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• U.S. Presidential Election Trivia Quiz

  04-10-2016 23:05 via krqe.com
  
  Do you know how many electoral votes does a candidate need to win the election or how old someone has to be to run for president?
  Take our U.S. Presidential Election Trivia Quiz and test your knowledge »
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• Texas oil company announces big offshore Alaska discovery

  04-10-2016 23:03
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Texas petroleum drilling company announced Tuesday it has made a large-scale oil discovery in state waters off Alaska’s North Slope. Dallas-based Caelus Energy Alaska LLC announced a find of 6 billion barrels of light oil on its state leases in Arctic Ocean waters of Smith Bay about 60 miles southeast of […]
  
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• Updated: Football, a debate and a few new shows scored big in ratings

  04-10-2016 22:56
  
  NEW YORK — NFL football topped the ratings last week, while the first presidential debate won lots of viewers across multiple channels. But “Bull” held the fifth-place spot that its debut airing won the week before. The legal drama, which stars Michael Weatherly as a trial consultant in a story loosely based on Dr. Phil […]
  
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• Phoenix police seeking 2 suspects in Sept. 29 fatal shooting

  04-10-2016 22:55
  
  PHOENIX — Police in Phoenix say they’re searching for two men considered suspects in a fatal shooting last month. They say 19-year-old Derrick Donell Goode Jr. and 21-year-old Robert Rondale Walls are wanted for questioning in the Sept. 29 shooting at an apartment complex. Police say 31-year-old Adam James suffered a gunshot wound and was […]
  
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• On my twins’ 20th birthday, reflections on 17 years of bittersweet

  04-10-2016 22:55
  
  My fraternal twins are going to be 20 years old in a few weeks. My daughter is a sophomore in college, and my son is in his third senior year of high school, in a special-needs classroom. I’m not really sure how to celebrate this birthday. It’s a double milestone and I want to do […]
  
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• Accion wins $2M federal grant to expand microlending

  04-10-2016 22:55
  
  Albuquerque-based Accion has won a $2 million federal grant that will allow it to increase its already booming microlending services in New Mexico and the Southwest. The grant, awarded last month, is the largest such donation from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. Those funds are awarded as matching money for contributions […]
  
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• Updated: Dolly Parton to receive lifetime award at 50th annual CMAs

  04-10-2016 21:44
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Country star Dolly Parton will receive the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at the upcoming 50th annual Country Music Association Awards. Parton will receive the award in Nashville on Nov. 2, the CMA said Tuesday. The show will air on ABC. Parton, who wrote “I Will Always Love You” and “9 to […]
  
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• Updated: Ansel Adams large format camera going to auction

  04-10-2016 21:44
  
  NEW YORK — A large-format camera used by 20th-century photographer Ansel Adams to record some of the nation’s most enduring images is going on the auction block in New York this month. Heritage Auctions is offering the Arca-Swiss 4 by 5 view camera on Oct. 27. It says the camera and Adams’ three lenses, a […]
  
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• Updated: Lower caste Indian singer embraces centuries-old slur. Caste pride is driving her success.

  04-10-2016 21:40
  
  JALANDHAR, India — For centuries in India, the hateful slur was hurled at the lower caste community of leather tanners, regarded as “untouchables.” Now the younger generation in the community is embracing the word: “chamar.” A peppy hit song called “Danger Chamar” by Ginni Mahi, a college student and singer in the northern state of […]
  
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• Updated: How a banged knee nearly killed 3-year-old Ashley in Caracas

  04-10-2016 21:40
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela — “Papi, I fell!” said 3-year-old Ashley Pacheco, showing her father her scraped knee. Her parents cleaned the wound and thought nothing more of it. Two weeks later, the little girl writhed screaming in a hospital bed, in a life-or-death crisis caused by Venezuela’s shattered health care system. It started with a fever. […]
  
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• Trump’s co-author on ‘The Art of the Deal’ donates $55,000 royalty check to charity

  04-10-2016 21:40
  
  The co-author of Donald Trump’s best-selling “The Art of the Deal” — who has become one of Trump’s most outspoken critics during this presidential campaign – said Tuesday that he would give away the $55,000 in royalties he’s made off the book over the past six months. Tony Schwartz said Tuesday that he’d given the […]
  
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• Today in History: October 4

  04-10-2016 20:33 via krqe.com
  
  Today in History
  Today is Tuesday, Oct. 4, the 278th day of 2016. There are 88 days left in the year.
  Today’s Highlight in History:
  On Oct. 4, 1976, Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz resigned in the wake of a controversy over an obscene joke he’d made that was derogatory to blacks.
  On this date:
  In 1777, Gen. George Washington’s troops launched an assault on the British at Germantown, Pennsylvania, resulting in heavy American casualties.
  In 1822, the 19th president of the Unit
  
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• Updated: French top court to rule on racial profiling for first time

  04-10-2016 19:35
  
  PARIS — A lawyer who claims French police carried out unjustified identity checks on 13 black and Arab men based only on their racial profiles asked the country’s highest court Tuesday to “make history” and rule for the first time that officers acted illegally. Activist groups hope the much-awaited decision will end what they call […]
  
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• A tale of two Syrias, told by drones

  04-10-2016 19:35
  
  Last week, two videos shot by drone of the same city showed the parallel universes that exist within Syria’s miserable, grinding civil war. The first that emerged was footage obtained by the Reuters news agency of the ravaged eastern Aleppo, where districts under the control of rebel factions have been mercilessly bombed by both Syrian […]
  
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• Survivors of crash that killed 4 sue church that owned bus

  04-10-2016 19:34
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. — Twelve football players and coaches who survived a North Carolina bus crash that killed four people last month are suing the church that owned the bus. The lawsuit filed Monday contends that Sandy River Baptist Church in Chester County failed to maintain the bus and its tires and didn’t inspect the vehicle. […]
  
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• US has to put teeth into its warnings to Assad, Putin

  04-10-2016 19:33
  
  While the world has been inundated with photos and reports about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brutal and unrelenting siege on Aleppo, reports over the last week about the murder and injuries of children are even more staggering, serving as further proof that the international community must pursue more aggressive means to respond to what the […]
  
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• Updated: Public opening of Prince’s Paisley Park likely delayed

  04-10-2016 19:33
  
  CHANHASSEN, Minn. — This week’s public opening of Prince’s suburban Minneapolis estate and studio complex likely will be delayed because the city council indefinitely postponed voting on a rezoning request for the complex to be operated as a museum. The Chanhassen City Council tabled the request 3-2 Monday night after more than three hours of […]
  
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• Officer training the topic at Sandy, Perez murder trial

  04-10-2016 19:10
  
  The former commander for the Albuquerque Police Department training academy didn't recall duri ...
  
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• Updated: Google unveils a new smartphone line called Pixel

  04-10-2016 19:03
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — Google launched an aggressive challenge to Apple and Samsung on Tuesday, introducing its own new line of smartphones called Pixel, which are designed to showcase a digital helper the company calls “Google Assistant.” The new phones represent a big new push by Google to sell its own consumer devices, instead of largely […]
  
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• Updated: As demand for cars falters, auto prices are poised to fall

  04-10-2016 19:02
  
  DETROIT — While the U.S. inched its way out of the Great Recession, consumers went car shopping in droves. As sales rebounded, the price of cars and trucks rose to record highs. Now, the price trend is set to reverse itself, partly because some buyers are unwilling or unable to pay the high prices and […]
  
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• Phoenix, Maricopa County get US grants for rape kit testing

  04-10-2016 18:59
  
  PHOENIX — New federal grants to two law enforcement agencies in the Phoenix area will be used to test sexual assault evidence for DNA. The Justice Department has awarded $1.2 million to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office and $1.5 million to the Phoenix Police Department. County Attorney Bill Montgomery says his office will use its […]
  
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• Arias case prosecutor appeals discipline from Supreme Court

  04-10-2016 18:59
  
  PHOENIX — The prosecutor who tried Jodi Arias for murder is appealing discipline handed down last week by a lawyer-discipline committee of the Arizona Supreme Court. The Arizona Republic reports (http://bit.ly/2dsZMPg ) that Juan Martinez is fighting the Sept. 29 admonition by the Attorney Discipline Probable Cause Committee of the Supreme Court of Arizona that […]
  
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• Event promotes businesses on Central during ART construction

  04-10-2016 18:34 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The city is holding an event Tuesday to promote business along Central during construction on the Albuquerque Rapid Transit project.
  The ART team kicked off a series of events last week called, “ART Beat on the Street,” aiming to encourage the public to visit Central Avenue businesses during the construction of the new bus line.
  Tuesday’s event is happening at O’Niell’s on Central and Washington and will feature live music, giveaways
  
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• Pilot’s balloon featured in 2016 Balloon Fiesta poster

  04-10-2016 18:04 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – One Balloon Fiesta enthusiast is especially excited to add to her pin collection this year and have her special shape balloon featured on the 2016 poster, the same year she’s piloting her balloon at Fiesta for the first time.
  Ursula Richards has two rooms where frames full of Balloon Fiesta pins cover the walls.
  However, she estimates the pins on display only make up about a third of her collection.
  “It’s a lot of work. It’s a lot of blood
  
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• El Paso man named Las Cruces City manager

  04-10-2016 17:19
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. — The Las Cruces City Council has named an El Paso man as the new city manager. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports (http://bit.ly/2cPYmQK ) that on Monday the council named Stuart Ed as the new manager of Las Cruces. Ed previously lived in Las Cruces from 1982 to 1986. Ed has worked […]
  
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• Updated: Holiday sales expected to be up 3.6 percent

  04-10-2016 17:14
  
  NEW YORK — Americans are expected to spend at a faster clip than last year for the critical holiday season, helped by an economy that should only continue to pick up, according to the nation’s largest retail industry trade group. The National Retail Federation, based in Washington, D.C., is forecasting holiday sales for the November […]
  
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• Ceiling collapse causes concern in Carlsbad’s waste plant

  04-10-2016 17:03 via krqe.com
  
  CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) – Officials say a portion of the ceiling in a closed area of New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant has collapsed.
  The Carlsbad Current-Argus reports that WIPP President Phil Breidenbach said Friday that the fall was at the entrance to Panel 4, which has been sealed since 2010.
  According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the fall was discovered during a Sept. 27 inspection but it’s not clear when it actually occurred. The letter says the area became &ldquo
  
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• You probably weigh less now than you will all year

  04-10-2016 16:56
  
  There’s a crispness to the air, the leaves are starting to change colors, and you might finally start thinking about the holidays. But there’s another reason that October is a special time of year, according to an article recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Data suggests that, for many Americans, this is […]
  
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• Insurer calculates how likely you are to crash into a deer based on where you live

  04-10-2016 16:56
  
  Deer, with their big eyes and fluffy white tails, may look innocent enough. But they kill more Americans than any other animal. Not that they mean to. These deaths occur when cars driven by people crash into deer that are crossing roads. And they’re especially likely to happen over the next three months, when deer […]
  
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• Tickets all gone for Trump appearance in Prescott Valley

  04-10-2016 16:55
  
  PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — All the tickets for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s scheduled appearance in Prescott Valley are taken. The Daily Courier (https://goo.gl/1Zvuix ) reports that there’s room for approximately 7,500 people inside the Prescott Valley Event Center and that all of the free online tickets for Trump’s rally were all downloaded by Monday […]
  
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• Accident near Kirtland Air Force Base cleared

  04-10-2016 16:48
  
  Kirtland Air Force Base officials state the accident near the Gibson gate is cleared.
  
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• Updated: Following Kim Kardashian West’s Paris holdup was her silence

  04-10-2016 16:40
  
  NEW YORK — Something unusual happened after Kim Kardashian West’s terrifying encounter with armed robbers in Paris: She went social media silent. At least for a time. So did her sisters, her mom and other insiders who routinely share, share and share their lives away — about themselves and each other. It’s one of their […]
  
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• Airstrike kills al-Qaida-linked commander in Syria

  04-10-2016 16:40
  
  BEIRUT — A senior commander in Syria’s rebranded al-Qaida affiliate, who was close to the global network’s top leader Ayman al-Zawahri, has been killed in an airstrike, the group said Monday. The Fatah al-Sham Front, previously known as the Nusra Front, announced the death of Ahmed Salama Mabrouk shortly after the Pentagon said the U.S. […]
  
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• Updated: Top African wildlife park looks to villages to stop poachers

  04-10-2016 16:39
  
  KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa — On the edge of South Africa’s largest wildlife reserve, the line between poacher and park ranger can be uncomfortably thin. Sometimes, Marianne de Kock watches it disappear. She oversees young South Africans during a yearlong ranger training and, on the final day, she looks graduates in the eye. “Have […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Hundreds of migrants marching toward Hungary

  04-10-2016 16:39
  
  BUCHAREST, Romania — The Latest on migrant influx in Europe (all times local): 1:30 p.m. Hundreds of migrants set off on foot on Tuesday toward Serbia’s border with Hungary to protest its closure for most people trying to reach the European Union. There are more than 6,000 migrants stuck in Serbia after Hungary this summer […]
  
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• Updated: Georgieva urges UN to remake case for global united action

  04-10-2016 16:39
  
  UNITED NATIONS — Kristalina Georgieva, a latecomer to the race to be the next secretary-general, told the General Assembly on Monday that it is time for the United Nations to remake the case for nations to work together to address the many global challenges and that she is uniquely qualified to do that. A Bulgarian […]
  
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• Police: Man may have been living with dead body in Nambe

  04-10-2016 16:25 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Authorities say a woman’s body in a Nambe house may have been dead for several weeks, and a man may have been living with her dead body.
  The Albuquerque Journal reports New Mexico State Police Sgt. Elizabeth Armijo said police are searching for Robert Mondrian-Powell in connection with the death and consider him a person of interest.
  Armijo says the woman was found dead last Tuesday and don’t know how she died. She says police have not identified the body.
  
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• Santa Fe County, school district join opioid addiction fight

  04-10-2016 15:50 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – A northern New Mexico county near an area of the country devastated by heroin and opioid addiction is boosting access to a life-saving drug.
  Santa Fe County announced Monday it is joining Santa Fe Public Schools and a prevention group to purchase Narcan.
  Narcan, whose generic name is naloxone, is a prescription drug that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose.
  The Santa Fe County has one of the highest overdose death rates in the state. Nearby Rio Arriba County as
  
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• Tuesday’s Morning Rush Video, 5 Facts: Teen charged with killing homeless men to appear in court

  04-10-2016 15:22 via krqe.com
  
  The 5 Facts You Need to Know
  1. It’s sentencing day for the third and final teen convicted in the brutal murders of two homeless men. Nathaniel Carrillo pleaded “no contest” to three charges several months back for his role in beating deaths of Allison Gorman and Kee Thompson. Carrillo, along with two other teens, beat the men with bricks and cinder blocks while they were sleeping. Carrillo now faces more than 25 years in prison.
  Full Story: Teen charged with kil
  
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• Balloon Museum talks Family Day

  04-10-2016 15:12 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s a special day at Balloon Fiesta for the entire family.
  The Anderson Abruzzo International Balloon Museum Foundation is set to host the Find Joy and Fly Family Day.
  Jill Lane, Executive Director for the Balloon Museum, joined KRQE’s This Morning team to discuss the upcoming event. Watch above.
  Other Balloon Museum events lined up this week include Balloons and Breakfast and Dine and Go. These events will take place throughout the we
  
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• US official: Hackers targeted election systems of 20 states

  04-10-2016 15:11 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hackers have targeted the voter registration systems of more than 20 states in recent months, a Homeland Security Department official said Friday.
  The disclosure comes amid heightened concerns that foreign hackers might undermine voter confidence in the integrity of U.S. elections. Federal officials and many cybersecurity experts have said it would be nearly impossible for hackers to alter an election’s outcome because election systems are very decentralized and gen
  
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• Explora gears up for ‘Out Of The Box Party’

  04-10-2016 15:05 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – Science isn’t always the most popular subject, but there’s one museum trying to change that.
  Explora, a museum described as part science center and part kids museum, is gearing up for a fun event for the adults.
  Randall Gann, with Gann PR, joined KRQE’s This Morning team to discuss the upcoming “Out Of The Box” event. Watch above.
  For the “Out Of The Box Party,” those who are over the age of 21 are invited. Participants w
  
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• Social Hub: #BalloonFiesta Day 4

  04-10-2016 14:46 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s day four of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. After the morning launch was cancelled on Monday, pilots are hoping they will get the green flag for Tuesday’s launch.
  Also, hoping to take to the skies today are the competition pilots. The competitions were scheduled to take off Monday, but were cancelled due to weather issues.
  Dawn Patrol balloons are inflated at #BalloonFiesta park. Flag is set to stay Yellow for now. #KRQEmorning
  
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• Taco Tuesday: Score on crunchy deals in honor of National Taco Day

  04-10-2016 14:44 via krqe.com
  
  National Taco Day‘s website reports that last year alone Americans consumed 4.5 billion tacos, a more visual representation, a round trip to the moon. Tacos unite people far in wide with its simple concept; a tortilla filled with variations of meat, vegetables, sauces, and cheeses. Fans have also been divided by the time old preference of a hard or soft shell.
  Taco Tuesday maybe be a weekly indulgence, but National Taco Day occurs once every year. Combine these two together makes for an in
  
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• Pence hopes he and Kaine debate own records

  04-10-2016 14:39 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) – Mike Pence says he expects Tuesday’s vice presidential debate against Tim Kaine to focus on the presidential candidates who chose them as running mates.
  The Republican told supporters at a rally north of Richmond, Virginia, that he expects to defend GOP nominee Donald Trump, and for Kaine to argue in favor of Democrat Hillary Clinton.
  But he added that “I kind of hope we get to talk about our records as well.”
  Pence is governor of Indiana who served in C
  
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• Hurricane Matthew makes landfall in vulnerable Haiti

  04-10-2016 14:29 via krqe.com
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hurricane Matthew roared into the southwestern coast of Haiti on Tuesday, threatening a largely rural corner of the impoverished country with devastating storm conditions as it headed north toward Cuba and the eastern coast of Florida.
  The dangerous Category 4 storm made landfall around dawn on Haiti’s southern peninsula, where many people live along the coast in shacks of wood and corrugated steel that stand little chance of withstanding the force o
  
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• Sandy, Perez murder trial to resume Tuesday

  04-10-2016 14:19 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – After a brief break over the weekend, the trial continues Tuesday in the case of the two former police officers accused of murder.
  It could be another two or three days before the case goes to the jury to decide if Dominique Perez and Keith Sandy are guilty of second degree murder.
  The judge says jurors could be listening to testimony through most of the week.
  On Friday, the defense brought in its own expert to counter a police expert that the prosecution called.
  
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• Sandy, Perez murder resumes Tuesday

  04-10-2016 14:19 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – After a brief break over the weekend, the trial continues Tuesday in the case of the two former police officers accused of murder.
  Watch live from the courtroom >>
  It could be another two or three days before the case goes to the jury to decide if Dominique Perez and Keith Sandy are guilty of second degree murder.
  The judge says jurors could be listening to testimony through most of the week.
  On Friday, the defense brought in its own expert to counter a pol
  
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• Former APD commander testifies in Sandy, Perez trial

  04-10-2016 14:19 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It was his job to protect fellow officers. That was the testimony Tuesday in the trial of two former Albuquerque police officers charged with the death of James Boyd.
  Watch live from the courtroom >>
  That witness, Daniel Cafferkey, a former APD Commander, walked the jury through how cadets are trained.
  Cafferkey trained Dominique Perez when he was in the academy in 2006. He and Keith Sandy are charged with murder in the trial of homeless camper James B
  
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• Dominique Perez testifies in his trial for James Boyd’s murder

  04-10-2016 14:19 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Dominique Perez told a jury what happened the day he shot homeless camper James Boyd. This is the first time he has spoken publicly since the shooting in the foothills in 2014.
  It was a packed courthouse Tuesday as Perez testified. He told the jury police gave Boyd every opportunity to end the standoff peacefully but he refused to listen.
  “He’s not wanting to resolve the situation, we’re giving him tools and trying to please him and en
  
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