’s Unfair Practices Act, Torrez said he’s on a bigger mission. He wants to “change how the company operates” and “make sure that they understand that child safety has to come first,” he said.

Parents, he said, “need to become a lot more engaged in understanding who their children are in contact with and who they’re exposed to because this is a dangerous space, and they need to be vigilant.” And ultimately he would like to see changes in federal law, which he believes gives social media platforms too much leeway.

“I think it’s beyond dispute at this point that most of the industry leaders in this space cannot be trusted to regulate themselves,” he said. “We really need to start examining the broad grant of immunity that was given to these companies way back in the early days of the internet. That legal framework doesn’t work anymore. The litigation that we brought highlights the fact that we need national action and in fact global action to rein in these companies and make sure that the most vulnerable members of our society are made safe.”

a year.

Silver City’s median income for individuals is about $21,000, according to census data. The amount spent on furniture was also more than two years’ worth of in-state undergraduate tuition at WNMU. Recently, Shepard said, he hosted a dinner party of about 30 people, including a handful of potential donors. By the end of the night, he said guests had pledged to donate a quarter of a million dollars.

“I can’t tangibly say that having the couch from Seret caused this donor to ultimately generate $250,000 for us,” Shepard said. “But I can say that the president’s house is of that entertainment value. That $250,000 then goes to the students, who are now educated and hopefully break out of a $21,000 median income home.”

Many of those students, however, will not earn a degree. The university has a 31% graduation rate, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, placing it behind Eastern New Mexico University, New Mexico State University and the University of New Mexico.

Plame, Shepard’s wife — who bears the title of “first lady” of WNMU — also has benefited. She has an expense account and regularly files for reimbursements, according to financial records, including a $4,073 purchase in 2022 from Woodland Direct (a fireplace company); a $1,488.27 charge for an “oriental sofa” on Etsy; and a smattering of Amazon charges.

In Western New Mexico’s late Wednesday statement, Morales said Plame is not an employee and does not make purchases on behalf of the university. She denied Plame has an expense account.

have been litigated before. In 2018, the university’s former vice president of business affairs, Brenda Findley, filed a lawsuit against the board of regents, alleging “improprieties with regard to the expenditure of public funds by Dr. Shepard.”

According to the lawsuit, Shepard instructed Findley to increase the salary of an employee who had been living rent-free in a bungalow near his house.

He also ordered the university’s janitors to clean his house, run his errands, cook his meals and do his laundry, she claimed.

The whistleblower suit settled this summer with a more than $160,000 payout to Findley.

That same month, decrying record levels of inflation and state-mandated employee raises, WNMU raised tuition by 3%. Shepard led the push for the increase, telling the board of regents, “I cannot in good conscience allow the university to find itself in a position where it loses the ability to provide the world-class education and resources needed to ensure the success of our students because of funding shortfalls.”

The tuition hike underscored critics’ concerns that the high standard of living is coming at the expense of local low-income students. Between the travel and the furniture, they see plenty of fat to cut in the budget.

“Western is a potentially great school,” said Hain, the former director of financial aid. “But they are ignoring their local students. … They were spending incredible amounts of money all over the country and all over other places to try to attract other students.

If you’re treating your students right, if you’re providing a good service, you don’t have to do that. They come.”

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks with reporters Wednesday at the Capitol. President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress appealed for Republicans to allow the Ukraine emergency spending bill to advance on Wednesday, but the GOP dug in, demanding strict immigrations provisions be added.

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WASHINGTON — Republicans on Wednesday blocked an emergency spending bill to fund the war in Ukraine, demanding strict new border restrictions in exchange and severely jeopardizing President Joe Biden’s push to replenish the war chests of U.S. allies before the end of the year.

The failed vote highlighted waning support in the United States for continuing to fund Ukraine’s war effort at a perilous time in the conflict, with Kyiv’s counteroffensive failing to meet its objectives and Russia’s forces on the offensive.

While the bill faltered over an unrelated immigration policy dispute, the resistance it has met in Congress reflects a dwindling appetite among Republicans for backing Ukraine, as polls show Americans are losing interest in providing financial assistance.

In the Senate, the vote to move forward on the bill was 49-51, short of the 60-vote threshold needed to advance.

Republicans held ranks against the $111 billion bill, which would provide about $50 billion in security assistance to Ukraine, more for economic and humanitarian aid, and an additional $14 billion toward arming Israel in its war against Hamas. They voted no despite a series of last-ditch appeals from Democrats and an appeal by Biden, who said he was prepared to offer “significant compromises” on the border and scolded them for abandoning Ukraine in its hour of need.

“Make no mistake: Today’s vote’s going to be long remembered, and history is going to judge harshly those who turned their backs on freedom’s cause,” Biden said Wednesday at the White House, just hours before the vote. He said Republicans were “willing to literally kneecap Ukraine on the battlefield and damage our national security in the process.”

The demise of the legislation in the Senate meant Ukraine was exceedingly unlikely to be able to secure the additional U.S. aid before the end of the year — and possibly beyond. White House and Ukrainian officials have been sounding alarms in recent days, telling lawmakers that without an influx of weapons, Kyiv will run out of resources to defend against Russia’s invading army by the end of the year.

In an interview Wednesday, Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, said that Ukraine’s “ability to advance and their ability to defend will be substantially constrained” if Congress does not approve additional funding soon.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia has “been quite public and vocal about his notion that if military aid from the United States ceases, it will mean that Russia will defeat Ukraine,” Sullivan added.

Pentagon officials have cast some doubt on claims by the White House that Ukraine is about to run out of American money. They have said the administration will be able to continue assisting Ukraine militarily through the winter, by parceling out the remaining $4.8 billion of authority to send Kyiv weapons from U.S. stockpiles.

And the dire warnings have done nothing to wear down Republican opposition in the Senate, where lawmakers spent the hours before Wednesday’s vote trading blame over the collapse of the bid to help Ukraine.

Republicans, even those who have been staunch advocates for arming Ukraine, blamed Democrats for refusing to bow to their demands for major immigration policy changes as the price of securing more assistance for Kyiv.

“Apparently some of our colleagues would rather let Russia trample a sovereign nation in Europe than do what it takes to enforce America’s own sovereign borders,” Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the minority leader, said on the Senate floor. “They’re convinced open borders are worth jeopardizing

security around the world.”

Democrats rejected that charge, pointing to more than $20 billion in the spending bill devoted to border security measures like hiring patrol and asylum officers and beefing up fentanyl screenings. They accused Republican lawmakers of manufacturing a false crisis by leveraging Ukraine’s fate to promote a restrictive border agenda that would never pass the Democratic-led Senate.

“You can’t say ‘I’m for Ukraine, but only if I get this wholly unrelated policy enacted,’ ” said Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii. “You can’t be for stopping Putin from taking over a country by force and then vote against providing Ukraine the resources to do just that.”

Democrats voted unanimously in favor of advancing the measure, but Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent who normally votes with them, joined Republicans in opposition. Sanders had argued in a letter to his colleagues that it would be “absolutely irresponsible” to provide Israel with billions of dollars in unconditional military assistance, given the rising civilian death toll in the Gaza Strip.

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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Wednesday that it had charged four Russian soldiers with torturing an American living in the war-ravaged region of Kherson in Ukraine, using a war crimes statute for the first time since it was enacted nearly three decades ago.

The indictment, unsealed in Virginia, could be followed by other charges against Russians found to have committed “atrocities on the largest scale in any European armed conflict since the Second World War,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in announcing the prosecution.

For the first time, Garland also acknowledged the department had begun a formal investigation of the “murder of more than 30 Americans” by Hamas fighters during the Oct. 7 attack in Israel, either under the same war crimes law being used against the Russian soldiers or through the use of anti-terrorism statutes. He provided no other details.

All four of those charged now live in Russia. The prospects that they would travel abroad anytime soon, where they could be captured, are remote, officials who joined Garland at the news conference said.

But the prosecutions are

part of a broader effort by the Justice Department, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to hold Russian military officials and proxy forces accountable for brutal acts committed against the relative handful of Americans living, fighting or working in Ukraine.

The American in the Ukraine case was not identified in court filings. But prosecutors said he was abducted in April 2022 from his home in Mylove, a village in southern Ukraine, despite telling Russian forces moving into the area that he was not a combatant and had been living in the country with his wife since 2021.

During the victim’s roughly 10 days in captivity, soldiers with the Russian armed forces and paramilitaries with the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic beat him brutally with their fists and the butts of their guns and threatened to sexually assault him. In one harrowing episode, according to prosecutors, they hauled him from the building where he was being held captive to stage a mock execution — which ended when a bullet was fired inches from his temple as he knelt on the ground.

The two commanders, identified as Suren Seiranovich Mkrtchyan and Dmitry Budnik, along with two subordinates identified only by their first

names, subjected the man to two particularly vicious interrogation sessions, prosecutors said.

They stripped him naked, then photographed him, all the while accusing him of being a U.S. government operative.

They repeatedly taunted him with death threats, telling him “good night” through an interpreter and warning that he was about to be put “to sleep,” Garland said.

The American was eventually released and evacuated back to the United States, officials added.

FBI Director Christopher Wray, who joined Garland for the announcement, said the prosecutions were a significant step. “We’re resolved to hold war criminals accountable no matter where they are or how long it takes,” he said.

Few Americans have been killed or injured in the war. But Justice Department officials began collecting information on potential American victims from the first hours of the Russian invasion.

In March, Christian Levesque, a veteran war crimes prosecutor in the department’s human rights section, told The New York Times her team was examining “anything at all” — from news reports to intelligence — that could yield evidence of wrongdoing at the hands of Russia.

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House cuts radiation aid for state Proposal to expand compensation to those affected by exposure in N.M., other areas passed as part of the Senate military bill in July

By Scott Wyland swyland@sfnewmexican.com

The U.S. House on Wednesday stripped a proposed measure from its military spending bill that would have extended radiation exposure compensation to those who suffered adverse health effects because of fallout from nuclear testing or while working in uranium mines after 1971.

New Mexico is among the states ineligible to receive federal compensation for exposure to radioactive fallout from nuclear tests —

including the atomic bomb detonated during the Manhattan Project — and uranium mining done in the past half-century.

A proposed amendment to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act would change that. It passed the Senate on with a solid

bipartisan vote of 61-37 in July, giving victim advocates hope it had the momentum to make it through the House. This was the furthest such efforts to expand RECA had ever gotten.

But their hopes were dashed again in the GOP-controlled House.

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Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium, speaks during a rally at the 2020 New Mexico legislative session at the Capitol. “People all across the American West and Guam who were horribly harmed when our country went about its reckless testing of nuclear weapons are devastated to again be left without assistance,” Cordova said Wednesday in a statement about the House’s actions.

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A song for Santa (Fe) Duo collaborates on Christmas single celebrating holiday traditions, scenes of Northern New Mexico

Women accuse NMSU truck driving examiner of sexual abuse

By Nicholas Gilmore

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struction time and substantial savings over a complete demolition and construction of a new storage facility elsewhere, Romero said.

Funds for the project will come from a bucket of money reserved for “facility renewal,” such as roofing, security, drainage, electrical and heating, ventilation and air conditioning upgrades.

The Community Review Committee recommended reallocating

A Las Vegas, N.M.-based commercial truck driving examiner is accused of sexually abusing four women during their licensing exams.

The women provide similar accounts in their complaint, filed Monday in the 2nd Judicial District Court, against Adrian Gutierrez, 57. Also named as defendants are several truck driving schools and the board of regents of New Mexico State University. NMSU employs Gutierrez as a commercial driver’s license examiner through Dona Aña Community College’s Workforce Development and Career Readiness program.

Gutierrez assaulted the women in testing trucks after instructing them to perform an “emergency roadside stop,” the lawsuit alleges. He promised to pass them on their tests only if they kept quiet about the abuse, the complaint states. It does not name the four plaintiffs.

The lawsuit, which seeks compensation for damages, punitive damages and other fees, accuses the driving schools of negligence and NMSU of violating the New Mexico Civil Rights Act. It accuses Gutierrez of assault, battery and false imprisonment.

Gutierrez did not answer phone calls Tuesday seeking comment on the allegations.

Attorney Levi Monagle, who represents the plaintiffs, provided documents he received from a public records request showing Gutierrez worked at NMSU as early as 2016 after several decades of employment at the state Department of Transportation.

The university placed Gutierrez on paid administrative leave and began an investigation into the allegations after receiving a tort claim in August notifying officials of a coming lawsuit, the documents show.

University spokesman Justin Bannister wrote in an email Gutierrez is now on unpaid administrative leave. He did not respond to a follow-up email asking when Gutierrez’s administrative leave became unpaid.

Bannister declined to comment on the lawsuit, writing the school does not comment on pending litigation.

Gutierrez does not face any criminal charges related to the alleged sexual assaults, although Monagle said at least one woman reported her allegation to New Mexico State Police and underwent a sexual assault nurse examination as part of an investigation.

State police did not confirm Tuesday whether a criminal investigation into the allegations against Gutierrez is underway.

Monagle said it was “entirely coincidental” how the lawsuit came together. The four women had trained at three driving schools across the state. One of the accusers contacted Monagle’s firm, he said, while another contacted a separate attorney who shares office space.

Three of the women are residents of Bernalillo County, and one is a resident of Valencia County, the lawsuit states.

It alleges each woman was driving a school-owned truck during her exam, with Gutierrez as a passenger, between August 2022 and July 2023.

During the driving tests, Gutierrez began to act strangely and asked “weird” questions, some of the women alleged, including inquiring about their relationship status.

Gutierrez instructed each woman to perform an “emergency roadside stop” and then forced himself upon her, the lawsuit alleges.

The three driving schools listed as defendants in the lawsuit are Native Nations CDL Training, ABQ Truck Driving School and RV’s Transportation.

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Tess Fresquez stands Wednesday on the Plaza behind busker Martin Cordova. Fresquez is a musician herself: The Northern New Mexico native sings “Christmas in Santa Fe,” a single released in October that pays tribute to unique holiday traditions in the area.

By Maya Hilty

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winkling lights on the Plaza, piñon fires, snow-topped adobe shops and sweet tamales are among the aspects of Christmas in Santa Fe praised in a new song that’s making shopping mall and restaurant playlists worldwide.

Singer Tess Fresquez, who grew up in Española and recently returned there after moving away to pursue a career in science, col-

laborated with an old friend, Todd Blanchard, to produce the single “Christmas in Santa Fe.” “It’s funny. Initially, I thought this is such a weirdly specific song,” Blanchard said.

“You know, it’s got words in it like ‘posole.’ ... Maybe we can make this a local hit, and I would be really satisfied with that. It turns out it’s got much broader appeal.”

Since they ramped up marketing of the song after Thanksgiving, it has attained a surprising reach, both musicians said. The

duo have been getting comments from people as far as South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Scandinavia, Fresquez added.

They plan to record a version of the song in Spanish next year and continue their partnership from there.

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Recommendation to partially demolish middle school Group: Part of Capshaw, unused since ’18, should be utilized for storage

By Margaret O’Hara

mohara@sfnewmexican.com

A committee that advises Santa Fe Public Schools on properties and construction projects favors partial demolition of the old Capshaw Middle School building.

The Community Review Com-

mittee approved a recommendation in a vote Wednesday night that would leave a third of the building standing for use as a districtwide storage facility.

The proposed option, estimated to cost between $2.3 million and $2.4 million, would provide more than 30,000 square feet of space to house the district’s stuff — from aging technology to musical instruments — by the end of 2024.

“Who has too much storage space at their house or at their

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A quick guide to fun in the North

Friday PRAIRIE DOG GLASS HOLIDAY SHOW 2820 Cerrillos Road (inside Jackalope), 505-216-1699 Cookies and hot cider served; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. through Sunday.

500 BELOW: AFFORDABLE ART BAZAAR Smoke the Moon, 616½ Canyon Road, 978-578-4939 Fifty-plus artists, food, drinks and music; 3-9 p.m., noon-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

SANTA FE DESERT CHORALE AND YOUNG VOICES OF SANTA FE OPERA Body of Santa Fe, 333 W. Cordova Road, 505-986-0362

school? I don’t know of anybody who does, and I don’t want to be careless with the amount of stuff that we store,” Gabe Romero, the district’s executive director of operations, told the committee.

The final say on the former middle school — largely empty since Milagro Middle School opened nearby in 2018 — will come from the school board.

The partial demolition plan offers several benefits for the district, including quicker con-

Free holiday caroling; 5:30-6 p.m.

LISA LUCAS AND DEBRIANNA MANSINI Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo Street, 505-988-4226 That Time We Ate Our Feelings: 150 Recipes for Comfort Food from the Heart, authors, 6 p.m.; collectedworksbookstore.com.

ELEVENTH ANNUAL A MUSICAL PIÑATA FOR CHRISTMAS Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, 505424-1601 Compañia Chuscales y Mina Fajardo; A Christmas Carol on Airport Road; a short play by JoJo Sena Tarnoff; Ballet Folclórico de mi Pueblo; poetry readings; and Santa Claus.

7 p.m. Fridays, 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 17; $15; teatroparaguasnm.org.

EVIL IN OUR MIDST: A CLOSE READING OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S ‘SHADOW OF A DOUBT’ (1943) Great Hall, St. John’s College, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca, 505-984-6000 Religious studies scholar Jeffrey Stout

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examines the psychological thriller; 7 p.m.; no charge.

Saturday IAIA HOLIDAY ART MARKET AND SFCC HOLIDAY ARTS AND CRAFTS FAIR Institute of American Indian, 83 Avan Nu Po Road,and Santa Fe Community College, 6401 Richards Ave. Jewelry, woodcarvings, pottery, paintings, tinwork and other gift items created by 100-plus artists and craftspeople; 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

FAMILY PHOTOS WITH NEW MEXICO CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC RIDING

SANTA FE ARTISTS’ MEDICAL FUND ANNUAL ART SHOW & AUCTION

St. Bede’s Episcopal Church, 550 W. San Mateo Road Holiday-themed photos with NMCTR’s horses; 11 a.m.-3 p.m. (rescheduled from Nov. 25); $40 for five; proceeds benefit the nonprofit.

SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta Silent auction of small paintings, photographs and sculpture by Northern New Mexico artists; wine and snacks served; 3-5 p.m.; sfcf.org; santafeartistsmedicalfund.org.

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Sunday

Distinguishedlectures.com New York Times writer Isabel Kershner on The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel’s Battle for Its Inner Soul; 11 a.m.; no charge; ron@ tolerancestudies.org.

NATIVE AMERICAN PORTAL ARTISANS’ WINTER YOUTH SHOW

SANTA FE FREE THINKERS’ FORUM

New Mexico History Museum, 113 Lincoln Ave., 505-476-5200 Works by the children and grandchildren of the Palace of the Governors Portal Program artists; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, in the main lobby; no charge; nmhistorymuseum.org.

Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe, 107 W. Barcelona Road The humanist discussion group’s speaker: Mary Feldblum, executive director of Health Security for New Mexicans Campaign; noon; no charge; 505-438-6265, meetup.com/freethinkersforum.

BELLS OF ST. FRANCIS & SANTA FE FLUTES Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, 131 Cathedral Place Seasonal favorites, children’s holiday songs, and traditional carols; 2 p.m.; no charge.

HANUKKAH ON THE PLAZA Downtown Annual celebratory lighting of the Giant Chile Menorah, with fire dancers and refreshments; 3 p.m.; santafejcc.com.

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The Empty Stocking Fund is a 42-year-old project of The New Mexican. Each year, hundreds of people receive aid from the fund during the holiday season to help cover rent payments, medical bills, utility costs, car repairs, home improvements and other needs.

Who it helps: Applicants, who must live within 50 miles of Santa Fe and must provide documents that provide proof of their identity, are considered without regard to race, age, ethnicity, gender identity or sexual orientation.

Applications are now closed.

How it works: Applications for funding are carefully vetted.

Members of the Empty Stocking Committee review requests, meet with each qualifying applicant to examine records of outstanding bills or other needs and verify the applicant’s income. If a request is approved, the committee sends a check directly to the service supplier. Requests can be as much as $2,500 per household depending on the need.

2023 goal: $399,000.

This holiday charity project, which began in 1981, is jointly administered by the Santa Fe Community Foundation, Enterprise Bank and Trust, the Salvation Army, Presbyterian Medical Services, The Life Link, Habitat for Humanity, Esperanza Shelter, Youth Shelters and Family Services, Gerard’s House and a private individual.

To donate: Make your tax-deductible donation online by visiting santafenewmexican.com/ empty_stocking or mail a check to The New Mexican’s Empty Stocking Fund c/o The Santa Fe Community Foundation, P.O. Box 1827, Santa Fe, NM 87504-1827.

Cash and coin donations are always welcome. Those can be dropped off at the offices of the newspaper at 150 Washington Ave., Suite 206. Donors can request to remain anonymous.

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IN BRIEF Man charged with child exploitation An Edgewood man faces a felony charge after police say an investigation found explicit images of children on two of his Google accounts.

Thomas Gunter, 58, is charged with sexual exploitation of children, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday in Santa Fe County Magistrate Court by Edgewood police.

Google reported the photos and videos uploaded to two of Gunter’s accounts to law enforcement in April, leading to an investigation by Edgewood police, according to an arrest warrant affidavit filed by an Edgewood police officer.

It is unclear whether Gunter has been arrested, but a warrant for his arrest was issued Monday.

Edgewood Police Officer Ryan Romero declined to say whether Gunter was in custody Wednesday, but a search of online jail records did not show he had been booked into Santa

such as roofing or home repairs, contact Habitat for Humanity at repairs@santafehabitat.org. If you can contribute food, clothing, toys, housewares, furniture, firewood or other items or services, call the Salvation Army at 505-988-8054.

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The affidavit lists 11 files reviewed by investigators that were deemed “apparent child sexual exploitation material.”

The photos and videos all featured girls who appeared to be under the age of 18, the affidavit states.

Monastery Lake closed for fishing Monastery Lake near Pecos will be closed to fishing until further notice because of unsafe ice conditions.

A layer of ice has formed on the Benedictine Monastery lake, where no ice fishing is allowed, prompting the closure.

The lake will reopen when there are sufficient areas of water available to enable fishing from the bank, the state Game and Fish Department said in a news release.

The agency leases the lake from the monastery through its open gate program to allow public access.

Anglers can find other fishing options at bit.ly/3t5artI. The New Mexican

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The sole vote against the recommendation on Capshaw came from Grace Mayer, an art teacher Continued from Page A-7 at Milagro and president of the local branch of the National Edu$400,000 for drainage and site cation Association. improvements, $600,000 initially For the committee’s past two set aside for roofing, and $1.3 million earmarked for electrical work. meetings, she’s encouraged Those dollars were not yet tied the district to use the Capshaw to any specific project, said Sarah site’s 18 acres for something “a Boses, the school board president little more creative, a little more and a member of the Community necessary” — namely, an administrative center for the district.

Review Committee.

“I don’t want to do something April Gallegos, another member of the committee, noted that’s very short-sighted. ... You have to think about: Are we putthe move to endorse Capshaw’s partial demolition doesn’t detract ting ourselves in a position where we can’t make changes?” Mayer from impending work to deterasked. mine the future of the east-side Romero said partial demolition E.J. Martinez Elementary School, now won’t inhibit development which has a dwindling student in the future: The size of the site population and a failing roof. In ensures it could house a storage late September, the committee facility as well as an administrarequested more guidance from tive center or even affordable the school board before moving housing for district employees. forward with discussions.

“I don’t see one exclusive of “We’re not choosing one over the other,” Romero said. “This is the other; we’re just continuing our planning work while we wait not going to stop us from doing for a decision from the board,” anything like that on the site.”

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Jovanni Nez, president of Native Nations CDL Training, a Gallup-based, private truck driving school, said the institution sent some students to Gutierrez for their commercial driving tests in

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2022 but he has not received any complaints from those students.

The school does not employ or hire the examiner, he added, and would not have any authority to investigate such a complaint.

The school is required to schedule driving tests conducted by a limited list of examiners provided by the state Motor Vehicle Division, Nez said.

Former CYFD employee accused of battery against a household member after Nov. 5 fight

By Nicholas Gilmore

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A caseworker for the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department who has been charged in two criminal cases this year accusing her of domestic violence is no longer employed by the agency.

Erica Martinez’s last day at the department was Nov. 24, CYFD spokeswoman Jessica Preston wrote in an email Wednesday.

Martinez was charged in early November with aggravated battery against a household member, according to a criminal complaint filed in Sandoval County Magistrate Court.

Rio Rancho police wrote in a statement of probable cause they had interviewed Martinez and her father, Patrick Martinez, at her Rio Rancho home Nov. 5 and that each had

accused the other of punching first.

Erica Martinez told police she and her father were drinking before the incident and that he was holding her down as they threw punches at one another, the complaint states. She was arrested by police that night.

Martinez’s boyfriend, Santa Fe police Officer Christopher Lamoreux, had left the house Nov. 5 but then returned, police wrote in the complaint.

“Christopher stated he and Erica had been arguing about Christopher possibly having an affair and not supporting her when her and Patrick were arguing about politics,” the officer wrote.

Erica Martinez pleaded not guilty to the charge, according to a waiver of her arraignment.

CYFD placed her on paid administrative leave Nov. 7, Preston wrote.

Martinez was charged in April with two felony counts and several misdemeanors after Lamoreux told police she had attacked him

while he was holding their infant child, according to a criminal complaint filed April 17.

Lamoreux sought a protective order after the incident, alleging in an April 17 complaint Martinez had thrown a glass candle jar at him while he was holding their baby.

Martinez then threw a brick through a window of their home, he wrote, and kept his cellphone away from him.

“During this whole incident I was holding my daughter,” Lamoreux wrote, “and I was in fear for her and for me that we were going to be injured.”

Lamoreux wrote in the complaint he sustained “very minor” injuries and his daughter was unharmed.

She faced counts of child abuse and criminal damage to property, both felonies, as well as misdemeanor battery and interference with communications.

A dismissal order filed in court Nov. 3 states all the April charges against her were dropped after she provided proof of counseling.

Curry County sheriff found dead in Santa Fe Eastern New Mexico News

The last time Michael Brockett talked with Mike Reeves, the topic was community.

“We talked about the Christmas parade,” Brockett said. “He was super excited about our department being a part of it.

He was always big on community. That was his thing. He was proud of the sheriff’s office and he was proud to lead us.”

Reeves, the Curry County sheriff, was found dead in a Santa Fe hotel room Monday morning where he’d gone to attend law enforcement training.

He was 59 and is survived by two sons, Collin and Hayden Reeves, and a daughter, Avery Reeves, according to a county news release.

Officials did not immediately announce a cause of death, but Brockett, Reeves’ undersheriff, said no foul play is suspected.

An autopsy was scheduled for later with the state Office of the Medical Examiner in Albuquerque.

“We are heartbroken for the loss of Sheriff Reeves,” Curry County Manager Lance Pyle said in a statement Monday afternoon.

“He was not just a sheriff or co-worker, but a friend,” Pyle said. “We are going to miss him; this whole county is going to miss him.”

Brockett will assume the duties of sheriff until the Curry County Commission makes an appointment, Pyle said.

Brockett said he was not aware of any medical issues that caused Reeves concern prior to Monday. He said

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Curry County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Diane Calbert passes a folded U.S. flag to Curry County Sheriff Mike Reeves at a memorial for a fallen officer in May. Reeves was found dead Monday morning in a Santa Fe hotel room where he’d gone to attend law enforcement training. Foul play isn’t suspected, an officer said.

Reeves was scheduled to spend two weeks of training at the New Mexico Law Enforcement Academy. Monday was the first day of that training; when Reeves didn’t show, concerned officials searched for him and found him deceased in his room.

Brockett on Monday night characterized Reeves as “a good man and a hell of a cop. I was lucky to be his undersheriff for a year. He was amazing.”

They first met in 2001, when Brockett was a rookie in the sheriff’s office. Reeves, then a deputy, was a bit intimidating in those early days, Brockett said.

“He maintained a very, very clean vehicle, and he was very particular with it,” Brockett said.

“I remember one night my car broke down, and I had to

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take his car and how scared I was. He had the cleanest vehicle I think I have ever driven. I made sure to return it meticulously clean.”

Reeves ran unopposed for the sheriff’s job in 2022, succeeding Wesley Waller, whose term limits had expired.

He spent more than 35 years in law enforcement, beginning his career with the Clovis Police Department in 1983. He retired from the sheriff’s office in August 2018, before running for sheriff.

“Mike enjoyed many accomplishments and successes during his career, and was witness to many tragedies as well,” Waller told Eastern New Mexico News after Reeves’ retirement.

“He was a part of the initial group of deputies and officers

from Idaho and Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt from Missouri.

Hawley, who was seeking compensation for people who suffered severe health Continued from Page A-7 effects from the federal government’s shoddy handling of uranium waste in North Guam who were horribly harmed when St. Louis County, expressed his disappointour country went about its reckless testing ment on X, formerly Twitter. of nuclear weapons are devastated to again “I am blocking the Senate from immedibe left without assistance,” Tina Cordova, founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders ately proceeding to the defense bill,” Hawley wrote. “Congressional leadership has chosen Consortium, said in a statement. “Certain to abandon the people of Missouri and the members of Congress care nothing about nation poisoned by their own government. the people who’ve been dying for 78 years I’m not going to make it easy on them.” without assistance. Shame on them for takThe Hill reported Lujan and Schmitt ing this position. Make no mistake: We will not give up, and we will be back to build an wouldn’t commit to joining Hawley in even greater coalition to continue this fight.” blocking the military spending bill.

An estimated 210 above-ground nuclear Only parts of Arizona, Nevada and Utah tests were conducted in the U.S. and Pacific now qualify for RECA. The amendment islands between 1945 and 1962. People would cover the ineligible areas of those exposed to the fallout from the tests became states as well as New Mexico, Colorado, known as downwinders.

Idaho, Montana and Guam.

Advocates say the full extent of the radioThose who lost family members to active impacts won’t ever be known, in part radiation exposure also would qualify for because the federal government refused to one-time compensation. acknowledge them.

The amendment was sponsored by Sen. In a statement, Mary Dickson, a Utah Ben Ray Luján, a New Mexico Democrat, along with Republican Sens. Mike Crapo downwinder and activist, said the House

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the 1980s.

Fresquez, an associate scientist at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine by day and musician by night, still travels across New Mexico with an Albuquerque-based rock group called Sister Mary Mayhem a few times a month.

Though not a local, Blanchard visits New Mexico often — at least annually — to buy a year’s supply of chiles to satisfy his “incurable green chile addiction.”

It was a family visit to Santa Fe during Christmas about a decade ago that inspired him to write a song about the city’s unique traditions.

Christmas lost its sparkle

after Blanchard’s kids, at 9 or 10, had given up on Santa Claus, he recalled, so the family decided to forgo gift-giving and plan holiday adventures instead. One of the first trips they booked was to Santa Fe. The family rented a house near Canyon Road, joined in the Canyon Road Farolito Walk on Christmas Eve and spent Christmas morning tubing in Angel Fire.

One evening, Blanchard invited Fresquez and another friend over to play tunes and swap original songs.

The whole experience made such wonderful memories Blanchard commemorated it in a song after he returned home, he said. Fresquez then encouraged him to record it.

“It was very touching, you know, the whole ‘tamales wrapped up like presents,’ ” she said. “The lyrics really express beautifully

that entered the Clovis-Carver Library on Aug. 28, 2017, moments after the mass shooting. He was awarded a citation for valor for his courageous acts during that tragedy.”

Reeves also had a career in the medical field, becoming a registered nurse in 2008.

An extended hospital stay as an 11-year-old — he’d been struck by a car while crossing a street near Gattis Junior High School — inspired his career in medicine.

Reeves said in a 2018 interview two memories stood out in the career as a law officer.

“There are many, but there are two medals I received that represent one of the brightest and one of the darkest days in my career,” he said.

“The life-saving medal from August of 2008 was when I helped a baby girl that was choking, and she ended up surviving from the choking incident. I was a new nurse at the time and just happened to be in the right place at the right time. I could feel her life slipping away in my arms, and when we finally cleared that choking it was such a relief.

“That was one of the two scariest days of my life. The other one was the library shooting. I never expected, here, to have to go to something like that. We prepared for it, and we showed ourselves to be very prepared for it. But still, it became very real — it wasn’t training anymore. This was happening. And it makes me very sad that something like that happened in our community.”

TAKEAWAYS u The U.S. House stripped a proposed measure from the military spending bill that would have extended radiation exposure compensation to those who suffered adverse health effects because of fallout from nuclear testing or while working in uranium mines after 1971. u New Mexico is among the states ineligible to receive federal compensation for exposure to radioactive fallout from nuclear tests, including the atomic bomb detonated during the Manhattan Project. u The fate of the proposal is unknown. Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri has vowed to oppose any defense bill that doesn’t contain the measure. But two of the other sponsors, Sen. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico and GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri, wouldn’t commit to joining Hawley.

excluding the RECA expansion from the defense bill is devastating to the victims.

“The real tragedy?” Dickson said. “Our government has the money to invest in more nuclear weapons and expand our arsenal of weapons that can never be used, but it hasn’t the wisdom nor the will to take care of the Americans whose lives those weapons have destroyed.”

[how] we celebrate Christmas in Northern New Mexico.”

“It’s what I grew up with,” said Fresquez, who still participates in the Canyon Road walk.

Blanchard, a guitarist, songwriter and producer, agreed to record it if Fresquez would sing the song.

Although the friends haven’t seen each other in years, Blanchard organized production of the song from May to September this year mostly over email, recruiting a Denver-based Spanish guitarist named El Javi to record one part as a guest artist and hiring studio musicians from all over to submit other tracks, such as percussion. Fresquez recorded her part in Española’s Chavez Recording Studio.

Blanchard finally spent a few days in pianist Mark Hattersley’s studio in San Diego to arrange

and engineer the tracks before its mid-October release.

“Christmas in Santa Fe” is only Fresquez’s second recorded solo song, but she has “tons of original material, so it’s just waiting to get recorded at this point,” she said.

“When you create something new, and then you put it out there, you’re sticking your neck out [hoping] people are not going to ... chop you up into little bits, so it makes you a little vulnerable,” she said.

“But sharing something like this, something that’s close to my heart about the Christmas season, that I just love because then I can share my experiences with other people.”

“Christmas in Santa Fe” is available on YouTube, Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music, Amazon Music and SoundCloud.

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Liz Cheney is correct: Beating Trump is job one

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iz Cheney understands Donald Trump must never be allowed near the Oval Office again.

A staunch conservative Republican, Cheney deserves the thanks of the nation for speaking out against Trump’s attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. She served as vice chair for the Jan. 6 House Select Commission looking into Trump’s actions after the 2020 election. He and other Republicans spread the lie a presidential election had been stolen and sought to block certification of the count using a fake electors scheme.

When that faltered, Trump encouraged and perhaps exhorted a mob to march on the U.S. Capitol.

Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and at the time a member of the House of Representatives, chose country over party.

Her service to the nation cost her reelection to Congress in 2022; she was beaten in a Republican primary in Wyoming by a Trump-endorsed candidate.

This week, Cheney is making the rounds of interviews to discuss both her new book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and A Warning, and the clear and present danger she believes Trump still poses. In her words, the U.S. could be “sort of sleepwalking into dictatorship.”

Not on her watch. In the epilogue to her book, she wrote: “Every one of us — Republican, Democrat, Independent — must work and vote together to ensure that Donald Trump and those who have appeased, enabled, and collaborated with him are defeated. This is the cause of our time.”

She appears to be flirting with a third-party run for president — a campaign designed to give conservatives a place to land, a candidate for those who dislike President Joe Biden’s policies but who can’t bring themselves to vote for another Trump term. We don’t know if the flirtation is serious, but we trust not.

This election has to be focused on one thing and one thing only — defeating Trump. Cheney has said as much herself.

Already, Cornel West, Jill Stein and Robert Kennedy

Jr. have declared they are running for president, and the concern is that too much chaos among an already dispirited electorate could tip the election to a man who disrespects the democratic traditions of the United States.

In the general election, it’s impossible to know whether a Kennedy will attract more disaffected Biden voters or disgruntled Republicans — actual Trump supporters seem intent on their man — and with margins in swing states so close, unintended consequences could move an election to the worst possible outcome. We do know that in polls, many Democratic or Democratic-leaning voters are saying they would prefer another candidate to Biden.

Other polls show Trump ahead in five key swing states a year ahead of the actual election. Yes, it’s early but too many candidates are a recipe for disaster.

Cheney has said as much herself. On the Rachel Maddow show earlier this week, Cheney discussed a dinner with her family in the days after Jan. 6: “I looked at my sons across the dinner table, and I had this realization — I grew up in a country where I didn’t have to wonder if we were going to have a peaceful transfer of power in the United States. All of a sudden it occurred to me, ‘maybe they won’t be able to say the same thing.’ ” As she goes on to say during the interview, “Donald Trump is not an acceptable alternative. He is not the lesser of two evils. He is a completely unfit man for office. He already has shown us what he would do, and he can never be near the Oval Office again.”

A Liz Cheney run, sadly, might make a Trump election more likely. Instead of getting on the ballot in 2024, Cheney could begin the difficult work of starting a new conservative party, raising money to build a nationwide network for a 2028 presidential run. Conservative Americans deserve better choices, and Cheney definitely is a conservative. If nothing else, she also has shown she is willing to sacrifice for her country.

That’s why she should wait this election out or campaign for Biden. The most patriotic conservatives must understand that four years under a centrist Democrat is better than the dissolution of our democracy.

M Y VIEW HEC TOR BALDER A S AND BRIAN MCMATH

N.M. opioid litigation was a success

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ecently. some have criticized New Mexico’s approach to holding manufacturers and distributors of deadly opioids accountable for decades of damage to our state. What is inconvenient for their narrative in this particular case are the actual facts. So here they are, plainly stated: ◆ As part of the overall opioid litigation, New Mexico actually got two settlements from Walgreens: $47 million as part of Walgreens’ $5 billion national settlement, and $453 million as a New Mexico-only settlement, after completing a seven-week trial against Walgreens before a judge in Santa Fe. In total, New Mexico will receive $500 million from Walgreens. ◆ Had New Mexico not taken Walgreens to trial, a trial that I litigated personally, New Mexico would have only received the $47 million national settlement money.

That settlement relied on population in distributing funds, meaning high-population, low-impact states got the lion’s share of the money. Small-population, highly impacted states like New Mexico were offered only the crumbs. ◆ The 12% attorney fee figure paid to outside attorneys in the national settlement that is being held up as a supposed reference for criticism does not account for a state that decided it had to take Walgreens to trial in

order to get a fair recovery for its people. ◆ Because New Mexico took Walgreens to trial, and even after New Mexico paid its lawyers, New Mexico still received almost eight times the treatment money the state would have otherwise received had it merely accepted the national deal. That is eight times more treatment dollars, eight times more Narcan, eight times more beds in treatment centers and eight times the funding for county and local governments. ◆ Taking a multibillion-dollar company to trial for seven weeks required a team of more than 50 lawyers, litigating New Mexico’s case for more than seven years before it got to trial. All of that cost was borne not by the taxpayers of New Mexico, but by these outside firms. ◆ The New Mexico Legislature funds less than 100 lawyers in the Attorney General’s Office, total, and the litigation costs in this single case would represent nearly three years of the office’s entire operating budget. ◆ New Mexico recovered more dollars per capita in the opioid litigation than any state in the country besides West Virginia, which was also represented by outside attorneys. ◆ The state’s opioid litigation brought hundreds of millions of treatment dollars into the State, without saddling the taxpay-

Editorial page editor: Inez Russell Gomez, 505-986-3053, igomez@sfnewmexican.com, Twitter @inezrussell

ers with the cost of litigation. ◆ As an aside from this major victory for the state, a recent State Ethics Commission opinion (the opinion that started this commentary) concluded the state’s Procurement Code should be applied for selecting outside counsel in these cases. The lawyers in this case were selected pursuant to a competitive bidding process under the New Mexico Procurement Code.

These are the facts.

Regardless of how recent opinions want to spin it, what matters is that treatment professionals now have millions of dollars in funding. Law enforcement has millions of dollars in funding. We have treatment drugs available for those who want them. We can actually begin to improve the state’s health.

So we won’t apologize to those who either don’t understand, or don’t want to admit the truth about how New Mexico prevailed in the opioid litigation, but I will say to every New Mexican who lost someone they loved to the opioid crisis that New Mexico showed up in court, and now the state can actually begin to distribute these treatment funds to heal our communities.

Hector Balderas is the former attorney general for the state of New Mexico. Brian McMath formerly headed the attorney general’s Consumer Protection Division.

hank you, Beverley Spears (“Collaborate on restitution — but restore the monument,” My View, Dec. 3), which has crystallized my own view of the best plan for restoration of the Soldiers’ Monument on the Plaza. It was good to see the inscriptions that have been indecently covered up with plywood for three years. It is decent, and appropriate, that a democratic society remember those who fought and died in voluntary service of the ideals of that society. I have relatives who served in France during 1914-18 and in North Africa in the 1940s. Both survived, but many multitudes never came home.

We lucky ones inherit the world for which they died.

We don’t think of these heroes very often unless we had a personal loss, but a memorial reminds us from time to time of the extraordinary sacrifices made by the heroic few so we may inherit a better world.

Three panels on the monument honor those who died to eradicate the scourge of slavery from the United States. The North-facing panel celebrates a destructive and in its time, deadly divide in our community, and should come off. Consider replacing it with a statement honoring the heroes of New Mexico who died in the foreign wars fought by the U.S. in the 20th century. The number of those who made the ultimate sacrifice in those wars is large and includes all ethnicities in our state.

John Gregory

Pojoaque

Admirable women Recently our country lost two very important women.

Rosalynn Carter and Sandra Day O’Connor. I personally felt the loss and admired them both for many years.

Rosalynn Carter will be remembered for many reasons, but for me because of her support for families — especially for her diligent work to pass the Equal Rights Amendment over the years. Even beyond her time in the White House.

Sandra Day O’Connor, in her home state of Arizona tried unsuccessfully to pass a referendum on the ERA. She said how important an Equal Rights Amendment was and it would “stand in the tradition of other great amendments in the Constitution.” Her time as a Supreme Court justice was stellar, before she stepped down to care for her ill husband.

Both these women remain wonderful role models. Aside from being missed by their

families, I am sure many of us in the women’s movement also are mourning them. RIP, Rosalynn and Sandra.

Dana Middleton

Santa Fe NOW

Cult action?

The Republicans joined the Democrats in getting rid of Congressman George Santos, a habitual liar with a handful of charges against him. At the same time, these same Republicans worship former President Donald Trump, a pathological liar with around 90 felony charges against him. Is there an explanation for this that does not require the use of the word “cult”?

James Pierce

Santa Fe

Name them I was taken aback by the following blurb in The New York Times’ Nov. 29 Morning Briefing: “Hamas released 12 more hostages, 10 Israelis and two Thais. Israel released another 30 Palestinian women and minors from its jails.” It’s often bruited that the U.S. media’s Middle East reporting (including that of The New York Times) is one-sided; to me, this article is clear confirmation of that bias. Although the names of the released hostages and their ordeals are discussed in some detail, there’s absolutely no information given about the Palestinian prisoners, as if their identities — and humanity — were of no concern.

The Dec. 3 Times Morning Briefing provided clarity, but was far more troubling, particularly this finding: “Three-quarters of the 240 prisoners and detainees released by Israel during the weeklong truce had not been convicted of a crime, data shows.” To top it off, the linked article recites only numbers and demographics; not a single Palestinian name or family reunion story, apart from a photograph of “A young Palestinian prisoner … embraced after being released from an Israeli jail.” Nameless, of course.

Darryl Lindberg

Santa Fe

Shoutout I don’t own a computer. I get the signal for my TV from an antenna. I am a print media junkie. The New Mexican is the best of the publications to which I subscribe. I would also like to give a shoutout to Bernadette and Harold Lujan who deliver the paper. It is on my driveway every morning when I get up.

Camille Morrison

Santa Fe

THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 7, 1923: Golden Rule Sunday, which was observed in Santa Fe, netted the fund $14.60 according to the report of the committee in charge of the work. The campaign was under the auspices of the Woman’s club, and the committee consisted of Mrs. Hume Brown, chairman, Mrs. Charles Gaastra and Mrs. B.W. Pechesky.

Dec. 7, 1948: School teachers’ average salary for the current year is $3,044, State School Budget Auditor R.H. Grissom said today, having risen steadily from $1,735 for the 1944-45 year. Last year it was $2,780.

Dec. 7, 1973: After hearing that bias taints 80 per cent of the state’s approved eleventh grade American literature textbooks, the State Board of Education yesterday appointed an Indian liason to study the problem.

Harvey Paymella, Richard Young, and several other representatives of Indians in the state told the board that many textbooks in history and literature painted an inaccurate and prejudiced picture of Indian people.

Dec. 7, 1998: Eighteen-year-old Erik Sanchez clung to the railing of the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge as two car thieves kicked at his hands until he finally let go. The men then picked up Sanchez and flung him over the side of the bridge, sending him plummeting more than 600 feet to his death at the bottom of the river canyon.

eVOICES Views from the web

New Mexico offers some area farmers double for nothing, Dec. 4

I hope none of the growers “ fall for this. That money isn’t going to last and it’s going to

cost a whole lot more to get back started. … It’s already hard finding alfalfa and grass for my horses and now this.”

Nici Barela

Why not give grants to “ farmers who use more efficient irrigation like sprinklers versus flood irrigation to save water?”

Ramon David

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Midnight through 6 p.m. Wednesday

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AREA RAINFALL

Albuquerque Area .Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trace ..... . . . . . . to Month . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.15" ....

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POLLEN COUNTS Santa Fe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6, Severity . . . .Low ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sagebrush Allergens .........

Albuquerque . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5, Severity . . . .Low ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sagebrush Allergens .........

Source: https://pollen.com

TODAY'S UV INDEX + 10 8 6 4 2 0

Extreme Very High High Moderate Low

The UV index forecasts the ultraviolet radiation coming from the sun. The higher the number the more risk of sun damage to your skin.

43 / 19

32 / 16

Humidity (Noon)

Humidity (Noon)

Monday

Sunny.

Tuesday

Partly Cloudy.

40 / 23

Partly Cloudy.

45 / 26

Humidity (Noon)

Wednesday

Mostly Cloudy.

44 / 27

Humidity (Noon)

40 / 20

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Wind: ESE 10 mph

Wind: WSW 25 mph

Wind: SW 15 mph

Wind: NW 15 mph

Wind: SSW 10 mph

Wind: SE 10 mph

Wind: SW 15 mph

NATIONAL WEATHER

NEW MEXICO WEATHER Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows.

Taos 51 / 24

Farmington 55 / 29

San Francisco 60/44

Las Vegas 61 / 34

Pecos 54 / 31 Albuquerque 60 / 32

Las Vegas 66/41

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Dallas 69/58

New Orleans 64/52

Mérida 83/67

Guadalajara 74/56 Mexico City 65/54

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Carlsbad 75 / 44 Rain

72° in Animas 14° in Reserve

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The Northeast will see partly cloudy skies with the highest temperature of 61 in Granite City, Ill. The Southeast will experience partly cloudy skies with the highest temperature of 74 in Miami, Fla. In the Northwest there will be mostly cloudy skies with scattered rain and isolated snow, highest temperature of 58 in Torrington, Wyo. The Southwest will see partly to mostly cloudy skies with isolated rain, highest temperature of 79 in Palm Springs, Calif.

WEATHER HISTORY

NEW MEXICO CITIES

Yesterday Today Tomorrow Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W City 66/43 s 65/31 s 60/32 s 54/24 s 45/17 pc 34/5 mc 75/41 s 73/34 s 75/44 s 74/37 s 47/19 s 36/8 ss 59/31 mc 47/21 pc 70/36 s 53/23 pc 47/33 pc 43/18 s 71/40 s 63/29 s 51/32 pc 42/17 pc 71/36 s 65/31 s 57/26 pc 47/18 pc 55/29 pc 44/18 pc 71/36 s 63/26 s 54/25 pc 45/11 s 58/28 pc 48/15 s 72/46 s 73/36 s 70/38 s 69/34 s

Las Vegas Lordsburg Los Alamos Los Lunas Portales Raton Red River Rio Rancho Roswell Ruidoso Santa Rosa Silver City Socorro T or C Taos Tucumcari Univ. Park White Rock Zuni

Yesterday Today Tomorrow Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W 64/27 s 64/43 s 51/34 s 58/26 s 68/31 s 64/19 s 56/16 s 55/24 s 67/30 pc 61/36 pc 69/28 s 64/30 s 62/30 s 64/33 pc 55/18 s 68/24 s 69/38 pc 51/34 s 63/29 s

61/34 pc 48/18 s 68/34 s 63/27 s 50/30 pc 40/19 pc 61/28 pc 56/22 s 72/38 s 65/26 s 61/29 mc 47/18 pc 45/20 s 33/7 mc 58/31 pc 51/24 s 73/38 s 71/33 s 60/38 pc 53/22 s 67/35 pc 57/25 s 62/37 s 55/26 s 65/32 pc 62/25 s 70/37 s 68/31 s 51/24 s 40/14 mc 71/39 s 60/26 s 70/38 s 69/34 s 53/28 pc 45/18 pc 59/28 pc 48/17 s

Dec. 7, 1935 - Severe flooding hit parts of the Houston area. Eight people were killed as 100 city blocks were inundated. Satsuma reported 16.49 inches of rain. The Buffalo and White Oak Bayous crested on Dec. 9.

NATIONAL EXTREMES WEDNESDAY High

86° in Ogilby, Calif.

NIGHT SKY

Low

-12° in Chesuncook, Maine

Sunrise Today Friday Saturday

Mercury 7:00 a.m.

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Rise Set

8:41 a.m.

6:10 p.m.

4:50 p.m.

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4:50 p.m.

Rise Set

Mars

3:34 a.m.

2:38 p.m.

Rise Set

6:35 a.m.

4:24 p.m.

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2:37 p.m.

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2:28 p.m.

Rise Set

Uranus

11:48 a.m.

10:39 p.m.

Rise Set

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5:06 a.m.

Sunset Today Friday Saturday Today Friday Saturday

WIND TRACKER

Moonset Today Friday Saturday

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2 a.m. Fri.

New Dec. 12

First Q. Dec. 19

Venus

Jupiter

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Weather (w): cl-cloudy, fg-fog, hz-haze, mc-mostly cloudy, pc-partly cloudy, r-rain, rs-rain & snow, s-sunny, sh-showers, sn-snow, ss-snow showers, t-thunderstorms

2 p.m.

Cancún 79/74

Fronts:

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Miami 75/69

Monterrey 70/61

Hobbs 72 / 46

Alamogordo 66 / 43

Washington D.C. 46/32

St. Louis 64/46

Albuquerque 60/32 Phoenix 75/48

New York 41/35

Detroit 45/36

Chicago 51/44

Omaha 61/38 Denver 67/30

La Paz 82/66

STATE EXTREMES WEDNESDAY

Alamogordo 66/30 pc Albuquerque 57/30 s Angel Fire 56/16 s Artesia 64/30 s Carlsbad 66/32 s Chama 59/31 s Cimarron 56/16 s Clayton 64/39 s Cloudcroft 66/30 pc Clovis 68/31 s Crownpoint 56/25 s Deming 68/33 pc 51/34 s Espan~ ola Farmington 59/25 s Fort Sumner 67/30 s Gallup 59/19 s Grants 61/19 s Hobbs 66/28 s Las Cruces 69/38 pc

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Hermosillo 84/61

Roswell 73 / 38

Las Cruces 70 / 38

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Los Angeles 69/47

Clovis 71 / 40

Ruidoso 60 / 38 Truth or Consequences 70 / 37

Boise 48/30

Boston 33/26

Minneapolis 54/37

Billings 53/31

Santa Fe 51 / 30

Gallup G 5 / 25 54

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Seattle 46/38

Clayton 70 / 36

Los Alamos 50 / 30

Sillver City 62 2 / 37

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Raton 61 / 29

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AIR QUALITY INDEX

Source: www.airnow.gov

Partly Cloudy.

Sunday

43%

A partial list of the City of Santa Fe's Comprehensive Water Conservation Requirements currently in effect: No outside watering from 10am to 6pm from May 1 to October 31.

For a complete list of requirements call: 955-4225 http://www.santafenm.gov/water_conservation

0-50, Good; 51-100, Moderate; 101-150, Unhealthy for sensitive groups; 151-200, Unhealthy; 201-300, Very Unhealthy, 301-500, Hazardous

Saturday

Wind: WSW 15 mph

WATER STATISTICS

.Wednesday's . . . . . . . . . . . rating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 .. . . . . . . . .Forecast Today's . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 ..

Partly Cloudy.

Humidity (Mid.)

Los Alamos Area .Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00" .... . . . . . . to Month . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.22" ....

The following water statistics of December 5th are provided by the City Water Division (in millions of gallons).

Total water produced from: Canyon Water Treatment Plant: 3.878 Buckman Water Treatment Plant: 1.760 City Wells: 0.0 Buckman Wells: 0.0 Total production: 5.638 Total consumption: 6.495 Santa Fe reservoir inflow: 1.10 Reservoir storage: 342.94 Estimated reservoir capacity: 26.84%

Friday

Mostly Clear.

Humidity (Noon)

Las Vegas Area .Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00" .... . . . . . . to Month . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.20" ....

Taos Area .Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00" .... . . . . . . to Month . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.07" ....

NATIONAL CITIES

7 DAY FORECAST FOR SANTA FE

Santa Fe Airport Temperatures High/low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52°/31° ......

Normal . . . . . . . high/low . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46°/20° ...... . . . . . . .high Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58° . . . in . . 2008 .... . . . . . . .low Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -3° . . . in . . 2011 ....

Santa Fe Airport Precipitation .Yesterday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.00" .... .Month . . . . . to . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.04" .... . . . . . . . month Normal . . . . . .to . . date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .0.20" ....

Year . . . . .to . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6.58" ....

Normal . . . . . . . year . . . . to . . .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12.93" .....

Last . . . . year . . . . .to. .date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11.70" .....

THE WEATHER

Thursday, December 7, 2023

Full Dec. 26

Saturn

Last Q. Jan. 3

Yesterday Today Tomorrow Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W

City Anchorage Atlanta Baltimore Bangor Billings Bismarck Boise Boston Charleston,SC Charlotte Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Dallas Denver Des Moines Detroit Fairbanks Flagstaff Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Louisville Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis New Orleans New York City Oklahoma City Omaha Orlando Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland,OR Richmond Salt Lake City San Antonio San Diego San Francisco Seattle Sioux Falls St. Louis Tampa Trenton Tulsa Washington,DC

27/24 cl 54/42 s 46/40 mc 22/-2 pc 61/51 mc 66/28 pc 56/39 pc 35/28 mc 61/41 s 55/38 s 39/32 mc 45/34 mc 41/37 mc 66/41 pc 70/37 s 52/21 s 43/28 mc 5/1 sn 59/21 s 61/36 mc 82/72 pc 68/45 s 38/30 mc 56/28 s 70/45 s 74/55 s 47/37 mc 54/36 s 72/61 pc 40/35 mc 47/22 mc 61/52 pc 43/36 mc 64/30 s 55/25 s 64/54 s 43/37 mc 84/57 s 37/33 mc 59/50 ra 48/36 cl 55/31 s 72/44 s 70/49 pc 64/49 cl 51/48 fg 56/28 pc 49/37 pc 68/57 pc 41/35 mc 63/29 s 46/40 mc

18/12 mc 57/37 s 47/37 mc 25/7 s 53/31 mc 51/32 pc 48/30 sh 33/26 pc 58/41 s 55/38 s 51/44 s 53/40 s 47/39 mc 69/58 pc 67/30 s 60/40 s 45/36 mc 3/-8 mc 53/24 s 44/28 rs 82/69 pc 69/61 pc 54/42 s 61/46 s 66/41 s 69/47 pc 55/41 s 59/44 s 75/69 mc 49/39 s 54/37 pc 64/52 pc 41/35 mc 68/56 s 61/38 s 69/54 s 42/31 sn 75/48 s 46/36 mc 48/39 ra 59/42 ra 47/29 rs 70/61 mc 65/50 mc 60/44 ra 46/38 ra 64/37 s 64/46 s 70/55 s 41/27 sn 68/55 s 46/32 mc

20/5 sn 62/48 mc 58/42 pc 32/15 s 42/25 mc 39/23 sn 42/21 ss 43/30 s 65/53 mc 61/45 mc 58/49 mc 58/49 pc 54/46 pc 75/52 mc 40/18 sn 56/35 mc 51/44 mc 1/-16 sn 47/14 s 36/20 sn 83/67 pc 74/67 mc 56/51 mc 57/38 ra 60/39 s 68/48 s 59/52 pc 63/58 mc 79/72 mc 56/44 mc 49/31 mc 72/61 mc 49/40 pc 70/40 pc 55/33 mc 73/61 mc 52/35 pc 70/44 s 57/44 s 47/37 ra 60/41 s 36/21 sn 76/62 mc 67/49 s 61/45 s 44/36 ra 50/28 mc 61/50 mc 77/62 mc 51/32 pc 69/42 mc 57/37 pc

WORLD CITIES City

Yesterday Today Tomorrow Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W Hi/Lo W

Amsterdam 43/36 ra 40/32 pc Athens 63/56 ra 62/55 cl Baghdad 79/52 s 74/57 ra Beijing 50/26 s 47/25 s Berlin 34/32 sn 34/32 sn Bermuda 74/64 ra 63/60 ra Bogota 68/48 ra 68/46 ra Cairo 74/62 s 72/60 pc Copenhagen 35/33 sn 35/34 sn Dublin 48/40 ra 54/48 ra Frankfurt 40/37 ra 38/32 pc Guatemala City 72/55 mc 70/56 mc Istanbul 55/49 mc 54/51 ra Jerusalem 62/55 ra 60/53 mc Johannesburg 84/65 mc 79/59 ra Lima 71/63 mc 71/65 mc London 41/34 pc 46/40 ra Madrid 51/39 ra 47/39 ra Mexico City 59/55 ra 65/54 ra Moscow 15/-11 cl 14/-10 cl Nassau 79/68 ra 72/71 cl New Delhi 78/54 s 77/54 s Oslo 18/10 sn 20/16 sn Paris 47/40 ra 44/38 cl Rio 87/75 ra 93/77 ra Rome 52/45 pc 53/40 s Seoul 50/33 ra 51/29 s Stockholm 17/4 mc 33/16 sn Sydney 78/69 pc 81/65 mc Tel Aviv 69/64 ra 70/63 ra Tokyo 61/47 ra 65/52 pc Toronto 32/29 cl 37/29 sn Vienna 36/30 sn 36/32 mc

43/36 ra 53/50 ra 75/63 cl 51/39 mc 33/29 cl 66/63 ra 66/46 ra 72/60 cl 37/36 rs 49/47 ra 35/33 rs 74/56 pc 50/46 ra 64/53 cl 84/59 pc 71/66 cl 50/45 mc 52/47 ra 68/54 s 6/-7 cl 75/72 ra 78/65 s 22/14 sn 49/44 ra 85/76 ra 53/42 mc 59/42 s 34/33 sn 80/67 mc 70/64 cl 58/49 s 43/35 mc 34/26 mc

NORMAN LE AR, 1922-2023

TV creator brought real world to sitcoms With ‘All in the Family,’ ‘Jeffersons,’ ‘Maude’ and others, Lear added social commentary to a disconnected format

By Richard Severo and Peter Keepnews The New York Times

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Taylor Swift performs during a show of The Eras Tour in Nashville in May. Swift’s tour dominated the concert scene and even spurred a popular concert film based on the tour.

Swift named ‘Time’ magazine person of year Singer dominated concert scene with ‘Eras’ tour and released rerecorded albums

By Herb Scribner

The Washington Post

Looks like Taylor Swift is now in her “person of the year” era.

Time magazine announced Swift as 2023’s person of the year Wednesday, granting her the distinction over a shortlist of candidates including Barbie, King Charles III and Vladimir Putin. Last year, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky won the honor.

“Taylor Swift found a way to transcend borders and be a source of light,” wrote Time’s editor in chief, Sam Jacobs. “Swift is the rare person who is both the writer and hero of her own story.”

The award caps what’s been a commercially successful year for Swift, who dominated the concert scene with The Eras Tour

and in October released a concert film based on the tour.

Swift also dominated the Billboard charts with songs from her 2022 album Midnights and from previous albums. Her song “Cruel Summer” from the 2019 album Lover topped the Billboard Hot 100 four years after it was released. Swift also released rerecorded versions of her albums Speak Now and 1989 with additional tracks.

She also split from longtime partner Joe Alwyn in the spring, and faced backlash from fans over a rumored relationship with controversial singer Matt Healy.

Time’s cover story — based on an interview with Swift — is packed with nuggets about Swift’s life from the past year, including details of how she started dating Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs. Swift also spilled some tea about her upcoming rerecording of the 2017 Reputation album, as well as her mind-set during a public feud with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian in the mid-2010s.

Norman Lear, the television writer and producer who introduced political and social commentary into situation comedy with All in the Family and other shows, proving it was possible to be topical as well as funny while attracting millions of viewers, died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 101.

A spokesperson for the family, Lara Bergthold, confirmed the death.

Lear reigned at the top of the television world through the 1970s and into the early ’80s, leaving a lasting mark with shows that brought the sitcom into the real world.

The Jeffersons looked at the struggles faced by an upwardly mobile Black family; a very different Black family on Good Times dealt with poverty and discrimination. The protagonist of Maude was an outspoken feminist; the heroine of Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was plagued by all manner of modern-day problems, not least her own neurosis.

“You looked around television in those years,” Lear said in a 2012 New York Times interview, referring to the middle and late 1960s, “and the biggest problem any family faced was ‘Mother dented the car, and how do you keep Dad from finding out’; ‘the boss is coming to dinner, and the roast’s ruined.’ The message that was sending out was that we didn’t have any problems.”

Lear’s shows sent different messages, far more in tune with what was actually happening in those turbulent times. His crowning achievement was All in the Family, and his greatest creation was Archie Bunker, the

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TV writer and producer Norman Lear in Manhattan in 2014.

focus of that show and one of the most enduring characters in television history.

An unapologetic bigot who was seemingly always angry at one minority group or another (and usually at least one family member as well), Archie, memorably portrayed by Carroll O’Connor, was also, with his malaprops, his mangled syntax and his misguided enthusiasm, strangely likable.

All in the Family sent a shock through the sleepy world of the sitcom with one tart, topical episode after another from the moment it premiered on CBS, on Jan. 12, 1971.

Even now, more than 50 years later, there are critics who say this date should live in infamy, that ABC was right when it turned down the show out of fear that it would offend too many people.

But Lear, who adapted All in the Family from a British sitcom and based Archie in part on his own father, saw it differently.

“I’ve never known a bigot who didn’t have something endearing,” he once said.

Archie had choice words for all races, creeds and sexual orientations (except his own), and he didn’t spare his family. His sweet and dignified wife, Edith (Jean Stapleton), was a “dingbat”; his daughter, Gloria (Sally Struthers), was “a weepin’

Nellie”; his liberal son-in-law, Michael Stivic (Rob Reiner), was a “meathead.”

All in the Family ran until 1979 and dominated the ratings for most of that time. More important, it established a template for television comedy by mixing political and social messages, as well as moments of serious drama, with the laughter.

The Lear philosophy was further developed in two shows built around characters who originally appeared on All in the Family: Maude and The Jeffersons.

Maude, which ran from 1972 to 1978 on CBS, centered on Edith Bunker’s cousin Maude Findlay (Bea Arthur), who was as much a doctrinaire liberal as Archie was a determined denizen of the far, far right.

George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley), the central character of The Jeffersons, was a Black man who ran a successful dry-cleaning business in Archie’s neighborhood and whose disdain for white people rivaled Archie’s for Black people. The Jeffersons, the story of George’s life with his newly moneyed family after they moved to the East Side of Manhattan, ran on CBS from 1975 to 1985.

Not all of Lear’s shows grew out of Archie’s universe. One that did not, Mary Hartman,

Mary Hartman, raised as many eyebrows as All in the Family.

A five-episodes-a-week spoof of soap operas, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was the story of a television-obsessed housewife (Louise Lasser) who had more than her share of calamity: Her grandfather was a flasher, her mother was a flake, her husband was cheating on her, their daughter was kidnapped, and Mary herself had a breakdown on live TV. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was too hot for the networks. Lear syndicated it himself, and in most markets it was on after the late news.

The show made its debut in 1976, Lasser left the next year, and it was gone by early 1978.

Other Lear shows had longer lives. Sanford and Son, starring the longtime Black comedian Redd Foxx as an irascible junk dealer ran on NBC from 1972 to 1977. One Day at a Time (CBS, 1975-84) concerned a divorced woman (Bonnie Franklin) living on her own with two teenage daughters. Good Times (CBS, 1974-79), a spinoff of Maude, was the story of a hardworking Black woman (Esther Rolle) struggling to raise a family in a Chicago housing project.

In 2003, he helped write a few episodes of South Park, the taboo-breaking animated series that was the All in the Family of its day. Still working into his 90s, Lear was the executive producer of a new version of One Day at a Time, centered on a Latino family, for Netflix. That series made its debut in 2017, to enthusiastic reviews, and lasted three seasons.

In all, he won five Emmy awards and lifetime achievement awards from the Producers Guild of America, the Television Critics Association and PEN Center USA. He was among the first inductees in the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1984, and he won Peabody Awards in 1977 (for All in the Family) and 2016 (for his life’s work). In 1999, President Bill Clinton awarded him a National Medal of Arts.

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Lobos clamp down on Santa Barbara in rout Stars quiet as bench players help deliver 84-61 victory

By Will Webber

wwebber@sfnewmexican.com

ALBUQUERQUE — If someone would have told coach Richard Pitino before the season started star guard Jamal Mashburn Jr. would have been

unavailable due to injury and all-conference guard Jaelen House would’ve scored just five points, he might have thought the worst.

That exact thing happened Wednesday night in The Pit. Instead of the Lobos losing by 20, they won 84-61.

Bottom line, it helps to have depth.

The New Mexico men’s basketball team was never seriously threatened in the second half as Donovan Dent

had 23 points and eight assists while freshman Tru Washington scored all 17 of his points in the second half in a nonconference win over visiting UC Santa Barbara.

Winners of seven straight, the Lobos (8-1) dominated defensively in the final 20 minutes, holding the Gauchos (4-3) to 28% shooting while forcing a dozen turnovers.

“We always thought we had depth,

but to sustain those two guys [Mashburn and House] being out, yeah I’m really, really pleased,” Pitino said.

“Depth is, sometimes it can be overrated, but when you’re enduring players being out of games, it certainly has been very valuable.”

Dent has gotten extra minutes this season with House missing most of the first month while Washington has seen considerably more playing time

with Mashburn on the shelf. Pitino said Mashburn is dealing with a leg injury and a “slight tear” to one of his thumb ligaments.

There is no timetable for Mashburn’s return, which gives Washington more time to develop as a true freshman. He played only four minutes without taking a shot in the first half of Wednesday’s Please see sory on Page B-3

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to try to get this big, huge, diverse 180-committee with 2,000 members — like oh, my God! — to a place where they’re talking about stuff that’s common, and Charlie Baker not just responding and reacting to other people’s agendas,” Baker said during his 30-minute session at the forum.

Baker’s proposal would require schools that want to be a part of a new tier of D-I to commit to paying their athletes tens of thousands of dollars per year on top of athletic scholarships.

He also suggested all Division I schools should bring name, image and likeness compensation for their athletes in-house through group licensing and remove limits on educational benefits schools can provide for athletes.

“Some people are going to say

orgive us if we cynical types sitting over here by ourselves withhold our excitement, at least for a little while.

Like a clothes connoisseur falling in love with everything staring back at them in the dressing room mirror, it’s easy to be enamored by the various coaching hires at the university down the hill. From here they all look fabulous.

But we know better. History has taught us that.

We’ve learned to be cautious, to take this one step at a time and — as a seasoned coach might say — let the game come to us.

On Wednesday, the University of New Mexico rolled out its new football boss. Bronco Mendenhall, a veteran of more than three decades in the college ranks as an assistant and head honcho, was introduced to the Lobos faithful during the second media timeout of the men’s basketball game in The Pit. In the moment, he won the day. The fans stood and cheered, the promise of a fresh start with a new guy wrapping around them like a warm blanket.

But hang on a sec. Let’s fire up the DeLorean and take a Sunday drive through past experiences.

It was just four years ago that athletic director Eddie Nuñez walked to center court at a basketball game with a microphone in hand to hail the arrival of hometown guy Danny Gonzales.

It looked and felt like the perfect hire for a program that needed some home cooking, one that needed a coach who understood the situation and grew up as one of us.

He ended that welcome-home moment with an improvised walk into The Pit crowd, glad-handing everyone he could. It was a thing of cherry and silver beauty. In an instant he was the most popular guy in town.

Too bad that’s as good as it got. Perhaps never has a Lobo fan base wanted a coach to succeed as much as it did Danny G. Eleven years ago, we had little stars in our eyes as Bob Davie and his golden dome personna showed up on our doorstep. He wowed us with his name, his résumé and his longwinded fireside chats of his experiences at Notre Dame and Texas A&M. He went through three losing seasons before producing a winner.

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The Texas Longhorns against Oklahoma at the Cotton Bowl on Oct. 7 in Dallas. NCAA President Charlie Baker’s proposal would require schools that want to be a part of a new tier of Division I to commit to paying their athletes tens of thousands of dollars per year on top of athletic scholarships.

Proposed new top tier, paying players just start, association president says

By Ralph D. Russo

The Associated Press

LAS VEGAS, Nev. day after NCAA President Charlie Baker made an aggressive and potentially groundbreaking pitch to allow some schools to pay their athletes, his proposal was met with praise, caution and questions from around college sports.

“I think Charlie has indicated his intent for that to begin a discussion,” Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey said Wednesday during an appearance at the Sports Business Journal’s Intercollegiate Athletic Forum. “There’s certainly a lot of content included from which to begin a discussion.”

On Tuesday, Baker laid forth an aggressive and potentially groundbreaking vision for a new NCAA subdivision at the very top of college

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Penn State offensive lineman Juice Scruggs celebrates a touchdown by Mitchell Tinsley against Utah on Jan. 2 in Pasadena, Calif. Penn State coach James Franklin believes major college football players will be paid.

sports in a letter he sent to the more than 350 Division I schools.

Baker said his proposal to allow the most highly resourced schools in Division I to pay athletes through a

trust fund is just a starting point as he tries to shift the association to be more proactive than reactive.

“We need to be able to anticipate where conversations are going and

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Up-and-comers to battle established teams Semifinals will be played today in Vegas, final Saturday The Associated Press

LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The Los Angeles Lakers and Milwaukee Bucks are used to being on the NBA’s biggest stages, both of those teams having won championships in the last four seasons.

The Indiana Pacers and New Orleans Pelicans haven’t often found themselves in that spotlight.

That foursome — a pair of championship contenders, a pair of up-and-coming clubs — is probably the ideal grouping for the final four at the NBA’s inaugural In-Season Tournament. The semifinals in Las Vegas are Thursday, with Indiana

facing Milwaukee and New Orleans then taking on the Lakers.

Combined record of those teams in this tournament: 19-1.

“I just want to win,” Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton said. “Whatever it takes to do that, that’s what I’m going to do.”

Thursday’s games count as regular season games. The championship game Saturday does not.

There’s also a big financial incentive to win in Las Vegas. By making the semifinals, all players on standard contracts have assured themselves of $100,000 from the league’s tournament prize pool; players on two-way deals get half of the standard-contract share.

That figure goes to $200,000 each with a semifinal win, and $500,000 each for

the players on the team that wins the title on Saturday. And even for players like the Lakers’ LeBron James — the league’s all-time leading scorer — these games are significant.

“I continue to have this battle with Father Time, that for so long everybody has said has been undefeated,” James said.

“I’m trying to give him one loss.”

The matchups:

Pacers v. Bucks Indiana Pacers (11-8, 5-0) vs. Milwaukee Bucks (15-6, 5-0), 3:13 p.m. Thursday (ESPN) Line: Bucks by 4.5, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.

Series this season: Pacers 1-0 (won 126124 in Indianapolis on Nov. 9).

Sports editor: Will Webber, wwebber@sfnewmexican.com Design and headlines: Richard Olmsted, rolmsted@sfnewmexican.com

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Pelicans forward Zion Williamson passes against the Kings on Monday in Sacramento, Calif. New Orleans takes on the Lakers on Thursday in the semifinals of the NBA’s first In-Season Tournament.

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TODAY ON TV Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts. All times local.

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (MEN’S) 5:30 p.m. ESPNU — Iowa-Iowa St.

GOLF 10 a.m. ESPN — The World Champions Cup: Day 1 Matches, The Concession Golf Club, Bradenton, Fla. 3 a.m. Friday GOLF — DP World Tour: The Alfred Dunhill Championship, Second Round, Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, South Africa

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) 5 p.m. ACCN — Duke at Clemson 8 p.m. PAC-12N — Gonzaga at California COLLEGE VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN’S) 10 a.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Tournament: Creighton vs. Louisville, Regional Semifinal, Pittsburgh Noon ESPN2 — NCAA Tournament: Georgia Tech at Nebraska, Regional Semifinal 12:30 p.m. ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: Washington St. at Pittsburgh, Regional Semifinal 2:30 p.m. ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: Arkansas vs. Kentucky, Regional Semifinal, Lincoln, Neb. 5 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Tournament: Penn St. at Wisconsin, Regional Semifinal 7 p.m. ESPN2 — NCAA Tournament: Tennessee vs. Texas, Regional Semifinal, Palo Alto, Calif.

7:30 p.m. ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: Purdue vs. Oregon, Regional Semifinal, Madison, Wis. 9:30 p.m. ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: Arizona St. at Stanford, Regional Semifinal

NBA 3:10 p.m. ESPN — Eastern Conference In-Season Tournament: Indiana vs. Milwaukee, Semifinal, Las Vegas 7 p.m. TNT — Western Conference In-Season Tournament: New Orleans vs. LA Lakers, Semifinal NFL 6:15 p.m. PRIME VIDEO — New England at Pittsburgh NHL 6 p.m. ESPN — Dallas at Washington 8:30 p.m. ESPN — New Jersey at Seattle SOCCER (MEN’S) 7:45 a.m. FS2 — Saudi Pro League: Al-Ittihad at Damac 1:15 p.m. USA — Premier League: West Ham United at Tottenham Hotspur 5:30 p.m. FS1 — Conmebol Copa America USA 2024 Draw

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East Miami Buffalo N.Y. Jets New England South Jacksonville Houston Indianapolis Tennessee North Baltimore Cleveland Pittsburgh Cincinnati West

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Kansas City 8 4 Denver 6 6 L.A. Chargers 5 7 Las Vegas 5 7 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East Philadelphia Dallas N.Y. Giants Washington South

10 9 4 4

Atlanta New Orleans Tampa Bay e-Carolina North

6 5 5 1

Detroit Green Bay Minnesota Chicago West

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208 302 258 256

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240 255 245 313

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327 258 263 242

PCT .750 .500 .500 .231

286 243 242 296

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352 268 264 230

PA

189 253 290 331

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3-4-0 5-2-0 2-4-0 4-2-0

HOME 4-2-0 5-1-0 4-3-0 3-3-0

SUNDAY’S GAMES

Carolina at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Houston at N.Y. Jets, 11 a.m.

Indianapolis at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Jacksonville at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

L.A. Rams at Baltimore, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 11 a.m.

Minnesota at Las Vegas, 2:05 p.m.

Seattle at San Francisco, 2:05 p.m.

Buffalo at Kansas City, 2:25 p.m.

Denver at L.A. Chargers, 2:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at Dallas, 6:20 p.m.

Open: Arizona, Washington

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AWAY

AFC

6-2-0 3-5-0 2-6-0 2-5-0

AFC

6-3-0 4-3-0 5-3-0 2-6-0

AFC

3-1-0 3-1-0 2-2-0 0-5-0

3-1-0 2-2-0 1-3-0 2-2-0

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MONDAY’S GAMES

4-2-0 2-3-0 3-3-0 1-5-0

6-1-0 3-5-0 3-4-0 3-5-0

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4-1-0 3-0-0 1-4-0 2-2-0

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AFC

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4-4-0 2-5-0 4-4-0 0-8-0

3-0-0 1-2-0 2-1-0 0-3-0

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DIV

6-2-0 4-3-0 6-3-0 3-5-0

2-1-0 2-2-0 2-1-0 1-3-0

NFC

DIV

7-1-0 4-4-0 5-4-0 2-6-0

3-0-0 4-1-0 1-3-0 0-4-0

26 8-12 2-4 2-5 0 1 18 35 2-11 0-0 0-2 1 0 5 33 4-17 14-14 2-5 5 1 22 17 1-1 0-0 0-1 2 2 2 30 2-5 0-0 0-4 3 0 6 21 0-4 0-0 0-5 0 3 0 14 0-0 0-0 1-4 0 1 0

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THURSDAY, DEC. 14

L.A. Chargers at Las Vegas, 6:15 p.m.

SATURDAY, DEC. 16

Minnesota at Cincinnati, 11 a.m.

Pittsburgh at Indianapolis, 2:30 p.m.

Denver at Detroit, 6:15 p.m.

SUNDAY, DEC. 17

Atlanta at Carolina, 11 a.m.

Chicago at Cleveland, 11 a.m.

Houston at Tennessee, 11 a.m.

Kansas City at New England, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at New Orleans, 11 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Miami, 11 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Green Bay, 11 a.m.

San Francisco at Arizona, 2:05 p.m.

Washington at L.A. Rams, 2:05 p.m.

Dallas at Buffalo, 2:25 p.m.

Baltimore at Jacksonville, 6:20 p.m.

TOTALS

25 8-9 0-1 2-4 1 0 27 3-5 0-0 2-8 0 1 19 3-6 1-1 0-1 2 1 35 9-15 4-6 0-1 8 2 26 2-10 0-0 0-0 4 3 23 7-11 2-2 2-6 4 3 17 0-2 0-0 1-9 0 2 15 2-3 0-0 0-3 0 3 8 0-6 0-0 0-2 0 1 3 1-1 0-0 1-1 0 0 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1

18 6 8 23 5 17 0 4 0 3 0

200 35-68 7-10 8-35 19 18 84

Percentages: FG .515, FT .700.

3-Point Goals: 7-22, .318 (Toppin 2-3, Appelhans 1-1, Dent 1-1, Washington 1-2, Baker 1-4, House 1-5, Mushila 0-1, Webb 0-1, Amzil 0-4).

Team Rebounds: 6. Team Turnovers: None.

Blocked Shots: 6 (Toppin 3, Dent 2, Joseph).

Turnovers: 13 (House 3, Joseph 3, Dent 2, Washington 2, Appelhans, Mushila, Webb).

Steals: 13 (House 4, Dent 2, Toppin 2, Washington 2, Webb 2, Joseph).

Technical Fouls: House, 18:22 second; coach Richard Pitino, 14:31 second.

MONDAY, DEC. 18

Philadelphia at Seattle, 6:15 p.m.

PREP SCORES TUESDAY BOYS BASKETBALL

UC SANTA BARBARA NEW MEXICO A_10,311 (15,411).

Albuquerque Academy 80, Espanola Valley 56 Atrisco Heritage 90, Sandia 76 Capital 59, Taos 48 Carlsbad 41, Las Cruces 35 Chaparral 61, Cobre 55 Cleveland 67, Los Lunas 61 Cloudcroft 63, Carrizozo 40 Clovis 70, Goddard 32 Highland 70, Valley 57 Hobbs 78, Centennial 74 Magdalena 56, Hot Springs 35 Manzano 61, Belen 49 McCurdy 93, Chesterton 11 Miyamura 55, Fort Defiance Window Rock, Ariz. 30 Moriarty 78, Laguna-Acoma 46 NMSD 46, Tierra Encantada 31 Navajo Pine 71, Hozho 34 Navajo Prep 69, Kirtland Central 32 Organ Mountain 62, Roswell 58 Portales 58, Eunice 51 Rehoboth 61, Tohatchi 55 Shiprock 60, Piedra Vista 57 St. Michael’s 72, Los Alamos 64 Tularosa 55, Mesilla Valley Christian 31 Valencia 68, Del Norte 66 West Las Vegas 66, Ruidoso 47

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TOP 25 WEDNESDAY

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Alamo-Navajo 58, Native American Community Academy 53 Chaparral 48, Cobre 31 Cloudcroft 39, Carrizozo 25 Clovis Christian 43, Plainview Christian, Texas 6 Dexter 37, Loving 24 Estancia 74, Mountainair 20 Farmington 52, Durango, Nev. 26 Fort Defiance Window Rock, Ariz. 56, Miyamura 27 Hozho 36, Navajo Pine 18 Kirtland Central 57, Piedra Vista 34 Lordsburg 50, Animas 30 Magdalena 60, Hot Springs 36 Mayfield 40, Los Lunas 33 Newcomb 61, Shiprock Northwest 15 Sandia Prep 51, Menaul 46 St. Michael’s 38, Pojoaque 31 Tucumcari 50, Texico 36 Volcano Vista 72, Eldorado 53

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL NEW MEXICO 84, UC SANTA BARBARA 61

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Percentages: FG .362, FT .842.

3-Point Goals: 3-17, .176 (Fontenet 2-4, Anderson 1-8, Bland 0-1, Belic 0-2, Mitchell 0-2).

Team Rebounds: 3. Team Turnovers: 1.

Blocked Shots: 3 (Bland 3).

Turnovers: 18 (Kipruto 4, Anderson 3, Mitchell 3, Bland 2, Fontenet 2, Pierre-Louis 2, Traore 2).

Steals: 4 (Mitchell 2, Anderson, Bland).

Technical Fouls: None.

Green Bay at N.Y. Giants, 6:15 p.m.

Tennessee at Miami, 6:15 p.m.

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Traore Anderson Mitchell Pierre-Louis Fontenet Belic Kipruto

New England at Pittsburgh, 6:15 p.m.

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No. 1 Arizona (7-0) did not play. Next: vs. No. 23 Wisconsin, Saturday.

No. 2 Kansas (8-1) did not play. Next: vs. Missouri, Saturday.

No. 3 Houston (9-0) beat Rice 75-39. Next: vs.

Jackson St., Saturday.

No. 4 Purdue (8-1) did not play. Next: at Alabama, Saturday.

No. 5 UConn (8-1) did not play. Next: vs. Ark.Pine Bluff, Saturday.

No. 6 Baylor (9-0) did not play. Next: at Michigan St., Saturday.

No. 7 Gonzaga (7-1) did not play. Next: at Washington, Saturday.

No. 8 Marquette (7-2) beat No. 12 Texas 86-65.

Next: vs. Notre Dame, Saturday.

No. 9 North Carolina (7-2) did not play. Next: at No. 16 Kentucky, Saturday.

No. 10 Creighton (7-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Cent. Michigan, Saturday.

No. 11 FAU (7-2) did not play. Next: vs. FIU, Wednesday.

No. 12 Texas (6-2) lost to No. 8 Marquette 86-65.

Next: vs. Houston Christian, Saturday.

No. 13 Colorado St. (9-0) beat Denver 90-80.

Next: vs. Saint Mary’s (Cal.), Saturday.

No. 14 BYU (8-0) did not play. Next: at Utah, Saturday.

No. 15 Miami (7-1) beat LIU 97-49. Next: vs. Colorado, Sunday.

No. 16 Kentucky (6-2) did not play. Next: at Penn, Saturday.

No. 17 Tennessee (5-3) did not play. Next: vs. No. 20 Illinois, Saturday.

No. 18 James Madison (8-0) did not play. Next: at Old Dominion, Saturday.

No. 19 Oklahoma (8-0) did not play. Next: vs. Arkansas, Saturday.

No. 20 Illinois (7-1) did not play. Next: at No. 17 Tennessee, Saturday.

No. 21 Texas A&M (7-2) beat DePaul 89-64. Next: vs. Memphis, Sunday.

No. 22 Duke (5-3) did not play. Next: vs. Charlotte, Saturday.

No. 23 Wisconsin (7-2) did not play. Next: at No. 1 Arizona, Saturday.

No. 24 Clemson (8-0) beat South Carolina 72-67.

Next: vs. TCU, Saturday.

No. 25 San Diego St. (7-2) did not play. Next: vs.

UC Irvine, Saturday

WEDNESDAY SCORES EAST Brown 67, Rhode Island 64

PREP SCHEDULE Subject to change. Check with schools regarding tickets and game times and dates. Send changes to sports@sfnewmexican.com.

Thursday Boys basketball — Al Armendariz Tournament at Capital: first round, Pojoaque Valley vs. Kirtland Central, 9:30 a.m.; Farmington vs. Grants, 12:30 p.m.; Pecos vs. Abq. Cottonwood Classical Prep, 3:30 p.m.; Aztec vs. Capital, 7 p.m.

Sundevil Shootout at Española Valley: round robin, Miyamura vs.

Roswell, 3:30 p.m.; Mesa Vista vs.

Española Valley, 7 p.m.

Sundevil Invitational at Abq. Sandia Prep: first round, Santa Fe Prep vs.

Bernalillo, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball — Al Armendariz Tournament at Capital: first round, Navajo Prep at Peñasco, 8 a.m.; Pecos vs. Santa Fe Indian School, 11 a.m.; Grants vs. Hobbs, 2 p.m.; West Las Vegas vs. Capital, 5:30 p.m.

Sundevil Shootout at Española Valley: round robin, Miyamura vs. Roswell, 2 p.m.; Mesa Vista vs. Española Valley, 5 p.m.

Lady Lion Invitational at Santa Rosa: first round, Questa vs. Jemez Valley, 3:30 p.m.; Mora vs. Santa Rosa, 6:30 p.m.

Escalante at Dulce, 7 p.m.

Friday Boys basketball — Al Armendariz Tournament at Capital: semifinals, Pojoaque Valley/Kirtland Central winner vs. Farmington/Grants winner, 3:30 p.m.; Pecos/Abq. Cottonwood Classical Prep/Pecos winner vs. Aztec/Capital winner, 7 p.m.; consolation, Pojoaque Valley/ Kirtland Central loser vs. Farmington/Grants loser, 9:30 a.m.; Pecos/ Abq. Cottonwood Classical Prep/ Pecos loser vs. Aztec/Capital loser, 12:30 p.m.

Sundevil Shootout at Española Valley: Roswell vs. Mesa Vista, 3:30 p.m.; Miyamura vs. Española Valley, 7 p.m.

Santa Fe Prep at Sundevil Invitational at Abq. Sandia Prep: TBA Roadrunner Classic at New Mexico School for the Deaf: TBA Coronado Invitational at Coronado: first round, Shiprock Northwest vs.

Tse’ Yi’ Gai, 2:30 p.m.; Tierra Encantada vs. Coronado, 6 p.m.

Santa Fe High at Rio Rancho Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Taos at Cuba, 7 p.m.

Las Vegas Robertson at Ruidoso, 7 p.m.

Girls basketball — Al Armendariz Tournament at Capital: semifinals,

Pecos/Santa Fe Indian School winner vs. Grants/Hobbs winner, 2 p.m.; Navajo Prep/Peñasco winner vs.

West Las Vegas/Capital winner, 5:30 p.m.; consolation, Pecos/Santa Fe Indian School loser vs. Grants/ Hobbs loser, 8 a.m.; Navajo Prep/ Peñasco loser vs. West Las Vegas/ Capital loser, 11 a.m.

Sundevil Shootout at Española Valley: round robin, Roswell vs. Mesa Vista, 2 p.m.; Miyamura vs. Española Valley, 5 p.m.

Lady Lion Invitational at Santa Rosa: semifinal/consolation, Questa/ Jemez Valley vs. Mora/Santa Rosa, 6:30 p.m. (semifinal)/3:30 p.m. (consolation) Coronado Invitational at Coronado: first round, Shiprock Northwest vs.

Tse’ Yi’ Gai, 1 p.m.; Tierra Encantada vs. Coronado, 4 p.m.

Roadrunner Classic at New Mexico School for the Deaf: TBA Monte del Sol at Santa Fe Prep, 5 p.m.

Saturday Boys basketball — Al Armendariz Tournament at Capital: championship, 7 p.m.; third place, 3:30 p.m.; fifth place, 12:30 p.m.; seventh place, 9:30 a.m.

Sundevil Shootout at Española Valley: Miyamura vs. Mesa Vista, 3:30 p.m.; Roswell vs. Española Valley, 7 p.m.

Coronado Invitational at Coronado: championship, Shiprock Northwest/ Tse’ Yi’ Gai winner vs. Tierra Encantada/Coronado winner, 3 p.m.; Shiprock Northwest/Tse’ Yi’ Gai loser vs. Tierra Encantada/Coronado loser, 11:45 a.m.

Santa Fe Prep at Sundevil Invitational at Abq. Sandia Prep: TBA Roadrunner Classic at New Mexico School for the Deaf: TBA Peñasco at Jemez Valley, 5 p.m.

Girls basketball — Al Armendariz Tournament at Capital: championship, 5:30 p.m.; third place, 2 p.m.; fifth place, 11 a.m.; seventh place, 8 a.m.

Sundevil Invitational at Española Valley: round robin, Miyamura vs.

Roswell, 2 p.m.; Roswell vs. Española Valley, 5 p.m.

Coronado Invitational at Coronado: championship, Shiprock Northwest/ Tse’ Yi’ Gai winner vs. Tierra Encantada/Coronado winner, 1:30 p.m.; Shiprock Northwest/Tse’ Yi’ Gai loser vs. Tierra Encantada/Coronado loser, 10 a.m.

Questa, Mora at Lady Lion Invitational at Santa Rosa: TBA Roadrunner Classic at New Mexico School for the Deaf: TBA Rio Rancho at Santa Fe High, 5 p.m.

St. Michael’s at Abq. Rio Grande, 2 p.m.

Socorro at Pojoaque Valley, 2:30 p.m.

Escalante at Tohatchi, 2:30 p.m.

Taos at Bernalillo, 3:30 p.m.

PREP ROUNDUP Girls basketball What happened: The offensive woes that

SANTA FE HIGH

plagued the Demons through the first two games of the season seem to be in the past. They overcame a 9-7 deficit to the Cougars on Wednesday in Toby Roybal Memorial Gymnasium by scoring the last six points of the first quarter, then used a 13-4 run to end the second to build the lead to 30-19 at the break. Cibola never got closer than 10 points the rest of the way.

ABQ. CIBOLA Top players: Gabby Chavez led a balanced scoring attack with 11 points. Four players scored at least eight points. Makayla Gonzalez and Desiree Martinez each had nine, while Ria Baker added eight. The Cougars were paced by Lia Garcia’s nine points.

What’s next: Santa Fe High (2-2) faces a big challenge at home Saturday, playing a Rio Rancho team that won the Bobby Rodriguez Capital City Tournament last weekend.

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What happened: A night after gutting out a hard-earned win over Pojoaque, the Lady Horsemen played with energy and intensity in jumping out to an 18-4 lead after a quarter. The Timberwolves only scored two points as the margin grew to 34-6 and St. Michael’s used the rest of the game to empty the bench and work on its half-court game. “If we didn’t have a fast-break option, we were setting up plays and working EAST MOUNTAIN on our half-court offense,” Lady Horsemen head coach Sonya Ruiz said. “We started working on different half-court defenses, too.”

Top players: Jada Lujan made her return to the lineup after a recruiting visit to score 17 points.

The rest of the scoring was spread out, as only three players didn’t score in the game.

What’s next: St. Michael’s (3-3) heads to Albuquerque to take on Rio Grande in a Saturday afternoon matinee.

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at PITTSBURGH FAVORITE OPEN at ATLANTA at BALTIMORE Indianapolis at CLEVELAND Houston at NEW ORLEANS Detroit Minnesota at SAN FRANCISCO at KANSAS CITY at LA CHARGERS at DALLAS

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Bryant 67, Siena 51 Canisius 87, Robert Morris 80 Colgate 115, Northern Vermont-Lyndon 37 Dartmouth 76, New Hampshire 64 Duquesne 85, Marshall 72 Fairfield 75, Yale 71 Hofstra 62, Iona 57 La Salle 62, Loyola (Md.) 61 Maine 74, Boston U. 65 Maryland 81, Penn St. 75, OT Morgan St. 92, UMBC 80 NJIT 80, Fordham 77 Penn 111, FDU-Florham 57 Pittsburgh 80, West Virginia 63 Saint Joseph’s 69, American 53 St. Bonaventure 94, Niagara 60 St. John’s 85, Sacred Heart 50 Stony Brook 81, Stonehill 63 Temple 85, Bloomsburg 55 Towson 81, UMass 71 Vermont 73, Northeastern 71 Wagner 62, Coppin St. 59 SOUTH Belmont 72, Lipscomb 71 Clemson 72, South Carolina 67 Davidson 62, Campbell 50 Florida A&M 65, Presbyterian 60 Memphis 85, VCU 80, OT Miami 97, LIU 49 NC State 93, Md.-Eastern Shore 61 San Francisco 73, Vanderbilt 60 South Alabama 83, Mercer 62 UCF 94, Jacksonville 52 Wake Forest 76, Rutgers 57 William & Mary 84, Old Dominion 79 Wofford 81, Gardner-Webb 66 MIDWEST Ball St. 68, Detroit 65 Cent. Michigan 71, Valparaiso 67 Drake 75, Saint Louis 69 Fort Wayne 70, S. Indiana 57 Illinois St. 62, N. Kentucky 59 Marquette 86, Texas 65 Minnesota 76, Nebraska 65 N. Iowa 78, Richmond 73 Ohio St. 84, Miami (Ohio) 64 SE Missouri 95, Harris-Stowe 45 SIU-Edwardsville 78, Green Bay 69 St. Thomas (MN) 75, Milwaukee 71 Toledo 69, Oakland 68 W. Illinois 80, Coe 58 Youngstown St. 78, Ohio 72 SOUTHWEST Houston 75, Rice 39 Houston Christian 95, SW Adventist 58 N. Arizona 78, Abilene Christian 76 Texas A&M 89, DePaul 64 Texas Rio Grande Valley 76, Texas A&M-CC 74 Texas Tech 87, Omaha 58 Texas-Arlington 74, North Texas at Dallas 37 FAR WEST Cal St.-Fullerton 60, Pepperdine 55 Colorado St. 90, Denver 80 Long Beach St. 88, Life Pacific 66 Nevada 80, UC Davis 68 New Mexico 84, UC Santa Barbara 61 Portland St. 104, Lewis & Clark 60 Utah St. 108, San Diego 81

WOMEN’S COLLEGE HOOPS TOP 25 WEDNESDAY

No. 1 South Carolina (8-0) beat Morgan St. 10438. Next: at No. 11 Utah, Sunday.

No. 2 UCLA (7-0) did not play. Next: vs. CS Northridge, Thursday.

No. 3 NC State (9-0) did not play. Next: vs. Liberty, Sunday.

No. 4 Iowa (9-1) beat Iowa St. 67-58. Next: at Wisconsin, Sunday.

No. 5 Texas (10-0) beat Long Beach St. 106-62.

Next: at Arizona, Wednesday.

No. 6 Southern Cal (7-0) did not play. Next: vs.

UC Riverside, Sunday.

No. 7 LSU (8-1) did not play. Next: vs. Louisiana-Lafayette, Sunday.

No. 8 Colorado (9-1) did not play. Next: TBA. No. 9 Stanford (8-1) did not play. Next: vs. Portland, Friday.

No. 10 Baylor (7-0) did not play. Next: vs. Delaware St., Thursday.

No. 11 Utah (7-1) did not play. Next: at Saint Joseph’s, Thursday.

No. 12 Ohio St. (7-1) did not play. Next: vs. No. 25 Penn St., Sunday.

No. 13 Kansas St. (8-1) beat McNeese St. 101-39.

Next: vs. Missouri, Saturday.

No. 14 Notre Dame (7-1) beat Lafayette 96-42.

Next: vs. Purdue, Sunday.

No. 15 Virginia Tech (6-2) beat LIU Brooklyn 9850. Next: vs. Radford, Sunday.

No. 16 Indiana (7-1) did not play. Next: at Rutgers, Saturday.

No. 17 UConn (5-3) beat Ball St. 90-63. Next: at No. 24 North Carolina, Sunday.

No. 18 Louisville (8-1) did not play. Next: vs. Kentucky, Sunday.

No. 19 Marquette (8-0) did not play. Next: at Illinois St., Sunday.

No. 20 Florida St. (6-2) did not play. Next: vs.

Jacksonville, Thursday.

No. 21 Washington St. (10-1) did not play. Next: vs. Washington, Sunday.

No. 22 Creighton (6-1) did not play. Next: at Wyoming, Sunday.

No. 23 Gonzaga (8-2) did not play. Next: at California, Thursday.

No. 24 North Carolina (6-3) beat UNC-Greensboro 81-66. Next: vs. No. 17 UConn, Sunday.

No. 25 Penn St. (7-2) did not play. Next: at No. 12

Ohio St., Sunday.

WEDNESDAY’S SCORES

EAST Albany (NY) 56, CCSU 37 Boston College 95, UMass 57 Bryant 63, Loyola (Md.) 54 Columbia 76, Memphis 66 Delaware St. 108, Wilmington (DC) 39 Drexel 51, Marist 36 Fairleigh Dickinson 86, Bloomfield 38 Maine 79, Harvard 61 Monmouth (NJ) 72, American 60 New Hampshire 68, Stonehill 41 Princeton 79, Quinnipiac 70 Providence 51, Rhode Island 50 Sacred Heart 57, NJIT 48 Stony Brook 81, Yale 66 Towson 68, George Washington 60 UConn 90, Ball St. 63 Vermont 62, Army 42 Wagner 69, St. Peter’s 67 SOUTH Alabama 88, Coastal Carolina 46 Belmont 70, Lipscomb 51 E. Kentucky 85, Miami (Ohio) 55 ETSU 79, Charleston Southern 52 Furman 124, Bob Jones 44 Georgia 86, Troy 70 Middle Tennessee 73, Tennessee 62 Minnesota 76, Kentucky 57 North Carolina 81, UNC-Greensboro 66 Northwestern St. 59, Tarleton St. 51 Presbyterian 68, Queens (NC) 60 South Carolina 104, Morgan St. 38 Tulane 90, New Orleans 63 UNC-Asheville 88, Warren Wilson 33 Virginia 78, Rider 51 Virginia Tech 98, LIU Brooklyn 50 MIDWEST Cleveland St. 87, Niagara 56 Detroit 62, W. Michigan 59 Fort Wayne 57, Bellarmine 46 IUPUI 81, Evansville 75 Illinois 74, N. Kentucky 52 Iowa 67, Iowa St. 58 Kansas 79, Houston Christian 57 Kansas St. 101, McNeese St. 39 Missouri 81, Missouri St. 63 Notre Dame 96, Lafayette 42 Purdue 83, SE Missouri 57 S. Illinois 77, SIU-Edwardsville 53 Saint Louis 89, S. Indiana 53 Toledo 69, Michigan 46 UMKC 84, Bellevue 34 Youngstown St. 53, Akron 52 SOUTHWEST North Texas 73, Ark.-Pine Bluff 66 Texas 106, Long Beach St. 62 Texas A&M 83, Lamar 51 FAR WEST Boise St. 87, CS Bakersfield 66 Cal Baptist 78, Utah Tech 69 Cal St.-Fullerton 77, Fresno St. 68 Idaho St. 54, Utah Valley St. 50 Montana 82, Loyola Marymount 68 N. Arizona 96, Pacific 65 Weber St. 57, Nevada 55

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Tampa Bay LA Rams at CINCINNATI Jacksonville at NY JETS Carolina at CHICAGO at LAS VEGAS Seattle Buffalo Denver Philadelphia

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at OTTAWA Buffalo San Jose at MONTREAL Columbus at NASHVILLE at WASHINGTON at CHICAGO Winnipeg Philadelphia at CALGARY Minnesota

30. Angels: Ryan Miller, RHP (Boston) 31. Mets: Alan Perdomo, RHP (Colorado) 32. Pirates: Seth Beer, 1B (Arizona) 33. Guardians: Connor Gillaspie, RHP (Baltimore) 34. Tigers: Calvin Coker, RHP (Oakland) 35. Giants: Dariel Lopez, SS (Pittsburgh) 36. Reds: Alexander Ovalles, LF (Tampa Bay) 37. Padres: Omar Cruz, LHP (Pittsburgh) 38. Yankees Kervin Castro, RHP (Houston) 39. Marlins: Marty Costes, OF (Houston) 40. Diamondbacks: Andy Weber, 2B (Cubs) 41. Twins: Rafael Escalante, C (Pittsburgh) 42. Philadelphia: Luis Caicuto, C (Arizona) 43. Astros: Carlos Betancourt, RHP (Philadelphia) 44. Rays: Roelmy Garcia, RHP (Pittsburgh) Round 3 45. Royals: Ryan Fitzgerald, 2B (Boston) 46. Nationals: Daison Acosta, RHP (Mets) 47. Cardinals: Benito Garcia, RHP (Mets) 48. Pirates: Marcos Cabrera, 3B (Yankees) 49. Guardians: John Doxakis, LHP (Tampa Bay) 50. Reds: Levi Jordan, SS (Cubs) 51. Marlins: Sean Roby, 3B (San Francisco) 52. Diamondbacks: John Matthews, RHP (Texas) 53. Twins: Angel Del Rosario, INF (Toronto) 54. Philadelphia: Carson Taylor, C (Dodgers) 55. Rays: Blake Brown, RHP (Philadelphia) Round 4 56. Nationals: Moises Gallardo, CF (Oakland) 57. Pirates: PJ Hilson, CF (San Francisco) 58. Reds: Brock Bell, RHP (Boston) 59. Marlins: Adam Laskey, LHP (Cubs) 60. Twins: Sheldon Reed, RHP (Cubs) 61. Philadelphia: Trevor Schwecke, SS (Toronto) Round 5 62. Marlins: Julio Dilone, RHP (Seattle) 63. Philadelphia: Bryce Ball, 1B (Cleveland)

NBA

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EASTERN CONFERENCE

RULE 5 DRAFT LIST

Boston Phila.

New York Brooklyn Toronto

15 13 12 11 9

5 7 8 9 12

Orlando Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington

14 12 9 6 3

7 9 11 13 17

Milwaukee Indiana Cleveland Chicago Detroit

15 11 12 8 2

6 8 9 14 19

San Diego (AP) — Selections from the Rule 5 draft for 2023 listed by team: name: position: and team selected from: Major League Phase Round 1 1. Athletics: Mitch Spence, RHP (Yankees) 2. Royals: Matt Sauer, RHP (Yankees) 3. Rockies: Anthony Molina, RHP (Tampa Bay) 4. White Sox: Shane Drohan, LHP (Boston) 5. Nationals: Nasim Nunez, SS (Miami) 6. Cardinals: Ryan Fernandez RHP (Boston) 7. Mets: Justin Slaten, RHP (Texas) 8. Guardians: Deyvison De Los Santos, 3B (Arizona) 9. Padres: Stephen Kolek, RHP (Seattle) 10. Rangers: Carson Coleman, RHP (Yankees) Triple A Phase Round 1 1. Royals: Joe Gray, Of (Milwaukee) 2. Rockies: Brendan Hardy, RHP (Mets) 3. White Sox: Jose Ramirez, RHP (Boston) 4. Nationals: Samuel Vasquez, RHP (Cleveland) 5. Cardinals: Johnfrank Salazar, INF (Boston) 6. Angels: Eric Wagaman, 1B (Yankees) 7. Mets: Donovan Antonia, C (Cincinnati) 8. Pirates: Fineas Del Bonta-Smith, RHP (Colorado) 9. Guardians: Ty Brown, RHP (Houston) 10. Tigers: Nick Starr, RHP (Texas) 11. Red Sox: Michael Gasper, C (Yankees) 12. Giants: Nick Garcia, RHP (Colorado) 13. Reds: TJ Sikkema, LHP (Kansas City) 14. Padres: Clay Dungan, SS (Kansas City) 15. Yankees: Gabriel Barbosa, RHP (Colorado) 16. Cubs: Hayden Cantrelle, 2B (San Francisco) 17. Marlins: Yeral Martinez, OF (Mets) 18. Diamondbacks: Darlin Pinales, RHP (Dodgers) 19. Twins: Rafael Marcano, LHP (Philadelphia) 20. Blue Jays: Alexis Hernandez, OF (Boston) 21. Philadelphia: William Simoneit, C (Oakland) 22. Astros: Railin Perez, RHP (Boston) 23. Rays: Michael Gomez, RHP (Yankbees) 24. Orioles: Nelvis Ochoa, RHP (Colorado) 25. Braves: Tyler Thomas, LHP (Mets) Round 2 26. Royals: Keylan Kilgore, LHP (Philadelphia) 27. Rockies: Thomas Ponticelli, RHP (Cleveland) 28. Nationals: Wander Arias, RHP (Kansas City) 29. Cardinals: Miguel Villarroel, SS (Texas)

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13 11 12 9 9

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.600 .545 .500 .300 .150

.800 .667 .650 .333 .316 .591 .579 .571 .474 .450

Milwaukee 146, New York 122 (Quarterfinal Game 1) L.A. Lakers 106, Phoenix 103 (Quarterfinal Game 1)

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

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Memphis 116, Detroit 102 Phila. 131, Washington 126 Cleveland 121, Orlando 111 Minnesota 102, San Antonio 94 Brooklyn 114, Atlanta 113 Houston 110, Oklahoma City 101 Chicago 111, Charlotte 100 Miami 112, Toronto 103

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Dallas 147, Utah 97 Denver at L.A. Clippers, late Portland at Golden State, late

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Milwaukee vs Indiana, 3 p.m., Las Vegas (Semifinal Game 1) L.A. Lakers vs New Orleans, 7 p.m., Las Vegas (Semifinal Game 1)

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to terms with RHP Craig Kimbrel on a one-year contract.

BOSTON RED SOX — Acquired RHP Justin Slaten from the New York Mets in exchange for minor league LHP Ryan Ammons and cash considerations.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Acquired RHP Carlos Mateo from Houston in exchange for RHP Dylan Coleman.

National League COLORADO ROCKIES — Released RHP Connor Seabold.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Agreed to terms with RF Jason Heyward on a one-year contract.

NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with RHP Michael Tonkin on a one-year contract. Traded RHP Justin Slaten to Boston in exchange for LHP Ryan Ammons.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Name Yadier Molina assistant to president of baseball operations.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Suspended Indianapolis DL Al-Quadin Muhammad for six games for violating the league’s performance-enhancing drugs policy.

ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed WR Dan Chisena to the practice squad.

ATLANTA FALCONS — Designated DL LaCale London to return from injured reserve to practice.

BUFFALO BILLS — Designated TE Dawson Knox and CB Kaiir Elam to return from injured reserve to practice.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed WRs Cam Sims and Jalen Camp to the practice squad.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Designated CB Cameron Mitchell to return from injured reserve.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Reinstated TE Peyton Hendershot from injured reserve. Place TE Sean McKeon on injured reserve. Designated OT Matt Waletzko to return from injured reserve to practice.

DENVER BRONCOS — Signed LB Durell Nchai to the practice squad.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed DB Adrian Amos and DB Kris Boyd.

LAS VEGAS RAIDERS — Designated DB Brandon Facyson and LB Kana’i Mauga to return from injured reserve to practice.

LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Designated WR Josh Palmer to return from injured reserve to practice.

LOS ANGELES RAMS — Signed K Mason Crosby to the practice squad.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed DT Justin Ellis to the practice squad. Released S Verone McKinley III from the practice squad.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Declined to activate OT Riley Reiff from injured reserve.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Placed S Marcus Maye and DT Malcolm Roach on injured reserve.

Claimed LB Monty Rice off waivers from Tennessee. Signed DT P.J. Mustipher.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Re-signed QB Matt Barkley to the practice squad.

NEW YORK JETS — Placed TE C.J. Uzomah on injured reserve. Reinstated TE Kenny Yeboah from injured reserve.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Waived LB Christian Elliss. Signed WR Greg Ward to the practice squad. Signed LB Shaquille Leonard.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed RB SaRodorick Thompson to the practice squad.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed DT C.J. Brewer to the practice squad.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed P Ty Zentner and LB JoJo Domann to the practice squad. Promoted LB Otis Reese from the practice squad to the active roster.

SPORTS

Thursday, December 7, 2023

BA SEBALL WINTER MEE TINGS

Yankees land Padres hitter Soto

By Ronald Blum

The Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Juan Soto found a new home with the New York Yankees as the winter meetings ended Wednesday night, while Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto were still up for grabs as team officials headed home with the bulk of their offseason business yet to be done.

Soto, an All-Star slugger who can become a free agent next fall, was dealt from the San Diego Padres to New York with Gold Glove center fielder Trent Grisham for right-handed pitchers Michael King, Jhony Brito, Randy Vásquez and Drew Thorpe, along with catcher Kyle Higashioka.

“It’s very difficult to make a deal where we’re trading a player the caliber of Juan Soto, but if we did that we wanted to make sure we shored up a bunch of needs.

We were able to get some depth, with quality,” San Diego general manager A.J. Preller said.

The deal was the second blockbuster involving the 25-year-old Soto in less than two years.

The three-time All-Star is likely to get a salary around $32 million after batting .275 with 35 homers, 109 RBIs and a .930 OPS in his only full season with the Padres.

Soto joins a Yankees outfield

EUGENE HOSHIKO/ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO

Pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto of Japan is a free agent sought by the Yankees and the Mets.

that projects to have fellow star Aaron Judge in center and newly acquired Alex Verdugo in the other corner as New York attempts to rebound after missing the playoffs for the first time since 2016. Soto has a 1.274 OPS in nine career games in the Bronx.

“Soto and Judge are Gotham’s new dynamic duo,” agent Scott Boras said.

Ohtani, the unique two-way star, is expected to get a record contract of $500 million-plus.

His agent, Nez Balelo, didn’t travel to the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center, preferring to stay away.

Winning takes time

MOUNTAIN WEST Unbeaten Nevada defeats UC Davis 80-68 at home

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Before that was the all-time news conference victory of Mike Locksley.

He told fans in a packed SUB ballroom that a third digit would be required for the scoreboard because of all those points his offense would be scoring.

His first season, the Lobos were held to 20 or fewer points 10 times, and it took seven games for them to hit 100 for the season.

Rocky Long’s tenure is a textbook example of revisionist history. Fans love them some Rocky, but he followed a bowl appearance the year before he arrived with three straight losing seasons. He hit his stride in the 2000s.

The fans’ love affair still clings to the all-time attendance seasons, when near-sellouts were the norm, but those peaked in his middle years and waned as time went on.

Dennis Franchione said it best when he told the fans in 1992 it was a marathon, not a sprint. He was right.

It took two years before he produced a winning record, then another two years before he did it again. It was a slow burn that eventually turned into a five-alarm fire.

If history tells us anything, it’s hurry up and wait. As neato bandito as those first moments are saying hello to the new coach, winning in Loboland takes time.

The last coach to post a winning record in Year 1 was Marv Levy in 1958. University Stadium didn’t even exist then, meaning Mendenhall has a chance to do something that’s never been done before — win right off the bat.

Just hold your applause and enjoy the welcome wagon while you can. It may take a while before the wins pile up.

Will Webber is the sports editor for The New Mexican. Email him at wwebber @sfnewmexican.com.

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you’re going too far and people will say but you’re not going far enough,” Baker said. “I promise you that’s going to be where most of the dialogue on this will be in the short term.”

Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark called Baker’s proposal “directionally correct.”

“We hired Charlie to lead and he’s leading,” Yormark said.

Baker said the proposal was formed from an amalgamation of conversations he has had with administrators and athletes from across college sports.

Sankey noted he did not see Baker’s letter until it went out Tuesday.

Sankey said any attempt to reform college sports will be addressed in five arenas: the courts, Congress, state legis-

While Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts acknowledged meeting with Ohtani at Dodger Stadium before heading to Nashville, other teams were mum.

Toronto general manager Ross Atkins sparked speculation of a get-together at the team’s spring training facility in Dunedin, Fla., when he switched a media availability Monday to Zoom.

Ohtani has not spoken with reporters since Aug. 9, two weeks before a pitching injury that required surgery and will keep him off a mound until 2025.

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RENO, Nev. — Kenan Blackshear scored 25 points as undefeated Nevada beat UC Davis 80-68 on Wednesday.

Blackshear was 10 of 18 shooting and 5 of 9 from the free throw line for the Wolf Pack (7-0). Jarod Lucas added 13 points, all on free throws, and had five rebounds. Hunter McIntosh was 3 of 5 shooting, including 3 for 4 from 3-point range, and went 4 for 6 from the line to finish with 13 points.

Elijah Pepper led the Aggies (3-4) in scoring, finishing with 20 points and six rebounds.

Kane Milling added 16 points, six rebounds and two steals for UC Davis.

NO. 13 COLORADO STATE 90, DENVER 80 In Fort Collins, Colo., Patrick Cartier scored 19 points, Nique Clifford started a pivotal run late in

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game due to two early fouls. He logged 18 minutes in the second half.

Conversely, Dent was his usually steady self.

He committed only two turnovers while continuing to develop his passing game to cutting teammates through the lane.

“It’s really my bigs; they’re sealing, making it easy for me to get to the rim,” he said. “It’s really the easiest pass I can make to give them free dunks.”

Things got a little testy for the Lobos in the second half as both House and Pitino drew technical fouls only four minutes apart.

House got his for contesting what he thought was a missed call; Pitino for arguing UCSB’s physical play.

In the end, it was the defense that won out.

Getting nine rebounds from Isaac Mushila, three blocks and 18 points from J.T. Toppin, four steals from House and two blocked shots from the high-flying Dent, UNM steadily pulled away in the second half.

UCSB guard Ajay Mitchell, a 6-foot-4 junior

latures, conferences and the NCAA. “All of those have to be part of the solution,” Sankey said.

Baker said he believes about 100 schools might consider opting into a new subdivision.

There are 133 schools in Division 1 football’s highest tier, the Football Bowl Subdivision.

Baker’s proposal seems targeted at about half those schools that compete in the five power conferences.

That number of conferences is shrinking to four after recent realignment moves go into effect next year, but it will still encompass about 65 schools.

College sports leaders, including Baker, have been lobbying lawmakers in Washington for a federal law that will create a national standard for NIL compensation, exempt athletes from gaining employee status and, more broadly, allow the NCAA to govern college sports without the threat of constant legal and political challenges.

“Whatever plan emerges, will have to incorporate, probably, some college athletes as employees,” said Mit Winter, a sports

moto, a 25-year-old right-hander who was 16-6 with a 1.21 ERA this season for the Orix Buffaloes of Japan’s Pacific League. The Yankees plan to meet with the pitcher on Monday in California, a person familiar with the planning told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because details were not announced.

Mets owner Steve Cohen and president of baseball operations David Stearns went to Japan ahead of the winter meetings to talk with Yamamoto and family.

National League champion Arizona landed a proven freeagent pitcher, agreeing to an $80 million, four-year contract with 30-year-old left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez, a person with direct knowledge of the deal told the AP The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team had not announced the move.

Rodriguez spent the past two seasons with Detroit and went 13-9 with a 3.30 ERA this year.

In deals that got finalized, Baltimore agreed to a $13 million, one-year contract with closer Craig Kimbrel, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced a $9 million, one-year deal to keep outfielder Jason Heyward, and World Series champion Texas completed a $4.5 million, one-year contract with reliever Kirby Yates.

the second half and No. 13 Colorado State rallied for win over Denver to remain unbeaten.

The Rams (9-0) never could gain much separation from the pesky Pioneers (6-4), who entered the game as 201/2-point underdogs. Clifford paced a 7-0 run with a corner 3-pointer and a thunderous dunk that fueled the frenzied crowd at Moby Arena. Denver was called for a late intentional foul on a fast-break and a late technical that allowed the Rams to stretch the lead.

UTAH STATE 108, SAN DIEGO 81 In Logan, Utah, Mason Falslev scored 17 points as Utah State beat San Diego.

Falslev shot 7 for 10 (1 for 3 from 3-point range) and 2 of 3 from the free-throw line for the Aggies (8-1). Great Osobor scored 14 points while shooting 5 of 7 from the field and 4 for 8 from the line. Ian Martinez finished 5 of 7 from the field to finish with 13 points. It was the seventh win in a row for the Aggies.

The Toreros (6-4) were led in scoring by Deuce Turner, who finished with 17 points. San Diego also got 12 points and two steals from PJ Hayes.

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from Belgium who is getting attention from NBA scouts, made only four of his 17 shot attempts. He did manage to hit all 14 of his free throw attempts to finish with a team-high 22, but nothing came easy when he wasn’t at the stripe.

“We put [House] on Mitchell in the second half, and I thought he was really disruptive,” Pitino said. “It was just one of those offensive nights for Jaelen that, you know, hopefully he’ll snap out of it because we know he’s obviously a terrific offensive player.”

The Lobos have won both of their December games by a combined 67 points and had an average margin of victory of 19.9 points during the win streak. They head to Henderson, Nev., for Saturday’s Jack Johnson Classic, a one-game event where they’ll face Santa Clara.

NOTES The shooting slump of forward Mustapha Amzil continued. The 6-9 senior missed all six of his shots, including his final attempt from 23 feet that flew over the rim and banked off the glass for a UCSB rebound. He is now 9-for-43 from the field and 1-for-20 from 3-point range. ...

The Lobos attempted just 10 free throws against the Gauchos after attempting 41 in the previous game against New Mexico State.

and entertainment attorney based in Kanas City, Mo. The NCAA is moving toward passing its own detailed NIL rules in January. No matter what the association does, Baker said, it still will need federal protection.

Baylor President Linda Livingstone said college sports leaders need to show lawmakers they have a plan to direct more of the billions of dollars that flow into major college athletics, mostly toward major college football and basketball, toward athletes.

“If Congress sees us saying ‘Hey, we want to benefit them more financially, but we believe keeping them from being employees helps us to support them in different ways and maybe better ways,’ I think we might be able to get some of that protection that probably we won’t get otherwise,” Livingstone said.

Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner Jim Phillips said Baker needs now to gather support from various constituencies, from university presidents to athletic directors to coaches.

“It’s not going to please everybody and maybe some [schools] can and can’t do certain things,” Phillips said. “So it’s important now to get a reaction from the missive that Charlie sent.”

Baker said differences in budget sizes across Division I have traditionally caused conflicts in the NCAA. He wants schools that have the ability to spend more on their athletes to be free do so.

The concern among some in college sports is that allowing the wealthiest schools to wield that power will create insurmountable competitive advantages.

“Recognizing that we’re trying to be supportive as to a big tent approach but, as you saw yesterday with Charlie’s memo, there’s a new reality here,” Sankey said.

Amy Perko, CEO of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, said she wonders whether schools within the power conferences will be compelled to have fewer teams so they can direct more money to revenue generating sports.

“You don’t want to create an incentive for those to drop sports,” she said.

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SIDELINES Biden backs Indigenous lacrosse team to play as own nation in ’28 Olympics President Joe Biden is pushing to allow the Indigenous nation that invented lacrosse to play under its own flag when the sport returns to the Olympics in 2028.

Biden’s position, announced Wednesday at the White House Tribal Nations Summit, is a request for the International Olympic Committee to allow the Haudenosaunee Nationals to compete as its own team at the Los Angeles Games.

“Their ancestors invented the game. They perfected it for a millennium,” Biden said. “Their circumstances are unique and they should be granted an exception to field their own team at the Olympics.”

That would require the IOC to make an exception to a rule that permits teams playing only as part of an official national Olympic committee to compete in the Olympics. The Haudenosaunee have competed as their own team at a number of international events since 1990.

The Haudenosaunee, formerly known as the Iroquois, is a collection of six Indigenous nations whose territory covers upstate New York and adjacent sections of Canada.

Iowa’s Clark scores 3,000th point in 67-58 victory over Iowa State AMES, Iowa — Caitlin Clark scored 35 points but it was her passing that helped fourth-ranked Iowa pull away from rival Iowa State and secure a 67-58 victory Wednesday night.

Clark’s performance pushed her career point total to 3,013, making her the 15th NCAA Division I women’s player to surpass the 3,000 plateau.

“I knew I had the opportunity to do that coming into tonight,” Clark said. “It’s cool, especially to do it here. I have a lot of family in attendance. As long as we win. I probably wouldn’t be happy with scoring 3,000 points in a loss.”

The Hawkeyes (9-1) were trailing 55-54 midway through the fourth quarter, before Clark made a pair of assists to Kate Martin, who converted them into layups that gave Iowa a 60-56 lead with just over 3 minutes remaining.

Doncic has first-half triple-double in Mavericks’ 147-97 victory over Jazz DALLAS — Luka Doncic had 40 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists playing only three periods after the first first-half triple-double of his career in the Dallas Mavericks’ 147-97 victory over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday night.

Doncic had his 60th career triple-double to move past Larry Bird and into sole possession of ninth place overall on the career list.

“Pretty amazing,” said Doncic, who sported a thin headband for the first time only days after becoming a first-time father. “I don’t know what to say, honestly. We all know who Larry Bird was, so it’s pretty special.”

Doncic shot 14 of 25 from the floor, 6 of 12 on 3-pointers. He played 32 minutes, slightly above his per-game average.

“Luka set the tone with that, knocking down shot after shot after shot … after shot after shot after shot,” Tim Hardaway Jr. said. “I thought he was going to go 50-20-20.”

Ex-Jaguars official accused of stealing more than $22 million over four years JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A former financial manager for the Jacksonville Jaguars has been accused of stealing more than $22 million from the franchise through its virtual credit card program between 2019 and 2023, according to a seven-page court filing.

Amit Patel, who worked for the Jaguars for five years starting in 2018, is charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of illegal monetary transaction in documents filed in U.S. District Court in Jacksonville. If convicted, he may be required to forfeit property and assets purchased or funded with the proceeds, the filing states.

A statement from the Jaguars confirmed they are “Business A” referred to as the victim in the documents.

Belmont Stakes moving due to track work; Triple Crown finale is 11/4 miles The Belmont is heading to Saratoga for the first time — but almost certainly not the last.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday the 2024 Belmont Stakes will be run at Saratoga Race Course, with the third leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown shifting upstate from Long Island because of the massive renovation of Belmont Park.

The move has been expected for some time since the New York Racing Association unveiled plans for the $455 million Belmont Park project. Construction is expected to last into 2025.

“This is likely a two-year endeavor,” NYRA President and CEO David O’Rourke said by phone Wednesday. “We’re going to get it right, and we’re going to improve on it each year.”

Pending the approval of the North American Graded Stakes Committee, the Belmont will be run at a distance of 11/4 miles, shorter than the race’s traditional 11/2 miles because of the shape of the dirt track at Saratoga. It was 11/8 miles in 2020 when the Belmont led off the Triple Crown run out of order because of the pandemic.

UNLV-Dayton basketball game canceled in wake of Vegas shooting UNLV’s basketball game at Dayton on Wednesday night was canceled due to a mass shooting earlier in the day at the Las Vegas, Nev., school.

“Further information will be released when available,” Dayton posted on X. “We ask that our fans keep the UNLV community in their thoughts and prayers.”

Three people were shot and killed on UNLV’s campus, and the suspect was found dead, according to police.

Oklahoma, Texas to keep rivalry game at Cotton Bowl Stadium through 2036 Oklahoma and Texas announced Wednesday they will keep their annual rivalry game at Cotton Bowl Stadium through 2036 in a deal that includes significant renovations to the facility.

The city of Dallas has agreed to an estimated $140 million, two-year renovation project — the single largest investment in the stadium’s history. Improvements will include widening concourses and adding escalators, renovations to concessions and restrooms, and increasing the number of hospitality areas and premium environments.

The first phase of renovations, to the west side of the stadium, is expected to be completed by September 2026. A second phase of significant renovations to the east side of the stadium is to be completed by September 2034.

The rivalry goes back to 1900, and the two teams played for the 119th time in 2023. The schools have met on the grounds of the State Fair since 1929 and in the Cotton Bowl Stadium since it was built in 1930. The game is played at a neutral site, equal distance from the two schools.

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Steelers will top Patriots in a close, low-scoring game and the Broncos (6-6).

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itch Trubisky gets another chance to prove he can be a starting quarterback, stepping in for the injured Kenny Pickett to lead the Pittsburgh Steelers on Thursday night.

He won’t have to do much against the dreadful New England Patriots (2-10).

The Patriots have scored 13 points over the past three games and are averaging 9.4 points per game in five straight losses. Bailey Zappe was no better than Mac Jones, producing even fewer points. New England might as well bring back Steve Grogan or Tony Eason.

The Steelers (7-5) are six-point favorites, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.

Pro Picks expects a closer game with few points.

STEELERS, 13-8

Line: Chiefs minus 21/2

The Chiefs (8-4) are 18-3 after a loss with Patrick Mahomes. Josh Allen and the Bills (6-6) have no margin for error. This game shaped up to be a potential AFC championship preview when the schedule came out. Now Buffalo has to fight just to get a wild-card spot.

Chiefs, 27-23

Philadelphia at Dallas Line: Cowboys minus 31/2 The humbled Eagles (10-2) still own the best record in the NFL after getting whipped by the 49ers. The surging Cowboys (9-3) are closing in fast.

The Eagles beat Dallas 28-23 in Philadelphia last month. The Cowboys had a chance at the end with a first down at the Eagles 6 in the final minute before self-destructing.

Detroit at Chicago

Cowboys, 27-26

Line: Lions minus 3 Jared Goff and a high-octane offense has Detroit (9-3) winning despite a shaky defense that has given up an average of 28.8 points in the past six games. Justin Fields and an improved defense keeps the Bears (4-8) competitive.

Best bet: Lions, 27-20

Tampa Bay at Atlanta Line: Falcons minus 21/2

The NFC South is on the line and the Buccaneers (5-7) must win this game to have a shot at their third straight division title. The Falcons (6-6) are winning despite QB Desmond Ridder.

Upset special: Bucs, 20-17

L.A. Rams at Baltimore Line: Ravens minus 71/2 A three-game winning streak has the Rams (6-6) in the playoff race. Lamar Jackson and the Ravens (9-3) are chasing the AFC’s No.1 seed. Baltimore is 1-8 against the spread in the past nine games it’s been favored by seven points or more.

Ravens, 24-17

Tennessee at Miami Line: Dolphins minus 131/2

Patriots quarterback Bailey Zappe is sacked by Chargers linebacker Eric Kendricks on Sunday in Foxborough, Mass.

This weekend, Los Angeles hosts the Broncos and are the favorite to win the game.

Tua Tagovailoa, Tyreek Hill and the Dolphins (9-3) seem unstoppable on offense.

The good news for the Titans (4-8) in a lost season is rookie QB Will Levis has shown plenty of potential.

(5-7) have lost three straight and Derek Carr is back in concussion protocol.

Green Bay at N.Y. Giants

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Saints, 23-16

Indianapolis at Cincinnati Line: Colts minus 11/2 Rookie coach Shane Steichen has the Colts (7-5) in the playoff race with backup quarterback Gardner Minshew leading an offense averaging 25 points per game.

They’ll face the league’s lowest-ranked defense. But the Bengals (6-6) are coming off a stunning upset in Jacksonville that put them back in the playoff chase.

Colts, 27-23

Jacksonville at Cleveland

Carolina at New Orleans Line: Saints minus 51/2 A coaching change helped the Panthers (1-11) play more competitive. The Saints

Line: Browns minus 3 Trevor Lawrence has a sprained ankle that could force him to miss a game for the first time in his career, and the Jaguars

(8-4) lost wide receiver Christian Kirk to injury. They’re 6-0 away from home, but the Browns (7-5) are allowing just 10.2 points per game in Cleveland. Veteran QB Joe Flacco played well in his first game for the Browns, but the defense needs to step up with Myles Garrett slowed by a shoulder injury.

Browns, 20-19

Houston at New York Jets Line: Texans minus 51/2

Rookie QB C.J. Stroud and the Texans (7-5) are making a playoff run. The hapless Jets (4-8) have given Aaron Rodgers no reason to attempt an improbable comeback this season.

Texans, 20-10

Seattle at San Francisco Line: 49ers minus 101/2

Brock Purdy, Christian McCaffrey and the 49ers (9-3) are looking like the best team in the NFL. They have to keep winning to surpass Philadelphia for the NFC’s No. 1 seed. The Seahawks (6-6) have lost three in a row and were blown out by San Francisco at home on Thanksgiving.

49ers, 31-22

Minnesota at Las Vegas Line: Vikings minus 3 The Vikings (6-6) hope a week off gave them answers to fix a two-game losing streak. Same for the Raiders (5-7).

Vikings, 23-19

Denver at L.A. Chargers Line: Chargers minus 21/2

The Chargers (5-7) snapped a threegame losing streak with a 6-0 win. They’ll need to score more against Russell Wilson

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Bears’ Fields, Eberflus playing for jobs

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LAKE FOREST, Ill. — Justin Fields isn’t sweating it.

The Chicago Bears’ quarterback knows a big decision looms about his future and is also sure of something else.

“If I’m here next year, if I’m not, football doesn’t define who I am as a person,” he said Wednesday. “My happiness will still be in the same place, will still be in God. And really just football wise, life stuff in general, I think my faith in God, my hope in God is just so much more than anything that can be thrown at me on this earth.”

The final five games could go a long way toward determining whether the Bears stick with Fields and, for that matter, coach Matt Eberflus. If this stretch coming out of a bye is a final audition, it starts with a visit from the NFC North-leading Detroit Lions (9-3) on Sunday.

Fields comes in with 1,587 yards passing with 12 touchdowns, six interceptions and a 92.3 passer rating that ranks 14th in the NFL. He has also run for 400 yards and a score.

Fields struggled in the early going, then missed four games because of a dislocated right thumb just as he was starting to show growth as a passer. The season hasn’t exactly gone the way he hoped, and the Bears have some things to figure out.

For one, they have to decide whether to pick up his fifth-year option for 2025. Chicago could

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Bears quarterback Justin Fields has 1,587 yards passing with 12 touchdowns, six interceptions and a 92.3 passer rating that ranks 14th in the NFL.

also be in position to draft Caleb Williams or Drake Maye with their own first-round pick or the one it got from Carolina in the trade for DJ Moore last spring.

Then, there’s Eberflus.

At 7-22 in two seasons, he has the worst record of any Bears coach. But there has been progress.

The Bears have played .500 ball since an 0-4 start this year and might be 6-3 in their past nine games if not for two big collapses against Denver in Week 3 and Detroit three weeks ago.

“Certainly you want to be optimistic, but you also have got to see who you are and where we can improve to go ahead and close those games out that we didn’t get done,” Eberflus said

Wednesday. “And that’s every week in the NFL, right?”

The season has been the most chaotic one in recent memory for the Bears.

Fields called the coaching into question when he indicated the staff was feeding him too much information — comments he later tried to soften — in September.

The same day, defensive coordinator Alan Williams resigned. Running backs coach David Walker got fired leading up to the Week 9 loss at New Orleans, with general manager Ryan Poles indicating it was for behavior.

Despite all that, the Bears have shown improvement. The defense — Eberflus’ specialty —

Up-and-comers to battle established teams Continued from Page B-1 Indiana tournament stat leaders: Tyrese Haliburton (28 ppg, 13.4 apg, 5.2 rpg, 1.6 spg), Myles Turner (19 ppg, 8.2 rpg, 2.6 bpg), Obi Toppin (16.2 ppg, .642 FG%), Buddy Hield (15.8 ppg, .596 FG%), Bruce Brown (13.8 ppg, 4.8 rpg, 3.4 apg, 1.8 spg).

Milwaukee tournament stat leaders: Damian Lillard (29.6 ppg, 7.0 apg, .526 3FG%), Giannis Antetokounmpo (27.4 ppg, 8.6 rpg, 6.6 apg, 2 spg, .636 FG%), Brook Lopez (17.6 ppg, 6 rpg, .586 FG%), Malik Beasley (12.6 ppg, 5.8 rpg), Khris Middleton (12.4 ppg, 5.6 rpg).

Outlook: Haliburton had the first triple-double of his career in the quarterfinal win over Boston and has put himself into the MVP conversation for this tournament (and quite

possibly the season to this point). Milwaukee’s offense clicked at a season-best level in its quarterfinal win over New York, with 146 points on 60% shooting. There’s no certain bet in Vegas, ever, but expect tons of points: The teams are ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in tournament games in points per game (Indiana 133.6, Milwaukee 129.6), field-goal shooting (Milwaukee .529, Indiana .516) and 3-point shooting (Milwaukee .463, Indiana .445).

PELICANS VS. LAKERS New Orleans Pelicans (12-10, 4-1) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (13-9, 5-0), 7:10 p.m. Thursday (TNT/TruTV) Line: Lakers by 1.5, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.

Series this season: First meeting. The

has made some big strides, going from 29th overall to 11th since a Week 5 win at Washington.

But when it comes to the future of Eberflus and Poles, that remains an open question. It probably will be until chairman George McCaskey and president Kevin Warren provide some clarity.

“Yeah, you know the season didn’t start the way everybody wanted, for sure,” Eberflus said.

“But over the last eight weeks, we’ve put some good things out there. We’re certainly excited about doing that this week. Our focus is, as anytime in the NFL, where your feet are. We’ve got to be focused on this game and this game only, to put your best foot forward out there, and that’s what we’re doing this week.”

Chicago’s remaining schedule isn’t all that difficult. Only two of the five games are against teams boasting winning records, starting with Detroit and a trip to Cleveland (7-5).

The Bears then host struggling Arizona (3-10) and Atlanta (6-6) before closing the season at Green Bay (6-6). There are realistic opportunities to pick up wins.

“Obviously, you have to have extreme patience during this time, and you got to see growth,” Eberflus said. “You have to see that in small increments at times.

You have to learn from every performance, and I think that’s part of growing. We’ve continued to do that as we’ve put this football team together, and that’s all we’re trying to do this week.”

teams will play three more times this season.

New Orleans tournament stat leaders: Brandon Ingram (27.4 ppg, 6.2 apg, 6 rpg), Zion Williamson (22.2 ppg, 6.2 rpg, 4.6 apg, 1.4 spg), Herb Jones (16.0 ppg, .611 FG%), Jonas Valanciunas (14.6 ppg, 7.8 rpg, .596 FG%), Jordan Hawkins (13.5 ppg).

L.A. Lakers tournament stat leaders: LeBron James (26.2 ppg, 8.2 apg, 8 rpg, .571 3FG%), Anthony Davis (21.2 ppg, 13.4 rpg, 2.8 bpg), D’Angelo Russell (17 ppg, 6.6 apg, .536 3FG%), Austin Reaves (15.4 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 5 apg), Rui Hachimura (11.2 ppg).

Outlook: James has talked about owning a team in Las Vegas when the NBA inevitably expands once the new media rights deal is completed, and he’s clearly motivated by the prospects of being the winner of the first NBA Cup. The Lakers are 10-4 since starting the season 3-5. The Pelicans have been underdogs in all five of their tournament games, and unless the line shifts by Thursday night, this will be no exception. They’ll have very little burden of expectation on them in this one, which will surely help their chances.

Dolphins, 31-20

Line: Packers minus 61/2 Fresh off an upset win over Mahomes and the Chiefs, Jordan Love and the Packers (6-6) are back in the playoff race.

Tommy DeVito has led the Giants (4-8) to two straight wins, but they’re home underdogs.

Packers, 23-20 Last week: Straight up: 6-7. Against

spread: 4-9

Overall: Straight up: 120-73. Against spread: 101-85-7.

Best Bet: Straight up: 9-4. Against spread: 6-6-1.

Upset Special: Straight up: 7-6.

Against spread: 9-4.

Thursday: Straight up: 11-4. Against spread: 11-3-1.

Monday: Straight up: 8-7. Against spread: 10-4-1.

IN BRIEF 49ers’ Greenlaw exchanges apologies SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw says he has exchanged apologies with the Philadelphia Eagles security official after a sideline dustup led to both being ejected.

Greenlaw and Eagles chief security officer Dom DiSandro got ejected during San Francisco’s 42-19 victory over Philadelphia after Greenlaw was called for unnecessary roughness on a tackle of DeVonta Smith near the Eagles sideline.

The hit drew the ire of the Eagles, and DiSandro got in between Smith and Greenlaw as they argued and pushed Greenlaw away.

Greenlaw then put his hand in DiSandro’s face and both ended up getting ejected.

Greenlaw said Wednesday he and DiSandro sent apologies through intermediaries after the game, and he holds no ill will.

“He seemed like a genuine guy, seemed like a guy that everybody loved in the building,” Greenlaw said. “Honestly, I really hate that it escalated and went to that. That’s never something I ever been a part of or seen in the game.”

Cowboys’ McCarthy has appendicitis FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy is away from the team to undergo surgery for appendicitis but expects to be on the sideline Sunday night for a highly anticipated rematch with Philadelphia.

The team said McCarthy was hospitalized after experiencing abdominal pain Wednesday morning. He was expected to have surgery and be released later in the day.

Defensive coordinator Dan Quinn, a former head coach in Atlanta, addressed reporters during McCarthy’s regularly scheduled news conference Wednesday. Offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer was expected to handle those duties Thursday.

McCarthy, who turned 60 last month, is in his fourth season as coach of the Cowboys but first as the play-caller.

The Cowboys (9-3) trail the defending NFC champion Eagles (10-2) by a game in the NFC East.

Wilson says Broncos can make playoffs ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Denver Broncos are aiming to go on another winning streak like the one that ended with a thud last week in Houston At 6-6, the Broncos are still alive in the playoff picture but their margin for error is much slimmer after coming up short 22-17 to the Texans on Sunday, which snapped their AFC-best five-game winning streak.

Russell Wilson is coming off his worst game of the season, one in which he was picked off three times, underthrew receivers several times and bypassed a wide-open Jerry Jeudy for a walk-in touchdown and instead scrambled for the first down in a series that ended with a field goal.

Wilson took the opportunity at his weekly news conference Wednesday to remind everyone — maybe his coach, included — that the sky wasn’t exactly falling on the Broncos (6-6).

“We’ve been 5-1 over the last six games,” Wilson offered. “We can’t forget that, too. We’ve got five games to go. We went 5-1.

We’ve got a lot of confidence in this locker room in who we are and what we’re going to do and how we can go about it. And so, I believe that’s who we are over the past six games, and I believe we can be even better, and that’s the best part about it.”

Bills GM says Miller to practice, play ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Though shaken by Von Miller being charged with domestic violence, general manager Brandon Beane and the Buffalo Bills proceeded cautiously on Wednesday in awaiting the legal process to play out before rushing to judgment or discipline.

For now, the NFL’s active leader in sacks and two-time Super Bowl winner will continue practicing and is expected to suit up on Sunday, when Buffalo (6-6) travels to play at the Kansas City Chiefs (8-4).

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t’s December. The first significant snowfall of the winter fell a couple of weeks ago. Jordy and Spotty, two of my three rescue dogs, had no idea how much snow had fallen the morning they were frantically barking to go outside in the backyard. Opening the door to let them out, I was convinced I would see a quick “change of mind” on their faces once they felt the cold air. Nope. Off they went, romping through the six inches of snow on the ground. Taz, my third rescue dog, is too old and too smart and has no desire to crawl out of his warm bed. With one eye half open, he barely lifts his head to acknowledge me calling him to see if he wants out also. How lucky my dogs are to have the choice to stay indoors, cuddled in a warm bed, or go out and play in the snow and bark at the neighbor’s dog next door. Some animals just aren’t that lucky.

Julie is a 4-year-old female brown brindle and white mixed breed. She has been at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society for 548 days. That’s 13,152 hours. I won’t even try to figure out how many hours that is in “dog years.”

Julie was admitted to the shelter on July 22, 2022. Being at the shelter for half her life, Julie has become a staff and volunteer favorite.

“Julie is a riot,” says volunteer liaison Barbara Leighnor. “Her zest for life is contagious, and it’s impossible to feel bad when watching her zoom around in a yard, bunny hopping behind bushes, and looking at you with that big ol’ grin of hers.”

Described by staff as “kind, loving, happy and well-behaved,” Julie is good with kids and other dogs. When it comes to cats, the shelter says she is very curious and is prone to chasing them when they run from her. Is that not what happens with all cats and dogs?

Along with three dogs, I also have two rescue cats. Spot likes to chase Lance, the smaller and newest addition of the two cats. Whenever they are in a room together, Spot will chase Lance, and it’s almost like a game the two of them like to play. Billy, my older and bigger cat, sits and watches. Once on higher ground, Lance will sit there and slowly wave the tip of his tail.

Regardless if there is already a dog or cat in the home, I am sure that if given the time and patience, Julie would be just fine with others.

Kimberly Kelly, the shelter’s director of human resources, has been giving

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Santa Paws to visit Española Humane Do you remember the story of the Great Pyrenees that was abandoned alongside the road near Española?

As a thank-you and in support of the Española Shelter where Suki, formerly known as Bentley/Alaska, received such great care and made friends while waiting for her stray hold to end, the Santa Paws and Suki Deer Project was born.

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Julie a break from her kennel and allowing her to remain in Kelly’s office with her while she is at work. “Julie has been my office foster, and I enjoy her so much,” Kelly said. “Everyone who walks by the door or stops in my office is greeted enthusiastically by Julie. She truly loves all people and is a very special sweetheart.”

Julie’s adoption fee is waived this month, she is spayed and up to date on vaccines, and every dog adopted from the shelter gets a free session with a trainer from Good Pup, an online training program.

Sharing on social media, shelter staff and volunteers are hopeful Julie will find a home by Christmas. If not, readers may also inquire about fostering Julie for a few days to give her a break from the kennel life.

If you are interested in meeting, fostering or adopting Julie, call the shelter at 505-983-4309, ext. 1610, or go by the shelter to meet her.

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Julie has been at the Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society for 548 days.

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Tracks Dew Paws Rescue: Jackson is a 4-month-old blue heeler mix just waiting for his forever home. Jackson and his brother were dumped and abandoned in a park in Rio Rancho. Dew Paws has administered the first vaccine and dewormer. If you are interested in fostering or adopting Jackson, call 505412-9096 or go to infodewpaws@gmail. com for more information.

Española Humane: Blaze is like the common denominator of dogs: Everyone loves him, and he loves everyone. This 11-month-old, 59-pound, bright-eyed boy isn’t just the cutest guy in the room, he’s also a parvo survivor. Blaze is everyone’s best buddy — he has made so many new doggy and people friends, loves his treats and toys and is happy to share, and he’s learning basic commands.

The shelter life is beginning to wear on marvelous Macy — this charming 2-year-old, 10-pound gal has been at the shelter since August, and she’s beginning to lose her spark. She’s gained a bit of weight and spends a lot of time sleep-

ing because let’s face it: There’s no place like home. Sweet-as-pie Macy is unique looking, with her fabulous facial markings and her necklace of white fur, and she has white whiskers for days. Macy goes home spayed, vaccinated and microchipped. The shelter at 108 Hamm Parkway is open to walk-in adopters 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday, and there’s no better time to adopt than during the Empty the Shelters event with BISSELL Pet Foundation: All adoption fees are reduced or waived.

Felines & Friends: Two-year-old tabby E.T. was pregnant when taken in by a family in Las Vegas, N.M. They

gave E.T. a safe place to raise her kittens, teaching her to walk on a leash. E.T. is independent, self-confident and playful with people but not other cats. She enjoys treats and gentle pets, and would love to finally go home as an only kitty.

Four-month-old kittens Zori, Croc and Teva were surrendered to Felines & Friends to find them homes. Quiet little Teva is a white female kitty with pretty gray spots. Brothers Croc and Zori are spunky little brown and gray tabbies, respectively. These playful, active kittens are now at Petco Santa Fe and will do best if adopted into a home with another young playmate.

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Española Humane hosts free vaccine clinics Free vaccine clinics aimed at curbing contagious diseases throughout the region are open to all through December at Española Humane.

The free clinics are by appointment only from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Fridays at the shelter’s clinic, 108 Hamm Parkway, Española.

All dogs must be on a leash and all cats in carriers. To make an appointment, call the clinic at 505-753-8662, ext. 111.

Core vaccines include DA2PP canine and FVRCP feline vaccines. Rabies vaccines are provided through Española Humane’s donors. All vaccines are administered appropriately for the age of the pet.

Santa Fe Kia is sponsoring the December clinics; core vaccines are provided through Petco Love’s national vaccination initiative. The series of free and low-cost vaccination clinics aims to keep pets healthy in the community.

Petco Love’s national vaccination initiative provides 1 million free pet vaccines to its existing animal welfare partners, including Española Humane.

Parvovirus and distemper in dogs and panleukopenia in cats are some of the most prevalent deadly diseases impacting pets that are preventable with a simple vaccine. An estimated 30% of pet parents do not take their pet to a veterinarian annually for preventative care.

To learn more about Petco Love’s lifesaving impact, visit PetcoLove.org.

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visit the shelter, bringing with them treats, toys and blankets. Along with the goodies, a holiday meal consisting of chicken, green beans and yams will be provided.

Santa Paws and Suki Deer Project hopes to make this a yearly event. For anyone wishing to donate, an Amazon Wish List has been created at amazon.com/hz/ wishlist/ls/4VFED2NFPWWB?ref=cm_ sw_em_r_un_un_AFRCri5Uhh1Tu. For those wishing to shop locally, use the wish list as your guide. Donations

may be dropped off to Windy Carter, 2948 South Richards Ave., or Belinda Maez-Ferrero, 2641 Cerrillos Road. If you would prefer to contribute a donation to help Suki pay for the holiday meal, contact Michelle Lord at 505-501-0473.

Planned urgent care subject of ‘Pet Chat’ A new concept for emergency pet care is finally coming to Santa Fe. This week

on Pet Chat with Murad & Bobbi, broadcasting from Teca Tu, a Pawsworthy Pet Emporium, Jared Lyons, co-founder of Turquoise Trail Veterinary Urgent Care, shares a preview of a new urgent care model for pets and how pet guardians will benefit when they open in 2024.

Plus, Guard Dog is finally free after years of being chained up.

Pet Chat, hosted by Murad Kirdar from Española Humane and Bobbi Heller from Felines & Friends, airs 9 a.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday on 1260 AM and 103.7 FM. The show also streams and podcasts all episodes at SantaFe.com. To engage with the show, email the hosts at petchat@santafe.com.

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Visit FandFnm.org to browse and apply for these and other kittens and cats available for adoption. Many can be seen at Felines & Friends adoption centers located at Teca Tu and Petco Santa Fe. Adoption advisers are at Petco making matches from 1 to 3 p.m. every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The Horse Shelter: Gypsy is a 19-year-old bay half-Arabian mare. She came into the shelter with some knowledge under saddle but was extremely rusty and a bit ill-mannered. She has been working with a trainer for the last several months and has made some improvements. Gypsy has a lot of “go” and seems to be on a mission at any gait.

She is not a beginner-level horse and will need a confident, knowledgeable rider. Gypsy stands at 14.2 hand high and weighs approximately 900 pounds. If you are interested in adopting Gypsy, call 505-577-4041 or go to thehorseshelter.org to review her riding video and see more adoptable horses.

Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society: Sweet Sugar came to us last week as a stray. She is a 5-month-old kitten who is known to do zoomies in her kennel — we think this has something to do with being a kitten. She will grow to be about eight to 10 pounds. Will you light her way home this holiday season?

Beautiful Athena is a 6-year-old German shepherd who came to the shelter as a stray. She loves people and other animals, too. Favorite things: long walks, snoring while napping and giving kisses.

Come meet pets looking for homes at the Santa Fe animal shelter at 100 Caja del Rio Road. The shelter’s adoption hours are from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily.

For more information, call 505-983-4309, ext. 1610.

Contact Sandra Jaramillo at sjaramillo80@yahoo.com.

Golden mole not seen for 80 years found again in South Africa CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Researchers in South Africa say they have rediscovered a species of mole with an iridescent golden coat and the ability to almost “swim” through sand dunes after it hadn’t been seen for more than 80 years and was thought to be extinct.

The De Winton’s golden mole — a small, blind burrower with “super-hearing powers” that eats insects — was found to be still alive on a beach in Port Nolloth on the west coast of South Africa by a team of researchers from the Endangered Wildlife Trust and the University of Pretoria.

It had been lost to science since 1936, the researchers said.

With the help of a sniffer dog, the team found traces of tunnels and discovered a golden mole in 2021.

But because there are 21 species of golden moles and some look very similar, the team needed more to be certain that it was a De Winton’s.

They took environmental DNA samples — the DNA animals leave behind in skin cells, hair and bodily excretions — but had to wait until 2022 before a De Winton’s DNA sample from decades ago was made available by a South African museum to compare. The DNA sequences were a match. The team’s research and findings were peer reviewed and published last month.

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The new PLA, File No. LEGAL #91973 SD-00144-27, is located on land owned by the STATE OF NEW MEXICO LEGAL #91990 Applicants within the IN THE PROBATE NW1/4 SW1/4 of SecCOURT LEGAL tion 07 of Township 19 SANTA FE COUNTY ADVERTISEMENT: North, Range 9 East, Request for Proposal NMPM, also described IN THE MATTER OF THE as being located on a ESTATE OF RFP #P06-24 – SFCC parcel west adjacent JOHN LLOYD MAR- ACESS CONTROL to the current POU for SHALL, DECEASED. UPGRADE Due date is SD-00144-26 on Tract I No. 2023-0260 January 21, 2023 at 2:00 Private LEGALS Claim 167 LEGALS LEGALS PM MDT Exception 122 on land NOTICE NO TICE TO TO CREDIT CREDITORS ORS NGIP Commodity owned by Acequia del Code: 680 02 00 Barranco Blanco. The NOTICE IS HEREBY purpose of use and GIVEN that the under- For further informa- point of diversion will signed has been ap- tion, please contact not change. pointed personal John Apodaca, Pur- To view the applicarepresentative of the chasing Agent, at tion and supporting estate of the dece- (505) 428-1630 or documentation condent. All persons hav- john.apodaca1@sfcc.e tact the State Engineer ing claims against the du.

District 6 Office at estate of the (505) 827-6120 to decedent are required This RFP can be found arrange a date and to present their claims on SFCC Purchasing time for an appointwithin four (4) months Department page at ment. The District 6 Ofafter the date of the the web site: fice is located in suite first https://www.sfcc.edu 102 of the Bataan Mepublication of any /rfps/. morial Building at 407 published notice to Galisteo Street, Santa creditors or sixty (60) Pub: Dec 6, 7, 2023 Fe, NM 87501. days after the date of Any person, firm or LEGAL #91996 mailing or corporation or other other delivery of this entity asserting standnotice, whichever is NOTICE is hereby given ing to file objections or later, or the claims will that on June 1,2023, protests shall do so in be forever barred. Monica Trujillo, Treas- writing (objection urer, and Kelse must Claims must be legible, be presented either to Lighthizer, Chair, for signed, and include the undersigned per- Acequia del Barranco the writer’s complete sonal representative Blanco (Applicants), name, phone number, at the address listed 1757 State Road 502, email address, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, mailing address). If below, or filed with the Probate Court filed with the STATE the protest does not of Santa Fe, County, ENGINEER Application include the complete New Mexico, located No. SD-00144-26 for name, phone number, at the following ad- Permit to Change email address, and Place of Use (PLA) of mailing address, it dress: Existing Water may be deemed in100 Catron St., Santa an Right (Non 72-12-1) valid and not accepted Fe, NM 87504 within the Nambe-Po- for Dated: 11-29, 2023 filing unless joaque Tesuque Protestant provides Stream System (Rio with the protest an af/s/Allison White Personal Representa- Grande Underground fidavit stating that it Basin) of the State of does not have one of tive New Mexico. Santa Fe the above-liste ele9532 Spearsville Rd. is the county affected ments/requirements Trafalgar, IN 46181 by the diversion and in (phone number, mail317-409-7047 allwhitern@gmail.com which the water has ing address, email adbeen or will be put to dress, etc.). The PUB: Nov. 30, Dec. 7, 14, beneficial use. This no- objection to the aptice is ordered to be proval of the applica2023 published in the Santa tion must be based on: LEGAL #91976 Fe New Mexican.

(I) Detriment: if detriThe Applicants seek to ment, you must specifExtra Space Storage change the PLA for ically identify your will hold a public auc- 0.34 irrigated acres of water rights; and/or tion to sell personal surface water cur- (2) Public property described rently used for Welfare/Conservation below belonging to irrigation purposes, di- of Water: if public welthose individuals verted from Acequia fare or conservation of listed below at the lo- de Barranco Blanco water within the state cation indicated: 7612 SD-00144 located at a of New Mexico, you Baca Lane Santa Fe, point where X = shall be required to NM 87507 12/07, 2023 407,789 Easting and Y provide evidence @ 12:00pm = 3,371,724 Northing, showing how you will UTM Zone 13 North, be substantially and John Joines 63 Kachina NAD83. The current specifically affected.

Rd Santa Fe, NM 87508 PLA for SD-00144-26 is The written protest in the SW1/4 NW1/4 must be filed, in tripliThe auction will be SW1/4 of Section 07 of cate, at the District 6 listed and advertised Township 19 North, Office or by mail at PO on www.storagetrea- Range 9 East, Box 25102, Santa Fe, sures.com. Purchases New Mexico Principle NM 87504-5102, on or must be made with Meridian (NMPM), also before February 9, cash only and paid at described as being lo- 2024, Facsimiles the above referenced cated at 1 Kokopelli (faxes) will be acfacility in order to Drive on land owned cepted as a valid complete the transac- by Sefarino, Ruby, and protest if the hard tion. Extra Space Stor- Eric Valdez, and 2 copy is hand-delivered age may refuse any Kokopelli Drive, on or mailed and postbid and may rescind land owned by marked within 24any purchase up until Tiffany Valdez, in the hours of the facsimile. the winning bidder county of Santa Fe, Mailing postmark will takes possession of Santa Fe, New Mexico. be used to validate the the personal property. The new PLA, File No. 24-hour period.

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HOROSCOPE The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023: You are a courageous, freethinking pioneer of ideas. You are original and not afraid to be different. This is a powerful year for recognition for you.

MOON ALERT: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today. The Moon is in Libra.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH This is an excellent day to talk to bosses, parents and VIPs, because your optimism and ability to see the big picture

will impress everyone. Tonight: Learn.

siasm. You’re full of big ideas!

Tonight: Get organized.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH This is a marvelous day to study and learn. It’s also a wonderful day to teach, because you’re so enthusiastic about whatever interests you.

Tonight: Check your finances.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Work-related travel is likely for many of you today.

This is a great day at work, because you feel optimistic and ready to tackle anything that comes your way, small or big.

Tonight: Play!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Financial discussions will go well today, especially conversations about how to share or divide something like an inheritance. Whatever happens, you come out smelling like a rose. Tonight: Cooperate.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHHH People are happy to see you today because you are enthusiastic, and there is nothing as contagious as enthu-

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHHH Today your ruler Mercury is dancing with lucky Jupiter, which makes this a good time to explore financial speculation. Your upbeat enthusiasm will attract children to you. Tonight: Home repairs.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Grab every opportunity to entertain at home today, because groups, organizations,

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friends and family will enjoy pleasant times. Discussions about real estate will be positive. Tonight: You’re convincing.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH This is the perfect day to sign important documents.

It’s also a great day to learn something new or to sign up for a course. Tonight: Check your belongings.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH This is an excellent day for business and finance. You have wonderful opportunities to boost your earnings or benefit from discussions with others.

It’s a good day to deal with foreign interests. Tonight: Exercise.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH This is a great day to make plans for the future and

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Business and commercial activity is strong today. It’s a good day to conclude a deal or to sign a contract. Tonight: Solitude.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Behind-the-scenes research will pay off today, because your mind is sharp and willing to embrace big ideas. You make an excellent impression on everyone now with Venus at high noon in your chart. Tonight: Friendships.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH This is a popular day for you! In particular, your ability to deal with young people is almost magical. You will be able to enthuse others and encourage people to get behind your plans if you are dealing with groups, clubs or organizations.

Tonight: Explore!

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Reader can’t control lies from co-worker Dear Annie: I have a co-worker who consistently spreads misinformation in order to get out of doing her job. She often makes up policies that don’t exist to try to trick other departments in our workplace into doing her work (even when that means the work gets done incorrectly by people not trained for the job we do). In the past, I’ve tried printing out policies and coming to her with physical evidence that what she’s saying is not true, but she gets very verbally aggressive, citing her many years of experience, and always has an excuse for why she shouldn’t have to do her fair share of work.

Since we work in the same department, it makes my job much more difficult when I have to explain to others what the real policies are and the proper procedures for the work we do. I’m unsure of how to respond when co-workers ask me why they’ve heard differently from what I explain to them in this regard. I don’t want to speak negatively about my co-worker, especially to people from other departments who I hardly know, but I’m not sure how to delicately explain that she was being untruthful.

She has a significant amount of seniority, while I’m a relatively new grad with less than two full years of experience, so I doubt she’d face any corrective action if this was brought to HR, as others have made complaints before me, and with her aggressive personality, I know I need to be careful in how I handle this so as not to incur her wrath. Can you suggest a way to graciously explain to co-workers from outside departments why they’ve received incorrect information?

— Honest Worker Dear Honest Worker: This is exactly the type of problem that you should bring to HR, especially since you’ve already tried confronting her directly with no luck. It shouldn’t be on you to undo her damage, and HR shouldn’t be deterred by the fact that you’re a recent grad while your co-worker has some seniority at the company. Assuming they take their work seriously, they will be your advocate.

Another idea is to consult your manager, assuming she is also the manager of your coworker. Be sure to articulate how her behavior is hindering the company’s productivity as a whole — not just inconveniencing you.

Dear Annie: I would caution “Regrets Being Nice,” the person who allowed a homeless man to move into their house, that in many jurisdictions, the friend will have established tenancy under the law. They should consult a lawyer before doing anything else. It’s quite possible that a formal eviction process is required if the friend refuses to leave, even if they paid no rent.

— Trying to Help Dear Trying: Thank you for this advice.

It’s always wise to consult a professional.

Many readers wrote in suggesting that “Regrets Being Nice” seek legal counsel.

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