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• Veterans business conference April 1

  02-03-2016 23:55
  
  Veterans, Guard and Reserve members, or transitioning active-duty service members who are thinking of starting a small business or need advice for growing an existing operation can get help at this year’s Southwest Veterans Business Conference. The conference will be April 1 from 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the Marriott Pyramid Hotel in Albuquerque,  5151 San […]
  
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• Moriarty mayor upset about Google’s airport hangar sale

  02-03-2016 23:41
  
  The mayor of Moriarty said he is concerned about the city being left out of the loop in an effort to find a new owner of the airport hangar that was to have housed Google’s fleet of solar-powered drones. Moriarty Mayor Ted Hart said at the end of a recent council meeting that he was […]
  
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• Prosecutors: Nehemiah Griego could get out before he’s 21

  02-03-2016 23:08
  
  The New Mexico teen who killed five family members, including his three younger siblings, will likely be held in a juvenile facility until he’s 21.
  
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• Wanted felon in New Mexico now accused of aggravated fleeing

  02-03-2016 22:57
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. — Dona Ana County Sheriff’s officials say a wanted felon is in custody and facing a charge of aggravated fleeing of a law enforcement officer. They say 26-year-old Roberto Garcia has been extradited to Otero County on the warrant. Garcia was stopped Feb. 20 in Chaparral, but refused to get out of […]
  
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• NM ranks low for workplace retirement savings

  02-03-2016 22:49
  
  Many New Mexicans who work for private employers don’t have access to a workplace retirement plan, and even when they do, many don’t take advantage of it, according to a new financial study that ranks the state near the bottom when it comes to such savings plans. And things are even worse for Hispanics in […]
  
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• Breaking: Nehemiah Griego to be incarcerated until age 21

  02-03-2016 22:41
  
  The teen who fatally shot his parents and three siblings in their South Valley home in 2013 will be...
  
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• Crews work to extinguish Corrales fire

  02-03-2016 22:31 via krqe.com
  
  CORRALES, N.M. (KRQE) – Firefighters are working to stop a fire on private property in Corrales.
  According to officials the fire is burning between Maestas Lane and Hansen Road and has burned a couple of vehicles.
  Officials say the fire is contained but Rio Rancho, Albuquerque and Sandoval County fire departments are working to put out the blaze.
  Corrales Fire Chief Anthony Martinez told KRQE News 13 they are working to protect the bosque and structures near the fire.
  KRQE News 13 wil
  
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• Ben Carson says ‘no path forward’ in his bid for White House

  02-03-2016 22:17
  
  WASHINGTON — Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson said he is effectively ending his bid for the White House Wednesday, concluding a roller-coaster campaign that briefly took him to the top of a chaotic GOP field but ended with a Super Tuesday whimper. “I do not see a political path forward,” Carson said in a statement posted […]
  
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• Teens say burning of ex’s love letter led to school fire

  02-03-2016 21:58
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A case of burning love caused thousands of dollars in damage at a school playground in Alaska. Anchorage police say a fire from lit paper ignited rubber mulch and spread to two pieces of playground equipment, destroying both. After speaking to witnesses and reviewing surveillance video, police interviewed two 18-year-olds. The teens […]
  
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• Ride the sky on a 70-story glass slide coming to LA

  02-03-2016 21:58
  
  LOS ANGELES — It’s one thing to look out over Los Angeles from the tallest building in the western United States. Soon, the view will take on new intensity as risk takers careen down a clear glass slide 1,000 feet above ground. Beginning in June, visitors can take their fear of heights to a new […]
  
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• 2 candidates for same race die, including the winner

  02-03-2016 21:57
  
  ERWIN, Tenn. — By the time the votes were counted, two of the three candidates vying to be the Republican nominee for property assessor in Tennessee’s Unicoi County had died. One of them was the winner. County election administrator Sarah Bailey called the deaths “horrible, coincidental tragedies.” Interim Assessor of Property Wayne Peterson died of […]
  
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• Pavilion Construction expands space, workforce

  02-03-2016 21:49
  
  The firm's moves are to keep pace with the volume of its work around the state.
  
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• New Mexico limits injury payments when workers drunk or high

  02-03-2016 20:42 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico is reducing workers compensation benefits for employees who injure themselves on the job while drunk or high.
  Gov. Susana Martinez signed the legislation Wednesday in Albuquerque. It reduces workers compensation benefits by between 10 percent and 90 percent based on the degree that a worker’s intoxication contributes to an accident.
  Martinez called the legislation a matter of common sense and said employers will not be able file a compensation clai
  
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• Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Dept. rescues man lost in basin

  02-03-2016 20:36 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (AP) – Bernalillo County sheriff’s personnel located and rescued a man who ended up in the Rio Puerco river basin after getting disoriented while driving.
  The Sheriff’s Department says the 78-year-old man called 911 late Tuesday to say he’d gotten lost and had ended up in a ravine where he couldn’t see any landmarks.
  Deputies drove around looking for the man but couldn’t find him until personnel tracked the man’s phone through a cellphone com
  
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• Alamogordo getting US funding for flood-prevention projects

  02-03-2016 20:19 via krqe.com
  
  ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) – Alamogordo will get nearly $10.5 million of federal funding to repair one flood-prevention channel and to finish building another.
  The funding provided by the Army Corps of Engineers is for finishing construction of the McKinley Channel and for repairing the Alamogordo South Diversion Channel.
  The waterways channel runoff from the Sacramento Mountains during rainstorms and help prevent downstream flooding in Alamogordo and the Tularosa Basin.
  The funding was announc
  
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• ‘Downton Abbey’ explored social change even as it stayed put

  02-03-2016 20:18
  
  NEW YORK — For all its six seasons, “Downton Abbey” has been a graciously paced time-scape through early 1900s Britain. Home base, of course, was the grand estate that lent the series its name. There the aristocratic Crawley family and their household servants felt the world changing — however incrementally — under their feet. Spanning […]
  
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• It’s NOT ‘Downtown Abbey’! It’s ‘Downton’! But why?

  02-03-2016 20:17
  
  NEW YORK — After six seasons, people get it: The name of that series is “Downton Abbey.” Not “Downtown Abbey.” In early discussions, there was a bit of confusion among the public. And for TV critics, inadvertently typing that second “w” was a constant risk from which spell check offered no relief. So why not […]
  
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• Founder of PostSecret website coming to UNM

  02-03-2016 19:48
  
  People anonymously mail Frank Warren their secrets on postcards, and he posts some of them online. That simple formula has won him national interest and book deals, and Warren is coming to the University of New Mexico to give a free talk about his project. People worldwide send in their secrets on decorated or stark […]
  
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• Christie’s shell-shocked look stirs mockery, befuddlement

  02-03-2016 19:38
  
  TRENTON, N.J. — Was that really Chris Christie, the brusque, take-a-back-seat-to-no-one governor of New Jersey? Christie’s seemingly shell-shocked gaze as he stood behind Donald Trump on Super Tuesday is generating befuddlement and mockery in his home state and beyond. Conservatives and liberals alike have piled on. His introductory remarks were so subdued and his appearance […]
  
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• Updated: Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Dept. rescues man lost in basin

  02-03-2016 19:32
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Bernalillo County sheriff’s personnel located and rescued a man who ended up in the Rio Puerco river basin after getting disoriented while driving. The Sheriff’s Department says the 78-year-old man called 911 late Tuesday to say he’d gotten lost and had ended up in a ravine where he couldn’t see any landmarks. […]
  
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• Trial date set for woman accused of killing her child

  02-03-2016 19:15
  
  A Sept. 12 trial date has been set for Synthia Varela Casaus, accused of the beating that led to the death of her 9-year-old son, Omaree Varela in December 2013. Second Judicial District Judge Brett Loveless set the date during a Wednesday scheduling conference. Last month, Loveless ruled that Varela Casaus was competent to stand […]
  
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• Photos: Mugshot gallery March 2016

  02-03-2016 18:51 via interactives.krqe.com
  Mugshots from local New Mexico authorities in March 2016.
  Photos: Mugshot gallery March 2016 »
  
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• Cruise ship damaged by storm returns to port early _ again

  02-03-2016 18:51
  
  BAYONNE, N.J. — A cruise ship that was previously battered by a major storm in the Atlantic Ocean returned to port early Wednesday, cutting short another cruise by two days because of the threat of bad weather. Royal Caribbean’s Anthem of the Seas docked in Bayonne, New Jersey. The ship was scheduled to return from […]
  
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• Man who stabbed wife to serve life in prison

  02-03-2016 18:37
  
  An Albuquerque man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his wife.
  
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• With EU borders closing, it’s a boom time for smugglers

  02-03-2016 18:03
  
  BELGRADE, Serbia — Tensions simmered one night inside the smoky Belgrade City cafe in a rough neighborhood near the train station. The price of a human being was being decided. Dozens of young Middle Eastern and African men dressed in track suits and woolen caps were frantically negotiating with a Serbian smuggler on the costs […]
  
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• Cops to whoever left drugs: We feel ‘horrible for your loss’

  02-03-2016 18:03
  
  MACEDONIA, Ohio — Northeast Ohio police hoping to figure out who left a bag of methamphetamine in a hotel room trash can say their department feels horrible for the owner’s loss and wants to help. The tongue-in-cheek message posted Tuesday to the Macedonia police Facebook page asks the owner of the drugs to call or […]
  
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• Michigan restricted Flint from switching water in loan deal

  02-03-2016 18:02
  
  LANSING, Mich. — The state of Michigan restricted Flint from switching water sources last April without approval from Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration under the terms of a $7 million loan needed to help transition the city from state management, according to a document released Wednesday. By the time the loan agreement was in place, cries […]
  
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• How to stop Trump? GOP leaders search for a way

  02-03-2016 18:02
  
  MIAMI — Gripped by chaos and dismay, Republican leaders searched on Wednesday for a last-chance option that could derail Donald Trump’s momentum fueled by seven commanding Super Tuesday victories. Overshadowed by Trump’s wins, Ted Cruz came in a close second in the night’s delegate haul, thanks to a win in his home state of Texas. […]
  
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• AZ Senate OKs bill to let retired officers carry guns in bars

  02-03-2016 18:02
  
  PHOENIX — An Arizona Senate committee has passed a measure that would allow retired police officers to carry firearms into bars. Republican Rep. Sonny Borrelli sponsored the measure that would allow retired sheriffs and police officers who served at least 10 years and were honorably discharged to carry their firearm into bars and stores that […]
  
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• US official: Debris from same type of plane as MH370

  02-03-2016 17:57 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Debris that washed up in Mozambique has been tentatively identified as a part from the same type of aircraft as the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a U.S. official said Wednesday.
  Photos of the debris that washed up over the weekend appear to show the fixed leading edge of the right-hand tail section of a Boeing 777, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly. MH-370, which disappeared two years ago wi
  
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• Trial date set for Omaree’s mother

  02-03-2016 17:38
  
  The woman accused of killing Omaree Varela in 2013 will go to trial in September.
  
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• Trial date set for woman accused of kicking son to death

  02-03-2016 17:36 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A trial date has now been set for the woman accused of kicking her son to death, following a judge’s ruling that she is competent to stand trial.
  The trial has been set for Sep. 12, 2016.
  Synthia Varela-Casaus is accused and charged with kicking to death her 9-year-old son Omaree in late 2013.
  Since then, Varela-Casaus’ attorneys have argued that she’s not fit for trial and that she can’t understand the process or the charges against h
  
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• Audit: Los Alamos Lab has poor system for fixing problems

  02-03-2016 17:26 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE (AP) – An audit has found that the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s system for solving management problems is lacking.
  The report, released Tuesday by the Department of Energy’s Office of the Inspector General, suggests the lab’s corrective action program does not address issues or prevent their recurrence, including on health and safety issues.
  The audit looked at almost 200 management issues between January 2009 and February 2014 and found that almost half were
  
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• Beauty brands hope virtual makeovers encourage shoppers to try new looks

  02-03-2016 17:16
  
  CHICAGO — Mulling what one might look like with electric blue eye shadow is one thing. Buying, applying and venturing out in public in an unconventional hue is quite another. It’s a vexing problem for beauty retailers who sometimes struggle to convince shoppers to try new things, said Diana Smith, senior research analyst with market […]
  
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• Updated: US official: Debris from same type of plane as MH370

  02-03-2016 17:13
  
  WASHINGTON — Debris that washed up in Mozambique has been tentatively identified as a part from the same type of aircraft as the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, a U.S. official said Wednesday. Photos of the debris discovered over the weekend appear to show the fixed leading edge of the right-hand tail section of a […]
  
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• Experts: Colorado River protection disjointed, underplayed

  02-03-2016 17:13
  
  DENVER — Researchers say environmental protection for the 1,450-mile-long Colorado River is disjointed and too often gets a low priority. A new critique from the Colorado River Research Group says four multimillion-dollar conservation programs do valuable work but would have more impact if they treated the entire river as a single, integrated system instead of […]
  
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• Updated: POTUS makes first SXSW appearance

  02-03-2016 17:12
  
  NEW YORK — POTUS will be making a debut appearance this year at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. No, that’s not some hipster band. It’s the 44th president of the United States. President Barack Obama will be the first sitting president to speak at the annual music, film and interactive media gathering, […]
  
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• Phoji app lets you send your own funny face

  02-03-2016 17:12
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — After Jay Coatta’s 16-year-old daughter won a tennis match, he received a text message from her that was filled with smiley-face emojis and other expressive icons. Coatta was thrilled for her but frustrated. None of the emojis — cartoonish images that come installed on many smartphones — conveyed his daughter’s expressions like her […]
  
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• Troy Wolverton: Apple-FBI dispute has security lessons for the rest of us

  02-03-2016 17:09
  
  The dust-up between Apple and the FBI over unlocking the iPhone used by the San Bernardino, Calif., attackers has some important lessons for everyday consumers regarding the security of the data they have on their phones. As the dispute has made clear, even Apple’s much touted security has its vulnerabilities. And while the standoff has […]
  
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• Tech Q&A: Recovering files after your PC is attacked

  02-03-2016 17:09
  
  Q: I read your column about CryptoWall (tinyurl.com/z43tzdw), the malicious software that encrypts your files and holds them for ransom. Can normal PC operations be restored by reloading the original files from a previous backup of my entire PC hard drive? — Dennis Le Vesque, Brooklyn Center, Minn. A: It depends on which of the […]
  
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• Forget blenders, some ask guests to pay for honeymoon

  02-03-2016 17:07
  
  NEW YORK — Before they say “I do,” many couples are heading online to ask family and friends, “Will you pay for our honeymoon?” Websites such as Honeyfund, GoFundMe and Honeymoon Wishes make it easy to raise cash for a post-wedding getaway. The sites charge fees for their services — as much as 10 percent […]
  
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• Abortion case appears to split depleted Supreme Court

  02-03-2016 16:44 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appeared sharply divided Wednesday over Texas abortion clinic regulations in its biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter-century.
  In 90 minutes of intense arguments, the court’s liberals and conservatives signaled that there’s little common ground as they try to figure out what to do about rules that Texas says are aimed at promoting women’s health.
  The clinics say the real purpose of the regulations is to reduce access to abortion.
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• Lottery-linked scholarships face lower sales, higher tuition

  02-03-2016 16:05 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (AP) — The long lines at convenience stores during this year’s frenzy over the $1 billion Powerball jackpot were supposed to be a lifeline for New Mexico higher education.
  Lottery proceeds fund scholarships that provide nearly free tuition to state schools, but the program has been struggling to stay afloat. The brief burst in Powerball ticket sales did not reverse a trend of lotto proceeds failing to keep up with the rising costs of higher education, and lawmakers are fa
  
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• Police: Los Lunas man arrested in killing of girlfriend

  02-03-2016 15:58 via krqe.com
  
  LOS LUNAS, N.M. (AP) – Authorities say a 19-year-old man has been arrested in the killing in Valencia County of his girlfriend.
  New Mexico State Police say a crime-scene investigation and interviews led to the arrest Tuesday of Michael Ray Rodriguez of Los Lunas.
  The victim was found with her throat apparently cut in a residence in Tome.
  According to state police, Rodriguez had blood stains on his clothing and shoes when found and witnesses said Rodriguez was seen at the residence with the
  
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• New Mexico city to host ‘donkey baseball’ game

  02-03-2016 15:54 via krqe.com
  
  ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) – A southern New Mexico city is hosting a donkey baseball game.
  The Alamogordo Daily News reports the Optimist Club of Alamogordo and the Wisconsin-based Dairyland Donkey Ball have invited Alamogordo Police Department and the U.S. Border Patrol to a friendly game of baseball while riding on donkeys.
  Optimist Club Secretary Treasurer James Scott said in donkey baseball, the rules are like regular baseball but with a few twists.
  The fielders are all on donkeys. The
  
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• Apple, FBI stake out conflicting positions before Congress

  02-03-2016 15:51 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government calls it a “vicious guard dog” that hurts national security. Apple says it’s critical to protecting consumer privacy against increasingly sophisticated hackers.
  As the debate over built-in iPhone encryption has deadlocked in the courts, law enforcement and the world’s second-largest cellphone maker agreed on one point Tuesday: It’s now up to Congress to set boundaries in a long-simmering fight over who can legally access y
  
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• Former health provider sues over New Mexico mental health shakeup

  02-03-2016 15:46 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES (AP) – A former behavioral health provider in southern New Mexico is suing a company that once managed the state’s Medicaid dollars.
  The Las Cruces Sun-News reports that La Frontera’s lawsuit alleges United Healthcare engineered a cover-up of its own failings by accusing 15 nonprofit providers of fraud in 2013.
  The lawsuit accuses United Healthcare and its subsidiary OptumHealth New Mexico of fraud and misrepresentation that led to La Frontera losing millions of
  
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• State, feds work together on Gila trout recovery project

  02-03-2016 15:38 via krqe.com
  
  SILVER CITY, N.M. (AP) – State and federal wildlife managers want to know what the public thinks about a proposal for restoring native Gila trout and other native fish to Whitewater Creek and its tributaries.
  The Gila National Forest says the public will have through March 25 to comment on the plan.
  Officials say the goal is to restore the Gila trout to about 24 miles of steam in hopes of establishing a fishable population.
  The majority of the project would be within the Gila Wilderness.
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• Police officer, suspect dead after North Texas park shootout

  02-03-2016 15:32 via krqe.com
  
  EULESS, Texas (AP) — A Texas police officer who died after a gunfight had moved from New York City to the Dallas area because he wanted to be somewhere safer, his mother says.
  Officer David Hofer, 29, died Tuesday during surgery following a gunfight with an armed suspect in a park near a Dallas-area school.
  A 2008 graduate of New York University, Hofer served in the New York Police Department for five years before coming to Euless in 2014, Police Chief Mike Brown said.
  The New York Post re
  
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• NASA spaceman back from record year flight; gives thumbs up

  02-03-2016 15:22 via krqe.com
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth on Wednesday after an unprecedented year in space for NASA, landing in barren Kazakhstan with a Russian cosmonaut who shared his whole space station journey.
  Their Soyuz capsule parachuted onto the central Asian steppes and ended a science-rich mission at the International Space Station that began last March and was deemed a steppingstone to Mars.
  It was a triumphant homecoming for Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko after 340 day
  
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