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New Lobos football coach lands five-year, $6M deal SPORTS, B-1

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Keeping up the fight for downwinders N.M. delegation says it will keep pushing after this week’s defeat

By Margaret O’Hara mohara@sfnewmexican.com

All five members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation expressed outrage Thursday following U.S. House leadership’s move to

block federal compensation for New Mexicans who suffered adverse health effects from nuclear testing or uranium mines — though exactly how the state’s federal lawmakers will continue the fight remains uncertain.

“I am not giving up on justice for New

Mexicans and all those deeply impacted by radiation exposure and nuclear testing,” said Sen. Ben Ray Luján, who has introduced radiation exposure compensation bills in every Congress since he was first elected to the U.S. House in 2008. A Democrat, he sponsored its inclusion in the fiscal year 2024 defense Please see story on Page A-4

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Investment post draws big interest for state job Position previously paid up to $319K, but state says it’s willing to offer even more

By Daniel J. Chacón dchacon@sfnewmexican.com

While some jobs in New Mexico government generate little interest, the state investment officer position — which pays at least $319,000 annually — surely isn’t one of them.

The hiring of a new state investment officer has drawn applicants from as close as Colorado and Texas and as far as India and Thailand, according to documents obtained under a public records request.

In all, 86 people applied for the job, including the greatgreat-grandson of the Lincoln County sheriff who was killed in a shootout with Billy the Kid in 1878 and a seasoned investment officer who noted in his application he’s been twice invited to dine with the president of the United States, though he didn’t identify which of them.

Only 25 of the applicants met the minimum qualifications.

The State Investment Council, which manages more than $48 billion in total assets, is chaired by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, and its members include state Treasurer Laura Montoya and Department of Finance and Administration Secretary Wayne Propst. It interviewed six of the candidates and has narrowed the list to two finalists.

Postal Service’s longtime project lets an nyone help make kids’ Christmas dreams come true

By Robert Nott

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ou may recall that great scene in the 1947 holiday film classic Miracle on 34th Street in which postal workers deliver sacks of letters to Santa Claus in a courtroom where he is being tried for, well, being Santa Claus.

The film painted an indelible portrait of a federal institution ensuring Santa Claus got those letters — allowing him to respond and, eventually, make Christmas a little brighter for kids.

The U.S. Postal Service is still doing its part through its online Operation Santa program.

It’s simple. Kids of all ages can send an old-fashioned snail mail letter in a stamped envelope to Santa — 123 Elf Road, North Pole, 88888.

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Desperation grows among displaced Palestinians held far from relief aid

u The U.S. Postal Service’s Operation Santa program allows people who want to help Santa Claus provide gifts to people to “adopt” a letter to Santa. u Letter writers asking for clothes are urged to provide sizes and color preferences. Do not ask for anything that cannot be shipped in the mail, like a real house, an animal or a big appliance. u Letter writers have until Monday to send a letter in a stamped envelope to Santa at 123 Elf Road, North Pole, 88888. Those wishing to adopt letters have until Dec. 18 to do so. u Visit uspsoperationsanta.com for more information.

U.N. says nowhere is safe now in Gaza

By Wafaa Shurafa, Kareem Chehayeb and Lee Keath The Associated Press

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Desperation grew Thursday among Palestinians largely cut off from supplies of food and water as Israeli forces engaged in fierce urban battles with Hamas militants. Strikes in the southern Gaza town of Rafah sowed fear in one of the last places where civilians could seek refuge.

United Nations officials say there are no safe places in Gaza nearly a week after Israel widened its offensive into the southern half of the territory. Heavy fighting in and around the city of Khan Younis has displaced tens of thousands of people and cut most of Gaza off from aid deliveries. More than 80% of the territory’s population has already fled their homes.

Two months into the war, the grinding offensive has triggered renewed international alarm. U.N Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used a rarely exercised power to warn the Security Council of an impending “humanitarian catastrophe,” and Arab and Islamic nations called for a vote Friday on a draft Council resolution demanding a Please see story on Page A-4

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IN BRIEF Russia’s next presidential election will be in March; outcome certain?

Lawmakers in Russia on Thursday set March 17 as the date for the country’s next presidential election, launching a race that few doubt will result in President Vladimir Putin’s reelection for another six-year term.

While the vote’s outcome is widely seen as a foregone conclusion in Russia, the campaign will take place under drastically different circumstances than the previous one in 2018.

It will be the first presidential election since Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. It also will be the first election since the passage of constitutional amendments in 2020 that allowed Putin, 71, to circumvent term limits. Some constitutional lawyers and experts still debate the legality of the reset. The vote Thursday in the Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, marked the formal start of the election campaign.

Penn president walks back Tuesday testimony in antisemitism hearing The president of the University of Pennsylvania released a video late Wednesday walking back some of her testimony at a congressional hearing this week about antisemitism on campus after calls for her resignation followed her remarks.

In the video, Liz Magill said she should have responded differently to questions Tuesday from Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., about whether calls for the genocide of Jewish people would violate university policies.

On the video, she called it “irrefutable” that “a call for genocide of Jewish people is “evil, plain and simple.”

Magill has led Penn since July 2022 after previously serving as executive vice president and provost of the University of Virginia and a professor and dean at Stanford Law School.

She became the focus of forceful condemnations on and off campus after her remarks Tuesday before a House committee that summoned Magill and others to testify about efforts to stop antisemitism on their campuses.

CNN to host more GOP presidential debates — 1 each in Iowa and N.H. CNN announced Thursday it would host a pair of Republican presidential debates next month in Iowa and New Hampshire, offering some contenders additional opportunities to sway voters.

CNN said its first debate would take place in Des Moines on Jan. 10, less than a week before the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses for Republicans. The second is scheduled in Goffstown, N.H., ahead of the Granite State’s primary.

To qualify, candidates must meet polling standards set by the network.

Four GOP candidates participated Wednesday night in the last of four debates sponsored by the Republican National Committee.

The RNC partnered with media organizations for its four debates but maintained strict control over the process.

Military grounds all Osprey aircraft after eight airmen died in crash The U.S. military is grounding its entire fleet of V-22 Osprey aircraft after investigators came to suspect a materiel failure, rather than human error, caused one to crash Nov. 29 off the coast of Japan, killing eight Air Force Special Operations Command service members.

The Navy and Marine Corps joined the Air Force in grounding their V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft while the investigation proceeds. Boeing and Bell, which jointly manufactured the aircraft, are “standing by to provide support” if requested by the military, the firms said in a statement to The Washington Post.

Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind, head of the Command, issued the order to halt flights “to mitigate risk while the investigation continues,” he wrote Wednesday. “Preliminary investigation information indicates a potential materiel failure caused the mishap, but the underlying cause of the failure is unknown at this time.”

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Pearl Harbor survivors Harry Chandler, 102, left, and Herb Elfring, 101, talk Thursday during the 82nd Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Remaining survivors are now centenarians Some arrive by wheelchair to remember 2,300 who fell that day

By Audrey McAvoy and Claire Rush

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PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii ra “Ike” Schab had just showered, put on a clean sailor’s uniform and closed his locker aboard the USS Dobbin when he heard a call for a fire rescue party.

He went topside to see the USS Utah capsizing and Japanese planes in the air. He scurried back below deck to grab boxes of ammunition and joined a daisy chain of sailors feeding shells to an anti-aircraft gun up above.

He remembers being only 140 pounds as a 21-year-old, but somehow finding the strength to lift boxes weighing almost twice that.

“We were pretty startled. Startled and scared to death,” Schab, now 103, said. “We didn’t know what to expect and we knew that if anything happened to us, that would be it.”

Eighty-two years later, Schab returned to Pearl Harbor to remember the more than 2,300 servicemen killed. He was one of five survivors at a ceremony commemorating the assault that propelled the United States into World War II. Six of the increasingly frail men had been expected, but one was not feeling well, organizers said.

“Just grateful that I’m still here,” Schab said.

“That’s really how it feels. Grateful.”

The aging pool of Pearl Harbor survivors has been rapidly shrinking. There is now just one crew member of the USS Arizona still living, 102-year-old Lou Conter of California.

Schab, the oldest of those who attended this year’s ceremony, arrived in a wheelchair with his son, daughter and other family.

A crowd of a few thousand invited guests and members of the public joined them in holding a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m., the same time bombs began falling decades ago.

Four F-22 jets flew overhead and broke the quiet, one splitting away from the rest in a “missing man formation” that honored the fallen.

Thursday’s ceremony was held on a field across the harbor from the USS Arizona Memorial, a white structure that sits above the rusting hull of the battleship, which exploded in a fireball and sank shortly after being hit.

More than 1,100 sailors and Marines from the Arizona were killed and more than 900 are entombed inside.

David Kilton, the National Park Service’s interpretation, education and visitor services lead for Pearl Harbor, noted for many years,

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survivors frequently volunteered to share their experiences with visitors to the historic site. That’s not possible anymore.

“We could be the best storytellers in the world, and we can’t really hold a candle to those that lived it sharing their stories firsthand,” Kilton said. “But now that we are losing that generation and won’t have them very much longer, the opportunity shifts to reflect even more so on the sacrifices that were made, the stories that they did share.”

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs doesn’t keep statistics for how many Pearl Harbor survivors are still living. But department data show that of the 16 million who served in World War II, only about 120,000 were alive as of October and an estimated 131 die each day.

There were about 87,000 military personnel on Oahu at the time of the attack, according to a rough estimate compiled by military historian J. Michael Wenger.

Schab never spoke much about Pearl Harbor until about a decade ago. He’s since been sharing his story with his family, student groups and history buffs. And he’s returned to Pearl Harbor several times since.

The reason? “To pay honor to the guys that didn’t make it,” he said.

Harry Chandler, 102, recalled raising the flag at a mobile hospital in Aiea Heights in the hills above Pearl Harbor in 1941. He was a was a Navy hospital corpsman 3rd Class at the time.

Sitting in his front row seat on the ceremony grounds overlooking the harbor on Thursday, Chandler said the memories of the USS Arizona blowing up still come back to him today.

“I saw these planes come, and I thought they were planes coming in from the states until I saw the bombs dropping,” Chandler said. They took cover and then rode trucks down to Pearl Harbor where they attended to the injured.

He remembers sailors trapped on the capsized USS Oklahoma tapping on the hull of their ship to get rescued and caring for those who eventually got out after teams cut holes in the ship.

“I look out there and I can still see what’s going on. I can still see what was happening,” said Chandler, who today lives in Tequesta, Fla. Asked what he wants Americans to know about Pearl Harbor, he said: “Be prepared.”

“We should have known that was going to happen. The intelligence has to be better,” he said.

Nuns sue Smith & Wesson over how it markets rifles Shareholder lawsuit seeks changes to promote responsible gun ownership

By Amanda Holpuch The New York Times

A coalition of Catholic nuns filed a lawsuit filed this week saying the gun maker Smith & Wesson has put shareholders at risk in the way it makes, markets and sells its AR-15-style rifle.

The nuns, who are members of four

congregations and are Smith & Wesson shareholders, argue the gun maker is exposing itself to liability by intentionally violating laws in its production and sale of the rifles, which have been used in several high-profile mass shootings.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the 8th Judicial District Court in Clark County, Nevada, states Smith & Wesson “has enjoyed with abandon the record-breaking profits from its sale of AR-15 rifles, seemingly unfazed by the exponential rise in gun deaths and mass shootings carried out with its

product in the United States.”

The nuns are from Adrian Dominican Sisters in Adrian, Mich.; the Sisters of Bon Secours USA in Marriottsville, Md.; the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia in Aston, Penn.; and the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, U.S.-Ontario Province in Marylhurst, Ore. Mark Smith, CEO and president of Smith & Wesson, called the lawsuit “frivolous” and said the nuns were “not interested in the best interests of the company or its stockholders.”

He called the suit another instance

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AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas judge on Thursday gave a pregnant woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis permission to get an abortion in an unprecedented challenge over bans that more than a dozen states have enacted since Roe v. Wade was overturned.

The lawsuit by Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two from Kate Cox the Dallas area, is believed to be the first time since the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision last year a woman has asked a court to approve an abortion.

The order applies only to Cox, and her attorneys spoke cautiously about any wider impacts, calling it unfeasible that scores of women seeking abortions would also now to turn to courts.

“This can’t be the new normal,” said Marc Hearron, an attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights. “I don’t think you can expect to see now hundreds of cases being filed on behalf of patients. It’s just not realistic.”

State District Judge Maya Guerra Gamble, an elected Democrat, granted a temporary restraining order allowing Cox to have an abortion under what are narrow exceptions to Texas’ ban. Her attorneys said they would not disclose what Cox was planning to do next, citing safety concerns.

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose office argued Cox does not meet the criteria for a medical exception, issued a statement that did not say whether the state would appeal.

But in a letter to three Houston hospitals, Paxton warned legal consequences were still possible if Cox’s physician provided the abortion.

Cox, who is 20 weeks pregnant, attended the hearing via Zoom along with her husband but did not address the court. Doctors have told Cox if the baby’s heartbeat were to stop, inducing labor would carry a risk of a uterine rupture because of her prior cesareans sections, and that another C-section at full term would would endanger her ability to carry another child.

“The idea that Ms. Cox wants so desperately to be a parent, and this law may have her lose that ability is shocking and would be a genuine miscarriage of justice,” Gamble said.

The Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing Cox, has said this lawsuit is believed to be the first of its kind since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Since that landmark ruling, Texas and 12 other states rushed to ban abortion at nearly all stages of pregnancy. Opponents have sought to weaken those bans, including an ongoing Texas challenge over whether the state’s law is too restrictive for women with pregnancy complications.

“I do not want to continue the pain and suffering that has plagued this pregnancy or continue to put my body or my mental health through the risks of continuing this pregnancy,” Cox wrote in an editorial published in The Dallas Morning News.

“I do not want my baby to arrive in this world only to watch her suffer.”

State officials had asked Gamble to deny the request, arguing Cox has not shown her life is in imminent danger and that she is therefore unable to qualify for an exception to the ban.

The temporary restraining order stops Texas from enforcing the state’s ban on Cox for 14 days. However, her doctor could still face criminal and civil liabilities.

Pregnant women cannot be criminally charged for having an abortion in Texas.

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Ukraine vows to keep fighting — with or without U.S. aid

By Marc Santora, Lara Jakes and Andrew E. Kramer The New York Times

KYIV, Ukraine — As the Kremlin reveled in the failure of Congress to approve new military assistance for Ukraine and President Joe Biden railed against Republican lawmakers for “kneecapping” an ally in its hour of need, Ukrainian soldiers, political leaders and Ukraine’s allies were all left asking the same question Thursday: What happens if the United States stops providing military assistance?

Officials in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government and Ukrainians themselves are still hopeful Congress will ultimately pass an assistance package — and have been cautious about saying anything that could ensnare them in America’s bitter domestic political battles.

But given the dire consequences if the United States cannot find a way to keep providing military assistance, officials in

Kyiv are racing to bolster their nation’s own military capabilities and working to deepen ties with other allies who remain steadfast in their support.

“We will not stop defending our country — we will not give up a single piece of our land,” Oleksiy Danilov, the head of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, said in a statement Thursday morning, hours after Republicans in the Senate blocked a measure to provide tens of billions of dollars more in aid to Ukraine.

“We will focus, draw conclusions, reload our weapons and continue to destroy the Russian monster,” he added.

The goal now, he said, was to make the nation’s military so strong that Ukrainians would not be “hostages to a KENT NISHIMURA/THE NEW YORK TIMES changing political situation.”

President Joe Biden urges Congress to pass a national security supplemental Still, the uncertain prospects for more request, including funding to support Ukraine, in remarks Wednesday from the Roosevelt Room of the White House. “This cannot wait,” Biden said. weaponry will reverberate on the battlefield, said Michael Kofman, a senior A shortfall in funding could quickly fellow in the Russia and Eurasia program Ukraine is now running on fumes, and it at the Carnegie Endowment for Interna- is reflected by a tangible deficit of muni- compromise Ukraine’s air defense capational Peace. “U.S. military assistance to bilities, Jake Sullivan, the White House tions at the front,” he said Thursday.

national security adviser, said in an interview. Western and Ukrainian officials have credited those systems with saving countless civilian lives as the Kremlin has repeatedly targeted population centers over the past two years.

At the same time, Sullivan said, the supply of 155 mm artillery rounds — essential in the brutal fight along the front — would rapidly decrease.

“That will mean Ukraine’s ability to defend against advanced Russian attacks that are happening right now, and Ukraine’s capacity to take more territory, will be severely degraded,” he said.

He added that the United States would no longer be able to send Ukraine air defense systems, such as Patriot batteries and missiles that are estimated to cost $1 billion each.

“And so Ukraine’s capacity to intercept missiles and drones and rockets being fired to destroy civilian infrastructure, as well as to attack its military, will be severely degraded,” he said.

Front-line troops in Ukraine feel bite of blockade by Polish truckers

By Maria Varenikova and Marc Santora The New York Times

KYIV, Ukraine — A monthslong border blockade

by Polish truckers is starting to affect Ukrainian soldiers in frozen trenches defending against unrelenting Russian assaults, making already fierce battles even more difficult.

One Ukrainian soldier, Oleksandr, fighting in eastern Ukraine,

said his unit was still waiting for delivery of two night-vision devices, critical for soldiers navigating their way to fighting positions safely. The equipment has been held up at the border, he said, where Polish truckers have blocked major crossings, causing backups miles long, since Nov. 6.

Oleksandr, who asked to be identified by only his first name in accordance with Ukrainian military protocol, was scathing

about the action. “To block the borders of the country, during a full-scale invasion, they have to be completely detached from reality, and this way they also wash their hands in the blood of people who are waiting for the necessary help,” he said.

As of Wednesday, there were an estimated 2,950 trucks stranded on both sides of the Polish border, 650 at the border with Slovakia and 750 waiting to enter

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meet Friday behind closed doors to negotiate and see if they can find a way to end the blockade.

The dispute that led to the blockade appears simple: Polish truckers are upset about cut-rate competition from Ukrainian drivers who are not subject to the same rules on working hours and wages as drivers from the European Union. The Poles also say they are treated unfairly by Ukrainian customs officials who

make them wait, giving Ukrainian drivers preference.

But as the blockade drags into a second month, the inability of Brussels to address the issue has been compounded by the internal politics of Ukraine and of its neighwbors; aggressive Russian propaganda; divergent business interests; and, increasingly, bitter emotions.

Rather than nearing a resolution, the blockade is expanding.

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WASHINGTON — House members voted again Thursday to punish one of their own, targeting Democratic Rep. Jamaal Bowman for triggering a fire alarm in a U.S. Capitol office building when the chamber was in session.

The Republican censure resolution passed 214-191 with a few Democratic votes, but most of the party stood by Bowman in opposition of an effort they said lacked credibility and integrity. The prominent progressive now becomes the third Democratic House member to be admonJamaal Bowman ished this year through the censure process, which is a punishment one step below expulsion from the House.

“It’s painfully obvious to myself, my colleagues and the American people that the Republican Party is deeply unserious and unable to legislate,” Bowman said Wednesday during floor debate. “Their censure resolution against me today continues to demonstrate their inability to govern and serve the American people.”

Bowman pleaded guilty in October to a misdemeanor count for the incident, which took place in the Cannon House Office Building. He agreed to pay a $1,000 fine and serve three months of probation, after which the false fire alarm charge is expected to be dismissed from his record.

Ukraine from Hungary, according to Ukrainian officials.

Ukraine and Poland agreed to open a checkpoint Monday for a handful of trucks leaving Ukraine.

But Poland, along with trucking associations from several other countries, is still calling on the European Union to restore a permit system for Ukrainian drivers that ended after the invasian.

Polish and Ukrainian officials said Thursday they had agreed to

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spending bill alongside Republican Sens. Mike Crapo of Idaho and Josh Hawley of Missouri.

“Over the course of this process, our support has only grown, and the fight doesn’t end here,” Luján continued.

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 is a massive piece of federal legislation that sets forth appropriations and policies for all U.S. Department of Defense operations. The 2023 version of the bill allocated more than $800 billion for the department.

Originally, the bill expanded eligibility for compensation under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, offering up tens of thousands of dollars in compensation to residents of

New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, Guam and Missouri — as well as those in some parts of Arizona, Nevada and Utah — who suffered the deleterious impacts of nuclear testing or uranium mines and who are not covered under the current program.

The proposal for expanded eligibility garnered broad bipartisan support, passing the Senate 61-37 in July.

But the GOP-controlled House removed those provisions from the act Wednesday, rendering New Mexicans — including those stricken with ailments from the radioactive fallout of the first atomic bomb — still ineligible for federal help unless it is reattached to the final bill.

Sen. Martin Heinrich called the change “shameful.”

“At the last minute and behind closed doors, Republican leadership stripped critical compensation for downwinders and uranium workers from the National Defense Authorization Act,” U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández said in a statement. “It is absolutely outrageous.”

“Generations of New Mexicans and their families have gotten sick and died from the radiation exposure and the lasting impacts of the Trinity Test,” said Luján, referring to the first-ever atomic bomb test in the New Mexico desert in 1945. “For New Mexico to have been ground zero for the first nuclear weapon — and left out of the original RECA program — is an injustice.”

Now the question for New Mexico’s congressional delegation is:

What can be done about it?

Hawley, whose state was also impacted by the U.S. government’s mishandling of uranium waste, vowed on X, formerly Twitter, to block the Senate from proceeding with the defense funding bill. New Mexico’s federal lawmakers haven’t committed to that approach, but all five promised not to give up on the fight — even if their precise plan of action remains unclear for now.

Valeria Ojeda-Avitia, a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez, said he is committed to supporting RECA in House legislation or in future versions of the National Defense Authorization Act. “I will not stop fighting until the United States recognizes what happened at the Trinity test site and the communities still impacted by it so many years later.

We have a responsibility to make it right,” said U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury.

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humanitarian cease-fire.

Gutteres explicitly cited Article 99 of the U.N. Charter, which allows the secretary-general to bring to the council’s attention any matter that he believes threatens international peace and security. The power has only been used a handful of times in the history of the world body.

The United States, Israel’s closest ally, appears likely to block any U.N. effort to halt the fighting. Still, U.S. concern over the devastation was growing. Before the southern offensive, U.S. officials told Israel it must limit civilian deaths and displacement, saying too many Palestinians were killed when it obliterated much of Gaza City and the north.

On Thursday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said casualties are still too high in a call with Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer, a senior State Department official said. Blinken told Dermer that Israel must also do more to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private diplomatic discussion.

Speaking at a joint news conference in Washington with visiting British Foreign Secretary David Cameron, Blinken said it remains imperative that Israel put a premium on civilian protection.

“And there does remain a gap between exactly what I said when I was there [last week] between the intent to protect civilians and the actual results that we’re seeing on the ground,” he said.

Israel says it must crush Hamas’ military capabilities and remove it from power following the Oct. 7 attack that ignited the war.

In photos and video published Thursday, at least 100 Palestinian men are seen sitting in rows on a street in northern Gaza, stripped down to their underwear with their heads bowed as they are being guarded by Israeli troops. The Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news outlet said its correspondent Diaa Al-Kahlout was among those detained and had been taken to an unknown location.

The images were the first showing such detentions in the Israeli-Hamas war. Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said troops have detained and interrogated hundreds of people in Gaza suspected of militant links.

Humanitarian crisis worsens In a sign of the growing desperation, thousands of Palestinians crushed together Thursday waiting to receive aid at a U.N. distribution center in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah, the crowds growing more frantic as they swelled. Rami Ashour, one those waiting, said he left when it seemed hopeless his turn would come to pick up a ration of flour.

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Palestinians displaced by the Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip arrive in the Muwasi area Thursday. Across Gaza, 1.87 million people have been driven from their homes.

Residents said the chaotic scene has become common in Deir al-Balah, where a trickle of humanitarian aid is met by hordes of hungry and exhausted families sheltering in U.N. schools or with relatives. The World Food Program has warned of a “catastrophic hunger crisis.”

“There are 8,000 people in this shelter, and any vegetables disappear before I see them because people seize everything so fast,” said Mazen Junaid, a father of six from northern Gaza.

Deir al-Balah is trapped between ground fighting in northern Gaza and in Khan Younis to the south, and it has continued to come under bombardment. Another 115 bodies arrived at the town’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital over the past 24 hours, the international aid group Doctors Without Borders said.

“The hospital is full, the morgue is full,” the group said on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Only a few trucks have managed to reach central Gaza in recent days because fighting has largely prevented aid groups from distributing beyond the area of Rafah, at Gaza’s far southern end by the Egypt border, the U.N. said. Meanwhile, entry of aid from Egypt has slowed.

Rafah is part of the rapidly shrinking area where civilians can seek shelter, and tens of thousands of people have flowed into it from Khan Younis and elsewhere.

The town, normally home to around 280,000 people, was already hosting more than 470,000 displaced people. Shelters and homes have overflowed, and many people have been sleeping in tents or in the streets. Across Gaza, 1.87 million people — over 80% of the population of 2.3 million — have been driven from their homes.

Even in Rafah, safety has proven elusive.

Several strikes hit late Wednesday and early Thursday, sending a wave of wounded and dead streaming into a nearby hospital.

The Israeli military accused militants of firing rockets from open areas near Rafah. It

released footage of a strike Wednesday on what it said were launchers positioned outside the town and a few hundred yards from a U.N. warehouse.

Israel’s campaign has killed more than 17,100 people in Gaza — 70% of them women and children — and wounded more than 46,000, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, which says many others are trapped under rubble. The ministry does not differentiate between civilian and combatant deaths.

Hamas and other militants killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in the Oct. 7 attack that triggered the war and resulted in the taking of some 240 people hostage. An estimated 138 hostages remain in Gaza, mostly soldiers and civilian men, after 105 were freed during a cease-fire in late November.

Battles in north and south Troops have pushed into Khan Younis, Gaza’s second-largest city, which Israeli officials have portrayed as Hamas’ center of gravity — something they previously said was in Gaza City and its Shifa Hospital.

In the afternoon, a strike in the center of Khan Younis left a large field of rubble, and survivors said many people were believed buried underneath. Rescuers pulled bloodied women and children from the shells of gutted buildings.

The military said Thursday that it struck dozens of militant targets in Khan Younis, including a tunnel shaft from which fighters had launched an attack.

Heavy fighting was also still underway in the northern refugee camp of Jabaliya, even after two months of bombardment and encirclement by ground troops. The Israeli military said troops raided a militant compound, killing a number of fighters and uncovering a network of tunnels.

The military reported “close-quarter combat” in the nearby district of Shujaiya, including militants found in a tunnel under a school. The reports could not be independently confirmed.

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A spokesman wrote in an email late Thursday there is no document that identifies the final two candidates and noted The New Mexican didn’t specifically request the finalists’ names in its public records request. Other state agencies, school boards and others who hire for top positions in the public sector routinely disclose the names of finalists.

A selection is expected this month.

The job opened in October when Steve Moise retired after 13 years, prompting a nationwide search, as well as discussions about increasing the current salary of $319,000 a year to attract a qualified replacement. A job posting by Ohio-based Hudepohl and Associates, a leading executive search firm, didn’t specify a salary but noted the compensation would be competitive to attract top chief executives.

While the job opening drew global interest, most of the applicants live in the United States, including a number of familiar names in New Mexico.

They include: ◆ Olivia Padilla-Jackson, who served

as Lujan Grisham’s first Cabinet secretary at the Department of Finance and Administration before she stepped down in May 2020 to take a job as vice president for finance and operations at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque.

“I’ve been fortunate to serve in key positions at all levels of government and am proud of my track record for thoughtful, ethical and effective leadership,” she wrote in her cover letter. “Please consider allowing me the honor and opportunity to lead the SIC’s mission to protect and grow our state’s permanent endowment funds for current and future generations.” ◆ Jon Clark, deputy Cabinet secretary at the New Mexico Economic Development Department.

Clark wrote he would be the “best person” for the position and that his résumé was “quite unique.”

“I do not come from a traditional investment background, although I do have a finance degree and have led venture capital investments through my current role,” he wrote. “I also served as Chief Economist for the Legislative Finance Committee. However, this role

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does not require a traditional investment background. It requires a person who excels at making good managerial decisions and has sufficient understanding of the investment landscape to understand and act on the advice of the professional staff working at the SIC.” ◆ Greg Trujillo, executive director at the Public Employees Retirement Association.

Trujillo joined PERA in 2013 as deputy executive director and became executive director in 2021. He previously served as chief information officer for the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board from 2007 to 2013.

In his résumé, Trujillo described himself as an influential manager in state government with a “proven track record of leveraging technology to drive organizational efficiency, performance, and leadership.” ◆ Bob Jacksha, chief investment officer at the Educational Retirement Board, first from January 2007 to October 2009

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The Postal Service then posts those letters online at www.uspsoperationsanta.com/letters — redacting personal information like last names, streets addresses, cities, etc.

Anyone reading those letters online can play Santa’s helper, and sign up — with Santa’s blessing of course — to “adopt” a letter and send gifts for people who just need to know someone out there cares for them.

“The program is not just for kids, but for children of all ages,” said Rod Spurgeon, a communications specialist for the U.S. Postal Service. “If you are a family struggling this holiday season, and you need a little help, write that letter.”

And people do, Spurgeon said: Typically the program gets 25,000 to 30,000 letters a year. Two requests have remained constant over the years, he said — clothes and toys.

He said since people who sign up to be Santa’s helpers and adopt specific letters remain anonymous, he did not have specifics of how many generous elves take part every year. You can tell a letter has been adopted when it disappears from the Operation Santa website.

The program has been been successful enough to warrant a century-plus run, though in olden days people just sent or dropped off their “Letters to Santa” at their local post office, he said.

It’s tougher to do it that way today, he said. That’s why the program created a specific address at the North Pole and began posting the letters online in 2017, he said.

Among other benefits, he said, “This gives us the opportunity to know how many people want to be adopted.”

Anyone wanting to help can search the Operation Santa webpage and sort through letters from children all over the country. Kids writing letters need to know the gifts they want have to be something that can be shipped in the mail. So, no, don’t ask for a real house, a live animal or a refrigerator.

An online filter system allows Santa’s helpers who want to adopt a letter to home in on a particular state, such as New Mexico. Spurgeon said nearly 190 letters had come from the Land of Enchantment as of Wednesday.

A sampling of those New Mexico letters posted online shows many boys and girls of all ages believe Santa Claus can make their spirits bright.

Some children tell Santa they’ve been good all year, though one girl explains she has not been on her best behavior, “and I’m really sorry.”

Others wish Santa a safe journey come Christmas Eve, with some weighing in on their favorite reindeer (who would have thought Comet would be so popular?) and one adding a postscript question: “Do you prefer milk or eggnog with your cookies?”

“Tell all the reindeer good job,” one child instructs Santa.

Many of the desired toys revolve around electronic gadgetry and computers, and clothing or play items associated with some well-known fictional characters like Mickey Mouse and Spider-Man. Other letters hint at more serious challenges for the letter writer, with one child saying he is doing well in therapy and others identifying themselves as special-needs children.

One boy prioritizes a football on his wish list but also asks for twin mattresses and twin beds, suggesting a shortage of sleeping accommodations in the home.

An adult wrote she has had a “tuff year” because of medical challenges and being out of work. Her wish, she wrote, “is to be able to open gifts with my family on Christmas.”

She ends the letter with a “God bless you!” for Santa Claus.

But there may be times when Santa and all the helper elves in the world can’t deliver what is needed.

Spurgeon said over the years he has seen letters in which it is obvious “relationships are struggling, where parents aren’t doing as well, maybe the father went to jail and the little girl wants her father back.

“You can send a letter of well wishing to that person, but there are certain things you can’t do for people. You can’t bring relationships back together. You can’t bring back somebody who is not with us anymore.”

He said the program started as a way to get those letters directly to Santa but has morphed into “more about helping people who need help.”

Why go through the U.S. Postal Service rather than mail Santa directly at the North Pole? Well, just as in Miracle on 34th Street, the post office “connects the nation with special messages every day, all day long,” Spurgeon said.

Of course, the Operation Santa program gets a lot of special helpers, including those who adopt letters, he said.

“We have a network of elves,” he said. “Every letter is delivered to Santa’s workshop, and the elves make sure they are uploaded to the website.”

But even elves have deadlines. Letter writers have until Monday to get their wish lists into Santa into the mailbox.

Anyone wishing to adopt a letter and help make a dream come true has until Dec. 18.

and then again since April 2010.

Jacksha, who described himself as a results-oriented investment professional, served as state investment officer from October 2009 to March 2010 after he was appointed to the post on an interim basis. He previously served as deputy state investment officer from May 2004 to January 2007. ◆ Sanjay Bhakta, chief financial officer at the city of Albuquerque since December 2017.

Bhakta previously served as deputy state auditor and Administrative Services Division director and chief financial officer at the New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration.

In October, the city of Albuquerque announced Bhakta will retire at the end of the year. ◆ Charles Wollmann, director of communications, legislative and client matters at the State Investment Council since 2010. He previously served as the council’s public information officer after working as a producer and assignments manager at KOAT-TV from 1992 to 2003. ◆ Bruce Brown, private equity portfolio manager at the State Investment Council since July 2023. He previously served as deputy general counsel and chief compliance officer for the SIC. ◆ Ron Spilman, chief financial officer and controller at The Club at Las Campanas since December 2021.

Spilman previously served as state

controller and chief financial officer at the New Mexico Department of Homeland Security. ◆ Bradley Fluetsch, director of financial planning at the New Mexico Finance Authority since July 2022. He previously served as cash and investment officer, interim finance director and planning and investment officer at the city of Santa Fe from September 2016 to July 2022. ◆ Vikki Hanges, chief investment officer at the State Treasurer’s Office since August 2011. She previously worked as a portfolio manager and trader in New York and Houston. ◆ Nella Domenici, who served as chief financial officer at Dataminr from 2020 to 2021 and at Bridgewater Associates from 2015 to 2018.

In her application, Domenici described herself as a public company board director, senior financial and operations executive and philanthropist, as well as an accomplished chief operating officer, chief financial officer and strategic business leader.

She is the daughter of late U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici.

“I am a native New Mexican born in Albuquerque to a family with very strong roots and involvement in the state and highly dedicated to public service,” she wrote in her cover letter.

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NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump returned to his civil fraud trial Thursday to spotlight his defense, renewing his complaints the case is baseless and heaping praise on an accounting professor’s testimony that backed him up.

With testimony winding down after more than two months, the Republican 2024 presidential front-runner showed up to watch New York University accounting professor Eli Bartov.

The academic disputed the crux of New York State Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit: that Trump’s financial statements were filled with fraudulently inflated asset values for such signature assets as his Trump Tower penthouse and his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.

“My main finding is that there is no evidence whatsoever of any accounting fraud,” said Bartov, whom Trump’s lawyers hired to give expert perspective. Trump’s financial statements, he said, “were not materially misstated.”

He suggested that anything problematic — like a huge yearto-year leap in the estimated value of the Trump Tower triplex — was simply an error.

Even while campaigning to reclaim the presidency and fighting four criminal cases, Trump is devoting a lot of attention to the New York trial. He’s been a frustrated onlooker, a confrontational

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Former President Donald Trump, center, sits at the defense table at his civil fraud trial Thursday with his attorneys Christopher Kise, left, and Alina Habba, at New York Supreme Court.

witness and a heated commentator outside the courtroom door.

Earlier in the trial, Trump attended several days and spent one on the witness stand while the state was presenting its case.

But Thursday marked his first appearance since the defense has been calling its own witnesses.

He’s due to testify again Monday.

He watched attentively Thursday, sometimes appearing to point out parts of documents to his lawyers, and at one point shaking his head when their adversaries objected to some of Bartov’s testimony. During breaks, he lauded Bartov’s testimony and assailed the lawsuit, which is putting Trump’s net worth on trial and threatens to disrupt the real estate empire that vaulted him to fame and the White House.

“This whole case is a fraud,” Trump declared, calling it an attempt “to influence an election.”

“We’re a failing nation because of things like this,” he said.

James’ lawsuit accuses Trump, his company and top executives including his sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr. of misleading banks and insurers by giving them financial statements that padded his net worth by billions of dollars.

The statements were provided to help secure deals, including loans at attractive interest rates available to hyperwealthy people.

Some loans required updated statements each year.

Trump denies any wrongdoing, and he posits the statements’ numbers actually fell short of his wealth. He has downplayed the documents’ importance in dealmaking, saying it was clear that lenders and others should do their own analyses. And he claims the case is a partisan abuse of power by James and Judge Arthur Engoron, both Democrats.

Bartov testified financial statements are “only a first step in a long and complex process” of valuing assets and making lending decisions. He said the estimates on such documents are inherently subjective “opinions of value,” and that differences in such opinions don’t mean there’s fraud.

Calling Trump’s financial statements uncommonly detailed and “so transparent,” he said accompanying notes told readers to evaluate the numbers for themselves, and “even my 9-year-old granddaughter” would understand that. So did major Trump lender Deutsche Bank, Bartov maintained.

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump is appealing a ruling that found he is not immune from criminal prosecution as he runs out of opportunities to delay or even derail an upcoming trial on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Lawyers for the 2024 Republican presidential primary frontrunner filed a notice of appeal Thursday indicating they will challenge U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s decision rejecting Trump’s bid to dismiss the case headed to trial in Washington, D.C., in March.

The one-page filing, the first step in a process that could

potentially reach the Supreme Court in the months ahead, was accompanied by a request from the Trump team to freeze deadlines in the case while the appeals court considers the matter.

“The filing of President Trump’s notice of appeal has deprived this Court of jurisdiction over this case in its entirety pending resolution of the appeal,” Trump’s lawyers wrote.

“Therefore, a stay of all further proceedings is mandatory and automatic.”

In a separate statement, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said one of Trump’s “most sacred obligations and responsibilities as President was to ensure the election process was conducted in a way that complied with the

law, including investigating and challenging election fraud and irregularities.”

He added Trump “has absolute immunity from prosecution, and litigation, for carrying out his sworn and solemn duties as President.”

The appeal had been expected given that Trump’s lawyers had earlier signaled their plans to pursue all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary, what they say is a legally untested question of a former president’s immunity from prosecution. It’s part of a broader strategy by him and his lawyers to try to postpone the criminal cases against him until after next year’s presidential election, averting trials that could unfold in the heat of the presidential campaign.

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U.S., Mexico aim UNLV suspect sought prof jobs to boost trade but curb fentanyl Police say he had list of targets that included 2nd university in N.C.

By Rio Yamat and Ben Finley

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By Alan Rappeport and Zolan Kanno-Youngs

The New York Times

The United States and Mexico on Thursday sought to project a united front in their efforts to deepen economic ties and crack down on illicit drug smuggling as the Biden administration looks to solidify its North American supply chain and reduce reliance on China.

At the conclusion of three days of meetings in Mexico City, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced that the U.S. and Mexico would begin working more closely to screen foreign investments coming into both countries with a new working group to weed out potential national security threats.

The collaboration comes as the administration looks to ensure that allies such as Mexico are able to partake of the billions of dollars of domestic energy and climate investments that the United States is deploying. However, as the administration seeks closer cross-border economic integration, it wants to ensure that Mexico is not the recipient of potentially problematic investments from countries such as China.

“Increased engagement with Mexico will help maintain an open investment climate while monitoring and addressing security risks, making both our countries safer,” Yellen said at a news conference Thursday.

In Mexico, Yellen has had to strike a delicate balance, pushing her counterparts there to work harder to confront fentanyl trafficking into the U.S. while trying to deepen economic ties at a time when China is also investing heavily to build factories there.

Yellen has embraced Mexico, the United States’ largest trading partner, as a friendly ally during her trip — visiting drug-sniffing dogs and holding talks with top Mexican leaders. But there is growing frustration within the Biden administration over what officials perceive as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s unwillingness to invest in efforts to combat fentanyl trafficking in the region. An increasing number of U.S. officials have become more outspoken in recent months over the need to pressure Mexico to do more to crack

down on fentanyl.

“The illicit trafficking of fentanyl devastates families and communities and poses a threat to our national security while also undermining public safety in Mexico,” Yellen said.

Nearly 110,000 people died last year of drug overdoses in the United States, a crisis that U.S. officials say is largely driven by the chemical ingredients for fentanyl getting shipped from China to Mexico and turned into the potent synthetic drug that is then trafficked over the southern border into the United States.

López Obrador has generally rejected the notion that fentanyl is produced in his nation and described the U.S. drug crisis as a “problem of social decay.” He has argued that U.S. politicians should not use his country as a scapegoat for the record number of overdoses in the United States.

The growing number of fentanylrelated deaths have fueled calls

by Republican presidential candidates to take military action against Mexico.

In February, Anne Milgram, the Drug Enforcement Administration administrator, said her agency was still not receiving sufficient information from Mexican authorities about fentanyl seizures or the entry of precursor chemicals in that country, and that the United States was increasingly concerned over the number of laboratories used to produce fentanyl in Mexico.

And in October, on the eve of Secretary Antony Blinken’s visit with López Obrador in Mexico, Todd Robinson, the State Department’s assistant secretary of the bureau of international narcotics and law enforcement affairs, told The New York Times that the Mexican president was not acknowledging the severity of the drug crisis in the region.

López Obrador would rather be in the category of “someone who has a problem but doesn’t know it,” Blinken said.

Robinson and officials in the Treasury Department also believe Mexico must do more to bulk up its ports to intercept fentanyl precursors coming from China. Both Republicans and Democrats are specifically concerned over a port in Manzanillo, Mexico, that they say is a prime hub for fentanyl precursors.

LAS VEGAS, Nev. — The suspect in the deadly shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, had a list of targets at the school and at East Carolina University in North Carolina, police said Thursday.

Three faculty members were killed and a fourth was wounded by the gunman who opened fire on campus Wednesday before dying in a shootout with police, according to university officials.

Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill identified the suspect as Anthony Polito, a longtime business professor. Before the shooting, the gunman mailed 22 letters to university faculty members across the U.S., but the content of those letters wasn’t immediately known, McMahill said at a news conference Thursday.

The sheriff said police have contacted everyone on the suspect’s list, except for one person who was on a flight.

“None of the individuals on the target list became a victim,” McMahill said.

The sheriff said investigators were still looking into a motive

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Sean Hathcock, right, kisses Michelle Ashley on Thursday after the two left candles for victims of Wednesday’s shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The two graduated from the school and live nearby.

but noted Polito applied for several jobs at various colleges and universities in Nevada and was denied the job each time.

The suspect’s weapon, a 9 mm handgun, was purchased legally last year, McMahill said. Police were still investigating how many rounds were fired during the rampage. The sheriff said the gunman brought 150 additional rounds of ammunition with him to the campus, and that police found nine loaded magazines on the shooter after he was killed.

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Whitfield said that the shooting “was the most difficult day in the history of our university.”

He identified two of the victims who were killed as business school professors Patricia Navarro-Velez and Cha Jan “Jerry” Chang. Whitfield said the name of the third victim will be released after relatives have been notified.

The wounded man, a 38-yearold visiting professor, was downgraded to life-threatening condition Thursday, police said at a news conference.

Terrified students and profes-

sors cowered in classrooms and dorms as the gunman roamed UNLV’s Lee Business School on Wednesday and opened fire just before noon on the fourth floor, where faculty and staff offices for the accounting and marketing departments are located.

Navarro-Velez, 39, was an accounting professor who held a doctorate in accounting and was focused on research in cybersecurity disclosures and data analytics, according to the school’s website.

Chang, 64, was an associate professor in the business school’s Management, Entrepreneurship & Technology department and had been teaching at UNLV since 2001. He earned a doctorate in management information systems from the University of Pittsburgh.

Investigators searched an apartment in nearby Henderson, Nev., late Wednesday as part of the investigation and retrieved several electronic devices, including Polito’s cellphone, one of the officials said.

Polito was a professor in North Carolina at East Carolina University’s Department of Marketing and Supply Chain Management from 2001 to 2017, according to a statement released Thursday by the school.

He resigned in January 2017 as a tenured associate professor.

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WASHINGTON — The special counsel investigating Hunter Biden charged the president’s son late Thursday on nine counts stemming from his failure to pay federal taxes on time on millions in income from foreign businesses.

It is the second indictment against him this year — and the latest development in a case Republicans have made the cornerstone of a possible impeachment of President Joe Biden.

A grand jury in the Central District of California charged Hunter Biden with three counts each of evasion of a tax assessment, failure to file and pay taxes, and filing a false or fraudulent tax return, according to the 56-page indictment.

Biden “engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019,” wrote the special counsel, David C. Weiss, who first began investigating the president’s son five years ago as the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for Delaware.

The charges came five months after Hunter Biden appeared to be on the verge of a plea deal that would not have led to jail time and in the view of his lawyer at the time would have granted him immunity for potential crimes stemming from his business dealings. But the deal collapsed at the last minute, and in September he was indicted on separate charges stemming from his failure to acknowledge his drug use when he purchased a handgun in 2018.

The decision to file criminal charges against the president’s troubled son was an extraordinary step for Weiss, who was named a special counsel in August by Attorney General Merrick Garland after the dramatic last-minute collapse of the plea deal that would have resolved the long-running investigation without Hunter Biden serving any prison time.

It comes as House Republican leaders on Thursday released draft text of a procedural impeachment resolution against Joe Biden.

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More than 750 Washington Post employees said they had walked off the job Thursday, refusing to work for 24 hours in the biggest labor protest at the company in nearly half a century.

Workers marched in a picket line outside The Post’s offices in downtown Washington, D.C., waving “Strike” signs, ringing bells, blowing horns, beating drums and chanting, “Hey, hey, ho, ho, our salary floor is much too low!”

But even as strikers asked readers to abstain from the newspaper and its website for the day in solidarity, editors and other managers carried on with many of the tasks to produce a daily news report, from writing articles to operating printing presses.

Union members said they are protesting a stalemate in bargaining with the company that has left workers without a contract for 18 months. They also object to the company’s recent offer of cost-saving buyouts to staff members, saying terms are stingy and the ostensibly voluntary packages are being coerced by a threat of layoffs.

“This is a declaration by hundreds of Washington Post staffers saying that if the company is to work with us fairly, it has to respect its employees,” said Sarah Kaplan, a climate reporter and steward for The Washington Post Guild.

“I know they will still try to get a paper out,” she added.

“But they can’t get a good paper out without us.”

Company executives deny the

union’s claim it has bargained in “bad faith” and say they still hope to reach a contract agreement by the end of the month.

“We respect the rights of our Guild-covered colleagues to engage in this planned one-day strike,” a company spokesperson said. “We will make sure our readers and customers are as unaffected as possible.”

The company expressed confidence it will be able to print and deliver newspapers as usual Thursday and Friday, while keeping its website updated as well.

The walkout comes as The Post is grappling with leadership turnover as well as the same economic challenges that have rocked the media industry worldwide.

After a decade of rapid growth under the ownership of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, executives acknowledged this fall the company had expanded too far and it would be forced to cut back after optimistic financial projections didn’t materialize.

The Post is set to lose $100 million this year — the impetus for the buyout offers, which executives hope will result in 240 voluntary departures, or about 10% of the current staff.

About half of those cuts would come from the newsroom.

Meanwhile, the company will get a new publisher and chief executive in January. William Lewis, a British-born longtime media executive most recently with the Wall Street Journal, was tapped last month to replace Fred Ryan, who stepped down earlier this year.

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istory has taught us that gutless or greedy lawmakers will dawdle until public pressure forces them to solve problems.

Various members of the New Mexico Legislature for years were happy to accept campaign contributions from the storefront lending industry while ignoring its destructive practices. Legislators authorized these companies to charge annual interest rates of up to 175%.

Like neighborhood shylocks of old, predatory lenders trapped desperate consumers in a cycle of poverty. Someone who borrowed $1,000 might spend four or five times as much to repay the loan.

House members such as Rep. Eliseo Alcon, D-Milan, tried to justify the exorbitant rates by parroting lobbyists for storefront lenders. Cut interest rates too much, he said, and credit would dry up for consumers unable to qualify for lower-cost loans from banks.

Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham once embarked on a mediation campaign in hopes of reducing the interest rates. She assigned Lt. Gov. Howie Morales to bring together lobbyists for lending companies and advocates for consumers.

Morales is a talented politician, but mediation was a fool’s errand. Predators charging triple-digit interest rates had no incentive to change anything.

Annual interest rates finally were capped this year at 36% because of relentlessness by two Democratic lawmakers, Sen. Bill Soules of Las Cruces and Rep. Susan Herrera of Embudo.

They and members of the public shamed the 112-member Legislature into eliminating government-sanctioned usury.

Republicans typically had sided with storefront lenders. But Herrera won over eight Republicans and one independent lawmaker as her bill passed the House 51-18. Soules was equally effective in the Senate.

Bureaucratic huddles with the army of lobbyists for storefront lenders didn’t change anything for the better. Progress occurred when legislators used their power.

I am recapping this history because state legislators again will try to raise the excise tax on alcoholic beverages.

And one of New Mexico’s bright, diligent lawmakers, Democratic Rep. Derrick Lente, wants to mediate conversations between industry lobbyists and advocacy groups that believe additional tax revenue would lessen alcohol-related deaths and diseases.

A true citizen legislator, Lente was at work on his alfalfa farm in Sandia Please see story on Page A-10

Charges for 3 in string of robberies Incidents occurred before shooting death of Española Lotaburger worker in Aug. The New Mexican

The U.S. Attorney’s Office has announced charges accusing three Northern New Mexico residents in a string of robberies in the days prior to the shooting death of a Blake’s Lotaburger employee in Española in August 2022.

Ricky Eddie Martinez Jr., Adelene Urquijo and Ashley Thompson were charged with a variety of counts in incidents preceding the Aug. 16 death of Cypress Garcia at the fast-food restaurant.

In a news release that referenced a criminal complaint, U.S. Attorney Alexander M.M. Uballez and FBI Special Agent in Charge Raul Bujanda said Martinez, 32, is suspected of robbing at least Please see story on Page A-9

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New Mexico State Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found near the Santa Fe River under Siler Road on Thursday afternoon.

Santa Fe police were dispatched to the area around 2 p.m., Deputy Chief Ben Valdez wrote in an email. State police have taken over the investigation into what happened, Valdez wrote.

Valdez declined to provide more information about police response to the incident or the initial investigation, including whether the death was being investigated as a homicide.

State police spokesman Wilson Silver declined to provide any information about the agency’s investigation, writing Thursday evening the agency is “waiting for details” before anything

could be confirmed.

City, county and state officers all responded Thursday to Siler Road near the Santa Fe River. Cruisers from all three law enforcement agencies lined either side of the road Thursday afternoon and into the evening.

Two city police officers stood underneath the bridge where Siler Road crosses the river, directing pedestrians to walk out of the riverbed and up onto the Santa Fe River Trail. Yellow crime scene tape was placed around a section of the riverbed under the bridge.

Several more officers and sheriff’s deputies stood at the end of the trail, just south of Siler.

Nearby resident Lawrence Martinez said he saw the body around 3 p.m., while police were on the scene investigating.

The man’s age and any details regarding how he might have died were unclear, Martinez said, but he could Please see story on Page A-10

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City police, Santa Fe County sheriff’s deputies and New Mexico State Police gather on Siler Road next to the bridge over the Santa Fe River. The body of a man was found Thursday under the bridge.

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Rabbi Berel Levertov looks at the shamash, or center raised candle, of the menorah on Santa Fe Plaza before lighting the first candle Thursday to mark the first day of Hanukkah. This Sunday, Chanukah on the Plaza will take place at 3 p.m., featuring fire dancers, live music, latkes and more.

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Las Vegas, N.M., city officials announced Thursday they will not hold a special election following the resignation of Mayor Louie Trujillo but rather let the City Council pick his successor.

Although the original plan was to let people vote on the next mayor in early 2024, internal inconsistencies in the city’s charter put it at odds with state law, City Attorney Randall Van Vleck said in a news release. Instead, he said, the city will move forward with a council vote for mayor as provided by

state law.

The four-member council can choose for mayor any “qualified elector” — meaning someone who lives in the city and is registered to vote.

“The challenge is that it does take three votes to fill that vacancy with whomever,” Van Vleck said in an interview Thursday. “If there is a tie, whatever is being discussed, fails.”

If the council chooses one of the current councilors as mayor, that person will then be able to appoint someone to their vacant seat, Van Vleck said.

City Councilor David Romero is

acting as mayor pro tempore now.

Romero said in an interview Thursday he thinks the position will likely go to one of the current councilors for “continuity.”

“It’s not I ‘want it,’ ” he said, “but I would gladly fill that position if that’s what my fellow councilors choose.”

The vote is scheduled for a Council meeting Dec. 13, he said.

“In the absence of the mayor, the mayor pro tempore may act as mayor,” Van Vleck said in the release. “This means the mayor pro tempore shall retain voting rights as a councilor but

shall not exercise tie-breaking rights that are otherwise the power of the mayor.”

The city’s news release says the office of the New Mexico Secretary of State and the New Mexico Municipal League agree about the plan.

Trujillo’s term was originally set to end in November 2025. He resigned last month shortly after police chief Antonio Salazar was placed on paid administrative leave after officers were dispatched to a Las Vegas residence in response to a domestic violence call involving Salazar.

Performance Santa Fe executive director Iwano departs

By Brian Sandford The New Mexican

Performance Santa Fe is looking for its fourth leader in about seven years.

The nonprofit dance, music and theater group confirmed executive and artistic director Amy Iwano’s departure Thursday. Iwano joined the organization in September 2021, ending a nearly 30-year tenure in Chicago’s arts world.

She leaves in the middle of the organization’s season, which runs from July 2023 to May 2024.

Iwano succeeded Chad Hilligus, who was at the helm of Performance Santa Fe for two years.

His predecessor, Jonathan Winkle, served in the role for less than three

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years. The circumstances of Iwano’s departure were unclear Thursday; Performance Santa Fe board President Leah Gordon did not respond to a request for comment.

Amy Iwano Iwano’s stint as the group’s leader is the shortest of her 39-year career, according to her profile on the employment social networking site LinkedIn. She was executive director of the University of Chicago Presents, a professional concert series, from 2012 until she joined Performance Santa Fe. Before that, she served as

executive director of the Chicago Chamber Musicians from 1993 to 2012; executive director of the Japan America Symphony Association of Los Angeles from 1990-93; and administrator of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute from 1984-89.

Iwano’s departure apparently is among a number of staffing changes at Performance Santa Fe this year.

Only two of the eight employees who were listed as staff members on the organization’s website April 8 still were listed Thursday: graphic designer Kevin Brown and Katie Rountree, who had the title director of development in April and now is the organization’s audience development and community relations director. In April, the site

listed eight employees, including Iwano. On Thursday, it listed five.

When she was hired, Iwano became the second woman to serve as artistic director of a major Santa Fe arts organization, after Santa Fe Pro Musica’s Anne-Marie McDermott.

McDermott’s tenure in that role also was brief; she served from May 2020 to July 2022.

Iwano graduated from Pomona College in California in 1984 with a degree in international relations, according to her profile on LinkedIn. That profile still listed her as working for Performance Santa Fe as of Thursday morning, while the organization’s website no longer listed her as an employee.

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Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., on Capitol Hill in September. New efforts on gun violence prevention come as Congress shows no signs of reinstating the landmark 1994 assault weapons ban.

Heinrich: A ‘generational shift’ spurs firearms bill Heinrich and Sen. Angus King of Maine that focuses on what are often referred to as assault-style WASHINGTON — One of the weapons, which are among some first votes cast by Democratic of the most popular in America, Sen. Martin Heinrich was against and zeroes in on the part of the legislation from Sen. Dianne gun that makes them especially Feinstein to reinstate an assault dangerous in mass shootings. weapons ban in the aftermath of Rather than try to ban assault the Sandy Hook school shooting. weapons outright, their legislaIn the decade since, as mass tion would essentially regulate shootings have touched almost such guns to have permanently every corner of the United States, fixed magazines, limited to 10 the senator, an avid hunter once rounds for rifles and 15 rounds endorsed by the NRA, has been for some heavy-format pistols. considering what it would take The idea is to reduce a shooter’s to draft legislation that avoids ability to fire off dozens of rounds banning guns that Americans use in seconds and prevent them for legitimate purposes while still from being able to attach a new saving lives. magazine to keep shooting.

He has also watched his two The senators come from rural sons grow up learning how to states where guns are popular, hunt as well as how to duck and and their legislation would allow cover in mass-shooter drills that gun owners to keep existing bring him to tears. guns but would also create a “I think there’s a generational buy-back program, among other shift happening,” Heinrich said in provisions. It’s called the Go Safe an interview with The Associated Act, named after the internal Press. cycling of high-pressure gas in “It really made those of us the firearms in question. who grew up inside gun culture “Both of us were uncomfortreevaluate our views and think able with an assault weapon hard about, like, this is not a black being defined by its appearance and white issue,” he said. “You because that can be manipulated, can accept the fact that guns are a and we were looking more legitimate tool without accepting functionality,” said King, whose that you should be able to own state recently endured the worst firearms that are really designed mass shooting in its history when to inflict mass lethality.” a gunman shot up a Lewiston The outcome is a new iteration bowling alley and bar leaving 18 of gun violence legislation from dead and many others injured.

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“Lewiston, certainly for me, brought home how important it is,” said King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, to AP. “It sort of strengthened my resolve.”

The National Rifle Association opposes the legislation as “the most sweeping gun prohibition bill of the 21st century.”

Randy Kozuch, executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, said in a statement that the bill would ban “the very types of firearms and magazines most often utilized by Americans for defending themselves and their families.”

He said the bill “blatantly violates” the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court rulings.

Fourteen states and Washington, D.C., have their own bans on large-capacity magazines, according to the Giffords Center to Prevent Gun Violence, though those laws are facing new court challenges in the wake of a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that’s led to widespread upheaval in the nation’s firearm-law landscape.

But Mark Collins, director of federal policy at Brady, the gun violence prevention organization, said this new approach, focused on the gas-operated mechanism and the nondetachable magazine, is unique. The time it takes to stop and reload, he said, is often the “critical moment” when a mass shooter can be stopped.

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seven businesses in Española, Taos and Santa Fe. In each robbery, he is suspected of entering the establishments, brandishing a pistol and demanding money.

During a robbery of a Walgreens in Española, the news release stated, he became agitated when a store employee had trouble opening a cash register and is accused of firing a shot in the direction of the employee.

In the Aug. 16 incident at the Lotaburger, Martinez is accused of displaying a gun and demanding money, according to the news release. Garcia was fatally shot, though no one has been charged with his death.

In the days after, Martinez had been listed by authorities as a suspect in the shooting.

According to the news release, Martinez is charged with three counts of interference with commerce by robbery; one count of interference with commerce by attempted robbery; two counts of

using, carrying and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, one count of discharging a firearm and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said in the indictment Urquijo, 37, aided Martinez during the Aug. 16 incident. Urquijo and Thompson are accused of helping Martinez avoid capture after the Lotaburger robbery.

Martinez and Urquijo are in

custody pending trial. Thompson recently was arrested and will be scheduled for a detention hearing, according to the release.

Martinez was convicted on a variety of counts in 2013, 2019 and 2021. Among them was shooting at or from a motor vehicle and aggravated assault upon a peace officer with a deadly weapon.

If convicted, Martinez faces up to life in prison. Urquijo faces up to 20 years in prison and Thompson faces up to 10 years in prison.

A federal trial for a man charged in connection with the death of a 29-year-old Taos Pueblo artist in 2021 has been delayed after a prosecutor raised concerns regarding the absence of testimony by two witnesses she says are critical to the case.

Santiago Martinez, who was DeAnna Autumn Leaf Suazo’s boyfriend at the time of her death, is charged with second-degree homicide. Although the first day of Martinez’s trial was set for Monday, prosecutor Nora Wilson filed a notice of appeal Tuesday.

The appeal is in reference to a previous notice of intent to provide evidence to the court detailing Martinez’s past domestic violence incidents, including the testimony of two witnesses said to describe the defendant’s pattern of physically attacking Suazo, who was found dead near her car outside her Taos Pueblo residence early Nov. 13, 2021.

Wilson said one of the witnesses will describe a time when Martinez pinned Suazo down until he was forcibly removed by his own father, who “beat”

him away. Another witness was expected to describe an instance where Martinez choked Suazo.

A new trial date had not been set yet.

Martinez and Suazo were in a relationship for about a decade. Martinez originally told law enforcement he and Suazo were drinking heavily the day of Suazo’s death.

At some point, he said, they went to Suazo’s car to listen to music, but he eventually left to attend to a wood stove. When he returned, he said, he found Suazo on the ground near her vehicle, covered in bruises with blue lips and pale cheeks.

Multiple witnesses told law enforcement Martinez becomes violent while intoxicated.

Prosecutors allege Martinez ran Suazo over with her own vehicle before calling three family members to help him, one of whom dialed 911.

According to the statement of probable cause, Suazo’s autopsy revealed she had patterned markings on various areas of her body consistent with tire treads.

Martinez admitted to being responsible for Suazo’s death during an interview with FBI agents Nov. 22, 2021, according

Suspect in double homicide is arraigned The suspect in a recent double homicide in Santa Fe was arraigned on several related charges Thursday morning, including two counts of first-degree murder.

Jose Antonio “Adrian” Roman, 44, appeared before state District Court judge Mary Marlowe Sommer in a video arraignment from the Santa Fe County jail, where he has been held since he was arrested in Albuquerque. Roman is accused of shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend, Carmen Navarrete, and her 16-year-old son Axel Gonzales on Nov. 13.

Prosecutors filed for Roman to be detained pending trial,

and he waived a pretrial detention hearing, his attorney Jennifer Burrill said, due to other pending charges in Bernalillo County Magistrate Court that need to be resolved first.

In that case, Roman was accused by prosecutors of

to a statement of probable cause.

Martinez told officers he grew angry with her for wanting to “leave,” though he did not specify what she meant.

Martinez said he shoved Suazo, causing her to fall near the driver’s side of the vehicle.

Then, he climbed into the car and hit the gas. He called it an “accident.”

Text messages between Suazo and Martinez show she tried to break it off several times, though Martinez has said the two were on “good terms.”

“When the domestic violence incidents herein described are coupled with [Suazo]’s repeated text messages to [Martinez] seeking to end their longtime relationship, a far clearer picture of this relationship emerges,” the notice of intent reads. “Rather than sharing a loving and thriving union, it becomes apparent that [Martinez] and [Suazo] were a volatile couple on the brink of a split.”

Since Oct. 31, 2022, Martinez has been on a conditional release, confined to his place of residence with a GPS monitor and submitting himself to substance abuse evaluations and testing. aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, false imprisonment and other charges from an alleged incident with Navarrete less than two weeks before she was killed.

Marlowe Sommer read Roman the murder charges, as well as his rights, and scheduled a docket call for the case for March.

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Pueblo when I reached him by phone.

“Advocates and industry should at least come together. I’d love to sit in a room with them and mediate a discussion,” he said.

As chairman of the House Taxation and Revenue Committee, Lente has more important work to do.

He can make the case for a tax increase on alcoholic beverages and help sell it, just as Herrera and Soules did in cutting those ridiculous interest rates.

New Mexico lawmakers have not raised the excise tax on alcohol in 40 years.

The industry is happy with its lot, and lobbyists are paid to knock down any measure that might curb profits.

Certain legislators favor the tax increase to combat the negative effects of alcohol use. The money would flow to treatment and prevention programs in a state endangered by drunkenness.

New Mexico in 2021 had 2,274 deaths related to alcohol use, highest per capita in the country, according to the state Department of Health.

Other recent data compiled by the Legislative Finance Committee should be just as sobering.

“Between 2019 and 2021, the state’s alcohol-related death rate increased by 31 percent,” the committee’s report stated. The five most dangerous counties were McKinley, Cibola, Rio Arriba, San Juan and Socorro. All had death rates exceeding 150 per 100,000 people.

Two Democrats, Rep. Joanne Ferrary of Las Cruces and Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez of Albuquerque, early this year introduced identical bills to raise the excise tax on alcohol.

They proposed an increase of 25 cents per serving. Some $155 million eventually would have gone to a special fund to alleviate harms caused by people who drink to excess.

Their bills sputtered as lobbyists for beer and liquor companies went to work. A shriveled increase of about a penny per drink landed in a tax bill.

Lujan Grisham used her lineitem veto power to stop even that minuscule increase. She said it would not have made a difference.

“I don’t buy the governor’s rationale that it was too little. It would have been a start,” Lente said.

Sedillo Lopez and others hope to raise the tax on alcoholic drinks when legislators convene in January for 30 days.

“And, yes, we are speaking with the governor and her staff,” Sedillo Lopez wrote in a text message.

Getting Lujan Grisham’s ear is more important for legislators than shadow boxing with lobbyists.

The sky is always falling when lobbyists are orating. With straight faces, they praised triple-digit interest rates as helpful to low-income people. They spoke of a tax increase threatening the imminent demise of businesses that sell beer, wine and liquor. Like hounds to the chase, paid advocates will buttonhole Lente, Ferrary, Sedillo Lopez and every other breathing legislator.

Forget mediation. Lawmakers should worry about keeping lobbyists at bay long enough to get the bill typed up.

Ringside Seat is an opinion column about people, politics and news.

Contact Milan Simonich at msimonich@sfnewmexican.com or 505-986-3080.

Police: Man held after exposure, assault Santa Fe police arrested a man on suspicion of indecent exposure and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after an incident at a Pacheco Street apartment complex early Monday.

A resident at the complex told police Jeremiah Salazar, 41, was naked and screaming throughout the complex and threw a “glass candle” at him, according to an arrest warrant affidavit filed Tuesday.

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Both charges are fourth-degree felonies.

Salazar was booked into Santa Fe County jail Monday morning on the charges.

The affidavit states the resident told officers he encountered a nude Salazar in the hallway of the complex about 4 a.m. Monday, banging on doors and screaming.

The witness alleged Salazar also threw a bag of cookies at him before launching the glass projectile, which he said he ducked his head to avoid.

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The U.S. government is entering a new era of collaboration with Native American and Alaska Native leaders in managing public lands and other resources, with top federal officials saying incorporating more Indigenous knowledge into decision-making can help spur conservation and combat climate change.

Federal emergency managers Thursday also announced updates to recovery policies to aid tribal communities in the repair or rebuilding of traditional homes or ceremonial buildings after a series of wildfires, floods and other disasters around the country.

Wth hundreds of tribal leaders gathering in Washington this week for an annual summit, the Biden administration is celebrating nearly 200 new agreements designed to boost federal cooperation with tribes nationwide. The agreements cover everything from fishery restoration projects in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest to management of new national monuments in the Southwestern U.S., seed collection work in Montana and plant restoration in the Great Smoky Mountains.

“The United States manages hundreds of millions of acres of what we call federal public lands. Why wouldn’t we want added capacity, added expertise, millennia of knowledge and understanding of how to manage those lands?” U.S. Interior Assistant Secretary Bryan Newland said during a panel discussion.

The new co-management and co-steward-

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President Joe Biden speaks before signing an executive order Wednesday at the White House Tribal Nations Summit in Washington, D.C.

ship agreements announced this week mark a tenfold increase over what had been inked just a year earlier, and officials said more are in the pipeline.

Newland, a citizen of the Bay Mills Indian Community in northern Michigan, said each agreement is unique. He said each arrangement is tailored to a tribe’s needs and capacity for helping to manage public lands — and at the very least assures their presence at the table when decisions are made.

The federal government is not looking to dictate to tribal leaders what a partnership should look like, he said.

The U.S. government controls more than a

quarter of the land in the United States, with much of that encompassing the ancestral homelands of federally recognized tribes.

While the idea of co-stewardship dates back decades and has spanned multiple presidential administrations, many tribes have advocated in recent years for a more formal role in managing federal lands to which they have a connection.

In an attempt to address complaints about chronic underfunding across Indian Country, President Joe Biden signed an executive order on the first day of the summit Wednesday that will make it easier for tribes to find and access grants.

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CLOVIS — A Clovis woman shot Sept. 20 died Sunday in a medical facility in Albuquerque, police said.

Melissa Silva told Clovis police her ex-boyfriend, Chasidy Mathis, shot her through her bedroom window, court records show.

Mathis has been at large since the shooting. District Attorney Quentin Ray said the charge against Mathis likely will be upgraded from aggravated battery to murder, but authorities

were awaiting an autopsy report before issuing new warrants.

Silva told police she was in bed when she “heard someone yelling from outside,” court records show.

She “looked over towards the window where the [air conditioning] unit was and saw Chasidy standing outside yelling at her. ... Melissa stated Chasidy then pointed a gun at her and fired two shots,” a document states.

Silva was flown to Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, where she was treated for

Federal judge poised to prohibit family separations at border arrested for illegally entering The Associated Press the country would be prohibited until December 2031.

SAN DIEGO — A federal Children may still be judge is poised to prohibit separated but under limited separation of families at circumstances, as has been the border for purposes of the case for years. They deterring immigration for eight include if the child is believed years, preemptively blocking to be abused, if the parent is resumption of a lightning-rod, convicted of serious crimes or Trump-era policy the former if there are doubts the adult is president hasn’t ruled out if the parent. voters return him to the White Families that were separated House next year. may be eligible for other U.S. District Judge Dana benefits: legal status for up to Sabraw tentatively approved three years on humanitarian a court settlement in October parole; reunification in the between the Justice DepartUnited States at government ment and families represented expense; one year of housing; by the American Civil Liberties three years of counseling; and Union. legal aid in immigration court.

The ACLU says no one But the settlement doesn’t formally objected, clearing pay families any money. In the way to end the case nearly 2021, the Biden administration seven years after it was filed. considered compensating parSabraw, who was appointed ents and children hundreds of

by President George W. Bush, thousands of dollars each, but ordered an end to separations talks stalled. in June 2018, six days after As he seeks to return to the then-President Donald Trump White House in next year’s halted them on his own amid intense international backlash. elections, Trump has been noncommittal whether he The judge also ordered the would try to resume family government reunite children separations. with their parents within 30 He defended the results in days, setting off a mad scraman interview with Univision ble because government datalast month, claiming without bases weren’t linked. Children had been dispersed to shelters evidence it “stopped people from coming by the hundreds across the country that didn’t of thousands.” know who their parents were “When you hear that you’re or how to find them. going to be separated from Under the proposed settleyour family, you don’t come. ment, the type of “zero-tolWhen you think you’re going erance” policy under which to come into the United States the Trump administration separated more than 5,000 chil- with your family, you come,” Trump said. dren from parents who were

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Body found near river Continued from Page A-8

see what appeared to be a male lying “slanted” on a concrete slab in blue jeans and a white shirt. In the hours afterward, he said, officers covered the body with a black blanket.

The spot where the body appears to have been found, next to the riverbed, sits in a small stretch of county land that borders the city limits,

as shown on the city of Santa Fe’s geographic information system map. In September, a Santo Domingo Pueblo man was found dead under a bridge near the N.M. 599 Rail Runner Express commuter station at the southwestern edge of the city. Police opened a homicide investigation into the killing of Aaron Garcia, 50.

Charges have not been filed in that case.

a gunshot wound to the left side of her abdomen. She initially was intubated and sedated, records show, but was able to talk with police a few days later.

Silva’s two teenage daughters also were in the home when their mother was shot. Both told police they were awakened

by Silva’s screams after the shooting.

One daughter told police she went outside after the shooting and saw Mathis standing near the porch and pointing a gun at her before running off.

Mathis has been booked into

the Curry County jail multiple times, court records show, and was convicted of a felony in 2018 for possession of a controlled substance.

Silva’s death marks the ninth homicide in Clovis this year.

Anyone with information can call 911 or Clovis police at 575-769-1921.

Anonymous tips can be made by using the department’s tip411 program accessed at police.cityofclovis.org.

Curry County Crime Stoppers also accepts anonymous tips at 575-763-7000.

FUNERAL SERVICES AND MEMORIALS STEPHEN C. JOSEPH

NOVEMBER 25, 1937–NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Santa Fe — Stephen (Steve) was born in New York City on November 25, 1937 and died on November 24, 2023 at his home in Santa Fe with his wife, Elizabeth Preble, by his side.

After receiving his BA from Harvard University, his MD from Yale University and his MPH from Johns Hopkins University, Steve embarked on a long career of leadership in domestic and international public health and pediatric medicine. In the United States, Steve served as Commissioner of Health in New York City, Dean of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, and US Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs).

Internationally, he worked for USAID, UNICEF, and other organizations and academic institutions; and held long-term positions in Nepal (Peace Corps physician), Cameroon, Newfoundland, and Indonesia.

After retirement, Steve’s volunteer activities included work with Amref Health Africa and practicing pediatrics in post-earthquake Haiti.

Steve loved the outdoors — mountains, sea, the beautiful high desert of New Mexico and the magical countryside of southwest France.

He will be remembered for his keen intellect, indomitable spirit, and commitment to social justice.

Steve is survived by his wife of 38 years, Elizabeth Preble, brother Jeffrey Joseph, daughters Denise Ellen Joseph and Tara Anne Joseph and four grandchildren.

Special thanks go to Margot and other EGIS staff who helped care for Steve in recent months with competence, affection, and a large dose of good humor. The family also thanks the devoted staff of Presbyterian Hospice of Northern New Mexico.

In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to Doctors without Borders.

TRUEL WEST

JUNE 9, 1952 - NOVEMBER 27, 2023 Santa Fe — Truel West passed away, surrounded by family. Born in Norton, Kansas, Truel spent most of his childhood in Denver. He graduated from Purdue University in 1974 with a degree in engineering. He moved to New Mexico in the mid-1970’s and began working at Los Alamos National Laboratory. During his career of more than 30 years, he worked on various projects, including the Lab’s International Technology Division, where his focus was on the nuclear nonproliferation program.

Away from work, Truel was ever-considerate, fun-loving, generous, and kind. The best vacation planner, he and Joan traveled the world birding, visiting gardens, and sampling local cuisine. He loved music and sang with the NM Symphony Chorus for many years. He shared his skills by supporting and working with many non-profit organizations. He is survived by his wife of 35 years, Joan, family Peter & Tom Abrams, Mark and Christa Romwalter, 5 grandchildren, and his sister Sheree West. A celebration of his life will be held in January. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests a donation to your favorite charity.

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aos County Sheriff Steve Miera is correct: Preventing suicide matters more than aesthetics.

That’s why it is time to stop delays and install suicide prevention features at the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. Not only will fewer people jump off the bridge to their deaths, first responders no longer will have to risk their lives recovering bodies or deal with post-traumatic stress after the arduous journey down into the gorge.

Delay in making the bridge safer is inexcusable.

Yes, there are crisis phone lines installed on the bridge. But efforts to construct physical barriers — a higher barrier or nets — to deter jumpers have stalled in recent years.

An unsuccessful attempt to locate the body of a jumper last month shows why the current situation at the bridge is untenable.

The body, reported on Nov. 10, apparently has been washed downstream. Rescuers have not been able to find it. The hike down

is fraught with danger, with some portions of the path barely 10 inches wide. Rescuers freeclimb almost a 600-foot vertical descent on their way to search for and recover bodies.

It’s unfair to put search-and-rescue teams at risk when other solutions exist.

A 2015 Department of Transportation feasibility study assessed the bridge’s ability to support additional weight and determined renovations would be required to install suicide deterrents. Two solutions were identified: a net or higher fencing.

Renovations, though, also could mean changes to the bridge’s structure. In 2015, projected cost of a higher barrier was $1.7 million, the price of which, we are sure, will have increased because of the delays.

Recoveries cost anywhere from $6,000 to $12,000. The real costs, of course, can’t be measured in dollars.

As for debating whether the barriers work, various studies have reached different conclusions, but one of the gold standards, published

in 2015 in The Lancet Psychiatry journal, found that installation of such barriers could reduce deaths by more than 90% at high-risk locations. The best results come from restricting access, encouraging people to get help and increasing the likelihood of third-party intervention. At the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge, only crisis lines are available. It’s not enough.

In San Francisco at the famous Golden Gate Bridge, a suicide prevention barrier already seems to be having a significant effect even though it’s not completed. There, a net will be installed by the end of the December at the latest, according to the Bridge Rail Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to preventing suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge. In 2022, there were 22 confirmed suicides; through October 2023, 13 suicides have been confirmed, which would be a significant year-toyear decline if those numbers hold.

Now, to do the same in New Mexico.

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The Feed Bin, a West Alameda Street landmark, closes, Dec. 7 My aunt and uncle, Vera and Adelmo Romero of Arroyo Hondo, bought The Feed Bin from the Dooleys, but after many successful years, sold it to focus on The Feed Bin in Taos and growing alfalfa in southern Colorado. So yes, it was family-owned and operated for a long time before the corporations took it over. Many of my cousins worked there, including Geronimo who customers loved, not only because he was a gentle giant but because he loved his work, especially with all the baby chicks.”

Holly Romero They were my go-to store for pinto beans.”

Steve Martinez The store and the wonderful employees will be missed.” Pete Prince Sorry to see it go out of business. Folks were always nice and helpful.”

Norma Avery Condolences — yet one more of Santa Fe’s authentic community stores of substance has now vanished.” Lee Hai

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THE PAST 100 YEARS From The Santa Fe New Mexican: Dec. 8, 1923: Santa Fe’s municipal Christmas Tree was an uncertain sort of proposition for a number years, first in the hands of one organization and then another. Now the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks has made it a regular and permanent thing.

Dec. 8, 1948: The teacher education commission is aiming at restoring prewar standards of teaching qualifications in New Mexico, Mrs. Ellen M. Vaughan, state certification director, said today.

Dec. 8, 1998: As a boy, Manuel-Julian Rudolfo Montoya of Mora wrote stories about his father — his favorite hero next to Batman.

In his stories, his father helped him and the family.

Montoya was 7 when his father died, but the child never forgot the things his father taught him — especially things about trust, honor and leadership.

It may be those things that helped the 21-year-old University of New Mexico senior became one of 32 American students named a Rhodes scholar Saturday.

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bridge, so it’s complicated. The bridge also lies within the jurisdiction of Taos Pueblo, the Bureau of Land Management and other entities. They first need to reach agreement about the need to build barriers and identify a source of funding.

So first, agree that action is required. Then fund a more detailed study of just what would be needed to build higher guardrails on the bridge — the last DOT study did not look closely enough at the structural integrity of the current bridge. Choose a method — net or fence; we agree with Sheriff Miera that a fence is preferable, considering jumpers caught by a net still would need rescue.

But let the study be made to assess possibilities. Then, choose one and fund the project.

A higher fence doesn’t have to be ugly.

Use light but strong material. Create patterns in the metal to make the barrier more than just a fence — it could become an artistic addition to the iconic bridge. Most of all, act to save lives.

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Congratulations, Lobos: You hired a good guy T he University of New Mexico should be elated with its recent head football coach hire, Bronco Mendenhall. He did a terrific job at the University of Virginia, and his leaving was UVA’s loss. Like many previous coaches, Bronco had difficultly beating Virginia Tech (once in five attempts), and most alumni feel the athletic director was challenging to work with and Bronco likely did not have her full support.

That said, he brought UVA to an Orange Bowl and had a winning record. The team played extremely hard for Bronco. He is not the most dynamic speaker, but a class man, excellent technician and outstanding motivator. The Lobos will conclude they are lucky to have signed Bronco.

We miss him greatly in Charlottesville, Va.

Steve McNulty

Virginia Beach, Va.

A few regrets Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was a great jurist but also had regrets about the Supreme Court’s Bush v. Gore 2000 decision, according to published reports. I agree wholeheartedly with her position in The New Yorker article by Jeffrey Toobin published May 6, 2013. From Toobin’s article, she is quoted as saying: “Maybe the Court should have said, ‘We’re not going to take it, goodbye.’ ” The case effectively awarded the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush, and she told Toobin “stirred up the public” and “gave the Court a less than perfect reputation.”

Past is prologue. Reform the Supreme Court now, or our democracy will not withstand the corruption the neocon-tea party-MAGA crowd have foisted on us.

Beach Beauchamp

Santa Fe

Parents need help At the end of October, it was announced Santa Fe Public Schools would be withdrawing a number of bus routes that served a variety of schools; there was also the opportunity introduced for parents who have to transport their children to apply for a mileage allowance to help offset the travel expenses. Unfortunately, the

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transportation department appears to be unable to provide any assistance in submitting claims.

I have contacted the department regularly since the start of November, but despite providing full information about myself and my children — I drive them to Atalaya Elementary School from Chupadero — I am still waiting for an application form to be sent out. I am sure there are other parents in a similar position, and I wonder how the department can justify such appalling service? If funds have been allocated, why is there a delay in helping parents cope? I hope this issue can be addressed soon.

Anthony Moore

Santa Fe

Try royalties No one likes to pay taxes. However, there is an alternative way to raise revenue for the federal government that is fair. The federal government produces intellectual property used extensively by corporations. For example, the Department of Defense-funded research at universities to develop ways to have computers “talk” to one another, which led to the development of the internet. Nowadays we live in an internet-based economy. Why not charge royalties to the corporations making billions of dollars from the internet? Los Alamos National Laboratory, funded by the Department of Energy, developed the human genome project that is now supported by the National Institutes of Health. This knowledge is used by the pharmaceutical industry to develop drugs and the medical industry to develop treatments.

Have the corporations that benefit from government intellectual property pay royalties for that property. This a fair process; those who use, pay. This would greatly lighten the income tax burden for individuals, small businesses and corporations. I have sent this proposal to both of our senators and our representative but have received no response. If more people contact them, perhaps they will pay attention.

Joseph Ginocchio

Santa Fe

n Canton, a rural town of about 3,000 people in southeastern South Dakota, religion is a big part of daily life. Many residents identify as being very conservative. The county Canton is in voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in 2020.

So it might come as a surprise that the town’s nursing home, Good Samaritan Society — Canton, is a standout in coronavirus vaccinations.

The numbers are astonishing: 94% of residents have already received the updated coronavirus shot, far above the national average of 27%.

The rate of coronavirus booster uptake among nursing home residents, who are extremely vulnerable to COVID19, is abysmally low. But North and South Dakota are two bright spots, having vaccinated 55% and nearly 57% of their nursing home populations, respectively.

As I wrote, these two states prioritized the partnership between pharmacies and long-term care facilities, seeking to problem-solve one facility at a time.

Even within those efforts, there are positive outliers that have exceeded the states’ already impressive averages. The facility in Canton is one of them.

To understand how it reached this unusually high vaccination coverage, I interviewed the facility’s medical director, Daniel Heinemann.

Heinemann is a family physician who grew up in South Dakota and completed medical school and residency there. He had an active medical practice and also served in a number of leadership roles, including representing family physicians and rural health providers with the American Medical Association. Now retired from clinical practice, he lives in Canton and oversees medical affairs for his community’s nursing home.

Based on our conversation, here are five factors for this facility’s success: Trust. Heinemann has been involved with the nursing home for about 40 years and has served as medical director for about 30. The residents he and his staff take care of are their friends and neighbors. Some have been his longtime patients.

“We are small, we are local and we have really dedicated staff,” Heinemann says. Everyone is devoted to “take care of the elders, many of whom have been the bedrock people of our community.”

One-on-one outreach.

Family members must provide consent before vaccination, so “we make sure we contacted every family personally, by phone or in person, to talk to them about the importance of the vaccines,” Heinemann said.

He emphasized the need

to listen carefully and answer questions patiently. If a staff member received a question they couldn’t answer, they’d contact him. “I’ll either make the phone call or give the staff the information they need to go back to that individual again.”

Connection with the medical system. “If the family says, ‘we want to think about it,’ or ‘we’re not sure,’ we will call them back,” Heinemann told me. “We’ll also let the resident’s physicians know that the family’s got some questions.” That way, the resident’s primary-care provider can also address their concerns and multiple trusted voices will be conveying a similar message.

Clear messaging. Heinemann has frequent conversations with the staff to make sure they are all on the same page about the science behind coronavirus vaccines and why they are safe and effective. “It’s not going to keep you from getting infected,” he said, but it will help prevent you from becoming seriously ill and dying.

That messaging extends to family members, many of whom are elderly themselves.

Heinemann believes in the adage that “you catch more bears with honey than you do with anything else.” His philosophy is to “be honest and open and give them the information to help make them make the right decision.”

Strong leadership. It’s impossible to come away from a discussion with Heinemann with any sentiment other than awe for his personal commitment to the residents and his community. His strong advocacy of vaccines is also clear and no doubt translates to how he speaks with the staff and, in turn, how they convey their recommendations.

For his part, Heinemann credits the facility’s progress in safeguarding residents to its staff and “their caring nature and their connectivity with residents.”

At the peak of the pandemic, as many as 25 residents died in one month because of the virus. But in the past year, not one resident has died from COVID-19, even though they have weathered several outbreaks.

Not every nursing home is fortunate to have a Heinemann as their medical director. But his experience shows that passionate advocacy makes a difference, as does persistence and respectful dialogue. These are attributes all health care providers and family members can adopt when trying to convince those we care for to follow vaccine recommendations.

Leana S. Wen is a professor at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. This was originally published by The Washington Post.

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Bacteria linked to formula kills baby FDA says no ‘broader public health concern’

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WILLIMANTIC, Conn. — The killing of a Connecticut nurse making a house call in October was a nightmare come true for an industry gripped by the fear of violence.

Already stressed out by staffing shortages and mounting caseloads, heath care workers are increasingly worrying about the possibility of a patient becoming violent — a scenario that is too common and on the rise nationwide.

Joyce Grayson, a 63-year-old mother of six, went into a halfway house for sex offenders in late October to give medication to a man with a violent past. Police found her body in the basement and have named her patient as the suspect in her killing.

Grayson’s death has her peers and lawmakers renewing their yearslong pleas for better protections for home health care workers, including sending them out with escorts and providing more information about their patients. The calls come during an era of increasing violence against medical professionals in general.

“I used to go into some pretty bad neigh-

ST. LOUIS — The dangerous bacteria that sparked powdered formula recalls and shortages last year has infected two babies this year, killing a Kentucky child and causing brain damage in a Missouri infant.

Federal health officials confirmed Thursday two cases of invasive infections caused

by Cronobacter sakazakii have been reported in 2023, both in infants who consumed powdered infant formula made by Abbott Nutrition, the company at the center of the 2022 crisis.

Food and Drug Administration officials said there was no evidence the infections were linked to manufacturing and no reason to issue recalls. The bacteria are found naturally in the environment and also can make their way into infant formula after the packaging is opened.

“There is no indication of a

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Connecticut Nurses Honor Guard member Kelly Salata during a vigil for Joyce Grayson at the Connecticut State Capitol’s North Lobby on Nov. 28 in Hartford, Conn. The death of the 63-year-old mother of six is sparking renewed calls to better protect health care workers from a wave of violence across the country.

borhoods,” said Tracy Wodatch, a visiting nurse and chief executive of the Connecticut Association of Healthcare at Home. She said she used to call the police and get an officer to escort her when she felt unsafe. But because of budget and staffing issues, that is no longer an option, she said.

Grayson, who had been a nurse for over 36 years including the last 10 as a visiting nurse, was found dead Oct. 28 in the Willimantic

halfway house. She didn’t return from a visit to patient Michael Reese, a convicted rapist.

No charges have been filed in the killing.

“It’s all nurses are thinking about right now, even the hospital nurses because they’ve had so many close calls,” said Connecticut state Sen. Martha Marx, a visiting nurse and New London Democrat who is calling for changes in both state and federal laws.

Long at odds, Greece and Turkey vow to work together in peace ATHENS, Greece — After years of tensions between Greece and Turkey, the countries’ leaders signed a “declaration on friendly relations and good neighborliness” Thursday in what they described as a bid to set the two neighboring, rival nations on a more constructive path.

The eventual goal, they said,

was to resolve long-standing differences that in recent decades have brought them to the brink of military conflict.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed the declaration as Erdogan made his first visit to Athens in six years.

Although the pact is not legally

binding, it is historically significant — previous Greek leaders have tried but failed to achieve it — and carries strong symbolism.

Top officials from both countries were also engaged in talks on issues including migration, energy, tourism and trade. The two leaders said their aim was to double annual trade between

their countries to $10 billion.

Erdogan appeared relaxed in a televised exchange with his Greek counterpart, President Katerina Sakellaropoulou. Greek television also showed Mitsotakis and Erdogan engaged in an unusually cordial handshake before ascending the steps of the prime minister’s mansion for talks.

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Kentucky health officials notified the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Nov. 15 a child who consumed Similac Total Comfort powdered formula died after being infected with Cronobacter sakazakii. The same type of bacteria led federal investigators to shut down an Abbott formula plant in Sturgis, Mich., last year when inspections showed widespread contamination in the plant.

In Kentucky, the FDA said it “has not found evidence” of contamination after a Nov. 21 inspection at an Abbott plant.

Abbott officials said there is no evidence conditions at the company’s manufacturing plants or contamination in sealed products caused the illnesses.

Frank Yiannas, formerly in charge of food safety response at the FDA, said a negative test does not guarantee there’s no contamination. “A positive test result means a lot. A negative test result doesn’t mean anything,” he said.

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ESPAÑOLA he Mesa Vista Trojans weren’t unaccustomed to playing intense, physical games.

But what the Texico Wolverines did to them in the quarterfinals of the Class 2A State Girls Basketball Tournament was unlike what they had seen all season.

Texico wasn’t just INSIDE the more physical u See a disteam, it was the trict outlook: bigger, stronger Class 1A-2A team, and it wore girls. PAGE B-4 on the Trojans as the minutes ticked away in a 48-38 loss. It ended the dream of winning the 2A title for second-seeded Mesa Vista, but it also lit the fire to make sure it wasn’t pushed around like that again.

“I think it taught us not to give up right away,” Trojans senior guard Isabella Boies. “After we lost the lead, I kinda felt like we stopped playing a little bit.”

The lesson was harshly learned, but the seven seniors, who endured the deaths of head coach Leonard Torrez Jr. and assistant Leonard Torrez Sr. during the pandemic, helped turn the program around into one of the best in 2A and has one more chance to do something historic — win the program’s first state title.

The Trojans said they believe the path to that journey was not found on the court, but in the weight room.

After getting beat up by Texico, the eventual state champion, they began a weight training regimen designed to ensure they can be just as physical.

“I didn’t have to beg them,” said Mesa Vista head coach Jesse Boies, Isabella’s dad. “I would to the gym on the weekend or in the evenings after work, and I would see a few of the girls hitting the weights. I was like, ‘What are you doing here?’ And they were like, ‘Well, this year, we’re not going to get pushed around like that.’ ” The Trojans showed that in their season opener against Cimarron, a team coach Boies said was similar in size to the Wolverines. They scored the first 15 points, led 30-9 after one quarter and rolled to a 78-29 win at home on Dec. 1.

“I think [the weight training] helped us play through contact better and just play stronger,” Isabella Boies said.

Coach Boies said he doesn’t have to worry about points, as the Trojans return three of their top four scorers from last year’s 23-6 squad. But he pointed to the play of 5-foot-9 junior post Kaelynn Trujillo, 5-6 senior forward Brittni Suazo and 5-3 senior guard Kylie Torrez for setting the

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ATC’s Juju Bernardino shoots against Del Norte’s Julian Castillo on Nov. 30.

“We never really took time off in the summer,” Bernardino said.

Veteran team ATC aiming for deep run Phoenix reached title game while surprising opponents

By Will Webber

wwebber@sfnewmexican.com

ABOVE: Mesa Vista senior Isabella Boies is one of seven returning seniors on a squad that was seeded second in the Class 2A State Girls Basketball Tournament but lost to eventual champion Texico in the quarterfinals. The Trojans spent the offseason weight training to avoid getting pushed around by bigger, stronger teams.

LUIS SÁNCHEZ SATURNO NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

LEFT: Mesa Vista head coach Jesse Boies is in his second full season and has the team ready to contend in Class 2A after losing in the quarterfinals in March. Boies said a tough nondistrict schedule should have the Trojans ready to compete for the state title.

JIM WEBER NEW MEXICAN FILE PHOTO

Please see story on Page B-4

N C A A SP OR T S

There’s no sneaking up on everyone this time.

Likewise, the days of people leaning in to ask what ATC stands for or where those guys are from are over.

A year after winning a district title and reaching the championship game of the Class 2A state tournament, Santa Fe’s Academy for Technology and the Classics is no longer the best kept secret in small-school boys prep basketball.

“People definitely know who we are INSIDE now,” said coach Bobby u See a disRomero. “I think no trict outlook: one is looking past us Class 1A-2A anymore.” boys.

The Phoenix won 26 PAGE B-4 games last season and return virtually the entire roster. That includes seniors Rocky Miller and Juju Bernardino, two of the best players in the small-school ranks.

It’s an older, veteran group that did everything it had to during the offseason to ensure last year wasn’t a fluke.

As soon as the Phoenix lost in the title game to Pecos, Romero laid out a road map to keep the wins rolling in.

He raised money to send the core of the team out of state to play the best teams it could find. They found gyms around town and across the state to challenge bigger schools. “We went to California and, yeah, we saw some pretty good teams out there,” Bernardino said.

“But that’s what you have to do. You really see what it’s like out there, all that competition, you know?”

As much growth as the team has experienced in the months following last year’s title game in The Pit, not a lot has changed on the homefront. The Phoenix are still enjoying the fruits of the school’s newish gym, and they share Please see story on Page B-4

UNM FO O TBALL

Suit: Transfer rule ‘I like the process of transforming’ a team violates federal law Lobos coach Mendenhall MENDENHALL CONTRACT

Complaint filed by seven states argues athletes should not have to sit out a year

By John raby and aaron Beard

to be paid $6 million plus incentives over five years

Annual guaranteed compensation: $1.2 million

INCENTIVES

By Will Webber

wwebber@sfnewmexican.com

The Associated Press

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal lawsuit filed by a group of states alleges the NCAA’s transfer rule for college athletes violates antitrust law.

The lawsuit, filed in West Virginia’s northern district, challenges the NCAA’s authority to impose a one-year delay in the eligibility of certain athletes who transfer between schools. The suit said the rule “unjustifiably restrains the ability of these college athletes to engage in the market for their labor as NCAA Division I college athletes.”

The lawsuit filed by West Virginia and six other states alleges violations of the Sherman Act. NCAA rules allow underclassmen to transfer once without having to sit out a year. But an additional transfer as an undergraduate generally requires the NCAA to grant a waiver allowing the athlete to compete immediately.

Without it, the athlete would have to sit out for a year at Please see story on Page B-5

ALBUQUERQUE — The University of New Mexico’s new football coach has been handed a five-year, $6 million contract that has incentives that could push his pay even higher.

Introduced at a packed news conference in The Pit that was lined with prominent boosters and several current players, Bronco Mendenhall fielded questions from the media for more than half an hour Thursday morning.

Taking the podium with tears in his eyes as he spoke about the chance to coach at a school he left 21 years ago, he was presented with a red No. 33 jersey — the number of Lobos coaches in team history — by UNM athletic direc-

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

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Then-Virginia coach Bronco Mendenhall during the Atlantic Coast Conference championship in 2019. As UNM’s new football coach, he will be paid $1.2 million a year plus incentives.

tor Eddie Nuñez. It was a moment, 57-year-old coaching veteran said, was something he hadn’t planned on until Nuñez reached out to him

a little more than a week ago.

Mendenhall was flown to Las Vegas, Nev., for meetings with UNM leaders to discuss his vision

u Reach MWC championship game: $25,000 u Win MWC championship: $50,000 u MWC coach of the year: $25,000 u National coach of the year: $50,000 u Bowl game: $50,000 u CFP appearance: $50,000 u Each CFP win: $50,000 u National championship: $100,000 u Academic achievements: $10,000$20,000 u 15% increase in ticket sales in any season: $15,000 (half to coach, half to program) u 25% ticket increase: $25,000 (split evenly) u 50% ticket increase: $50,000 (split evenly)

for turning around a program that hasn’t won more than four games in a season since 2016.

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SCOREBOARD

Friday, December 8, 2023

THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

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

3 a.m. Saturday GOLF — DP World Tour: The Alfred Dunhill Championship, Third Round, Leopard Creek CC, Malelane, South Africa

COLLEGE BASKETBALL (WOMEN’S) 5 p.m. ACCN — DePaul at Miami COLLEGE FOOTBALL 5 p.m. ESPN — The Home Depot College Football Awards 7 p.m ESPN2 — NCAA FCS Tournament: Furman at Montana, Quarterfinal

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL (BOY’S) 9 p.m. ESPNU — Nike EYBL Scholastic: Montverde (Fla.) vs. Link Academy (Mo.), Las Vegas

COLLEGE HOCKEY (MEN’S) 4:30 p.m. BTN — Minnesota at Ohio St. 7 p.m. BTN — Penn St. at Wisconsin 7 p.m. PAC-12N — Dartmouth at Arizona St.

HORSE RACING 11:30 a.m. FS2 — NYRA: America’s Day at the Races NBA 5:30 p.m. NBATV — New York at Boston 8 p.m. ESPN — LA Clippers at Utah

COLLEGE SOCCER (MEN’S) 4 p.m. ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: Clemson vs. West Virginia, Semifinal, Louisville, Ky. 6:45 p.m. ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: Oregon St. vs Notre Dame, Semifinal, Louisville, Ky.

NHL 5 p.m. NHLN — Pittsburgh at Florida SAILING 3 a.m. Saturday CBSSN — Sail GP: Event 6 — Day 1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates 4 a.m. Saturday CBSSN — Sail GP: Event 6 — Day 1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

GOLF 10 a.m. ESPN — The World Champions Cup: Day 2 Matches, The Concession Golf Club, Bradenton, Fla. 11 a.m. GOLF — PGA Tour/LPGA Tour: The Grant Thornton Invitational, First Round, Tiburón Golf Club, Naples, Fla.

SOCCER (MEN’S) 7:45 a.m. FS2 — Saudi Pro League: Al-Hilal at Al-Tai

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Interceptions 1-32 1-30 PENALTIES-Yds 7-59 1-5 FUMBLES-Lost 0-0 1-0 TIME OF POSSESSION 27:41 32:19 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_New England, Elliott 22-68, Zappe 3-13. Pittsburgh, Trubisky 8-30, Harris 12-29, Austin 1-12, Warren 7-11.

PASSING_New England, Zappe 19-28-1-240.

Pittsburgh, Trubisky 22-35-1-190, Co.Heyward 0-1-0-0.

RECEIVING_New England, Elliott 7-72, Smith-Schuster 4-90, Henry 3-40, Thornton 3-17, Montgomery 1-17, P.Brown 1-4. Pittsburgh, Pickens 5-19, Warren 4-29, D.Johnson 3-57, Harris 3-19, Freiermuth 3-18, Co.Heyward 2-15, A.Robinson 1-21, Washington 1-12.

PUNT RETURNS_New England, None. Pittsburgh, Austin 3-10.

KICKOFF RETURNS_New England, Montgomery 1-24. Pittsburgh, Igwebuike 2-42.

TACKLES-ASSISTS-SACKS_New England, Tavai 8-6-0, J.Jones 5-0-0, Dugger 4-3-.5, Mills 4-30, Jennings 4-0-0, Bryant 3-2-0, Bentley 2-5-0, Godchaux 2-2-0, Wilson 2-1-1, Barmore 1-3-.5, Guy 1-3-0, Peppers 1-2-0, Jackson 1-0-0, White 0-1-0, Wise 0-1-0. Pittsburgh, Ca.Heyward 5-1-1, Ni.Herbig 4-2-0, Porter 4-0-0, Watt 3-2-0, Kazee 3-0-0, Peterson 3-0-0, Roberts 2-4-1, M.Fitzpatrick 2-3-0, Martinez 2-2-0, Highsmith 2-0-0, Walker 1-2-0, Adams 1-1-0, M.Robinson 1-0-0, Thompson 1-0-0, Wallace 1-0-0, Ogunjobi 0-2-0, Benton 0-1-0, A.Watts 0-1-0.

INTERCEPTIONS_New England, Peppers 1-32.

Pittsburgh, Walker 1-30.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

OFFICIALS_Referee Clay Martin, Ump James Carter, HL Jerod Phillips, LJ Greg Bradley, FJ Alonzo Ramsey, SJ Dave Hawkshaw, BJ Greg Wilson, Replay Brian Matoren.

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.

MONDAY, DEC. 18

Philadelphia at Seattle, 6:15 p.m.

NEW ENGLAND 21, PITTSBURGH 18 — —

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First Quarter NE_Elliott 11 pass from Zappe (Ryland kick), 11:12. Drive: 9 plays, 75 yards, 3:48. Key Plays: Zappe 12 pass to Elliott; Zappe 37 pass to Smith-Schuster; Zappe 11 run on 3rd-and-9. New England 7, Pittsburgh 0.

Pit_FG Boswell 56, 6:39. Drive: 8 plays, 31 yards, 4:33. Key Plays: Igwebuike kick return to Pittsburgh 31; Trubisky 15 run; Jackson 0 interception return to New England 39. New England 7, Pittsburgh 3.

Second Quarter NE_Henry 8 pass from Zappe (Ryland kick), 14:14. Drive: 2 plays, 11 yards, 00:33. Key Play: Peppers 32 interception return to Pittsburgh 11.

New England 14, Pittsburgh 3.

NE_Henry 24 pass from Zappe (Ryland kick), 7:38. Drive: 4 plays, 59 yards, 2:10. Key Play: Zappe 28 pass to Smith-Schuster on 3rd-and-3.

New England 21, Pittsburgh 3.

Pit_D.Johnson 25 pass from Trubisky (Boswell kick), 2:50. Drive: 9 plays, 75 yards, 4:48. Key Plays: Trubisky 12 pass to Warren; C.Austin 12 run; Trubisky 2 run on 3rd-and-1. New England 21, Pittsburgh 10.

Fourth Quarter Pit_Trubisky 1 run (Freiermuth pass from Trubisky), 11:44. Drive: 4 plays, 26 yards, 1:39. Key Play: Trubisky 12 pass to Washington. New England 21, Pittsburgh 18.

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PREP SCORES THURSDAY BOYS BASKETBALL

Abernathy, Texas 69, Tatum 40 Alamogordo 45, Los Lunas 42 Albuquerque Academy 63, Belen 60 Albuquerque High 53, West Mesa 47 Artesia 73, Deming 23 Bernalillo 63, Santa Fe Prep 53 Bloomfield 60, Sandia Prep 47 Capital 80, Aztec 32 Clayton 47, Wagon Mound 19 Cliff 67, Animas 36 Cobre 51, Chaparral 45 Espanola Valley 56, Mesa Vista 44 Eunice 64, Morton, Texas 46 Eunice 78, Seagraves, Texas 49 Farmington 80, Grants 66 Fort Sumner 64, Sundown, Texas 39 Grady 49, Floyd 37 Hatch Valley 51, Reserve 34 Hot Springs 61, NMMI 29 Logan 85, Evangel Christian 53 Lovington 85, Gallup 53 Mescalero Apache 50, Elida 46 Moriarty 73, Legacy 54 Navajo Prep 61, Silver 33 Pecos 72, Cottonwood Classical 46 Pojoaque 75, Kirtland Central 64 Portales 67, Littlefield, Texas 65 Rehoboth 71, Ramah 26 Rio Rancho 55, Carlsbad 44 Sudan, Texas 47, Tatum 41 Thoreau 84, Ganado, Ariz. 49 Tohajilee 44, Gateway Christian 33 Tohatchi 78, Red Mesa, Ariz. 33 Tularosa 66, Zuni 39

WEDNESDAY BOYS BASKETBALL

Albuquerque Academy 80, Espanola Valley 56 Chaparral 61, Cobre 55 Cleveland 67, Los Lunas 61 Cloudcroft 63, Carrizozo 40 Clovis 70, Goddard 32 Highland 70, Valley 57 Manzano 60, Bernalillo 55 NMSD 46, Tierra Encantada 31 Navajo Prep 69, Kirtland Central 32 Newcomb 63, Aztec 57 Shiprock 60, Piedra Vista 57 Valencia 68, Del Norte 66

THURSDAY GIRLS BASKETBALL

Alamogordo 62, Goddard 32 Artesia 61, Deming 33 Bosque School 37, Del Norte 32 Capitan 47, Socorro 31

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

Friday Boys basketball — Al Armendariz Tournament at Capital: semifinals, Pojoaque Valley vs. Farmington, 3:30 p.m.; Pecos vs. Capital, 7 p.m.; consolation, Kirtland Central vs.

Grants, 9:30 a.m.; Abq. Cottonwood Classical Prep vs. Aztec, 12:30 p.m.

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

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

Sandia Prep, 3:45 p.m.

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, Santa Fe Indian School vs. Hobbs, 2 p.m.; Navajo Prep vs. West Las Vegas, 5:30 p.m.; consolation, Pecos vs. Grants, 8 a.m.; Peñasco vs. Capital, 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.

PREP ROUNDUP

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.

Girls basketball What happened: The Sundevils needed a

ESPAÑOLA VALLEY

Saturday

change in mindset Thursday in the opening game of the Sundevil Shootout at Edward Medina Gymnasium. When head coach Ray Romero learned his team had not beaten the Trojans when they faced off in summer scrimmages over the past few seasons, he didn’t hesitate to speak his mind. “I told them we’re going to beat them, because we’re together as coaches and as players,” Romero said. Española built a 22-16 lead at the half, then used a variety of defenses to keep Mesa Vista on its heels and up the lead to 37-26 heading into the fourth.

Top players: Alyanna Medina and Aliya Lopez each had 11 for the Sundevils, who had all 10 players score at least four points. The Trojans had Shanae Silva score 13 points and Tana Lopez

56

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.

MESA VISTA

44 had 12.

What’s next: Española (4-2) takes on Miyamura in the second game

of the round-robin tournament at 5 p.m. Friday. Mesa Vista (1-1) plays Roswell at 2 p.m.

Boys basketball What happened: All it took was a little turn-

BERNALILLO

over spell for the Blue Griffins to see a 30-27 deficit in a first-round game of Albuquerque Sandia Prep’s Sundevil Invitational balloon to nine points heading into the fourth quarter. Prep head coach Joe Vigil said his team did not rebound well despite having a size advantage, which did not sit well with him. “We have a tendency to rely on our size [to get rebounds],” Vigil said.

“We need to be fundamentally sound so we can secures those boards.”

Top players: Van Anderson led the Blue Griffins with 22 points, while Mitch Grover added 15.

Bernalillo had Fabian Lopez score a team-high 20 points, and Joshua Abreu chipped in with 15.

What’s next: Prep (1-2) plays the host Sundevils in a consolation semifinal at 3:45 p.m.

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

Tennessee at Miami, 6:15 p.m.

FIRST DOWNS Rushing Passing Penalty THIRD DOWN EFF FOURTH DOWN EFF TOTAL NET YARDS Total Plays Avg Gain NET YARDS RUSHING Rushes Avg per rush NET YARDS PASSING Sacked-Yds lost Gross-Yds passing Completed-Att. Had Intercepted Yards-Pass Play KICKOFFS-EndZone-TB PUNTS-Avg. Punts blocked FGs-PATs blocked TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE Punt Returns Kickoff Returns

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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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PREP SCHEDULE

Carrizozo 45, Clovis Christian 36 Cotton Center, Texas 24, Eunice 18 Crownpoint 48, Grants 16 EP Riverside, Texas 46, Carlsbad 39 Eldorado 52, Los Lunas 43 Espanola Valley 56, Mesa Vista 44 Estancia 29, Tularosa 20 Farwell, Texas 85, Texico 15 Fort Sumner/House 45, Muleshoe, Texas 42 Gateway Christian 42, Hagerman 35 Hobbs 87, Grants 14 Jemez Valley 51, Questa 44 Logan 59, Evangel Christian 11 Manzano 40, Belen 33 Melrose 69, Mountainair 34 Mescalero Apache 53, Dexter 18 Mesilla Valley Christian 40, Cloudcroft 10 Mora 36, Santa Rosa 28 Navajo Prep 58, Penasco 33 Portales 46, Silverton, Colo. 30 Rio Rancho 51, Piedra Vista 40 Roswell 59, Miyamura 47 Santa Fe Indian 55, Pecos 18 St. Pius X 67, Bernalillo 32 Tohajilee 50, Grady 48 Tucumcari 58, Cottonwood Classical 20 West Las Vegas 42, Capital 23 West Mesa 40, Lovington 39 Wingate 59, Navajo Pine 2

WEDNESDAY GIRLS BASKETBALL

Atrisco Heritage 73, Rio Grande 49 Farmington 57, Gallup 41 Monte del Sol 53, Los Alamos 48 Rehoboth 47, Ramah 32 Santa Fe 47, Cibola 32 Shiprock 42, Newcomb 41 St. Michael’s 51, East Mountain 16 Tohatchi 45, Taos 33

COLLEGE BASKETBALL WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TOP 25 DAILY THURSDAY

No. 1 South Carolina (8-0) did not play. Next: at No. 11 Utah, Sunday.

No. 2 UCLA (8-0) beat CS Northridge 111-48.

Next: vs. No. 20 Florida St., Sunday.

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

No. 4 Iowa (9-1) did not play. Next: at Wisconsin, Sunday.

No. 5 Texas (10-0) did not play. 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 (8-1) beat Saint Joseph’s 74-48. Next: vs. No. 1 South Carolina, Sunday.

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

No. 13 Kansas St. (8-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Missouri, Saturday.

No. 14 Notre Dame (7-1) did not play. Next: vs.

Purdue, Sunday.

No. 15 Virginia Tech (6-2) did not play. Next: vs.

Radford, Sunday.

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

No. 17 UConn (5-3) did not play. 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. (7-2) beat Jacksonville 99-73.

Next: at No. 2 UCLA, Sunday.

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 (9-2) beat California 78-70, OT. Next: at Rice, Saturday.

No. 24 North Carolina (6-3) did not play. Next: vs.

No. 17 UConn, Sunday.

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

WOMEN’S SCORES THURSDAY EAST

Fairfield 67, St. John’s 62 Holy Cross 80, Connecticut College 39 Iona 59, Hofstra 54 Lehigh 106, La Salle 60 Old Dominion 57, Delaware 53 Siena 65, Fordham 62 Utah 74, Saint Joseph’s 48

SOUTH

Charlotte 69, Wake Forest 58 Clemson 80, Duke 64 Florida Gulf Coast 102, Gardner-Webb 53 Florida St. 99, Jacksonville 73 James Madison 75, William & Mary 56

MIDWEST

E. Illinois 67, North Dakota 55 Lindenwood (Mo.) 71, E. Michigan 64 St. Thomas (MN) 67, Milwaukee 65 Valparaiso 65, Indiana-Northwest 60 Vanderbilt 51, Butler 39

SOUTHWEST

Arkansas 100, Louisiana Tech 60 Stephen F. Austin 76, Portland 71

FAR WEST

Arizona 81, UC San Diego 38 Gonzaga 78, California 70, OT S. Utah 58, New Mexico 40 San Diego St. 67, San Diego 63 UCLA 111, CS Northridge 48

MEN’S SCORES THURSDAY EAST

Amherst 72, York College (NY) 67 Brandeis 62, Lasell 57 Colby 72, Bowdoin 62 Delaware St. 106, Va.-Lynchburg 73 Endicott 82, Salem St. 66 Fisher 110, Curry 105, OT Fredonia St. 79, Houghton 69 Gordon 83, Elms 72 Hamilton 60, Utica 53 Husson 90, Maine Maritime 51 Johnson & Wales (RI) 73, Hartford 63 New England Coll. 71, Northern Vermont-John-

Percentages: FG .358, FT .700.

3-Point Goals: 7-31, .226 (Alvarado 2-3, Murphy III 2-7, Marshall 1-1, McCollum 1-4, Valanciunas 1-4, Lewis Jr. 0-1, Daniels 0-2, Hawkins 0-3, Ingram 0-3, Jones 0-3).

Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: None.

Blocked Shots: 5 (Valanciunas 3, Daniels, Jones).

Turnovers: 12 (Ingram 3, Williamson 3, Alvarado, Jones, Lewis Jr., Marshall, McCollum, Valanciunas).

Steals: 7 (Alvarado 2, Jones 2, McCollum 2, Valanciunas).

Technical Fouls: None.

son 63 Penn St.-Harrisburg 75, Neumann 66 Pratt 79, Brooklyn College 72, OT Rivier 75, Framingham St. 72, OT Wilmington (DC) 78, Kutztown 58

SOUTH

Augusta 86, Brewton-Parker College 73 Georgia Southwestern 69, Middle Georgia 60 Lees-Mcrae 78, Erskine 67 North Alabama 109, Rust College 65 UNC-Greensboro 87, E. Kentucky 85, OT West Georgia 97, Valdosta St. 74 Winston-Salem 82, Bluefield 71

FG FT REB L.A. LAKERS MIN M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS

MIDWEST

Bellarmine 98, Berea 59 Cent. Oklahoma 73, Missouri Southern 63 E. Illinois 75, IUPUI 58 Fort Hays St. 57, NW Missouri St. 49 Ill.-Springfield 97, McKendree 70 Iowa St. 90, Iowa 65 Lyon College 77, Fontbonne 66 Mary 70, Minn.-Crookston 65 Missouri-St. Louis 75, Quincy 66 N. Dakota St. 78, Portland 67 N. Michigan 75, Wayne St. (Mich.) 69 Neb.-Kearney 93, Missouri Western 90 Pittsburg St. 82, Newman 66 Principia 82, Mississippi Univ. for Women 76, OT Purdue-Northwest 84, Ferris St. 80 Saginaw Valley St. 78, Michigan Tech 77 Wis.-Parkside 66, Lake Superior St. 50 Wright St. 81, Bethel (In) Pilots 62

SOUTHWEST

Angelo St. 75, Ark.-Fort Smith 59 Cent. Arkansas 75, UALR 71 Dallas Baptist 107, W. New Mexico 97 E. New Mexico 67, Texas-Tyler 66 E. Texas Baptist 67, Concordia-Austin 62 Hardin-Simmons 91, Howard Payne 79 Mary Hardin-Baylor 75, LeTourneau 66 McMurry 102, Sul Ross St. 92 Texas-Permian Basin 76, Oklahoma Christian 73

FAR WEST

W

INDIANA

PCT

GB

L

PCT

GB

L

PCT

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 12 12 8 2

7 8 9 14 19

SOUTHEAST

CENTRAL

W

W

.750 .650 .600 .550 .429

SOUTHWEST

W

— 2 4½ 7 10½

.682 .600 .571 .364 .095

— 2 2½ 7 12½

L

PCT

GB

L

PCT

GB

L

PCT

GB

Dallas New Orleans Houston Memphis San Antonio

12 12 9 6 3

8 11 9 14 17

Minnesota Oklahoma City Denver Utah Portland

16 13 14 7 6

4 7 8 14 14

L.A. Lakers Sacramento Phoenix L.A. Clippers Golden State

14 11 12 10 10

9 8 9 10 11

NORTHWEST

PACIFIC

W

W

— 2 3 4 6½

.667 .571 .450 .316 .150

WESTERN CONFERENCE

.600 .522 .500 .300 .150

.800 .650 .636 .333 .300 .609 .579 .571 .500 .476

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

GB

— 1½ 2 6 9

— 3 3 9½ 10 — 1 1 2½ 3

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Indiana 128, Milwaukee 119 (Semifinal Game 1) L.A. Lakers 133, New Orleans 89 (Semifinal Game 1)

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Atlanta at Phila., 5 p.m.

Detroit at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Toronto at Charlotte, 5 p.m.

New York at Boston, 5:30 p.m.

Washington at Brooklyn, 5:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Miami, 6 p.m.

Golden State at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

Minnesota at Memphis, 6 p.m.

Chicago at San Antonio, 6:30 p.m.

Houston at Denver, 7 p.m.

Sacramento at Phoenix, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Portland, 8 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Utah, 8 p.m.

L.A. LAKERS 133, NEW ORLEANS 89

FG FT REB NEW ORLEANS MIN M-A M-A O-T APFPTS

TOTALS

31:13 4-13 25:46 6-8 23:05 3-9 26:01 4-10 25:20 4-14 22:25 5-13 20:18 3-7 16:58 1-5 12:08 1-2 12:00 2-8 12:00 0-1 6:23 1-3 6:23 0-2

1-2 1-6 2-2 2-2 0-0 2-2 0-0 2-2 2-2 0-0 2-2 0-0 0-0

30 29

24 38

17 43

18 23

— —

89 133

FG FT REB M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS

MIN

TOTALS

1-3 7 3 9 1-2 3 3 13 0-3 2 2 9 4-7 1 4 10 1-4 2 2 9 0-3 1 1 14 0-2 4 1 8 2-8 0 1 4 2-4 0 1 5 0-2 0 1 4 1-2 1 2 2 0-0 0 0 2 0-2 1 0 0

240:034-9514-2012-422221 89

2-2 4-11 2 3 1-2 3-6 2 3 6-8 1-10 2 2 4-4 0-3 1 2 2-2 3-7 15 1 1-1 0-1 1 5 3-3 2-6 1 4 1-1 1-6 0 1 0-0 0-0 2 0 1-2 1-1 4 0

8 14 26 10 27 6 9 11 8 9

240:0 50-102 21-25 15-51 30 21 128

Percentages: FG .490, FT .840.

3-Point Goals: 7-33, .212 (Haliburton 3-9, Turner 2-8, Toppin 1-3, Nesmith 1-4, B.Brown 0-1, Mathurin 0-2, Hield 0-6).

Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 1.

Blocked Shots: 8 (Turner 3, Haliburton, Hield, Mathurin, Nembhard, Nesmith).

Turnovers: 9 (McConnell 3, Hield 2, Mathurin 2, B.Brown, Jackson).

Steals: 9 (McConnell 3, Hield 2, B.Brown, Jackson, Nembhard, Turner).

Technical Fouls: None.

REB MILWAUKEE MIN O-T A

G.Antetokounmpo 11-13 1-10 37 Middleton 29:36 1-7 4 B.Lopez 36:54 2-6 2 Beasley 36:16 1-3 1 Lillard 41:36 0-7 7 Portis 17:47 4-6 1 Payne 16:27 0-1 2 Beauchamp 15:25 3-6 0 Green 4:13 0-0 0 Jackson Jr. 1:16 0-0 0

TOTALS 12-46

Memphis 116, Detroit 102 Phila. 131, Washington 126 Cleveland 121, Orlando 111 Miami 112, Toronto 103 Minnesota 102, San Antonio 94 Brooklyn 114, Atlanta 113 Houston 110, Oklahoma City 101 Chicago 111, Charlotte 100 Dallas 147, Utah 97 L.A. Clippers 111, Denver 102 Golden State 110, Portland 106

Ingram Williamson Valanciunas Jones McCollum Murphy III Alvarado Daniels Marshall Hawkins Zeller Lewis Jr. Robinson-Earl

NEW ORLEANS L.A. LAKERS

Hield 30:02 3-11 Toppin 21:16 6-8 Turner 31:50 9-18 B.Brown 28:07 3-9 Haliburton 36:32 11-19 Nesmith 26:44 2-6 Mathurin 23:44 3-12 Jackson 16:10 5-7 Nembhard 14:07 4-5 McConnell 11:28 4-7

L

Boston Phila.

New York Brooklyn Toronto

240:0 47-86 22-29 11-59 31 16 133

Percentages: FG .547, FT .759.

3-Point Goals: 17-35, .486 (Prince 5-8, James 4-4, Reaves 3-6, Russell 2-5, Lewis 1-2, Reddish 1-2, Hachimura 1-3, Christie 0-1, Hayes 0-1, Wood 0-1, Davis 0-2).

Team Rebounds: 5. Team Turnovers: 1.

Blocked Shots: 4 (Davis 2, Hood-Schifino, Vanderbilt).

Turnovers: 14 (Russell 4, Davis 2, Reaves 2, Wood 2, Hayes, Hood-Schifino, Lewis, Reddish).

Steals: 6 (Davis 2, Christie, Prince, Reaves, Russell).

Technical Fouls: None.

INDIANA 128, MILWAUKEE 119

NBA ATLANTIC

TOTALS

8-8 0-5 8 1 30 2-2 2-5 2 1 9 6-8 5-15 5 1 16 0-0 0-3 1 3 15 0-0 0-3 1 1 14 4-4 0-5 7 0 17 1-2 0-1 2 3 12 0-2 0-2 0 1 6 0-1 0-4 0 4 4 0-0 0-5 1 0 2 1-2 1-4 1 1 1 0-0 0-1 1 0 3 0-0 3-6 2 0 4

A_18,017 (18,000). T_2:12.

Academy of Art 89, Azusa Pacific 65 CS Northridge 92, Bethesda 54 CS San Marcos 62, Humboldt St. 57 CSU-Chico 87, Sonoma St. 72 Cal St.-East Bay 74, CS San Bernardino 71 Cal State-LA 82, CS Monterey Bay 62 Claremont Mudd 60, Cal Lutheran 55 Colorado Christian 63, W. Colorado 58 Hawaii Hilo 70, Fresno Pacific 60 San Francisco St. 85, Cal Poly-Pomona 77 Wis.-Oshkosh 79, Whitworth 68

EASTERN CONFERENCE

James 22:32 9-12 Reddish 23:26 3-6 Davis 31:14 5-10 Prince 23:17 5-9 Russell 21:59 6-10 Reaves 23:12 5-9 Hachimura 21:21 5-9 Christie 17:03 3-5 Hayes 16:46 2-3 Vanderbilt 14:25 1-2 Hood-Schifino 8:15 0-3 Lewis 8:15 1-4 Wood 8:15 2-4

FG

FT

M-A PF

M-A PTS

7-13 2 7-17 5 3-9 2 7-20 2 2-5 2 2-9 0 2-3 0 0-1 0 0-0 1

2-2 20 1-3 18 0-0 7 6-6 24 0-0 4 0-0 4 1-4 5 0-0 0 0-0 0

40:30 2

240:0 19

13-19 3

43-96 17

21-28 119

Percentages: FG .448, FT .750.

3-Point Goals: 12-33, .364 (Middleton 4-5, Lillard 4-9, B.Lopez 3-10, Beasley 1-4, G.Antetokounmpo 0-1, Portis 0-1, Payne 0-3).

Team Rebounds: 12. Team Turnovers: None.

Blocked Shots: 9 (B.Lopez 4, G.Antetokounmpo 2, Beauchamp, Lillard, Portis).

Turnovers: 12 (Middleton 4, Lillard 3, Payne 2, B.Lopez, G.Antetokounmpo, Portis).

Steals: 3 (Middleton 2, Lillard).

Technical Fouls: Payne, 9:59 fourth.

INDIANA MILWAUKEE

27 29

36 22

A_16,837 (18,000). T_2:27.

28 43

37 25

— —

128 119

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE ATLANTIC

GP W

L OT PTS GF GA

METROPOLITAN GP W

L OT PTS GF GA

Boston Florida Detroit Toronto Tampa Bay Montreal Buffalo Ottawa

N.Y. Rangers Philadelphia New Jersey N.Y. Islanders Carolina Washington Pittsburgh Columbus

25 17 5 25 15 8 25 14 7 23 13 6 28 12 11 26 11 12 27 11 14 21 10 11

3 2 4 4 5 3 2 0

37 32 32 30 29 25 24 20

82 77 96 80 91 72 77 73

62 66 77 77 99 93 91 69

24 18 5 26 14 10 25 14 10 25 11 7 26 14 11 23 12 8 25 11 11 28 8 15

1 2 1 7 1 3 3 5

37 30 29 29 29 27 25 21

82 78 89 76 85 56 74 80

66 71 90 82 86 70 66 99

WESTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL

Colorado Dallas Winnipeg Arizona Nashville St. Louis Minnesota Chicago

GP W 26 25 25 25 26 25 24 25

16 15 15 13 14 13 9 8

L OT PTS

8 7 8 10 12 11 11 16

2 3 2 2 0 1 4 1

34 33 32 28 28 27 22 17

GF GA 92 88 81 83 85 73 75 60

77 75 68 72 81 80 84 89

PACIFIC

GP W

L OT PTS

GF GA

Vegas 27 17 5 5 39 89 64 Los Angeles 23 16 4 3 35 89 53 Vancouver 27 17 9 1 35 103 70 Calgary 26 11 12 3 25 76 89 Seattle 27 8 13 6 22 71 94 Edmonton 23 10 12 1 21 80 80 Anaheim 26 10 16 0 20 69 88 San Jose 27 8 17 2 18 58 111 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

WEDNESDAY’S GAMES

Tampa Bay 3, Pittsburgh 1 Florida 5, Dallas 4 Vegas 6, St. Louis 3 Edmonton 6, Carolina 1

THURSDAY’S GAMES

Toronto 4, Ottawa 3 Buffalo 3, Boston 1 San Jose 6, Detroit 5, OT Los Angeles 4, Montreal 0 N.Y. Islanders 7, Columbus 3 Nashville 5, Tampa Bay 1 Dallas 5, Washington 4, SO Chicago 1, Anaheim 0 Winnipeg 4, Colorado 2 Philadelphia 4, Arizona 1 Calgary 3, Carolina 2 Vancouver 2, Minnesota 0 New Jersey 2, Seattle 1

FRIDAY’S GAMES

Pittsburgh at Florida, 5 p.m.

St. Louis at Columbus, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

SATURDAY’S GAMES

Arizona at Boston, 11 a.m.

New Jersey at Calgary, 2 p.m.

Vegas at Dallas, 2 p.m.

Montreal at Buffalo, 5 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Washington, 5 p.m.

Nashville at Toronto, 5 p.m.

Ottawa at Detroit, 5 p.m.

Los Angeles at N.Y. Islanders, 5:30 p.m.

St. Louis at Chicago, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Carolina at Vancouver, 8 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Seattle, 8 p.m.

TRANSACTIONS BASEBALL Major League Baseball American League HOUSTON ASTROS — Agreed to terms with RHP Wander Suero on a minor league contract.

Agreed to terms with C Victor Caratini on a twoyear contract.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Agreed to terms with OF Willie Calhoun on a minor league contract.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Named Brant Brown bench coach & offensive coordinator, Tommy Joseph assistant hitting coach and Tony Arnerich bullpen coach.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with LHP Angel Perdomo on a one-year contract. Sent INF Evan White outright to Gwinnett (IL).

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Named Charlie Greene bullpen coach and Bryn Hester assistant athletic trainer and physical therapist.

SAN DIEGO PADRES — Traded LF Juan Soto and CF Trent Grisham to the New York Yankees in exchange for C Kyle Higasioka and RHPs Randy Vasquez, Michael Kind, Jhony Brito, Drew Thorpe.

Frontier League EVANSVILLE OTTERS — Signed RHP Jake Polancic to a contract extension. Signed C Logan Brown and OF Clayton Keyes.

NEW ENGLAND CHOWDAHHEADS — Signed INF J.R. DiSarcina, C John Cristino and INF Ryan Enos.

OTTAWA TITANS — Traded OF Adam Fogel to Missoula (Pioneer League).

WINDY CITY THUNDERBOLTS — Signed SS Joe Encarnacion and INF Alex Pup. FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed WR Tarik Black to the practice squad. Released DB Jeremy Lucien from the practice squad.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Re-signed DE Kerry Hyder Jr. to the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed DE Derek Rivers to the practice squad.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Designated CB Christian Braswell to return from injured reserve to practice.

LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Re-signed WR Simi Fehoko to the practice squad. Released CB matt Hankins from the practice squad.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed OL Austin Jackson to a contract extension through 2026.

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Elevated QB Malik Cunningham and RB Kevin Harris from the practice squad to the active roster. Claimed LB Christian Elliss off waivers from Philadelphia.

NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Signed DT John Penisini to the practice squad. Released K Austin Seibert from the practice squad. ReinstatedWR Shaquan Davis from the practice squad injured reserve.

PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Signed OL Brett Toth to the practice squad. Released OL Ross Pierschbacher from the practice squad.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Elevated LB Kyron Johnson from the practice squad to the active roster.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Re-signed RB Tyrion Davis-Price to the practice squad. Released WR Isaiah Winstead.

HOCKEY National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS — Recalled D Mason Lohrei and G Brandon Bussi from Providence (AHL).

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Assigned LW Oskar Olausson to Colorado (AHL).

EDMONTON OILERS — Recalled D Benjamin Gleason from Bakersfield (AHL). Loaned D Philip Broberg to Bakersfield.

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Signed LW Josh Davies to an entry-level contract.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Placed C Liam Foudy on waivers. Reassigned C Mark Jankowski to Milwaukee (AHL). Returned C Mark Jankowski to Milwaukee (AHL). Reassigned D Luke Prokop from Milwaukee to Atlanta (ECHL). Activated C Thomas Novak off injured reserve.

OTTAWA SENATORS — Reassigned G Leevi Merilainen from Allen (ECHL) to Belleville (AHL).

TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Reassigned RW Ty Voit from Toronto (AHL) to Newfoundland (ECHL).

SPORTS

Friday, December 8, 2023

MA STERS CHAMPION

USC’s James returns to full practice for first time since cardiac arrest

Estimated $500M deal is big blow to PGA Tour

By Doug Ferguson

The Associated Press

ANDREW MEDICHINI/AP FILE PHOTO

Europe’s Jon Rahm left the PGA Tour for LIV Golf for a reported $500 million deal.

B-3

SIDELINES

Jon Rahm leaps to LIV Golf Masters champion Jon Rahm bolted for Saudi-funded LIV Golf on Thursday for what’s believed to be more money than the PGA Tour’s entire prize fund, a stunning blow that deepens the divide in golf as the two sides were negotiating a commercial deal.

Rahm confirmed the move in an interview with Fox News.

Wearing a black letterman’s jacket with the LIV logo, he said it was not an easy decision.

“I’ve been very happy,” Rahm said. “But there is a lot of things that LIV Golf has to offer that were very enticing.”

He said he would keep private how much the deal was worth amid reports that put his compensation in the $500 million range, which likely would include equity in his new team. The PGA Tour’s total purse in 2023 was about $460 million.

The development comes 25 days before the deadline for the PGA Tour and Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund to try to finalize their June 6 agreement to become commercial partners in a for-profit enterprise, along with the European tour.

Talks have been going slowly, and Tiger Woods said last week there were a lot of moving parts.

The biggest moving part turned out to be the 29-year-old Rahm, the No. 3 player in the world and a two-time major champion approaching his prime, being the latest to defect.

Rahm had been adamant he has enough money and he only cares about history and legacy.

He recently said he “laughed” whenever he saw his name linked to LIV. “It was a great offer. The money is great, obviously it’s wonderful,” Rahm said. “But what I said before is true: I do not play golf for the money. I play golf for the love of the game and for the love of golf. But, as a husband, as a father and as a family man I have a duty to my family to give them the best opportunities and the most amount of resources possible and that is where that comes in.”

He remains eligible for the majors for the next five years — the Masters for life, the U.S. Open until 2031. Still to be determined is how the move affects his eligibility for the Ryder Cup. “It’s hard to sit here and criticize Jon because of what a great player he is,” Rory McIlroy said in an interview with Sky Sports.

“Jon is going to be in Bethpage in 2025 [for the Ryder Cup].

Because of this decision, the European tour is going to have to rewrite the rules. There’s no question about that.”

Rahm’s addition gives LIV Golf seven of the last 14 winners at the majors.

“LIV Golf is here to stay,” Lawrence Burian, the chief operating officer of LIV Golf, said in a news release sent out after Rahm’s appearance on Fox News.

PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan had been scheduled to meet this week with Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the head of the PIF. The meeting was delayed until next week, but it wasn’t clear if it was still on or how Rahm’s announcement affects the negotiations.

Since the stunning commercial partnership was proposed June 6, the tour has also entertained offers from private equity groups. Those include Fenway Sports Group and Acorn Growth, which includes former AT&T Chairman Randall Stephenson.

He resigned from the PGA Tour board out of protest with its deal with Saudi Arabia.

THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

IAN MAULE/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Pelicans forward Brandon Ingram, center, drives past Lakers forward Taurean Prince, right, on Thursday in the NBA In-Season Tournament in Las Vegas, Nev.

NBA IN -SE A SON T OURNAME NT

Lakers demolish Pelicans 133-89 to make title game

By Mark Anderson

The Associated Press

LAS VEGAS, Nev. — LeBron James scored 30 points in less than three quarters and the Los Angeles Lakers steamrolled the New Orleans Pelicans 133-89 on Thursday night to reach the championship game in the NBA In-Season Tournament.

The Lakers will play the surprising Indiana Pacers on Saturday night for the inaugural NBA Cup. Indiana advanced with a 128-119 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks in the other semifinal. Unlike the other tournament games, the championship game will not count in the regular-season standings.

Los Angeles’ run to the title game, James said, is indicative of the team’s potential. He was particularly pleased with the defense, which held New Orleans to 35.8% shooting, and the Lakers also had a 59-42 rebounding advantage.

“I think we are starting to get a feel for what we need to become a team for us to win basketball games, to be consistent,” James said. “Defensively, we’re really, really starting to tap into that like, OK, we’ve got to defend every single night.

When we defend, we give

ourselves a chance to win every night.”

Austin Reaves scored 17 points for Los Angeles, Anthony Davis had 16 points and 15 rebounds and Taurean Prince finished with 15 points.

Trey Murphy III led the Pelicans with 14 points. Zion Williamson had 13 points and Herbert Jones 10.

Pelicans coach Willie Green said he credited his team in the locker room with making the semifinals, “but tonight was a total letdown. We’re all disappointed in our competitive spirit against the Lakers. You’ve got to give them credit. They came out and dominated. ... But tonight we took a step in the wrong direction.”

New Orleans led 30-29 after the first quarter, but James opened the second scoring the Lakers’ first 11 points, and suddenly a one-point deficit was a 40-33 lead.

During that stretch, James made three 3-pointers in a row.

The last two came from the league and tournament logo, firing up the pro-Lakers crowd.

The nearly 39-year-old superstar even took three charges.

“Any time your best player sacrifices hiws body, takes three charges in the first half, espe-

cially with Zion coming down the paint, it sets a tone,” Reaves said. “That shows to everybody else how locked in he is to win this, and how locked in he is every game.”

By halftime, James had 21 points on 7-of-9 shooting. He went to the bench midway through the third quarter, which should give him plenty of energy for the championship against a Pacers team like that likes to push, well, pace.

“They are young,” Davis said.

“They are scrappy. They get out and run, and they play the right way. So it’s going to be a test for our defense for sure.”

Los Angeles has won three consecutive games and four of its past five. Coach Darvin Ham said the focus, aggressiveness and unselfishness during this recent span make the Lakers “damn near unstoppable.”

“It’s a beautiful thing to see this early,” Ham said. “I think the intensity that this tournament brings reveals that because it’s not just a regular-season game. It doesn’t feel like that. The stakes are way higher and you see people in those delicate moments what they are truly made of, at least the beginning stages.”

Pacers beat Bucks to reach final

By W.G. Ramirez

Defending champion Argentina opens Copa América, U.S. starts with Bolivia MIAMI — Defending champion Argentina opens next year’s Copa América on June 20 in Atlanta against the winner of a Canada-Trinidad and Tobago playoff, and the U.S. starts vs.

Bolivia three days later at Arlington, Texas.

Argentina also faces Chile at East Rutherford, N.J., on June 25 in a repeat of the 2016 final at MetLife Stadium and closes Group A four days later against Peru at Miami Gardens, Fla., also site of the final on July 14.

The 12th-ranked U.S. opens against the lowest-ranked South American nation in No. 85 Bolivia. then plays No. 41 Panama at Atlanta on June 27 and finishes Group C against 11th-ranked Uruguay at Kansas City, Mo., on July 1, according to the draw Thursday night. Uruguay was the highest-ranked non-seeded team the U.S. could face in the first round.

“If there’s not pressure, you don’t get diamonds,” U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter said.

The top two teams in each group move on to the quarterfinals. If the U.S. advances, it would meet Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Costa Rica or Honduras. By winning its group, the U.S. might avoid a quarterfinal against the Brazilians.

“You know what’s lurking around the corner in Group D, most likely, so you want to try to finish first,” Berhalter said.

“Brazil is one of the favorites to win the tournament, so it’s going to be a real challenge in that next round, so you’d like to play them in the semifinals.”

U.S. Soccer Federation to build training center outside Atlanta CHICAGO — The U.S. Soccer Federation’s new training center will be built in Fayetteville, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta about a 30-mile drive from downtown Atlanta.

The USSF announced the specific site adjacent to Trilith Studios on Thursday after saying on Sept. 15 it intended to construct a complex in the Atlanta area. Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United owner Arthur Blank is contributing $50 million for the project. The complex will be more than 200 acres.

The USSF said in 2002 that the complex in Carson, Calif., would serve as its national training center. While that has been used often for winter training camps, the men’s national team has located training ahead of games at sites more convenient for its matches, such as in Florida ahead of games in the Caribbean and Central America and near the venues of home games. U.S. Soccer also opened a national development center in Kansas City, Kan., in 2018.

The federation’s headquarters was in New York, then moved to Colorado Springs, Colo., and has been in Chicago since 1991.

The USSF said the new facility will be the training site for all 27 national teams and its headquarters.

Jags employee charged with stealing $22M gambled away 99% of funds JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A former Jacksonville Jaguars financial manager accused of stealing more than $22 million from the franchise has a gambling addiction and plans to plead guilty to resolve federal charges against him, his attorney said Thursday.

Attorney Alex King of First Coast Criminal Defense in Jacksonville released a statement on behalf of his client, Amit Patel, and said “approximately 99% of the funds misappropriated” from the team’s virtual credit card program were gambled away. The NFL met with Patel in February as part of an investigation into his gambling, most of which took place on two prominent websites. The Jaguars subsequently suspended and later fired Patel, King said.

“Mr. Patel suffers from a serious gambling addiction, and in the spring of this year, checked himself into extensive, inpatient rehabilitation to address his addiction,” King said. “Mr. Patel’s serious gambling addiction does not excuse his actions, which he takes full responsibility for.”

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LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Tyrese Haliburton hit his third 3-pointer with less than a minute left, pounded his chest, and looked down at his wrist to let everyone know one thing: “It’s our time!”

Haliburton had 27 points and 15 assists and the Indiana Pacers beat the MilwauIndiana 128 kee Bucks Milwaukee 119 128-119 to advance to the championship game in the NBA’s inaugural In-Season Tournament. On Saturday, the Pacers will face the Los Angeles Lakers. “We’re playing the right way and we’re shocking the world right now, we’re going to continue to do that,” Haliburton said. “And as long as we play the right way, we know we’re going to be in every basketball game.”

Myles Turner added 26 points for Indiana. Obi Toppin had 14 on 6-of-8 shooting, Isaiah Jackson chipped in 11 and Bruce Brown had 10.

Indiana is averaging a whopping 132.6 points during the tournament. Overall, they are averaging 128.3 this season — 131.7 over the last 14 games.

Giannis Antetokounmpo had 37 points and 10 rebounds for Milwaukee. Damian Lillard added 24 points, Khris Middleton had 20 and Brook Lopez 18.

Most important, however, was Indiana’s reserves outscoring Milwaukee’s backups 43-13. Indiana’s bench was a combined plus-62, while Milwaukee’s reserves were minus-46.

“Yeah, our bench really was the difference in today’s game,” Indiana coach Rick Carlisle

LOS ANGELES — Bronny James returned to full-contact basketball practice on Thursday for the first time since suffering cardiac arrest in July, paving the way for the son of Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James to make his college debut with Southern California.

“He’s excited,” USC coach Andy Enfield said after practice.

James did not speak with reporters. Last week, the 19-yearold was cleared by his doctors, and the Trojans had been waiting for their medical staff to give James the go-ahead to join them for full-contact practice.

“He looked good, he looked a hundred percent,” guard Kobe Johnson said. “Just being able to have him back out on the floor, it definitely raises the team morale. It was awesome to have him out there.”

The Trojans (5-3) host Long Beach State on Sunday before playing four straight road games.

“It’ll be a determination how he feels personally and our doctors and trainers and our strength coach, but all indication is he feels great and he looks good,” Enfield said.

James would come off the bench and be on a minutes restriction in his debut.

“We’re expecting him to help us right away because he’s a very good player,” Enfield said, “but at the same time we have the expectation that he’ll get better as time goes on.”

The elder James has said he would attend his son’s first game regardless of whether the Lakers were playing the same day.

They are off Sunday.

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Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton drives past Bucks guard Malik Beasley on Thursday in the NBA basketball In-Season Tournament in Las Vegas, Nev.

said. “If you look at the plus-minus, it’s pretty obvious that those guys played a major role.”

It was most evident in the second quarter, when Bennedict Mathurtin and T.J. McConnell came into the game with the Pacers trailing by two, and sparked a 16-7 run that gave Indiana 43-36 lead while setting the tone for the starters as they eased back into the lineup.

“I know a lot of people don’t watch us play all the time, but we truly have one of the best benches in the NBA, if not the best bench in the NBA,” Haliburton said. “We’re a really deep team with a lot of different guys who can contribute.

I’m sure we’ve got a lot of guys that people aren’t really familiar with, but they’ll be familiar all too soon, for sure.”

Down three after three quarters, the Pacers opened the fourth with a 14-8 run to take a 105-102 lead. Turner, Brown and Haliburton accounted for 17 points during a final 21-13 run.

After scoring a season-high 146 points and making 23 of 38 3-pointers in a quarterfinal victory over New York, the Bucks were 12 of 33 on 3s and 43 of 96 overall from the field.

“We’ve got to close it out in the fourth quarter, which is something we’ve done very well, we just couldn’t pull it off tonight,” Milwaukee coach Adrian Griffin said. “It’s not the outcome that we wanted but we made it to Vegas and we got to experience this. And I think it’s going to do wonders for our team. You always learn in wins and you learn in losses.”

Longtime NFL kicker Robbie Gould is retiring following an 18-year career that established him as one of the game’s best in the clutch.

Gould announced his retirement on The Player’s Tribune on Thursday. Gould had been a free agent after the San Francisco 49ers opted not to bring him back for a seventh season. Gould spent 11 seasons with the Chicago Bears and one with the New York Giants.

“At the end of the day, every organization I’ve played for has had a positive impact on my career, each one leaving its unique and significant mark on my journey,” he wrote. “And I could not be more thankful that’s how it played out for me.”

Gould, who turned 41 on Wednesday, went from being a walk-on at Penn State and undrafted in the NFL to having an impressive pro career. He was a first-team All-Pro in 2006, reached the Super Bowl with both Chicago and San Francisco and retires with the eighth most career field goals (447) and 10th most points (1,961) in NFL history.

But it was in the postseason when Gould was at his best, making all 29 field goals and 39 extra points he attempted for the most made kicks in the playoffs without a miss in NFL history. No one else has more than 23 makes without a miss.

Of all the kicks Gould made, one stands out above the rest.

It came during the 2021 divisional round when he was with the 49ers and went to Green Bay to play the Packers, his longtime rival from his years with the Bears. On a frigid day at storied Lambeau Field, Gould made a 45-yard field goal on the final play to give San Francisco a 13-10 win.

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AL ARMENDARIZ T OURNAMENT

Top teams stomp underdogs

By James Barron

jbarron@sfnewmexican.com

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Mesa Vista seniors Isabella Boies, left, and Kylie Torrez, right, will be key players to the Trojans’ drive to win the program’s first Class 2A title. Last year as the No. 2 seed, Mesa Vista lost to eventual champion Texico in the quarterfinals.

Mesa Vista toughens up

Valley and Miyamura as well as 5A Roswell in this weekend’s Sundevil Shootout in Española.

Mesa Vista also travels to Aztec for the Rumble in the Jungle at the end of the month, then it begins January with the Northern Rio Grande Tournament and Santa Fe Indian School’s Lady Continued from Page B-1 Braves Classic.

The Northern Rio Grande tone on the defensive end.

Tournament will likely end up “It’s just an exciting team being a District 5-2A preview where they literally all bring a piece of the pie to the table,” Jesse with Peñasco. The teams split the four times they faced off last Boies said. “It’s a blast to coach year, and they are ranked No. 2 such a fun and talented team.”

(Mesa Vista) and No. 3 (Peñasco) The Trojans are also mature in the first New Mexico Overtime beyond their years, which they say was developed when the Tor- Sports coaches poll.

The SFIS tournament features rezes endured a three-week battle with the coronavirus before they the Lady Braves, who were the 3A runners-up two years running, died within hours of each other and 3A contender Navajo Prep. in January 2021.

Coach Boies feels the schedule Lopez said the team learned how to handle adversity because will have his team ready for of that and developed a bond that March when the playoffs start.

“That’s what gets these girls hasn’t been breached. ready for the long run,” the coach “We’ve found a way to cope said. “Three months from now, and move on,” Lopez said. “And we know that we got each other.” they’ll be battled-tested and know what to expect.”

That bond will be tested By then, Mesa Vista might be throughout the season. The Trojans’ schedule has them playing ready to give opponents a taste of a pair of 4A schools in Española their own medicine.

It’s just an exciting team where “ they literally all bring a piece of the pie to the table.” Mesa Vista coach Jesse Boies DIS TRIC T OU TL O OK CL A SS 1A-2 A GIRL S

Peñasco, Pecos should be favorites yet again

By James Barron

jbarron@sfnewmexican.com

Here is a synopsis of what to expect in each district involving Northern teams for the 2023-24 season: CLASS 2A

District 2-2A Change was the constant at Academy for Technology and the Classics. The Phoenix lost three keys seniors that led them to a share of the District 2-2A title and head coach Ron Drake. They have a couple of returning veterans in senior wing Naz Romero and junior Amulya Mulakala, along with new head coach Ben Martinez. If senior guard Perla Miramontes can overcome her second ACL tear in as many seasons, ATC could defend its title.

Monte del Sol also is dealing with change, but not in a good way. The Dragons have just three players with varsity experience returning as many elected to not play. Jasmyn Tapia is the lone senior on a team loaded with freshmen and eighth graders.

Tierra Encantada had to cancel the second half of the 2022-23 season because of a lack of players, but a larger roster should prevent that from happening this season.

District 5-2A Perhaps the most competitive district in 2A is primed to pick up where it left off last year. Peñasco and Mesa Vista will not only be favorites in the district, but also in the class. The Trojans, the No. 2 seed in last year’s tournament, lost only one starter, and will be a senior-dominant group led by guard Isabella Boies and forward Shane Silva. Junior wing Tana Lopez is the team’s leading scorer.

Peñasco also will be senior-led, with forwards Analise MacAuley and Charnelle Gonzales. The Panthers also rely on the quickness and ball handling of soph-

omore guard Rochelle Lopez, a second-team All-State selection last season.

Escalante, the two-time 2A runner-up, lost five seniors who made up the core of those teams.

The Lobos will try to rebuild behind junior guard Hannah Lopez and senior wing Journey Trejo. Questa could be the darkhorse candidate, as it returns its top two players in forwards Aliyah Santistevan and Ashlyn Rael.

McCurdy already matched its win total from 2022-23 with a 52-8 win Tuesday over Albuquerque Chesterton Academy, and doubled its roster total from five to 11. Sophomore guard Kaylee Martinez is the most experienced returner for the Bobcats. Mora also saw an increase in its roster, from seven to 11 players, and will rely on senior guard Mya Vigil to lead the way.

District 6-2A

It was an uneventful opening day Thursday of Capital’s Al Armendariz Tournament in Edward A. Ortiz Memorial Gymnasium.

All eight games in the boys and girls brackets were decided by double digits, with no surprising outcomes.

On the boys side, the host Jaguars had their most dominating performance of the season, hitting 10 3-pointers and scoring the final 17 points in an 80-32 rout of Aztec to end Thursday’s session.

Capital’s performance was outdone on the girls side by the Hobbs Eagles, the defending Class 5A champions. The Eagles scored the first 19 points against Grants as they rolled to an 87-14 win. They are attempting to defend their Armendariz tournament title for a third straight year.

Friday’s semifinal matchups look intriguing. Capital will face Pecos, the reigning Class 2A champion, in a semifinal at 7 p.m. The Panthers beat Albuquerque Cottonwood Classical Prep, 72-46, in their first-round matchup.

The other side of the bracket will feature the Pojoaque Elks, who scored 40 first-half points against Kirtland Central and went on to a 75-64 win in the closest contest of the day. They will take on the Farmington Scorpions, who rallied from a 44-40 halftime deficit to down Grants 80-66, in a 3:30 p.m. matchup.

On the girls side, Hobbs will face Santa Fe Indian School, a 55-18 winner over Pecos, in a 2 p.m. semifinal. Meanwhile, West Las Vegas beat Capital, 42-23, and will get get a test against Navajo Prep, which beat Peñasco, 58-32. They will face off at 5 p.m.

BOYS CAPITAL 80, AZTEC 32 The Jaguars were stout defensively from the start, forcing five Tigers turnovers and 11 straight missed shots before Jaden Sims’ layup with 1:37 left in the opening quarter made it 17-2. Santiago Bencomo scored seven of his 26 points in the first quarter and had 16 points by halftime as Capital built a 47-16

halftime lead.

The Jaguars (2-1) connected on a season-best 10 3-pointers, with Bencomo hitting five of them. Kevin Salvidrez scored all 15 of his points in the fourth quarter, while Elijah Dominguez added 11.

Sims led Aztec (0-2) with 13 points.

PECOS 72, ABQ. COTTONWOOD CLASSICAL PREP 46 The Panthers pressed and shot their way to a 36-17 lead at the half and a 53-30 advantage through three quarters before getting a brief scare from the Coyotes, who scored the first six points in the fourth to trim the margin to 17.

Pecos (3-0) responded with a 3 from Xavier Valencia, and Adrian Quintana scored on a layup to push the lead back up to 57-36.

Seven players hit 3s for the Panthers as they collected 15 in the game. Valencia hit four, as he led the Panthers with 15 points. Kevin Vigil Jr. had 3 threes among his 13 points, and Quintana had 10 points.

Cottonwood Classical was led by Kaedon Pettis’ 21 points. The Coyotes will play Aztec in a consolation semifinal at 12:30 p.m.

FARMINGTON 80, GRANTS 66

25 points. They will take on the Pirates in a 9:30 a.m. consolation game.

GIRLS HOBBS 87, GRANTS 14 The Eagles (3-1) were in control almost from the opening tip, scoring the first 19 points and building a 30-3 lead after a quarter. The lone bucket by the Pirates was Promise Garcia’s bank 3 with 4:32 left in the quarter.

Grants only managed more than one basket in a quarter just once — in the second as the margin grew to 58-9 at the half.

Five Eagles reached double figures, led

by Bhrett Clay’s 15 points. Kacelynn Muniez added 14, while Nakia Mojica and Kyndle Cunningham each had 13.

The Pirates’ (0-3) Garcia and Shelby Rhodes each score five points.

SANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOL 55, PECOS 18 The Lady Braves only led 10-3 after a quarter, but outscored the Lady Panthers 21-2 to build a 31-5 lead at the half and never looked back. Ali Ortiz scored 14 of her 19 points in the first half for SFIS, while Kaydence Riley added 15.

Natalia Stout’s 10 points led the way for Pecos.

Grants and Pecos will play in the tournament’s opening consolation game at 8 a.m.

The Pirates were unconscious from the perimeter in the first half, hitting nine 3s to built their four-point halftime lead. Six came from Noah Victorino, who had 20 points by that point. The Scorpions defense was more aggressive at defending the perimeter, and the Pirates only hit two triples the rest of the way.

Farmington outscored Grants 22-8 in the third to take a 62-52 lead and never looked back. Cody Vassar-Steen had 29 points to lead the Scorpions, with 17 coming in the second half. Landon Begay added 17.

Victorino had 26 points to lead the Pirates, and Boudy Melonas added 16.

The Lady Dons outscored Capital 11-5 in the second quarter to build a 20-11 lead at the break. They held the Jaguars to just four points in the third quarter to up the margin to 29-15.

Alexis Pacheco scored 18 points to lead West Las Vegas (5-0), while Tyra Horner added 11. Annica Montoya scored 11 points to lead Capital (0-2), which plays Peñasco in an 11 a.m. consolation seminal.

POJOAQUE 75, KIRTLAND CENTRAL 64

NAVAJO PREP 58, PEÑASCO 32

The Elks won their third straight game, thanks to a hot start offensively. They scored 25 points in the first quarter to build an 11-point lead, and held a 40-31 lead at the half.

Forward Serefin Mendez scored 10 of his 14 points in the fourth quarter as Pojaoque preserved its lead.

Dalian Lopez led the Elks (3-1) with 21 points, while Nick Manzanares hit 5 3s and finished with 19 points.

The Broncos (0-2) had Shamus Hogue hit eight 3-pointers and lead the way with

WEST LAS VEGAS 42, CAPITAL 23

The Eagles only led 24-16 at the half and 41-32 entering the fourth before turning up the defense. The Panthers scored just one point in the fourth quarter — an Analise MacAuley free throw. Meanwhile, Navajo Prep received a contribution from Kambreya Dinae, who drained three 3s that represented all of her points in the game.

True Billie led the Eagles (4-1) with 21 points, while Aniya Johnson added 11.

Peñasco’s (1-1) MacAuley and Rochelle Lopez each scored 11.

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that space with every other team (and organization) on campus, including the sub-varsity basketball programs for boys and girls.

Simply finding the space to keep the team motoring ahead is part of the challenge Romero faces daily.

“I mean, we’ve been doing it for years, so it’s not really all that much different,” he said.

“But it is hard to find practice time. Sometimes it’s during times you don’t really want and sometimes it’s in places we have to drive to, but we won’t let that stop us.”

Working through the adverse conditions are part of the grind at ATC, but things are looking up. The school will elevate to Class 3A next season and be in the same district as St. Michael’s, Santa Fe Indian, Santa Fe Prep, Robertson and West Las Vegas.

Just being in that district right now would be fun, Miller said.

Getting the chance to test the team’s mettle against the bigger schools is something the Phoenix are getting used to.

“We’re all from the same city and we play a lot of those guys anyway, so I think we know how we’d do,” Miller said.

The Phoenix have already knocked off 4A schools Del Norte and Valencia, doing so by an average margin of 16 points during last week’s Bobby Rodri-

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ATC’s Rocky Miller, left, shoots against Del Norte’s Dakarai Monenike on Nov. 30 at Santa Fe High. Miller is considered one of the better players in the small-school ranks.

guez Capital City Tournament.

They reached the finals, losing to Santa Fe High — but not before they’d made yet another statement in the team’s remarkable evolution from overlooked mystery meat to a bona fide championship contender.

ATC was the near-unanimous

No. 1 team in 2A’s NMOT Coaches Poll for Week 1, having long since earned the respect of the state’s basketball community.

In a city that loves its high school hoops and has a strong tradition of hardwood excel-

lence, finding a place for his team is something that puts an ear-to-ear smile on Romero’s face. “We’ve worked hard for this,” he said. “Yes we’ve had players come and go. Some guys have left, and we’ve had one or two get hurt, but we’ve had younger kids come into this team and fill those spots. It’s not just one or two guys. We’re more than that.”

So what’s the story now?

Bernardino said it’s all about proving last year wasn’t a fluke.

“We never really took time off in the summer,” he said.

“Maybe some teams do that, but we were out there all the time.”

Arguably the top player in 2A and certainly one of the top players in Santa Fe, the 6-foot-3 senior has the flow, touch and natural feel for the game that allow him to play at a higher level than most anyone else at this level. He makes shots and reads the floor in ways few others do.

As entertaining as it’s been, Miller laughs about some of the same issues that follow the team. In the official scorebook for the Capital City, his first name was misspelled for all three games.

“I guess people don’t know how to spell Rocky,” he said.

While it might still require a learning curve for some to get used to seeing ATC wreaking havoc, things are changing — slowly but surely.

“Now if we could just get more fans to come out and watch us, that would be nice,” Bernardino said.

Pecos was 2 seconds away from making a spirited run to a 2A semifinals, but it could be a promising year with junior wing Natalia Stout, a second-team All-State player, returning. The Panthers have a mix of veteran returners and up-and-coming underclassmen.

Pecos not rebuilding, just reloading team

CLASS 1A

By James Barron

District 7-1A New Mexico School for the Deaf hopes a young roster will improve enough to compete in the district. The Roadrunners have a new coach in former Santa Fe High star Sabrina Lozada-Cabbage and a has a solid guard in junior Angelique Quinoñez to lead the way. Coronado rebounded quite nicely in 2022-23 after not having a team the previous year, but a small roster (just six players) threatens to undercut that progress. Senior guard Ashlynn Jaramillo was 20-point-per-game scorer and will be crucial in helping the Leopards take the next step to reach the 1A tournament.

The Pecos Panthers have a mix of veteran returners and up-and-coming underclassmen.

DISTRIC T OU TL O OK CL A SS 1A-2 A BOYS

jbarron@sfnewmexican.com

Here is a synopsis of what to expect in each district involving Northern teams for the 2023-24 season: CLASS 2A

District 2-2A What was the case last year will repeat itself this year: Academy for Technology and the Classics and Albuquerque Menaul will duke it out for district supremacy. The Phoenix will be the favorite in the district — and in 2A — thanks to six seniors on the roster. The trio of forwards Julian “JuJu” Bernardino and Rocky Miller plus guard Jordan Apodaca will be a force to reckon with.

Monte del Sol suffered a double whammy in the offseason.

After losing its two leading scorers in Kevin Enriguez

and Xandro Zubia, it also saw incoming freshman Bryan Enriquez leave the program.

The Dragons are leaning on senior Gursangnat Bhadal and junior Juanito Coughlin to shoulder the scoring load as a young team rounds into shape.

Tierra Encantada, which only had six players and barely made it through the 2022-23 season, has senior Sidney Ntoko returning.

District 5-2A Early returns suggest Escalante and Mesa Vista will again challenge each other for the district title, but this district always has a surprise team or two. The Lobos have a senior-dominant lineup, led by guard Luka Torrez and 6-foot-2 post Greysen Horan. The Trojans have 6-3 sophomore forward Jordan Gallegos ready to fill the shoes left by the graduation of Jordan Cervantes,

but also field a deep roster that will allow them to pressure from one end of the court to the other.

The two wild cards in 5-2A are the McCurdy Bobcats and the Mora Rangers. McCurdy lost only one player from last year’s squad, with senior guard Ryan Montoya being the key returning piece. Mora lost only two players to graduation, and it already showed how much it progressed in a 67-63 loss to defending 2A champion Pecos.

Questa has won 17 games over the past six seasons, but already has half as many wins as last year after beating Coronado to open the season.

Seniors Antonio Romero and Martin Rivera are key returners.

District 6-2A Anyone who thinks the Pecos Panthers are in a rebuilding mode should think twice.

Even with the graduation of 10

seniors from last year’s state title team, the Panthers will still run, press and shoot — albeit not as efficiently to start. Only Joshua Gonzales and Lawrence Ragland saw significant playing time last year, but expect the players coming up from the junior varsity to fill key spots.

CLASS 1A

District 7-1A New Mexico School for the Deaf introduces a new coach, Fran Lopez, after Leonardo Gutierrez left after four seasons.

Six-footer Adrien Ercolino gives the Roadrunners some size in the paint, while junior Alex Lopez-Gonzalez is an experienced returning guard.

Coronado is looking to bounce back from a disappointing 7-17 season, and will rely on junior wing Michael Suskey to get the Leopards back to the 1A state tournament.

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Steelers’ playoff hopes damaged Dazzling LSU QB

Daniels wins honor

Slumping Patriots pull off 21-18 win on road

By Brett Martel

The Associated Press

By Will Graves

The Associated Press

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Patriots tight end Hunter Henry catches a touchdown pass as Steelers safety Damontae Kazee defends Thursday in Pittsburgh. The Patriots (3-10) won 21-18.

win team at home for the second time in five days, dropping them out of the top spot in the AFC wild-card race.

“This stings,” Pittsburgh coach Mike Tomlin said. “But we’ll be back.”

Maybe. The Steelers play three of their final four games on the road, all of them against playoff contenders.

Hunter Henry had two touchdown catches for New England.

Ezekiel Elliott had 140 yards from scrimmage — 72 receiving, 68 rushing — and caught a TD for the NFL’s lowest-scoring offense, which reached the end zone three times for the first time since October.

JuJu Smith-Schuster added 90 yards receiving against the team he starred for earlier in his career.

“It means a lot,” Smith-Schuster said. “You know, honestly, you know, starting my crew here and coming back here and getting a ‘W,’ I love being on this side of the ball, I’ll tell you that.”

It’s a side of the ball New England has rarely been on in 2023. The losses have piled up at a rate not seen since coach Bill Belichick’s first season in 2000.

That was six Super Bowls and nearly a quarter-century ago.

For three hours Thursday night, the Patriots found a way to do what they so frequently have done against Pittsburgh: make all

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Army, Navy have respectful rivalry

By Jimmy Golen

The Associated Press

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — College football keeps changing.

The Army-Navy game never does.

In an era of booster collectives and transfer portals, the nation’s two oldest service academies will line up their triple-option offenses at the home of the New England Patriots on Saturday for a day full of pageantry, tradition and a deeply rooted respect that comes with one of college football’s fiercest rivalries. It will be the 124th meeting between the two teams, with Army (5-6) hoping to follow its upset of thenNo. 17 Air Force and claim the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy.

“It wouldn’t matter if we hadn’t won a game this year. This is going to be a big game,” Army coach Jeff Monken said at a Gillette Stadium welcome event last week.

“Just the pride of winning this

SATURDAY ON TV 1 p.m. CBS — Army v. Navy at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.

game. There’s nothing like this game,” said Monken, who has led the Black Knights to five wins over Navy (5-6) in the past seven years. “It doesn’t matter what the record is. Wouldn’t matter what we’ve done all this year. This is a huge football game for us. One we desperately want to win.”

Navy coach Brian Newberry doesn’t need to be reminded. He was the defensive coordinator when head coach Ken Niumatalolo — the winningest coach in Navy history, with a 10-5 record against Army — was fired. The reason: a 4-10 record against Army and Air Force his last seven years, and a slump in the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy competition dating to 2019.

“There’s no love lost during the week of this game. But there’s certainly an amount of respect

Suit: Transfer rule violates federal law member school objects to a rule or policy, that member should the new school. propose alternative rules that The NCAA has implemented apply to everyone, not turn to stricter guidelines for granting lawsuits to bypass the system those waivers on a case-by-case they designed.” basis.

The complaint alleges requirIn an interview with The ing athletes to sit can mean Associated Press, North Carolina lost potential earnings from Attorney General Josh Stein said endorsement deals with their the target is the waiver process. name, image and likeness or “As long as the kid is in good professional careers. It points academic standing and on track to exposure from competing in to graduate, that kid should be national broadcasts, noting: “One able to decide for him or herself game can take a college athlete what’s in their best interest, for from a local fan favorite to a their personal growth, their household name.” happiness, their economic “It is ironic that this rule, opportunity,” Stein said. “That stylized as promoting the welfare is absolutely the American Way. of college athletes, strips them And that’s a requirement of of the agency and opportunity federal law. The rule offends that to optimize their own welfare as requirement.” they see fit,” the lawsuit said.

The states seek a temporary Stein, a Democrat running for restraining order against the North Carolina governor, got NCAA from enforcing the trans- involved in the transfer-waiver fer rule. Other states involved case involving Tar Heels receiver are Colorado, Illinois, New York, Devontez “Tez” Walker.

Ohio and Tennessee.

The NCAA denied the Kent “The NCAA is disappointed State transfer’s waiver as a in the decision by seven state two-time transfer after his stop attorneys general to bring legal at North Carolina Central, even action — with the tacit support of though he never played there a small number of schools — the because the pandemic wiped result of which could potentially out NCCU’s 2020 season. UNC mean team rosters changing fought for months to get Walker monthly or weekly,” NCAA cleared in a testy case before the spokeswoman Saquandra Heath NCAA reversed its position in said in a statement.

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on both sides,” Newberry said.

“I love the way they do things.

They’re a gritty, tough football program, and they’re building leaders over there. They’re going to be officers, just like we are.

And so, it’s going to be a dogfight.

But nothing but respect, for Army, for the players and their staff.”

The teams will be playing for the Commander-in-Chief’s trophy, which is awarded to the service academy with the best record in head-to-head games.

With a victory Saturday, Army would claim the trophy outright for the first time since 2020, having beaten Air Force 23-3 on Nov. 4 despite coming in as an 18½-point underdog. It was the first loss of the season for the Falcons, who went on to lose the last four games of their season.

The Midshipmen lost 17-6 to Air Force on Oct. 21, so a Navy win on Saturday would create a three-way tie for the trophy. If so, 2022 champion Air Force would retain possession. supporting Wake Forest men’s basketball player Efton Reid III, who started at LSU before transferring to Gonzaga. The 7-footer finally received a waiver to play Tuesday and made his debut in the Demon Deacons’ win against Rutgers on Wednesday.

Stein told the AP the lawsuit grew out of a national conference in Washington, D.C., this week for attorneys general. Stein participated in a panel discussion on the NCAA there with Colorado AG Phil Weiser, Ohio AG Dave Yost and Ohio Deputy First Attorney General Shawn Busken.

“I have not heard from any other institutions, but I know that other student-athletes in North Carolina are similarly being denied the opportunity to play,” Stein said. “So rather than continue to do case-by-case, we decided let’s strike the rule down, because the rule itself is illegal.”

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, a Republican running for governor next year, got involved after the NCAA denied West Virginia basketball player RaeQuan Battle a waiver to play immediately following his transfer from Montana State. Battle had previously played at Washington, but hasn’t played this year after the NCAA denied Battle’s waiver and appeal.

Battle, who grew up on the Tulalip Indian Reservation in the state of Washington, said his mental health is a big reason why he’s at West Virginia. Battle said in a recent video that he has lost “countless people” to drugs, alcohol and COVID-19.

the plays that matter. Belichick improved to 15-4 against the Steelers and 10-3 against Tomlin in this latest matchup between the league’s two longest-tenured coaches.

Belichick coached his 507th game, moving past George Halas into second-place all-time behind Don Shula (526), but it’s hardly a guarantee he’ll be back for another season with the Patriots.

New England had totaled 13 points in its previous three games. The Patriots exceeded that in the first half, with Zappe hitting Elliott for an 11-yard score before finding Henry in the end zone twice to build a 21-3 lead, their largest of the season.

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LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels won 35 of 51 first-place votes from AP poll voters.

who has played in one more game than Daniels.

The 6-foot-4, 210-pound Daniels rushed for 1,134 yards and 10 TDs. His 50 touchdowns rushing and passing combined, along with a 2-point conversion on a passing play, has made him responsible for a nation-high 302 points.

As a youth athlete, his nickname was “Smooth,” he said, “because it looks like I’m not running fast or running hard … but I’m moving faster than what most people think.”

As productive as Daniels has been as a passer, his elusiveness and breakaway speed as a scrambler have distinguished him. During a 52-35 victory over Florida, Daniels became the first FBS QB to pass for more than 350 yards and rush for more than 200 in a game.

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“I like the process of transforming and I like the process of helping a program either become or re-become,” Mendenhall said. “It was one of the reasons I went to the University of Virginia.”

He spent 11 years as the head coach at BYU and six more at Virginia, stepping down in 2021 to regain his focus and spend time with his family. He also launched a podcast and put the finishing touches on the family’s retirement home in Montana.

His decision to come to UNM means he is now the highest paid public employee in the state. His contract pays him $1.2 million annually through the 2028 season.

It’s the first time in school history two coaches are simultaneously making over $1 million a year. Lobos men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino signed an extension in May that pays him $1.1 million this season and as much as $1.25 million in the 2027-28 campaign.

Nuñez said the funds come from a yearslong recovery from a financial crisis that rocked the athletics department just as he took over in 2017. In coping with a massive deficit after years of mismanagement from the previous administration, Nuñez was forced to eliminate several sports and cut corners where he could.

He has managed balance the athletics budget the last six years and steadily increase the bottom line the last half decade.

“Which is shocking to people, but we’ve had to do it and do it the right way,” Nuñez said.

erful.”

Mendenhall’s name was attached to other vacancies, including MWC rival Boise State. It was his distant connection to New Mexico that opened “We’ve also grown our fundrais- the door for negotiations. His oldest son, a senior at BYU, was ing more than this program’s ever had since ever. So when you born in Albuquerque while he was on the Lobos’ staff from look at those two components, 1998 to 2002.

I’ve been preparing [us] for this Nuñez’s connection to opportunity.”

Virginia athletic director Had the recently fired Danny Carla Williams kickstarted the Gonzales had sustained success process. Williams was hired at in his four years, Nuñez said he Virginia the year after Mendenwould have considered paying him the kind of money Menden- hall arrived in Charlottesville in 2016. She was his boss until he hall is getting. stepped down in 2021.

“It’s not as much of a chalWilliams and Nuñez worked lenge because we’ve been together for two years at Vanpreparing for it the last several derbilt in the early 2000s. years and we’ve aligned our “When I started talking to donors as well as our university her about him as a person, you to make this possible,” Nuñez could tell very quickly he was said. somebody I wanted to hear from Gonzales was paid approxiif he was interested,” Nuñez said. mately $700,000, which ranked “When I got word that he would 105th out of 119 head coaches polled by USA Today in Division be interested, those conversaI. He was the second-lowest paid tions started.”

Mendenhall said he has coach in the Mountain West already assembled most of his Conference. Mendenhall’s constaff. None of the names would tract would put him in the top 80, but still rank near the bottom be familiar to anyone looking for previous connections to UNM. of the average MWC coach.

He said he met with players Nuñez said his initial candiWednesday and again Thursday, date pool had 15 to 20 names laying out the basic tenants for on it. It was narrowed down to what he wants. Several times five or six, each of whom were during the process of fielding vetted more thoroughly. From there, the list was whittled down questions from the media, he referenced the players attending to three finalists who met with the news conference.

Nuñez and deputy athletic “The identity and branding director David Williams in Las of the institution, of the state, is Vegas; Mendenhall, Matt Wells influenced by the University of and Rocky Long.

New Mexico’s football program,” A fourth candidate was also Mendenhall said, pointing in the discussed but Nuñez said he is direction of a few players that employed at the FCS level and included All-American running wasn’t willing to put his name back Jacory Croskey-Merritt. “I out there.

“I had always admired Bronco get all that and I’m passionate about that and there shouldn’t from a distance,” Nuñez said.

“I, like many others, thought he be any better ambassadors than would be looking at something the young men I’m looking at that was a little bit more powright now.”

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PITTSBURGH — The wins used to come so easy and so often for David Andrews early in his career with the New England Patriots, the veteran center barely noticed them.

That hasn’t been the case in 2023. Not with the franchise enduring its worst season in nearly a quarter century and with potentially seismic changes looming.

So yeah, there was a sense of relief after a 21-18 win over Pittsburgh on Thursday night, a throwback of sorts to the Patriots’ many big wins over their longtime AFC rival, albeit with far lower stakes.

The offense that’s looked lost for a month gained some momentum behind Bailey Zappe’s three touchdown passes. The defense got the stops when necessary, and New England (3-10) ended a five-game losing streak while damaging Pittsburgh’s increasingly brittle playoff hopes.

“No one has quit in this locker room,” said Andrews, a two-time Super Bowl champion. “We’re fighting. We’re working. We’re trying to get better. That’s all you can do. That’s all you can ask for.

It hasn’t been perfect.”

No, it hasn’t.

That didn’t stop the Patriots from coming into Acrisure Stadium and doing something that’s become routine through the years: changing the trajectory of Pittsburgh’s season. And not for the better.

The Steelers (7-6) lost to a two-

BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels is The Associated Press college football player of the year, the school’s second winner in the past five seasons.

Daniels received 35 of the 51 first-place votes and 130 total points from AP Top 25 poll voters. The Heisman Trophy finalist finished comfortably ahead of Washington quarterback Michael Penix, who was second with 15 first-place votes and 97 points.

Oregon QB Bo Nix was third, with Ohio State receiver Marvin Harrison fourth and Oklahoma State running back Ollie Gordon II fifth. Nix received the other first-place vote. USC quarterback Caleb Williams, the 2022 AP Player of the Year and last year’s Heisman winner, did not receive votes this season.

Daniels, Penix, Nix and Harrison are the finalists for the Heisman, which will be presented Saturday in New York.

The winner of the AP award has differed from the Heisman winner just twice in the past two decades. The last LSU player to be named AP Player of the Year was Joe Burrow in 2019, when he also won the Heisman.

Daniels, a San Bernardino, Calif., native who transferred to LSU from Arizona State in 2022, has led the nation in total offense this season with 4,946 yards in 12 games (412.2 yards per game). He has passed for 3,812 yards, which ranks third nationally. His 40 TDs passing ties for first nationally with Nix,

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Students from Monarch High School in Coconut Creek, Fla., walk out of the school building Nov. 28 in support of a transgender student who plays on the girls volleyball team. The school principal and other administrators were removed from their positions for allowing the student to participate in the activity. Florida passed a law prohibiting transgender girls from playing on female sports teams.

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he past few years have brought a significant surge in anti-trans movements across the U.S. as the transgender community continues to face more and more discrimination under the law. In 2023, 590 bills aimed at limiting the rights of transgender people were introduced on both a national and state level. Of these, 85 have passed, according to Trans Legislation Tracker, a website that documents and tracks “anti-trans” legislation.

For perspective, Trans Legislation Tracker recorded only 19 pieces of anti-trans legislation up for consideration in 2015.

While the community as a whole is targeted, transgender teens and minors have especially been subjugated to a loss of autonomy by new legislation.

These teens are forced to watch as laws that criminalize gender-affirming health care for minors (such as hormone therapy or top surgery) are passed, and they lose their right over their bodies. In addition, other laws that seek to restrict trans existence in schools, sports

and bathrooms continue to pass across the U.S. At a time when 35.1% of transgender youth ages 13-17 live in states that have passed bans on or restrict gender-affirming care, according to advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign, it’s important to stay informed and call out these laws.

Presented are only a few of the 85 transphobic laws passed in 2023 that show the degree and scope of which trans rights, specifically for trans youth, are being constricted.

Iowa Senate File 482 This Iowa bill became law in March and prohibits a person from entering a bathroom that does not align with their biological sex, which as defined by the bill “means a person’s biological sex as female or male as listed on a person’s official birth certificate issued at or near the time of the person’s birth.” For Iowans who are gender nonconforming, the significance of this new law is huge. For starters, the law simply denies the existence of trans people and denies them the right to live as any man or woman would.

However, more significantly,

it forces not only teens but all transgender people into scenarios where they could easily be bullied, harassed or even assaulted because of how they present.

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Kentucky Senate Bill 150 Kentucky Senate Bill 150 was vetoed by Gov. Andy Beshear; however, the veto was overridden in a 76-23 vote earlier this year. Much like Iowa’s bathroom law, the new Kentucky law provides that students can only use restrooms or locker rooms designated for their sex assigned at birth. However, it also denies students of any grade level education on gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation. In addition, the law stipulates that the Kentucky Department of Education “shall not require or recommend policies or procedures for the use of pronouns that do not conform to a student’s biological sex.”

Florida Senate Bill 254 This bill, signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in May, attacks trans youth on many fronts. For starters, it criminalizes gender-affirming procedures for those under 18,

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and requires a health care practitioner’s license be suspended if they administer sex-reassignment care. Under Statute 254, courts are granted “temporary emergency jurisdiction over a child present in this state [Florida] if the child has been subjected to or is threatened with being subjected to sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures.” This law also stipulates that, in terms of a custody battle, serious physical harm to a child includes “being subjected to sex-reassignment prescriptions

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Cora Thompson is a junior at The MASTERS Program. Contact them at cgthompsonsf@gmail.com.

RESOURCES FOR LOCAL LGBTQ+ YOUTH

HEAL+NM www.healplusnm.org Health Equity Alliance for LGBTQ+ New Mexicans is an organization focused on health equity issues and resources for LGBTQ+ people with a focus on issues like nicotine cessation and sexual violence prevention.

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For people who identify as LGBTQ+ looking for support, there are many local and national resources, some of which are listed here.

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eartstopper is a Netflix original British romantic dramedy adapted from the Alice Oseman graphic novel series of the same name. Now in production for its third season, Heartstopper gained a 100% review score within the first week of its debut in April 2022. The show’s main actors, Joe Locke and Kit Connor, told This Morning hosts in an interview that making the show didn’t feel like a job.

“When the first reviews came out I was like, ‘Oh I forgot it was actually going to get reviewed,’ ” Locke said. The show doesn’t just feel safe and personal to the actors though; most fans of the show also see it as their own little safe haven. The series shows 15-yearold Charlie Spring (Joe Locke) and 16-year-old rugby player Nick Nelson (Kit Connor) falling for each other. Viewers follow Charlie’s experiences leaving a toxic relationship and getting into a healthy one with Nick, who is still coming to terms with his bisexuality with the help of his friends, including Tara (Corinna Brown) and Darcy (Kizzy Edgell). Heartstopper is different from other shows because it is filled to the brim with positivity, and it has cast members who are close to the age of their characters and who are also part of the LGBTQ+ community. This is the reason it has changed the lives of so many teens.

A few things that draw fans to the show include the outstanding work picking out authentic cast members.

Almost every actor in the Heartstopper cast is queer, excluding the few who have not made their identities public. One of the things that stood out to me the most is actor Yasmine Finney, who plays Elle Argent in Heartstopper, and is an openly transgender woman just like her character. This is a prime example of authentic casting. Outside of their sexualities and gender identities, cast members are actual teens, which makes the show so much more believable compared to other high school dramas where the cast has almost 30-year-olds trying to play 16- to 18-year-olds.

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or procedures.” This bill takes children away from their parents and ultimately criminalizes transgender minors.

Georgia, Nebraska, Montana, Mississippi and Missouri are five more states that passed laws preventing minors from accessing gender-affirming procedures.

Noticeably, the names of many of these acts are framed as though meant to protect or “save” children, as if children need to be protected from being transgender, including “Missouri Save Adolescents from Experimenta-

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tion (SAFE) Act” and Nebraska’s “Let Them Grow Act.” Some of these laws, like Montana’s, are now being challenged or even temporarily blocked by judges.

Many of the anti-trans laws passed in 2023 target transgender youth, but the anti-trans movement impacts the entirety of the transgender community.

“This movement is a direct assault on our lives,” wrote Emily St. James, a trans woman, in a 2022 article for Vox. “But how do I convince people of the severity of this problem, of the idea that what is happening is an assault on the civil rights not just of Americans but of literal children? How do I make everyone care as much about this issue as the anti-trans forces who wish to so casually destroy us? What language can I use?”

These laws not only oppress the rights of trans people but propagate the dehumanization of them. Being trans is not a mental illness. It is not wrong or gross or a choice or a mistake. Transgender people deserve to live as freely as anyone else.

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Another thing that makes Heartstopper stand out against other shows is how positive it is. Even though there are some negative plot points, including how Charlie is treated and the way it affects his mental health, the show still manages to have a very positive overtone to it. There is still funny dialogue and many cute moments that make the audience believe Charlie and Nick should stay together forever. The show’s vibrant colors and trademark animations serve as both a nod to the graphic novels and as a way to understand what the characters are feeling.

The main reason Heartstopper is such a comfort show to its audience is because it reminds people they are normal. It does what so many other LGBTQ+ shows fail to do: represent queer love in a way that is attainable to the average teen watching.

Heartstopper shows queer life in a way that isn’t overly sexualized, reliant on drug abuse or other unhealthy behaviors, or gloomy and depressing. In other movies and TV shows, the characters being happy is the end result, and there is no happiness or positivity in the middle. Heartstopper is unique in that way — it doesn’t make the characters or audience struggle to experience joy.

“So much queer representation that we have in the media at the moment is like — it’s very sort of dark and gritty — and at times very negative, and I think that it’s extremely important to just show queer people being happy,” Connor told This Morning.

This positivity is so important to the younger teens watching. It lets them know that being queer is a normal thing they don’t have to be ashamed of. If the representation in Heartstopper wasn’t as good as it is, many people would still be in denial about their identities, like Adam, a 17-year-old from

Hungary who was interviewed about the show. If it wasn’t for Nick’s coming out scene in the last episode of season one, Adam says he would have never come out to his mother and grandma.

“Before Heartstopper, I was just really trying to hide my identity a lot, I didn’t even come out to anyone before that. I was also considering completely repressing my feelings and living a fake life,” he told Time in an interview earlier this year.

Heartstopper has made such an important impact on people’s lives. Not just Adam’s but also a woman named Patricia who, thanks to volume three of Osman’s graphic novel series, was able to come to terms with her sexuality. This is all because of a scene that discusses a character named Mr. Farouk who didn’t realize and accept his sexuality until his mid-20s. The scene talks about how he missed a lot of “beautiful gay teenage experiences.”

This part spoke to Patricia, who is now 26, and it is because of this she is able to be patient with herself as she learns more about her and her sexuality, she told Time.

Heartstopper has touched many lives for the better by showing representation of a happy gay couple and their accepting families; they would have never come out or been able to accept themselves for who they are.

This show cannot be recommended more. If you are looking for a show that will have a lasting impact, is bursting with positivity and has queer representation, this is the show for you.

Elizabeth Nickell is an eighth grader at Pecos Independent Schools. Contact her at elizabethgennext@gmail.com.

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The U-21 program in Albuquerque provides a community for local LGBTQ+ youth under the age of 21. U-21 meets every Friday night for activities like guest speakers and crafts.

SANTA FE HUMAN RIGHTS ALLIANCE (HRA) hrasantafe.org The Santa Fe Humans Rights Alliance is an LGBTQ+ organization that coordinates LGBTQ+-focused events in town, including the annual Santa Fe Pride Festival each June.

The organization’s website offers a list of local resources as well.

IMI GUIDE imi.guide The IMI Guide is a free online national resource created by LGBTQ+ youth across the country seeking to address the LGBTQ+ mental health crisis. The IMI site offers guides on topics like stress, stigma, and understanding gender and gender expression.

LGBT NATIONAL YOUTH TALKLINE 800-246-7743, lgbthotline.org/youth-talkline/ LGBT National Youth Talkline provides an anonymous space for callers to speak about sexual orientation, gender or identity, bullying, relationship concerns, and more. There are no recordings made of the talk line. The line is open from 2 to 10 p.m. Monday through Friday, and again from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays.

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Many companies are moving away from the champagne, sequins and “Secret Santa” gift exchanges of office Christmas parties crystallized in public consciousness through TV shows like The Office. Instead, business leaders are opting for year-end celebrations cut totally free from seasonal connotations.

That impulse is part of what led education technology company Outschool to explore options besides the typical dinner-and-drinks routine at a bar decked with boughs of holly.

The startup’s staff opted to do something completely different this year: a pickleball lesson.

Outschool isn’t alone. Many companies are looking for fresh ways to bring teams together for the holidays, which is part of what’s led to a spike in demand for outdoor spaces, according to Derek Callow, CEO of a startup that rents out private pickleball courts and pools called Swimply.

The office holiday party has been declared a thing of the past several times, including after the Great Recession, #MeToo and the pandemic. And then, just as reliably, people have hailed its comeback. For many companies,

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however, the celebration never really disappeared — it just looks a lot different now. This change stems from an effort to be more inclusive and create the kind of camaraderie that’s difficult to build on a Zoom call.

Angela Robinson, a marketing coordinator at corporate events company Teambuilding.com, which works with big names from NASA to Harvard University, said she’s seen an uptick in companies booking virtual murder mysteries or “The Great Guac Off” — a team guacamole-making competition — instead of specifically holiday-themed events.

Part of this trend, Robinson said, is about not focusing on one holiday over others. The shift also gives companies the opportunity to move away from making drinking the main activity.

“There are many reasons organizers would want alcohol not to be at the center of these gatherings — firstly, for safety reasons and to prevent potential unprofessional behavior,” Robinson said. “This also ties back into inclusivity — employees may not drink for religious reasons, sobriety or because they just don’t enjoy it.”

Melanie Zelnick, CEO of corporate event planning company Glow Events, whose customers include a range of tech

and finance powerhouses from Netflix to Andreessen Horowitz, said the days of full-out redand-green festooned Christmas parties are long gone for her Bay Area clients. But it’s only in the last few years that any remaining vestiges have been swept away.

Before the pandemic, a few festive wreaths would’ve probably been fine, Zelnick said. Now, though, “clients say, ‘Hey, not even a tinsel Christmas tree,’ ” she said. “With everyone being so mindful, the closest you can get to holiday is a winter crystal-andice theme, where we just lean into what the weather’s like that time of year.”

While Glow’s events are more akin to traditional parties — with food, drinks and music — than pickleball lessons or a guacamole-making contest, the immersive experiences they design, many of which encourage guests to come in costume, are a far cry from your basic open bar. One company is throwing a 1920s golden-era soiree, complete with gin martini bar carts and lots of Art Deco. For one that went the wintery route, Glow’s bringing in an ice bar and building a giant art installation with glowing blocks that look like ice cubes. And though both parties will serve alcohol, drinking is downplayed.

Krispy Kreme latest wave in France’s fast food invasion

in Europe for major American fast-food chains, as evolving consumer habits, influenced by a more casual younger generation and social media, reshape the dining landscape.

In the spring, Popeye’s fried chicken drew huge crowds in Paris when it opened the first of 350 restaurants planned across France. Wendy’s has announced plans to set up shop in France.

Burger King, KFC, Starbucks, Domino’s Pizza, Chipotle, Steak ’n Shake, Carl’s Jr. and Five Guys have long had toeholds, but they are rapidly expanding their footprints with plans for hundreds of new locations across the country.

Leading the pack is McDonald’s. After the U.S., France is the chain’s most profitable country.

PARIS — As dawn broke in central Paris on Wednesday, a throng of 500 people, mostly French, stood with uncharacteristic patience in a snaking line, intent on buying a decidedly un-French confection: an American doughnut. A hot, glazed Krispy Kreme doughnut, to be exact.

The sight of French people flocking to American fare might have seemed surreal a generation ago in a country that loves its Michelin-starred restaurants, three-hour dinners and iconic baguette. But today, the world’s gastronomic capital happens to be one of the biggest markets

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LEGAL #91937 ADVERTISEMENT NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (NMDOT) BID SOLICITATION FOR – December 15, 2023 SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO The NMDOT will only receive Bids through the Bid Express website at https://www.bidx.com/ before 11:00 A.M. local prevailing time National Institute of Standards and Technology, atomic clock, on December 15, 2023. Bids received after this time will not be accepted. Tutorials on electronic bidding are available through Bid Express website at https://www. bidx.com/site/trainingcenter. In order to receive Addenda and notifications all Bidders shall log into Bid Express and select the proposal and letting activity message and e-mail boxes in the manage messages and notifications tab.

The NMDOT will open and publicly read the Total Bid Amount for Bids in the presence of one or more witnesses at the NMDOT’s General Office (Room 223), 1120 Cerrillos Road Santa Fe, NM 87505. Individuals with disabilities who desire to attend or participate in this Bid Opening shall contact the NMDOT Title VI Liaison a minimum of ten Days before the date of Bid Opening at (505) 490-2620.

The Advertisement, Bid Form, Bid Guaranty, Supplemental Specifications, Special Provisions, Addenda, Notice to Contractors and Plans are available for a membership fee and for examination only through the Bid Express website. Fee schedules are available through the Bid Express website. The 2019 Edition of the NMDOT Standard Specifications and Standard Drawings for Highway and Bridge Construction shall govern construction of this Project. The 2019 Standard Specifications and Standard Drawings are available for no cost to the Bidder through the NMDOT website at http://dot. state.nm.us/content/nmdot/en/standards.html.

In the case of disruption of national communications or loss of services by Bid Express the morning of the Bid Opening, the NMDOT may delay the deadline for Bids. Instructions will be communicated through the Bid Express website.

As a condition to submitting a Bid all Bidders bidding as Contractors are required to be prequalified with the NMDOT’s Office of Inspector General seven (7) Days before Bid Opening per 18.27.5 NMAC. All Subcontractors are required to be prequalified before performing any Work and prior to supplying goods or services to the Project. The Contractor Prequalification Rule, 18.27.5 NMAC, and Prequalifi- cation Packet are located at http://dot.state.nm.us/content/nmdot/ en/prequalification.html. The Bidder’s prequalification factor rolling average will be applied to any Project with an engineer’s estimate greater than $5 million.

All Bidders submitting Bids valued over sixty thousand dollars ($60,000.00) shall be registered with the Department of Workforce So- lutions (DWS), Labor Relations before Bidding. The Bidder’s registration number shall be included on the Bid Form. The Bidder’s DWS registration number can be obtained through the website http://www.dws.state.nm.us/. If a Bidder appears on the DWS list of willful violators of the Public Works Minimum Wage Act (NMSA 13-4-14), the NMDOT shall reject the Bid and shall continue to reject Bids from that Bidder for three years after the date of publication of the list.

The Bidder’s Bid Guaranty shall be five percent (5%) of the Bidder’s Total Bid Amount and shall be submitted before Bid Opening through either Surety 2000 or Tinubu Surety.

For state funded Projects proof of the Bidder’s valid license in the form of its wallet card from the Construction Industries Division (CID) shall be submitted with the Bid per the Construction Industries Licensing Act NMSA (1978), Sections 60-131 to -57 (1967, as amended through 1989). The Bidder’s valid license shall cover the Project’s type of Work specified in this Advertisement. The Bidder shall submit in the form of a zip file to the “file attachment upload” tab in the Project Bids.EBSX file through Bid Express the CID wallet card.

If a Bidder is seeking, for state funded Projects, a resident business preference the Bidder shall submit a copy of its resident business certification in the form of a zip file to the “file attachment upload” tab in the Project Bids .EBSX file through Bid Express before Bid Opening per NMSA 1978, § 13-4-2 (1984, amended 2012).

If a Bidder is seeking, for state funded Projects, a resident veteran contractor preference the Bidder shall submit a copy of its resident veteran contractor certification and its application for the resident veteran contractor certification, not including the attachments for the application, in the form of a zip file to the “file attachment upload” tab in the Project Bids .EBSX file through Bid Express before Bid Opening per NMSA 1978, § 13-4-2 (1984, amended 2012).

For federally funded Projects, the Bidder is not required to have a license from the CID for the Project’s Work in order to submit a Bid. However, upon becoming the apparent successful Bidder, the Bidder must obtain a valid license with the proper classification for the Project’s Work within 30 Days of the date on the notice of Preliminary Award letter.

Federal and State Wage Rates are indicated for each Project. For federally funded Projects, the Bidder shall obtain the federal wage rate (Construction Type: Highway) through the US Department of Labor (DOL) website at https://sam. gov/content/home. In addition, the Bidder shall obtain the State wage rate (Street, Highway, Utility or Light Engineering Construction) through the DWS website at https://www.dws.state.nm.us/Labor-Relations/Labor-Information/PublicWorks. The higher wage rate shall govern in the event of a dis- crepancy between the minimum wage rates in the DOL/ DWS Wage Decision applicable to the Contract.

For federally funded Projects, a Bidder shall submit in the form of a zip file to the “file attachment upload” tab in the Project Bids .EBSX file through Bid Express the Affidavit of Bidder before Bid Opening.

For federally funded and state funded Projects, a Bidder shall submit in the form of a zip file to the “file attachment upload” tab in the Project Bids .EBSX file through Bid Express any documents before Bid Opening required by a Notice to Contractors.

Failure of the Bidder to comply with this Advertisement shall render the Bid non-responsive and the Bid shall be rejected.

(1) CN LC00290 TERMINI: NM 101, MP 0.000 to MP 1.419 for 1.419 miles COUNTY: Dona Ana (District 1) TYPE OF WORK: Roadway Reconstruction, Signalization, Lighting CONTRACT TIME: 460 Working Days DBE GOAL: At this time NMDOT will meet the State DBE on Federally assisted projects through a combination of race- neutral and race-conscious measures. This project is subject to raceconscious measures. The established DBE goal for this project is 0.00%.

LICENSES: (GA-1 or GA-98) and (EE-98) FUNDING TYPE: Federal-aid LISTING THRESHOLD: $7,000 (Subcontractors Fair Practices Act Compliance) WAGE RATE (FEDERAL): NM20230035 WAGE RATE (STATE): Type “A” (2023) (2) CN 6101221 TERMINI: NM 264, MP 9.300 to MP 14.700 for 5.400 miles COUNTY: McKinley (District 6) TYPE OF WORK: Roadway Reconstruction, CBC CONTRACT TIME: 150 Working Days DBE GOAL: At this time NMDOT will meet the State DBE on Federally assisted projects through a combination of race- neutral and race-conscious measures. This project is subject to raceconscious measures. The established DBE goal for this project is 0.00%.

LICENSES: (GA-1 or GA-98) and (GF-2 or GF-98) FUNDING TYPE: Federal-aid LISTING THRESHOLD: None WAGE RATE (FEDERAL): NM20230037 WAGE RATE (STATE): Type “A” (2023) (3) CN 1102040 TERMINI: I-25, MP 63.190 to MP 63.290 and MP 139.410 to MP 139.590 for 0.280 miles COUNTY: Sierra and Socorro (District 1) TYPE OF WORK: Bridge Rehabilitation, Drainage, Erosion Control Mitigation CONTRACT TIME: 120 Working Days DBE GOAL: At this time NMDOT will meet the State DBE on Federally assisted projects through a combination of race- neutral and race-conscious measures. This project is subject to raceconscious measures. The established DBE goal for this project is 0.00%.

LICENSES: (GA-1 or GF-4 or GA-98) and (GF-2 or GF-98) FUNDING TYPE: Federal-aid LISTING THRESHOLD: None WAGE RATE (FEDERAL): NM20230036 WAGE RATE (STATE): Type “A” (2023) (4) CN 2104590R TERMINI: US 60/84 and NM 467 Intersection for 0.284 miles COUNTY: Curry (District 2) TYPE OF WORK: Roadway Reconstruction, Lighting, Signalization CONTRACT TIME: 120 Working Days DBE GOAL: At this time NMDOT will meet the State DBE on Federally assisted projects through a combination of race- neutral and race-conscious measures. This project is subject to raceconscious measures. The established DBE goal for this project is 0.00%.

LICENSES: (GA-1 or GA-98) and (EE-98) FUNDING TYPE: Federal-aid LISTING THRESHOLD: $5,000 (Subcontractors Fair Practices Act Compliance) WAGE RATE (FEDERAL): NM20230036 WAGE RATE (STATE): Type “A” (2023)

Pub: Nov 17, 24, Dec 1, 8, 2023

ORDER EXTENDING CERTAIN DEADLINES SANTA FE COUNTY, NEW MEXICO

and Peter Varela, Agents for La Cueva Mutual Domestic Water Consumers Association (MDWCA), HC 74 Box 6, Pecos, New Mexico 87552, filed with the STATE ENGINEER Application No. UP-4490 POD2 to permit an Additional Groundwater Point Of Diversion (POD) within LEGALS the Pecos River Underground Water Basin of the State of New Mexico.

San Miguel and Santa Fe are the counties affected by the diversion and in which the water has been or will be put to beneficial use. This notice is ordered to be published in the Las Vegas Optic and Santa Fe New Mexican.

The La Cueva MDWCA (applicant) proposes an additional POD to supplement 6.48 acrefeet per annum (afa) of consumptive use water rights from well UP-4490 for the purpose of mutual domestic.

The applicant’s water rights are adjudicated under the Consent Order for Office of the State Engineer (OSE) File No. UP-4490 (Subfile No. 8.19). The adjudicated POD UP-4490 is located at a point where X=132,184.7 feet and Y=1,665,761.1 feet, NMSP, NAD83, East Zone as shown on Map Sheet 8 of the 1977 Pecos River Underground Water Basin Hydrographic Survey as Well W-19. The priority date for the water rights described

by OSE File No. UP-4490 is 1899. The adjudicated place of use is the Village of La Cueva located in Township 16N, Range 12E (NMPM) within the Pecos Pueblo Land Grant. The applicant’s proposed supplemental POD, for a combined diversion with UP-4490 of 6.48 afa of consumptive use water rights, is an exploratory well permitted under OSE File No. UP-4918 located at a point where X=132,415.9 feet and Y=1,666,268.9 feet, NMSP, NAD83, East Zone. The general location of proposed additional POD, UP-4490 POD2, is 400 feet north of NM-50 and Los Altos de Cicuye. The applicant is not requesting to change the POD, place or purpose of use and no additional water is requested by the subject application.

To view the application and supporting documentation contact the State Engineer District VI Office at 505-827-6120 to arrange a date and time for an appointment. The District VI Water Rights Division office is located at 407 Galisteo St. Suite 102, Santa Fe, NM 87501.

Pursuant to my authority under Section 7-38-85 NMSA 1978, I hereby LEGALS extend the folLEGALS LEGALS lowing deadline found in Section 7-38-27(C) of LEGAL #91944 the Property Tax Code LEGAL #91999 with respect to the STATE OF NEW MEXICO 2023-tax year only: STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF SANTA FE COUNTY OF SANTA FE FIRST JUDICIAL 1) The deadline FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT for the Santa Fe DISTRICT County Assessor to reNo. solve protests from No. D-101-PB-2023-00227 November 27, 2023 to D-101-PB-2023-00301 no later than February IN THE MATTER OF THE 25, 2024.

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE of ISABEL M. ESTATE OF WILLIAM J. MONTOYA, Deceased. Done this 14th day of SALMAN, Deceased.

November 2023.

NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION Ira Pearson, Director Property Tax Division NOTICE IS HEREBY TO: UKNOWN HEIRS OF GIVEN that Michael R. ISABEL M. MONTOYA, Pub: Dec 1, 8, 15, 2023 Salman has been apDECEASED, AND ALL pointed Personal RepPub: Dec 1, 8, 15, 2023 UNKNOWN PERSONS resentative of this To place a WHO HAVE OR CLAIM estate.

All persons Legal Notice LEGAL #91977 ANY INTEREST IN THE having claims against ESTATE OF ISABEL M. this estate are reCall 986-3000 STATE OF NEW MEXICO MONTOYA, DECEASED, quired to present their COUNTY OF SANTA FE OR IN THE MATTER claims within four FIRST JUDICIAL DISBEING LITIGATED IN LEGAL #92005 months of the date of TRICT THE HEREINAFTER the first publication of STATE OF NEW MEXICO MENTIONED HEARING this Notice or within IN THE FIRST JUDICIAL sixty days of the mailIN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF You are hereby noti- DISTRICT COURT ing or other delivery of SANTA FE COUNTY PHYLLIS ELAINE fied that Harold Monthis notice, whichever QUALLS, deceased. toya filed an is later, or the claims No. Application for Formal will be forever barred.

No. D-101-PB-2023Probate of Will and Ap- D-101-PB-2023-00205 Claims must be pre00313 pointment of Personal sented either to the NOTICE TO CREDITORS Representative of the Personal RepresentaNOTICE NO TICE TO TO CREDITORS CREDITORS Estate on August 24, tive at P.O. Box 2168, 2023. A hearing on this NOTICE IS HERE BY Albuquerque, NM GIVEN that the underNotice is hereby given Application will be 87103-2168, or filed that RICHARD C. held before the Honor- signed has been ap- with the First Judicial pointed Personal QUALLS has been apable Francis J. Mathew, District Court, P.O. Box Representative of the pointed Personal RepDistrict Court Judge, 2268, Santa Fe, New resentative of this via Google Meet on Estate of MICHAEL Mexico 87504-2268.

Estate.

All persons Tuesday, January 16, DEAN MURPHY, De- DATED: December 4, ceased.

All persons having claims against 2024 at 10:00 A.M. MST. 2023 having claims this Estate are reGoogle Meet Link: quired to present their meet.google.com/pbm against this Estate are MODRALL, SPERLING, required to present ROEHL, HARRIS claims within four -prjx-suz. their claims within & SISK, P.A. months after the date four (4) months after of the first publication Pursuant to 45-1-404 the date of the of this Notice or the NMSA 1978, notice of Submitted electronifirst publication of claims will be forever time and place of cally any published notice barred. Claims must hearing on said petibe presented either to tion is hereby given by to creditors or Within By: /s/ Vanessa C. sixty (60) days of the the Personal Reprepublication, once a Kaczmarek date of mailing sentative in care of his week for three consecVanessa C. Kaczmarek or other delivery of attorneys at the adutive weeks.

Attorneys for Personal this notice, whichever Representative dress below, or filed with the Santa Fe DATED: November 28, is later or the claims 500 4th St., NW, will be forever barred. Suite 1000 County District Court.

2023.

Claims must Post Office Box 2168 be presented to the R. Tracy Sprouls By: Lovato Law, P.C., (87103-2168) RODEY, DICKASON, /s/ Edward W. Lovato Personal Representa- Albuquerque, NM tive, c/o Brannen & SLOAN, AKIN & ROBB, Attorney for Petitioner 87102 Brannen LLC, 3 Telephone: P.A. Harold Montoya P.O. Box 1888 661 Quantum Rd. NE, Caliente Road #5, (505) 848-1800 Santa Fe, NM 87508, or Albuquerque, NM Ste. 10 filed with the First Ju87103-1888 Rio Rancho, NM 87124 Pub: Dec 8, 15, 22, 2023 dicial District Court (505) 768-7355 Tel. 505-738-3777 County of Santa Fe, LEGAL #91984 ATTORNEYS FOR PERPub: Dec 1, 8, 15, 2023 State of New Mexico, located SONAL REPRESENTAat the Santa Fe, County STATE OF NEW MEXICO LEGAL #91994 TIVE Courthouse, 225 Mon- IN THE tezuma Ave., Santa Fe, PROBATE COURT LEGAL NOTICE PUB: Dec. 8, 15, 22, 2023 The New Mexico Brain New SANTA FE COUNTY Mexico 87501.

Injury Advisory CounLEGAL #91997 cil of the Governor’s No. 2023-0256 Commission on Dis- Dated: August 31, 2023 SANTA FE ability will have a IN THE MATTER OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS quarterly meeting in Mavis B. Murphey ESTATE OF Albuquerque, New Personal Representa- Alicia Moreno, Sealed Proposals Mexico on Wednesday, tive DECEASED addressed to the 19 Jornada Place, December 20th, 2023.

Purchasing DepartSanta Fe, NM87508 LOCATION: NOTICE TO CREDITORS ment Room #204A of Nusenda Credit Union 505-466-8189 NOTICE IS HEREBY the Santa Fe Training Center GIVEN that the underPublic Schools, 610 La Luz Room 4100 Pan By: BRANNEN & BRAN- signed has been apAlta Vista Street, NEN LLC American Fwy NE pointed personal Santa Fe, New Mexico Albuquerque, NM Jennifer E. Brannen representative of the 87505 will be received 3 Caliente Rd, #5, estate of the dece- Any person, firm or by said department as 87107 DATE: Wednesday, De- Santa Fe, NM 87508 dent. All persons hav- corporation or other follows: (505) 466-3830 cember 20th, 2023 ing claims against the entity asserting stand- January 18, 2024 at 2:00 JBrannen@brannen- estate of the decedent ing to file objections or P.M. local time TIME: 10 to 12noon lawllc.com Meeting Agenda will are required to pres- protests shall do so in Request for Proposal be posted on both the Attorneys for Personal ent their claims within writing (objection No. 13-General 2023Representative BIAC website at four (4) months after must Transportation be legible, 24, www.biac.gcd.nm.gov the date of the first signed, and include Complex Renovations.

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31 Pepper introduced in the 1960s: Abbr.

34 Producers of green eggs (but not ham) 35 Sacher ___ (chocolate/apricot confection) 36 Who talks on the phone a lot

37 Where Scrabble was invented: Abbr.

38 Weight of valuables 39 Didn’t take a card 40 Tip line?

43 Chairs usually have them 45 Tower of London feature 46 Eludes 47 Didn’t hide one’s opinion 50 Ingredient in some lip balms 51 General recommendation?

54 Land vandalized by the Vandals 55 Subject of a firstperson narrative 56 In after being out 57 Residents of the Forest of Fangorn 58 After-beach wear 59 No-good conniver DOWN 1 “Giant ___,” soft sculpture of a sandwich at the Whitney Museum 2 Nonclerical 3 Resort with a “no snowboarders” rule

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53 ___ Valley (San Francisco neighborhood)

Friday, December 8, 2023

HOCUS FOCUS

become intense ego battles.

Tonight: Check your finances.

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HH Avoid confrontations, especially those that are workrelated today, because they will become nasty. We are all entrenched in our views, attitudes and prejudices. Agree to disagree. Tonight: Cooperate.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Friday, Dec. 8, 2023: You have a lively, energetic personality. This is the last year of a nine-year cycle, which means it’s time to take inventory.

MOON ALERT: Avoid shopping or important decisions from 6 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. After that, the moon moves from Libra into Scorpio.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH Steer clear of difficult discussions with members of the public, partners and close friends. They will quickly

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HH Be easygoing with your kids today. You might end up on a power trip, which does not benefit you, and it does not benefit them. Think about what you could do to help them see the best way to live. Tonight: Work.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Avoid family arguments today, because they will be nasty and emotional. Further-

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more, they probably won’t even resolve anything. Tonight: Socialize.

JUMBLE

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Although you are persuasive and convincing today, make sure you don’t bully your way into or out of a situation, especially with siblings, relatives and daily contacts.

Tonight: Relax.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH You are intense, powerful and one of the most self-disciplined signs in the zodiac. Don’t give in to feelings of self-doubt today, which is easy to do.

Don’t do this to yourself and don’t let anyone else do it to you, either. Tonight: You win!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HH Financial squabbles will be intense today. Someone might want to tear down something in order to build it up again in a new way. This might work, or it might be too drastic of a change. Tonight: Busy!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HH Today the Moon is in your sign at odds with Pluto, which means jealously is likely.

TODAY IN HISTORY

Secrets might be revealed.

People might resort to manipulation and guilt to get what they want. Tonight: Check your possessions.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH With the Sun and Mars both in your sign, you’re coming on like gangbusters. Furthermore, you know that you can tell it like it is in a rather blunt way. Be careful about offending friends or members of groups. Tonight: Solitude.

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D EA R A N N I E

Couple disagree on how much money to spend Dear Annie: I have had dogs my whole life and treat them like members of my family. When they are sick, they go to the vet and get the medicine they need. I have spent thousands of dollars on surgeries for my dogs and recently hundreds more on blood tests and evaluations for separate issues.

My husband thinks it is ridiculous to spend this much money on the care of animals and thinks there is a limit to what we should spend on our “pets” before we basically allow them to die. Do you think we should have limits on what we spend on veterinary care for members of our families? How do you make a decision to stop spending money on them when they have so much more life to live? Thanks for your advice. — Limitless Love Dear Limitless: Every person has a different threshold for the dollar amount they are willing to spend on a pet. In the future, it probably makes sense to discuss what that number is before getting an animal with a partner. Consider your financial situation and your pet’s odds of recovery when having these conversations.

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THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HH This is a poor day to get into a power struggle with a parent, boss or the police, because it will be a public event. Furthermore, you won’t look like a winner. Tonight: Friendships.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HH This is the classic day to get your belly in a rash over discussions about politics, religion or racial issues, because you will feel emotional and that something is at stake. Tonight: You’re noticed.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Avoid power struggles about inheritances, shared property and insurance, because they will only create problems in your life. Nothing will be resolved. Tonight: Explore!

SHEINWOLD’S BRIDGE

Dear Annie: My husband has an old and trusted friend; they go back many years. The problem is not his friend but his handicapped grandson. This child has been “acting out” since he was a toddler. During a visit to our home, the grandson physically assaulted me, and I was in extreme pain for days. The incident was basically swept under the rug.

Here’s the problem: I refuse to visit this man and his wife because I am deathly afraid of their grandson. He was 7 when the incident occurred and is now 12 and can probably do even more damage. My husband says this is insulting to his BFF and his wife and that I am being a witch to not go to their home. I would go if their grandson were not there, but my husband refuses to ask for this concession.

Am I being unreasonable? Is there any other way to handle the situation? Thank you. — Scared and Uncomfortable Dear Scared and Uncomfortable: It’s not unreasonable to feel frightened after this child directed a violent outburst toward you. I’m surprised your husband doesn’t seem to be validating your feelings around this trauma in the slightest.

It sounds like your husband is close enough with his friend to gently but candidly share how you feel. If this other couple knew how that episode continues to impact you, they might be more understanding of your absences and willing to commit to adult-only, public plans moving forward, child care permitting.

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SUPER QUIZ Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

Subject: DYSTOPIAN NOVELS The author,

6. Philip K.

setting are given.

Dick, 1968, a post-

Name the novel. (e.g., John Wyndham, 1955, “The Chrysalids.”)

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. George Orwell,

Today’s highlight in history: On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Imperial Japan a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

1949, Oceania.

Answer________ 2. Ray Bradbury, 1953, an unspecified city.

Answer________ 3. Margaret Atwood, 1985, the U.S. Answer________ GRADUATE LEVEL

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4. Aldous Huxley, 1932, the “World State” city of London.

Rules • Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 through 6 without repeating.

• The numbers within the heavily outlines boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners.

• Freebies: Fill in single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.

Answer________

publication date and

Labrador. Answer:

Today is Friday, Dec. 8, the 342nd day of 2023. There are 23 days left in the year.

1962, a near-future dystopian city.

Answer________ 5. Anthony Burgess,

apocalyptic San Francisco after a global war.

Answer________ PH.D. LEVEL 7. H.G. Wells, 1895, Richmond, Surrey.

Answer________ 8. Suzanne Collins, 2008, the postapocalyptic nation of Panem in North America.

Answer________ 9. Stephen King, 1978, the U.S. following the accidental release of a lethal strain of influenza.

Answer________

ANSWERS: 1. “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” 2. “Fahrenheit 451.”

3. “The Handmaid’s Tale.” 4. “Brave New World.” 5. “A Clockwork Orange.” 6. “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” 7. “The Time Machine.” 8. “The Hunger Games.” 9. “The Stand.”

SCORING: 18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

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