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• Local ad agency awarded for brewery logo design

  08-07-2016 23:39
  
  Esparza to be featured in Communication Arts Design Annual for its work
  
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• State Police: Man shot and killed on Laguna land pointed gun at officers

  08-07-2016 23:34
  
  The man fatally shot by a New Mexico State Police officer on the Laguna Pueblo in late June had pointed his handgun at his own head and waved it around at officers before he was shot, according to a spokeswoman for the police. Sgt. Elizabeth Armijo said state police officers were called to the pueblo […]
  
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• Updated: Dallas suspect amassed personal arsenal at suburban home

  08-07-2016 23:27
  
  DALLAS — An Army veteran killed by Dallas police after the sniper slayings of five officers amassed a personal arsenal at his suburban home, including bomb-making materials, bulletproof vests, rifles, ammunition and a journal of combat tactics, authorities said Friday. The man identified as 25-year-old Micah Johnson told authorities he was upset about the police […]
  
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• Stocks finish just short of a record on strong jobs report

  08-07-2016 23:24 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks surged Friday, finishing just short of record highs, as investors responded enthusiastically to a strong June job market report.
  The buying accelerated throughout the day after the Labor Department said U.S. employers added 287,000 jobs last month. That was far more than analysts expected, and after weak reports from April and May, it suggests the economy and job market haven’t run out of steam.
  “It was a strong report and it put to bed worries that
  
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• Updated: GOP to Clinton: Email investigations will go on

  08-07-2016 23:22
  
  WASHINGTON — Republicans signaled they’re not done with election-year investigations of Hillary Clinton and whether she lied to Congress, even after a House committee signed off Friday on its report into the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. The 800-page report by the GOP-led Benghazi Committee found no wrongdoing by the former secretary of state, […]
  
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• Updated: UFC star Jon Jones’ backup sample also fails doping test

  08-07-2016 23:21
  
  LAS VEGAS — A doping test on Jon Jones’ backup sample has confirmed the positive results that forced the UFC to drop the pound-for-pound star from his main-event bout at UFC 200 this week. USADA spokesman Ryan Madden confirmed an independent lab’s findings on Jones’ B sample Friday. Jones, who fights out of Jackson-Wink MMA […]
  
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• Spontaneous outpouring of hugs, support overwhelms Dallas police

  08-07-2016 22:51 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) — As the Dallas Police Department mourns the murders of five fellow officers in a hate-motivated ambush, they received a spontaneous outpouring of support from community members.
  Thousands of people showed up to an interfaith prayer service Friday afternoon held in honor of the fallen officers gunned down by 25-year-old alleged shooter Micah Xavier Johnson.
  Johnson said, according to police, that he wanted to kill white people, “especially white officers.&r
  
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• Lipstick on your… wall? Only in Santa Fe

  08-07-2016 22:47
  
    It’s always a delight to stumble across another example of Santa Fe weirdness. Or, as the tourism folks might like to portray it, the free-spirited artistic expression that makes this the City Different. But you so want to know the story behind this (and this doesn’t even cover the whole array) collected of lipsticked […]
  
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• Updated: The killer robot used by Dallas police appears to be a first

  08-07-2016 22:34
  
  NEW YORK — Robots have apparently chalked up a new first — a deadly one. Police rigged a bomb-disposal robot to kill an armed suspect in the Dallas police shooting , what appears to be the first time U.S. police have used a robot for lethal purposes. As such, it may represent the latest escalation […]
  
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• Dental concierge services takes NM patients to Mexico

  08-07-2016 22:32
  
  Spending time in a  dentist’s chair south of the border may not be everyone’s idea of a good time, but a dental-related travel concierge service says it may be able to take some of the pain out of the pocketbook. Beyond Borders Dental was formed to help clients in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, especially those […]
  
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• Updated: Inflatable arch collapses over rider in Tour de France

  08-07-2016 22:03
  
  LAC DE PAYOLLE, France — Adam Yates didn’t know what hit him. On the attack in the Tour de France, the British rider was suddenly performing a somersault in midair after an inflatable arch marking the final kilometer collapsed and hit him during a bizarre finale to Friday’s seventh stage. Yates hit the ground hard, […]
  
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• Updated: Snowflake man indicted on 2 counts of first-degree murder

  08-07-2016 22:02
  
  HOLBROOK, Ariz. — A grand jury has indicted a Snowflake man in the fatal shooting of two women outside the Navajo County courthouse. Salomon Diaz is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and tampering with evidence. Authorities say Diaz fatally shot 25-year-old Ashley Utley, the mother of his […]
  
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• Updated: Comcast adds Chicago customers to those under data caps

  08-07-2016 21:33
  
  NEW YORK — Comcast is increasing the number of home internet customers who will face limits on how much data they can use before getting hit with extra charges. The company is adding the Chicago region and says that caps will now cover 23 percent of customers, from 14 percent before. Caps already apply in […]
  
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• Today in History: July 8

  08-07-2016 21:29 via krqe.com
  
  Today is Friday, July 8, the 190th day of 2016. There are 176 days left in the year.
  Today’s Highlight in History:
  On July 8, 1947, a New Mexico newspaper, the Roswell Daily Record, quoted officials at Roswell Army Air Field as saying they had recovered a “flying saucer” that had crashed onto a ranch; officials then changed the object’s description, saying it was actually a weather balloon. To this day, however, there are those who believe what fell to Earth was an alien
  
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• New: Lobo hoops season ticket prices increase slightly

  08-07-2016 21:15
  
  Per game prices for season ticket holders will increase, though with one fewer home game the overall price will be lower this season.
  
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• Facebook looking at NM for data center

  08-07-2016 21:06
  
  Facebook is considering New Mexico as one of two states for a new data center, according to a regulatory document filed by the Public Service Company of New Mexico on Friday. The filing with the Public Regulation Commission, states that PNM was approached by Facebook about a proposed data center within the state and that […]
  
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• Mariachi Specatular coming to ABQ next week

  08-07-2016 21:00
  
  The Mariachi Spectacular will take place next Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Albuquerque Convention Center. Event coordinator Pete Sanchez stops by KOB’s studio to talk about it.
  
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• New Mexico PBS to host kids’ writing workshop

  08-07-2016 20:56
  
  New Mexico PBS will host a free public writing workshop for kids featuring author Mary Saunders from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Erna Fergusson Library, 3700 San Mateo Blvd NE, Albuquerque. The station is also accepting entries for its annual writing contest through July 31. Kindergarteners through third-graders are invited to submit […]
  
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• Dallas police ambush: The victims

  08-07-2016 20:40 via krqe.com
  
  DALLAS (MEDIA GENERAL) — Five police officers were shot and killed in downtown Dallas Thursday night during what was a peaceful protest over fatal police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota earlier this week.
  A total of 12 officers were shot, some from the Dallas Police Department and others with Dallas Rapid Transit Police Department. Of the seven injured, many have been released from the hospital.
  Two civilians were also injured in the ambush.
  The information about the vict
  
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• 10 states sue over restrooms transgender students can use

  08-07-2016 20:31 via krqe.com
  
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Ten states sued the federal government Friday over rules requiring public schools to allow transgender students to use restrooms conforming to their gender identity, joining a dozen other states in the latest fight over LGBT rights.
  The lawsuit was filed in federal court in Nebraska and included nine other states: Arkansas, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
  The filing comes after 11 states sued in May over the sam
  
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• Troubled New Mexico VA to give update on hospital access

  08-07-2016 20:27 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Veterans Affairs’ health care system officials in New Mexico are expected to give an update on access following an Office of Inspector General report.
  Officials are scheduled Friday to provide more details at the Raymond G. Murphy VA Medical Center in Albuquerque.
  In 2014, Congress and veterans attacked the Department of Veterans Affairs after an investigation found some VA hospitals were using “phantom” appointment lists to disguise lengthy wait
  
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• New Mexico VA: We’re doing better but there’s still work to do

  08-07-2016 20:27 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – We’re doing better but we still have work to do. That’s what leaders of the VA system in New Mexico said Friday as they gave an update to wait times for veterans needing medical care.
  They say the average wait time is now three to four days for primary care, four days for specialist care and three days for mental health. Officials say more clinics have been opened around the state, hours have been extended and staff has been hired. They’re also
  
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• New Mexico reacts to fatal Dallas shooting

  08-07-2016 20:22 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Similar to the situation in Dallas, there have been protests in Albuquerque that have turned violent in the past — not because of the protesters causing trouble, but others who took advantage of the situation.
  After the Donald Trump protest, police said some threw rocks and flaming cotton balls at officers and police horses. Police also said some threw barricades and people down.
  And the protests following the James Boyd shooting lasted
  
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• Regulators create website for customers of 2 water systems

  08-07-2016 19:51 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – State environmental regulators have created a new website for thousands of customers of two Farmington-area water systems to get updates on months-long advisories to boil drinking water.
  The state Environment Department says the website is for customers of the Morningstar and Harvest Gold water systems, both operated by the Animas Valley Land & Water Co.
  The department issued emergency orders for Morningstar after a June 2 inspection found 28 deficiencies that the
  
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• PNM warns about scam calls

  08-07-2016 19:47
  
  PNM is warning customers about phone calls in which a supposed employee threatens to disconnect service because of a past due account. The callers demand immediate payment with cash or a cash card, the utility said in a news release. “If it doesn’t feel right, or if you are being asked to wire money or […]
  
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• Old Navy helps boost Gap key sales figure; stock soars

  08-07-2016 19:39
  
  NEW YORK — After months of declines, Gap said a key sales figure rose 2 percent in June, the retailer’s first monthly increase in more than a year. Shares of Gap rose more than 5 percent Friday. Gap Inc., which operates its namesake stores as well as Banana Republic and Old Navy, has been struggling […]
  
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• Albuquerque police receive directive after Dallas shootings

  08-07-2016 19:19 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Albuquerque police are responding to the Dallas shootings of police officers.
  The Albuquerque Police Department issued a directive to officers Thursday night in response to the killings of five Dallas officers and the wounding of seven others during a protest over fatal police shootings of black men in other states.
  Officer Tanner Tixier says the directive was issued in an attempt to keep officers as safe as possible.
  Tixier wouldn’t disclose the specifics of
  
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• Official: Dallas-area man identified as shooting suspect

  08-07-2016 19:02
  
  DALLAS — A law enforcement official has told The Associated Press that the dead suspect in the shooting attack on Dallas police was 25-year-old Micah Johnson. Dallas police killed the suspect with a robot-delivered bomb after hours of overnight negotiations in a parking garage had failed. The law enforcement official spoke to the AP on […]
  
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• Judge holds Department of Child Safety in contempt

  08-07-2016 19:02
  
  PHOENIX — A Maricopa County Juvenile Court judge has found the Arizona Department of Child Safety in contempt for failing to provide needed services to a family. The Arizona Republic reports (http://bit.ly/29nIhMS ) that Maricopa County Juvenile Court Judge Karen O’Connor on Wednesday directed the agency to create a program to train all case managers […]
  
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• $700K spent on prison vans after inmate escape

  08-07-2016 18:48 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Corrections officials say New Mexico has spent $700,000 on new vehicles and equipment since the March escape of two violent inmates prompted a review of the state’s prisoner transport vans.
  Documents obtained by The Associated Press through a public records request show officials removed door handles and power locks from the rear area of roughly a dozen Corrections Department vans in the weeks after state police say inmates Joseph Cruz and Lionel Clah fled th
  
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• Updated: Raonic beats Federer in 5 sets to reach 1st Grand Slam final

  08-07-2016 18:32
  
  LONDON — Roger Federer’s bid for a record eighth Wimbledon title was cut short in the semifinals Friday by Milos Raonic, a big-serving Canadian who came from two-sets-to-one down to win in five and reach his first Grand Slam final. Raonic beat the seven-time champion 6-3, 6-7 (3), 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 on Centre Court, handing […]
  
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• Survivor of Colorado van-train crash will live with cousins

  08-07-2016 18:32
  
  TRINIDAD, Colo. — The 4-year-old Colorado girl who survived a crash with an Amtrak train that killed her parents and three sisters will remain in her community and be raised with her cousins. Heidi Miller will live with her late mother’s sister and her husband and their children in the Trinidad area after she is […]
  
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• Updated: Sinkhole partially swallows car outside Florida McDonald’s

  08-07-2016 18:31
  
  COOPER CITY, Fla. — A woman and her 4-year-old grandson got a big scare when their SUV was partially swallowed by a 10-foot-by-10-foot sinkhole near the drive-thru of a South Florida McDonald’s. Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue spokesman Mike Jachles tells local news outlets that the sinkhole started opening as Dolores Otero drove toward the drive-thru […]
  
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• Deputies: Youth baseball coach groped kids in Disney pool

  08-07-2016 18:31
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. — A youth baseball coach from Wisconsin has been arrested in Florida after deputies say he groped three children at a Disney resort. News outlets report 26-year-old Nicholas Groth was arrested Thursday on five counts of lewd and lascivious molestation. Court records show two of the victims are under the age of 12 […]
  
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• Dallas officers shot to death include newlywed, Iraq veteran

  08-07-2016 18:31
  
  One was a newlywed. Another had survived multiple tours in Iraq. The stories of the officers gunned down in a sniper attack in Dallas during a protest over recent police shootings of black men emerged Friday as their identities became known. Authorities say five officers were killed and at least seven others wounded in the […]
  
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• Hacker who called attention to Ohio rape case facing charges

  08-07-2016 18:29
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A man who aligned himself with the hacker group Anonymous has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly conspiring to access an online account to draw attention to a 2012 high school rape case in Ohio. Deric Lostutter — who went by the online name “KYAnonymous” — was charged in […]
  
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• NMSU regents OK requirements for students living on campus

  08-07-2016 18:27 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – Many first-time, full-time undergraduate students will have to live on campus during their first year under a requirement approved by New Mexico State University regents.
  Chancellor Garrey Carruthers said Thursday after the announcement that he thinks it’s the right thing to do for students in Las Cruces since there’s evidence that living on campus contributes to greater success in college.
  Regents also approved several exceptions. For example, the requi
  
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• Man arrested in attacks on San Diego homeless that killed 2

  08-07-2016 18:24 via krqe.com
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Police on Thursday arrested a man on suspicion of murder and attempted murder in a spate of attacks on homeless men who were sleeping alone and sometimes set on fire, a spree that left two men dead and two seriously injured.
  Anthony Alexander Padgett, 36, was taken into custody in the morning and after a day of questioning will be booked as the sole suspect in all four attacks, police said.
  San Diego Police Capt. David Nisleit said a tip led investigators to Padgett, who w
  
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• Governor: Black driver wouldn’t be dead if he were white

  08-07-2016 17:57 via krqe.com
  
  FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — A suburban police officer who killed a black motorist likely wouldn’t have fired if the driver had been white, Minnesota’s governor declared, jumping into a suddenly reignited national debate over how law enforcement treats people of color.
  Philando Castile’s girlfriend streamed the gruesome aftermath of his shooting in a St. Paul suburb this week live on Facebook. The school cafeteria supervisor had been shot “for no apparent reason&rdq
  
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• Police respond to northwest Albuquerque shooting call

  08-07-2016 17:47 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque Police Department says officers responded to a call about a shooting in the area of 9200 C Anderson NW on Friday morning.
  Officers say that a man walked into a doctor’s office at 9210 Golf Course NW with an apparent gunshot wound and was taken to a local hospital.
  Police say the scene is currently active.
  KRQE News 13 will provide updates as they become available.
  Filed under: Albuquerque - Metro, Home, News
  
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• Family of slain Louisiana man denounces Dallas police deaths

  08-07-2016 17:30 via krqe.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The mother of the son of a man killed by Louisiana police on Friday denounced the killings of five police officers in Dallas during a protest over police shootings, including the one in which Alton Sterling died in Baton Rouge.
  A statement issued by Quinyetta McMillon’s attorneys says “responding to violence with violence is not the answer.”
  “We wholeheartedly reject the reprehensible acts of violence that were perpetrated against members of
  
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• Navajo Nation works on Amber Alert in shadow of girl’s death

  08-07-2016 17:21 via krqe.com
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — After a young girl was abducted on the Navajo Nation and found dead near a towering rock formation, tribal officials faced tough questions about why an Amber Alert system proposed years earlier was never implemented.
  Now, Navajo officials’ proposals to build one of their own to cover the 27,000 square-mile reservation, which would be the first specifically for tribal land, is drawing attention to the systems they’ve been using with Arizona, New Mexico an
  
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• Updated: Family of slain Louisiana man denounces Dallas police deaths

  08-07-2016 17:20
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. — The mother of the son of a man killed by Louisiana police on Friday denounced the killings of five police officers in Dallas during a protest over police shootings, including the one in which Alton Sterling died in Baton Rouge. A statement issued by Quinyetta McMillon’s attorneys says “responding to violence […]
  
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• Report: Larry Brown resigning after 4 seasons as SMU’s coach

  08-07-2016 17:19
  
  DALLAS — Larry Brown says he is resigning as SMU’s basketball coach, ending a four-year run during which the Mustangs made the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1993 and then were banned from postseason play last season. The 75-year-old coach told ESPN that he was resigning, but didn’t say why. CBS Sports first […]
  
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• Updated: Are Trump’s ‘Made in USA’ hats really made in USA?

  08-07-2016 17:18
  
  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hats tout they are “Made in USA.” Not necessarily always the case, an Associated Press review found. The iconic, baseball-style hats are indeed stitched together at a small factory in the Los Angeles area. But at least one of the hats in a small sample tested by […]
  
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• NYPD steps up security for officers in wake of Dallas attack

  08-07-2016 17:18
  
  NEW YORK — The NYPD is stepping up security for its officers in the wake of the attack on Dallas police. The nation’s largest police department said on Friday it’s using additional foot posts and other measures to protect precinct station houses around the city. It’s also telling officers to be extra vigilant while on […]
  
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• Leaders of Black Lives Matter condemn violence in Dallas

  08-07-2016 17:18
  
  DALLAS — Leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement are condemning the slayings of police in Dallas during a protest over fatal police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota. Shaun King is a blogger who rose to prominence following the 2014 fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. He says on […]
  
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• New Mexico grant aimed at STEM afterschool programs

  08-07-2016 16:32 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – Three public school districts in southern New Mexico will benefit from a nearly $12 million grant that will fund afterschool science, technology, engineering and math programs.
  The grant was awarded by the state Public Education Department’s 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program. The beneficiaries will include the Gadsden, Hatch Valley and Las Cruces school districts.
  The grant provides $2.6 million to New Mexico State University annually for the nex
  
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• Clinton, Trump cancel political events after police deaths

  08-07-2016 16:21 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both called off political events Friday, hours after five police officers were killed in Dallas during a protest over fatal police shootings of black men in other states.
  Trump, who had planned to address Hispanics in Miami, issued a statement calling the shootings “a coordinated, premeditated assault on the men and women who keep us safe.” He said the earlier deaths of two black men in Louisiana and Minnesota were a reminder o
  
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• Updated: Liga president fears Messi could leave after fraud verdict

  08-07-2016 16:08
  
  BARCELONA, Spain — The president of the Spanish football league says he is worried that Lionel Messi could leave to play in another country after being found guilty of tax fraud. Javier Tebas has also defended Messi’s innocence two days after a court ruled the Barcelona forward and his father defrauded the Spanish tax office […]
  
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