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• Updated: Crowds rejoice; Failed coup strengthens Turkey’s president

  16-07-2016 23:05
  
  ANKARA, Turkey — Rather than toppling Turkey’s strongman president, a failed military coup that left more than 250 dead appears to have bolstered Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s immediate grip on power and boosted his popularity. Tens of thousands marched through the streets in half a dozen Turkish cities late Saturday, waving flags and singing songs in […]
  
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• Updated: France calls up reserves to boost security after Nice attack

  16-07-2016 22:59
  
  NICE, France — Seeking to quell fear and criticism, the French government called up thousands of police reserves Saturday to increase security around the country, after the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a beachfront Bastille Day attack that security forces failed to thwart. From the Nice seashore to the seat of French politics in […]
  
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• Wind, low humidity add to spread of Grand Canyon wildfire

  16-07-2016 22:54
  
  GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — Strong winds and low humidity have fueled the growth of a wildfire that could potentially threaten a highway serving the lodge, restaurant and main campgrounds on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. Fire officials say weather conditions Friday have caused a 2-week-old wildfire to char 5.7 square miles. […]
  
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• 8 years after hope and change, voters are angry, anxious

  16-07-2016 22:53
  
  ARVADA, Colorado — Eight years ago, Barbara Conley was one of the millions of Americans swept up in Barack Obama’s promises of hope and change when he accepted the Democratic nomination at a packed football stadium a few miles from her home in the Denver suburbs. But those optimistic days are almost unrecognizable to Conley […]
  
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• Updated: Trump presents ‘partner’ Pence, but no doubt who’s the star

  16-07-2016 22:32
  
  NEW YORK — Donald Trump presented running mate Mike Pence to the nation Saturday, hailing the Indiana governor as his “first choice” and “my partner in the campaign.” But he left no doubt in a sometimes awkward event that Pence’s role will surely be as sidekick to the businessman-turned-reality-star-turned-politician at the top of the ticket. […]
  
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• New Albuquerque lab tests patients for possible prescription pill abuse

  16-07-2016 20:53
  
  New Mexicans are overdosing on prescription pills at an alarming rate. But now a new lab in Albuquerque is hoping to save some lives by making sure people aren't misusing their medications.
  
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• Updated: Man held in San Diego homeless attacks had criminal record

  16-07-2016 20:41
  
  SAN DIEGO — A man arrested for a string of deadly attacks on the homeless had a long history of crime and mental health issues and was himself living in subsidized housing for the homeless, it was reported. Jon David Guerrero, 39, was arrested Friday by police who heard a homeless man screaming after he […]
  
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• Crews make gains in southern New Mexico wildfire

  16-07-2016 20:20
  
  TIMBERON, N.M. — Crews have gained more control of a southern New Mexico wildfire that has destroyed more than 40 homes. Fire officials said Saturday that the fire in the mountain village of Timberon is about 40 percent contained. The blaze has charred nearly 270 acres since it started Wednesday. Gov. Susana Martinez declared a […]
  
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• Updated: US would consider extradition request for exiled cleric

  16-07-2016 20:01
  
  LUXEMBOURG — The Obama administration would entertain an extradition request for the U.S.-based cleric that Turkey’s president is blaming for a failed coup attempt, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday. In a televised speech, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the United States should extradite Fethullah Gulen. Erdogan said Turkey had never turned […]
  
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• World leaders voice support for Turkey, condemn coup

  16-07-2016 19:58 via krqe.com
  
  World leaders expressed support for Turkey and its democratic institutions on Saturday after the government quashed an attempted military coup.
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  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States would entertain an extradition request for exiled cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom Turkey’s president blames for a failed coup.
  But Kerry added that Turkey’s government would have to present evidence of Gulen’s wrongdoing that withstands scrutiny.
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• Low-key Trump intro for ‘my partner,’ running mate Pence

  16-07-2016 19:33 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump introduced Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate on Saturday, calling him “my partner in this campaign” and his first and best choice to join him on a winning Republican presidential ticket.
  Skipping the traditional massive rally in favor of a low-key announcement in a Manhattan hotel, Trump tried to draw a sharp contrast between Pence, a soft-spoken conservative, and Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential candidate. In fact, he spent ab
  
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• How’d he get through? Security in question after Nice attack

  16-07-2016 19:29 via krqe.com
  
  (AP) – This time, France was supposed to have been better prepared.
  Despite a state of emergency following two recent terror attacks, authorities in France are facing criticism that they should have done more to protect one of the softest of soft targets: A pedestrian zone in Nice where 30,000 people — families and fun-seekers among them — turned out for Bastille Day celebrations that were turned to tragedy by a truck driver’s deadly rampage.
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• Regional fire prompts air quality notification in Albuquerque

  16-07-2016 19:10
  
  The City of Albuquerque issued an air quality notification Saturday morning as a wildfire north of the Grand Canyon has caused a haze over the metro area.
  
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• Strong winds blow down an Albuquerque restaurant’s sign

  16-07-2016 18:48 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Owners of one Albuquerque restaurant are cleaning up after the wind blew down their sign.
  The owner of Trombino’s in the Northeast Heights says it blew so hard Thursday a light pole fell right into his sign.
  No one was hurt, but he says he found pieces of it 100 feet away.
  On the upside, the owner says the business will get a brand new sign.
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• Wildfire burning in Arizona causes smoke in Albuquerque

  16-07-2016 18:26 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The City of Albuquerque Health Department is monitoring air pollution levels Saturday as a wildfire burning in Arizona is causing smoke to be seen across Albuquerque.
  Environmental Health Department officials say the Fuller Fire is burning just north of the Grand Canyon and is the cause a light haze being seen in the Albuquerque area.
  Officials say it is expected to clear out by Saturday afternoon.
  They have not issued a health alert but are monitoring
  
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• Albuquerque officials warn residents about air quality

  16-07-2016 18:21
  
  Albuquerque health officials notify residents about concerns regarding air quality.
  
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• ABQ issues air quality notification

  16-07-2016 17:16
  
  The Albuquerque Environmental Health Department issued an air quality notification due to smoke from fires in the region. The Fuller Fire, which is north of the Grand Canyon, is the cause of haze over the Albuquerque area, spokesperson Tyler Muxworthy said. The haze is expected to clear out this afternoon.
  
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• Updated: Tesla working on Autopilot radar changes after crash

  16-07-2016 16:35
  
  DETROIT — Tesla Motors is working on modifications to its Autopilot system after it failed to stop for a tractor-trailer rig in a Florida crash that killed the driver of a Model S sedan. CEO Elon Musk, in a Twitter post Thursday night, said Tesla is working on improvements to the radar system. Autopilot uses […]
  
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• Tesla working on Autopilot radar changes after crash

  16-07-2016 16:35
  
  DETROIT — Tesla Motors is working on modifications to its Autopilot system after it failed to stop for a tractor-trailer rig in a Florida crash that killed the driver of a Model S sedan. CEO Elon Musk, in a Twitter post Thursday night, said Tesla is working on improvements to the radar system. Autopilot uses […]
  
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• Updated: Fort Collins comfort dog travels near and far

  16-07-2016 16:28
  
  FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The chaos had dissipated. People weren’t in shock anymore. It had seemed to settle in, for the people of Orlando, that their city was now the site of the deadliest mass shooting by a single gunman — a massacre and hate crime so huge, it officially became the deadliest instance of […]
  
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• 16-year-old arrested, accused of fatally shooting older sister

  16-07-2016 16:16
  
  A 16-year-old is in jail and is accused of fatally shooting his older sister.
  
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• RRPS Board postpones decision on new charter

  16-07-2016 08:11
  
  School would serve Native Americans
  
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• RR votes to administer development funds

  16-07-2016 08:11
  
  The Rio Rancho Governing Body unanimously approved two ordinances on Wednesday that would allow the city to administer and act as fiscal agent for the state's LEDA contributions to Safelite Solutions and PCM, which recently announced their expansions into Rio Rancho.
  
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• Ordinance to raise elected officials’ pay passes first reading

  16-07-2016 08:11
  
  Detractors note that voters have already said ‘no’ to pay increases
  
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• Cops in the Park: The human side of policing

  16-07-2016 08:09
  
  Annual event has a focus on children
  
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• County Commission talks garbage

  16-07-2016 08:08
  
  A proposal to collect waste in unincorporated areas discussed
  
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• No sobriety test for Silver City DA

  16-07-2016 07:43
  
  Motorist reported erratic, dangerous driving
  
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• ‘Topes Today (July 15)

  16-07-2016 07:23
  
  Vs. Memphis 7:05 p.m. Radio: 610 AM Probable starters: Isotopes LHP Kyle Freeland (1-2, 4.26) vs. Redbirds RHP Alex Reyes (2-1, 4.35) Promotion: Postgame fireworks Friday: David Dahl’s opposite-field grand slam to left field in the fourth inning put the Isotopes ahead for good as the home team beat Memphis 10-5 before an announced crowd […]
  
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• Pokémon Go redefines night-life for Albuquerque college students

  16-07-2016 07:06 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A massive number of young adults are not out bar-hopping Friday night in the metro, they’re playing Pokémon Go.
  Two decades after its first debut, Pokémon is all the craze once again. This time its interactive, with an emphasis on ‘active.’
  “You know going from an 8 bit no color screen to a full color 3D world, it’s amazing, it’s a lot of fun,” said James Walker, with UNM Residence Life.
  It’s now
  
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• Why was she pulled over? Woman says she was scared for police

  16-07-2016 06:55
  
  New police lapel video shows a strange arrest by Albuquerque police.
  
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• Golf course looks to minimize high water bill from city

  16-07-2016 06:40
  
  Who in the city of Albuquerque has a $375,000 water bill?You probably guessed it: a golf course.The problem is that the Los Altos Golf Course used to only pay about $15,000 dollars a year to keep the grass green.As you can imagine, they want to go back to that.
  
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• Some victims of sexual crimes say they don't want rape kits tested

  16-07-2016 06:39
  
  New Mexico has more than 5,000 rape kits still waiting to be tested. Many victims of sexual assault are frustrated with the backlog, saying the system has failed them. But there’s also a lot of anxiety.
  
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• Man killed overnight in Albuquerque was private security worker at apartment complex

  16-07-2016 06:38
  
  Albuquerque police say the man shot dead at a southeast Albuquerque apartment complex early Friday was a private security worker on patrol at the complex.
  
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• Updated: France calls up reservist forces after deadly Nice rampage

  16-07-2016 06:27
  
  NICE, France — France called up thousands of reserve security forces Friday as authorities tried to determine why a Tunisian deliveryman known only to be a petty criminal took the wheel of a 19-ton truck and plunged through a terrified seaside crowd on Bastille Day, leaving 84 people dead and more than 200 wounded. Witnesses […]
  
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• Route 66 Summerfest to kick off in Nob Hill

  16-07-2016 06:19 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s time for Summerfest in Nob Hill. Friday crews began setting up along Central.
  Central Avenue between Gerard and Washington is blocked off from 6 a.m. Saturday until 11:30 p.m.
  Starting at 2 p.m. there will be live music, the Route 66 Summerfest Car Show and free kids’ activities. Summerfest is free to the public to attend. It is a rain or shine event lasting until 10:30 p.m. Saturday night.
  Regular street parking will be available, or t
  
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• Nob Hill prepares for annual Summerfest

  16-07-2016 06:19 via krqe.com
  
   
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s time for Summerfest in Nob Hill. Friday crews began setting up along Central.
  Central Avenue between Gerard and Washington will be blocked off starting at 6 a.m. Saturday. The area will stay closed to traffic until 11:30 p.m.
  Starting at 2 p.m. there will be live music, the Route 66 Summerfest Car Show and free kids’ activities. Summerfest is free to the public to attend.
  Regular street parking will be available, or the publ
  
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• Albuquerque family upset items are being removed from family members gravesites

  16-07-2016 06:15 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A family says they’re angry, groundskeepers keep removing items they’ve left at their family’s gravesites.
  Pat Benavidez says he has several family members buried at the San Jose de Armijo Cemetery in the South Valley.
  Benavidez says he and his wife leave flowers and keepsakes, but they get tossed too soon, and without notice.
  KRQE News 13 called the manager at the cemetery. He says the cemetery is non-profit with limited resources, so it actual
  
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• Village of Tijeras settles scrapbook lawsuit for $60K

  16-07-2016 06:00 via krqe.com
  
  TIJERAS, N.M. (KRQE) – The elderly women who were banned from a senior center by the mayor for taking home a scrapbook they’d made sued, and now the Village of Tijeras has to pay up.
  “We decided to see it through and it turned out the way we wanted,” said Floy Watson who was banned from the senior center.
  It’s been more than two years since Watson and her friend Doris Lark were given the boot from their favorite hangout, the Tijeras Senior Center, all over a sc
  
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• New Mexico telescope to advance astronomy

  16-07-2016 06:00 via krqe.com
  
  SOCORRO, N.M. (KRQE) – The first of ten large optical telescopes, designed to radically advance astronomy, has arrived at a remote mountaintop in New Mexico.
  Delicately hauled up miles of rough, rocky mountain roads, it will be the first installed in New Mexico Tech’s Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer.
  The views from all ten optical telescopes will ultimately be combined with sophisticated electronics and hardware to create a single view equal in resolution to that of a
  
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• Bernalillo County launches criminal justice reform

  16-07-2016 06:00 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Bernalillo County is taking a new approach to help manage its jail population at the Metropolitan Detention Center.
  The county is joining forces with the White House. The Obama administration’s Data-Driven Justice Initiative is a bipartisan coalition of 67 city, county and state governments. It is billed as “disrupting the cycle of incarceration.” Bernalillo County is the only entity represented in New Mexico.
  The two main goals are to get low-r
  
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• Super Heroes invade/ Isotopes win

  16-07-2016 05:33 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque Isotopes invited all who wanted to the dress like super heroes to the ball park Friday. It was the first of two nights in a promotion called “Family Fridays.”
  Fans who dressed up even participated in a parade held before the game. The group of super heroes walked around the infield of Isotopes park waving to the crowd.
  The super heroes were then kind enough to sign autographs for the many kids who lined up to get them.
  The next promoti
  
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• Super Heroes invade Isotopes Park

  16-07-2016 05:33 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque Isotopes invited all who wanted to the dress like super heroes to the ball park Friday. It was the first of two nights in a promotion called “Family Fridays.”
  Fans who dressed up even participated in a parade held before the game. The group of super heroes walked around the infield of Isotopes park waving to the crowd.
  The super heroes were then kind enough to sign autographs for the many kids who lined up to get them.
  The next promoti
  
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• Courtney Frerichs is ready for Rio

  16-07-2016 05:31 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The dream season continues for Courtney Frerichs when she travels to Rio De Janeiro, Brazil for the Olympic Games next month.
  The former Lobo and NCAA 3,000 meter steeplechase champion her first goal at the games will be trying to get to the finals. Her second goal is to challenge herself.
  Frerichs did that during the Olympic trails when she moved up two spots during the 3,000 meter steeplechase final to finish second and earn a bid to the games.
  “The next
  
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• Crime Stoppers hosts luncheon to honor officers shot in the line of duty

  16-07-2016 05:19 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE)– A special luncheon was held Friday to honor two Albuquerque officers shot in the line of duty.Officer Lou Golson and detective Jacob Grant were recognized at the Albuquerque Crime Stoppers Heroes Luncheon.
  Officer Golson was shot four times in 2015 near Montgomery and San Mateo when he pulled over a suspected drunk driver.
  Just six days later, Detective Grant was working undercover when a fellow officer opened fire, hitting grant eight times.Crime Stoppers says it
  
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• France calls up reservist forces after deadly Nice rampage

  16-07-2016 05:16 via krqe.com
  
  NICE, France (AP) — France called up thousands of reserve security forces Friday as authorities tried to determine why a Tunisian deliveryman known only to be a petty criminal took the wheel of a 19-ton truck and plunged through a terrified seaside crowd on Bastille Day, leaving 84 people dead and more than 200 wounded.
  Witnesses described how Mohamed Bouhlel barreled his truck in a zigzag path down a crowded Nice promenade, aiming directly for children, for mothers pushing strollers and f
  
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• Officials: 42 dead in Ankara attack, coup plotters being arrested

  16-07-2016 05:08 via krqe.com
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the nation Saturday that his government was working to crush a coup attempt after a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire across the capital that left dozens dead and at least 150 people wounded.
  Government officials said the coup appeared to have failed as Turks took to the streets overnight to confront troops attempting to take over the country. However, the sounds of huge blasts, including at least one bomb that hi
  
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• Security guard shot and killed in Albuquerque

  16-07-2016 05:04
  
  A security guard was killed while on patrol Friday morning in Albuquerque.
  
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• New: The chase continues for new Olympian Courtney Frerichs (w/ video)

  16-07-2016 04:35
  
  Life as Courtney Frerichs knew it just 10 days ago is no more. And she’s OK with that. Thanks to a nice 9-minute, 20-second run she went on in Eugene, Ore., on July 7, the former University of New Mexico runner has discovered her name has grown longer — she’s now getting introduced as U.S. […]
  
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• Group of firefighters honored for efforts during motel fire

  16-07-2016 04:35 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A group of firefighters were honored by the mayor Friday for their quick response to a motel fire.
  An arsonist set fire to the Desert Sands Motel back in May.
  When firefighters arrived, smoke and flames had consumed the first floor of the motel, trapping several dozen people.
  Using ladders, firefighters rescued people from a second story window making sure everyone got out safely.
  The City of Albuquerque awarded them this week’s “Friday Heroes.&r
  
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• FBI: Bicycle-riding robber hits southwest Albuquerque bank

  16-07-2016 04:05
  
  A shotgun-armed man robbed a southwest Albuquerque bank this afternoon and made his getaway on two wheels, the FBI says. The robbery took place around 1:40 p.m. at the BBVA Compass Bank branch at 9500 Sage SW. According to the FBI, the robber — described a black man, about 6 feet tall and 180 to […]
  
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