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• NM Health Dept: San Juan County man dies of hantavirus

  17-05-2016 23:59
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — State health officials say a 30-year-old man from San Juan County has died of hantavirus. New Mexico Department of Health officials also announced Tuesday that an 84-year-old man from Santa Fe County currently is hospitalized with hantavirus. It’s the third and fourth cases of hantavirus in New Mexico this year. An […]
  
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• ABQ ranks 14th for best summer destinations

  17-05-2016 23:53
  
  Albuquerque placed 14th on WalletHub’s list of the best summer travel destinations in the U.S. The financial website ranked 80 of the largest metro areas to identify the most “wallet-friendly and Instagram-worthy summer destinations.” The site used 30 metrics ranging from “cost of the cheapest flight” to “number of attractions” to “diversity of activities.” Albuquerque […]
  
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• Georgia governor blasts transgender student order

  17-05-2016 23:50
  
  ATLANTA — Georgia’s governor and other statewide leaders on Tuesday criticized the Obama administration’s recent directive on transgender students as an abuse of federal authority. But in his first comments on the issue since Friday’s directive, Republican Gov. Nathan Deal stopped short of pledging legal action, a step demanded by GOP state senators objecting to […]
  
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• Spokesman: Indicted Texas AG has not been asked to resign

  17-05-2016 23:45
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who faces felony charges of defrauding investors unrelated to his office, has the support of Gov. Greg Abbott and other state leaders and hasn’t been asked to resign, a Paxton spokesman said Tuesday. The state’s top prosecutor, a Republican, has faced months of speculation that the state’s […]
  
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• South Carolina passes bill banning abortion after 19 weeks

  17-05-2016 23:45
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Legislature has passed a bill prohibiting nearly all abortions after 19 weeks, becoming the 17th state to pass the restrictive ban. The legislation will now head to Gov. Nikki Haley’s desk. The Republican has said she will almost certainly sign it. Similar laws are in effect in 12 states. […]
  
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• Police identify man found dead in Hotel Cascada parking lot

  17-05-2016 23:17
  
  Police have identified the man found dead in the parking lot of a large Albuquerque hotel near I-40 and Carlisle Saturday. He is 55-year-old Thomas Mitchell, who was traveling through Albuquerque when he got in a physical struggle with another hotel guest and died, according to Albuquerque police spokesman Tanner Tixier. But details of what […]
  
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• Rising gas prices are driving a surge in inflation

  17-05-2016 23:12
  
  (c) 2016, The Washington Post. WASHINGTON – Rising gas prices helped drive a surge in inflation last month, according to government data released Tuesday, with the cost of goods rising at the fastest pace in three years. The Labor Department reported that the consumer price index, a closely watched gauge of inflation, rose 0.4 percent […]
  
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• FBI checking pond in ’06 killing of 16-year-old Arizona girl

  17-05-2016 23:02
  
  MCNARY, Ariz. — Federal agents are focusing on a pond in eastern Arizona as they continue their investigation into the 2006 killing of a 16-year-old girl. An FBI dive team was sent Tuesday to search in and around a pond in McNary, a community on the Fort Apache Reservation, officials said. The body of Katherine […]
  
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• Police: Golden, Colo. man stabbed defending home in botched robbery

  17-05-2016 23:01
  
  GOLDEN, Colo. — Police in Golden say a man was stabbed while trying to defend his home from three intruders who broke into the wrong house. Investigators say the young men were expecting to find $10,000 in cash and drugs inside the home after they knocked on the door around 9 p.m. Monday. Instead, they […]
  
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• Phoenix police: Dog dies after 5 hours locked in hot car

  17-05-2016 23:01
  
  PHOENIX — A Phoenix woman is facing a felony charge of animal cruelty after her dog was left in a locked car for five hours and died. Phoenix police say 44-year-old Deanna Caroline Zapata was arrested Sunday. Zapata told officers she was parked outside a self-storage facility and the facility didn’t allow animals inside. She […]
  
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• Man found dead in hotel parking lot identified

  17-05-2016 22:57 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Police have identified the man who was found dead in the parking lot of an Albuquerque hotel Saturday.
  Officers were sent to a parking lot near Hotel Cascada around 2 a.m. Saturday, where they found a dead man’s body. According to the Albuquerque Police Department, the body was identified as 55-year-old Thomas Mitchell. APD says Mitchell was traveling through Albuquerque at the time of his death.
  Police say Mitchell died from injuries he received durin
  
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• PNM’s annual shareholders’ meeting sparks protest

  17-05-2016 22:49 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – PNM is holding its annual shareholders’ meeting and local protesters say they’ll be watching.
  PNM officials will hold their meeting in Lewisville, Texas.
  Protest organizers held a rally in Albuquerque calling for the company to use more renewable energy sources.
  Right now, PNM is seeking a nearly 14 percent rate increase for customers. The new rate request would raise more than $120 million. The company says it will pay for investments they&
  
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• Man crashes truck onto National Mall, taken into custody

  17-05-2016 22:44 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) — A section of the National Mall in Washington D.C. was shutdown for a portion of Tuesday afternoon after a pickup truck was driven onto the lawn and parked in the middle of the grass.
  The driver, who was detained shortly after the incident, reportedly issued a HAZMAT threat, which prompted a large police response.
  Police and fire crews have completely surrounded the part of the lawn where the truck is parked pic.twitter.com/hIt2qRmZUX
  — Alex
  
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• PNM shareholders reject tying executive compensation to carbon goals

  17-05-2016 21:55
  
  Shareholders at PNM Resources’ annual meeting Tuesday morning rejected proposals to set targets for the company to reduce its carbon emissions and tie executive compensation to those goals. The proposals, which also called for annual emissions-achievement reports by management, came from a small group of stockholders who recently acquired shares to attend the company’s annual […]
  
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• Distracted engineer blamed for deadly Amtrak wreck

  17-05-2016 21:46 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Amtrak engineer whose speeding train ran off the rails in Philadelphia last year was apparently distracted by word that a train nearby had been hit by a rock, federal investigators concluded Tuesday, pinning most of the blame on him for the wreck that killed eight people.
  “He went, in a matter of seconds, from distraction to disaster,” National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said.
  At the same time, the NTSB said a contributing factor was
  
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• Retired judge to hear ex-Gov. Richardson’s hit-and-run case

  17-05-2016 21:41 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The hit-and-run case involving former Governor Bill Richardson can now move forward.
  Retired Judge Stephen Pfeffer has been assigned to the case.
  Richardson is charged with following too closely and failing to report an accident after a January rear end crash in Santa Fe.
  While Richardson claims he didn’t even realize he had hit someone, witnesses say it was enough to push the other car into the intersection.
  The initial judge on the case recused herself
  
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• Report finds segregation in education on the rise

  17-05-2016 21:28 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Six decades after the Supreme Court outlawed separating students by race, stubborn disparities persist in how the country educates its poor and minority children.
  A report Tuesday by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found deepening segregation of black and Hispanic students at high-poverty K-12 public schools. These schools offered fewer math, science and college prep classes, while having higher rates of students who are held back in ninth grade, suspende
  
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• Trial in triple homicide case begins in Santa Fe

  17-05-2016 21:17
  
  SANTA FE — The trial against a man who allegedly killed three members of the Ortiz family in El Rancho in 2011 began Tuesday in Santa Fe District Court and is scheduled to run all the way through next week. Nicholas Ortiz is accused of killing Lloyd Ortiz, 55, Dixie Ortiz, 53, and 21-year-old Steven […]
  
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• Scientists sickened by norovirus at Santa Fe conference

  17-05-2016 21:16
  
    SANTA FE – More than 30 scientists fell sick after attending a symposium in Santa Fe in early May. The New Mexican reports that 251 people attended the biomedical research conference at the Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza hotel. The state health department says dozens of them were infected with norovirus, which causes vomiting, […]
  
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• 3.1 quake reported near Texas-New Mexico border

  17-05-2016 21:12
  
  CARLSBAD, N.M. — A magnitude 3.1 earthquake struck in a remote part of southeastern New Mexico near the Texas border, but there have been no reports of any damage. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake hit Tuesday morning southwest of Carlsbad near the boundary of Guadalupe Mountains National Park. The ranger station at Dog […]
  
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• Report: GMO crops not harmful to humans, but weed resistance is a problem

  17-05-2016 21:10
  
  CHICAGO — Genetically engineered crops present no more risk to human health than conventionally bred crops, but the evolution of resistance in both insects and weeds caused by growing such crops has become “a major agricultural problem,” according to a long-awaited study released Tuesday by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The study’s […]
  
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• Small firms can now sell shares to fans through crowdfunding sites

  17-05-2016 21:08
  
  LOS ANGELES — Like so many entrepreneurs these days, Adam Glickman believes his company is making the world a better place. In his case, it’s doing so one funny condom at a time. His Los Angeles company, Graphic Armor, sells condoms with custom and stock graphics printed on the latex. Tie-dyed? He’s got ’em. Leopard […]
  
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• Irrigation ditch breach cuts off water for New Mexico city

  17-05-2016 20:14 via krqe.com
  
  FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) – A breach in an irrigation ditch has cut off the water supply of a northwestern New Mexico community.
  The Daily Times reports that Bloomfield city officials are urging residents to take conservation measures after an 80-foot stretch of bank along the Bloomfield Irrigation Ditch collapsed Monday morning.
  The ditch fills the city’s reservoir with water from the San Juan River. City Manager Eric Strahl says there is enough water in the reservoir to last up to 15 d
  
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• Source: Marshal opened fire during Monday night arrest

  17-05-2016 19:51
  
  A U.S. marshal opened fire in northwest Albuquerque Monday night while trying to serve a warrant on a wanted felon, sources said.
  
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• Coroner names 4 Texans who died in Mississippi plane crash

  17-05-2016 19:30
  
  TUPELO, Miss. — Mississippi officials have released the identities of two couples from Texas who died in a plane crash near Tupelo Regional Airport. Lee County Coroner Carolyn Green said Tuesday that the dead include the pilot, 75-year-old Henry “Jack” Jackson, and his wife, 70-year-old Gwynn Groggel. Another married couple, 69-year-old Charles Torti and 59-year-old […]
  
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• Senate approves Sept. 11 legislation despite Saudi threats

  17-05-2016 19:25
  
  WASHINGTON — The Senate passed legislation Tuesday that would allow families of Sept. 11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia despite a White House veto threat and fierce objections from the U.S. ally. The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, approved by voice vote, had triggered a threat from Riyadh to pull billions […]
  
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• Judge halts enforcement of a portion of DC’s strict gun law

  17-05-2016 19:25
  
  WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Washington has issued a preliminary injunction that halts enforcement of a provision of the city’s strict gun law. The decision conflicts with a previous judge’s assessment of the law earlier this year. The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon on Tuesday clashes with a ruling from U.S. […]
  
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• Almost half of heart attacks are silent; they’re still risky

  17-05-2016 19:25
  
  CHICAGO — A new study found almost half of all heart attacks cause no obvious symptoms, yet they can still be life-threatening. The research followed more than 9,000 middle-aged men and women for almost 13 years. It’s one of the biggest studies to examine so-called silent heart attacks, and to explore them across racial and […]
  
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• Law giving judges access to juvenile records takes effect

  17-05-2016 19:17
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A handful of New Mexico laws are set to take effect Wednesday, including one allowing judges to review some crime suspects’ juvenile court histories when making sentencing and bail decisions. Jaydon’s Law, named for an Albuquerque teen who was shot and killed last year, was one of the more high-profile, tough-on-crime measure […]
  
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• Santa Fe man charged with murder of daughter

  17-05-2016 19:11
  
  The father of a woman who was killed at their Santa Fe home in January has been arrested for her murder. The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office announced in a media release that William Kelley, of Santa Fe, was arrested at his home Monday and charged with one count of homicide and tampering with evidence […]
  
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• Santa Fe man charged in daughter’s death

  17-05-2016 19:01 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – A Santa Fe man has been arrested in connection to his daughter’s 2015 death.
  Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office has charged 65-year-old William Kelley in the death of his daughter Julieanne Kelley.
  In January 2015 William reported Julieanne missing saying she left the house and left her keys behind. William told investigators that he had tried to find his daughter on their property.
  Investigators searched the property and later found Julieanne’s body
  
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• Lawyer for Waco biker seeks to disqualify district attorney

  17-05-2016 18:59
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas — An attorney for one of the bikers arrested after a shooting melee outside a Waco, Texas, restaurant last year that left nine dead is seeking to disqualify the district attorney and others from participating in any of the pending cases. Abigail Anastasio filed the motion Tuesday in district court in Waco, […]
  
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• State council steps aside; law school to be named for Scalia

  17-05-2016 18:58
  
  LEXINGTON, Va. — George Mason University is free to rename its law school for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after a state council decided it had no oversight role in the matter. The school announced plans to rename the school for Scalia back in March. The new name came in conjunction with a […]
  
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• Irrigation ditch breach cuts off water for Bloomfield

  17-05-2016 18:58
  
  FARMINGTON, N.M. — A breach in an irrigation ditch has cut off the water supply a northwestern New Mexico community. The Daily Times reports (http://bit.ly/1V7Gyz2 ) that Bloomfield city officials are urging residents to take conservation measures after an 80-foot stretch of bank along the Bloomfield Irrigation Ditch collapsed Monday morning. The ditch fills the […]
  
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• Biologist: Rabbits and skunks can pass bird flu to ducks

  17-05-2016 18:58
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa — A government wildlife researcher has found that rabbits and skunks can become infected with the bird flu virus and shed it enough to infect ducks — offering scientists one more clue about how bird flu may move in the environment and spread between farms, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. Experiments […]
  
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• Today in History: May 17

  17-05-2016 18:46 via krqe.com
  
  Today is Tuesday, May 17, the 138th day of 2016. There are 228 days left in the year.
  Today’s Highlight in History:
  On May 17, 1954, a unanimous U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision which held that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal, and therefore unconstitutional.
  On this date:
  In 1792, the New York Stock Exchange had its origins as a group of brokers met under a tree on Wall Street.
  In 1875, the first Kentucky Derby was
  
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• Weather observer battles 109 MPH winds

  17-05-2016 18:36 via krqe.com
  
  (CNN) – Extreme weather battered the Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire Monday. There hurricane force winds howled across the 6,288-foot tall peak. Weather observers did their best to brave the 109 mile-per-hour winds and they caught it all on camera.Filed under: Home, News, SmartTV, Weather
  
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• Sitel call center is hiring 350 in ABQ

  17-05-2016 18:23
  
  Sitel is hiring 350 people at its Albuquerque call center for full-time permanent and seasonal jobs. The jobs are to provide “inbound customer experience support for a leading telecommunications provider.” To fill the positions, the company will hold a job fair from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 25 at its call center, 4420 The […]
  
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• Blowing dust advisory issued for area of past I-10 closures

  17-05-2016 18:18 via krqe.com
  
  SAN SIMON, Ariz. (AP) – A blowing dust advisory has been issued for an area where low-visibility conditions have forced multiple closures of a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 10 in southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico.
  The advisory issued Tuesday by the National Weather Service for eastern Cochise County in Arizona is set to run from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
  The latest of at least six closures since late April shut I-10 between Wilcox, Arizona, and Lordsburg, New Mexico, for about four
  
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• Guy Clark, Grammy-winning musician, dead at 74

  17-05-2016 17:54 via krqe.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Grammy-winning country singer-songwriter Guy Clark, who wrote hits like “L.A. Freeway” and “Desperados Waiting for a Train,” has died. He was 74.
  Clark died Tuesday at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, according to his manager, Keith Case. He’d been in poor health, although Case didn’t give an official cause of death.
  A native of Monahans, Texas, Clark befriended fellow songwriter Townes Van Zandt and Mickey Newbury. Together with
  
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• Senate easily advances $1.1 billion in Zika funding

  17-05-2016 17:49 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted decisively on Tuesday in favor of a bipartisan $1.1 billion measure to combat the Zika virus this year and next, cutting back President Barack Obama’s request but offering significantly more money to fight Zika than would House GOP conservatives.
  The 68-29 vote propelled the measure over a filibuster and sets the stage to add the Zika funding to an unrelated spending bill. It comes three months after Obama requested $1.9 billion to battle the virus,
  
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• Grammy-winning Tejano star Emilio Navaira, 53, dies in Texas

  17-05-2016 17:40 via krqe.com
  
  NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP) — The Grammy-winning Tejano musician known to his fans simply as Emilio has died. He was 53.
  Preliminary results indicate Emilio Navaira died of natural causes Monday night, said David Ferguson, a police spokesman in New Braunfels, Texas.
  Navaira released nearly a dozen albums in Spanish and English, mostly a mix of traditional Mexican music and accordion-based polka known as Tejano but also some country. He won a Best Tejano Album Grammy in 2002 for “Acuerd
  
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• Meteor captured on dashcam video lights up New England sky

  17-05-2016 17:39
  
  PORTLAND, Maine — A Maine police sergeant looking for speeders has captured a fireball streaking across the sky on his dashboard camera. The bright flash visible from several states early Tuesday was apparently left by a meteor burning up as it passed through the earth’s atmosphere. The American Meteor Society reported sightings in Maine, Vermont, […]
  
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• Fish killed after disease found at 2 Colorado hatcheries

  17-05-2016 17:39
  
  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Managers have killed fish at two Colorado hatcheries because of a bacterial kidney disease. The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports (http://bit.ly/1NwPVH8 ) that Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials killed and buried all the fish at its Glenwood Springs hatchery after first noticing signs of the disease known as BKD in September. […]
  
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• Copperhead snake bites worker at home improvement store

  17-05-2016 17:39
  
  DENVER, N.C. — A poisonous snake in a tree in the gardening department has bitten an employee at a home improvement store in North Carolina. The East Lincoln Fire Department said in a Facebook post that officers were called to a Lowe’s Home Improvement store Monday about 25 miles northwest of Charlotte. Authorities said a […]
  
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• Officer who kneed UNM student in groin gets plea deal

  17-05-2016 17:12 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Former Albuquerque Police officer Pablo Padilla will get unsupervised probation and community service for kneeing a University of New Mexico law student in the groin two years ago after striking a plea deal Tuesday.
  Padilla had been facing felony aggravated battery and tampering with evidence charges stemming from a traffic stop that turned violent in April 2014. The former officer was facing up to four and a half years in prison. Under the plea deal, P
  
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• Officer accused of kneeing student in groin sentenced to community service

  17-05-2016 17:12 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – An ex-cop, accused of kneeing a law school student in the groin was sentenced on Tuesday.
  A judge previously denied a request to move the trial of former Albuquerque Police Department officer Pablo Padillo out of Bernalillo County.
  Padilla is accused of kneeing DWI suspect Jeremy Martin during a traffic stop in 2014. Martin says he lost a testicle after the incident.
  In court Tuesday, Padilla was sentenced to 25 hours community service and unsuperv
  
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• Former tribal agent pleads guilty to theft in embezzlement

  17-05-2016 16:44 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – A former purchasing agent for the Jicarilla Apache Nation has pleaded guilty to theft in the embezzlement of $23,000 from the northwestern New Mexico tribe.
  The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 46-year-old Vanessa Cohoe pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Albuquerque and that a plea agreement requires her to serve a probation term and pay $5,000 in restitution to the tribe.
  The office says $5,000 is the difference between the total of unauthorized purchases
  
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• Police say 4 firefighters called in false alarms for thrills

  17-05-2016 16:41
  
  ALTOONA, Pa. — Police say four central Pennsylvania volunteer firefighters called in five false alarms earlier this year because they enjoyed the thrill of riding in fire trucks. The Logan Township Volunteer Fire Department has suspended the men and police have charged them with making the false alarms. Online court records don’t list attorneys for […]
  
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• Report: Black America doing much better than 40 years ago

  17-05-2016 16:40
  
  WASHINGTON — African-Americans are doing about the same as they have in previous years as the nation rises out of the Great Recession, and much better than they did when its first “State of Black America” report came out 40 years ago, the National Urban League said Tuesday. The new report, “Locked Out: Education, Jobs […]
  
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