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• Powerball take-home depends highly on taxes where you live

  08-01-2016 23:55
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa — Taxes can eat up close to half a Powerball jackpot, but the amount taken out can vary widely depending on where a winner lives — meaning state and local taxes can mean a difference of tens of millions of dollars. To start, all winners must pay federal income taxes. The U.S. […]
  
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• New Mexico woman honored by community after fatal car crash

  08-01-2016 23:51 via krqe.com
  
  VALENCIA COUNTY (KRQE) – A Valencia County woman, killed in a car crash earlier this week, is being honored by the many people she helped.
  Anna Hartline was known as “Mamma Anna” to many. On Thursday, students and staff at Los Lunas High wore red in her honor.
  Hartline was heavily involved in the cheer-leading, Future Farmers of America and football programs.
  Services will be held at Los Chavez Baptist Church at 11 a.m. on Saturday.
   
  
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• Ted Cruz’s outsider claims belie his political insider past

  08-01-2016 23:42
  
  HUMBOLDT, Iowa — Ted Cruz relishes his role as Washington insurgent and tea party agitator, but today’s political outsider built much of his career around being a GOP insider — thriving in powerful circles he now says he’d like to dismantle. A Princeton graduate and Harvard-trained attorney, Cruz clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist at […]
  
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• Tax filing issues could jeopardize health law aid for many

  08-01-2016 23:42
  
  WASHINGTON — The IRS says about 1.4 million households that got financial help for health insurance under the president’s law failed to properly account for it on their tax returns last year. That may put their subsidies at risk this year if they want to keep coverage. The figures were released late Friday afternoon, a […]
  
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• Updated: New apartments planned for North I-25

  08-01-2016 23:39
  
  A new 224-unit apartment complex in the North Interstate 25 corridor is working its way through the city approval process. North I-25 Corporate Center, which is affiliated with Titan Development, is seeking the necessary approvals to build the complex along San Mateo NE, north of Alameda on part of the former Coronado Landfill, according to […]
  
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• New apartments planned for North I-25

  08-01-2016 23:39
  
  A new 224-unit apartment complex in the North Interstate 25 corridor is working its way through the city approval process. North I-25 Corporate Center, which is affiliated with Titan Development, is seeking the necessary approvals to build the residential property and associated amenities along San Mateo north of Alameda at the former site of the […]
  
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• Silverton, Colo. aims to have Superfund answers by end of January

  08-01-2016 23:38
  
  DURANGO, Colo. — Silverton officials say they’ll try to get enough information by the end of January to decide whether to ask for a federally funded Superfund cleanup of leaking mines north of town. The Durango Herald reported Friday (http://tinyurl.com/jut8n5j) that would be the deadline to get their request before the Environmental Protection Agency in […]
  
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• Taos police sergeant fights for job back

  08-01-2016 23:34 via krqe.com
  
  TAOS, N.M. (KRQE) – An officer accused of getting too rough with a suspect was caught on tape. Now, she is fighting for her job back.
  A jury found her not guilty of charges, but she was fired anyway. She was in Taos on Friday trying to get her job back.
  The incident happened last June and led to Taos Police Sergeant Jani Davis getting fired.
  The suspect was Frank Olonia, a “regular” for Taos cops, who’s known for trying to rile up officers.
  On this night, he curses and th
  
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• New Mexico sergeant fights for job back

  08-01-2016 23:34 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – An officer accused of getting too rough with a suspect was caught on tape. Now, she is fighting for her job back.
  A jury found her not guilty of charges, but she was fired anyway. She was in Taos on Friday trying to get her job back.
  The incident happened last June and led to Taos Police Sergeant Jani Davis getting fired.
  The suspect was Frank Olonia, a “regular” for Taos cops, who’s known for trying to rile up officers.
  On this night, he curses and t
  
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• Marine accused of Texas college student waives extradition

  08-01-2016 23:26
  
  DENTON, Texas — A Marine arrested in Arizona as a suspect in the fatal New Year’s Day shooting of a North Texas college student will not oppose his return to Texas to face the accusation. Cpl. Eric Johnson is accused of killing 20-year-old University of North Texas student Sara Mutschlechner (MUCH’-lehk-nur). The Marine Corps disclosed […]
  
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• Cologne police chief dismissed over New Year’s Eve assaults

  08-01-2016 23:18
  
  BERLIN — The police chief of the German city of Cologne was dismissed Friday amid mounting criticism of his force’s handling of a string of New Year’s Eve sexual assaults and robberies blamed largely on foreigners. The state government of North Rhine-Westphalia said it was sending Wolfgang Albers into early retirement, and the 60-year-old commander […]
  
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• Albuquerque employee dodges bullets after road rage incident

  08-01-2016 23:11 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Some employees found themselves dodging bullets after an argument in the street spilled into their business.
  The manager of TLC Uniforms says she was sitting in her office when suddenly several bullets flew through the wall, narrowly missing her head.
  Police later determined that Jovonne Martinez had shot at her ex-boyfriend after seeing him in another car at the intersection.
  Martinez, who was with her new boyfriend, admitted to firing at least six shots at him. He wa
  
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• Powerball hysteria peaks as jackpot nears $1 billion

  08-01-2016 23:10 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – Powerball is ready to hand out $800 million in America’s largest jackpot ever. And it could even reach $1 billion by Saturday evening.
  The odds are long, but hopes are contagiously high.
  Inside D.C.’s Union Station on Friday, a man named Clayton sang “Here comes the Powerball” to the tune of the Spider-Man theme.
  “It’s the biggest lottery every; how could I not play?” bubbled one young professional.
  The line snaked
  
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• Multimillion-dollar settlement reached in sex-for-housing-repairs

  08-01-2016 23:02
  
  BALTIMORE — The lawyer representing women who said maintenance workers demanded sex from them in exchange for basic repairs at public housing units in Baltimore says a settlement of at least $6 million has been reached. Cary J. Hansel said at a news conference Friday that all victims of sexual harassment in public housing will […]
  
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• ‘Affluenza’ teen’s mom complains about jail conditions

  08-01-2016 23:01
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas — A “woman with means” who was arrested at a Mexican beach resort city with her fugitive teenage son who invoked “affluenza” as a defense after killing four people in a drunken-driving wreck has complained about the conditions of her Texas jail cell, a sheriff said Friday. “She expressed a slight displeasure […]
  
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• Old driver’s license? You can still fly for 2 more years

  08-01-2016 22:56 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) – Fliers who don’t have the latest driver’s licenses will have a two-year reprieve before their IDs are rejected at airport security checkpoints.
  Read more on REAL ID: What you need to know »
  Many travelers had been worried that the Transportation Security Administration would penalize them because of a federal law requiring newer, more-stringent IDs at the start of this year.
  But late Friday afternoon, the Department of Homeland Security said passenger
  
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• Martinez: New Mexico still needs REAL ID fix after new rules

  08-01-2016 22:56 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico lawmakers still need to pass legislation to get the state in compliance under the federal REAL ID Act despite a U.S. Department of Homeland Security announcement that new air travel restrictions won’t start until 2018, Gov. Susana Martinez said Friday.
  In a statement, Martinez spokesman Mike Lonergan said Friday the federal government confirmed in its announcement that state residents will need passports in 2018 for air travel unless Democrats agre
  
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• Video gives more detail on Bill Richardson hit-and-run

  08-01-2016 22:55 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – His story keeps changing. KRQE News 13 now obtained the police video of Bill Richardson’s interview after a suspected hit-and-run.
  In it, the former governor goes from saying he didn’t know he hit another car to calling it a “tap.”
  His claim that he couldn’t find the driver he hit is also looking pretty flimsy right now.
  When first questioned by Santa Fe police, former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson acts oblivious. “Um, Did I hi
  
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• Cohen barred from managing investor funds for 2 years

  08-01-2016 22:52
  
  WASHINGTON — Steven A. Cohen will be barred for two years from managing other people’s money after reaching a civil settlement with federal regulators who accused the billionaire hedge-fund manager of failing to prevent insider trading at his firm, SAC Capital Advisors. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the settlement of the long-running case, brought […]
  
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• Judge shot outside Austin home seeks answers about threat

  08-01-2016 22:51
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — A judge shot in the driveway of her Austin home has returned to a county courthouse to seek answers about why she and other judges weren’t warned they might be in danger. District Judge Julie Kocurek (koh-SER’-ik) went to the Travis County criminal courthouse Thursday for the first time since she was […]
  
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• 11 people injured in tram accident at state park in AZ

  08-01-2016 22:51
  
  BENSON, Ariz. — Authorities say 11 people have been injured in a tram accident at Kartchner Caverns State Park in southeastern Arizona. Park manager Christopher DeMille says three people have been transported to area hospitals with serious, but non-life threatening injuries. DeMille told Tucson TV station KVOA that the tram was on a tour around […]
  
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• Capitol Edge: State of the Union, Repealing Obamacare

  08-01-2016 22:40 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – Lawmakers had a busy first week of 2016. Congress sent a bill repealing Obamacare and defunding Planned Parenthood, prepared for the president’s last State of the Union, and debated gun regulation. Here is your Capitol Edge.
  “This is the closest that we have come to repealing Obamacare,” Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) said at a signing ceremony Thursday.
  Republicans have tried more than 50 times to get a bill both th
  
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• US coal production falls to lowest level in nearly 30 years

  08-01-2016 22:27
  
  WASHINGTON — U.S. coal production has fallen to its lowest level in nearly 30 years as cheaper sources of power and stricter environmental regulations reduce demand, according to preliminary government figures. A report released Friday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates 900 million short tons of coal were produced last year, a drop from […]
  
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• The latest in gadgets: Wave your arms, play Pac-Man

  08-01-2016 22:27
  
  LAS VEGAS — The latest developments surrounding the consumer-electronics show in Las Vegas known as CES (all times local): 12:15 p.m. Still using a controller’s left, right, up and down buttons to play Pac-Man? That’s so 1980. The startup Moff wants kids to wildly flail their arms instead to make the hungry little yellow character […]
  
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• Updated: NM driver’s license? You can still fly for 2 more years

  08-01-2016 22:22
  
  SANTA FE — New Mexicans can use their driver’s licenses as identification to board commercial airplanes for another two years, the federal Department of Homeland Security announced today. The final phase of enforcement of the Real ID Act — which affects ID’s used for air travel — will not begin  until Jan. 22, 2018, the […]
  
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• Breaking: NM driver’s license? You can still fly for 2 more years

  08-01-2016 22:22
  
  NEW YORK — Fliers who don’t have the latest driver’s licenses will have a two-year reprieve before their IDs are rejected at airport security checkpoints. Many travelers had been worried that the Transportation Security Administration would penalize them because of a federal law requiring newer, more-stringent IDs at the start of this year. But late […]
  
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• Nexus Brewery expanding to West Side

  08-01-2016 22:10
  
  Brewery owner ready for new taproom after 4½ years in business
  
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• More security for college football championship than Super Bowl

  08-01-2016 21:56
  
  PHOENIX — The city of Phoenix will deploy more security personnel for the college football championship than for last year’s Super Bowl as federal authorities warn about the risk of terror attacks at crowded public events. The title game follows recent attacks in San Bernardino, California, and Paris that have raised alarm and led the […]
  
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• New Mexico may put state pay raises on hold

  08-01-2016 21:43 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico government pay raises may be put on hold because of low energy prices and weak state revenues from the oil and natural gas sector.
  A legislative budget proposal released Friday would increase state spending by $232 million for the coming fiscal year.
  The recommendation from the Legislative Finance Committee came with a warning that it may need to withhold $78 million in new spending intended for pay raises if energy prices remain low.
  The committee’s
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Sheriff calls off plans to talk with armed group

  08-01-2016 20:56
  
  BURNS, Ore. — The latest on an armed group that took over federal buildings at an Oregon wildlife refuge (all times local): 2:30 p.m. An Oregon sheriff has called off plans to speak with the leader of an armed group occupying a national wildlife refuge. Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward said Friday that he’s shelving […]
  
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• The Latest: Leader of armed group says no plans to leave

  08-01-2016 20:56
  
  BURNS, Ore. — The latest on an armed group that took over federal buildings at an Oregon wildlife refuge (all times local): 11:45 a.m. The leader of a small, armed group occupying a national wildlife refuge in Oregon says the activists have no immediate plans to leave. Ammon Bundy spoke to reporters Friday, a day […]
  
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• Via poem, judge dismisses inmate’s suit over bathroom access

  08-01-2016 20:51
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio — A judge used a five-stanza poem to dismiss an Ohio prisoner’s lawsuit over bathroom access, writing that “neither runs nor constipation can justify this litigation.” Franklin County Judge David Cain concluded the inmate didn’t have a case. “You know, if he is going to file something that frivolous, he can’t expect me […]
  
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• From the high-flying to the practical: CES 2016 in brief

  08-01-2016 20:45
  
  LAS VEGAS — This year’s CES gadget show, like ones before it, showed off a mix of the dreamy and the practical in technology. Gadget prototypes promised us fully autonomous vehicles carrying commuters on the streets and in the sky, while gizmos went on sale that aimed to solve daily problems like restocking your fridge. […]
  
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• Texas governor joins GOP calls for constitutional convention

  08-01-2016 20:44
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is joining the ranks of Republicans who are pushing for the first U.S. constitutional convention in more than 200 years. Abbott on Friday called on Texas to take the lead in pushing for constitutional amendments that would give states power to ignore federal laws and override decisions by […]
  
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• Investigators say Denver inmate suffocated while restrained

  08-01-2016 20:44
  
  DENVER — A jail inmate choked on his own vomit and suffocated while being restrained by Denver sheriff’s deputies during a psychotic episode, according to an autopsy report released Friday. Michael Marshall, 50, died from “complications of positional asphyxia” after the Nov. 11 incident, and the death is a homicide, the Denver medical examiner’s office […]
  
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• Obama ‘Guns in America’ town hall draws 2.4 million viewers

  08-01-2016 20:43
  
  NEW YORK — CNN’s “Guns in America” town hall meeting with President Barack Obama was seen by 2.4 million viewers Thursday night, according to early data from the Nielsen rating company. The 75-minute special, hosted by Anderson Cooper, fell short of Fox News Channel’s audience of 3 million viewers, but outpaced MSNBC, seen by slightly […]
  
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• The Latest: Suspect’s relatives appear in court in Milwaukee

  08-01-2016 20:41
  
  HOUSTON — The latest on two Iraqi-born men who came to the U.S. as refugees and have been arrested on terrorism-related charges by federal authorities in Texas and California: (all times local) 1:25 p.m. Two men related to a suspect in a terror investigation out of California have been accused in Milwaukee of conspiring to […]
  
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• NMFOG opens one stop county/state database shop for NM

  08-01-2016 20:39
  
  A one-stop shop for website databases of New Mexico's state and county public records custodia ...
  
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• Needle exchange leaders cheer relaxed federal funding ban

  08-01-2016 20:24
  
  INDIANAPOLIS — Advocates are praising Congress’ recent softening of a longtime ban on federal dollars going to needle exchanges amid growing intravenous drug abuse that’s spreading hepatitis and HIV in many states. The new rules, which were in the spending bill signed last month by President Barack Obama, say that federal money still can’t go […]
  
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• Family stops suspected snowmobile thief

  08-01-2016 20:16 via krqe.com
  
  TAOS, N.M. (KRQE) – One family took matters into their own hands when a man stole their snowmobiles. According to Taos News, a family spotted Wayne Romero Jr. and another man stealing two snowmobiles they were selling.
  Police say they chased the suspect until Romero pulled out a gun. But the family jumped him and called police.
  The suspect claims the other man was a hitchhiker. Romero was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
  
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• Albuquerque Police seek vehicle in deadly hit-and-run

  08-01-2016 20:15 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Albuquerque Police say they’re looking for a second car involved a deadly hit and run.
  Police say a man was illegally crossing the street near Central and Eubank when a car hit him around 10:30 Thursday night. Police say as he fell, a second car ran him over then took off.
  Police say the man died on scene. Witnesses tell police that second car might have been a white truck.
  
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• Latest storms lead to snowiest Albuquerque winter in a decade

  08-01-2016 20:13 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – More snow around New Mexico Friday. Here in Albuquerque if you’re thinking you can’t remember it snowing often in years, you’re right.
  This is the snowiest start to winter in a decade here in Albuquerque.
  In the Heights as you can see things have calmed down a bit but there’s still snow everywhere. The Northeast Heights isn’t the only place.
  Downtown also had its fair share of snow.
  The snowfall made it difficult for everyone’s morni
  
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• Benghazi Republican ‘hopeful’ that Clinton will be charged

  08-01-2016 20:07
  
  WASHINGTON — A Republican member of the House Benghazi committee says he is “hopeful” that the Justice Department will bring charges against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for having classified information on her private email server. Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas says there is increasing evidence that “an enormous amount of information” on Clinton’s private […]
  
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• Winter storm brings another blast of snow to New Mexico

  08-01-2016 20:06
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — With some parts of the state still digging out from the last winter storm, another blast of snow and cold temperatures is moving across New Mexico. The National Weather Service on Friday issued numerous winter storm warnings and advisories for much of the state. Forecasters say this is the third and coldest […]
  
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• Updated: Winter storm brings another blast of snow to New Mexico

  08-01-2016 20:06
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Another blast of snow and cold temperatures is moving across New Mexico days after some parts of the state are still digging out from the last winter storm. The National Weather Service on Friday issued numerous winter storm warnings and advisories for much of the state. Forecasters say this is the third […]
  
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• State Dep’t misses court deadline for Clinton emails

  08-01-2016 20:06
  
  WASHINGTON — The State Department released Friday another 3,000 pages of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email account, missing a court-ordered goal for their production by a week. The department said that the documents include 65 messages containing information subsequently been deemed “confidential,” the lowest classification. One document contained information determined […]
  
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• Judge: Colo. hitchhiker competent to stand trial for murder

  08-01-2016 20:05
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A Colorado judge has ruled that a hitchhiker accused of fatally stabbing a man who gave him a cross-country ride is mentally fit to stand trial. The Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1S8ms6O ) that Fourth Judicial District Judge Jann P. DuBois ruled Wednesday that 34-year-old Michael Ray understands the murder charge against him, […]
  
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• Singer Justin Bieber asked to leave Mexico’s Tulum ruin site

  08-01-2016 20:04
  
  MEXICO CITY — A Mexican official said Friday that Canadian pop star Justin Bieber and his entourage were asked to leave the Mayan archaeological site of Tulum after he apparently tried to climb onto or among the ruins. The official of the National Institute of Anthropology and History spoke on condition of anonymity because he […]
  
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• Key dates in Mexico’s pursuit of drug lord ‘El Chapo’ Guzman

  08-01-2016 20:04
  
  MEXICO CITY — Key dates in the various pursuits, captures and escapes of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, leader of the Sinaloa cartel, who was captured Friday in Sinaloa: __ June 10, 1993: Mexican authorities announce Guzman’s first capture in Guatemala. ___ 1995: Guzman is convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison. ___ Jan. 19, […]
  
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• Mexican president: Drug lord Chapo Guzman re-arrested

  08-01-2016 19:41 via krqe.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has written in his Twitter account that fugitive drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been recaptured seven months after he escaped from a maximum security prison.
  Pena Nieto wrote in his Twitter account on Friday: “mission accomplished: we have him.”
  
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