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• Intel beats the street again

  14-01-2016 23:56
  
  SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Chip giant Intel turned in a third earnings surprise in a row Thursday, with a strong showing in several emerging product lines but a drop in its bread-and-butter line of PC processors, reflecting declining global sales of personal computers. The Santa Clara chip company reported quarterly earnings of 74 cents a […]
  
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• Albuquerque elementary school gets major makeover

  14-01-2016 23:52 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Because of bonds approved in the past by voters, a 105-year-old school in Albuquerque is getting a major makeover.
  Crews are currently working on Mountain View Elementary School.
  It’s getting a brand new 63,000 square foot cafeteria, kitchen and new classrooms. Renovations will include a media center and a mini-gym too.
  The project will cost more than $21-million and will take about two years.
  
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• Cochiti Pueblo, State make land swap

  14-01-2016 23:47 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A land swap in New Mexico is making both the Cochiti Pueblo and the state happy.
  The state has traded the Old Dixon Apple Orchard and 8,800 acres of state trust land in northern New Mexico to Cochiti Pueblo in exchange for a property in downtown Santa Fe.
  The Garrett’s Desert Inn, which includes the popular restaurant, The Santa Fe Bite, sits on that land. It now becomes the property of the State Land Office.
  The land being given to the pueblo includes sacred anc
  
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• Updated: Southeast Texan arrested in killings of 2 whooping cranes

  14-01-2016 23:46
  
  BEAUMONT, Texas — An 18-year-old man from Southeast Texas was charged Thursday with illegally shooting and killing two whooping cranes, a species which federal officials list as critically endangered. Federal game officials arrested Trey Joseph Frederick the same day at his rural home near Beaumont. Witnesses told state and federal game officials that Frederick shot […]
  
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• Texan arrested in killings of 2 whooping cranes

  14-01-2016 23:46
  
  BEAUMONT, Texas — An 18-year-old Southeast Texas man has been arrested and charged with illegally shooting and killing two whooping cranes, a species which federal officials list as critically endangered. Federal game officials arrested Trey Joseph Frederick on Thursday at his rural home near Beaumont. Witnesses told state and federal game officials that Frederick shot […]
  
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• Prosecutor: Man walked $1.6M in pills across border on sled

  14-01-2016 23:46
  
  BURLINGTON, Vt. — Authorities say a Canadian man was arrested while pulling a sled carrying more than 180 pounds of prescription pills across the border into the United States. The U.S. attorney’s office says 21-year-old Cedrik Bourgault-Morin (bohr-GOH’ moh-RAN’) was apprehended early Wednesday after he crossed the border from Quebec along a railroad line into […]
  
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• Updated: New med school to offer focus on border health

  14-01-2016 23:34
  
  The planned Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine in Las Cruces will have a health policy institute with a special focus on the U.S.-Mexico border.
  
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• New Mexico towns awarded economic revitalization funds

  14-01-2016 23:29 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Seven New Mexico towns have been awarded thousands of dollars for economic revitalization projects.
  Those towns are Artesia, Clovis, Grants, Los Alamos, Mora, Truth or Consequences and Tucumcari.
  The combined $500,000 comes from state main street capital outlay funds.
  Each town had to apply for the money and show how it would help revitalize their town.
  For a breakdown of where the money is going, click here »
  
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• NE Heights assisted living center opens

  14-01-2016 23:21
  
  MorningStar of Albuquerque, a 69-suite assisted living community, is now open.
  
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• Cancer ‘moonshot’ aims to speed fight against No. 2 killer

  14-01-2016 23:19
  
  WASHINGTON — Harking back to America’s triumphant race into space, the Obama administration is launching what it calls a “moonshot” effort to cure cancer. Don’t expect miracles in the administration’s last months in office. “It probably won’t be cured in my lifetime, but I think it’ll be cured in yours,” President Barack Obama told a […]
  
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• The Latest: Utility says it understated carcinogen levels

  14-01-2016 23:18
  
  LOS ANGELES — The latest on a natural gas leak in a Los Angeles neighborhood (all times local): 2:10 p.m. The utility whose leaking natural gas well has driven thousands of Los Angeles residents from their homes says it understated the number of times airborne levels of benzene have spiked over the past three months. […]
  
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• Albuquerque man gets life in prison in fatal 2012 shooting

  14-01-2016 23:18
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An Albuquerque man has been sentenced to life in prison plus 18 years in connection with a fatal shooting in 2012. Prosecutors say Jason Nowicki’s sentencing Thursday also addressed his other pending cases for kidnapping and trafficking in methamphetamine. Authorities say 54-year-old Eduardo Quintana was gunned down in November 2012 at his […]
  
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• State lawmaker pushing to give all college grads a chance to teach

  14-01-2016 23:09 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A state lawmaker thinks New Mexico should allow all college graduates to become teachers, not just those who specialize in education.
  Representative Conrad James filed legislation on Thursday that would allow any professional with at least a bachelor’s degree to teach part time in New Mexico without having to go back to school to get a teaching degree.
  James says it would help recruit people with more work experience, something that could help enhance the educati
  
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• New Mexico Game Commission denies Turner ranch a wolf permit

  14-01-2016 22:57 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – The New Mexico Game Commission has denied an appeal by the Turner Ladder Ranch for a permit to host Mexican wolves as part of a federal species recovery program.
  Thursday’s unanimous decision caps a nearly eight-month saga in which the southwest New Mexico ranch owned by media mogul Ted Turner tried to convince the commission to reconsider its original denial in May.
  The permit had been in place 17 years.
  The Albuquerque Journal reports commission members inv
  
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• GoPro stock tumbles after weak camera sales

  14-01-2016 22:44
  
  NEW YORK — GoPro had a rough holiday season. The maker of wearable cameras, used by mountain climbers, surfers and other extreme sports fans, said late Wednesday that sales of its devices were weak even as it cut the price of its latest camera in half. The San Mateo, California, company also said it will […]
  
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• Albuquerque man sentenced for defrauding food stamps program

  14-01-2016 22:32 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – An Albuquerque man has been sentenced to four years of probation and ordered to pay more than $8,300 in restitution for defrauding the federal food stamp program.
  Federal prosecutors say 47-year-old Wilfredo Lopez was sentenced Thursday.
  He was one of six defendants charged in a 32-count indictment in August 2014 with the unauthorized use of food stamp benefits from September 2009 to May 2010.
  One of the defendants worked as a family assistance analyst for the Inco
  
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• Man sentenced to prison in fatal crash in New Mexico

  14-01-2016 22:30 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – A Utah man has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for involuntary manslaughter in New Mexico.
  Federal prosecutors say 33-year-old Bradford J. Billy, of West Jordan, was sentenced Thursday in Albuquerque to a 46-month prison term followed by three years of supervised release.
  Billy was arrested in December 2014 on a criminal complaint.
  Authorities say a passenger in a car Billy was driving died following a crash in New Mexico’s San Juan Coun
  
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• Burlington is hiring in ABQ

  14-01-2016 22:30
  
  Burlington will hold job fairs next week in advance of opening a new store at Central and Atrisco in March.
  
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• Stranded Cuban migrants make plans to cross Mexico

  14-01-2016 22:19
  
  MEXICO CITY — Nearly 200 Cuban migrants who recently arrived in southern Mexico after being stranded several months in Costa Rica began making plans on Thursday to travel to the border with the United States. Migrant Manuel Rivero Oliva, reached by telephone early Thursday at a hotel in the southern city of Tapachula, said he […]
  
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• Nambé Pueblo’s ‘convenient’ roadside casino opens on Sunday

  14-01-2016 22:04
  
  Nambé Pueblo will open the doors to its first casino starting Sunday. The Nambé Falls Casino is smaller than its existing competitors – at 7,310 square feet – and has 180 slot machines. A news release calls it “a boutique space” with “one of the most elegant gaming floors in the region” and the most […]
  
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• Arizona’s 2 most populous cities had fewer homicides in 2015

  14-01-2016 22:04
  
  PHOENIX — Arizona’s two most populous cities saw drops in the number of homicides in 2015, with Tucson police taking a hands-on approach on emergency medical care and Phoenix police saying things that help take criminals off the street could be contributing factors. According to preliminary figures, Phoenix had 113 homicides in 2015, down from […]
  
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• Another teen charged in murder plot at Denver-area school

  14-01-2016 22:04
  
  CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Two 16-year-old girls have now been charged as adults in an alleged plot to kill classmates at a suburban Denver high school. Prosecutors on Thursday charged Brooke Higgins with two counts of conspiracy to commit murder, saying she researched places where teens could by guns online. Higgins wrote in her journal […]
  
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• The Latest: Video of 2013 Chicago police shooting released

  14-01-2016 22:03
  
  CHICAGO — The latest on the fatal police shootings in Chicago (all times local): 2:55 p.m. Attorneys for the family of a 17-year-old black carjacking suspect shot dead by a white Chicago police officer have released surveillance video showing the January 2013 killing. A federal judge on Thursday lifted a protective order that had barred […]
  
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• Arizona lotto director quits amid questions about state car

  14-01-2016 22:03
  
  PHOENIX — The director of the Arizona State Lottery has resigned after it was revealed that he used a state vehicle for personal use. Gov. Doug Ducey’s office says Tony Bouie quit Wednesday. Spokesman Daniel Scarpinato says Bouie stepped down “in the best interests of the state.” The resignation follows a Phoenix New Times article […]
  
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• Utah man sentenced to prison in fatal crash in New Mexico

  14-01-2016 21:56
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Utah man has been sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison for involuntary manslaughter in New Mexico. Federal prosecutors say 33-year-old Bradford J. Billy, of West Jordan, was sentenced Thursday in Albuquerque to a 46-month prison term followed by three years of supervised release. Billy was arrested in December 2014 […]
  
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• Texas woman charged with neglecting dozens of dogs, horses

  14-01-2016 21:56
  
  DALLAS — A Dallas-area woman faces animal cruelty charges after authorities seized more than 40 dogs and eight horses at her property. Dallas County jail records show Melinda Vinzant was being held without bond Thursday on charges of cruelty to livestock animals and cruelty to non-livestock animals. She’s also facing several warrants related to outside […]
  
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• Updated: Documents outline details of Ducey’s border strike force

  14-01-2016 21:55
  
  PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s new border strike force will be phased in over several years and start with a smuggling interdiction force before adding an investigations team and then a team dedicated to operating in remote areas, according to a written plan obtained by The Associated Press. The Department of Public Safety plan […]
  
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• 4 arrested in robbery-assault that led to fatal shooting

  14-01-2016 20:34
  
  Albuquerque police say two young men and two teenagers are accused of participating in a Dec. 11 robbery-assault in which the 16-year-old victim fatally shot one of his alleged attackers.
  
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• Groups prepare immigrants for possible raids in New Mexico

  14-01-2016 20:33 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – Advocacy groups in New Mexico said Thursday they were preparing immigrant families for possible raids by federal authorities targeting people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.
  No raids have been reported so far in the state but sweeps elsewhere in the country, including Texas, have raised concerns.
  Albuquerque-based El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos said activists were holding workshops to educate immigrants about their rights.
  “Although we have not seen an
  
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• $84M CNM bond would go to safety, campus improvements

  14-01-2016 20:23 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – CNM is hoping voters approve a multi-million dollar bond for upgrades across its campus. The $84 million would go to improving the busiest building on the main campus, Max Salazar Hall.
  Other changes would include the installation of safety and wayfinding signs to create a safer environment for students and staff.
  Right now, homeowners in the school’s district who have houses worth $200,000 pay about $35 a year on property tax. The bond would bump that up to just
  
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• I-25 reopens after morning rollover crash

  14-01-2016 20:18
  
  Northbound lanes of Interstate 25 have reopened at the Sunport.
  
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• Therapist takes stand in hearing for teen who killed family

  14-01-2016 20:16 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – The therapist for a teen who killed his family took the stand Thursday during a hearing to see if the now 18-year-old should be sentenced as an adult.
  Nehemiah Griego admits to killing his parents and three younger siblings when he was 15 years old. He’s lived at an Albuquerque psychiatric facility for the last year and a half and his defense thinks he should stay in one, not be sent to prison for the rest of his life.
  His therapist, Chery Laiken, said Griego was
  
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• Teen who killed family told stories about gang shootings

  14-01-2016 20:16 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A therapist and a psychiatrist, who have worked with the teen who killed his family, took the stand Thursday during a hearing to see if the now 18-year-old should be sentenced as an adult.
  Nehemiah Griego admitted to killing his parents and three younger siblings when he was 15 years old.
  Before that, however, his attorneys say he never got into any trouble.
  Only, that’s not what Griego himself was telling people, like the psychiatrists evaluating his m
  
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• Albuquerque mayor pushes “return to work” legislation

  14-01-2016 20:15 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Albuquerque’s mayor is once again pushing the controversial idea of letting retired police officers come back to work while collecting their pension. He calls the practice known as “double-dipping”, “return to work”.
  New Mexico did have “return to work” for 23 years but in 2010 lawmakers voted it away.
  The mayor says it needs to come back to help fill his understaffed police department.
  In a packed conference room Thursday, May
  
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• New Mexico to sue EPA over mine spill

  14-01-2016 19:55 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – New Mexico officials said Thursday they plan to sue the federal government and the owners of two Colorado mines that were the source of a massive spill last year that contaminated rivers in three Western states.
  The New Mexico Environment Department said it filed a notice of its intention to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over last year’s spill. The lawsuit would be a first and also would target the state of Colorado and the owners of the Gold King an
  
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• New Mexico resident wins $100K Powerball prize

  14-01-2016 19:54 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Although no one in New Mexico won the Powerball jackpot, not everyone will be walking away empty handed.
  One lucky winner matched four white balls and the Powerball with the power play option, doubling the prize to $100,000.
  Nine others matched four white balls and the Powerball for $50,000. Thousands more won smaller cash prizes of $4 to $200.
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• Breaking: APD: Five young people arrested in beating that led to fatal self-defense shooting

  14-01-2016 19:44
  
  Albuquerque police have arrested two teenage boys, two young men and a young woman they say beat a 16-year-old boy before he shot and killed one of his attackers outside a home in Southwest Albuquerque late last year, according to a police spokesman. Officer Tanner Tixier said Juaquin Portillo, 21, Derek Muniz, 20, Ivan Veleta, […]
  
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• Breaking: New Mexico to sue EPA over mine spill

  14-01-2016 19:40
  
  New Mexico officials say they plan to sue the federal government and the owners of two Colorado mines that were the source of a massive spill that contaminated rivers in three Western states. The New Mexico Environment Department says it filed a notice Thursday of its intention to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over […]
  
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• Sheriff says 1 of its own stole property

  14-01-2016 19:36
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. — The Pima County Sheriff’s Department says it has arrested a former burglary detective accused of stealing items from evidence. The sheriff’s department said that authorities arrested 55-year-old David Tarnow in the San Diego area on Monday on charges of trafficking in stolen property, fraudulent schemes, theft and theft by extortion. Tarnow has […]
  
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• Fort Bragg no longer accepting IDs from 5 states including NM

  14-01-2016 19:35
  
  FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Some visitors to Fort Bragg will no longer be able to enter with just a driver’s license as identification. Fort Bragg Garrison spokesman Tom McCollum says the military base in North Carolina has begun enforcing the REAL ID Act, a 10-year-old law meant to help prevent the use of fake identification. […]
  
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• Prosecutor: Suspect confessed in prison drone case

  14-01-2016 19:34
  
  CUMBERLAND, Md. — A prosecutor says a Maryland man confessed to participating in a prison smuggling ring that used a drone to fly contraband into a maximum-security state prison. Assistant State’s Attorney Erich Bean gave his opening statement Thursday in the trial of 25-year-old Thaddeus Shortz of Knoxville. Shortz faces 35 counts in what police […]
  
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• Fewer than 100 Guantanamo prisoners left as 10 leave to Oman

  14-01-2016 19:25
  
  MIAMI — Ten prisoners from Yemen who were held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have been released and sent to the Middle Eastern nation of Oman for resettlement, officials said Thursday, portraying it as a significant milestone in the long-stalled effort to shutter the offshore detention center. The release, among the largest on a single day […]
  
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• Rare January hurricane forms in Atlantic, threatens Azores

  14-01-2016 19:17
  
  MIAMI — A rare January hurricane formed far out in the Atlantic on Thursday, and U.S. officials said it was the first hurricane to form in the month of January since 1938. Hurricane Alex’s maximum sustained winds were near 85 mph (140 kph). A hurricane warning was issued for Portugal’s mid-Atlantic Azores Islands, where the […]
  
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• N. Korea slams World Economic Forum for revoking invitation

  14-01-2016 19:16
  
  SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Thursday criticized organizers of the World Economic Forum in Davos for revoking an invitation to its delegation in the wake of a nuclear test. The WEF sent an invitation to North Korea last autumn but withdrew it after Pyongyang defiantly conducted what it called a hydrogen bomb test […]
  
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• Crime, education steer legislative agenda in New Mexico

  14-01-2016 19:16 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE (AP) – New Mexico lawmakers are confronting heightened concerns about violent crime, a weak economy and lackluster schools as they convene for a 30-day budget legislative session.
  The session begins Tuesday against a potentially acrimonious political backdrop, with the Republican-controlled House and Democratic Senate both up for election in November.
  Republican Gov. Susana Martinez has wide discretion over what bills are heard and has indicated a focus on public safety effor
  
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• APD working to ID 2 suspects in skate park shooting

  14-01-2016 18:41
  
  The New York Times is coming to Albuquerque to talk about gun violence and a shooting at a skate park, where seven people were shot.
  
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• Gov’t watchdog: Many gaps in FDA’s oversight of drug safety

  14-01-2016 18:34 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration is working hard to speed up reviews of new drugs, yet often fails to keep track of safety issues with those medicines once they reach patients, according to government investigators.
  A new Government Accountability Office report outlines a host of shortcomings in FDA’s system for tracking drug safety, including incomplete, outdated and inaccurate information.
  The new findings are significant because FDA leadership have stressed the s
  
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• Santa Fe deputies: Man ran over, killed woman

  14-01-2016 18:24
  
  Santa Fe County deputies give the latest on the homicide of a local mother.
  
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• 5 arrested after shooting death of Albuquerque man

  14-01-2016 18:19 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Police say five people have been arrested after the December 2015 shooting that left a 20-year-old Albuquerque man dead. APD says they’ve determined the death was part of a drug deal gone bad.
  It happened on December 11 in the 1100 block of Blazick Street SW. Police say officers were dispatched to the scene where they found 20-year-old Joshua Garcia with a gunshot wound to the chest. Garcia was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
  Albuquerque Police
  
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• 4 arrested after shooting death of Albuquerque man

  14-01-2016 18:19 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Police say four people have been arrested after the December 2015 shooting that left a 20-year-old Albuquerque man dead.
  It happened on December 11 in the 1100 block of Blazick Street SW. Police say officers were dispatched to the scene where they found 20-year-old Joshua Garcia with a gunshot wound to the chest. Garcia was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
  Albuquerque Police say during their investigation they found 16-year-old Carl Mather. Mather said
  
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