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• Man indicted for role in Fort Worth officer’s shooting

  09-08-2016 23:54
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas — A Tarrant County grand jury has indicted a 21-year-old man on charges stemming from the shooting of a Fort Worth police officer in a gunbattle that left the man’s father dead. The grand jury indicted Ed Russell McIver Jr. on charges of hindering apprehension and evidence tampering. Both charges carry potential […]
  
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• Updated: Couple indicted for leaving son alone to play Pokemon Go

  09-08-2016 23:53
  
  FLORENCE, Ariz. — An Arizona couple accused of leaving their 2-year-old son alone for up to 90 minutes to go play the “Pokemon Go” smartphone game have been indicted by a grand jury. Pinal County prosecutors say 27-year-old Brent Daley and his 26-year-old wife Brianna Daley each are facing one count of child abuse. They […]
  
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• Closing costs in NM 12th highest

  09-08-2016 23:44
  
  With mortgage rates bumping below 4 percent, now may time to buy a house in New Mexico. But be prepared for higher-than-average closing costs, thanks to new rules enacted by Uncle Sam. The Land of Enchantment has the 12th-highest closing costs in the country, a new Bankrate.com report showed. Closing costs in the state averaged […]
  
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• New: SFUAD lands on Variety’s list of ‘top entertainment school on the move’

  09-08-2016 23:15
  
  Variety is taking notice of Santa Fe University of Art and Design. The trade magazine named the university a top entertainment school on the move. SFUAD was recognized for its innovative and cutting-edge programs and for its expansive production facilities, including soundstages at the university’s famous Garson Studios. “At SFUAD, our campus provides wonderful artistic […]
  
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• Eastdale All-Stars advance to Southwest Regional Finals

  09-08-2016 23:10
  
  A team of Albuquerque little leaguers are one step closer to the World Series after winning Monday night.
  
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• US stocks eke out small gains; Nasdaq sets record close

  09-08-2016 23:09
  
  U.S. stocks recovered from a late-afternoon slide to eke out small gains Tuesday, nudging the Nasdaq composite to its second record close in less than a week. The three major stock indexes, all of which set new highs last Friday, rebounded from a slight decline on Monday. Investors focused on the latest batch of company […]
  
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• Breaking: Wyoming closed at Paseo for blown gas line, evacuations ordered

  09-08-2016 23:05
  
  Wyoming has been shut down south of Paseo del Norte for a blown gas line, according to Albuquerque police. A piece of construction equipment was on fire, and a firefighter was seen hosing it down. Police spokesman pokesman Simon Drobik said nearby businesses were evacuated. A group of people were seen waiting in a nearby […]
  
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• Wyoming near Paseo Del Norte shut down due to blown gas line

  09-08-2016 23:04
  
  Northbound and Southbound Wyoming Boulevard at Palomas is shut down due to a blown gas line. 
  
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• ABQ firm lands Naval Research Lab contract

  09-08-2016 23:03
  
  The Albuquerque-based engineering firm Applied Technology Associates has won a $27.8 million Naval Research Laboratory contract to build a new sensor and telescope for mapping satellites and other objects in deep space. Once built, the new technology could provide a huge boost to government efforts to fully chart the estimated 1,200-plus satellites and objects floating […]
  
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• New Mexico governor orders agency spending reductions

  09-08-2016 23:01 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez is directing state agencies under her control to reduce annual general-fund spending by 5 percent in response to a decline in state revenues linked to energy prices.
  Read the governor’s memorandum >>
  The Republican governor also told agencies on Tuesday to slow down expenditures during the first half of the fiscal year that began in July. Agencies were told to spend no more than 45 percent of general-fund budgets during thos
  
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• 15 states to appeals court: Overturn endangered frog ruling

  09-08-2016 22:50
  
  NEW ORLEANS — Fifteen states are asking a federal appeals court to reconsider a Louisiana landowner’s attempt to keep the government from listing 1,500 forest acres as essential to an endangered frog. A 2-1 June ruling upheld a district judge’s decision that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was within bounds in declaring the land […]
  
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• Wyoming at Paseo del Norte still closed after gas line rupture

  09-08-2016 22:34 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A blown gas line blasted flames into the air Tuesday afternoon and closed down a section of the road near Wyoming at Paseo.
  The busted gas line forced several businesses in the area to evacuate. Police also closed Wyoming at Paseo in both directions following the incident.
  As of Wednesday morning, Wyoming remains closed in both directions.
  Firefighters say construction crews ruptured the line while installing a fire optic cable.
  The rupture started a fire wh
  
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• Southbound Wyoming at Paseo still closed after gas line rupture

  09-08-2016 22:34 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A blown gas line blasted flames into the air Tuesday afternoon and closed down a section of the road near Wyoming at Paseo.
  The busted gas line forced several businesses in the area to evacuate. Police also closed Wyoming at Paseo in both directions following the incident.
  However, as of Wednesday morning only the southbound lanes on Wyoming at Paseo remain closed.
  Firefighters say construction crews ruptured the line while installing a fire optic cable.
  The
  
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• Police: Blown gas line prompts evacuations in northeast Albuquerque

  09-08-2016 22:34 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque Police Department says evacuations are occurring in northeast Albuquerque Tuesday afternoon.
  The intersection of Wyoming and Palomas is shut down due to a blown gas line, according to police.
  Businesses are being evacuated nearby.
  Police say to avoid the area. Both northbound and southbound Wyoming at Palomas have been closed.
  KRQE News 13 will provide updates as they become available.TRAFFIC ALERT: Wyoming & Palomas – broken gas line. S
  
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• New scorecard rates APD's body camera policy in different categories

  09-08-2016 22:01
  
  A new nationwide report card on police body camera policies is out, and Albuquerque is on the list.
  
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• Breaking: Judge: Much of accused cop killer’s interview with police inadmissible at trial

  09-08-2016 21:35
  
  A 13th Judicial District judge ruled Tuesday that only a small piece of an interview a state police officer conducted with accused cop killer Andrew Romero will be permitted at his upcoming trial. Only about six pages of the 51-page police interview transcript will be permitted. Judge George Eichwald said from his courtroom in Sandoval County […]
  
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• Today in History: August 9

  09-08-2016 21:15 via krqe.com
  
  Today’s Highlight in History:
  On August 9, 1945, three days after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, a U.S. B-29 Superfortress code-named Bockscar dropped a nuclear device (“Fat Man”) over Nagasaki, killing an estimated 74,000 people.
  On this date:
  In 1842, the United States and Canada resolved a border dispute by signing the Webster-Ashburton Treaty.
  In 1854, Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden,” which described Thoreau’s experiences while living near Wa
  
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• Breaking: Gov. Martinez directs state agencies to trim spending by 5 percent

  09-08-2016 21:12
  
  SANTA FE — In the latest round of New Mexico budgetary belt-tightening, Gov. Susana Martinez has directed state agencies to trim their approved spending levels by at least 5 percent. The two-term Republican governor gave the directive to state agencies today via a memo. All departments were given the instructions, including agencies that already had […]
  
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• Judge: Majority of accused cop killer’s statements cannot be used as evidence

  09-08-2016 20:27 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Most of the statements made to police by Andrew Romero, the career criminal accused of murdering a Rio Rancho Police Officer, will not be allowed as evidence in his upcoming trial, a judge ruled Tuesday.
  Romero’s attorney was arguing the jury in his trial should never hear what he told police after the killing because his rights were trampled on.
  With the Andrew Romero trial just weeks away, the judge is making some big decisions about what a jury
  
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• Judge deciding on evidence, witnesses ahead of accused cop killer’s trial

  09-08-2016 20:27 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The career criminal accused of murdering a Rio Rancho Police Officer last summer because he knew he was a wanted man, is in court Tuesday.
  He’s arguing the jury in his trial should never hear what he told police after the killing because his rights were trampled on.
  With the Andrew Romero trial just weeks away, the judge is making some big decisions about what a jury will and will not hear.
  Romero is accused of gunning down Rio Rancho Officer Gregg Nigel Be
  
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• NMDOT: 1 of New Mexico’s top DWI absconders caught

  09-08-2016 20:04 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – The New Mexico Department of Transportation has announced that one of the state’s top drunken driving fugitives has been captured.
  Officials said Tuesday that Gallup Police Department recently arrested Rigina Johns following a statewide search.
  Authorities say Johns absconded from supervision after being convicted of her fifth drunken driving conviction. Records show she also fled in 2013 after she was convicted of an aggravated DWI.
  NMDOT Cabinet Secretary Tom
  
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• Updated: Sandwich chain worker accused of drugging officer’s drink

  09-08-2016 19:42
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah sandwich shop employee has been arrested on accusations he put methamphetamine and THC into the drink of a uniformed police officer. A probable cause statement filed Tuesday says the Layton police sergeant immediately felt impaired after getting the drink at a Subway restaurant Monday. He struggled to find the […]
  
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• Sandwich chain worker accused of drugging officer’s drink

  09-08-2016 19:42
  
  SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah sandwich shop employee has been arrested on accusations he put methamphetamine and THC into the drink of a uniformed police officer. Authorities said Tuesday that a Layton police sergeant immediately felt impaired after getting the drink at a Subway restaurant Monday. He struggled to find the brake pedal of […]
  
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• Updated: Police seek public’s help to solve Google worker’s slaying

  09-08-2016 19:32
  
  BOSTON — Authorities asked for the public’s help Tuesday as they struggled to find the killer or killers of a New York City woman whose body was found in woods near her mother’s home in central Massachusetts after she went out for a jog and didn’t return. Residents of Princeton, a sleepy town of about […]
  
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• Updated: Pakistanis mourn attack on lawyers and a deadly culture war

  09-08-2016 19:30
  
  QUETTA, Pakistan — Many Pakistanis were in deep mourning on Tuesday, a day after a suicide bombing that targeted lawyers killed 70 people in the city of Quetta, touching a chord in the country’s long-simmering culture war. By targeting lawyers, Islamic radicals appeared to take aim at a pillar of the country’s budding civil society […]
  
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• Widening aim, Clinton commits resources to Georgia, Arizona

  09-08-2016 19:28
  
  ATLANTA — Hillary Clinton is expanding her presidential battleground map to include the traditionally Republican states of Georgia and Arizona, according to officials aware of the plans. A source with knowledge of the campaign’s plans says aides at Clinton’s New York headquarters spoke Monday with Democratic Party officials in Georgia and Arizona to discuss a […]
  
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• Police say boy, 3, dies after found in Beaumont motel pool

  09-08-2016 19:21
  
  BEAUMONT, Texas — Beaumont police say a 3-year-old boy has died after being found at the bottom of a motel swimming pool. Police and Child Protective Services are investigating Monday night’s death of Romilio Madina. Officer Carol Riley says the child was wearing an inflatable device prior to his death. A police statement says officers […]
  
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• Infant’s death is first Zika-related fatality in Texas

  09-08-2016 18:26 via krqe.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Officials say an infant whose mother traveled to a Zika-infected area in Latin America died shortly after birth in a suburban Houston hospital, marking the first Zika-related death in Texas.
  Dr. Umair Shah is the executive director of Harris County Public Health. Shah said Tuesday that the infant died a few weeks ago and had microcephaly linked to the Zika virus.
  Test results linking the death to Zika were confirmed Friday. The mother had traveled to El Salvador while she wa
  
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• Updated: Beyond ‘Obamacare’: State initiatives refocus health debate

  09-08-2016 18:15
  
  WASHINGTON — Moving beyond “Obamacare,” political activists are looking to state ballot questions to refocus the nation’s long-running debate over government’s role in health care. This fall, California voters will decide whether to lower some prescription drug prices, while Coloradans will vote on a state version of a “single-payer” government-run health system, similar to what […]
  
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• Artesia employees see 10 percent pay cut amid oil slowdown

  09-08-2016 17:52 via krqe.com
  
  ARTESIA, N.M. (AP) – A southeastern New Mexico city hit with declining revenues because of the area’s oil downturn is slashing city employees’ pay.
  The Roswell Daily Record reports Artesia’s nearly 200 city employees have had their annual salaries and hourly pay rates suddenly reduced by 10 percent due to the economic decline.
  Those cuts include salary reductions for police officers and firefighters.
  The reductions, which went into effect Aug. 1, were approved by the Arte
  
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• Updated: Play It Forward: ‘Pokemon Go’ players encouraging donations

  09-08-2016 17:51
  
  CONCORD, N.H. — Some “Pokemon Go” players are asking participants to bring a canned food item or cash for charities to gatherings for the popular game. Players in Concord and Manchester, New Hampshire, have started Poke-Aid. The Facebook group asks fellow players searching for the digital creatures on their smartphones to bring the donations to […]
  
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• Facebook, PNM sign deal but Utah is still in running

  09-08-2016 17:50
  
  The state’s largest utility has already signed a contract with Facebook, according to the testimony of a Public Service Company of New Mexico executive at a regulatory hearing. Gerard Ortiz, PNM’s vice president of regulatory affairs, said at a New Mexico Public Regulation Commission public hearing today that the company had already executed a special […]
  
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• State works to preserve petroglyphs discovered on shoreline

  09-08-2016 17:37
  
  HONOLULU — State officials are working to protect Hawaiian petroglyphs believed to be more than 400 years old after their recent discovery along the coast of Oahu. Lonnie Watson and Mark Louviere had been visiting the island from Texas when they came across the petroglyphs in July off the Waianae Coast. “For some reason there […]
  
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• French club Nice plans match tribute to victims of attack

  09-08-2016 17:37
  
  NICE, France — French club Nice will pay a tribute to victims of the deadly attack in the Riviera city by playing in a white outfit with no sponsor logos for its season-opening game. The club will trade its traditional red-and-black colors for a white kit when it hosts Rennes in the French league on […]
  
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• Rematch in Rio: Phelps, Le Clos face off in 200 fly

  09-08-2016 17:25 via krqe.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When Michael Phelps decided to come out of retirement, he circled one race in particular on the Olympic schedule.
  The 200-meter butterfly.
  At the London Games, in what was supposed to be his Olympic farewell, Phelps was leading as he came to the wall in the stroke he does better than anyone.
  But he mistimed the finish, glided a little too long, and was edged by Chad le Clos.
  That result has irked Phelps ever since.
  On Tuesday night, he’ll get a chance to make am
  
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• Updated: Police: Kansas boy suffered fatal neck injury on waterslide

  09-08-2016 17:14
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas waterslide billed as the world’s tallest remained off-limits as authorities pressed to figure out how a state lawmaker’s 10-year-old son died of a neck injury while riding it. Details remained murky about what happened Sunday to Caleb Thomas Schwab on the 168-foot-tall “Verruckt” — German for “insane” — that […]
  
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• Updated: Newlyweds’ truck stolen during stop in Phoenix

  09-08-2016 17:12
  
  PHOENIX — A recently married Oregon couple who stopped in Arizona to visit friends has had almost all of their possessions stolen while in Phoenix. KTVK-TV in Phoenix reports (http://goo.gl/NftN0c) that the couple’s Ford F-250 V10 was stolen outside a Phoenix apartment complex. Ashley Castro says inside the truck were irreplaceable items like family photos. […]
  
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• Texan claimed to be ‘voice of God’ guilty in immigrants case

  09-08-2016 17:12
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas — Prosecutors say a Texan who claimed to be the “voice of God” faces up to 60 years in prison for forcing two immigrants to work for years without pay. Olga Sandra Murra of Fort Worth was convicted of two counts of forced labor and two counts of harboring an illegal immigrant. […]
  
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• Updated: Putin, Erdogan agree on steps to mend relations

  09-08-2016 17:02
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday after talks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin that the two nations can rebuild their damaged ties and make them even closer, promising to back major energy projects with Russia. Calling Putin his “dear friend,” Erdogan said Turkey is ready to implement a natural gas […]
  
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• Activists want baseball team’s monkey rodeo barred

  09-08-2016 17:01
  
  WILMINGTON, Del. — For animal rights activists across the country, one minor league baseball team’s tradition of having capuchins ride atop dogs isn’t some harmless monkey business. The News Journal of Wilmington (http://delonline.us/2aVNnkh ) reports that the Wilmington Blue Rocks hold the Cowboy Monkey Rodeo multiple times each season as chaps-wearing monkeys straddle border collies […]
  
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• Tropical Storm Javier weakens near tip of Mexico’s Baja

  09-08-2016 16:53 via krqe.com
  
  CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities evacuated people from low-lying areas around the resort city Cabo San Lucas as Tropical Storm Javier blew past the tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula and then weakened to a tropical depression on Tuesday.
  Slowing its forward movement to 6 mph (9 kph), Javier promised an extended battering with wind and rain through Wednesday morning as it headed northward, brushing the Pacific shore of southern Baja.
  The storm was centered abou
  
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• Updated: Table tennis’ premier event, the Olympics, 1 of the easiest

  09-08-2016 16:31
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Here’s a secret about table tennis. The world’s most prestigious tournament, the Olympics, is also one of the easiest. The reason for this paradox, like much about the modern version of the sport, can be linked to a single force: China. In what’s widely seen as an attempt to keep China […]
  
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• Updated: Rematch in Rio: Phelps, Le Clos face off in 200 fly

  09-08-2016 16:31
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — When Michael Phelps decided to come out of retirement, he circled one race in particular on the Olympic schedule. The 200-meter butterfly. At the London Games, in what was supposed to be his Olympic farewell, Phelps was leading as he came to the wall in the stroke he does better than […]
  
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• Updated: Inter Milan hires Frank de Boer as coach to replace Mancini

  09-08-2016 16:31
  
  MILAN — Inter Milan says it hired Frank de Boer as coach on a three-year contract to replace Roberto Mancini. Inter says in a statement the former Netherlands player will attend a news conference later Tuesday. De Boer arrived in Milan on Monday when Mancini left Inter by mutual consent after less than two years […]
  
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• Police: 1 suffered head injury in fall from Ferris wheel

  09-08-2016 16:29 via krqe.com
  
  GREENEVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Police say one of three people who fell from a Ferris wheel during a county fair in Tennessee suffered a head injury and remains hospitalized in serious condition.
  Greeneville Police Capt. Tim Davis said during a news conference the other two were responsive and answering questions after falling 30 to 45 feet Monday night. He had said earlier all three were alert and responsive, but said Tuesday morning he had received new information. A second person also remaine
  
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• Updated: ‘Tonight Show,’ ‘SNL’ coming to Snapchat under deal with NBC

  09-08-2016 16:09
  
  NEW YORK — NBCUniversal has agreed to make customized episodes of “The Tonight Show,” “Saturday Night Live” and several other shows for Snapchat under a multiyear deal between the broadcast network and social media app. NBC says episodes of “The Voice” and “E! News” from E! Entertainment Television, which is owned by NBCUniversal, will be […]
  
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• China ridicules Trump’s criticism of its trade practices

  09-08-2016 16:09
  
  BEIJING — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is playing the “China-bashing card” in an attempt to rescue his falling poll numbers but has no real ideas to resolve the two nations’ differences, China’s official news agency said Tuesday. Responding to a speech Monday in which the candidate accused China of breaking trade rules “in every […]
  
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• 2 dead, 2 injured in NE Albuquerque shooting

  09-08-2016 15:59
  
  Two people are dead and two others injured in a shooting Monday night.
  
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• California wildfire surges, thousands of homes threatened

  09-08-2016 15:51 via krqe.com
  
  CRESTLINE, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California wildfire has surged in size and put thousands of homes in potential peril.
  Smoke plumes roiling from flaming ridges of the San Bernardino Mountains blew all the way across the Mojave Desert to Las Vegas as the blaze on Monday forced the evacuation of hundreds of homes.
  Firefighters aided by 16 aircraft battled flames that spread across nearly 10 square miles on the northern side of the rugged mountain range east of Los Angeles.
  People in some
  
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• Police: 2 dead, others injured in northeast Albuquerque shooting

  09-08-2016 15:33 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Police are investigating a shooting that happened in northeast Albuquerque Monday night.
  Officers arrived at the home near Wyoming and Copper around 11:00 p.m. in response to a shooting call, the police department says.
  APD says when officers arrived on scene, the found two deceased victims and two injured subjects inside the home. The injured  subjects were then transported to a local hospital with serious injuries.
  A Violent Crimes Unit was called out
  
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