Hackers managed to access client information at the state human services department, putting at risk thousands of individuals for identity theft and other forms of skulduggery. One third of Albuquerque Public Schools’ teachers aides called in sick Thursday and it may be due to a contract dispute. Emilio Naranjo, the former Rio Arriba county political boss who often was called the “last patron,” died Thursday. A newspaper crime reporter in Juarez was shot and killed Thursday in a hail of bullets as he prepared to take his daughter to school. The Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce is lobbying to delay the 50-cent increase in the City Different’s minimum wage because of the recession. The increase is scheduled for Jan. 1. And a spark from a welder’s torch may be responsible for the conflagration that destroyed a plant nursery in Mesilla Park.