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• Updated: Doctor, two professors among owners of new brewery

  06-11-2015 23:59
  
  Bow & Arrow Brewing Co. planned by friends with a shared love of home brewing.
  
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• Bow and Arrow Brewing to launch

  06-11-2015 23:59
  
  Four friends with a shared love of home brewing have decided to go into business together. The story behind Bow & Arrow Brewing Co. sounds like one we’ve heard at least a few times during Albuquerque’s recent wave of beer-trepreneurship. But it turns out that Bow & Arrow — one of about a dozen new […]
  
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• Police officer shot in central Kentucky dies

  06-11-2015 23:56
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A central Kentucky police officer died early Friday, two days after he was ambushed and shot in the head while searching an apartment for a robbery suspect, authorities said. Richmond Police Officer Daniel Ellis, 33, died at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, State Police Trooper Robert Purdy said in […]
  
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• Personnel records show years of complaints against officer

  06-11-2015 23:55
  
  FOX LAKE, Ill. — An Illinois police officer who staged his suicide to make it look like he was murdered had a troubled job history, ranging from numerous suspensions to sexual harassment allegations to complaints that he intimidated an emergency dispatcher with guns, according to his personnel records. Despite a reputation as a respected youth […]
  
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• VA secretary says demand outstripping extra resources

  06-11-2015 23:54
  
  WASHINGTON — Veterans’ hospitals and clinics are beefing up staff and seeing more patients, but the number of appointments not completed within 30 days continues to grow, Department of Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald said Friday. Speaking at the National Press Club in advance of Veterans Day, McDonald described a VA that is doing much to […]
  
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• US gov’t adding air security ‘enhancements’ amid crash probe

  06-11-2015 23:47
  
  WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department announced Friday a series of new security efforts aimed at international airports in the wake of the crash of a Russian jetliner over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson said the latest security protocols will focus on commercial flights bound for the United States from certain overseas airports […]
  
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• Updated: Arizona county aims to protect water as foreign firms arrive

  06-11-2015 23:47
  
  Leaders of a rural Arizona county want help from the governor and other state officials to protect their water supply as companies from the Middle East move to the state to grow alfalfa they intend to ship overseas to feed their cattle. Companies from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have bought thousands of […]
  
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• Arizona county aims to protect water as foreign firms arrive

  06-11-2015 23:47
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Leaders of a rural Arizona county want help from the governor and other state officials to protect the water supply as companies from the Middle East move in to grow alfalfa. Companies from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have bought thousands of acres of land in the Arizona desert for […]
  
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• Authorities: Missing boy seen at Juarez hospital

  06-11-2015 23:38
  
  Police are searching for a missing 7-year-old they believe could be in serious medical danger.
  
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• Police: Boy taken from Albuquerque hospital treated in Juarez

  06-11-2015 23:36 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – According to police, the 7-year-old boy who was taken from the University of New Mexico hospital with a central catheter still implanted near his heart, is safe.
  His father, Jeffery Brown, took him out of the hospital after becoming upset with medical staff. Doctors said the catheter could be life threatening without proper care or removal.
  Friday afternoon UNM Police heard from Joshua Brown’s grandfather who provided documentation from a medical facility in Juar
  
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• Police identify two homicide victims from mid October

  06-11-2015 23:35
  
  Police have released the identity of two men whose mid-October deaths are being investigated as homicides. They have not released the cause of death for either man. Alejandro Manuelito, 37, was found dead in the backyard of an uninhabitable house near Coors and Bluewater on Oct. 12, according to a police department spokesman. The Office […]
  
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• Funeral set as homicide investigation continues

  06-11-2015 23:20
  
  A funeral for David Gilbert Dickerson, 35, the man whose remains were found recently in a water cistern in Santa Fe, has been scheduled for Saturday. Rev. Howard Dotson, who will be officiating at the service, provided obituary information on Dickerson, whose death is being investigated as a homicide. According to Dotson, Dickerson was born […]
  
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• Southwest Cheese to begin work on expansion

  06-11-2015 23:14
  
  The Southwest Cheese plant south of Clovis will begin work on a $140 million expansion that will bring around 50 jobs and an estimated $37.5 million to the area’s economy over a 10 year period, according to the plant’s president and an area economic director. The 110,000 square foot expansion to the current site will […]
  
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• Man accused accused in road rage killing is indicted

  06-11-2015 23:02
  
  The man accused of fatally shooting a 4-year-old girl on a New Mexico freeway last month has been indicted by a Bernalillo County grand jury. County prosecutors announced Friday that Tony Torrez has been indicted on charges of first-degree murder, shooting at or from a motor vehicle and causing great bodily harm, and assault with […]
  
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• Grand jury indicts Albuquerque road rage shooter

  06-11-2015 22:57 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – The man accused of shooting and killing 4-year-old Lilly Garcia in a road rage incident was indicted by a grand jury Friday.
  Tony Torrez is charged with first degree murder, shooting at or from a motor vehicle with great bodily harm, two counts of shooting at or from a motor vehicle with no injury, two counts of assault with intent to commit a violent felony and tampering with evidence.
  The shooting happened on a Tuesday afternoon on I-40 westbound. Investigators said
  
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• Alabama teen found in Cleveland asks to be left alone

  06-11-2015 22:35
  
  CLEVELAND — The Cleveland teenager who recently discovered he had been taken from his mother’s home in Alabama 13 years ago issued a statement Friday asking to be left alone by the media so that he can try to live a “normal” life. Julian Hernandez, 18, has been besieged since learning Wednesday that his 53-year-old […]
  
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• Sierra Vista officer resigns after affair with informant

  06-11-2015 22:34
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. — The head of a drug unit at the Sierra Vista Police Department has been forced to resign after it was discovered that he was having a sexual relationship with a confidential informant and that he took her cell phone out of evidence. Acting police chief Adam Thrasher said Cpl. Michael Mitchell began […]
  
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• Appeals court ruling again favors Glendale casino backers

  06-11-2015 22:34
  
  PHOENIX — A federal appeals court panel says an Arizona law designed to block a southern Arizona tribe’s plans to build a casino in Glendale is unconstitutional. Friday’s 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling also says the Tohono (toh-HO’-noh) O’odham Nation is now free to ask for more land it owns in Glendale to […]
  
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• No injuries as train strikes stalled school bus at crossing

  06-11-2015 22:33
  
  PHOENIX — The driver of a school bus that stalled on the railroad tracks leaped out moments before it was destroyed by a freight train. No children were aboard and the driver survived unscathed, but she was shaken up, and the train’s engineer and conductor were even more affected, officials said Friday. “They thought they […]
  
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• Man guilty of capital murder in deadly Texas festival crash

  06-11-2015 22:33
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — A jury has found a man guilty of capital murder in a crash that killed four people last year at the South by Southwest festival in Austin. The Austin American-Statesman (http://atxne.ws/1S3CoDR ) reports the Travis County jury returned with the verdict against 23-year-old Rashad Owens after a little more than three hours […]
  
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• Prosecutor: ‘Goodfellas’ heist defendant embraced mob life

  06-11-2015 22:32
  
  NEW YORK — An aging mobster lived a long life of crime highlighted by the $6 million heist in 1978 that was retold in the classic Mafia movie “Goodfellas,” a prosecutor said Friday in closing arguments at a federal racketeering trial. Vincent Asaro, whose grandfather and father were members of the Bonanno organized crime family, […]
  
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• The Latest: Company in bus crash OK’d for temporary workers

  06-11-2015 22:30
  
  NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The latest on the crash of a cross-country bus in North Little Rock, Arkansas (all times local): 3:10 p.m. The company involved in a bus crash that killed six people on an Arkansas interstate had received approval from the federal government to bring foreign nationals to the U.S. to work […]
  
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• Albuquerque man pleads guilty in 2014 murder

  06-11-2015 21:58 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – The suspect arrested for killing a man and dumping his body pleaded guilty Friday. Police say Danny Trujillo was one of two men who shot and killed Eloi Leyba last year.
  Leyba’s body was found on the road to the Sandia Crest. According to a criminal complaint, the murder was sparked because of a fight over Leyba’s ex-girlfriend.
  In court Friday, Trujillo pleaded guilty to 2nd degree murder and tampering with evidence. He is facing five to 15 year sentence.
  
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• US consumer credit up a record $28.9 billion in September

  06-11-2015 21:57
  
  WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer borrowing jumped by a record amount in September, driven higher by big gains in borrowing for auto and student loans. The Federal Reserve said Friday that consumer borrowing increased $28.9 billion, the largest one-month increase on record going back to 1941. It followed a gain of $16 billion in August and […]
  
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• Keystone XL Pipeline: What you need to know

  06-11-2015 21:47 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – Just minutes after the Obama administration publicly rejected plans to allow an expansion of the Keystone pipeline through several Midwest states, the decision was met with both criticism and praise by 2016 presidential hopefuls.
  What is the Pipeline?
  The Keystone XL Pipeline, which has faced scrutiny from environmental groups for several years, would create a 1,179 mile crude oil distribution system from Canada to Nebraska.What the Obama administration sa
  
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• USDA: Chicken, turkey farms affected by bird flu can restock

  06-11-2015 21:26
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa — Commercial chicken and turkey farms that were infected by the bird flu have been cleared to restock, agriculture officials said Friday, but scientists still will keep a close eye on migrating birds and test thousands to see if the virus is present. No new cases have been reported since June 17 […]
  
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• Owners of Albuquerque pool hall get probation in tax case

  06-11-2015 21:12
  
  Three brothers who own a billiards hall in New Mexico have each been sentenced to five years’ probation after pleading guilty in a federal tax evasion case. Prosecutors say 51-year-old Hrant Kostanian, 59-year-old Gayk Kostanian and 55-year-old Hrair Kostanian also were ordered Friday to jointly pay more than $263,000 to the Internal Revenue Service. That’s […]
  
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• Soccer scores

  06-11-2015 20:38
  
  Latest state tournament soccer scores.
  
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• Updated: Mormon rule changes aimed at gays send advocates reeling

  06-11-2015 20:32
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — Gay and lesbian Mormons and their supporters are reeling over a rule change by church officials that says members in same-sex marriages can be kicked out and their children are to be barred from being baptized unless they disavow homosexual relationships. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints disseminated the […]
  
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• Tis the season: Halloween candy scares mostly hoaxes

  06-11-2015 20:31
  
  PHILADELPHIA — Reports that trick-or-treaters in a Philadelphia suburb found needles stuffed in their Halloween candy turned out to be made up, officials said Friday, the latest in a season of similar hoaxes across the country. In the days before and after Halloween this year, reports of razor blades in Rice Krispies Treats, needles in […]
  
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• Man sentenced to life in prison in killing of 6-year-old witness

  06-11-2015 20:31
  
  PHOENIX — A jury sentenced an Arizona man to life in prison for killing his 6-year-old nephew after the child witnessed his father’s 2010 shooting death. The sentence was imposed Friday against Christopher Rey Licon (LEE’-cohn) after he was convicted weeks ago in the shooting deaths of his half-brother, Angel Jaquez, and his nephew, Xavier […]
  
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• Tucson red light camera tickets to end sooner than expected

  06-11-2015 20:30
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. — Tucson drivers who were caught by photo enforcement this week will not have to pay any fines as the City Council has decided to throw out any ticket generated from the cameras after Tuesday. Any violations that took place after 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday will no longer be valid. Tucson voters approved […]
  
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• GOP candidate Carson backs off West Point scholarship claim

  06-11-2015 20:30
  
  WASHINGTON — Republican White House hopeful Ben Carson was not offered a formal scholarship to the United States Military Academy at West Point as he wrote in his autobiography, his campaign said Friday. Carson, a newcomer to national politics, has developed a passionate following based in part on an inspirational personal story and devotion to […]
  
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• 4th Supreme Court go-round for 5-year-old Obama health law

  06-11-2015 20:29
  
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is wading into its fourth dispute over President Barack Obama’s 5-year-old health care overhaul. The latest “Obamacare” case involves objections by faith-based hospitals, colleges and charities to the process the administration devised to spare them from paying for contraceptives for women covered under their health plans, and yet ensure that […]
  
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• Updated: In shift, Russia suspends flights to Egypt citing security

  06-11-2015 20:27
  
  MOSCOW — In an abrupt turnaround, Russia on Friday suspended all passenger flights to Egypt after days of resisting U.S. and British suggestions that a bomb may have brought down a Russian plane in the Sinai Peninsula a week ago. The move dealt a sharp blow to both countries’ tourism sectors amid fears about security […]
  
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• Spaceport master plan calls for new hangar, lease space

  06-11-2015 20:27
  
  It could be late 2017 before Virgin Galactic begins launching commercial space flights from the New Mexico desert, but state spaceport officials say they have a new master plan aimed at attracting tenants and boosting revenues. The plan calls for building a new hangar at Spaceport America, developing the vertical launch area and offering about […]
  
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• Russia to suspend flights to Egypt pending improved security

  06-11-2015 20:27
  
  SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — Russia announced Friday it will suspend all flights to Egypt until security is improved at its airports, the first sign of wariness from Moscow after days of resisting British and American warnings that a bomb planted by the Islamic State group may have brought down a Russian plane in the Sinai […]
  
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• Santa Fe police lieutenant and husband quit after bizarre late-night incident

  06-11-2015 20:15
  
  Resignations come after incident at convenience store
  
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• New: Santa Fe police lieutenant and husband quit after bizarre late-night incident

  06-11-2015 20:15
  
  Resignations come after incident at convenience store
  
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• Popular Bosque bike path to close temporarily

  06-11-2015 20:11 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – This weekend may be the last chance for cyclists to catch the fall leaves along the Rio Grande. That’s because city is temporarily closing the popular bike path.
  Starting on Monday, city crews are cleaning up debris along the Paseo del Bosque recreational trail. City officials are prohibiting cyclists and joggers from entering the area. They say it’s for safety reasons.
  The work should be done later this month.
  
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• Albuquerque teacher facing child porn charges bonds out of jail

  06-11-2015 20:10 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – An Albuquerque Public Schools kindergarten teacher who was arrested on child pornography charges is now out of jail.
  Thursday a judge lowered 39-year-old Joshua Weitz’ bond because she feels he isn’t a flight risk and doesn’t have a criminal history. Friday, he was out of jail.
  The Whittier Elementary teacher’s bond went from $390,000 to $25,000 and he came up with the $2,500 he needed to bond out Friday morning.
  Bernalillo County Sheriff’
  
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• FBI: Wanted New Mexico bank robbers

  06-11-2015 19:47 via interactives.krqe.com
  
  The FBI and New Mexico police departments are searching for the suspects responsible for these October bank robberies. Contact the FBI at (505) 889-1300 if you have any info.
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• Kirtland robo-call for training exercise about ‘active shooter’ led to lockdown of Pojoaque schools

  06-11-2015 19:45
  
  Training exercise treated as real thing
  
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• Halloween candy scares mostly hoaxes

  06-11-2015 19:22 via krqe.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Reports that trick-or-treaters in a Philadelphia suburb found needles stuffed in their Halloween candy turned out to be made up, officials said Friday, the latest in a season of similar hoaxes across the country.
  In the days before and after Halloween this year, reports of razor blades in Rice Krispies Treats, needles in Twizzlers and pot-laced chocolates made headlines. It turns out most of the reports were hoaxes, though police still urge people to use caution before
  
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• CYFD closing Lincoln Pines Juvenile Detention Center

  06-11-2015 19:15 via krqe.com
  
  RUIDOSO, N.M. (KRQE) – A New Mexico juvenile detention center will soon close its doors. Officials at CYFD are taking steps to close the Lincoln Pines Juvenile Detention Center near Ruidoso.This comes after allegations surfaced that one of its employees had an inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old inmate. That therapist, Juile Ann Barham, is now awaiting trial on several charges.
  The department is looking for new jobs for dozens of employees, some have already been transferred.
  The
  
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• ABQ mayor proposes retractable arena, other Downtown projects

  06-11-2015 19:12
  
  City Hall could turn some of its Convention Center space into a 10,000-seat arena, build a 400-space parking garage Downtown and spruce up Civic Plaza under a $24 million plan proposed by Mayor Richard Berry on Friday. The arena would have retractable seats built into what’s already a large exhibit hall in the eastern complex […]
  
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• Obama administration kills Keystone XL pipeline

  06-11-2015 18:20 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he’s rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline because he does not believe it serves the national interest.
  Obama says the pipeline has played an overinflated role in political discourse.
  Obama is speaking at the White House after meeting with Secretary of State John Kerry.
  The decision caps a seven-year saga that became a flashpoint in Obama’s presidency. Killing the pipeline allows Obama to claim aggressive action on the environment.
  
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• Former secretary of state Vigil applies for appointment

  06-11-2015 18:14 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE (AP) – Former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil is applying to be appointed back to her old job.
  The Albuquerque Journal reports the Vigil is one of nine people whose names have been mentioned for the position that Republican Dianna Duran vacated last month.
  Duran resigned before pleading guilty to embezzlement and other charges in a criminal case stemming from a fraud investigation into use of campaign donations.
  A special election will be held in 2016 to select someone to serve o
  
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• Updated: 4 takeaways from Activision Blizzard’s $5.9 billion takeover of King Digital Entertainment

  06-11-2015 17:26
  
  LOS ANGELES — In the third-largest video game industry deal ever, Activision Blizzard Inc. is buying “Candy Crush” publisher King Digital Entertainment for $5.9 billion in cash. The deal, announced Monday night and expected to close in the spring, is unlikely to affect fans of games such as “Candy Crush Saga” and “Farm Heroes.” But […]
  
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• Breaking: Obama quashes Keystone XL in bid to boost climate leverage

  06-11-2015 17:17
  
  WASHINGTON — Ending a seven-year political saga, President Barack Obama killed the proposed Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, declaring it would have undercut U.S. efforts to clinch a global climate change deal at the center of his environmental legacy. Obama’s decision marked an unambiguous victory for environmental activists who spent years denouncing the pipeline, lobbying […]
  
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