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• Youngblood reports to jail for 1-day sentence

  15-10-2018 22:23
  Monica Youngblood is behind bars. Online jail records show the Republican state representative arrived at the Metropolitan Detention Center around 10 a.m. Monday to serve her one-day sentence for drunken driving. Judge Kevin Fitzwater gave Youngblood until Friday to turn herself in, saying that the delayed turn-in date would allow her defense team time to […]
  
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• Girdles and socket wrenches: Sears was the Amazon of its day

  15-10-2018 20:49
  Before there was Amazon — or, for that matter, Home Depot or Walmart or Kmart — there was Sears. From its beginnings as a mail-order watch business in Minneapolis 132 years ago, the company grew to become America’s everything-under-one-roof store and the biggest retailer in the world. For generations of Americans, the brick-like Sears, Roebuck […]
  
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• Warren DNA analysis points to Native American heritage

  15-10-2018 20:43
  BOSTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday released the results of a DNA analysis that she said indicated she has some Native American heritage, a direct rebuttal to President Donald Trump, who has long mocked her ancestral claims and repeatedly referred to her as “Pocahontas.” The Massachusetts Democrat and potential 2020 presidential contender challenged Trump […]
  
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• Colorado gun club drops NRA requirement for members

  15-10-2018 20:01
  GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. — A western Colorado gun club has dropped a requirement that its members also be members of the National Rifle Association. Glenwood Springs Gun Club President Ralph Delaney has said NRA membership was required because the club received its insurance through the NRA. City Councilor Jonathan Godes said he was concerned that […]
  
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• Warren’s DNA test: ‘Pocahontas’ pushback, possible 2020 prep

  15-10-2018 20:00
  WASHINGTON — That “Pocahontas” taunt must have rankled. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s release Monday of a DNA analysis that she does indeed have Native American ancestry is a pointed pushback to Donald Trump’s derisive nickname for her. It also looks like an attempt by the Massachusetts Democrat to defuse the issue ahead of a potential 2020 […]
  
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• Recovery of Nepal climbers delayed by mountain’s remoteness

  15-10-2018 20:00
  KATHMANDU, Nepal — Rescuers hampered by difficult, remote terrain took two days to recover the bodies of nine climbers, including one of the world’s best, who hoped to map a new route to a Himalayan peak in Nepal that hasn’t been scaled in eight years. Local police chief Bir Bahadur Budamagar said a group of […]
  
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• Government spends millions to guard Confederate cemeteries

  15-10-2018 20:00
  ALTON, Ill. — After last year’s deadly clash between white nationalists and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, the federal government quietly spent millions of dollars to hire private security guards to stand watch over at least eight Confederate cemeteries, documents from the Department of Veterans Affairs show. The security effort, which runs around the clock at […]
  
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• Study: Without Medicaid expansion, poor forgo medical care

  15-10-2018 16:52
  WASHINGTON — Low-income people in states that haven’t expanded Medicaid are much more likely to forgo needed medical care than the poor in other states, according to a government report released Monday amid election debates from Georgia to Utah over coverage for the needy. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office worked with the National Center for […]
  
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• US stocks shake off early losses; trading remains wobbly

  15-10-2018 16:37
  NEW YORK — Trading on Wall Street remains uneven Monday as U.S. stocks head slightly higher after some sharp early losses. Technology companies continue to slump, but high-dividend stocks like household goods makers and real estate companies are gaining ground. The S&P 500 and other major U.S. indexes are coming off their worst week since […]
  
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• US eyes military bases for coal, gas exports

  15-10-2018 15:57
  BILLINGS, Mont. — The Trump administration is considering using West Coast military bases or other federal properties as transit points for shipments of U.S. coal and natural gas to Asia as officials seek to bolster the domestic energy industry and circumvent environmental opposition to fossil fuel exports, according to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and two […]
  
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• Markets Right Now: US stocks turn higher in midday trading

  15-10-2018 15:42
  NEW YORK — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 11:45 a.m. Stocks are shaking off an early loss and moving slightly higher in midday trading on Wall Street. Technology companies continue to slump Monday, but high-dividend stocks like household goods makers and real estate companies are gaining ground. Major indexes are […]
  
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• Markets Right Now: US stocks open lower, led by tech sector

  15-10-2018 15:42
  NEW YORK — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 9:35 a.m. Stocks are opening mostly lower as technology companies continue to fall. Major U.S. indexes are coming off their worst week in six months. Texas Instruments fell 1.4 percent and Microsoft lost 0.8 percent Monday. Banks declined as well. Bank of […]
  
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• Hurricane Michael adds to hardship of Florida’s poor

  15-10-2018 14:56
  LYNN HAVEN, Fla. — Mary Frances Parrish is expecting to be without electricity for several weeks, or roughly the same time the terminally ill son she’s caring for is expected to live. In the days after Hurricane Michael smashed through her neighborhood, leaving many of her neighbors’ homes destroyed, she and her son Derrell, 47, […]
  
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• Flash floods kill at least 13 people in southwest France

  15-10-2018 14:54
  PARIS — Flash floods tore through towns in southwest France, turning waterways into raging torrents that killed at least 13 people, nine of them in just one town, authorities said Monday. People had to be helicoptered to safety from the roofs of their homes as overnight storms dumped the equivalent of several months of rain […]
  
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• AP-NORC Poll: Many caregivers neglecting their own health

  15-10-2018 14:54
  WASHINGTON — Skipping your checkup but not grandma’s? Caring for an older loved one is a balancing act, and a new poll shows that too often it’s the caregivers’ health that’s neglected. The survey, by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, found about a third of caregivers have gone without a routine physical […]
  
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• Episcopal Church confronts past role in sexual exploitation

  15-10-2018 11:39
  NEW YORK — With striking displays of candor, the Episcopal Church is acknowledging the potency of the #MeToo movement by officially lamenting its past role in sexual exploitation and pledging steps to combat it. The Protestant denomination’s national convention this summer included an emotional session at which first-person accounts of abuse by clergy and other […]
  
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• Global stocks slip on continuing global trade worries

  15-10-2018 08:41
  TOKYO — Global stocks slipped Monday as investor worries continued about global trade tensions and prospects for economic growth. KEEPING SCORE: France’s CAC 40 lost 0.3 percent in early trading to 5,079.25, while Britain’s FTSE 100 was down less than 0.1 percent at 6,995.44. U.S. shares were also set to drift lower, with Dow futures […]
  
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• Asian stocks slip on continuing global trade worries

  15-10-2018 08:41
  TOKYO — Asian stocks slipped Monday, as investor worries continued about global trade tensions and prospects for economic growth. KEEPING SCORE: Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 dipped 1.9 percent to finish at 22,271.30, while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 slipped nearly 1 percent to 5,837.10. South Korea’s Kospi edged down 0.8 percent to 2,142.91. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng […]
  
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• License plate laws are unambiguous

  15-10-2018 08:05
  Plate must be affixed to back of car
  
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• Editorial: Local residents deserve to be heard on WIPP plan

  15-10-2018 08:05
  Do you measure volume by A.) how big your glass is, or B.) how much is actually in it? ...
  
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• Despite weather, Balloon Fiesta was ‘fantastic’

  15-10-2018 08:05
  Board of directors president points out that balloonists were able to lift off most days
  
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• All 70 NM House seats up for election

  15-10-2018 08:05
  About a dozen hotly contested races could shape makeup
  
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• Hunsaker has deep NM roots

  15-10-2018 06:12
  He’s the New Mexico basketball coach who never was. When you look at the long basketball journey of Dick Hunsaker — from his family’s ties to sugar beet farming in Clovis and playing for the likes of Brooks Jennings, Jimmy Joe Robinson and Steve White to playing for Don Haskins at UTEP and coaching with […]
  
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• UNM football: Opportunity lost

  15-10-2018 06:03
  Alex Hart traveled alone on a flight from Denver to Albuquerque on Sunday morning. The New Mexico senior linebacker, who suffered a season-ending knee injury Sept. 15, was there with his teammates for their big game at Colorado State. The following day he said what the Lobos and their fans believed before UNM lost to […]
  
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• Trump says climate change not a hoax, not sure of its source

  15-10-2018 04:53
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is backing off his claim that climate change is a hoax but says he doesn’t know if it’s manmade and suggests that the climate will “change back again.” In an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday night, Trump said he doesn’t want to put the U.S. at a […]
  
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• 4 men killed in shooting at child’s birthday party in Texas

  15-10-2018 04:53
  DALLAS — An argument escalated into a backyard shooting at a toddler’s birthday party in South Texas, leaving four men dead and a fifth man wounded, authorities said Sunday. The shooting happened at a child’s first birthday party Saturday afternoon in Taft, 12 miles (19 kilometers) north of Corpus Christi, the Texas Department of Public […]
  
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• 25 hospitalized, 5 serious, after Los Angeles highway crash

  15-10-2018 04:53
  LOS ANGELES — Twenty-five people were taken to hospitals with mostly minor injuries following a series of crashes involving at least two cars and a bus that crashed through a concrete divider on a Los Angeles highway, authorities said. Five patients were in serious condition following the collisions shortly after 1 p.m. that shut down […]
  
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• City Council to discuss Netflix at Thursday meeting

  15-10-2018 02:22
  City Councilors announced Sunday that they will consider a Netflix incentive package at a special meeting Thursday. The proposed package would give the media services magnate $4.5 million in Local Economic Development funds on top of $10 million from the State Economic Development Department as it negotiates the purchase of Albuquerque Studios. The Albuquerque Development […]
  
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• First Hruby fellows named at Sandia Labs

  15-10-2018 01:06
  Sandia National Laboratories has named its first two Jill Hruby fellows. Chemist Mercedes Taylor and materials scientist Chen Wang are the first to be awarded the women-only honor. The fellowship, named for former Sandia director Jill Hruby, is meant to encourage women to consider leadership in national security science and engineering. Hruby, who served as […]
  
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