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  • City gets interim finance director

    The Las Vegas City Council last week approved Pamela Marrujo, the customer service manager in the utilities department, as the interim finance director.

    Marrujo was sworn in as her family watched.

    Tana Vega, the deputy finance director, has been serving as the interim director since Abran Romero resigned in September. Vega was hired as deputy director earlier this year; she worked with City Manager Timothy Dodge when he was manager in Santa Rosa.

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  • Woman convicted in killing

    A woman accused of stabbing a man to death was found guilty Friday of voluntary manslaughter.

    A nine-woman, three-man jury produced its verdict against Bernadette Sanchez, 36, after less than an hour of deliberations. She was also found guilty of tampering with evidence.

    During the four-day trial, the defense tried to show that Sanchez stabbed Timoteo M. Jaramillo, 36, because he came into her house and attacked her friend, Elizabeth Martin.

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  • Luna policy for trades criticized

    Luna Community College contends it is accommodating vocational students who are pursuing hobbies, not degrees or certifications.

    But Kirk Ludi, one of those students, doesn’t believe that to be the case. Instead, hobbyists are getting the shaft, he said.

    Ludi, a West Las Vegas High School teacher, has been an automotive student at Luna for four years. He takes both automotive maintenance and collision repair.

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  • Official: Board backs superintendent

    The president of the Las Vegas City Schools board this week offered his support to Superintendent Rick Romero.

    In so doing, he criticized a story in the Las Vegas Times that raised the possibility that board members were discussing firing Romero or buying out his contract, “depending on which board member you ask.”

    “That’s a big lie,” President Phillip Vigil said at a board meeting.

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  • Council rejects charter again

    For the second time, the City Council on Wednesday rejected a proposed new city constitution, with one member taking a committee to task for not following the council’s directions.

    Two weeks ago, a council majority turned down a proposed charter because it contained a provision for instant runoffs, which would let voters rank their choices in municipal elections, resulting in majority winners.

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  • Mayor's prayer idea voted down

    Mayor Tony Marquez may not have had his prayer answered Wednesday night.

    The Las Vegas City Council unanimously rejected his proposal to have an invocation, or prayer, at the beginning of each meeting.

    Marquez noted that he proposed prayer during meetings when he was a councilman four years ago — an idea his colleagues rejected back then.

    In arguing for his proposal, Marquez said the U.S. Congress and state Legislature have prayers to begin their sessions.

    “It’s my opinion that it will help us get along better,” he said.

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  • Mora schools leader on leave

    The Mora school board has placed the district’s superintendent on paid administrative leave.

    Dora Romero, who has been the superintendent since 2008, is on leave pending a discharge hearing, said Joseph Griego, the board’s chairman.

    The vote to put the superintendent on leave was 4-1, with member George Trujillo dissenting.

    Romero didn’t return a message for comment left on her home phone Wednesday.

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  • Man charged with DWI after crash

    A Chacon man who rolled over his car in Holman is accused of drunken driving, state police said.

    Edwardo Gallegos, 22, faces charges of DWI and careless driving.

    His car rolled over by the Holman school around 1:30 p.m. Nov. 6, state police said. Before officers got there, a passerby had taken Gallegos to a Mora ambulance, which took Gallegos to Alta Vista Regional Hospital.

    Gallegos had allegedly been taking prescription drugs that are illegal to consume before driving, state police said.

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  • Council to vote on charter

    The Las Vegas City Council will decide today whether to send a proposed city charter to voters in March.

    The charter essentially serve as the community’s constitution.

    The major point of contention has been the proposal for instant runoffs, a system that lets voters rank candidates, resulting in a majority winner. But the council majority has pushed for separate runoff elections held after the main municipal election.

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  • Man gets reduced charge

    Prosecutors will pursue a charge of voluntary manslaughter against a man who allegedly shot another last month.

    District Attorney Richard Flores said evidence in the case doesn’t warrant his office to proceed with murder charges.

    Richard Baca, 21, of Los Lunas is accused of killing Benito Lemos, 22, a local postal carrier, at 12th Street and National Avenue.

    The shooting allegedly happened after Lemos got out of his car to confront Baca about cutting him off in another area of town. It happened around 5:30 p.m. Nov. 9.

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