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• Police searching for missing 13-year-old boy

  27-09-2015 23:55
  
  The New Mexico State Police are asking for the public’s assistance in locating 13-year-old Devon Anthony Aragon.
  
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• Study: US puts twice as much trash in landfills than thought

  27-09-2015 23:45 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are sending more than twice as much trash to landfills as the federal government has estimated, according to a new study.
  It turns out that on average Americans toss 2.3 kilograms (five pounds) of trash per person per day into its landfills, according to an analysis of figures from the same study, which is based on actual landfill measurements instead of government estimates.
  For years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency relied on estimates to determine ho
  
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• Holocaust museum tool aims to predict, prevent mass killings

  27-09-2015 22:47 via krqe.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Can mass killings be predicted and prevented?
  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., hopes its new online tool will do just that by making both sophisticated statistical analysis and feedback from experts publicly available for the first time. The goal is to produce early warnings that can help governments, policy makers, advocacy groups and scholars decide where to concentrate their efforts.
  “From past genocides in Darfur, Bosnia, Rwand
  
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• Van Gogh estimated to bring $50M to $70M at NYC fall auction

  27-09-2015 21:52 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A landscape Vincent van Gogh created a year before his death will lead Sotheby’s impressionist and modern art sale in New York this fall.
  “Landscape Under a Stormy Sky,” painted in 1889, depicts a field in Arles in the south of France.
  It’s estimated to bring $50 million to $70 million. The auction record for a van Gogh is $82.5 million.
  Last year, Sotheby’s sold another Arles landscape by the artist for $66.3 million.
  The Nov. 5 sale also incl
  
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• College football: A wild weekend

  27-09-2015 21:27
  
  The Rebels of Mississippi had a hangover, but it didn’t kill them.The young men from Los Angeles left the comforts of the beach, and found paradise in the Arizona desert heat.And where was the Cal band when the Texas Tech Red Raiders needed it?Another week of college football left us knowing that when it comes to college football we don’t know much.I’m sticking with Ole Miss at No. 1 on my AP ballot despite the scare against dandies from Vandy.”We’ve got a talented
  
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• Latest high-speed rail plans for Texas show slower speeds

  27-09-2015 21:24
  
  DALLAS — The latest plans for high-speed rail service call for slower trains through the Dallas-Fort Worth region and would include a station near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport.
  The proposal would bring passengers from downtown Fort Worth to Arlington along the Interstate 30 corridor, then extend near the airport. Service then would proceed to downtown Dallas.
  Top speeds would be around 125 mph, well below the 220 mph the trains are capable of traveling. Short distances between s
  
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• JK Rowling tells a new Harry Potter story on her website

  27-09-2015 20:10 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Eight years after writing the last of her “Harry Potter” novels, J.K. Rowling is still adding to the boy wizard’s story.
  The author posted new information Tuesday about the Potter family, the background provided on a “newly imagined” and mobile friendly version of the Pottermore Web portal (www.pottermore.com ) that Rowling established in 2012.
  In a brief essay titled, “The Potter Family,” Rowling traces Harry’s roots to &ldqu
  
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• Mediators call timeout on labor talks in Pantex Plant strike

  27-09-2015 19:59
  
  AMARILLO, Texas — Federal mediators have ordered a brief break in labor talks as a strike at the Pantex nuclear weapons plant near Amarillo reached the one-month mark.
  Scot Beckenbaugh, deputy director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, says the break will give officials from the Metal Trades Council and Pantex operating contractor Consolidated Nuclear Security an opportunity to review new information. Both sides will resume talks later this week, but Beckenbaugh says a tim
  
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• Student overcomes blindness to study computer programming

  27-09-2015 19:17 via krqe.com
  
  BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Michael Griffin knew he could no longer pretend his eyes were fine after he failed the vision test required to renew his driver’s license.
  He was 24, and doctors had told him 10 years earlier he had juvenile macular degeneration, a condition that can progress over years until causing partial or complete blindness.
  He did not tell anyone about the diagnosis — not even his family.
  “I was embarrassed to say I couldn’t see,” said Griffin, 37
  
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• Bee invasion closes part of small southern Arizona city

  27-09-2015 18:54
  
  COOLIDGE, Ariz. — Part of a small southern Arizona city was forced to shut down after authorities say a swarm of bees invaded a neighborhood.
  The Casa Grande Dispatch reports (http://goo.gl/UiIayb) that police and fire officials ordered residents on Friday in parts of Coolidge to secure homes and not go outside after the bizarre invasion.
  Nearby businesses such as Tag’s Cafe also were told to keep customers inside. The orders were lifted later Friday morning.
  Police say several peopl
  
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• Texas restaurant that was site of biker shootings for sale

  27-09-2015 18:25 via krqe.com
  
  WACO, Texas (AP) — The owners of a former Texas restaurant where a deadly fight broke out between rival motorcycle gangs want to sell or lease the property.
  The May 17 gunfire, in the parking lot of Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, left nine bikers dead and at least 20 people hurt.
  The Waco Tribune-Herald (http://bit.ly/1L6fjla ) reported that Position Property Group in Dallas listed the property for $4.2 million.
  Agent Greg Blandford says he hopes to find a buyer or someone to lease the nea
  
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• Silver Ave traffic — between San Mateo and Yale — subject of meeting on Monday

  27-09-2015 18:00
  
  Residents who use Silver Avenue in southeast Albuquerque are invited to an open house on Monday (Sept. 28) as the city looks to improve the way traffic is managed on the stretch between San Mateo and Yale.
  The meeting on the Silver Avenue Traffic Study runs from 6 to 8 p.m. at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 114 Carlisle SE (at the corner of Carlisle and Silver), says an announcement by City Councilor Rey Garduño.
  The open house will “present solutions and gather input for improving t
  
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• Questar, Piceance joint venture could grow to 300 wells

  27-09-2015 17:55
  
  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Piceance Energy and Questar Corp. have agreed to a joint venture to drill 80 natural gas wells in the Collbran area of Mesa County in a deal that could grow to 300 wells.
  According to the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel (http://tinyurl.com/n9r9lgw ), the agreement provides promise for the immediate future of drilling in northwestern Colorado’s Piceance Basin, where activity has fallen off due to low commodity prices.
  Questar, based in Salt Lake City, said in a n
  
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• Albuquerque police investigate overnight incidents

  27-09-2015 17:35
  
  Albuquerque police are investigating an overnight shooting that injured one person.
  
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• UN Women’s ‘HeForShe’ launches gender equality bus tour

  27-09-2015 17:33 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A United Nations initiative that encourages men to fight for gender equality is getting on the road.
  The “HeForShe” campaign is launching its #GetFree University Tour, starting September 29th in the United Kingdom. Additional legs are planned for colleges and universities in other parts of the globe in 2016.
  Elizabeth Nyamayaro, who heads the initiative, told The Associated Press, “We see the youth as a big catalyst for change.”
  The bus tour will bri
  
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• Dozens sickened by unknown drugs at Red Rocks concert

  27-09-2015 17:24
  
  DENVER — West Metro fire officials say they treated more than a dozen people who were sickened by unknown drugs at a concert at Red Rocks on Friday.
  At least 20 people were treated after attending the Big Gigantic concert Friday night and 13 were taken to the hospital.
  According to KUSA-TV (http://tinyurl.com/o3g3px2), authorities say it’s not unusual to have that many drug issues at the concerts.
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• Nearly 11,000 lbs. of prescription drugs gathered in Houston

  27-09-2015 17:18
  
  HOUSTON — Federal authorities say nearly 11,000 pounds of prescription drugs have been collected in Houston as part of a “drug take back day.”
  Wendell Campbell with the Drug Enforcement Agency told the Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/1KMXr9l ) the unwanted or unneeded drugs were collected Saturday at nearly 50 sites across the city.
  Officials say prescription drug abuse has become a growing problem in recent years with the rise in use of OxyContin and Hydrocodone, two opioids
  
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• Cops: Chocolate factory worker makes bomb threat to be fired

  27-09-2015 15:51 via krqe.com
  
  ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) — Police say a Vermont chocolate factory worker hated his job and wanted to get fired, so he did the first thing that came to mind: He called in a bomb threat.
  Police say 22-year-old Kristofer Pregent stole a co-worker’s cellphone and made the false threat under a different worker’s name Monday night at the Barry Callebaut chocolate factory in St. Albans.
  Police say Pregent then threw the cellphone in a toilet tank.
  He first told police he received a bomb t
  
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• High school football: Eldorado plays Mayfield

  27-09-2015 14:16 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE)- Some New Mexico High School football games spilled over from Friday night, as there were some good match-ups on Saturday.
  Most notably was the undefeated Eldorado Eagles going to Las Cruces to take on Mayfield. Eldorado went on to stay undefeated and beat Mayfield 49 to 28.
  
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• Larry Beem, NMSU golf legend, dies

  27-09-2015 08:45
  
  Larry Beem, New Mexico State University’s first All-America golfer, died on Friday, September 25, the university announced early Sunday. (NMSU photo)
  LAS CRUCES –Larry Beem, New Mexico State’s first All-America golfer and eventually the program’s head coach, died Friday night, the university announced early Sunday morning. It offered no details on the cause of death.
  “Our thoughts and prayer are with the family of Larry Beem,” said NMSU athletic director 
  
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• X-Rays, inside out

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  Did you know that Marie Curie, the discoverer of radium and two-time winner of the Nobel Prize, designed mobile X-ray vehicles to serve French medical teams in World War I field hospitals?
  Or that Thomas Edison abandoned his research into X-rays because his assistant, Clarence Dally, suffered severe radiation damage to his hands, arms and face and eventually died of cancer?
  “Most of the early pioneers went through that process of some kind of damage,” Greg Morrison said. “We&rs
  
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• Threats of water shortages plague areas across U.S.

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  By Justin Pritchard
  Jason Dadakis of the Orange County Water District talks about the water filtration system at the plant in Fountain Valley, Calif. The facility treats 100 million gallons of water each day. (Chris Carlson/The Associated Press)
  FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. – Orange County’s natural water supplies come from just three sources: limited rain, a single unreliable river and aquifers.
  But those are nowhere near enough to support the lawn-and-pool lifestyle that helped the home
  
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• Slice of history: Plant an heirloom apple for extraordinary taste, if not beauty

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  Apples ripen on an heirloom tree at Chase Ranch, where Gordon Tooley has been working for 20 years to restore the orchard. (Sharon Niederman/For The Journal)
  Heirlooms, handed down through generations, may include treasured family objects like a quilt or a set of silver candlesticks. Timeworn heirlooms endure with a special beauty shared by both giver and receiver. Their preservation requires special care so future generations may enjoy them.
  Master grafter Gordon Tooley chooses the right root s
  
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• Red-Head of Old Town: Humor, religion hallmarks of long life for granddaughter of Irish immigrant

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  Yvette Jaramillo, left, of Grants, pins a corsage on her mother, Martha Chavez, at her 102nd birthday party. At right is caregiver Melinda Martinez. (Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal)
  She was the only person in Old Town with red hair.
  Martha Chavez, the granddaughter of an Irish immigrant, was born in a house just a few steps south of the plaza on the corner of San Felipe Street and Old Town Road. It’s now been converted into a jewelry store and gift shop. On a recent drive by the house, she m
  
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• Public would feel a federal government shutdown

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  WASHINGTON – Old Faithful would erupt with no one watching, because Yellowstone National Park and 407 others would close to the public.
  Homebuyers would find their mortgage applications stalled because the offices they need to approve paperwork for loans would be shuttered. And the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would have to stop monitoring the spread of the flu to direct vaccines where they are needed.
  This is what a shutdown of the federal government will look like starting
  
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• Ortiz, Sartans rip Miyamura; Eldorado beat Trojans

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  The St. Pius Sartans celebrated homecoming Saturday at Milne Stadium. Drew Ortiz provided the entertainment.
  Ortiz passed for four touchdowns, ran 75 yards for another and threw in a jaw-dropping hurdle for good measure as the Sartans (5-0) took a 38-15 victory over Miyamura (3-2).
  St. Pius’ junior quarterback completed 12 of 19 passes for 293 yards and rushed 21 times for 101 yards. The latter total would have been greater had Ortiz not been sacked four times.
  “None of the touchdown
  
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• Journal staffers take 10 first-place awards

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  The Albuquerque Journal took home 10 first-place awards and the award for general excellence in the 2014-2015 Better Newspaper Contest.
  The awards, sponsored by the New Mexico Press Association and the New Mexico Press Association Managing Editors, were announced Saturday at the NMPA’s yearly convention at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa at Santa Ana Pueblo.
  The Journal competed in the Daily Class 1 category for large newspapers. The South Dakota Newspaper Association judged the
  
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• Iraq appears unwilling or unable to take initiative against IS

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  WASHINGTON – A summer of stalemate in the effort to reclaim the Iraqi provincial capital of Ramadi, despite U.S.-backed Iraqi troops vastly outnumbering Islamic State group fighters, calls into question not only Iraq’s ability to win a test of wills over key territory but also the future direction of Washington’s approach to defeating the extremist group.
  The Ramadi standoff, with no immediate prospect of an Iraqi assault on the city, drags on even as the U.S. prepares to makeo
  
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• Iran promises legal action in hajj deaths

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  TEHRAN, Iran – Iran on Saturday vowed to take international legal action against Saudi Arabia’s rulers over the crush of Muslim pilgrims at this year’s hajj, which killed at least 769 people, including 136 Iranians, and has led to an escalation of tensions between the regional archrivals.
  The pilgrims suffocated or were trampled to death Thursday when two massive crowds converged on a narrow street, in the worst disaster to occur during the annual pilgrimage in a quarter-centur
  
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• Here’s why prescription drug prices in U.S. are sky high

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  Various prescription drugs move along an automated pharmacy assembly line at a drugmaker in New Jersey. The cost of brand-name drugs jumped 128 percent from 2008 through 2014. (The Associated Press)
  TRENTON, N.J. – Sticker-shocked patients increasingly wonder why prices for prescription drugs continue to rise in the U.S.
  The issue heated up recently on news that Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of Daraprim, the only approved treatment for a rare, life-threatening parasitic infection
  
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• Final salute: Kirtland AFB Honor Guard volunteers have solemn duty

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  Members of the Kirtland Honor Guard present the colors at the POW MIA Recognition Day ceremony in September 2014 at the New Mexico Veterans Memorial Amphitheater. (Courtesy Of 377th Air Base Wing)
  The Honor Guard at Kirtland Air Force Base, one of the most visible groups on base and throughout the state, is a group that shoulders a serious responsibility.
  Members take part in dozens of large, public events around New Mexico, including high-profile events like the New Mexico Bowl or Albuquerque I
  
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• Don’t fertilize flowers, trees, shrubs after Sept. 1

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  Q: I planted several rose bushes earlier this year and they’ve done pretty good! In fact, they are blooming right now! Should I fertilize them as soon as this bunch of flowers is finished?–N.R.G., West Side
  A: Congrats on what sounds like a very successful planting.As far as fertilizing a rose now, I’m going to say no. I would like you to write in your gardening journal that you never fertilize roses after the first of September. In fact, it’d be best if you wouldn’
  
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• Denver Zoo planned to turn dung into energy

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  A decade or so ago, Denver Zoo leaders had an innovative idea. As part of their quest to become “the greenest zoo in the country” and a zero-waste facility by 2025, they would develop a technique to transform elephant dung and other waste at the zoo such as paper plates and dirty diapers into fuel pellets that would generate electricity through a process called gasification.
  The power would help light and heat the 10-acre elephant exhibit and warm pools in which the animals wade and
  
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• Can anyone lead the House Republicans?

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  WASHINGTON – The gulf between tea party conservatives and establishment Republicans has grown so wide that it just swallowed up the speaker of the House and may threaten the entire Republican Party and Congress itself.
  The question now is whether anyone can tame the House faction, following Speaker John Boehner’s decision to resign rather than face a possible vote to depose him. The stakes are sky-high, given the critical deadlines looming to keep the government running and raise the
  
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• Axle of duck boat in fatal Seattle crash ‘sheared off’

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  SEATTLE – The left front axle of the duck boat involved in a deadly Seattle accident was “sheared off,” but federal investigators said Saturday they don’t know if it was damaged before the collision with a charter bus that killed four international college students.
  National Transportation Safety Board Member Earl Weener said the axle will be sent to a federal lab for further examination.
  Weener said it’s too soon to know how the axle was damaged, or if it happened
  
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• Author to discuss food’s role in Japanese society

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  Theodore Bestor, a specialist in contemporary Japanese society and culture, will speak about traditional Japanese cuisine from 3 to 5 p.m. Oct. 4 at the University of New Mexico Continuing Education Conference Center, 1634 University NE.
  Bestor, director of Harvard University’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, is a Fulbright senior scholar in Japan and is doing research about traditional Japanese cuisine, known as washoku.
  His lecture, presented by the Albuquerque International As
  
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• At a VA suicide-prevention program in Chicago, a team of social workers turns loss into hope

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  CHICAGO – The call came in at 3:30 p.m.
  “I just want you to know that I’m about to check out,” the caller said. “There’s a train track nearby. I can just sit myself down there and do it.”
  Social worker Tonnia Hinshaw had picked up the phone in the suicide-prevention office of the veterans hospital in North Chicago. She recognized the man’s voice, which was slurred from alcohol. A 62-year-old Vietnam veteran, he had called before and told her about
  
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• Amid chaos of refugees, signs of cooperation appear

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  Volunteers help a Syrian woman as she arrives with others on the shores of the Greek island of Lesbos on Saturday. This group of migrants traveled on an inflatable dinghy from Turkey. Thousands of people from the Middle East and Asia are moving through southeastern Europe. (Petros Giannakouris / The Assoicated Press)
  STROSINCI, Croatia – Cooperation replaced confrontation Saturday among European nations as thousands of asylum-seekers streamed into Croatia in hopes of creating a new future
  
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• A Great Hue: Trees in national forests put on a different fall color show

  27-09-2015 08:02
  
  A pair walk their dogs through the yellow aspen leaves along Big Tesuque Trail in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
  Albuquerque is gearing up for one of the city’s biggest annual events, expecting thousands of visitors for next weekend’s start of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
  But it’s not the only spectacle in town.
  Once the show’s over at Balloon Fiesta Park, consider heading to the mountains for a colorful display of another kind.
  Aspen leaves glow against
  
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• Boy Scouts and pilot survive Belen plane crash

  27-09-2015 07:21 via krqe.com
  
  BELEN, N.M. (KRQE)- It was the close call of a lifetime. Three Boy Scouts and their pilot are lucky to be alive, after the four-seat plane they were flying in crashed Saturday morning in Belen.
  ”We touched down and half a second later we hit this bush, you can’t see anything, there’s dust everywhere, there’s dust flying into the plane,” said Jacob Brooks.
  It’s a flight these kids say they’ll never forget. Levi Jensen, Talon Bennett and Jacob Brooks thoug
  
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• Albuquerque volunteers clean city ahead of Balloon Fiesta

  27-09-2015 07:01 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Volunteers spent Saturday cleaning up Albuquerque in preparation for the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta 2015.
  More than 700,000 people will flock to the Balloon Capital of the World next weekend for the event.
  On Saturday, hundreds of people pitched in to clean city streets and paths before all of those spectators arrive.
  “We fan out and we clean up around the park, along the roadways and the volunteers help us do that,” said Bobby Sisneros w
  
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• Lobo football beats Wyoming in their first conference test

  27-09-2015 06:55 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE)- This was a huge game for the Lobos on Saturday, as they wanted to get their record back to .500 and also start off conference with a win.
  This was no easy task for the Lobos as they had not beaten Wyoming in Laramie in their past 3 meetings, going back to 2007.
  The Lobos came out and made a statement in their first drive, as QB Lamar Jordan went 56 yards on the keeper for the early touchdown. Jordan ended the day with 147 yards rushing and 107 yards in passing. He led this te
  
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• New lawsuit blames CYFD for Omaree Varela's death

  27-09-2015 06:46
  
  A new lawsuit blames the Children, Youth, and Families Department for the tragic death of Omaree Varela.
  
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• Highlands handled on homecoming

  27-09-2015 06:04
  
  LAS VEGAS, N.M. – Homecoming game did not go the way the Cowboy fans were hoping. The Cowboys lost their fourth straight and second conference game, losing to Fort Lewis 49-7 on Saturday in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference football.
  Turnovers were a big issue for the Cowboys (0-4, 0-2). They had one interception and two fumbles, letting the Skyhawks gain good field position and score two touchdowns off those three mistakes.
  Cowboy quarterback Keith Moore threw for 124 yards, including an
  
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• QB Glasmann sets record as WNMU falls to defending champs

  27-09-2015 05:59
  
  PUEBLO, Colo. – Senior quarterback Mitch Glasmann came into the game just four touchdowns short of 100 for his career and in the process of tossing his fourth of the day Saturday against Colorado State University-Pueblo, he also set the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference touchdown mark. Despite the big day on offense, it wasn’t quite enough against the No. 10 ranked team in the nation as CSU-Pueblo held off the Mustangs for a 42-27 RMAC win.Not only did Glasmann set the TD mark, he b
  
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• ENMU loses to No. 20 TA&MU-CC

  27-09-2015 05:56
  
  COMMERCE, TEXAS – The Eastern New Mexico University football team (2-2; LSC 0-2) traded the lead a number of times with 20th-ranked Texas A&M-Commerce (3-1; LSC 2-0) in Saturday night’s game at Memorial Stadium. The Lions capitalized on a pair of turnovers held on for a 42-31 win over the Greyhounds. The contest featured three tie scores and five lead changes.
  Despite the setback, Eastern still leads the overall series with A&M-Commerce, 15-14, the Lions hold an 11-4 home rec
  
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• Thieves steal tip money from Nob Hill stores

  27-09-2015 05:46 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Employees at two Nob Hill stores are upset after thieves ran off with their tip money.
  It happened on Friday when workers at Squeezed Juice Bar in Nob Hill were about to close up shop.
  “They were in and out less than 10 seconds, taking our tip our jar, all the employees tips,” said Ryan Fellows, owner of Squeezed.
  Surveillance video shows three people casually walking in to Squeezed.
  As one of them distracts the cashier, you can see a young woman take off w
  
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• Broady, Kralicek to meet for Coleman Vision singles title

  27-09-2015 05:15
  
  Naomi Broady of Great Britain is shown in her victory over Amra Sadikovic of Switzerland during the semifinals of the Coleman Vision Tennis Championships at Tanoan Country Club in Albuquerque, N.M., Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015. Broady will play Michaella Krajicek in Sunday’s singles final. (Marla Brose/Albuquerque Journal)
  Two women, both over 6 feet tall, played singles against each other for more than two hours Saturday afternoon, with the taller one prevailing.
  Great Britain’s Naomi
  
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• NCAA to athletes: Don’t play the fantasy gaming sites

  27-09-2015 05:12
  
  When Arizona State quarterback Mike Bercovici dropped back and flung the ball into the ground from his end zone on Sept. 18 in Tempe, Ariz., many Lobo fans were livid when an intentional grounding penalty and a safety weren’t called.
  While any Lobo fans who thinks that play changed the outcome of the game, it’s likely that more than a few would also be lying if they said the ensuing 93-yard touchdown pass to Demario Richard that put the Sun Devils up by 21 points on the next play did
  
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• Thief duo robs True Value store in Heights

  27-09-2015 05:07 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) –  Albuquerque Police are on the lookout for two men who stole almost $500 worth of tools from a True Value store in the Heights.
  After taking a look at surveillance video, police say these crooks aren’t new to the crime game. They say this theft was strategically planned and believe these guys have done this kind of things before.
  It all happened Monday at the true value near Eubank and Osuna. On surveillance video, you can see both men casually wal
  
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