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• Woman paints mega message to Taco Bell on fence

  18-01-2016 23:57 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – An Albuquerque woman is angry, and she wants you to know it. That’s why she’s painted a mega message on her fence, targeting Taco Bell.
  “It began on November the 16th with the dumpster that they had parked right there at the edge of the alley that they were dropping debris into,” Kathy Wiley explained.
  Wiley lives next to the bustling construction site of a soon-to-be Taco Bell at 4th and Palo Duro, and she’s not happy.
  She says ever since
  
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• Updated: Support leg breaks as SpaceX rocket lands on ocean barge

  18-01-2016 23:57
  
  LOS ANGELES — After successfully delivering a U.S.-European ocean-monitoring satellite into orbit, a Space X rocket made a hard landing on a floating barge in the roiling Pacific, breaking a support leg and toppling over. SpaceX announcers said the first stage of the Falcon 9 was not upright after reaching the 300-by-170 foot landing pad […]
  
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• Dunkin’ Donuts kicks off ABQ expansion

  18-01-2016 23:54
  
  Dunkin’ Donuts has made some progress in its large-scale Albuquerque expansion plan. The company has zeroed in on a site for the first of the nine new locations it has planned for the area, according to a Dunkin’ Donuts brand representative. Franchisee NMR, LLC is working on putting the store on Juan Tabo NE, just […]
  
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• Minivan smashes into Texas Chanel store, 6 suspects detained

  18-01-2016 23:52
  
  DALLAS — Police have detained seven robbery suspects, two of whom are juveniles, after a minivan smashed into a Dallas-area Chanel (shuh-NEL’) boutique and about 50 pricey purses were stolen. Some of the high-end bags, known for selling at thousands of dollars apiece, ended up scattered on a street Monday morning. Highland Park police Lt. […]
  
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• City of Albuquerque fights senior hunger with food pantry

  18-01-2016 23:52 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – The City of Albuquerque hosted a senior food pantry on Monday morning to help combat senior hunger.
  “People can go around, get a bag and pick what they want to,” said Ida Gonzales.
  Gonzales, along with dozens of other elderly residents, attended the event at the Barelas Senior Center.
  “Nobody is telling them what to take. They get to choose like if they were shopping at a grocery store,” said Albuquerque Department of Senior Affairs Directo
  
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• “Space wafers” made on parabolic flights

  18-01-2016 23:48
  
  ABQ startup creates microgravity environment to heal defective semiconductor wafers
  
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• Updated: Eagles co-founder Glenn Frey, who sang ‘Take It Easy,’ dies

  18-01-2016 23:44
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Glenn Frey, who co-founded the Eagles and with Don Henley became one of history's most successful…
  
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• Updated: Ted Cruz says Donald Trump becoming ‘rattled’ by his gains

  18-01-2016 23:33
  
  WASHINGTON, N.H. — Ted Cruz on Monday accused his Republican rival Donald Trump of not being a trustworthy conservative and said the billionaire investor is becoming “rattled” and “dismayed” by his gains. Both Cruz and Trump were campaigning Monday in New Hampshire, which holds the second contest in the country’s critical primary season. The war […]
  
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• Ted Cruz says Donald Trump becoming ‘rattled’ by his gains

  18-01-2016 23:33
  
  WASHINGTON, N.H. — Ted Cruz accused his Republican rival Donald Trump Monday of exhibiting inconsistent conservatism and said the billionaire investor is becoming “rattled” and “dismayed” by his gains. Both Cruz and Trump were campaigning Monday in New Hampshire, which holds the second contest in the country’s critical primary season. The war of words between […]
  
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• Germany: 1st suspect held over Cologne sex assaults

  18-01-2016 23:23
  
  BERLIN — Authorities in Germany have arrested a 26-year-old Algerian man on suspicion of committing a sexual assault in Cologne during New Year’s celebrations. Cologne prosecutors said Monday the unidentified asylum-seeker was arrested at a refugee home in the nearby town of Kerpen over the weekend. The man is the first person to be held […]
  
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• Effort to curb overuse of antibiotics amid cold, flu seasons

  18-01-2016 23:16 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s cold season and the miserable trudge in seeking antibiotics because of mucus turned green, or the cough has nagged for weeks.
  Despite years of warnings, doctors still overprescribe antibiotics for acute respiratory infections even though most are caused by viruses that those drugs cannot help.
  Now doctors are getting new tips on how to avoid unnecessary antibiotics for these common complaints — and to withstand the patient who’s demanding one.
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• New Mexico boy grows 14 pound veggie, wins scholarship money

  18-01-2016 23:01 via krqe.com
  
  CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – One New Mexico boy has a very green thumb.
  Nine-year-old Kaleb Rodriguez grew a 14 pound head of cabbage last season. The Pate Elementary School student received a $1,000 scholarship from Bonnie Plants for growing the cabbage.
  “I watered it, and I brought it in at night,” he said.
  Rodriguez was presented his scholarship at a school assembly and the spokeswoman for the New Mexico Department of Agriculture, Katie Goetz, was there. “Any one of you cou
  
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• Biden thanks Swiss president for support on Iran

  18-01-2016 23:01 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden has thanked Switzerland’s president for his country’s role in tense negotiations over the fate of Americans held in Iran.
  Switzerland helped secure the release over the weekend of four Americans whom Iran had detained for years. A Swiss aircraft flew some of them out of the country Sunday.
  The Swiss government acts as the “protecting power” for the U.S. in Iran. The United States and Iran do not have formal diplomatic relat
  
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• Utah officer was paying off cancer bills when he was killed

  18-01-2016 22:52 via krqe.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The veteran Utah police officer who was shot to death over the weekend was working overtime to pay for his cancer treatments when he encountered a fugitive who went missing from a drug rehab center for parolees, officials said.
  Unified police officer Douglas Scott Barney, 44, had been on the force 18 years when he encountered Cory Lee Henderson, 31, Sunday morning in a residential area near a church in the suburb of Holladay, about 8 miles southeast of downtown Salt L
  
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• New Mexico man takes plea deal after digging up pottery

  18-01-2016 22:12 via krqe.com
  
  DEMING, N.M. (KRQE) – A Deming man is in trouble for digging up pottery on federal land.
  Michael Quarrel, 81, took a plea deal and plead guilty to violating the Archaeological Resource Protection Act.
  Prosecutors say he took pieces of pottery from BLM land in Luna County.
  The agreement says Quarrel will be sentenced to two years’ probation and must pay more than $4,000 for disrupting the site.
  He will also be banned from BLM lands for two years. Quarrel’s sentencing hearing is
  
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• Here’s help for health insurance sign-ups

  18-01-2016 22:12
  
  The state health exchange will offer help this weekend for those who want to buy insurance for 2016. The deadlines for signing up for an exchange-based plan is Jan. 31. Both sessions will be Saturday at Taylor Ranch library, 5700 Bogart NW. The first will be at 1 p.m., and the second at 4 p.m. […]
  
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• New location for Entrepreneurial Office Hours

  18-01-2016 22:09
  
  The free weekly mentoring session will move from the Verge building on Commercial Street to the Epicenter @ Innovate ABQ on Broadway.
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Dirt bike, ATV riders swarm South Florida roads

  18-01-2016 22:07
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. — The latest on rallies, marches and speeches honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (all times local): 5 p.m. Dozens of dirt bike and all-terrain vehicle riders are swamping major South Florida roads for the second Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in a row. Police in Miami-Dade and Broward counties say they’re […]
  
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• Hobbs child in critical condition after struck by car

  18-01-2016 22:07 via krqe.com
  
  HOBBS, N.M. (KRQE) – A Hobbs child is hospitalized after being hit by a car.
  Police say just before noon Saturday, officers responded to an alleyway in the 2900 block of North Morris and found the 4-year-old injured.
  He was taken to the hospital and at last check is in critical condition.
  Police are still investigating, but say they don’t believe charges will be filed against the driver.
  
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• Calls for boycott of Oscars grow over diversity of nominees

  18-01-2016 21:57 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards are growing over the Oscars’ second straight year of all-white acting nominees, as Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith each said Monday that they will not attend this year’s ceremony.
  In a lengthy Instagram post, Lee said he “cannot support” the “lily white” Oscars. Noting that he was writing on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lee — who in November was given an honorary Oscar at the Governors Award
  
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• ‘American Pie’ singer arrested on domestic violence charge

  18-01-2016 21:52 via krqe.com
  
  CAMDEN, Maine (AP) — “American Pie” singer Don McLean was arrested on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge Monday in Maine, a jail supervisor said.
  McLean was arrested and posted $10,000 bail early Monday at the Knox County Jail, Cpl. Brad Woll said.
  The singer-songwriter lives in the town of Camden. A message left for the police chief there by The Associated Press was not immediately returned.
  Woll said he did not know if McLean, 70, had a lawyer. Messages seeking comment we
  
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• NM bankruptcy filings drop in 2015

  18-01-2016 21:43
  
  The five-year trend of dropping bankruptcies is generally considered a sign of a slow economy, when consumer confidence and credit availability tend to be low.
  
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• Holloman Air Force Base to shelter immigrant children

  18-01-2016 21:42 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Holloman Air Force Base is set to offer temporary shelter for hundreds of immigrant children from Central America as federal officials prepare for an influx of immigrants expected in the spring and summer of 2016.
  The Albuquerque Journal reports that Holloman Air Force Base plans to house as many as 400 children beginning in January.
  The children are set to be housed in a vacant building on base previously used by the 4th Space Surveillance Squadron.
  U.S. Defense S
  
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• Vatican commits to slavery-proofing its own supply chains

  18-01-2016 21:41
  
  ROME — The Vatican says it will ensure that its supply chains don’t use forced labor after a forum of some of the world’s biggest supermarket chains and food manufacturers announced new efforts to slave-proof their own supply chains. Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican’s top finance official, unveiled the new policy at a gathering Sunday […]
  
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• Abduction of Americans in Iraq raises fears about security

  18-01-2016 21:37
  
  BAGHDAD — The abduction of three Americans from a Baghdad apartment over the weekend is the latest in a series of brazen high-profile kidnappings undermining confidence in the Iraqi government’s ability to control state-sanctioned Shiite militias that have grown in strength as Iraqi security forces battle the Islamic State group. Witnesses said men in uniform […]
  
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• Nigeria: Minister alleges $9 billion stolen from economy

  18-01-2016 21:30
  
  LAGOS, Nigeria — Fifty-five people, including former governors, Cabinet ministers and government workers, stole $9 billion dollars from Nigeria’s treasury, the information minister said Monday. Lai Mohammed made the allegations as he kicked off a “national sensitization campaign,” appealing to Nigerians to join the fight against corruption that is crippling what should be a rich […]
  
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• Updated: First lady, school meal directors may be headed for truce

  18-01-2016 21:26
  
  WASHINGTON — A bipartisan Senate bill released Monday would revise healthier meal standards put into place over the last few years to give schools more flexibility in what they serve the nation’s schoolchildren, easing requirements on whole grains and delaying an upcoming deadline to cut sodium levels on the lunch line. While the legislation would […]
  
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• NYC deal reached to keep some horse-drawn carriages

  18-01-2016 21:25
  
  NEW YORK — A deal to reduce the number of horse-drawn carriages in New York City and permanently move stables to Central Park will now go to the City Council for approval in a compromise between the drivers and Mayor Bill de Blasio, who had pledged to end the popular rides. The mayor, the union […]
  
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• Report: High school dismissed warning signs before shooting

  18-01-2016 21:23
  
  DENVER — Administrators at a suburban Denver high school dismissed increasingly obvious warning signs that a troubled student was a threat before he killed a classmate and himself two years ago, a report released Monday shows. Arapahoe High School staff poorly gauged the rising threat Karl Pierson, 18, posed months before he stormed the school […]
  
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• Man dies in crash while taking pregnant wife to hospital

  18-01-2016 21:23
  
  FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A Colorado man driving his pregnant wife to the hospital to deliver their third child crashed and died after apparently suffering some kind of medical problem. The Colorado State Patrol says 37-year-old Tony Schmucker died after his Nissan Pathfinder went off the road and down an embankment west of Fort Collins […]
  
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• Juveniles assault guards at detention center in Prescott

  18-01-2016 21:23
  
  PHOENIX — Several juveniles are accused of assaulting detention officers during a riot at the Yavapai County Juvenile Detention Center in Prescott. Presiding Judge David L. Mackey of Yavapai County Superior Court says in statement that three juveniles wrecked an area inside the detention center, tried to escape and attacked three officers Sunday before authorities […]
  
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• US Congressmen in Germany to meet Americans released by Iran

  18-01-2016 21:22
  
  LANDSTUHL, Germany — Three U.S. Congressmen traveled Monday to the medical center in Germany where three Americans, released by Iran as part of a prisoner swap, are being treated. Former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati, Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian and pastor Saeed Abedini arrived late Sunday at the U.S. military’s Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. “This […]
  
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• Pope to visit prison in once-infernal Mexico border city

  18-01-2016 21:22
  
  CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The cold, dust-blown prison yard where inmates are welding a new steel bell tower for the Feb. 17 visit of Pope Francis is a microcosm of the changes that have brought hope to the once-infernal border city of Ciudad Juarez, both inside and outside the walls. Some see the pontiff’s visit […]
  
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• Analysis: Iran deals may not herald rapid changes

  18-01-2016 21:22
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The lifting of crippling international sanctions linked to Iran’s nuclear program and the flurry of diplomacy that led to the release of Americans held by Tehran suggests a new era could be dawning. But anyone hoping for rapid change is likely to be disappointed. President Hassan Rouhani and his team […]
  
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• Uber partners with Airbus for Sundance helicopter rides

  18-01-2016 20:09
  
  Uber has already taken over the roads in most major cities. Now it’s getting ready to take over the skies this week at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The San Francisco company is partnering with aircraft manufacturer Airbus Group SE for a pilot program that will let Sundance attendees hail a helicopter […]
  
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• AP EXPLAINS: What Congress can do about Puerto Rico’s debt

  18-01-2016 20:09
  
  WASHINGTON — Puerto Rico’s $72 billion public debt crisis has forced congressional leaders to pay attention to a U.S. territory that’s usually on the sidelines of American politics. The island has been mired in economic stagnation for nearly a decade. The governor now says Puerto Rico’s debt is unpayable and needs restructuring. The White House […]
  
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• APD: Intruder falls asleep in 10-year-old's bed

  18-01-2016 19:55
  
  Albuquerque police said a man was arrested after he broke into a 10-year-old girl’s room and fell asleep in her bed.
  
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• Santa Fe chef takes second place in TV competition

  18-01-2016 19:40 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE (KRQE) – A Santa Fe chef is celebrating a second-place finish on a national TV show competition.
  Marc Quinones, who works luminaria at Santa Fe’s Inn and Spa at Loretto, went up against three other chefs on the Food Network’s “Cutthroat Kitchen.”
  Contestants try to whip up their best dish and they also have the option to use up to $25,000 in prize money to sabotage their opponents. For example, during one challenge Quinones had to ride around on a gian
  
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• Updated: UK lawmakers slam Trump, but most oppose banning him

  18-01-2016 19:39
  
  LONDON — Donald Trump doesn’t have many fans in Britain’s Parliament. But a debate among lawmakers on calls to ban Trump from the country revealed little appetite to close Britain’s doors to the provocative Republican U.S. presidential contender. During a three-hour debate Monday, legislators from Britain’s main parties stood to call Trump an attention-seeker, a […]
  
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• Facing primary fight from Sanders, Clinton embraces Obama

  18-01-2016 19:35
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. — Facing fresh campaign anxieties, Hillary Clinton is attaching herself to President Barack Obama, hoping to overcome liberal enthusiasm for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders with a full-throated embrace of her one-time rival and boss. Central to that strategy: shoring up her standing with African-American voters who helped make Obama the first black president […]
  
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• Gov. Snyder: Clinton politicizing Flint’s water crisis

  18-01-2016 19:32 via krqe.com
  
  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is making Flint’s water crisis a political issue.
  Clinton said during Sunday’s Democratic debate that Snyder has “acted as though he didn’t really care” about the crisis.
  But Snyder told The Detroit News on Monday after speaking at a Martin Luther King Day event in Flint that “politicizing the issue doesn’t help matters.”
  The Republican also rei
  
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• Updated: Calls for boycott of Oscars grow over diversity of nominees

  18-01-2016 19:31
  
  NEW YORK — Calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards are growing over the Oscars’ second straight year of all-white acting nominees, as Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith each said Monday that they will not attend this year’s ceremony. In a lengthy Instagram post, Lee said he “cannot support” the “lily white” Oscars. […]
  
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• Wheelchair basketball tourney takes over Duke City

  18-01-2016 19:12
  
  The annual Duke City Classic wheelchair basketball tournament returned to Albuquerque over the weekend.
  
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• Texan charged with sex assault in death of girlfriend’s son

  18-01-2016 18:58
  
  GATESVILLE, Texas — A Central Texas man has been charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child over the death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son. Coryell County jail records show 27-year-old Chet Shelton of Gatesville was being held Monday on $500,000 bond. Shelton, who was arrested Sunday, was held without bond on a warrant in […]
  
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• More quakes rattle Oklahoma but state avoids tough measures

  18-01-2016 18:58
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY — In Oklahoma, now the country’s earthquake capital, people are talking nervously about the big one as man-made quakes get stronger, more frequent and closer to major population centers. Next door in Kansas, they’re feeling on firmer ground though no one is ready yet to declare victory. A year ago, the states had […]
  
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• Updated: Man breaks into 13-year-old’s bedroom, falls asleep, police say

  18-01-2016 18:54
  
  A man was arrested this morning after police say he broke into a Northwest Albuquerque home and climbed onto a 13-year-old’s bed, where he fell asleep. Officer Simon Drobik said a family member called police around 7:15 a.m. saying a man had climbed into their home on the 500 block of McKnight NW near I-40 […]
  
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• Man breaks into 13-year-old’s bedroom, falls asleep, police say

  18-01-2016 18:54
  
  A man was arrested this morning after police say he broke into a Northwest Albuquerque home and climbed onto a 13-year-old’s bed, where he fell asleep. Officer Simon Drobik said a family member called police around 7:15 a.m. saying a man had climbed into their home on the 500 block of McKnight NW near I-40 […]
  
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• SpaceX: Ice buildup may have led rocket to tip over

  18-01-2016 18:53 via krqe.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The latest on the launch of an ocean-monitoring satellite from California:
  Elon Musk has posted a video on his Instagram account of the moment SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket landed on a floating ocean barge, toppled over and exploded into pieces.
  The rocket made the hard landing Sunday after launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base, northwest of Los Angeles, and successfully delivering an ocean-monitoring satellite into orbit.
  Musk tweeted that the lockout collet on one
  
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• APD: Intruder falls asleep in teen’s bed

  18-01-2016 18:52
  
  Albuquerque police said a man was arrested after he broke into a 13-year-old girl’s room and fell asleep in her bed.
  
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• Senate to consider stricter screening for Syrian refugees

  18-01-2016 18:51 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate will consider rigorous new screening procedures for Syrian and Iraqi refugees seeking to enter the United States as national security looms large for voters in an election year.
  Propelled by the Islamic State group’s attacks in Paris, the GOP-backed legislation raced through the House last November with 289 votes. That veto-proof margin included 47 Democrats despite the Obama administration’s opposition to the measure.
  The legislation will have a mu
  
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