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• Kirtland Air Force Base gives 'all clear'

  02-12-2015 23:41
  
  Kirtland Air Force Base was on precautionary lockdown around 3:15 p.m. Wednesday.
  
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• Zuckerberg’s huge pledge reflects a new era in philanthropy

  02-12-2015 23:31
  
  NEW YORK — The huge philanthropic pledge by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife — totaling perhaps $45 billion — reflects the fast-paced emergence of a new Gilded Age of giving. The changes excite many in the charity world, but also raise questions about effectiveness, ethics and the impact on older charities that may […]
  
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• Breaking: Lockdown lifted at KAFB, no threat found

  02-12-2015 23:11
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Kirtland Air Force Base was temporarily placed on a precautionary lockdown after unconfirmed reports of an active shooter on the base, according to Air Force officials. The lockdown was lifted a short time later. “At 2:30 p.m. Kirtland Air Force Base security forces received a report of an active shooter in a […]
  
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• Kirtland Air Force Base lifts precautionary lock down

  02-12-2015 23:07 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Officials at Kirtland Air Force Base say they were under a precautionary lock down on the west side of the base after receiving reports of an unconfirmed active shooter. That lock down has since been lifted.This happened at about 3:15 p.m. on Wednesday.
  Albuquerque Public Schools tweeted out on Wednesday that Kirtland, Wherry, and Sandia Base elementary schools are on lock down for a brief time. However, those lock downs have since been lifted.
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• Updated: Nob Hill retail takes two more hits

  02-12-2015 23:00
  
  Staples may also be on its way out
  
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• Smith’s closing Socorro store

  02-12-2015 22:56
  
  The Smith’s Food and Drug store at 901 California Street NW in Socorro will close next month, according to a release from the company. All 66 employees will have the option to transfer to another store, according to the company’s announcement. The effect of the store closure, including severance, will be negotiated with union representatives. […]
  
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• Judge lifts some media restrictions in campsite deaths case

  02-12-2015 22:37
  
  DALLAS — A Texas judge has backtracked on an order that placed extraordinary restrictions on media coverage of a man charged with killing a family of six at an East Texas campsite. District Judge Deborah Oakes Evans had approved on Nov. 20 a motion by the attorney for William Hudson that forbid reporting on the […]
  
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• US space station delivery on tap after 8-month stoppage

  02-12-2015 22:36
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA hopes to resume commercial shipments this week to the International Space Station, following months of frustrating delay. The last successful U.S. supply run was in April. Russia and Japan have managed to fill the gap, but the 250-mile-high pantry isn’t as full as it should be. An unmanned Atlas V […]
  
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• Clinton promotes $275B infrastructure plan in Florida visit

  02-12-2015 22:36
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that Republican rivals Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio would “slash” spending on projects to fix aging roads and bridges, urging Congress to pass a plan to rebuild the nation’s transportation system. Appealing to a bellwether region in one of the nation’s top swing states, Clinton […]
  
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• Graphic testimony heard on day 1 of Alex Rios trial

  02-12-2015 22:21
  
  The trial is underway for the oldest of three teens accused beating two homeless men to death last summer.
  
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• Updated: 2014 US health spending grew at fastest rate of Obama years

  02-12-2015 22:08
  
  WASHINGTON — A government report says U.S. health care spending last year grew at the fastest pace since President Barack Obama took office, driven by expanded coverage under his namesake law and zooming prescription drug costs. After five years of historically low growth, national health expenditures increased by 5.3 percent in 2014, reaching $3 trillion, […]
  
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• The Latest: Witness trained officer charged in Gray death

  02-12-2015 22:07
  
  BALTIMORE — The latest on the trial of a police officer accused in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who suffered a spinal injury in the back of a transport van (all times local): 4 p.m. The state’s first witness in the trial for Officer William Porter is a woman who trained […]
  
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• Westwind Computer moves hq to Vista West Business Park

  02-12-2015 22:03
  
  Government contractor Westwind Computer Products Inc. has relocated its headquarters from Broadbent Business Park near Menaul and Interstate 25 to the Vista West Business Park at 5635-5659 Jefferson NE, according to an announcement by property owner Gemini Rosemont Commercial Real Estate. Westwind will occupy 8,200 square feet at 5655 Jefferson in the 94,560-square-foot mixed-used park, […]
  
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• Photos: San Bernardino Shooting

  02-12-2015 21:50 via interactives.krqe.com
  
  Multiple people were shot on Dec. 2, 2015 at a Southern California social services center, and police were searching for up to three gunmen, authorities said.
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• State Police release new details on officer-involved shooting

  02-12-2015 21:21 via krqe.com
  
  SOCORRO, N.M. (KRQE) – State Police have released new details about the officer-involved shooting in Socorro.
  It started around 8:00 a.m. after an officer with the Seventh Judicial District Attorney’s Office tried to pull over a suspect in a stolen vehicle. State Police say according to reports the suspect was armed and fled in the vehicle and later on foot.
  State Police say the D.A.’s officer fired at the suspect, injuring him. The suspect was transported to UNM Hospital where
  
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• The Latest: Britain votes to join airstrikes against IS

  02-12-2015 21:16 via krqe.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The latest developments regarding the fight against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq: All times local:
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  10:33 p.m.
  British lawmakers have voted to join the international campaign of airstrikes against the Islamic State militant group in Syria.
  The 397-223 vote in the House of Commons means Royal Air Force fighter jets — already operating against IS in neighboring Iraq — could be flying over Syria within days or even hours.
  Prime Minister David Cameron
  
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• Breaking: Multiple people shot at California social services center

  02-12-2015 21:06
  
  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — The latest on reports of an active shooter at a social services facility in San Bernardino, California (all times local): 12:55 p.m. PST Paul Lacroix said his son was able to escape after gunfire erupted at a Southern California social services center. Lacroix told reporters Wednesday that his son texted him […]
  
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• San Bernardino, Calif., police responding to “active shooter” at county site

  02-12-2015 20:44 via krqe.com
  
  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Police in San Bernardino, California, are responding to reports of an active shooter at a social services facility.
  Lt. Rich Lawhead said Wednesday there are reports of multiple victims.
  The San Bernardino Fire department says they are responding to reports of a 20 victim shooting.
  SBFD units responding to reports of 20 victim shooting incident in 1300 block of S. Waterman. SBPD is working to clear the scene.
  — San Bernardino Fire (@SBCityFire) December
  
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• Police responding to “active shooter” at county site in San Bernardino

  02-12-2015 20:44 via krqe.com
  
  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Police in San Bernardino, California, are responding to reports of an active shooter at a social services facility.
  Lt. Rich Lawhead said Wednesday there are reports of multiple victims.
  The San Bernardino Fire department says they are responding to reports of a 20 victim shooting at the Inland Regional Center, a social service center for the developmentally disabled. Officials say the victims are being transported to the Loma Linda Medical Center.
  SBFD units
  
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• Police: 2 suspects dead, 1 possible suspect detained after California mass shooting

  02-12-2015 20:44 via krqe.com
  
  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Police say that two suspects are dead- one male and one female. A third possible suspect is detained.
  Police are serving a search warrant on a home in Redlands, California, in connection with the deadly shooting at a social services facility in neighboring San Bernardino.
  City spokesman Carl Baker says Redlands police are assisting San Bernardino police in the search connected to the Wednesday morning shooting that killed at least 14 people and
  
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• Chief: Upward of 14 people dead, 14 injured, suspects at large

  02-12-2015 20:44 via krqe.com
  
  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — As many as three gunmen believed to be wearing military-style gear opened fire Wednesday at a Southern California social services center, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than a dozen, authorities said.
  Police Chief Jarrod Burguan said at a news conference that after the shooting, the suspects might have fled the area in dark-colored SUV. They remained at large.
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  Burguan said the number of people killed and woun
  
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• 2 suspects dead, 1 possible suspect detained after California mass shooting

  02-12-2015 20:44 via krqe.com
  
  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A law enforcement official has identified Syed Farook as one of the suspects in a mass shooting in Southern California. Officials have also identified another suspect as Tayyepph Bin Ardogan.
  The official, who was briefed on the case, was not authorized to speak to the media about the ongoing investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.
  Police say two suspects – a man and a woman – were killed in a gunbattle with police after the sh
  
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• John’s Wednesday Afternoon Forecast

  02-12-2015 20:31 via krqe.com
  
  The quiet stretch of weather continues this afternoon. Expect plenty of sunshine will cool temps. Those clear skies will allow temperatures to plummet once again tonight. After another cold start Thursday, a westerly flow will afternoon temperatures to slowly warm up. The warm up continues with a southwesterly flow Friday.
  Our next storm for the weekend is looking less impressive with a track scraping it across the northern part of the state. The Northern Mountains will have the best chance to p
  
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• High court skeptical of state power to gather health data

  02-12-2015 20:20
  
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared skeptical that state officials have the power to require health insurers to turn over reams of data revealing how much they pay for medical claims. Most of the justices seemed to agree during a one-hour argument that efforts by Vermont and other states to collect and publicize […]
  
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• Sperry Van Ness affiliates get new names

  02-12-2015 20:13
  
  Three local commercial real estate affiliates of Boston-based Sperry Van Ness Corp. will undergo a name change, to SVN, as part of a corporate rebranding.
  
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• Bernalillo High School students hand out gifts to homeless veterans

  02-12-2015 20:11 via krqe.com
  
  BERNALILLO, N.M. (KRQE) – A New Mexico high school spent days in the kitchen cooking a Christmas gift for homeless veterans. Bernalillo High School students handed out bags and bags of cookies to workers at the Veterans Integration Center.
  The cooks baked more than 50 dozen cookies. A high school senior said the gift exchange has become an annual tradition. The students say it took them about two days to bake all these cookies.
  
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• ABQ home prices rise in Oct.

  02-12-2015 20:09
  
  The increase marks 21 straight months of year-over-year price appreciation, according to Corelogic's Home Price Index.
  
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• New Mexico artist brings new life to old metal

  02-12-2015 20:01 via krqe.com
  
  CORRALES, N.M. (KRQE) – Local artist Chris Turri has found a use for old metal from cars to pipes, to anything you can imagine. With a welder and other tools, the metal has a new life in the form of artwork.
  Turri, along with local artists Cassidy Watt and Michael Copeland will have their work featured in an exhibition this weekend called “Paint & Patina: A Three Man Art Show.”
  Turri’s unique creations come from his background in silversmithing and crea
  
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• Yellen says economy on track ahead of expected rate hike

  02-12-2015 19:55
  
  WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Wednesday indicated that the U.S. economy is on track for an interest rate hike this month, but she said the Fed will need to review incoming data before making a final decision. Yellen gave an upbeat assessment of the economy’s progress since the Fed’s last meeting in […]
  
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• Record Cyber Monday spending tops $3 billion

  02-12-2015 19:55
  
  NEW YORK — Shoppers spent more than $3 billion online this “Cyber Monday,” making it the biggest online shopping day ever. Research firm comScore said shopping by phone, tablet, laptop or tablet jumped 21 percent to $3.11 billion Monday. The 10-year-old shopping holiday has lost some of its luster as retailers push sales forward on […]
  
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• Budget talks hit snag over environmental issues, refugees

  02-12-2015 19:48 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Talks on a massive, government-wide spending bill have hit a snag as Republicans press demands for policy provisions on the environment, regulation of the financial services industry and making it more difficult for Syrian and Iraqi refugees to enter the U.S.
  An initial end-stage offer from top Republicans was flatly rejected by Democrats whose votes will be needed to carry the $1.1 trillion measure through the House.
  Lawmakers hope to pass the measure in little more than
  
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• Trial begins for man accused in homeless men’s beating deaths

  02-12-2015 19:36 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — A trial began Wednesday for a man accused with two others of attacking a pair of Navajo transients as they slept and beating them to death in New Mexico’s largest city, a crime that appalled residents and led to the creation of a task force on Native American homelessness.
  Authorities say the three defendants were teenagers when they killed Allison Gorman, 44, and Kee Thompson, 46, in a vacant Albuquerque lot in July 2014.
  The jury trial for Alex Rios, now 20, sta
  
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• Changing the bail system: What some US cities are trying

  02-12-2015 19:30 via krqe.com
  
  Thousands of people languish in overcrowded jails nationwide because they can’t afford bail, putting further pressure on an already strained system. Philadelphia is seeking ways to fix the problem. Here’s what some other cities are doing:
  — In New York, after high-profile deaths of men held at the Rikers Island jail complex because they couldn’t afford to pay their bail, the city in July said it would eliminate cash bail for thousands of defendants, instead requiring that
  
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• Trial begins for man accused in transients’ beating deaths

  02-12-2015 19:19
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A trial began Wednesday for a man accused with two others of attacking a pair of Navajo transients as they slept and beating them to death in New Mexico’s largest city, a crime that appalled residents and led to the creation of a task force on Native American homelessness. Authorities say the […]
  
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• Sandy Berger, ex-Clinton national security adviser, dies

  02-12-2015 19:17
  
  WASHINGTON — Former national security adviser Sandy Berger, who helped craft President Bill Clinton’s foreign policy and got in trouble over destroying classified documents, died Wednesday. He was 70. The cause of death was cancer, said a statement by his consulting firm, the Albright Stonebridge Group. Berger was White House national security adviser from 1997 […]
  
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• ‘San Francisco witch killer’ being considered for parole

  02-12-2015 19:15
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — The married couple dubbed the “San Francisco witch killers” seemed locked away for good when each was sentenced to 75 years to life for three Northern California murders three decades ago. But because of a recent federal court ruling, prison officials had to consider them for parole. A parole board at a […]
  
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• Farmington-area man sentenced to prison for fatal accident

  02-12-2015 19:15
  
  A Farmington-area man has been sentenced to more than six years in prison on a conviction stemming from a 2014 accident that killed two people riding in a vehicle he was driving while under the influence of alcohol. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said 29-year-old Farrell Bowman of Fruitland was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in […]
  
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• Updated: Prosecutor describes vicious attack on 2 homeless men

  02-12-2015 19:11
  
  A trial began Wednesday for a man accused with two others of attacking a pair of Navajo transients as they slept and beating them to death in New Mexico’s largest city, a crime that appalled residents and led to the creation of a task force on Native American homelessness. Authorities say the three defendants were […]
  
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• How climate negotiations proceed: just like an action movie

  02-12-2015 18:55
  
  LE BOURGET, France — With world leaders back home, it’s time for the hardcore negotiators to work on the more mundane guts of a climate deal, and they are being told to quicken their pace. Generally climate negotiations follow a certain rhythm, veteran negotiators and observers say. Wednesday is the middle of the nitty-gritty time […]
  
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• AP test: Rio Olympic water badly polluted, even far offshore

  02-12-2015 18:54
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Olympic sailor Erik Heil floated a novel idea to protect himself from the sewage-infested waters he and other athletes will compete in during next year’s games: He’d wear plastic overalls and peel them off when he was safely past the contaminated waters nearest shore. Heil, 26, was treated at a Berlin […]
  
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• Judge calls Supreme Court appointment constitutional

  02-12-2015 18:53
  
  SANTA FE — A state District Court judge has thrown out a lawsuit disputing the appointment of District Court Judge Judith Nakamura of Albuquerque to fill a vacancy on the New Mexico Supreme Court. District Judge David Thomson ruled on Tuesday that Nakamura’s appointment was constitutional. Former attorney Stuart Stein, of La Cienega, argued her […]
  
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• Ex-wife says clinic suspect vandalized Planned Parenthood

  02-12-2015 18:38 via krqe.com
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — An ex-wife of the man charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood said that he vandalized the reproductive health organization years earlier when he lived in South Carolina.
  Barbara Mescher Micheau told The Associated Press on Wednesday said that Robert Dear came home one day and told her that he put glue in the locks of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Charleston when they were married.
  “I just remembered it because I haven’t though
  
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• Updated: Cafe Bien owners, six others, indicted in pot trafficking ring

  02-12-2015 18:29
  
  The husband and wife team behind a chic cafe in downtown Albuquerque were arrested Nov. 19 when federal authorities discovered they were dealing in more than just breakfast and lunch. The couple, Enrique Cavazos, 29, and his wife Lindsey, 30, are accused of running a marijuana trafficking operation spanning several businesses, including Cafe Bien on […]
  
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• Cafe Bien owners, six others, indicted in pot trafficking ring

  02-12-2015 18:29
  
  The husband and wife team behind a chic cafe in downtown Albuquerque were arrested Nov. 19 when federal authorities discovered they were dealing in more than just breakfast and lunch. The couple, Enrique Cazavos, 29, and his wife Lindsey Cavados, 30, are accused of running a marijuana trafficking operation spanning several businesses, including Cafe Bien […]
  
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• Seamless Medical wins $2.5 M venture investment

  02-12-2015 18:14
  
  Santa Fe startup's iPad-based patient check-in system is gaining traction
  
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• House to vote on No Child Left Behind rewrite

  02-12-2015 18:07 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House moved toward a vote Wednesday on a long-sought rewrite of the 2002 No Child Left Behind education law that would roll back the federal government’s authority to push academic standards and tell failing schools how to improve.
  The legislation, a compromise reached by House and Senate negotiators, would continue No Child’s requirement for annual reading and math testing of children in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school. But it would shift back
  
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• AP EXPLAINS: Is it IS, ISIS or ISIL, and what’s a Daesh?

  02-12-2015 17:52
  
  CAIRO — The Islamic State’s gruesome rampage across the Middle East has united the world in horror but left it divided over how to refer to the extremist group, with observers adopting different acronyms based on their translation of an archaic geographical term and the extent to which they want to needle the extremists. Here’s […]
  
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• Russia: Turkish president benefits from IS oil trade

  02-12-2015 17:47
  
  MOSCOW — Sharply raising the stakes in Moscow’s spat with Ankara, Russia’s top military brass on Wednesday accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family of personally profiting from oil trade with Islamic State militants. The bluntly-worded accusations follow Turkey’s downing of a Russian warplane at the Syrian border last week, the first time […]
  
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• Family of man killed by Boulder police file lawsuit

  02-12-2015 17:47
  
  BOULDER, Colo. — The family of a man who was killed by Boulder police in 2013 is suing the city, police department and officer who pulled the trigger claiming police used excessive force and were improperly trained. The Daily Camera reports (http://bit.ly/1N3KbhV ) that the family of Michael Habay filed a lawsuit in U.S. District […]
  
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• Updated: Prosecutor: Baltimore officer on trial for what he didn’t do

  02-12-2015 17:45
  
  BALTIMORE — An officer is on trial for “what he did, or more importantly, what he did not do” to help Freddie Gray as the young black man suffered a spinal injury in police custody, a prosecutor said Wednesday. Officer William Porter failed to render aid to Gray, who repeatedly asked for medical attention after […]
  
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