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• Hotel worker accused of sneaking into woman’s room, molesting her

  03-06-2016 23:54 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) –  A hotel worker is under arrest after being accused of sneaking into a woman’s room in the middle of the night and groping her while she slept next to her husband and just feet from her kids.
  It’s one of those things you don’t think about at a hotel: how many people have key cards to your room.
  Now a maintenance man at the Hilton Doubletree on Cerillos in Santa Fe is in deep trouble.
  According to a criminal complaint, in late April a guest cal
  
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• Third travel-related Zika case confirmed in NM

  03-06-2016 23:48
  
  A 41-year-old Chaves County man was confirmed to have New Mexico’s third travel-related case of Zika, state health officials said said Friday. The man acquired the viral illness while traveling to Central America, the New Mexico Department of Health said in a written statement. Zika is spread primarily through the bite of an infected mosquito. […]
  
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• Third case of Zika confirmed in New Mexico

  03-06-2016 23:44 via krqe.com
  
  CHAVES COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – Another case of travel-related Zika has been confirmed in New Mexico. On Friday, The New Mexico Department of Health announced a 41-year-old Chaves County man has Zika.
  Officials say the man got the virus when he was traveling to Central America. The New Mexico Department of Health said, “One of the mosquito species that can transmit the Zika virus has been found in Chaves County in the summer and fall; however, in this case, there was no risk of loc
  
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• Ex-Air Force colonel held hostage in Iran dies in Arizona

  03-06-2016 23:43
  
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — A former Air Force colonel who was one of 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days has died in Arizona. A family member said Friday that Thomas E. Schaefer died of congestive heart failure Tuesday at a hospice in Scottsdale at age 85. Schaefer was a military attache at the […]
  
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• 3rd ex-Texas Tech player charged with felony burglary

  03-06-2016 23:42
  
  LUBBOCK, Texas — A third Texas Tech football player who was kicked off the team last month has been charged with burglary in connection with the theft of at least seven guns, jail and court records showed. Records show 20-year-year Dakota Devon Allen was arrested late Thursday on a charge of burglary of a habitation, […]
  
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• UNM patients' medical information mailed to incorrect addresses

  03-06-2016 23:25
  
  The University of New Mexico Hospital notified more than 2,800 patients about limited medical information that may have been inadvertently mailed to an incorrect addresses due to a technical issue with the hospital billing systems.
  
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• New emojis coming to smartphones this month

  03-06-2016 22:58 via krqe.com
  
  RICHMOND, Va (WRIC) — Are you tired of using the same “tears of joy” or “stuck out tongue winking” emojis?
  Well, get ready for over 70 new emojis to be at your fingertips.
  The new emojis also include “rolling on the floor laughing,” “sneezing face,” and “dancing man.” Animal, food, and sports lovers will get their fix with ones depicting a shark, bacon, pancakes, water polo and even a fencer.Filed under: Home, National, World, New
  
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• VIDEO: Girl with prosthetic leg bursts into tears after given extraordinary doll

  03-06-2016 22:56 via krqe.com
  
  CYPRESS, TEXAS (NEWS10) – A girl with a prosthetic leg got a very special gift, resulting in a whirlwind of emotions. The video of her reaction is now being shared around the world. You might want to grab a tissue before watching.
  Courtney Fletcher Bennett posted a video on her Facebook page of her daughter receiving an American Girl doll as a gift, but this wasn’t any regular doll.
  According to the video, Bennett’s daughter Emma has a prosthetic leg. And with the hel
  
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• US-backed Syrian fighters push toward IS stronghold in north

  03-06-2016 22:52
  
  BEIRUT — U.S.-backed fighters pushed ahead in their offensive in northern Syria on Friday, getting closer to a stronghold of the Islamic State group, opposition activists said. The predominantly Kurdish Syria Democratic Forces took at least four more villages on the way to the IS-held city of Manbij, according to two activist groups, the Britain-based […]
  
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• Oregon train derailment spills oil, sparks fire

  03-06-2016 22:51
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. — A train towing cars full of oil has derailed in Oregon’s scenic Columbia River Gorge, sparking a fire that is sending a plume of black smoke high into the sky. The accident near Mosier, Oregon, happened just after the noon hour Friday. Ken Armstrong, spokesman for the Oregon Department of Forestry, says […]
  
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• Obama cuts prison sentences for 42 drug offenders

  03-06-2016 22:51 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama shortened the sentences Friday of 42 people serving time for drug-related offenses, continuing a push for clemency that has ramped up in the final year of his administration.
  Roughly half of the 42 receiving commutations Friday were serving life sentences. Most are nonviolent offenders, although a few were also charged with firearms violations. The White House said many of them would have already finished their sentences if they had been sentenced u
  
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• Cultivating Coders graduates first bootcamp

  03-06-2016 22:33
  
  Eleven students graduated from the first Cultivating Coders bootcamp class in Farmington on Friday. Cultivating Coders, started in Albuquerque, is the first coding bootcamp to take its classes to the Navajo nation, according to the company, and it plans several more bootcamps throughout the year in both urban and rural areas. The company’s goal is […]
  
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• Mother says slain daughter lured through online dating

  03-06-2016 22:25
  
  PHOENIX — The mother of a slain Phoenix woman said her daughter had recently revived an online dating profile in search of fairy tale romance. She said that her daughter was instead lured by a man suspected of murdering her and leaving the body in a shallow desert grave near Tonopah, Arizona. Maricopa County Sheriff’s […]
  
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• New: With triple-digit temps, staying cool takes creativity

  03-06-2016 22:24
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. — A heat wave in western and southwestern U.S. states has left many scattering from the sun. Officials in California, Oregon and desert Southwest states say the weekend is bringing more dangerous, triple-digit temperatures. That leaves few options for people looking to avoid the dangers of excessive heat. In Arizona, many travel short […]
  
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• Trump changes tone, seeks endorsement from Latina governor

  03-06-2016 21:52 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Donald Trump is making indirect overtures to New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez in search of an endorsement from the nation’s only Latina governor.
  Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks on Friday confirmed comments the presumptive GOP presidential nominee made Thursday during a telephone call with a reporter for the Santa Fe New Mexican.
  Trump said he respects and likes Martinez and would like to have her endorsement.
  Trump chastised Martinez last month for not doing her jo
  
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• US gains just 38K jobs, fewest in 5 years; rate at 4.7 pct.

  03-06-2016 21:14 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers drastically slowed their hiring in May, adding just 38,000 jobs, the fewest in more than five years and a sign of concern after the economy barely grew in the first three months of the year.
  The much-weaker-than-expected figure raised doubts that the Federal Reserve will increase the short-term interest rate it controls at its next meeting in mid-June or perhaps even at its subsequent meeting in late July. Many analysts had expected an increase by July.
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• Fort Hood officials were closing roads as truck overturned

  03-06-2016 21:11 via krqe.com
  
  FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Fort Hood commanders were in the process of closing roads on the sprawling Army post in Central Texas when a truck carrying 12 soldiers overturned in a fast-flowing flooded creek during a training exercise, killing five and leaving four missing, officials said Friday.
  The portion of road on the northern fringe of the post where the Light Medium Tactical Vehicle overturned Thursday hadn’t been overrun by water during past floods, Fort Hood spokesman Chris Haug
  
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• Slain Lyft driver worked at night, cared for baby during day

  03-06-2016 21:08 via krqe.com
  
  MABELTON, Ga. (AP) — Camila Wright took a chance three years ago when she got on a plane to meet the man who would become the love of her life. This week he was cruelly taken from her, shot dead while working to provide for his wife and young daughter.
  Shahriar Zolfaghari, 34, was shot in the upper torso and found dead inside his car at a stoplight in Atlanta around 1 a.m. Wednesday, police said. He had been working at night as a driver for ride-hiring service Lyft so he could care for his
  
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• Rangers help evacuate military training on Colorado peak

  03-06-2016 21:06
  
  ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. — Park rangers are helping evacuate military personnel in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park after some had trouble climbing one of the state’s highest peaks. Park spokeswoman Kyle Patterson says 10 people from Fort Carson in Colorado Springs were involved in a climbing training Thursday on 14,259-foot Longs Peak, but […]
  
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• Today in History: June 3

  03-06-2016 21:03 via krqe.com
  
  Today is Friday, June 3, the 155th day of 2016. There are 211 days left in the year.
  Today’s Highlight in History:
  On June 3, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Defense Act of 1916, which, among other things, created the Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC).
  On this date:
  In 1808, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was born in Christian County, Kentucky.
  In 1888, the poem “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published in the Sa
  
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• Texas judge orders ex-teacher to stay away from student

  03-06-2016 21:01
  
  HOUSTON — A judge has ordered a former Houston-area teacher to stay away from minors and have no contact with a boy with whom she maintained a sexual relationship that resulted in her pregnancy. Twenty-four-year-old Alexandria Vera appeared in court Friday to learn the conditions of her release from jail after earlier posting a $100,000 […]
  
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• 2 people dead after head-on crash on NB I-25

  03-06-2016 20:58
  
  All lanes of northbound I-25 are closed at the Bernalillo exit due to a head-on crash that resulted in two fatalities. 
  
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• 3 guilty of conspiracy to commit murder abroad in IS case

  03-06-2016 20:53
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — Three Minnesota men accused of plotting to go to Syria to join the Islamic State group were convicted Friday of conspiracy to commit murder overseas. The federal jury convicted 21-year-old Guled Ali Omar, 22-year-old Abdirahman Yasin Daud (Ahb-DEER’-ah-mahn YAH’-sin Dah-OOD’) and 22-year-old Mohamed Abdihamid Farah of the most serious charges they faced. Conspiracy […]
  
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• Tai Chan on stand for hours testifying in own defense

  03-06-2016 20:32 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – What happened the night Santa Fe County Deputy Tai Chan shot and killed his partner?
  Chan has claimed self defense all along. He’s accused of killing Jeremy Martin in a Las Cruces hotel in 2014.
  On Friday, that was the focus as he testified in his own defense. He talked about how as a deputy, he was trained to use a weapon and how to get one away from someone else.
  “Yeah. It’s drilled in your mind that these things are, they can kill you. So you ne
  
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• Tai Chan gets emotional as he details the night Jeremy Martin was shot, killed

  03-06-2016 20:32 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – Tai Chan took the stand Friday in his own murder trial.
  Chan has claimed self-defense all along. He’s accused of murdering Jeremy Martin in a Las Cruces hotel in 2014.
  On Friday, that was the focus as he testified. He talked about how as a deputy, he was trained to use a weapon and how to get one away from someone else.
  “Yeah, it’s drilled in your mind that these things are, they can kill you,” said Chan. “So you need to
  
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• Tai Chan describes the night Jeremy Martin was fatally shot, says he had no choice

  03-06-2016 20:32 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – Tai Chan took the stand today in his own murder trial Friday.
  Chan has claimed self defense all along. He’s accused of murdering Jeremy Martin in a Las Cruces hotel in 2014.
  On Friday, that was the focus as he testified. He talked about how as a deputy, he was trained to use a weapon and how to get one away from someone else.
  “Yeah, it’s drilled in your mind that these things are, they can kill you,” said Chan. “So you need to
  
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• Girl overjoyed to get doll with prosthetic leg like her own

  03-06-2016 20:23
  
  CYPRESS, Texas — A video of a 10-year-old girl receiving an American Girl doll with a prosthetic leg to match her own has been viewed more than 10 million times on Facebook. The video posted by Courtney Bennett shows her daughter Emma shouting, “You got to be kidding me,” before hugging the doll and breaking […]
  
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• State Supreme Court approves flat fees for defense attorneys

  03-06-2016 20:22
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — The New Mexico Supreme Court has ruled that paying flat fees to contract attorneys representing indigent defendants does not rob them of their constitutional rights. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports (http://bit.ly/1VBQqBv ) that in the opinion released Thursday the court wrote that flat fees are acceptable in lieu of an […]
  
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• Police: Texas woman burns stepsons’ tongues as punishment

  03-06-2016 20:22
  
  BURKBURNETT, Texas — A North Texas woman is accused of punishing her stepsons by burning their tongues with a lighter and making them drink a concoction that caused them to vomit. Police Detective Donald Osborn says 24-year-old Sara Woody also made the two boys lick dirty toilet rims. Woody, of Burkburnett, north of Wichita Falls […]
  
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• Thunderbirds shows across US canceled after pilot forced to ditch

  03-06-2016 20:21
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Upcoming Thunderbirds shows are being canceled after a pilot was forced to ditch his plane shortly after a flyover at the Air Force Academy’s commencement ceremony, where President Barack Obama was speaking. Officials say they are canceling the shows while they investigate Thursday’s crash, but they didn’t say how long the team […]
  
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• Man who held up Denver bank got cab ride to and from robbery

  03-06-2016 20:21
  
  DENVER — Authorities say a man who held up a Denver bank got a cab ride to and from the robbery. The Denver Post reports (http://dpo.st/1XoG8qd ) the FBI is asking for the public’s help to find the suspect. Authorities say the man took a cab to the bank, asked the driver to idle while […]
  
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• Appliances and Electronics Need Repair

  03-06-2016 20:19
  
  When your devices and appliances break, it's hard to know where to start.
  
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• Detectives pull body of Farmington man from river

  03-06-2016 20:09 via krqe.com
  
  FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) – Authorities in northwest New Mexico have removed a man’s body from the San Juan River.
  The Daily Times reports that San Juan County Sheriff’s Office detective Devin Verhulst says deputies received a call Thursday morning about a heavily decomposed body on the riverbank in the community of Waterflow.
  Verhulst says detectives found a Safeway card and an electronic benefits transfer card on the body. He says officers were able to identify the body as 52-yea
  
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• Number of early voters in Bernalillo County double from last year

  03-06-2016 20:00 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – More than 34,000 residents in Bernalillo County have already voted in this year’s primary. That’s more than double the number during the 2012 presidential primary.
  The County Clerk’s Office has been accepting absentee ballots since May 10th and early voting has been going on since May 21st. County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver says so far, one side is heavily outweighing the other.
  “We of course don’t know any of the results yet, we w
  
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• Public invited to welcome veterans home from trip to Washington, D.C.

  03-06-2016 19:48 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s the 3rd Annual welcome home ceremony for more than 20 World War II veterans and you’re invited.
  The group will be returning home from a three-day trip to Washington, D.C. courtesy of Honor Flight of Northern New Mexico. Honor Flight is a non-profit that pays for veterans to travel from Albuquerque to Washington, D.C. to visit the World War II Memorial.
  The public should begin arriving at the Sunport by 3 p.m. on Friday. People are also encouraged
  
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• DA dismisses charges against 2 suspects in Jaydon Chavez-Silver's death

  03-06-2016 19:38
  
  There were mixed emotions Thursday night for multiple families after murder charges against two men were dropped.
  
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• UNM Hospital notifying patients of data breach

  03-06-2016 18:57 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – UNM Hospital is notifying more than 2,800 patients of a data breach.
  They say that limited medical information may have been mailed to a wrong address due to a technical issue with the hospital’s billing systems. Information like the names of patients, their providers’ names and medical services they received were included in the breach.
  The hospital says no financial information or social security numbers were leaked. UNM-H is notifying patients affe
  
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• Updated: Zfppub

  03-06-2016 17:20
  
  Zfppub Zone forecast product for colorado National weather service pueblo co 919 am mdt fri jun 3 2016 Coz084-032230- Northern el paso county/Monument ridge/Rampart range below 7500 ft- Including…Black forest 919 am mdt fri jun 3 2016 .Rest of today…Partly sunny. Highs 74 to 81. North winds 10 to 15 mph. .Tonight…Mostly cloudy. Lows […]
  
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• Updated: US services firms grew at slowest pace since February 2014

  03-06-2016 17:12
  
  WASHINGTON — U.S. services firms grew at the slowest pace in more than two years last month. The Institute for Supply Management said Friday that its services index fell to 52.9 last month from April’s 55.7. It was the lowest reading since February 2014. Anything above 50 signals growth. A measure of employment in services […]
  
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• Saudis team with US university on security degree program

  03-06-2016 17:12
  
  A university in Connecticut will help shape the instruction of some security officers in Saudi Arabia under an agreement announced Friday that the school describes as bringing American-style police training to the kingdom. Under the agreement, signed this week at a Riyadh ceremony, faculty from the University of New Haven’s Henry C. Lee College of […]
  
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• Arch laying off workers at North Fork’s last coal mine

  03-06-2016 17:12
  
  SOMERSET, Colo. — The last operating coal mine in Colorado’s North Fork Valley is laying off about a quarter of its workers because of declining demand. Arch Coal, which filed for bankruptcy reorganization in January, announced Thursday that it was cutting 80 jobs at its West Elk Mine near Somerset. The news follows the permanent […]
  
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• Breaking: UNMH sends info on 2,800 patients to wrong addresses

  03-06-2016 17:01
  
  The University of New Mexico Hospital on Friday said it sent medical information for more than 2,800 ...
  
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• 58 arrested or charged in drug investigation in Socorro area

  03-06-2016 16:58 via krqe.com
  
  SOCORRO, N.M. (AP) – Authorities have concluded a four-month drug investigation in south-central New Mexico in which 58 people were arrested or charged.
  New Mexico State Police say the operation targeted several drug-trafficking organizations operating in the Socorro area that sold methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and prescription drugs.
  According to the State Police, charges resulting from the investigation include distribution of marijuana, trafficking a controled substance and conspirac
  
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• Electing Trump would be ‘historic mistake,’ Clinton says

  03-06-2016 16:32 via krqe.com
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Previewing a rancorous fall campaign, Hillary Clinton assailed Donald Trump on Thursday as a potential president who would lead America toward war and economic crisis. She portrayed her own foreign policy as optimistic, inclusive and diplomatic, born from long experience in public life.
  There was nothing diplomatic in her remarks, a clear indication of how she’ll take Trump on. Electing him, she said, would be “a historic mistake.”
  During a speech in San
  
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• Protesters punch, throw eggs at Trump supporters in San Jose

  03-06-2016 16:04 via krqe.com
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Donald Trump supporters leaving the presidential candidate’s rally in San Jose were pounced on by protesters, some of whom threw punches and eggs.
  A dozen or more people were hit and car windows were broken. Trump hats grabbed from supporters were set on fire on the ground. At least one woman was pelted with an egg.
  Police stood their ground at first but after about 90 minutes moved into the remaining crowd to break it up and make arrests. At least four people
  
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• Deming man sentenced for removing broken Mimbres pottery

  03-06-2016 15:57 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – A Deming man has been sentenced to two years of probation for digging on federal land and removing several pieces of broken Mimbres pottery in southern New Mexico.
  Federal prosecutors say 81-year-old Michael Quarrel must also pay more than $1,500 in restitution to cover the cost of damages to an archaeological resource.
  While on probation, Quarrel will be banned from land overseen by the Bureau of Land Management.
  Quarrel pleaded guilty in January to violating the A
  
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• Mock operations begin at federal nuclear waste dump

  03-06-2016 15:55 via krqe.com
  
  CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) – Workers at the federal government’s only underground nuclear waste repository are conducting operations using containers of simulated waste as they work to reopen the facility in southern New Mexico.
  The mock operations at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant began Wednesday following a safety analysis that lasted several weeks.
  The so-called cold operations are part of an eight-week process to make sure procedures for handling waste are adequate and that workers hav
  
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• Gov. Martinez: State’s summer food program doled 13M meals

  03-06-2016 15:52 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez has announced the state’s summer food program has served more than 13.6 million meals to New Mexico’s children in six years.
  The Republican governor said this week that number is expected to exceed 16 million meals as the food program began on Wednesday.
  Last year, the Food Research and Action Center ranked New Mexico the No. 1 state for serving meals to low-income children over the summer months.
  The summer food program ser
  
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• Report: New Mexico ranks 1st for pedestrians fatalities

  03-06-2016 15:37 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A new report from the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration suggests that New Mexico has the highest number of crashes involving pedestrians.
  According to the Albuquerque Journal, New Mexico led the nation pedestrian fatalities in 2014. The data shows that the number one reason was due to either the driver or pedestrian being drunk.
  Jaywalking was also another factor, meaning many of them were crossing in areas where there were no cross walks or it w
  
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• Hiring dropped sharply, with 38,000 jobs added in May; unemployment rate falls to 4.7 percent

  03-06-2016 15:34
  
  (c) 2016, The Washington Post. WASHINGTON – The U.S. labor market stumbled in May, according to government data released Friday, adding just 38,000 jobs despite other signs that the economy has recovered from the global unrest earlier this year. The Labor Department’s monthly tally of net job creation was the weakest reading in six years, […]
  
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