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• Navajo Nation endorses Superfund cleanup of Colorado mines

  11-07-2016 23:57
  
  DENVER — The Navajo Nation has formally endorsed a Superfund cleanup of southwestern Colorado mines, including one that released millions of gallons of wastewater into a river on Navajo land. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which is considering a Superfund designation for the Gold King Mine and other sites, released the letter Monday. The letter […]
  
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• Portrait defines Trump to a T

  11-07-2016 23:47
  
    Sometimes art and the political butt heads — and it’s heads, or faces, or impressions thereof that show up in Poteet Victory’s “Abbreviated Portrait Series” at McLarry Modern on Santa Fe’s Canyon Road. The political comes in with the latest: the artist’s portrait of Donald Trump. It’s basically a letter T with the top […]
  
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• Funeral home offers on-site grief counseling

  11-07-2016 23:47
  
  Nowhere is grief more palpable than at a funeral home, as families and friends say goodbye to loved ones. Of course, the grief doesn’t end when the funeral does, and that’s why French Funerals and Cremations is building a first of it’s kind on-site Grief Resource Center staffed by a full time grief counselor. Linda […]
  
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• Two ABQ-area call centers adding 140 jobs

  11-07-2016 23:29
  
  Rio Rancho-based Convergys and the Albuquerque-based Molina Healthcare of New Mexico are adding a total of 140 full-time call center jobs to their payrolls. The positions are hourly, and both companies are holding job fairs Wednesday to fill them. Convergys spokeswoman Brooke Beiting said the company’s 100 new positions are the result of a client […]
  
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• Updated: Sanders to back Clinton. Will supporters follow?

  11-07-2016 23:11
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. — It looks as if Bernie Sanders is ready to back Hillary Clinton. But not all his supporters are prepared to give up revolution for realism. After weeks of stalling as he sought liberal policy concessions from Clinton and lobbied to push the party platform to the left, the Vermont senator is expected […]
  
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• AED wants survey participants

  11-07-2016 23:11
  
  Albuquerque Economic Development is asking local businesses to answer a few questions as part of its annual community survey. Those who participate will get a copy of AED’s 2016 Business Community Industry Report when it is published in the fall. The report lists economic base businesses in the area. “Responses to AED surveys support AED’s […]
  
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• Updated: California governor looks to extend climate-change efforts

  11-07-2016 23:06
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Jerry Brown has launched a campaign to extend some of the most ambitious climate-change programs in the country and ensure his environmental legacy when he leaves office in two years. The centerpiece of the push is a cap-and-trade program that aims to reduce the use of fossil fuels by forcing […]
  
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• Man gets 12-year prison term in Phoenix murder-for-hire case

  11-07-2016 22:59
  
  PHOENIX — A man who pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder in a 2012 case in Phoenix has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Maricopa County Superior Court officials say Ricco Monge was sentenced Monday. Prosecutors say the 23-year-old Monge was arrested in connection with a 2012 murder-for-hire case in Phoenix. Monge was accused […]
  
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• HomeGoods planning new Albuquerque store

  11-07-2016 22:53
  
  Chain fills one of the only available big boxes on the West Side
  
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• Sheriff: Inmate kills 2 bailiffs at Michigan courthouse

  11-07-2016 21:53 via krqe.com
  
  ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — A jail inmate trying to escape from a western Michigan courthouse wrested a gun from an officer Monday, killing two bailiffs and injuring two more people before he was fatally shot by other officers, a sheriff said.
  People scrambled for cover inside the Berrien County Courthouse in St. Joseph, a city of about 8,300 people in the southwestern corner of Michigan, about 100 miles northeast of Chicago.
  “Our hearts are torn apart. … I have known them for ov
  
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• Sheriff: 2 bailiffs, suspect dead in Michigan courthouse

  11-07-2016 21:53 via krqe.com
  
  ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (AP) — A sheriff says two bailiffs and a gunman are dead at a western Michigan courthouse where a shooting happened.
  Berrien County Sheriff Paul Bailey told WSBT television station in South Bend, Indiana, a deputy sheriff was also shot but is in stable condition at Lakeland Hospital in St. Joseph.
  The shooting happened at the Berrien County courthouse on Monday afternoon. Additional details, including information on how the shooting happened, weren’t immediately ava
  
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• Updated: To Democrats, must-see TV is Trump mocking disabled reporter

  11-07-2016 21:47
  
  WASHINGTON — Here’s Grace, a sweetly smiling little girl in a wheelchair. Now here’s her mother, Lauren Glaros: “When I saw Donald Trump mock a disabled person, I was just shocked,” she says. Then we see Trump, his hands jerking in front of his body as he imitates a reporter who has a condition that […]
  
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• Florida woman dies after fall from Grand Canyon trail

  11-07-2016 21:46
  
  Grand Canyon National Park, Ariz. — A Florida woman has died after falling from a Grand Canyon trail. Officials say 35-year-old Colleen Burns accidentally stepped off an edge at Ooh Aah Point on Friday, about a mile down the popular South Kaibab Trail. Park rangers located her about 400 feet from where she had been […]
  
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• Arizona candidate spends campaign funds on teeth-whitening

  11-07-2016 21:46
  
  PHOENIX — An Arizona congressional candidate has changed his campaign finance reports to omit questionable expenses for purchases for teeth whitening, new clothes and equipment from a gun shop. David Giles told the Arizona Republic (http://bit.ly/29Ciggb ) the purchases were for his campaign and that he was unaware they could violate campaign finance rules. Federal […]
  
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• Updated: County seal, Trump sticker OK to be on official’s vehicle

  11-07-2016 21:45
  
  PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Despite some residents’ concern, attorneys say it is legal for a Yavapai County elected official to display both the county seal and political bumper stickers on his personal vehicle. The Daily Courier reports (http://bit.ly/29HRDWT) Yavapai County Board of Supervisors member Craig Brown has been seen around the county a bumper sticker supporting […]
  
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• New: When are police justified in using deadly force?

  11-07-2016 21:45
  
  Deadly force occurs in less than 1 percent of the millions of encounters police have with people each year. A look at the laws and policies governing when police can use deadly force: WHEN IS FORCE JUSTIFIED? There are two defining cases. In Tennessee v. Garner in 1985, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an […]
  
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• Family of Cibola High School soccer coach raising funds for medical expenses

  11-07-2016 21:18 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The boys’ soccer coach at Cibola High School is recovering after an accident that left him with a spinal cord injury.
  Cameron Clark has been in intensive Care at UNM Hospital since the accident on Friday. He can move his arms but can’t voluntarily move his legs and has no strength in his hands.
  Doctors want to move Clark to a hospital in Colorado.
  Clark is married with three young kids, so the family has set up a You-Caring page to help with
  
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• Albuquerque soccer coach suffers spinal cord injury

  11-07-2016 21:18 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – He’s been active in life and in his community, but an accident over the weekend put an Albuquerque soccer coach in the hospital with a spinal cord injury. Now the community is stepping up to help him in a big way.
  Back in 2014, Coach Cameron Clarke told KRQE News 13, “I’m fortunate to be able to say I’ve been one of his coaches,” speaking about one of his soccer players.
  Monday, his players told KRQE News 13 they’re the fo
  
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• Former Secretary of State stays busy after legal troubles

  11-07-2016 21:15
  
  Dianna Duran was once one of the most powerful political figures in New Mexico, but all that changed when Duran pleaded guilty to using campaign funds to feed a gambling addiction.
  
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• Today in History: July 11

  11-07-2016 21:05 via krqe.com
  
  Today is Monday, July 11, the 193rd day of 2016. There are 173 days left in the year.
  Today’s Highlight in History:
  On July 11, 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. (Hamilton died the next day.)
  On this date:
  In 1767, John Quincy Adams, the sixth president of the United States, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts.
  In 1798, the U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by a congressi
  
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• CBS, Twitter announce partnership for convention

  11-07-2016 20:52 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter says it will live-stream CBS News’ online coverage of the Republican and Democratic conventions later this month, a first for the social media outlet.
  People will be able to watch video of the conventions on mobile devices and desktops alongside a feed of political tweets, the company said on Monday. The GOP convention in Cleveland begins on July 18, with the Democrats in Philadelphia the following week.
  Besides being the latest example of Twitter’s fora
  
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• Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ target of minority satire

  11-07-2016 20:22 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Some minority artists and activists are satirizing the “Make America Great Again” slogan of presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and using their parodies to make statements.
  A Navajo artist Vanessa Bowen of New Mexico has created a hat that touts “Make America Native Again.” A Mexican-American activist in Brooklyn, New York, is selling a cap with the words “Make America Mexico Again.”
  Bowen says she developed the hat
  
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• Police working on felony charge for man accused of shooting at neighbors’ homes

  11-07-2016 20:07 via krqe.com
  
   
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque police say they’re pushing for felony charges and an arrest for a man who fired shots at neighbors’ homes over the weekend.
  One family who lives near Tramway and Copper says they huddled in their bathtub with their newborn as their neighbor shot off rounds early Saturday morning.
  The suspect has been identified as Derek Foote. Neighbors called police and they did respond, but did not arrest Foote to the dismay of neighbors.
  “D
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Cameron sings after announcing departure

  11-07-2016 19:44
  
  LONDON — The Latest on the Conservative Party leadership race in Britain (all times local): 6:25 p.m. David Cameron has gone out not with a bang, nor a whimper, but a mystery tune. Seconds after the British prime minister finished telling reporters of his intention to step down from office this week, he walked back […]
  
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• Federal officials find Mexican wolf program was mishandled

  11-07-2016 19:33 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Federal investigators have concluded that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has mishandled a program to return the endangered Mexican wolf to the wild.
  The Albuquerque Journal reports that the Department of Interior Off ice of the Inspector General’s investigation backs up claims made by Catron County in a 2013 that the service was not cooperating with cattle ranchers when protecting the wolves.
  The investigation found the service protected the wolves even a
  
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• Cibola High soccer coach suffers spinal cord injury

  11-07-2016 19:30
  
  Cibola High School’s head boys’ soccer coach is on the road to recovery after suffering neck and spinal cord injuries.
  
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• Updated: Protests over police killings aim at occupying interstates

  11-07-2016 19:02
  
  BATON ROUGE, Louisiana — Police made nearly 200 arrests in Louisiana’s capital city during weekend protests around the country in which people angry over police killings of young black men sought to block some major interstates. Riot police in full gear stopped protesters in Baton Rouge from walking onto an interstate on Sunday evening, police […]
  
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• Mosquito traps to be deployed to study possible Zika impact

  11-07-2016 18:39 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico State University researchers plan to place mosquito traps across roughly two-thirds of the state to map the range of two species known to transmit Zika virus.
  Biologist Kathryn Hanley says researchers asked to do this project four years ago but funding agencies had little interest.
  The Albuquerque Journal reports that changed when Zika was linked to severe birth defects in Brazil and other nations in the Americas.
  The project is funded by a $90,000 contr
  
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• Updated: UFC sold for $4 billion, White stays on to run promotion

  11-07-2016 18:35
  
  LOS ANGELES — The UFC has been sold for approximately $4 billion to a group led by Hollywood talent agency WME-IMG. UFC President Dana White confirmed the sale of the mixed martial arts promotional company in text messages to The Associated Press on Sunday night. WME co-CEO Ari Emanuel also announced the sale early Monday […]
  
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• Updated: United plane’s tires blow when takeoff halted from Houston

  11-07-2016 18:26
  
  HOUSTON — A United Airlines plane blew out two of its tires when a pilot abruptly stopped its takeoff from a Houston airport due to concerns about a possible mechanical problem. Airport officials say the Boeing 737 was taking off from Bush Intercontinental Airport to Denver at around 6 a.m. Monday when the plane’s crew […]
  
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• Updated: Boeing, Airbus offer rosy outlooks for aircraft demand

  11-07-2016 17:58
  
  Boeing and Airbus offered upbeat forecasts Monday for the aircraft market over the next 20 years, trying to tamp down worries that a long boom in plane-making could be ending. The world’s top plane makers see demand driven by a growth in travel, especially in Asia, leading to a doubling of the world’s aircraft fleet. […]
  
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• Updated: Family: Dallas suspect changed after military service

  11-07-2016 17:51
  
  DALLAS — Military service changed the Dallas gunman from an extrovert into a hermit, his parents said in an interview excerpt published Monday. Micah Johnson’s mother, Delphine Johnson, told TheBlaze website in an interview published Monday that her son wanted to be a police officer as a child and that his six years in the […]
  
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• Updated: 2 wildfire suspects talked with reporter before arrests

  11-07-2016 17:51
  
  NEDERLAND, Colo. — Two men accused of igniting a Colorado wildfire that has forced the evacuation of 2,000 people talked to a reporter about the blaze before they were arrested. Authorities say 28-year-old Jimmy Andrew Suggs and 26-year-old Zackary Ryan Kuykendall from Vinemont, Alabama, didn’t properly extinguish a campfire, causing flames to flare up and […]
  
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• Updated: Spieth skipping Olympics, latest star golfer to withdraw

  11-07-2016 17:50
  
  TROON, Scotland — Jordan Spieth withdrew from the Olympics on Monday, leaving golf without its top four players when the sport returns to the games for the first time since 1904. The decision was announced by International Golf Federation President Peter Dawson. Spieth is the latest golfer to say he was not going to Rio, […]
  
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• Carter announces 560 more US troops to Iraq

  11-07-2016 17:38 via krqe.com
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — The United States will send 560 more troops to Iraq to help establish a newly retaken air base as a staging hub for the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State militants, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday on an unannounced visit to the country.
  Most of the new troops will be devoted to the build-up of the Qayara air base, about 40 miles south of Mosul, and include engineers, logistics personnel and other forces, Carter said. They will help Iraqi secu
  
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• Santa Fe schools taps an ex-superintendent as interim chief

  11-07-2016 17:18
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — Santa Fe Public Schools has named a former New Mexico public education secretary and one of its former leaders as interim superintendent. The Santa Fe Board of Education voted Saturday to hire Veronica Garcia as the district’s interim leader while the board looks for a permanent replacement. The move comes after […]
  
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• Officials: Dallas suspect had plans for larger attack

  11-07-2016 17:14 via krqe.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — The gunman in the deadly attack on Dallas police had plans for a larger assault and possessed enough explosive material to inflict far greater harm, the city’s police chief and top elected official said.
  Micah Johnson, a black Army veteran, began firing on officers while hundreds of people were gathered in downtown Dallas to protest recent fatal police shootings. Authorities have said the 25-year-old kept a journal of combat tactics and had amassed a personal arsenal at
  
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• ABQ could be first in state to require paid sick leave

  11-07-2016 17:09
  
  Albuquerque could be the first city in the state to require businesses to offer paid sick leave.
  
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• Updated: Beware of scary Brexit headlines pushing you to buy gold

  11-07-2016 16:52
  
  NEW YORK — If you thought the Brexit vote was scary, check out the full page newspaper ad that recently appeared in The New York Times recounting all the horrors in the present tense, as if they were still unfolding: The vote “topples” the British government, “crushes” the pound and “wipes away” billions in stock […]
  
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• UFC sold for $4 billion, White stays on to run promotion

  11-07-2016 16:42 via krqe.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The UFC has been sold for approximately $4 billion to a group led by Hollywood talent agency WME-IMG.
  UFC President Dana White confirmed the sale of the mixed martial arts promotional company in text messages to The Associated Press on Sunday night.
  WME co-CEO Ari Emanuel also announced the sale early Monday in an internal company email that included SNTV — a joint venture between The Associated Press and IMG.
  “We’ve been honored to have UFC and a numbe
  
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• Local gamer uses talents to spread cheer

  11-07-2016 16:31
  
  An Albuquerque man is using his gaming talents to help spread cheer to underprivileged children.
  
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• Updated: 5-time NBA champion Tim Duncan retires after 19 seasons

  11-07-2016 16:21
  
  SAN ANTONIO — Tim Duncan spent nearly two decades as the quiet storm in the middle of the San Antonio Spurs franchise, putting the team on his broad shoulders and carrying it to heights unseen in modern American sports. With Duncan as the focal point, the Spurs won five championships, made the playoffs in all […]
  
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• Taylor Swift tops Forbes’ list of highest-paid celebs

  11-07-2016 16:16
  
  LOS ANGELES — There’s no “Blank Space” in Taylor Swift’s bank account. The singer-songwriter tops Forbes’ annual list of the 100 highest-paid celebrities with $170 million. Swift is ahead of fellow chart-topping pop stars Adele at No. 9 with $80.5 million, Madonna at No. 12 with $76.5 million, Rihanna at No. 13 with $75 million […]
  
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• New: Early morning fire kills 5 horses, dog in Los Lunas family’s barn

  11-07-2016 16:16
  
  LOS LUNAS, N.M. — Five horses are dead following a fire in a Los Lunas family’s barn. Marleen Beltran says the deadly fire early Sunday morning has devastated the families owning the horses, one of which won a weekend race at Albuquerque Downs. A dog also died inside the barn. Firefighters told KOAT-TV (http://goo.gl/iEtFcw ) […]
  
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• Clinton campaign confirms her appearance with Sanders

  11-07-2016 16:16 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton’s campaign is making it official: Former Democratic rival Bernie Sanders will join her at a New Hampshire event on Tuesday where he plans to endorse her.
  Clinton’s campaign is holding the event at a high school in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Sanders defeated Clinton by a wide margin in New Hampshire, in the nation’s first primary.
  Sanders’ endorsement will come a month after the final primary. He’s pushed for policy agreements
  
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• Updated: Carter announces 560 more US troops to Iraq

  11-07-2016 16:15
  
  BAGHDAD — The United States will send 560 more troops to Iraq to help establish a newly retaken air base as a staging hub for the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State militants, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday on an unannounced visit to the country. Most of the new troops will be […]
  
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• Pokemon Go smartphone game leads woman to body in river

  11-07-2016 16:15
  
  RIVERTON, Wyo. — Authorities in central Wyoming are investigating after a woman playing the popular smartphone game Pokemon Go found a man’s body in a river. Shayla Wiggens told the Riverton Ranger newspaper (http://tinyurl.com/gop7lrr ) that she spotted the body in the Wind River near the city of Riverton on Friday while playing the new […]
  
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• May expected to be UK prime minister after Leadsom drops out

  11-07-2016 16:06 via krqe.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Theresa May looked set to become Britain’s next prime minister Monday after her sole remaining rival, Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom, unexpectedly withdrew from the race to lead the Conservative Party.
  Graham Brady, the head of the party committee running the contest, said the party board would meet to discuss confirming May as the winner. He did not say how long that might take.
  The new Conservative leader will replace David Cameron as prime minister. He announced his
  
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• Cameron to quit Wednesday; Theresa May to be new British PM

  11-07-2016 16:06 via krqe.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — A political era ended Monday — unexpectedly and without an election — as Prime Minister David Cameron said he will step down in two days in favor of Theresa May, a senior member of his Cabinet who will become Britain’s second female leader.
  Cameron announced his resignation last month because he backed the losing side in a referendum for Britain to leave the European Union. So did May — but infighting, bad timing and cold feet among leaders of the vict
  
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• Campers from Alabama arrested in connection with wildfire

  11-07-2016 16:04 via krqe.com
  
  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Two campers from Alabama have been arrested in connection with a wildfire that has destroyed three homes and three buildings north of Nederland in Boulder County.
  Boulder sheriff’s deputies said Sunday afternoon that Jimmy Andrew Suggs, 28, and Zackary Ryan Kuykendall, 26, both of whom are from Vinemont, Alabama, face felony arson charges because of the dangers the fire poses, the Denver Post reported . The men were booked into the Boulder County Jail, the newsp
  
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