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• DNA hunt on as Chipotle-linked E. coli outbreak grows to 37

  03-11-2015 23:55
  
  SEATTLE — Chipotle’s industry-leading commitment to tracking its ingredients from farm to table is being put to the test by an E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least 37 people as of Tuesday, nearly all of whom ate recently at one of the chain’s restaurants in Washington state or Oregon. Scientists also said Tuesday […]
  
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• Delta Dental recognized for philanthropy

  03-11-2015 23:55
  
  Delta Dental of New Mexico has been recognized by the Association of Fundraising Professionals, New Mexico Chapter as the “Outstanding Business in Philanthropy” for 2015. Delta Dental was nominated by Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless. The company has sponsored AHCH’s Year-End First Day of Winter Campaign for 15 years. Delta Dental executives and staff […]
  
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• Mora school chief resigns amid fake credential probe

  03-11-2015 23:53
  
  MORA — An embattled northern New Mexico superintendent under fire for faking his credentials has resigned. The Las Vegas Optic reports (http://goo.gl/EayOfo) that Mora Independent School District superintendent Charles Trujillo recently submitted his resignatio n and it was approved by the school board. Trujillo’s resignation follows an investigation by the Optic that Trujillo faked his […]
  
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• Woman faces dilemma in sending terminally ill son to school

  03-11-2015 23:45
  
  ATHENS, Ala. — An Alabama teen with a terminal heart condition has not returned to school after a spate of hospitalizations because of what his mother says is a dispute with school officials about how he might die. Alex Hoover’s case presents something of a legal loophole: His mother, Rene, has drawn up legal documents […]
  
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• Trump: Fed keeping interest rates low to help Obama

  03-11-2015 23:20
  
  NEW YORK — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says the Federal Reserve is keeping interest rates low at the behest of President Barack Obama, a charge the White House disputes. Speaking during a news conference Tuesday to mark the publication of his new book, Trump accused Obama of telling Fed Chair Janet Yellen not to […]
  
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• Cash purchases of homes in ABQ decline

  03-11-2015 23:12
  
  The drop equaled 4.9 percentage points, to 29.7 percent, in July compared to a year earlier.
  
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• Officer Webster’s wife: Dan thought he was Batman and in a way he really was

  03-11-2015 23:11 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Tuesday, Albuquerque said goodbye to one of its protectors. It was an amazing show of support for fallen Albuquerque Police Officer Daniel Webster, just two weeks after he was gunned down during a traffic stop.
  More than 2,000 people gathered for a moving memorial service Tuesday. It was an incredibly emotional service with several speakers including his wife, daughters and Governor Susana Martinez. Officer Webster was an eight-year veteran of the Albuquerque Poli
  
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• Albuquerque Police: Officer Webster, you will be missed and never forgotten

  03-11-2015 23:11 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Tuesday, Albuquerque said goodbye to one of its protectors. It was an amazing show of support for fallen Albuquerque Police Officer Daniel Webster, just two weeks after he was gunned down during a traffic stop.
  More than 2,000 people gathered for a moving memorial service Tuesday. It was an incredibly emotional service with several speakers including his wife, daughters and Governor Susana Martinez. Officer Webster was an eight-year veteran of the Albuquerque Poli
  
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• Albuquerque mourns, celebrates life of Officer Webster

  03-11-2015 23:11 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Tuesday, Albuquerque said goodbye to one of its protectors. It was a massive show of support for fallen Albuquerque Police Officer Daniel Webster, nearly two weeks after he was gunned down during a traffic stop.
  More than 2,000 people gathered at the Kiva Auditorium Tuesday morning for the memorial service. It was an emotional service, with several speakers including his wife, daughters, Governor Susana Martinez and Mayor Berry.
  Officer Webster was a nearly nine-y
  
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• Photos: Wearing blue for Officer Webster

  03-11-2015 22:56 via interactives.krqe.com
  
  The Police union asked people to wear blue today to show support for fallen Officer Daniel Webster, many of those who did shared their photos with KRQE News 13.
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• ABQ unemployment ticks upward

  03-11-2015 22:55
  
  The Albuquerque metro area’s unemployment rate edged up to 6.3 percent in September from 6.2 percent in both August and September 2014, which reflects the fact that the total labor force is growing in size faster than new jobs are being created. Year-over-year job growth was 2.7 percent in the private sector compared to a […]
  
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• State boosts fight against elderly scams

  03-11-2015 22:51
  
  Securities Division to hire forensic auditors and expand education efforts.
  
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• State expands fight against elderly fraud

  03-11-2015 22:32
  
  If you have older relatives, patients or clients, you should know that the elderly are a favorite target of financial fraud and you should know what you can do about it. State officials are expanding their efforts to relay that message as an aging population in New Mexico makes an increasing number of people vulnerable […]
  
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• Listen: Final dispatch call for Officer Webster

  03-11-2015 22:17
  
  The funeral procession for Officer Daniel Webster made a stop at the Albuquerque Police Department's main substation for his final dispatch Tuesday.
  
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• Man accused of impersonating a police officer in New Mexico

  03-11-2015 22:07
  
  LAS CRUCES — A man is being held without bond in New Mexico after allegedly impersonating a police officer and leading authorities on a high-speed chase. Dona Ana County sheriff’s officials say 38-year-old Eduardo Soliz was arrested Monday on suspicion of aggravated fleeing of a police officer, receiving stolen property and impersonating a police officer. […]
  
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• Conflicting strategies shape GOP debate furor

  03-11-2015 22:07
  
  WASHINGTON — Despite a handful of high-profile defections, most Republican presidential candidates are still demanding changes to the GOP’s coming debates. That’s not to say they are speaking with one voice. The White House hopefuls have distinct, sometimes contradictory, strategies to score political points from the uproar. Some, like Ted Cruz, are going after debate […]
  
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• City says emotional goodbye to Officer Webster

  03-11-2015 22:02
  
  Hundreds of people packed the Kiva auditorium Tuesday morning to say goodbye to fallen hero Officer Dan Webster.
  
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• Unsealed warrants show extent of fake Native jewelry case

  03-11-2015 21:54
  
  A newly-unsealed search warrant related to the federal raids of several New Mexico jewelry shops that were allegedly selling fake Native American goods shows federal agents have pursued the case for the last three years.
  
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• Russian strikes take toll among Syrian civilians

  03-11-2015 21:36
  
  KADIRLI, Turkey — The 4-year-old Syrian girl was ending her first trip to her grandparents’ house. Posing for the last family photos before returning to Turkey with her mother, Raghad dressed up in a pretty blue-and-white polka dot dress and put her hair up in ponytails with red barrettes. About an hour later, the family […]
  
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• Tucson Sector Border Patrol Chief leaving for Texas

  03-11-2015 21:35
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. — Tucson Sector Border Patrol Chief Manny Padilla is leaving Arizona for the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Padilla began his tenure in Tucson in 2013 and will leave on Nov. 20. The Tucson Sector was for many years one of the busiest areas for migrant entry and drug smuggling but has seen […]
  
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• Kansas man, 44, gets prison, had sex with girl on cruise

  03-11-2015 21:35
  
  HOUSTON — A Kansas man must serve 15 years in federal prison for flying an Ohio girl to Texas, taking her on a spring break cruise and having sex with her. Paul Francis Grimm of Goddard, Kansas, was sentenced Tuesday in Houston. The 44-year-old Grimm pleaded guilty to transporting a minor across state lines for […]
  
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• Company launches Bernie Sanders-inspired underwear line

  03-11-2015 21:35
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. — Employees of a Vermont company have launched a side business selling underwear featuring a black-and-white drawing of the face of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. NECN (http://bit.ly/20el7Og ) reports that the underwear, which features the message “Feel the Bern,” is available for men and women and costs $15 plus shipping and handling. […]
  
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• Updated: More than half of health law’s insurance co-ops are closing

  03-11-2015 21:34
  
  WASHINGTON — More than half of the health care law’s nonprofit insurance co-ops are closing, the Obama administration said Tuesday even as it defended the troubled alternative to mega-insurers. Mandy Cohen, a senior official with the Health and Human Services Department, told lawmakers at a hearing that 12 of the nonprofit co-ops will not be […]
  
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• Storm may produce hazardous conditions in parts of Arizona

  03-11-2015 21:34
  
  PHOENIX — Authorities are warning drivers that a storm system crossing Arizona could produce hazardous driving conditions in some areas. The state Department of Transportation says motorists should be ready for low visibility due to blowing dust and that drivers may encounter snow in the high country. A hazardous weather outlook issued by the National […]
  
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• Obama administration defends troubled health care co-ops

  03-11-2015 21:34
  
  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration defended the health care law’s struggling insurance co-ops Tuesday, suggesting to Congress that cutbacks demanded by lawmakers themselves put added pressure on an altruistic alternative to mega-insurers. State regulators have ordered 11 of the 23 nonprofit co-ops shut down over solvency concerns, forcing several hundred thousand customers to seek new […]
  
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• Arizona drops Planned Parenthood from charitable campaign

  03-11-2015 21:34
  
  PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey’s administration has dropped Planned Parenthood as one of hundreds of organizations eligible for donations from state employees through the state government charitable campaign. Ducey is the State Employee Charitable Campaign’s chairman, and Ducey spokesman Daniel Scarpinato says Ducey supports a September decision by a committee of state officials to exclude […]
  
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• 2 more charged in gruesome killing of Yavapai-Apache man

  03-11-2015 21:33
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Authorities have arrested two more people in the gruesome killing of a man during a card game on the Yavapai-Apache reservation. Arraignments are scheduled Wednesday for Theodore Gia and Larry Bailey Telese in U.S. District Court in Phoenix. A grand jury indicted them last month on second-degree murder and other charges in […]
  
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• CDC: More food poisoning outbreaks cross state lines

  03-11-2015 20:20 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The government is reporting an increase in food poisoning outbreaks that span multiple states, like the one that this week prompted Chipotle to close 43 of its restaurants in the Pacific Northwest.
  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there’s been an average of two dozen multi-state outbreaks in the first five years of this decade. There used to be about a half-dozen a year.
  But the increase is partly due to better detection methods that can mo
  
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• Local board game cafe hosts round-the-clock fundraiser

  03-11-2015 20:10
  
  Gaming marathon begins at 11 a.m. Saturday
  
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• ABQ law firm ranks among best

  03-11-2015 19:45
  
  Atkinson & Kelsey P.A. of Albuquerque has been ranked among the 2016 “Best Law Firms” in the United States by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers. U.S. News and Best Lawyers joined to rank law firms and lawyers as part of their 2016 Best Law Firms edition of their annual print and e-book […]
  
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• House fire leaves one dead in Santa Fe

  03-11-2015 19:43
  
  A house fire on Calle Cedro, off Rancho Siringo in mid-town Santa Fe, has left one person dead, according to the police and fire departments. The male victim of the fire was living in a garage apartment that burned, authorities said. Investigators are still trying to identify him and to determine how the fire started. […]
  
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• Christmas edges its way in on Santa Fe’s Plaza

  03-11-2015 19:27
  
    Yes, we know Halloween just ended. Skeletons and pumpkins still are in residence in people’s yards, along with a tombstone here and there leaning in the front yards. But when you have to put up thousands of lights and garlands and who-knows-what within a square block area, the work takes a while. That’s why […]
  
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• AP Source: Gov’t to fine Takata $70M in air bag recall case

  03-11-2015 19:18
  
  DETROIT — U.S. auto safety regulators will fine Takata Corp. of Japan $70 million for lapses in the way it handled recalls of millions of air bag inflators that can explode with too much force, a person briefed on the matter said Tuesday. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has the authority to add up […]
  
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• Pot tax, school board recall headlines Colorado’s elections

  03-11-2015 19:13
  
  DENVER — Colorado is voting Tuesday on state marijuana taxes and local issues that include a hotly contested school board recall in suburban Denver. The only statewide ballot measure seeks to correct an accounting error in marijuana taxes approved by voters two years ago. The 10 percent sales tax and 15 percent excise tax on […]
  
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• Trump’s latest book is on shelves, features his frowny face

  03-11-2015 19:12
  
  NEWARK, N.J. — Donald Trump is out with a new book that reads like a campaign manifesto, boasting success stories but offering few details on how he would implement his policy goals as president. But in the book, entitled “Crippled America,” the billionaire businessman, former reality TV star and Republican White House hopeful does provide […]
  
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• Ohio votes on legalizing pot for medical, recreational use

  03-11-2015 19:12
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — The only pot-related question on any state ballot this year is in Ohio, where voters were deciding Tuesday whether to legalize marijuana for recreational and medical use in a single stroke. If it passes, Ohio would become the fifth state to legalize recreational marijuana and would hand over exclusive rights in the […]
  
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• Senate legislation would block EPA clean water rules

  03-11-2015 18:53
  
  WASHINGTON — The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto a Senate bill that would block new federal rules to protect smaller streams, tributaries and wetlands from pollution and development. Senators are voting Tuesday on whether to consider the bill. Most Democrats are opposed to the legislation, saying that the Obama administration rules will safeguard […]
  
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• As scientists worry about warming, US public doesn’t

  03-11-2015 18:48
  
  WASHINGTON — Americans are hot but not too bothered by global warming. Most Americans know the climate is changing, but they say they are just not that worried about it, according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. And that is keeping the American public from demanding and getting […]
  
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• Photos: Officer Webster Memorial Service

  03-11-2015 18:38 via interactives.krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Family, friends and the community is coming together to honor Officer Daniel Webster.
  Photos: Officer Webster Memorial Service »
   
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• Robin Williams’ widow: I forgive him for taking his life

  03-11-2015 18:36
  
  NEW YORK — Robin Williams’ widow says his medical afflictions would have claimed his life within three years — “hard years” — and that she doesn’t blame him for his suicide. Susan Williams said the actor-comedian had not only been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, a progressive movement disorder, a few months before his death, but […]
  
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• Boston pol says Bieber-graffiti tweet was sarcasm

  03-11-2015 18:35
  
  BOSTON — A Boston City Councilor says he was being sarcastic when he tweeted that he would introduce an emergency ordinance prohibiting Justin Bieber-inspired graffiti. The pop singer asked artists around the world last week to paint murals inspired by tracks from his upcoming album, which is set to release Friday. The singer posted a […]
  
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• APNewsBreak: 1st ‘outsider’ to lead retailer LL Bean

  03-11-2015 18:19
  
  FREEPORT, Maine — Outdoors retailer L.L. Bean is going outside the company for the first time in its 103-year history for its new CEO, tapping the chief merchandising and marketing officer of a Chinese e-commerce business, officials said Tuesday. L.L. Bean Chairman Shawn Gorman made the announcement to workers in a memo, telling them the […]
  
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• Updated: Dog missing from Texas since May floods found in California

  03-11-2015 18:09
  
  SAN MARCOS, Texas — The owners of a pit bull who disappeared during flooding in Texas in May are puzzled as to how the animal ended up more than 2,000 miles away in northern California. Eddie Hurtado says Thor ran away after his family evacuated their San Marcos home that was overwhelmed by the swelling […]
  
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• Young boy pushes through screen, falls out 2nd story window

  03-11-2015 17:56
  
  GILBERT, Ariz. — Gilbert police say a 1-year-old boy apparently suffered only minor injuries when he pushed through a second-story window screen nd fell to the ground outside the family home. Police Sgt. Jesse Sanger said the boy was taken to hospital for precautionary evaluation but apparently only suffered bruises when he landed on landscaping […]
  
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• Bicyclist, Army veteran on trek dies after Texas accident

  03-11-2015 17:56
  
  GROOM, Texas — A California bicyclist on a nationwide journey to draw attention to the rights of U.S. military veterans has died in a Texas traffic accident. The Texas Department of Public Safety on Tuesday identified the victim as 48-year-old Stephen Michael Clift of San Diego, California. DPS says Clift was struck Thursday night by […]
  
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• 7 passengers removed from flight after apparent overbooking

  03-11-2015 17:56
  
  LOS ANGELES — Airport police escorted a man and his girlfriend off a plane after he became upset when his seat was double-booked, and five other passengers were removed when they protested his treatment. Officer Rob Pedregon says the incident occurred Monday as Spirit Airlines Flight 868 was boarding at Los Angeles International Airport. Pedregon […]
  
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• Officials investigate after escaped inmate recaptured

  03-11-2015 17:55 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – New Mexico corrections officials are investigating how an inmate who escaped and was recaptured ended up at a minimum-security facility in the first place.
  Ronald Martinez was arrested Monday in the Tome area after being reported missing from the Central New Mexico Correctional Facility Level Once Farm earlier that day.
  The Albuquerque Journal reports the 42-year-old convicted felon had spent 16 years in federal prison for two armed carjackings before racking up his curr
  
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• Stars no more: Twitter ditches stars, adds hearts for likes

  03-11-2015 17:53 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — You’ll no longer see stars on Twitter: The messaging service has removed the star icon found under every tweet and replaced it with a heart.
  Twitter Inc. said Tuesday it made the change because the star can be confusing to new users and the heart is more universally known around the globe.
  Before the change, clicking the star meant a tweet was a “favorite.” Now clicking the heart means you “like” a tweet.
  The San Francisco company has been tryi
  
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• As scientists worry about warming world, US public doesn’t

  03-11-2015 17:50 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Most Americans know the climate is changing — but they say they are just not that worried about it.
  That’s the indication from a new poll by The Associated Press and the N-O-R-C Center for Public Affairs Research.
  The poll, taken in mid-October, suggests that about two out of three Americans accept global warming, and that the vast majority of those say human activities are at least part of the cause.
  But fewer than one in four Americans who were surveyed said
  
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• Funeral for fallen APD officer set to begin

  03-11-2015 17:01
  
      Albuquerque police officer Daniel Webster’s body will travel 17 miles today from his memorial service Downtown to his gravesite in Rio Rancho, a route prepared on Monday with blue ribbons and banners for the procession. Organizers hope community members will line the route, showing their support for the fallen officer and his family. […]
  
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