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• 4 sentenced to life for slaying of reserve police officer

  19-09-2016 23:52
  
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Four people convicted in the slaying of a reserve police officer in Virginia have been sentenced to life in prison. News media outlets report that Daniel Mathis was sentenced to life plus 132 years for the death of 45-year-old Waynesboro Reserve Police Capt. Kevin Quick. Shantai Shelton and Mersadies Shelton were each […]
  
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• Cultivating Coders gains traction locally, nationally

  19-09-2016 23:50
  
  Albuquerque-based Cultivating Coders is headed to California this week as one of the top 50 semi-finalists in Tech.Co’s fourth annual “Startup of the Year” competition. The company, which offers training boot camps for people in underserved communities to become web and software developers, won Tech.Co’s “Startup Night” pitch competition last March at the South by […]
  
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• Bomb threat cancels classes at Eisenhower Middle School

  19-09-2016 23:50
  
  A bomb threat prompted the cancellation of classes at Eisenhower Middle School Monday morning.
  
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• Updated: Anticipating debate, Trump says he thinks system rigged

  19-09-2016 23:49
  
  NEW YORK — A week before the first presidential debate, Donald Trump is putting moderators on notice that he’ll be watching to see if they get too rough on him. In a series of interviews over the past week, the Republican nominee has asserted that “the system is being rigged” against him. The first of […]
  
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• Outlook for NM economy: `flat to mildly improving’

  19-09-2016 23:48
  
  The outlook for the New Mexico economy is “flat to mildly improving,” according to economist Elliott Eisenberg, who doesn’t expect a recession in the Land of Enchantment — or the U.S. as a whole — in the coming year. “Nothing terrible, nothing great,” said Eisenberg. There will be some weakness in some states, to be […]
  
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• Updated: The best of Vin Scully: Here are five of his greatest calls

  19-09-2016 23:47
  
  The last go-round for the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Hall of Fame announcer Vin Scully begins on Monday night. The 88-year-old Scully has narrated some of the most memorable moments in baseball history since he began his career calling Brooklyn Dodgers games in 1950. Here are some of his signature calls: KIRK GIBSON’S HOMER Gibson fist-pumping […]
  
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• BioPark hosts dinner featuring food from its ‘Heritage Farm’

  19-09-2016 23:46 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque BioPark is giving you a chance to sample the bounty from its Heritage Farm.
  Tickets are now available for the Heritage Farm Harvest dinner on October 8th from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
  Guests will be treated to a four course meal and dessert in the apple orchard, accompanied by beer from Tractor Brewing Company.
  Tickets are $95 per person. A portion of the proceeds goes directly to the BioPark.
  For more information, click here.
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• How Texas’ voter ID law landed it in federal court again

  19-09-2016 23:04
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Texas is back in federal court yet again defending one of the nation’s strictest voter ID laws — this time against charges that the state is violating its own recent agreement to soften the rules ahead of the November election. Last month, Texas approved letting residents who couldn’t meet the requirement of […]
  
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• Analysts cite Clinton’s illness in new plunge by Mexico peso

  19-09-2016 22:39
  
  MEXICO CITY — Economists have long said that when the United States catches a cold, Mexico gets pneumonia. But analysts now say that Hillary Clinton’s pneumonia has given Mexico’s peso something worse. The peso broke the psychological barrier of 20 pesos per dollar Monday, and analysts and commentators cite the role of the U.S. presidential […]
  
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• Police: No shots fired at locked down Denver hospital

  19-09-2016 22:38
  
  DENVER — Police say they found no evidence that shots were fired inside a Denver hospital complex that was locked down for hours amid reports of a man carrying a rifle on the grounds. Cmdr. Patrick Phelan said Monday that nurses thought they heard gunshots during the Friday afternoon lockdown at Rose Medical Center. But […]
  
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• Updated: Official: Plane’s pilot tried to put out fire before jumping

  19-09-2016 22:37
  
  GILBERT, Ariz. — A fire department official says the pilot of a burning plane that crashed into a home in a Phoenix suburb tried unsuccessfully to put out the fire before he bailed out, following the exit of four skydivers who were his passengers. Gilbert Fire and Rescue Capt. Josh Ehrman says the pilot donned […]
  
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• Orlando and media continue fight over Pulse 911 calls

  19-09-2016 22:36
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. — A battle over whether 911 calls from a mass shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub will be made public may hinge on a technicality over how lawsuits are filed at the courthouse. The City of Orlando and news media groups are in court Monday for the first of two hearings this week […]
  
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• Updated: Robert Durst’s lawyer: Indiana prison doesn’t make sense

  19-09-2016 21:54
  
  NEW ORLEANS — It doesn’t make sense to send real estate heir Robert Durst to prison in Indiana, where he’s been assigned, when he faces a murder trial in Los Angeles, Durst’s attorney said Monday. “Our legal team is doing what they can to find out the why of it and find out if anything […]
  
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• You’re at the final exam and never attended class. It’s that dream again.

  19-09-2016 21:51
  
  It’s an astonishingly common dream. Many of us have it, with numerous reruns throughout our lives. “I never went to class. I never did the work. I never studied. Final is tomorrow. Terrible anxiety,” says Susie Drucker Hirshfield, 71, of Stockbridge, Mass., a friend from college. “Or, I’m a freshman. The campus is huge. I’m […]
  
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• Updated: Marathon campaigning is no big deal for a candidate with four triathlons to his credit

  19-09-2016 21:51
  
  There’s a lot of talk about health in this year’s presidential campaign, and most of it has a critical tone: Donald Trump would be the oldest president ever. Hillary Clinton has pneumonia. But Men’s Health magazine looks at the upside in a piece by Robert Bergland headlined “Is Gary Johnson the Fittest Presidential Candidate of […]
  
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• What we know about the suspect in the New York, N.J. bombings: Ahmad Khan Rahami

  19-09-2016 21:50
  
  ELIZABETH, N.J. – The man arrested by authorities Monday in connection with bombings in New York and New Jersey is named Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28, a U.S. citizen who was born in Afghanistan, according to authorities. Rahami was taken into custody after an apparent shootout with police, according to the mayor of Elizabeth, New Jersey. […]
  
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• Updated: This drone has arms and could lift a toddler

  19-09-2016 21:50
  
  A Japanese firm has built an aerial drone with two arms and hawklike talons that is capable of lifting objects that weigh as much as 22 pounds. That’s roughly the weight of a 1-year-old, although you should not use drones to transport a child or any other living thing. Seriously. Japan-based Prodrone is marketing the […]
  
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• Councilor pushes for solar panels city-wide

  19-09-2016 21:18
  
  The Albuquerque Fire Department station off Central Avenue and Pennsylvania Street was recently outfitted with solar panels. If an Albuquerque city councilor has his way, there would be more of them popping up around the city.
  
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• Spaceport, BLM near agreement on road off I-25

  19-09-2016 20:45 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – Officials say construction could begin in April on a road from Interstate 25 to New Mexico’s Spaceport America.
  The Las Cruces Sun-News reports that the New Mexico Spaceport Authority Board of Directors voted Friday to allow the chair to sign an agreement with the Bureau of Land Management. The vote is the first step toward finalizing a plan to construct the road from the Upham exit off I-25.
  Work can’t begin until the BLM and the Spaceport Authority sig
  
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• Defense says Boyd presented danger to officers

  19-09-2016 20:41
  
  The trial of former APD officers Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez began Monday with opening statements from the prosecution and one of the defense attorneys.
  
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• Bomb, active shooter threat shuts down Eisenhower Middle School

  19-09-2016 20:39
  
  A threat of a bomb and a possible active shooter led Albuquerque Public Schools officials to cancel classes at Eisenhower Middle School on Monday.
  
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• More officers take the stand in Andrew Romero trial

  19-09-2016 20:35 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The trial of accused cop killer Andrew Romero continues Monday.
  The state called more officers who were on scene when police arrested Romero outside a Valero gas station in Albuquerque the morning after he allegedly shot and killed Rio Rancho Officer Gregg Benner.
  Monday morning, jurors saw video from the Albuquerque Police Department’s helicopter that followed the getaway car police say Romero was in and the moment when it stopped.
  Still no word on if
  
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• More officers called to the stand in Andrew Romero trial

  19-09-2016 20:35 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The trial of accused cop killer Andrew Romero continued Monday.
  The state called more officers who were on scene when police arrested Romero outside a Valero gas station in Albuquerque the morning after he allegedly shot and killed Rio Rancho Officer Gregg Benner.
  Prosecutors showed specific pieces of evidence from the scene.
  Monday afternoon prosecution broke down evidence collected at the murder scene including the last thing Officer Benner wrote down befo
  
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• Updated: Pete Carroll and Seahawks fined for excessive contact in OTA

  19-09-2016 20:04
  
  NEW YORK — Seattle coach Pete Carroll has been fined $200,000, the Seahawks have been fined $400,000 and will lose a fifth-round draft choice for violating the NFL’s work rules on contact in the offseason. The Seahawks will forfeit the draft pick in 2017 and also lose a week of organized team activities for allowing […]
  
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• Deputies: Man shoots arrows at house, over child’s head

  19-09-2016 19:53
  
  A man who shot arrows from a crossbow, including one over a 6-year-old’s head, has been charged with child abuse.
  
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• What French Muslims think about France’s secular laws

  19-09-2016 19:32
  
  The relationship between the French state and France’s Muslim minority became major international news last month after a number of towns there moved to ban the burkini, a swimsuit worn by some Muslim women that covers the entire body except the face, hands and feet. Although the measures were soon overturned, to many it seemed […]
  
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• Rio Grande Valley town housing director indicted

  19-09-2016 19:32
  
  MCALLEN, Texas — The 48-year-old executive director of the housing authority in a small Rio Grande Valley town and a construction company owner have been indicted on federal charges related to what prosecutors say was a bid rigging scheme. Juan Jose Garza, who runs the La Joya Housing Authority, and 52-year-old Armando Jimenez made initial […]
  
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• 60 Minutes profiles Gary Johnson

  19-09-2016 19:32
  
  Gary Johnson, the Libertarian presidential candidate and former New Mexico governor, got the 60 Minutes treatment Sunday night as the venerable news magazine profiled him and his longshot bid for the White House. Johnson and his running mate – former Mass Gov. William Weld – are running their campaign on a shoestring budget and can certainly […]
  
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• Lyft’s vision: an autonomous fleet, ‘bar car,’ and the end of private car ownership

  19-09-2016 19:21
  
  Five years from now, you could hail a Lyft from your smartphone and — more likely than not — be picked up in a self-driving car. Or, perhaps a 10-minute ride in a Lyft “bar car” could hold you over while you’re whisked to happy hour. In a decade, private car ownership will have neared […]
  
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• Updated: Historic recognition: Washington’s family tree is biracial

  19-09-2016 19:17
  
  ARLINGTON, Va. — George Washington’s adopted son was a bit of a ne’er-do-well by most accounts, including those of Washington himself, who wrote about his frustrations with the boy they called “Wash.” “From his infancy, I have discovered an almost unconquerable disposition to indolence in everything that did not tend to his amusements,” the founding […]
  
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• The Republican Party is now institutionally defending Donald Trump’s racism

  19-09-2016 19:16
  
  So it’s come to this: The institutional position of the Republican Party in the great birther controversy roiling the 2016 campaign — a consequential chapter in our political history — is now essentially that Donald Trump did the nationa service by forcing the first African American president to finally show his papers. This new GOP […]
  
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• Hospital’s lawsuit against US Indian Health Service delayed

  19-09-2016 19:11
  
  GALLUP, N.M. — The trial in a lawsuit between a Gallup hospital and the U.S. Indian Health Service has been postponed and now will extend into 2017. The Gallup Independent reports (http://bit.ly/1hoDjlp ) that Sage Memorial Hospital and the federal agency were set to go to trial Oct. 17. Both parties are trying to discredit […]
  
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• Updated: Openings under way in Sandy, Perez murder trial

  19-09-2016 19:06
  
  A special prosecutor on the opening day of trial in the shooting of homeless camper James Boyd said...
  
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• With some gas stations dry, pipeline works to send more fuel

  19-09-2016 18:52 via krqe.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Gas prices spiked and drivers found “out of service” bags covering pumps as the gas shortage in the South rolled into the work week, raising fears that the disruptions could become more widespread.
  The shortage is blamed on a pipeline rupture and leak of at least 252,000 gallons (954,000 liters) of gas in Alabama. The pipeline company has two main lines and said Monday that it is shipping “significant volumes” on the second of the two lines to mitigat
  
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• Updated: The Pentagon’s super-secretive bomber finally has a name: Raider

  19-09-2016 18:11
  
  The Air Force’s secretive and stealthy new bomber has a name, the B-21 Raider, the Air Force announced Monday. The name was unveiled by retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole, a 101-year-old veteran who served as a member of the “Doolittle Raiders,” which embarked on an audacious plan to bomb Japan months after the attack on […]
  
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• Updated: How this mom found acceptance for her son in a clothing store just for girls

  19-09-2016 18:01
  
  Earlier this month, a mother took her 10-year-old son into a clothing store in Raleigh, N.C., whose motto is “Just for Girls!” He wanted to try on the glittery shirts and poofy skirts. Without hesitation, the store manager on duty guided him to the racks and stayed with him as he put on the clothes […]
  
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• Donald Trump’s tax plan now favors the ultra-rich even more, analysis finds

  19-09-2016 18:00
  
  The first independent analysis of Donald Trump’s revamped tax plan is finally out, and it confirms what appeared to be true when the Republican presidential nominee gave his big tax speech last week: Trump’s “yuge” tax cuts have shrunk dramatically, particularly for the middle class, and they now skew even more to helping the highest-earning […]
  
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• Updated: How a Christian business tycoon used his depression to help tens of thousands

  19-09-2016 17:58
  
  In the early 1960s, Howard E. Butt Jr. was both a prominent Texas business executive and a rising star in Christian preaching. On weekdays, he crisscrossed Texas helping to expand H-E-B, the booming family grocery business. On weekends, he traveled to distant U.S. cities as a preacher on the church revival circuit, appearing alongside his […]
  
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• Houston man arrested on federal explosives charge

  19-09-2016 17:52
  
  HOUSTON — Federal authorities say a 50-year-old Houston man has been arrested on charges he tried to transport explosives to be used to injure people or destroy property. The FBI and federal prosecutors in Houston say Carry Lee Ogborn was arrested Friday after he bought and picked up from a post office box a package […]
  
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• APS: Eisenhower Middle School classes canceled due to bomb threat

  19-09-2016 17:30
  
  APS says classes are canceled at Eisenhower Middle School due to a bomb threat.
  
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• Trial of former officers Sandy and Perez starts today

  19-09-2016 17:26
  
  On Monday, a jury will listen to instructions from the judge as the trial of former APD officers Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez begins.
  
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• The Coleman Vision Championship is back and better than ever

  19-09-2016 17:10 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Professional tennis is back in New Mexico as Tanoan Country Club plays host yet again this year for the Coleman Vision Championships. It’s the 19th year that this tournament has been played, and there is even more top tier players competing this year.
  Sunday started off the tournament with qualifying singles matches. Reigning 6A state champion Ivana Corley of Eldorado was a wild card pick that had a chance to qualify on Sunday but fell short. She lost in 2
  
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• Lovelace Women’s Hospital hosts ‘Girl’s Night Out’ event

  19-09-2016 17:08
  
  Women who balance work and family know it can be tough to find time for themselves. This week, Lovelace Women’s Hospital is offering a way to spend time with friends, get pampered and get help getting healthy in all one place.
  
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• Bomb threat cancels classes at Eisenhower

  19-09-2016 16:38
  
  A bomb threat has canceled classes at Eisenhower Middle School Monday morning. APS officials said.
  
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• Classes canceled at Eisenhower Middle School over bomb scare

  19-09-2016 16:29 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Eisenhower Middle School has canceled classes for the day because of a bomb scare, according to Albuquerque Public Schools.
  APS says parents may pick students up near Juan Tabo and Bartonwood just northwest of the school. Parents will need an ID in order to pick up their children.
  Details are limited, but school officials say the campus must be swept by police.
  No further information is available.
  KRQE News 13 will provide updates.Students and staff bei
  
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• More than 800 immigrants mistakenly granted citizenship

  19-09-2016 16:09 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has mistakenly granted citizenship to at least 858 immigrants who had pending deportation orders from countries of concern to national security or with high rates of immigration fraud, according to an internal Homeland Security audit released Monday.
  The Homeland Security Department’s inspector general found that the immigrants used different names or birthdates to apply for citizenship with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and such disc
  
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• Blogger shares healthy, simple breakfast ideas

  19-09-2016 15:41
  
  September is Better Breakfast Month. The month is dedicated to helping people start their day right with a healthy breakfast. Parents know, however, that task is easier said than done. Families have their mornings packed as they get ready for school and work.
  
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• Updated: NASCAR’s Regan Smith skips race to attend daughter’s birth

  19-09-2016 15:32
  
  JOLIET, Ill. — NASCAR driver Regan Smith has welcomed his second child after skipping this weekend’s race in order to be with his wife as she went into labor. Smith left the Chicagoland Speedway ahead of Sunday’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 400 and returned home to North Carolina to be with his wife, Megan. He […]
  
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• Updated: Bradford trumps Rodgers in debut as Vikes beat Pack 17-14

  19-09-2016 15:32
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — Aaron Rodgers has two NFL MVP awards and one Super Bowl ring, and he’s in his ninth season as the starter for Green Bay. Sam Bradford was never on a winning team over his first six years in the league. He had 15 days to learn Minnesota’s offense, then lost his Hall of […]
  
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• Updated: ON FOOTBALL: From top to bottom, teams already feeling pain

  19-09-2016 15:31
  
  From the top of the NFL to the bottom of the heap, teams are already feeling the pain. From injuries. Key performers are dropping like they’ve been through two months of the season, not two weeks. The latest: Adrian Peterson , Jimmy Garoppolo, DeMarcus Ware, Josh McCown, Danny Woodhead, Jonathan Stewart and Arian Foster. The […]
  
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