- AP-US-PROP-FIREARM-MOVIE-SET-LIABILITY
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Experts predict a tremendous legal fallout after Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger on a prop gun while filming "Rust" in New Mexico and unwittingly killed a cinematographer and injured a director. In addition to Baldwin, a call sheet for the day of the shooting obtained by The Associated Press lists five producers, four executive producers, a line producer and a co-producer. They, assistant director Dave Halls and an armorer could all face some sort of liability even if they weren't on the set. The payouts might be in the "millions and millions" of dollars.
- CRIME-ALBUQUERQUE VICTIMS
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Organizers of a national memorial dedicated to victims of gun violence will be stopping in New Mexico's largest city to collect items from families who have lost loved ones. The collection event scheduled for early November comes as Albuquerque marks another year of record homicides and persistent crime. The mayor signed an executive order last week creating a task force to focus on gun violence. Angel Alire is among the moms who want their children to be remembered as part of the national memorial. On display in Washington, D.C., the memorial is made up of numerous glass boxes, each representing one person. Other collection events are planned in Massachusetts and New York.
- RENEWABLE ENERGY-TRANSMISSION
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It's been years in the making and now officials say the first leg of a major renewable energy transmission line in New Mexico has been energized. The New Mexico Renewable Energy Transmission Authority made the announcement Tuesday. The Western Spirit project is expected to be in operation by the end of the year. The transmission line will carry wind-generated power to the grid in New Mexico and other western markets. The project involved a novel public-private partnership between the state transmission authority and Pattern Energy. The Public Service Co. of New Mexico will acquire and operate the transmission line when it's complete.
- BC-JAIL HOMICIDE-ALBUQUERQUE
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say a 25-year-old inmate in the main jail for metro Albuquerque is accused of killing another inmate who was his cellmate. The Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office said Telea Lui was rebooked at the Metropolitan Detention Center on an open count of murder in the beating death Monday of41-year-old Leon Casiquito. The Sheriff's Office said Lui was originally jailed on charges of aggravated battery of a household member with a deadly weapon and false imprisonment.An attorney for the state public defender's office represents Lui in his original case, and an office spokeswoman didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the homicide case.
- ENDANGERED SPECIES
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — President Joe Biden's administration is canceling two environmental rollbacks under former President Donald Trump that limited habitat protections for imperiled plants and wildlife. The proposal to drop the two Trump-era rules was announced Tuesday by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service. It's part of a broad effort by the Biden administration to undo rules imposed under Trump that favored industry over the environment. The designation of lands and waters as critical for the survival of vulnerable species can limit mining, oil drilling and other development. That has long made the designations a flashpoint for conflict between environmental and business interests
- PROP FIREARM-MOVIE SET
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hollywood professionals say they're baffled by the circumstances of the New Mexico movie-set shooting that left a cinematographer dead, adding that production crews have stepped up safety measures. Jeffrey Wright says the death has brought a renewed attention to detail on the set of "Westworld," the HBO series he stars in. He also says he has never been handed a weapon on set without seeing that the barrel was clear. "The Umbrella Academy" actor Justin Min says precautions were taken to "another level" after the shooting. Actor Alec Baldwin fired the shot that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. A photo published in the New York Post shows him embracing Hutchins' husband on Saturday.
- AP-US-PROP-FIREARM-MOVIE-SET-ALEC-BALDWIN
NEW YORK (AP) — Details are still emerging about how Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed a cinematographer on a New Mexico film set. But some political onlookers swiftly assigned guilt to one of Hollywood's most prominent liberals. Right-wing pundits and politicians have long chafed at Baldwin's criticism of former President Donald Trump and his Trump parody on "Saturday Night Live." They wasted little time zeroing in on the actor who pulled the trigger. The hashtag #AlecForPrison ricocheted around Twitter. By Monday, Trump's oldest son was selling $28 T-shirts on his official website with the slogan "Guns don't kill people, Alec Baldwin kills people."