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POLICE: FLA. STUDENT PLOTTED ATTACK ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A college student with two guns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and a backpack filled with explosives pulled a dorm fire alarm Monday in an apparent attempt to force other students out ...
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March 19, 2013
ABQ police chief says he wasn’t forced out
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ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — The police chief said Monday that his decision to step down wasn’t connected to a U.S. Justice Department investigation on use of force or the result of pressure from the mayor. “I’ve been thinking about it for a while, and I decided that the timing was right,” Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz told The Associated Press. “I’ve got a daughter who is about to get married and a son who is about to be deployed to Japan” as a U.S. Navy pilot. He noted that he has spent more than 30 years in law enforcement. Schultz said his decision to retire also wasn’t influenced by a jury decision last week to award more than $10 million to the family of an Iraq War veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder who was killed by an Albuquerque police officer during a 2010 standoff at a convenience store. The city attorney’s office
said city officials are deciding whether they will appeal the decision. Since 2010, the city has seen a string of officer involved shootings — 18 of them fatal. But since the department installed a number of policy reforms, the number of annual officerinvolved shootings has declined. The department also has been plagued by a number of high-profile cases alleging excessive force, including some cases caught on video. And several officers have been reprimanded for social media postings, including one by an officer involved in a fatal shooting who described his occupation as “human waste disposal.” Schultz’s announcement comes five months after the U.S. Department of Justice launched a civil rights investigation that was spurred by protests, lawsuits and demands for a wide-scale change. But Schultz said he was happy with his seven
years as head of a police department that faced heat then over a poorly managed evidence room. “The evidence room is now a model for the nation,” Schultz said. Mayor Albuquerque Richard Berry also pointed to violent crime in the city falling to 30-year lows. “This chief was innovative and creative,” Berry said. Berry said he didn’t know about Schultz’s decision until he received his letter on Friday. He added that Schultz will likely stay on as chief until July. The mayor said he will conduct a national search for the next police chief and plans to make a hire after the mayoral election later this year. Jewel Hall, president of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center Board and a vocal critic of the department, said she hopes that Berry considers including community input in hiring the next city’s police chief.
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This July 13, 2010, file photo shows Albuquerque police chief Ray Schultz, in Albuquerque. Schultz announced Monday he is stepping down.
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A woman holds a banner during a protest outside of the parliament in Nicosia, Cyprus, Monday,.
Account seizure plan draws fury in Cyprus GOODELL: NO EXPANDED PLAYOFFS PHOENIX (AP) — The NFL won’t be adding playoff teams for 2013, and the champions of last season, the Baltimore Ravens, could open on the road because of a conflict with the Orioles. As the owners ...
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A plan to seize up to 10 percent of savings accounts in Cyprus to help pay for a (euro) 15.8 billion ($20.4 billion) financial bailout was met
with fury Monday, and the gover nment shut down banks until later this week while lawmakers wrangled over how to keep the island nation from bankruptcy.
Though the euro and stock prices of European banks fell, global financial markets largely remained calm, and there was little sense that bank account holders elsewhere across
the continent faced similar risk. Political leaders in Cyprus scrambled to
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By most area legislators’ accounts, the 2013 state legislative session started slow and rushed to the finish, but in the end, things went the best they could have. After a weekend of fast frenzy and heavy compromise, Gov. Susana Martinez said she will sign the $5.9 billion budget passed by both the Senate and the House of Representatives and forgo a special session, following the Legislature’s approval, at the last possible minute, of a tax plan that will lower the state’s
GOP rolls out roadmap amid divisions Violent inmate removed
WASHINGTON (AP) — This was to be a roadmap for a new, more inclusive GOP: attract minority voters, support immigration reform and embrace “welcoming and inclusive” attitudes on gay rights. But minutes after unveiling the proposal on Monday, the party chairman distanced himself from it, and some conservatives and tea partyers balked. It all illustrated the GOP’s precarious balance as it works to unite battling factions. “This is not my report,” See GOP, Page A3
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from Curry County jail
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday.
CLOVIS (AP) — A prisoner awaiting trial in a Clovis home-invasion killing has been moved to a state prison in the wake of several violent incidents in the Curry County Jail. Jail Administrator Tori Sandoval says 31-year-old Jimmy Reagan was moved Friday to an undisclosed prison equipped to handle violent inmates. Reagan faces murder and numerous other felony charges in a June 6 home invasion in which elementary school janitor Shondel Lofton was killed. The Clovis News-Journal reports that Regan most recently is accused of stabbing a detention officer in the face with a pencil on March 9. Reagan was previously involved in Jan. 18 and Feb. 21 violent incidents at the jail, and he now faces additional charges of felony battery of a peace officer.
Meet new Emergency Preparedness Manager Sanders during forum at RPL JESSICA PALMER RECORD STAFF WRITER
The Roswell SAFE Coalition is sponsoring a Disaster Preparedness Forum at the Roswell Public Library, 301 N. Pennsylvania Ave., starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday. The meeting will give people the chance to meet keynote speaker Karen Sanders, the Emergency Preparedness Manager of Chaves County. She took over the reigns from recently retired Emergency Preparedness Manager Teresa Barncastle. A Roswell native and graduate of Roswell High, Sanders feels she is giving
back to her community. Her stated goal is to “create a safer and less vulnerable community, better able to cope with the hazards and disasters that may occur. Emergency management is reducing the impact of disasters on the community and on the people.” Much of her life has been spent preparing for emergencies. She worked for the Roswell Fire Department for 10 years at busy Station 1 where she did everything from answer the phones to coordinate the annual rabies clinic. In addition, Sanders took numerous courses in FEMA’s emer-
gency professional development program and courses in incident command systems. Emergency Preparedness in Chaves County is funded in part by FEMA, or more precisely, The Department of Homeland Security Emergency Management Program. Sander’s of fices have changed from RFD Station 1 to Station 2 on Wilshire. Station 2 also contains the new EMP Operations Center. Sanders’ job entails everything from keeping track of equipment — Roswell now has two new
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Karen Sanders