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• Albuquerque Public Schools proposes new gender identity policy

  07-03-2016 23:56 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Under a new policy proposed by Albuquerque Public Schools’ administration, students would be treated based on the gender they identify with, not necessarily the gender they’re born with.
  That policy, aimed at making transgender students feel welcome, lays out everything from which dress code applies to which restrooms and locker rooms students are able to use.
  Janalee Barnard, APS’ director of Title IX programs, tells KRQE News 13 that in general
  
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• Funeral services set to honor New Mexico health secretary

  07-03-2016 23:48
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico officials have announced funeral arrangements for Health Secretary Retta Ward after her death last week. The Health Department says mourners and well-wishers will gather Wednesday to honor Ward and make charitable donations to the Against Malaria Foundation in her memory. The foundation pays for anti-malaria mosquito nets. Ward died […]
  
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• Updated: Santolina applies for tax increment districts

  07-03-2016 23:45
  
  The company behind the massive Santolina Master Plan wants to divert a share of future tax revenue generated there to reimburse developers for building streets, drains and other public works. Western Albuquerque Land Holdings LLC — owner of 21 square miles of land covered by the Santolina Master Plan — has filed applications with Bernalillo […]
  
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• Santolina applies for tax increment districts

  07-03-2016 23:45
  
  The company behind the massive Santolina Master Plan wants to divert a share of future tax revenue generated there to reimburse developers for building streets, drains and other public works. Western Albuquerque Land Holdings LLC — owner of the 22 square-miles of land covered by the Santolina Master Plan — filed applications with Bernalillo County […]
  
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• Newly discovered deep-sea octopus looks like an adorable ghost

  07-03-2016 23:41
  
  Move over, Casper: A cute lil octopod hitherto unknown to science was caught on camera by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and it’s definitely the friendliest looking ghost we’ve ever seen. The tiny octopod was spotted just northeast of Necker Island (Mokumanamana) in the Hawaiian Archipelago on Feb. 27, when NOAA’s ship the Okeanos […]
  
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• Updated: ‘Stopped for driving with a large tree embedded in the front grille’

  07-03-2016 23:25
  
  The police report may not have captured all the color of the incident. It did, however, get to the heart of it. “Stopped for driving with a large tree embedded in the front grille,” the report reads. Photos taken by officers in January of the 2004 Lincoln with its arboreal accessory have gone viral since […]
  
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• Bloomberg opts not to mount third-party bid for White House

  07-03-2016 23:24 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former three-term mayor of New York City, has opted against mounting a third-party White House bid that could have further roiled this year’s already extraordinarily unpredictable presidential campaign.
  Bloomberg, who has spent months mulling an independent campaign, made his decision official through an editorial posted by the Bloomberg View.
  “There is a good chance that my candidacy could lead to the election of Donald Trump
  
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• Rio Rancho police sell shirts to help honor fallen officers

  07-03-2016 23:22 via krqe.com
  
  RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) – The Rio Rancho Police Department is selling t-shirts to help them honor two officers killed in the line of duty.
  The goal is to raise $15,000 for the Police Unity Tour. The officers will ride their bicycles 260 miles from Virginia to Washington DC in honor of Rio Rancho Officer Gregg “Nigel” Benner and Albuquerque Police Department Officer Daniel Webster.
  The t-shirts cost $19 and will feature the names of all officers killed in the line of duty f
  
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• Police: Resident held suspected burglar at gunpoint

  07-03-2016 23:16
  
  A suspected burglar didn’t make it out of the house he had broken into when a man who lived there woke up and held him at gunpoint Saturday night, according to court documents. Around 9:30 p.m. officers responded to St. James Place SW when a woman called 911 to report her neighbor had an alleged […]
  
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• Santa Fe man pleads guilty to robbing a bank last year

  07-03-2016 23:14
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Santa Fe man has pleaded guilty to an armed bank robbery and could be facing a 25-year sentence in federal prison. Prosecutors say 25-year-old Jacob P. Wheeler entered his plea Monday in federal court in Albuquerque. Wheeler was arrested last May 26 and charged with robbing the Century Bank in Santa […]
  
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• NY police officers honor former colleague killed in Texas

  07-03-2016 23:14
  
  NEW YORK — Hundreds of New York City police officers lined Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue in a farewell salute Monday to a former NYPD colleague who was gunned down in Texas. David Hofer, an officer in the Dallas suburb of Euless, was celebrated at a memorial Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Mourners including NYPD officers in […]
  
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• Updated: New Mexico delegation wants EPA to move on compensation

  07-03-2016 23:02
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico’s congressional delegation has concerns with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over delays in compensation for expenses and damages caused by the Gold King Mine spill. The delegation announced Monday that it sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy. It asks her agency to process millions of dollars in reimbursement […]
  
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• Who’s an outsider? GOP establishment fears loss of standing

  07-03-2016 22:52
  
  WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in Washington have spent years casting tea party allies and hardliners in Congress as merely a restive minority, a fringe element to be tolerated. Now, with Donald Trump and Ted Cruz rising to the top of the 2016 GOP presidential primary, those party leaders are confronting the possibility that they may […]
  
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• Updated: Who’s an outsider? GOP establishment fears loss of standing

  07-03-2016 22:52
  
  WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in Washington have spent years casting tea party allies and hardliners in Congress as merely a restive minority, a fringe element to be tolerated. Now, with Donald Trump and Ted Cruz rising to the top of the 2016 GOP presidential primary, those party leaders are confronting the possibility that they may […]
  
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• Former Albuquerque officer fights to get his job back

  07-03-2016 22:51 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A former Albuquerque police officer, who was fired for trying to intimidate an investigator, is fighting to get his job back.
  Steve Hindi was fired in December after the chief said Hindi had gathered the investigator’s personal information through a confidential federal database. That investigator was working for the Civilian Police Oversight Agency at the time.
  The agency was looking into complaints against Hindi, who has a long history of civil complaints.
  On M
  
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• Jury: Polygamous towns discriminated against nonbelievers

  07-03-2016 22:47
  
  PHOENIX — Two polygamous towns in Arizona and Utah violated the constitutional rights of nonbelievers by denying them basic services such as police protection, building permits and water hookups, a jury said Monday. The civil rights trial marks one of boldest efforts by the government to confront what critics have long said was a corrupt […]
  
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• Roswell dairy worker takes plea deal after abuse charges

  07-03-2016 22:41 via krqe.com
  
  ROSWELL, N.M. (KRQE) – Another Roswell dairy worker, who was caught on video abusing cows, has agreed to a plea deal.
  Cesar Morales-Iniguez was captured stabbing cows with a screwdriver, beating cows with his fists and whipping them with a thick rubber hose.
  On Monday, he pleaded no contest to three counts of animal cruelty. The charges stemmed from an undercover investigation by Mercy for Animals at the Winchester Dairy.
  As part of his plea deal, Iniguez will serve probation. He could hav
  
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• The Latest: Hungary says it may veto EU-Turkish migrant deal

  07-03-2016 22:29
  
  BRUSSELS — The Latest on the migration crisis as leaders from the EU and Turkey meet in Brussels (all times local): 10 p.m. Hungary says it will veto any plan to resettle asylum seekers directly from Turkey to EU countries in a setback for a European Union summit seeking a deal on how to deal […]
  
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• Activists say Nancy Reagan should have pushed harder on AIDS

  07-03-2016 22:26
  
  NEW YORK — Gay-rights and HIV/AIDS activists remain bitter at Ronald Reagan for a slow response to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Views are more mixed about his wife, Nancy, but there’s regret that she didn’t push sooner and more forcefully for stepped-up government action. The first news reports about AIDS surfaced in 1981, […]
  
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• Judge sides with DC in ongoing lawsuit over gun law

  07-03-2016 22:21
  
  WASHINGTON — A federal judge has sided with the District of Columbia in an ongoing dispute over the city’s strict gun laws. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled Monday that opponents are not entitled to a preliminary injunction halting enforcement of portions of the law while their lawsuit proceeds. Opponents immediately appealed the ruling. Opponents object to […]
  
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• Texas Marine killed after Hawaii boat accident identified

  07-03-2016 22:20
  
  KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii — A Marine who died after a recreational boat capsized off Hawaii over the weekend has been identified as Sg. Jaylon Walker. The Marine Corps said Monday the 24-year-old from Garland, Texas served as an aviation electronics communications system technician. He was assigned to a Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 24 in Hawaii. […]
  
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• Trump’s path to victory: Both parties’ working-class whites

  07-03-2016 22:19
  
  DENVER — Should he win the Republican nomination, Donald Trump’s most plausible path to victory in the general election would be a GOP map unlike any in years. He’d be relying on working class, largely white voters in states that have long been Democratic bastions in presidential contests, from Maine to Pennsylvania to Michigan. To […]
  
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• Colorado moves toward opposing boycott of Israel

  07-03-2016 22:19
  
  DENVER — Colorado lawmakers are considering whether to join several other states that oppose a boycott seeking to punish Israel for its treatment of Palestinians. The bill before the state Senate directs Colorado’s public employee pension fund to divest from foreign companies participating in the boycott. Colorado’s Public Employees Retirement Association has $46 billion in […]
  
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• White Sands once again accepting NM licenses as ID

  07-03-2016 22:17
  
  White Sands Missile Range is once again accepting New Mexico driver’s licenses as a form of identification for entering the facility, officials announced today. A statement from the missile range cited the recent decision by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security granting New Mexico an extension through Oct. 10 to comply with the federal Real […]
  
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• Maria Sharapova says she failed drug test

  07-03-2016 22:14 via krqe.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tennis star Maria Sharapova says she failed a drug test at the Australian Open.
  The five-time major champion took full responsibility for her mistake when she made the announcement at a news conference Monday in Los Angeles. The former world No. 1 doesn’t know what sanctions she will face from the International Tennis Federation.
  The 28-year-old Sharapova said she tested positive for meldonium, which she said she has been taking for 10 years for numerous health iss
  
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• Boston Marathon bombing survivor killed in Dubai car crash

  07-03-2016 21:56 via krqe.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A college student who survived serious injuries in the Boston Marathon bombing was killed in a car accident in Dubai over the weekend, a spokesman for Northeastern University said Monday.
  Victoria McGrath was killed Sunday, along with her roommate at Northeastern, Priscilla Perez Torres, the Boston school confirmed.
  McGrath and Torres were on a personal trip and not studying abroad.
  McGrath, 23, received severe shrapnel injuries to her left leg from the first of two bombs pla
  
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• Albuquerque man accused of motel stabbings pleads not guilty

  07-03-2016 21:48 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A man who police say went on a violent rampage at an Albuquerque motel pleaded not guilty in court Monday.
  Johnny Romero, 36, is accused of stabbing two guests in the lobby of the Motel 6 on University near the Big-I.
  According to police, Romero stabbed the pair for “no reason at all.” A man from Los Lunas was killed and a woman from Georgia was injured.
  A judge did not set a bond for Romero.
  
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• Memorial scheduled for state health secretary

  07-03-2016 21:47
  
  The Santa Fe Sheriff’s Office last week found the body of New Mexico Health Secretary Retta Ward in a car that swerved off the road.
  
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• US consumer borrowing growth slows in January

  07-03-2016 21:46
  
  WASHINGTON — U.S. consumers bumped up their borrowing in January at the slowest rate pace in nearly three years, as outstanding revolving debt — such as credit cards — slipped from December. The Federal Reserve said Monday that borrowing rose $10.5 billion in January, an annual increase of just 3.58 percent. That marks the smallest […]
  
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• Womb transplant recipient grateful for chance at pregnancy

  07-03-2016 21:39 via krqe.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — The recipient of the nation’s first uterus transplant said Monday that she prayed for years to be able to bear a child, and is grateful to the deceased donor’s family and surgeons who’ve given her that chance.
  Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic said Monday that the 26-year-old woman is recovering well after receiving the uterus late last month. The experimental surgery is part of a new frontier in transplantation that, if it works, might be an alternative fo
  
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• Jurors discuss who is to blame for Erin Andrews nude video

  07-03-2016 21:33 via krqe.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The key questions jurors are deliberating in Erin Andrews’ $75 million lawsuit are whether two hotel companies bear any responsibility for a stalker renting a room next to the sportscaster and taking a nude video of her, and if so, how much they should pay.
  Jurors started their deliberations Monday after two weeks of emotional testimony. They heard directly from the Fox Sports reporter and co-host of the TV show “Dancing with the Stars,” who tearfu
  
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• Hundreds of cops pay respects to officer killed her 1st day

  07-03-2016 21:32 via krqe.com
  
  SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A Virginia policewoman who was fatally shot her first day on the job was laid to rest next to her father in a Massachusetts cemetery Monday after a stirring tribute from hundreds of officers from around the country who came to pay their final respects.
  The flag-draped casket of 28-year-old Ashley Guindon made its way from a funeral home to Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Springfield along a route lined by hundreds of saluting officers standing next to their motorc
  
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• Family: Man found at Albuquerque school died on his morning run

  07-03-2016 21:24 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – KRQE News 13 has learned that a man whose body was found outside an Albuquerque middle school died on his morning run.
  The family of Mike Salas says the 66-year-old ran around John Adams Middle School every morning for over 35 years starting at 6 a.m.
  The say Salas suffered a heart attack, even as healthy as he was. His family also says he was loved by many.
  
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• Updated: Alabama judge seals Harper Lee will

  07-03-2016 21:21
  
  MONROEVILLE, Ala. — Famously private in life, “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee is keeping her secrets even in death. Monroe County Probate Judge Greg Norris signed an order last week to seal Lee’s will from public view, according to court records available Monday. Lawyers for Lee’s personal representative and attorney, Tonja Carter, had […]
  
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• Gun violence survivors testifying against GOP gun bills in Colo.

  07-03-2016 21:21
  
  DENVER — A Democrat-led state House committee is hearing a package of Republican-sponsored gun bills. One bill being heard Monday would allow concealed carry on public school grounds. Another would repeal gun magazine limits that were adopted after the 2012 mass shootings at an Aurora movie theater and at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. […]
  
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• Alabama judge seals Harper Lee will

  07-03-2016 21:21
  
  MONROEVILLE, Ala. — An Alabama probate judge has sealed the will of author Harper Lee from public view. Court records available Monday showed Monroe County Probate Judge Greg Norris signed the order a week ago. Lawyers for Lee’s personal representative and attorney, Tonja Carter, asked Norris to seal the will the same day. The request […]
  
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• Mexican president: Trump language like that of Hitler

  07-03-2016 21:20
  
  MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto compared the language of Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to that of dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in an interview published Monday, and said it has hurt U.S.-Mexico relations. Asked about Trump, Pena Nieto complained to the Excelsior newspaper about “these strident expressions that seek to […]
  
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• Frustrated GOP lawmakers weigh move to impeach top judges

  07-03-2016 21:20
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. — Republican lawmakers in Kansas, weary of conflicts with a judiciary that has been pushing for more school spending, are beginning to act on a measure to expand the legal grounds for impeaching judges. The move is part of an intensified effort in red states to reshape courts still dominated by moderate judges […]
  
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• White Sands Missile Range OKs New Mexico driver’s licenses

  07-03-2016 21:03 via krqe.com
  
  WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. (AP) – White Sands Missile Range has announced it will begin accepting New Mexico driver’s license for entrance again.
  The move Monday comes after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security gave the state a temporary extension on adopting on pending REAL ID state law.
  The base had initially stopped accepting the state driver’s licenses after federal officials said they weren’t in compliance with the federal REAL ID Act. But after state lawmak
  
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• Judge sentences Albuquerque man for stealing cars

  07-03-2016 20:11 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A man accused of multiple car thefts got a big break from a judge on Monday.
  Christopher Dominguez faced up to 10 years behind bars, but he was sentenced to less than a year.
  Albuquerque Police officers know Dominguez and his antics all too well. In September 2015, police say he tried to steal an APD bait car.
  In that case, officers tracked him and the car to the Target at Uptown. From there, police say Dominguez ditched the car and tried running.
  But police caugh
  
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• Nancy Reagan: Devoted wife, savvy tactician

  07-03-2016 19:54 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) – Nancy Reagan loathed the press, but even Mrs. Reagan realized, with one East Wing kerfuffle after another, that her standing with the press in 1982 was flailing. So, she donned bag-lady clothes and took to the Gridiron Dinner stage in Washington in a skit called Second Hand Clothes, a takeoff of Second Hand Rose. It took down the house. No doubt Mrs. Reagan, the former actress, performed the ditty with clenched teeth, but did so because if her standing with the
  
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• Connecticut is latest state to discuss ending tax on tampons

  07-03-2016 19:33
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut is the latest state to consider ending sales tax on feminine hygiene products like tampons and maxi pads. The General Assembly’s Public Health Committee on Monday discussed a bill that would scrap the 6.35 percent sales tax. It would also end sales taxes on cloth and disposable diapers. Proponents say this […]
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Misfires on Wall Street, poverty in debate

  07-03-2016 19:33
  
  WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton had more regard for Wall Street movers and shakers than she acknowledged when claiming she scolded the financial industry for “wrecking the economy.” The criticism she leveled at Wall Street came mixed with praise — and thanks for the political donations. Bernie Sanders, like his Democratic presidential rival, understated what officials […]
  
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• Schools add ‘cli-fi’ _ climate fiction _ to lit curriculums

  07-03-2016 19:32
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. — Colleges and universities worldwide are incorporating into their curriculums the evolving genre of literature that focuses on the changes coming to Earth as the result of climate change — “cli-fi.” Some of the books and movies now being considered part of the genre are old classics, while others were written more recently […]
  
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• Sanchez named shareholder at firm

  07-03-2016 19:31
  
  Kelly Stout Sanchez has been named a shareholder at Martinez, Hart & Thompson PC and the law firm has reflected her promotion by changing the firm’s name to Martinez, Hart, Thompson & Sanchez PC. Stout Sanchez will continue to represent clients in all types of personal injury cases, concentrating her practice on helping victims of […]
  
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• Peyton Manning jokes, chokes up during retirement remarks

  07-03-2016 19:28 via krqe.com
  
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — His voice cracking with emotion, Peyton Manning said good bye to the game he loved at a news conference packed with friends, family and laughter.
  He threw in some Scripture, some fond memories and even a dig at Super Bowl 50 MVP Von Miller, whom he thanked for taking a break “from your celebrity tour to be here today.”
  He ended it with his signature “Omaha!” and then posed for pictures with more than a dozen of his former teammates with the I
  
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• JetBlue’s trial approach: Will train novices to be pilots

  07-03-2016 19:17
  
  DALLAS — JetBlue Airways is taking applications for 24 slots in a new program to train novice pilots to fly a passenger jet. The airline said Monday that the program — the first of its kind at a large U.S. airline — will cost about $125,000 and take four years to complete. Graduates could wind […]
  
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• Pentagon: US drone strike hits training camp in Somalia

  07-03-2016 19:16
  
  WASHINGTON — The Pentagon says a U.S. drone strike on Saturday struck a training camp for al-Shabab fighters in Somalia who were preparing to launch a large-scale attack, likely against African or U.S. personnel. Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, says the strike hit Raso Camp, killing more than 150 fighters. He says the […]
  
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• Global steel slump with roots in China shakes mining towns

  07-03-2016 19:16
  
  AURORA, Minn. — It’s been almost 10 months since an iron plant closed near Aurora, a century-old mining community in northeastern Minnesota. The only dentist retired in June, and nobody would take over his practice. The only drug store closed in August. And in January, the town of 1,600 residents lost its only grocery store. […]
  
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• 40 cited for attending illegal cockfight in Central Texas

  07-03-2016 19:16
  
  PAIGE, Texas — Investigators have cited 40 people for attending an illegal cockfight in Central Texas. The Bastrop County Sheriff’s Office on Monday announced the crackdown on the cockfighting ring operating in the town of Paige, about 40 miles east of Austin. Sheriff Terry Pickering says authorities are seeking the property owner in the animal […]
  
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