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• Police seek missing 6-year-old

  10-08-2016 23:44 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – Police are looking for a 6-year-old girl who went missing on Wednesday.
  Police believe that 6-year-old Brooklyn Brannan is with her biological mother, 25-year-old Danielle Wilson.
  Wilson does not have primary custody over the girl, according to police. Officers also said the missing girl may be endangered. Wilson took the girl to a dinner and movie but did not bring Brooklyn back to her father, who is her legal guardian, and indicated that the father would never s
  
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• Police find missing 6-year-old

  10-08-2016 23:44 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE) – Police were looking for a 6-year-old girl who was reported missing on Wednesday.
  Las Cruces police say 6-year-old Brooklyn Brannan was with her biological mother, 25-year-old Danielle Wilson and is in good condition.
  Wilson does not have primary custody over the girl, according to police. Officers also said Wilson took the girl to a dinner and movie but did not bring Brooklyn back to her father, who is her legal guardian, and indicated that the father would never
  
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• Trial dates approach for mother, son charged with incest

  10-08-2016 23:36 via krqe.com
  
  CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) – Jury trials are scheduled for a New Mexico mother and her 19-year-old son who were charged with incest after the teen told authorities the two were involved in a romantic relationship.
  Online court records show a trial for 36-year-old Monica Mares is scheduled to begin Aug. 25. – five months after a grand jury indicted her and her son Caleb Peterson on one count each of incest.
  Peterson’s trial is scheduled to begin next month.
  Citing court records, the Clov
  
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• Updated: Singer The Weeknd donates $250K to Black Lives Matter

  10-08-2016 23:29
  
  NEW YORK — Grammy-winning singer The Weeknd is donating $250,000 to the Black Lives Matter movement. The singer made the announcement Wednesday, days after donating $38,000 to the University of Toronto to establish an Ethiopian studies program. The parents of The Weeknd, born Abel Tesfaye, are from Ethiopia, but raised the performer in Canada. Black […]
  
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• Wave of PKK attacks in southeast Turkey kill at least 12

  10-08-2016 23:28
  
  ANKARA, Turkey — A wave of Kurdish rebel attacks targeting police and soldiers in Turkey’s mainly-Kurdish southeast killed at least 12 people on Wednesday, as Turkey was still dealing with the aftermath of a failed military coup attempt that threatened the government. Officials said rebels of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, launched simultaneous bomb […]
  
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• Updated: Man using suction cups tries to scale 58-story Trump Tower

  10-08-2016 23:28
  
  NEW YORK — A man is scaling the all-glass facade of Trump Tower in New York City using suction cups. The climber has a backpack and appears to be using ropes and a harness to fasten himself to the side of the 58-story Manhattan skyscraper. He was several stories up and still climbing Wednesday evening. […]
  
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• Gary Johnson reschedules campaign rally in New Mexico

  10-08-2016 23:13
  
  Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson has rescheduled his Libertarian presidential campaign rally from Thursday to Aug. 20. Johnson’s campaign has not announced the new time or location.
  
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• New: Child run over, seriously hurt in NE ABQ

  10-08-2016 23:09
  
  A woman reportedly ran over her child near Rhode Island and Central Wednesday morning, according to Albuquerque police. APD spokesman Simon Drobik said the child, who is 6 or 7 years old, was seriously injured but is expected to survive. No charges are expected in the case, he said. Drobik said the call was initially […]
  
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• NM second-worst for full-time job seekers

  10-08-2016 23:05
  
  New Mexico is the second-worst state for people looking for a full-time job with an underemployment rate of 12.4 percent, according to the financial news outfit 24/7 Wall St. The state had the fifth-lowest workforce participation rate in the country at 57.4 percent, according to the news site, which also noted the state’s 6.2 percent […]
  
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• Updated: Judge: probable cause to proceed on rape charges for Las Vegas, NM man

  10-08-2016 22:18
  
  LAS VEGAS, NM — A judge has found probable cause to believe a Las Vegas man raped three women...
  
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• US deports former Guatemalan soldier wanted in 1982 massacre

  10-08-2016 22:13
  
  GUATEMALA CITY — A former Guatemalan soldier suspected of helping carry out a massacre of more than 160 people in 1982 during the country’s civil war was deported from the United States on Wednesday after a court refused his plea to stay because he fears for his life. Santos Lopez Alonzo, 64, was flown back […]
  
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• Updated: Alaska fishermen snag nearly 400-pound halibut

  10-08-2016 22:13
  
  PETERSBURG, Alaska — It wasn’t a record breaker, but it was still a helluva halibut. Petersburg radio station KFSK reports (http://bit.ly/2b8JfBE) that fishermen Brian Mattson and Doug Corl hauled in the catch of a lifetime Sunday with a 396-pound halibut in southeast Alaska. The fish was nearly 8 feet long. They used a winch to […]
  
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• South Texas boy, 14, killed when truck hits overturned ATV

  10-08-2016 22:12
  
  GEORGE WEST, Texas — A South Texas boy has died after his ATV overturned on a highway and was hit by a truck as he and a friend were rabbit hunting before dawn. The Department of Public Safety says 14-year-old Reagan Lyne (lin) of George West was killed in the accident around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday. […]
  
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• Updated: Missing weapons among police calls involving murder suspect

  10-08-2016 22:10
  
  ROSWELL, Ga. — A man charged with killing two Georgia teenagers was identified as the suspect in the theft of a rifle from his grandfather’s gun case last year, according to police reports documenting multiple police visits to his house in recent years. Jeffrey Hazelwood was a suspect after the rifle went missing from the […]
  
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• Today in History: August 10

  10-08-2016 21:41 via krqe.com
  
  Today is Wednesday, Aug. 10, the 223rd day of 2016. There are 143 days left in the year.
  Today’s Highlight in History:
  On Aug. 10, 1846, President James K. Polk signed a measure establishing the Smithsonian Institution.
  On this date:
  In 1792, during the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries Palace, where King Louis XVI resided. (The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason, and executed.)
  In 1821, Missouri became the 24th state.
  In 1814, Henri Nestle, founder of
  
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• I-40 back open after rollover accident

  10-08-2016 20:53
  
  Eastbound I-40 was completely shut down near 98th because of a rollover accident.
  
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• Santa Fe police arrest homicide suspect

  10-08-2016 20:51
  
  SANTA FE — The Santa Fe Police Department announced that homicide suspect Anthony Diaz was arrested without incident around noon Wednesday. Diaz was wanted for the murder of a man found near the rail road tracks by St. Michael’s Drive Aug. 2. Investigators have still not released the name or age of the victim. Police say no […]
  
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• WikiLeaks offers reward to find killer of DNC employee

  10-08-2016 20:46
  
  The speculation started within days of Seth Rich being gunned down in what District of Columbia police think was an attempted robbery near his townhouse in northwest Washington. Some on the Internet wondered if Rich was killed because of his work as a staffer with the Democratic National Committee, even suggesting he had handed WikiLeaks […]
  
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• Elementary school in Rio Rancho postpones first day of class

  10-08-2016 20:33 via krqe.com
  
  RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE) – Next Monday is supposed to be the first day of class for one elementary school but now the kids will get an extra three days of summer vacation because of a construction problem.
  This summer the Rio Rancho School district set out to replace the air conditioning system at Enchanted Hills Elementary but didn’t finish in time. In fact, the units are still sitting outside in the parking lot.
  Now students will start classes three days late — their firs
  
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• Man arrested in 2014 bus stop killing

  10-08-2016 20:22
  
  Albuquerque police arrested a man Tuesday for the killing of another man in southeast Albuquerque on Halloween 2014.
  
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• Garduno’s parent wants to buy Flying Star

  10-08-2016 20:05
  
  Some of Flying Star’s creditors are pushing a plan to sell the cafe chain to new owners, and an established local restaurant company has formally agreed to bid $2.5 million for it at auction. Southwest Brands, parent company of Garduño’s and Keva Juice, has put $100,000 into escrow as part of its plan to buy […]
  
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• Sheriff’s office says 2 officers shot in western Arkansas

  10-08-2016 19:23 via krqe.com
  
  HACKETT, Ark. (AP) — Two law enforcement officers were shot Wednesday while responding to a call in western Arkansas, authorities said.
  Officers have surrounded a home is a rural, wooded area near Hackett where the shooter is believed to be “holed up” inside, Sebastian County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Philip Pevehouse told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
  No details about the officers’ conditions were immediately released. Sebastian County Judge David Hudson said both
  
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• Updated: Feds: Plastic gun from 3-D printer seized at Nevada airport

  10-08-2016 19:21
  
  RENO, Nev. — Airport screening agents confiscated a plastic handgun produced with a 3-D printer from a man’s carry-on luggage last week at a Nevada airport in what a federal official said Wednesday might have been the first discovery of its kind in the U.S. A report by Reno-Tahoe International Airport police said the white […]
  
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• TSA: Plastic 3-D printer gun confiscated at Nevada airport

  10-08-2016 19:21
  
  RENO, Nev. — The Transportation Security Administration says screening agents confiscated a plastic handgun produced with a 3-D printer from a man’s carry-on luggage last week at Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Nevada. TSA spokeswoman Lorie Dankers said Wednesday it’s not known if the plastic firearm would work, but it had five .22-caliber bullets with it. […]
  
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• Houston schools could need $1.2M to remove Confederate names

  10-08-2016 19:21
  
  HOUSTON — The biggest school district in Texas will consider paying more than $1.2 million as part of changes to rename eight campuses previously named for Confederate leaders. The Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/2b6wgzb ) reports the Houston Independent School District board is expected to vote Thursday on a request by the interim superintendent, Ken Huewitt, to […]
  
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• Versatile ESPN sportscaster John Saunders dies at 61

  10-08-2016 19:20 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN sportscaster John Saunders, who has hosted “The Sports Reporters” for the last 15 years, has died, the network announced Wednesday. He was 61.
  Saunders joined ESPN in 1986. He did play-by-play on various sports, hosted NHL Stanley Cup Final coverage and World Series coverage and hosted studio shows for baseball, college football and college basketball.
  A cause of death was not announced.
  Saunders took over as host of “The Sports Reporters,” a Su
  
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• Texas deputy fatally shot at his home was facing foreclosure

  10-08-2016 19:15
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas sheriff’s deputy who was killed by a bullet from his own gun outside his home last month had been facing foreclosure. Authorities say Travis County Sgt. Craig Hutchinson told dispatchers there were prowlers in his yard before he was found mortally wounded July 25. Investigators initially said he was shot […]
  
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• Judge OKs deal softening Texas voter ID law for November

  10-08-2016 19:15
  
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A federal judge has approved for November a softer version of Texas’ voter ID law that courts have said discriminated against minorities and the poor. U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos on Wednesday accepted a compromise struck last week between Texas, the U.S. Justice Department and minority rights groups that sued […]
  
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• Family sues bar after corndog contest leads to woman’s death

  10-08-2016 18:52 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – A New Mexico family is suing the owners of a shuttered Albuquerque night club, their former landlord and a liquor license-holder after a woman choked during a corndog eating contest and suffered fatal brain damage.
  The mother, husband and daughter of 56-year-old Debra Harbeck argue in the wrongful death lawsuit that Fire and Ice staff served her multiple shots of gin the night she was rushed to the hospital in January, and allowed her to participate in the risky co
  
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• Family sues bar after corn dog contest allegedly leads to woman’s death

  10-08-2016 18:52 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A New Mexico woman has filed a lawsuit against an Albuquerque bar. She claims the bar overserved her mom during a night out, before she choked to death during a corn dog eating contest.
  It happened at a bar called Fire and Ice, which was once located near Montgomery and Eubank. The bar has since closed.
  It was January 26th when 56-year-old Debra Harbeck and her adult daughter were out at Fire and Ice, celebrating the daughter’s birthday. According to a laws
  
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• Updated: In setback for Brazil’s Rousseff, Senate puts her on trial

  10-08-2016 18:51
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s Senate on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to put suspended President Dilma Rousseff on trial, bringing the nation’s first female president a step closer to being permanently removed and underscoring her failure to change lawmakers’ minds the last several months. After some 15 hours of debate, senators voted 59-21 to put her […]
  
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• Updated: Fuel tanks breached on oil rig swept onto Scottish beach

  10-08-2016 18:32
  
  LONDON — Coast guards say two fuel tanks have been breached on an oil rig that was blown onto a remote Scottish beach, though it’s not clear how much diesel has escaped. The Transocean Winner was being towed when it broke free of its tug and ran aground on the Isle of Lewis off Scotland’s […]
  
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• Updated: 4 killed as wildfires driven by heat and wind wrack Portugal

  10-08-2016 18:28
  
  LISBON, Portugal — Wildfires raged unabated in Portugal on Wednesday, killing at least four people, burning down dozens of houses and sending people fleeing in panic, as well as charring huge areas of forest. The National Civil Protection Service reported 14 major wildfires burning out of control in mainland Portugal where almost 4,500 firefighters were […]
  
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• Lost teens spend rainy night on New Mexico mountain

  10-08-2016 18:07 via krqe.com
  
  RUIDOSO, N.M. (AP) – Authorities say an afternoon outing gone wrong for four Albuquerque teens turned into a long rainy night on a southern New Mexico mountain.
  The Ruidoso News reported Wednesday that the boys’ family dropped them off Friday afternoon at the Crest Trailhead, which leads up the same mountain as the Ski Apache resort area. When they didn’t return at sunset, the boys’ family called for help.
  The newspaper reports that heavy rainfall hit the mountain as sear
  
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• Thai gov’t plan would track foreigners through SIM cards

  10-08-2016 17:11
  
  BANGKOK — Thailand’s telecommunications regulator has approved in principle a plan to issue special SIM cards to foreign tourists so they can be tracked through their mobile phones. Officials at the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission said the plan would apply to tourists only, backtracking on an earlier announcement that it would cover all foreigners, […]
  
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• Intrepid relinquishing mineral rights lease

  10-08-2016 17:03
  
  CARLSBAD — Efforts to construct an interim storage facility for spent nuclear fuel are moving forward as Intrepid Potash relinquished a mineral rights lease to acreage proposed to house the project. The project, a partnership between Holtec International and the Eddy Lea Energy Alliance, will temporarily store spent nuclear fuel rods from power plants across […]
  
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• Updated: Baltimore police chief: Some officers fired

  10-08-2016 16:59
  
  BALTIMORE — The Latest on the Justice Department’s report on Baltimore police (all times local): 11:05 a.m. Baltimore’s police commissioner says biased law enforcement tactics won’t be tolerated, adding that the department has already fired some officers who committed some of the most egregious violations found during a Justice Department investigation. Kevin Davis said during […]
  
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• Updated: Turkish, Russian officials to discuss solution for Syria

  10-08-2016 16:58
  
  ANKARA, Turkey — A delegation of Turkish foreign ministry, military and intelligence officials is traveling to Russia for discussions on finding a solution to the Syria conflict, Turkey’s foreign minister said Wednesday. The announcement by Mevlut Cavusoglu came a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg for […]
  
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• 1,200 motorcyclists prepare for last Sept. 11 memorial ride

  10-08-2016 16:58
  
  HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Leaders of a massive, annual motorcycle procession to the three Sept. 11 crash sites say the ride Aug. 19-21 will be their last. Founder Ted Sjurseth (SHUR’-seth) of Lucketts, Virginia, says he’s tired of battling Maryland and Virginia police and highway agencies reluctant to block Washington-area traffic for 1,200 motorcycles. Officials in […]
  
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• Phelps wins Olympic gold medals No. 20 and 21 in Rio

  10-08-2016 16:49 via krqe.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Michael Phelps sat alone, thoroughly exhausted. He put his head in his hands and then motioned at his neck as though he had nothing left to give.
  No need.
  His work was done.
  He had his 20th and 21st gold medals.
  Phelps made up for one of the rare losses in his brilliant career by winning the 200-meter butterfly Tuesday night, a victory that sent him climbing into the stands to kiss his 3-month-old son Boomer. An hour later, he returned to take what amounted to nothing
  
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• Attorney general warns parents about ‘Pokemon Go’ dangers

  10-08-2016 16:18 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico’s top prosecutor is warning parents that the hit game “Pokemon Go” comes with risks for children who play it.
  Attorney General Hector Balderas says the game offers the benefit of getting youth outside to exercise since it requires some walking, but the game can also bring children into contact with strangers and lure them to places that may not be safe.
  The attorney general’s warning comes after Dona Ana County District Attorney M
  
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• Rollover shuts down I-40

  10-08-2016 16:11
  
  Eastbound I-40 is completely shut down near 98th due to a rollover accident.
  
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• Updated: Argentina coach in Spain to convince Messi to return to team

  10-08-2016 15:48
  
  BARCELONA, Spain — Argentina coach Edgardo Bauza has traveled to Spain in an effort to convince Lionel Messi to stay on the national team. Messi, a record five-time world player of the year, said in June that “the national team is over for me” following Argentina’s loss in the Copa America final. That was Argentina’s […]
  
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• Updated: Americans’ high-tech bike highlights start of track program

  10-08-2016 15:48
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — The first time Chloe Dygert stepped aboard the track bike she will be using along with her women’s pursuit teammates, she completely missed what caught everybody else’s attention. The drive train is on the left side. Yes, just about every bike you’ve ever seen has the crank on the right, from […]
  
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• Private inspectors in charge of Tennessee fair ride safety

  10-08-2016 15:47 via krqe.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Government investigators have not yet determined how a Ferris wheel seat flipped over at a Tennessee county fair, sending three children plummeting 30 to 45 feet to the ground. But the accident that left a 6-year-old girl with a traumatic brain injury sharpened the focus Tuesday on how carnival ride operators are regulated.
  After a 2014 audit found shortcomings in Tennessee’s regulatory program for rides at fairs and amusement parks, state officials decided to
  
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• Why have upscale retailer Nordstrom and other apparel giants lost their luster?

  10-08-2016 15:34
  
  In mid-August of last year, warning signs at the Seattle headquarters of Nordstrom Inc. first became apparent. Up to that point, the upscale apparel retailer, with $14 billion in annual sales, had enjoyed several years of steady sales growth and expansion. Its stock had climbed to a record high of about $80 a share. “Then, […]
  
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• Updated: Global stocks ease back after earnings-driven gains

  10-08-2016 15:34
  
  SEOUL, South Korea — Global stocks mostly fell Wednesday, amid quiet summer trading and questions about the sustainability of some indexes’ rise to record highs. KEEPING SCORE: Britain’s FTSE 100 was down 0.2 percent at 6,836 while France’s CAC 40 dipped 0.3 percent to 4,454. Germany’s DAX fell 0.5 percent to 10,642. Futures augured a […]
  
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• California utility guilty of obstructing investigators

  10-08-2016 15:34
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — A federal jury found California’s largest utility guilty of violating pipeline safety regulations before a deadly natural gas pipeline explosion in the San Francisco Bay Area and then misleading investigators about how it was identifying high-risk pipelines. After deliberating for seven days, jurors convicted Pacific Gas & Electric Co. Tuesday of obstruction […]
  
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• Organizers keep cyclists safe during Corrales Bike and Wine Tour

  10-08-2016 15:21 via krqe.com
  
  CORRALES, N.M. (KRQE) – Drinking and cycling? Corrales Bike and Wine Tour organizers say it can be done and safely.
  Participants will take on a 10 mile bike ride through the Village of Corrales this weekend, stopping at four different wineries.
  Organizers say they realize there’s a risk when it comes to drinking and biking, but say they take the necessary precautions to avoid incidents.
  There is a waiver that participants must sign as well as with ride-along security teams. Plus
  
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• Bullet casings found after shootings in serial killer case

  10-08-2016 15:08 via krqe.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities investigating nine nighttime drive-by shootings in Phoenix believed to be the work of a serial killer recovered bullet casings from at least three of the crime scenes and received detailed vehicle descriptions from witnesses, according to police reports.
  Witnesses say the victims were standing outside after dark when a man fired a handgun from a car and then fled the area. Police say the documents were released Tuesday in response to public records requests from
  
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