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• El Faro was on Coast Guard list of at-risk vessels

  22-02-2016 23:59
  
  The El Faro sank just before it was to be added to a Coast Guard list of vessels identified as having the most “potential for risk,” a designation that would have triggered more safety inspections. The El Faro was to be included on the so-called “targeting list,” which compiled the top 10 percent of ships […]
  
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• Food Stamp schemer gets year in prison, must repay $181,000

  22-02-2016 23:54
  
  A former state employee responsible for determining applicant eligibility for Food Stamps was senten ...
  
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• Woman in coma after alleged Craigslist roommate attack

  22-02-2016 23:41 via krqe.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida woman is hospitalized in a coma after she was allegedly attacked by a roommate she recently found on Craigslist.
  Court records show 35-year-old Byron Mitchell is jailed on attempted murder charges in the Valentine’s Day attack on 23-year-old Danielle Jones. Mitchell has entered a written not guilty plea.
  According to a Miami police report, Mitchell claims it was self-defense and that Jones came at him with a knife. Jones suffered numerous slashes and brui
  
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• The Latest: Clinton leads Sanders in race for delegates

  22-02-2016 23:25
  
  LAS VEGAS — The Latest on the 2016 presidential race a day before the Republican caucuses in Nevada. South Carolina Democrats vote for their presidential nominee on Saturday (all times local): 5:10 p.m. Hillary Clinton has pulled ahead of Bernie Sanders in the race for delegates awarded in primaries and caucuses. Clinton eked out the […]
  
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• Panama flying 500 Cuban migrants to Juarez for US entry

  22-02-2016 23:16
  
  PANAMA CITY — Panama is planning to fly to Mexico this week some 500 Cuban migrants stranded on their way to the United States. A Foreign Ministry statement issued Monday says the migrants will be flown to Ciudad Juarez on the U.S.-Mexico border. From there, they are expected to enter the U.S. The flow of […]
  
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• 3 charged will plotting to kill NM prison boss

  22-02-2016 23:10
  
  Members of a New Mexico prison gang are accused of plotting to kill the head of the state’s corrections department, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
  
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• Oregon investigates complaints vs. sheriff who met occupiers

  22-02-2016 23:08
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon agency that licenses police officers has asked the state attorney general’s office to investigate complaints about a local sheriff who met with some of the armed occupiers who seized a national wildlife preserve. The Department of Public Safety Standards and Training received more than a half-dozen complaints about Grant County […]
  
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• Obama send Congress $1.9B request to combat Zika virus

  22-02-2016 23:08
  
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Monday sent lawmakers an official $1.9 billion request to combat the spread of the Zika virus in Latin America and the U.S. He is also requesting flexibility to use a limited portion of leftover funds provided in 2014 to fight Ebola to take on Zika, which has been linked to […]
  
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• Man released from death row sues for wrongful conviction

  22-02-2016 23:07
  
  HOUSTON — A former death row inmate has filed a request for almost $2 million in state compensation saying he spent more than 12 years in prison because he was wrongfully convicted of murder. Alfred Dewayne Brown filed the request Monday. The 33-year-old Houston man was released in June after spending nearly a decade on […]
  
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• Chandler woman accused of leaving young son at a supermarket

  22-02-2016 23:07
  
  CHANDLER, Ariz. — A Chandler woman is accused of child abuse after allegedly leaving her 2-year-old son at a supermarket in Gilbert. Authorities say 20-year-old Maria Carranza was arrested Sunday. Bond was set at $2,000 at Carranza’s initial court appearance Monday. She doesn’t have an attorney yet. Gilbert police say they picked up a toddler […]
  
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• Bill Richardson to help Clinton in Texas

  22-02-2016 23:07
  
  Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is heading to Texas to campaign on behalf of Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Gov. Martinez formally requests REAL ID waiver

  22-02-2016 23:06
  
  New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has formally requested a waiver from federal REAL ID requirements after state lawmakers passed a bill to revise the state's driver's license law.
  
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• Olympic gold medalist Ross opts out of run for 2016 team

  22-02-2016 23:02
  
  Kyla Ross sensed the motivation waning. Still, the youngest member of the 2012 U.S. women’s gymnastics team that soared to gold in London kept on training, urged by national team coordinator Martha Karolyi to press on toward the 2016 games. One last trip to the Karolyi Ranch just north of Houston with the rest of […]
  
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• Pistons rescind 3-player, 3-team deal with Rockets and 76ers

  22-02-2016 22:49
  
  AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — The Detroit Pistons rescinded a three-player, three-team trade with the Houston Rockets and Philadelphia 76ers on Monday, saying not all the players involved were cleared medically. Pistons general manager Jeff Bower announced the decision but did not provide details, citing medical privacy. Houston had traded guard Marcus Thornton and center Donatas […]
  
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• Clovis couple dies after car parks on tracks, hit by train

  22-02-2016 22:23
  
  CLOVIS, N.M. — Authorities are investigating the deaths of a Clovis couple who died after their car was parked on railroad tracks and then struck by a train. Curry County Sheriff’s officials say 36-year-old Jason Cassady died at the scene Saturday night while his 40-year-old wife Rosann Lopez died after being taken to a Texas […]
  
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• Police: Discovery of cellphone at homicide scene a big break

  22-02-2016 22:19
  
  PHOENIX — The discovery of a cellphone not belonging to either victim was a major break in the investigation into the shooting deaths of two women in a home in a Phoenix suburb, police said Monday. Investigators searching the home after the Feb. 8 killings of 70-year-old Barbara Leslie of Surprise and her visiting friend […]
  
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• Santa Fe officer pleads no contest to harassment

  22-02-2016 22:15
  
  SANTA FE — A Santa Fe police officer will serve 364 of unsupervised probation for pleading no contest Monday to harassing a paralegal in his own department last year. Charles Lujan, 35, was charged with one misdemeanor count of harassment after verbally threatening Santa Fe Police Department paralegal Annamaria Bowen before she was supposed to […]
  
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• Nusenda expanding micro-lending program

  22-02-2016 22:15
  
  Nusenda Credit Union is blazing a new path for local startups to obtain early-stage capital through a novel micro-lending program that La Montanita Co-op helped the credit union perfect in recent years. The Nusenda Foundation approved a $10,000 grant this month to Hautepreneurs, an Albuquerque-based networking and mentoring organization for women in business, that will […]
  
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• Four named as people of interest in Santa Fe homicide

  22-02-2016 22:05
  
  SANTA FE — The Santa Fe Police Department has named four people of interest in the homicide of a Rio Arriba County man last year, but no arrests have been made. Brandon Maestas, Jeremy Muñoz, Diego Gomez and Daniel Castillo are people of interest in the homicide of David Dickerson, whose decomposed body was found in […]
  
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• Rio Rancho considering settlement of impact fee suit

  22-02-2016 22:00
  
  RIO RANCHO — The City of Rio Rancho would pay $280,000 in damages under a proposed settlement agreement with Curb North Inc. in a lawsuit filed by the company in the wake of the city imposing a two-year moratorium on impact fees in 2012. According to a story in the Rio Rancho Observer, the city […]
  
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• Florida teen accused of killing his 10-year-old sister

  22-02-2016 21:46
  
  FOUNTAIN, Fla. — The death of a 10-year-old girl, allegedly at the hands of her 15-year-old brother, stunned employees of a Florida sheriff’s office who had tried to help the family in the past, an authority with the office said Monday. “About three or four years ago, one of our deputies discovered the family living […]
  
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• IEA: Slashed spending by drillers could lead to price spike

  22-02-2016 21:42
  
  HOUSTON — Oil prices will more than double by 2020 as current low prices lead drillers to cut investment in new production and gradually reduce the glut of crude, the head of a group of oil-importing countries said Monday. Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency, said oil would rise gradually to about […]
  
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• US economy growing but faces international headwinds

  22-02-2016 21:41
  
  WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy has just completed the best two years of job growth since the 1990s, wages are on the rise and consumers are more confident about the economy than they’ve been in more than a decade. But the United States faced global headwinds that will continue this year, President Barack Obama’s economic […]
  
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• Middle school killer again sentenced to life in prison

  22-02-2016 21:32
  
  MIAMI — A judge sentenced a Florida man to life in prison for a second time Monday for fatally stabbing his best friend when both were 14, saying the man still seems to be obsessed with violence, death and serial killers. Miami-Dade Circuit Judge John Schlesinger imposed the maximum possible prison term on Michael Hernandez, […]
  
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• Study finds anti-AIDS vaginal ring partially protects women

  22-02-2016 21:24
  
  WASHINGTON — Researchers say women who inserted a vaginal ring coated with an anti-AIDS drug once a month were partially protected against HIV infection. Two large studies in Africa found the effect was modest, reducing overall HIV infection by about a third. But surprisingly, the ring worked far better in women 25 and older, leaving […]
  
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• Judge in Arizona polygamy trial falls ill on bench

  22-02-2016 21:17
  
  PHOENIX — A federal judge presiding over a trial involving a polygamous community along the Arizona-Utah border fell ill on the bench Monday and was taken away from the courthouse in an ambulance. Judge H. Russel Holland became ill as the defense presented its case. He was taken out of the courthouse on a gurney. […]
  
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• Death of last Treblinka survivor points to post-witness era

  22-02-2016 21:17
  
  MOSHAV UDIM, Israel — The death of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Samuel Willenberg marks the passing of the last link to the notorious death camp of Treblinka, perhaps the most vivid example of Nazi Germany’s attempt to destroy European Jewry. But the death of Willenberg, who was buried Monday, also symbolizes a looming transition in the […]
  
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• Some victims in mass shooting support efforts to hack iPhone

  22-02-2016 21:16 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Some victims and affected families in the mass shootings in southern California will file documents in support of a U.S. magistrate judge’s order that Apple Inc. help the FBI hack into a locked iPhone as part of the terrorism investigation, a lawyer said Monday.
  A Los Angeles attorney, Stephen Larson, said he represents at least several families of victims and other employees he declined to identify but who were affected by the shootings. He said the U.S. attorney i
  
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• Seas are rising way faster than any time in past 2,800 years

  22-02-2016 21:13 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sea levels on Earth are rising several times faster than they have in the past 2,800 years and are accelerating because of man-made global warming, according to new studies.
  An international team of scientists dug into two dozen locations across the globe to chart gently rising and falling seas over centuries and millennia. Until the 1880s and the world’s industrialization, the fastest seas rose was about 1 to 1.5 inches (3 to 4 centimeters) a century, plus or minus
  
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• Jury deliberating fate of woman who cut baby from womb

  22-02-2016 21:05 via krqe.com
  
  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — The statements and actions of a woman who cut an unborn baby from another’s womb show she acted with the cool intent of an attempted murderer, prosecutors said, while the defense said that same evidence proves she was in too chaotic a state to have planned to kill.
  In closing arguments Monday, Chief Trial Deputy District Attorney Catrina Weigel called on jurors to convict Dynel Lane of attempted first-degree murder and assault for attacking Michelle Wilkins last
  
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• New Mexico Gov. Martinez formally requests REAL ID waiver

  22-02-2016 20:57 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has formally requested a waiver from federal REAL ID requirements after state lawmakers passed a bill to revise the state’s driver’s license law.
  The governor’s office said Monday that Martinez recently met with U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas in Washington, D.C. and presented the waiver request.
  The move is needed to give state officials time to adopt the law.
  The measure would stop immigran
  
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• Police found cellphone on floor of home where 2 women killed

  22-02-2016 20:55 via krqe.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) – Police investigating the shooting deaths of two women in a home in a Phoenix suburb say the discovery of a cellphone at the crime scene provided a major break in the investigation.
  Police searching the home after the Feb. 8 killings of 70-year-old Barbara Leslie of Surprise and her visiting friend 75-year-old Ruth Schwed of Albuquerque, New Mexico, found the cellphone on the floor.
  A police spokesman wouldn’t identify the phone’s owner but said it didn’t be
  
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• Repeat DWI wanted by Albuquerque police after skipping court

  22-02-2016 20:33 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Patricia Carvalho has a reputation for fleeing from cops.
  On Monday, she was supposed to have a hearing for a 2014 DWI arrest, but was a no show. Now, she’s wanted.
  We first showed you Carvalho on a KRQE News 13 special assignment.
  She’s gotten out of two previous DWIs in 2011 and 2012.
  In 2011, Carvalho sped away from police and when they finally caught up with her, they couldn’t prove she was driving drunk.
  The other time, the arresting officer miss
  
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• Repeat DWI offender wanted by Albuquerque police after skipping court

  22-02-2016 20:33 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Patricia Carvalho has a reputation for fleeing from cops.
  On Monday, she was supposed to have a hearing for a 2014 DWI arrest, but was a no show. Now, she’s wanted.
  We first showed you Carvalho on a KRQE News 13 special assignment.
  She’s gotten out of two previous DWIs in 2011 and 2012.
  In 2011, Carvalho sped away from police and when they finally caught up with her, they couldn’t prove she was driving drunk.
  The other time, the arresting officer miss
  
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• Beaded snakes, boxes of bones and more at CCA

  22-02-2016 19:44
  
  In art as in life, shadows can reveal just as much as direct light. At least it feels that way in a new installation by Allison Smith at CCA’s Muñoz Waxman Gallery. A construction of carpentry and crates is lit to reveal webs of shadows on the white walls of the galleries, making viewers feel […]
  
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• Investigators looking for cause of Chicago-area Megabus fire

  22-02-2016 19:36 via krqe.com
  
  LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — Fire officials in suburban Chicago said Monday that they’re investigating the cause of a blaze that struck a Minneapolis-bound Megabus.
  None of the 40 passengers aboard the bus Sunday afternoon were injured, the Lake Forest Fire Department said. Deputy Chief Pete Siebert said Monday morning that the department was “actively investigating the cause of the fire” and didn’t immediately have more details about the cause.
  Firefighters used water
  
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• Man faces 6 murder counts in Kalamazoo-area rampage

  22-02-2016 19:23 via krqe.com
  
  KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — A prosecutor has charged a man with six counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder in a series of random shootings in western Michigan.
  Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting filed the charges Monday against 45-year-old Jason Dalton of Kalamazoo Township. Dalton is expected to make an initial court appearance later Monday. The prosecutor’s office says it doesn’t know if Dalton has an attorney.
  Dalton was arrested Sunday in Kalamazoo. Poli
  
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• Labrador retrievers hit their 25th year as top US dog breed

  22-02-2016 19:23
  
  NEW YORK — Labrador retrievers still reign supreme after a quarter century as America’s most prevalent purebred dog. But French bulldogs are riding their je ne sais quoi toward new heights, and some lesser-known breeds are climbing the popularity ladder, according to American Kennel Club rankings released Monday. Here’s a look at how breeds stack […]
  
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• Health care issue, longtime uniter of Democrats, now divides

  22-02-2016 19:23
  
  WASHINGTON — Health care for all. It’s a goal that tugs at the heartstrings of Democrats, but pursuing it usually invites political peril. Now Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are clashing over this core question for liberals, making it a wedge issue in the party’s presidential primary. It’s a choice between his conviction that a […]
  
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• Updated: New hiking trail planned in Santa Fe area

  22-02-2016 19:22
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — Officials are working to link the historic El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro trail to a wider network of trails in the Santa Fe area. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that the Royal Road of the Interior Lands is set to be part of a new 15-mile trail linking the […]
  
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• New hiking trail planned in Santa Fe area

  22-02-2016 19:22
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — Officials are working to link the historic El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro trail to a wider network of trails in the Santa Fe area. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports (http://bit.ly/20QAMAK ) that the Royal Road of the Interior Lands is set to be part of a new 15-mile trail […]
  
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• The Latest: Jury deliberating in Colorado unborn baby attack

  22-02-2016 19:20
  
  BOULDER, Colo. — The Latest on the trial of a Colorado woman who cut an unborn baby from another woman’s womb: (all times local): 11:10 a.m. Jurors are considering the fate of a Colorado woman who cut an unborn baby from another woman’s womb, a case which reignited the debate over the legal rights of […]
  
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• Prosecutor: Woman didn’t care about mom in try to take baby

  22-02-2016 19:02
  
  BOULDER, Colo. — Prosecutors say a Colorado woman who cut an unborn baby from another woman’s womb was obsessed with having a baby and didn’t care what happened with the other woman. Chief Trial Deputy District Attorney Catrina Weigel told jurors Monday during closing arguments at the trial of Dynel Lane that she had been […]
  
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• Peter Mondavi, Napa Valley wine pioneer, has died at 101

  22-02-2016 19:01
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — A winery board member says Peter Mondavi, a wine country innovator who led his family’s Charles Krug Winery through more than a half-century of change, has died. He was 101. Mondavi died Saturday at his home in St. Helena, California, said Wendy Lane Stevens, a member of the C. Mondavi and Family […]
  
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• Americans drive 3.1 trillion miles in 2015, a new record

  22-02-2016 18:54 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government says driving in the U.S. hit a new record in 2015 of 3.1 trillion miles.
  The previous record was 3 trillion miles set in 2007, before the recession led to a sharp reduction in driving.
  For a sense of scale, 3.1 trillion miles is roughly the same distance as 337 round trips from Earth to Pluto.
  The National Safety Council recently estimated the number of traffic deaths in the United States rose 8 percent from 2014 to 2015, the largest year-to-year percentage
  
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• US, Russia agree on plan for Syria cease-fire

  22-02-2016 18:35
  
  DAMASCUS, Syria — U.S. officials said Monday that the United States and Russia have agreed on a plan for a cease-fire in Syria starting Saturday that would exclude attacks on the Islamic State group and al-Qaida’s local affiliate. The officials said that the two sides have agreed on the terms and conditions for the “cessation […]
  
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• The Latest: Man sought in fatal fire was naked when arrested

  22-02-2016 18:30
  
  SELIGMAN, Ariz. — The Latest on the arrest in Arizona of a man considered a “person of interest” in a Missouri fire that killed four people (all times local): 10:20 a.m. Authorities say a man considered a “person of interest” in a Missouri fire that killed four people was arrested after he was found walking […]
  
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• Obama asks for governors’ help on trade

  22-02-2016 18:28
  
  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is asking the nation’s governors to help push his free trade agenda. Obama is urging governors to talk to their congressional delegations about how the Pacific Rim trade deal could boost businesses in their states. Obama says governors can “lift up the benefits” and push Congress to hold a vote. […]
  
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• Apple began iPhone encryption fight last fall, in Brooklyn

  22-02-2016 18:28
  
  NEW YORK — By prosecutors’ count, Apple helped federal law enforcement agents extract information from iPhones in criminal investigations at least 70 times in seven years before suddenly expressing a change of heart last fall in an otherwise ordinary drug case out of Brooklyn. Asked to help break into the phone of a suspected methamphetamine […]
  
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• Djokovic beats Robredo 6-2, 6-2 in 1st match in 3 weeks

  22-02-2016 18:24
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Playing his first match since winning the Australian Open, top-seeded Novak Djokovic beat Tommy Robredo of Spain 6-1, 6-2 on Monday in the first round of the Dubai Tennis Championships. Djokovic’s victory brought him one match away from his 700th career singles match win. “Every milestone is very special, of […]
  
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