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• Police find car of brothers wanted in couple’s disappearance

  19-04-2016 23:28
  
  SEATTLE — Two brothers wanted in the disappearance and presumed slayings of a Washington state couple may be heading for the Mexican border, authorities said Tuesday. Detectives found a red Volkswagen that had been driven by 53-year-old John Blaine Reed and his brother, 49-year-old Tony Clyde Reed, in Phoenix, but they said the suspects had […]
  
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• US stock indexes close mostly higher; oil price rebounds

  19-04-2016 23:04 via krqe.com
  
  U.S. stocks closed mostly higher on Tuesday, led by gains in energy, mining and financial companies.
  The Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index eked out small gains. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite closed modestly lower, reflecting a slump in technology stocks, which were dragged down by Netflix and IBM.
  The gains in energy and mining companies came as prices for oil, copper and other basic materials rose.
  Investors were mostly focused on the latest batch of c
  
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• Breaking: APD: Officers investigating stabbing at SW ABQ park 

  19-04-2016 23:02
  
  One person was stabbed and officers were trying to take another into custody near 4th and Bridge SW Tuesday afternoon, according to a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department. Officer Tanner Tixier said the stabbing occurred at a park near the 1500 block of 4th SW. “The victim was transported to a local hospital in […]
  
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• Tulsa-based oil, natural gas producer lays off 42 employees

  19-04-2016 22:57
  
  TULSA, Okla. — An oil and natural gas producer has laid off 42 employees, including 38 at its headquarters in Tulsa and one in New Mexico. The Oklahoman reports that WPX Energy Inc. also cut three positions in North Dakota. The layoffs account for 4 percent of the company’s entire workforce. The job cuts come […]
  
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• Yahoo deterioration deepens as company mulls possible sale

  19-04-2016 22:56
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo has hung out a “for sale” sign without doing much to improve its curb appeal. The latest snapshot of the Internet company’s deteriorating condition emerged late Tuesday with the release of its first-quarter report. After subtracting ad commissions, Yahoo’s revenue fell 18 percent from the same time last year, to $859 […]
  
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• Police investigate southwest Albuquerque stabbing

  19-04-2016 22:55 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – One person was taken to a hospital in critical condition after a stabbing in southwest Albuquerque.
  According to the Albuquerque Police Department officers are on scene in the 1500 block of 4th Street SW.
  APD says they believe they have located the suspect at an apartment complex located at 4th Street and Hazledine.
  Further details about the incident have not been released.
  KRQE News 13 will provide updates as they become available.
  
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• UNM’s online registration system temporarily crashed early Monday

  19-04-2016 22:46
  
  At least 1,600 students took to their computers in the early Monday morning hours in attempt to register for their next semester’s classes. But LoboWeb, the online system for self-service administrative tasks including registration, couldn’t handle the traffic. That’s a nuisance, students say, they often encounter when trying to register for new classes. Duane Arruti, […]
  
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• Intel to cut 12,000 jobs as it confronts decline in PCs

  19-04-2016 22:29 via krqe.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Intel says it will cut 12,000 jobs — about 11 percent of its workforce — as it reorganizes to confront a decline in sales of personal computers.
  The chipmaker said the cuts will include “voluntary and involuntary departures” from its operations around the world. Most of the affected workers will be notified in the next 60 days.
  Intel said the cuts will provide about $1.4 billion in annual savings by the time the cuts are completed next year.
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• Chipmaker Intel: 12,000 jobs to be cut over the next year

  19-04-2016 22:29 via krqe.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Chipmaker Intel says it will cut 12,000 jobs, or about 11 percent of its workforce, over the next year.
  There has been no word on where the company will cut jobs.KRQE News 13 will provide more information as it becomes available.
  
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• New students required to attend orientation at CNM

  19-04-2016 22:26 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Incoming CNM students now have a new requirement. Full-time freshmen will now be required to attend the new student orientation session.
  There will also be a requirement for anyone receiving the Bridge to Success scholarship to attend the sessions. Students will get to meet with an academic coach, register for classes and learn more about activities offered on campus.
  The hope is that the more tools students are given the more likely they are to graduate.
  
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• No prison time for NYPD officer in stairwell shooting case

  19-04-2016 21:51 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A former police officer convicted in the accidental shooting death of an unarmed man in a darkened stairwell was spared prison time Tuesday, and a judge reduced his manslaughter conviction to a lesser charge.
  Peter Liang was sentenced to five years’ probation and 800 hours of community service in the 2014 shooting of Akai Gurley, who was walking down a stairway in a public housing complex when the rookie officer fired a bullet into the dark — by accident after b
  
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• Brush fires near tracks halt trains near New York City

  19-04-2016 21:49 via krqe.com
  
  SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) — Amtrak has restored service on its busy Northeast Corridor line between Newark, New Jersey, and New York’s Penn Station.
  Train travel had been disrupted for more than an hour Tuesday by brush fires in the New Jersey communities of Kearny and Secaucus. The fires sent large clouds of thick, black smoke billowing into the air, but no injuries were reported.
  Service was restored after both fires were extinguished. The fires had also spurred New Jersey Transit to div
  
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• Court overturns US school’s transgender bathroom rule

  19-04-2016 21:42 via krqe.com
  
  RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) — A Virginia high school discriminated against a transgender teen by forbidding him from using the boys’ restroom, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday in a case that could have implications for a North Carolina law that critics say discriminates against LGBT people.
  The case of Gavin Grimm has been especially closely watched since North Carolina enacted a law last month that bans transgender people from using public restrooms that correspond to their gender
  
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• Sending more US troops to Iraq fits a 2-year pattern

  19-04-2016 20:33 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s decision to send still more American troops to Iraq, and to put military advisers closer to the front lines against the Islamic State, fits a pattern of ever-deepening involvement in a country whose war Obama exited with supposed finality in December 2011.
  From the initial contingent of 170 U.S. soldiers who entered Baghdad as advisers in June 2014, after the Islamic State overran much of northern and western Iraq and seemed poised to threat
  
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• Texas, New Mexico oil producers push for import limits

  19-04-2016 20:29 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Tired of layoffs and losses resulting from depressed energy prices, royalty owners and drillers in the nation’s most prolific oil-producing area are embarking on a grass-roots campaign aimed at salvaging a major sector of the U.S. economy.
  Their target: foreign oil imports.
  The effort launched with forums this week in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico, home to the Permian Basin.
  Supporters are pushing for the next president of the United States to issue
  
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• At least $500K in damage caused by Eldorado High School flood

  19-04-2016 20:16 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An Albuquerque High School gym is completely flooded resulting in half a million dollars in damages and leaving students without a gym for the rest of the school year.
  Tuesday morning, the entire Eldorado High School gym was filled with two inches of water. Now the water is actually underneath the floor causing irreparable damage.
  It happened Monday night after a water line broke in the boy’s locker room and wasn’t caught until Tuesday morning. B
  
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• $500k in damage caused by Eldorado High School flood

  19-04-2016 20:16 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An Albuquerque High School gym is completely flooded resulting in half a million dollars in damages and leaving students without a gym for the rest of the school year.
  Tuesday morning, the entire Eldorado High School gym was filled with two inches of water. Now the water is actually underneath the floor causing irreparable damage.
  It happened Monday night after a water line broke in the boy’s locker room and wasn’t caught until Tuesday morning. B
  
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• Beetles tread a line along museum gallery wall

  19-04-2016 20:03
  
    Who says kids will be bored by art museums? I bet at least some little ones would get a kick out of this long line of beetles portrayed as vaguely human-like (you only see a portion in the photo). Or maybe they’d like them better if they were ickier-looking. Hard to say. The mural, […]
  
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• Warrant issued for accused burglar who identified as cop

  19-04-2016 19:56
  
  Authorities are asking for help locating one of the people accused of identifying themselves as an Albuquerque police officer and burglarizing an area home.
  
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• Senate passes bill that would boost airport security

  19-04-2016 19:39 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate approved a bipartisan aviation policy bill Tuesday that would boost airport security, extend new protections to airline passengers and help speed the introduction of package-delivery drones.
  The bill, passed on a vote of 95-3, would also extend the Federal Aviation Administration’s programs and powers through Oct. 1, 2017. That authority is due to expire July 15.
  A few hours before the vote, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the legislation &ld
  
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• Updated: Water line break at Eldorado HS causes $550,000 damage

  19-04-2016 19:32
  
  Clean up crews were busy mopping and vacuuming water Tuesday morning from the floor of the athletic building at Eldorado High School. A main line that feeds water into the building and located in the ceiling of the boy’s locker room, broke overnight and flooded the floor of the entire building, said John Dufay, the […]
  
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• New Mexico reconsiders firing guards on duty during escape

  19-04-2016 19:25
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — A labor union representative says New Mexico has backed off a plan to fire guards who overlooked two inmates’ escape while transporting the prisoners. Taracina Morgan and Michael Ortega didn’t notice that the violent felons were missing from the van until four hours later. Miles Conway, spokesman for a public employees’ […]
  
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• Dutch police crack encrypted communications network

  19-04-2016 19:15
  
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Dutch police and prosecutors took down an encrypted communications network Tuesday believed to have been used by criminals in the Netherlands and possibly overseas. Prosecutors said in a statement that they arrested a 36-year-old man in the eastern city of Nijmegen who is suspected of money laundering. He is the owner […]
  
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• Navy scraps mailer over sexism accusations

  19-04-2016 19:14
  
  MADISON, Wis. — The U.S. Navy has scrapped a recruiting mailer that promised women they could join while staying in touch with their feminine side. Navy officials said Tuesday they made the decision amid criticism that the wording was condescending and perpetuated stereotypes. The mailer says the Navy offers women opportunities “most girls aren’t even […]
  
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• Albuquerque police ID suspect in fake cop burglary case

  19-04-2016 19:04 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque Police have identified one of the two suspects who were caught on camera claiming to be cops before burglarizing a northwest Albuquerque home.
  A home surveillance camera caught armed thieves kicking down the door of a North Valley home, claiming they were Albuquerque police officers serving a search warrant on Friday morning.
  Police now say they are looking for 34-year-old Shane Garcia in connection to the burglary. According to police, Garc
  
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• State withdraws plan to fire prison transport van guards

  19-04-2016 18:56 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The prison van guards facing termination after two inmates escaped on their watch will not be fired.
  That’s according to the Santa Fe New Mexican.
  Last month, Lionel Clah and Joseph Cruz escaped a prison transport van in Artesia sparking a statewide manhunt. Both were caught days later in Albuquerque.
  Officers Taracina Morgan and Michael Ortega were in charge at the time and have been on leave since the escape.
  The New Mexican reports the state recently wit
  
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• Trump has slip of tongue discussing 9/11 at Buffalo rally

  19-04-2016 18:51 via krqe.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Donald Trump made an unfortunate slip-of-the-tongue while campaigning in Buffalo, New York, at his final campaign rally before Tuesday’s big-prize primary.
  Trump was about to deliver prepared remarks lauding New York values when he mistakenly mentioned the name of a popular convenience store chain in place of 9/11.
  He told the crowd: “It’s very close to my heart because I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen down at 7-Eleven, down
  
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• Gov. Martinez won’t visit North Carolina convention

  19-04-2016 18:45 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez is canceling plans to travel to a state Republican convention in North Carolina amid controversy over a new law there affecting access to public restrooms by transgender people.
  A spokesman for Martinez said Tuesday that the governor and chairwoman of the Republican Governors Association has a scheduling conflict and will be in New Mexico during the May convention.
  Spokesman Chris Sanchez declined to specify the scheduling conflict or s
  
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• Still many questions about Zika’s threat to pregnant women

  19-04-2016 18:38
  
  WASHINGTON — Zika may stand convicted of causing devastating birth defects but there still are lots of questions about how much of a threat the virus poses to pregnant women, and what to do about it. Part of the answer has to do with geography: So far, mosquitoes aren’t spreading Zika in the mainland U.S. […]
  
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• Governor: Social media to broadcast lenient DUI sentences

  19-04-2016 18:36
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The governor of New Mexico says social media feeds will soon tell you if drunken driving offenders are let off too easy. Gov. Susana Martinez is set to announce the program Tuesday that will send citizen watchdogs to monitor court hearings by state judges who are routinely lenient on drunken driving cases. […]
  
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• Albuquerque Police set up perimeter in response to suspected domestic dispute

  19-04-2016 18:34 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Police officers are currently responding to a possible domestic dispute in southeast Albuquerque and say they have set up a perimeter.
  Police were called out to the 1400 block of Carlisle SE after a tip from a neighbor about a couple and that the man might not be allowing the woman to leave. Police also say that the man could possibly be armed.
  At this point, SWAT has not been called out, but information is limited at this time.
  Police have shut down Carlisl
  
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• Saint Louis University investigates team’s racist texts

  19-04-2016 18:30
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Saint Louis University is investigating — and condemning — racially insensitive texts sent last year by two members of the school’s overwhelmingly white baseball team, a top campus diversity official said Tuesday, calling the texts “appalling.” First reported last week by the school’s student newspaper, the texts were sent in May […]
  
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• Today in History: April 19

  19-04-2016 18:22 via krqe.com
  
  Today is Tuesday, April 19, the 110th day of 2016. There are 256 days left in the year.
  Today’s Highlight in History:
  On April 19, 1966, Bobbi Gibb, 23, became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon at a time when only men were allowed to participate. (Gibb jumped into the middle of the pack after the sound of the starting pistol and finished in 3:21:40.)
  On this date:
  In 1775, the American Revolutionary War began with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
  In 1865, a funeral was held a
  
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• The Latest: Shelters open in Houston area for flood evacuees

  19-04-2016 18:14
  
  HOUSTON — The Latest on heavy rains and flooding in the Houston area, plus other parts of Texas (all times local): 11 a.m. Nearly a dozen Red Cross shelters have opened in the Houston area to help hundreds of flood evacuees after storms dumped more than a foot of rain. A Red Cross statement Tuesday […]
  
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• High court tie lets states face lawsuits in other states

  19-04-2016 18:13
  
  WASHINGTON — A tie vote from the Supreme Court means California officials can be hauled into a Nevada state court to face allegations in a long-running tax dispute with a Nevada inventor. But on a separate issue in the case, the justices ruled 6-2 that Nevada can’t award damages greater than what California or Nevada […]
  
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• Dozens killed in Taliban attack on Afghan security agency

  19-04-2016 18:05 via krqe.com
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban attackers in Afghanistan staged an assault on a government security agency in the capital, Kabul, on Tuesday morning, killing at least 28 people and wounding more than 320.
  The assault, which include at least two attackers and a car rigged with explosives, came a week after the Taliban announced their annual spring offensive, vowing large-scale attacks” in the 15th year of their war against the U.S.-backed Afghan government.
  In Tuesday’s assaul
  
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• Tuesday marks 21st anniversary of Oklahoma City Bombing

  19-04-2016 17:59 via krqe.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (CNN) – Tuesday marks 21 years since the deadly bombing at the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City.
  At 9:02 a.m. on April 19th, 1995, anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb outside the building, killing 168 people, including 19 young children who were in the day care center.
  More than 650 were injured.
  The blast damaged or destroyed more than 300 nearby buildings.
  McVeigh was executed for his crimes and his co-conspirator, Terry Nichols
  
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• FBI: Using third-parties to break encryption not solution

  19-04-2016 17:54 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior FBI official says she doesn’t think hiring third parties to help the FBI hack into locked iPhones should be the solution.
  Amy Hess, executive assistant director of the FBI’s science and technology branch, was asked at a congressional hearing about the Justice Department’s decision to use an unidentified outside contractor to break into a phone used by one of the San Bernardino, California attackers. That branch oversees the use of surveillance t
  
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• FDA campaign takes aim at chewing tobacco use by rural teens

  19-04-2016 16:55 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Government health regulators will team up with minor league baseball teams as part of a new campaign to discourage rural teenagers from using chewing tobacco.
  The Food and Drug Administration says its latest effort targets white, rural males who are more likely to use dip, chew and other smokeless tobacco products. More than 31 percent of males in this group, or roughly 629,000 teens, are at-risk for using chewing tobacco, according to the agency.
  Last year the FDA launch
  
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• Prosecutors: Teen killed man, posed with gun on Facebook

  19-04-2016 16:41
  
  SEATTLE — Prosecutors have accused a Seattle teen of fatally shooting a man, stealing his money and then posing with the victim’s gun in a picture she posted on Facebook after the killing. Seattlepi.com reports (http://goo.gl/cljj8i ) that the 16-year-old was arrested last week in the death of Emmanuel Gondo, who was found shot to […]
  
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• Police seek suspect after woman slain in Texas church

  19-04-2016 16:40
  
  MIDLOTHIAN, Texas — A fitness instructor has been slain at a North Texas church and investigators are seeking a man dressed as a police officer who was seen on security video. Midlothian (mid-LOHTH’-ee-uhn) police say the body of 45-year-old Terri “Missy” Bevers (BEE’-vers) of Red Oak was located Monday by a student arriving for a […]
  
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• Navajo Nation lawmaker convicted in criminal case loses post

  19-04-2016 16:40
  
  WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — A Navajo Nation lawmaker who was convicted in a criminal trial of funneling nearly $34,000 in tribal funds to his family has lost his post. The tribe’s election office declared a vacancy Friday for the legislative seat held by Mel Begay. A jury found Begay guilty on 10 counts in late […]
  
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• Yuma seeks grant to buy body cameras for police

  19-04-2016 16:39
  
  YUMA, Ariz. — The Yuma Police Department is seeking a federal grant to pay for body cameras for its patrol officers. The Yuma Sun reports (http://bit.ly/1qUNpQu ) that the city is applying for a U.S. Justice Department grant to buy the cameras and pay for related costs. Yuma Police Chief John Lekan told city officials […]
  
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• Colo. officer cleared in fatal shooting of armed man

  19-04-2016 16:39
  
  DENVER — Prosecutors have determined that a Mountain View police officer had been acting in self-defense when he fatally shot a man armed with a shotgun during a traffic stop in Denver. The Denver Post reports (http://dpo.st/20SDJCg ) that the Denver District Attorney’s Office announced Monday that Officer Andrew Fulton would not face any criminal […]
  
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• Aftershocks rattle Japan as deaths from quakes rise to 45

  19-04-2016 16:38 via krqe.com
  
  MINAMIASO, Japan (AP) — Japan’s southern quake-hit area was rattled by a strong aftershock Tuesday and searchers found a woman’s body buried under landslide rubble, raising the death toll from the twin earthquakes to 45.
  More than 100,000 evacuees, some sleeping in their cars and others in gymnasiums or community centers, were bracing for another chilly night. Many people are afraid to stay in their homes as aftershocks continued to shake the area on the southern island of Kyus
  
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• Film and Music Experience happening this week

  19-04-2016 15:28
  
  The Albuquerque Film and Music Experience began Monday but one of the big film premieres is Tuesday night.
  
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• Police still searching for person who shot teen

  19-04-2016 15:21
  
  Joseph Montoya could've been seriously hurt, or even killed, when Albuquerque police say someone shot him after robbing him for his cell phone.
  
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• Local Museum host week long science camps

  19-04-2016 15:15 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – One local museum is using static electricity to make a fun experiment that can be done at home.
  The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History demonstrates that static electricity isn’t just a recipe for a bad hair day.
  Jennifer Hayden and Ashleigh Olguin with the museum joined KRQE’s This Morning team to demonstrate how a balloon can make a soda can race. Watch above.
  The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History is h
  
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• Expert suggests precautions should be taken concerning Zika Virus

  19-04-2016 15:07 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Just recently, the Zika virus became topic of conversation, but it still seemed scarce and at a distance. However, that may not be the case anymore.
  Health officials have been using the term, “scarier than we thought, ” when talking about the virus. 
  Dr. Roderick McVeety with ABQ Health Partner joined KRQE’s This Morning show to discuss how concerned the community needs to be.
  This is a virus contracted by mosquito bites. Women looking
  
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• Officials: Could be 2 more months to fix Portales leak

  19-04-2016 15:06 via krqe.com
  
  PORTALES, N.M. (AP) – Officials in one eastern New Mexico community say it could take another two months to fix a leak that left a Portales street covered with water.
  Resident Pete Trujillo told the Portales News-Tribune that he called city officials numerous times over the last two months about the leak.
  City Manager Sammy Standefer says utility workers haven’t been able to isolate the problem. The goal is to fix it without shutting off the water for an extended time.
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