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• Facebook breaks ground in Los Lunas

  11-10-2016 23:40
  
  LOS LUNAS — With a rousing chorus of “three, two, one, Facebook!,” New Mexico officials and representatives from the social media giant broke ground on Facebook’s new data center in Los Lunas. “This is a big win for our state and the community here,” said Gov. Susana Martinez, wielding a hard hat and shovel in […]
  
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• First early-voting location opens for Bernalillo County

  11-10-2016 23:30
  
  Early voting for the 2016 presidential election in New Mexico began Tuesday.
  
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• Updated: Hospital industry says it, too, is slammed by drug costs

  11-10-2016 23:27
  
  WASHINGTON — Hospitals, too, are getting slammed by sharp price increases in prescription drugs, and the industry is urging the next president and Congress to take up the issue. Consumer groups and insurers were already complaining loudly about drug costs. Now hospitals are turning up the volume as well, leaving the pharmaceutical industry more politically […]
  
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• Updated: For smartphone-dependent world, Samsung troubles hit hard

  11-10-2016 23:27
  
  NEW YORK — Yes, you heard that right. Samsung is asking owners of its fire-prone Galaxy Note 7 to do something crazy: “power down and stop using the device.” In an age when smartphones have become extensions of ourselves, the last thing we look at before falling asleep and the first thing we grab in […]
  
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• Updated: Consumer watchdog structure ruled unconstitutional

  11-10-2016 23:26
  
  WASHINGTON — The U.S. consumer watchdog agency, enmeshed in partisan politics since its creation after the financial crisis, now has had its structure ruled unconstitutional because it gives too much power to a single agency director. A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the way the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is organized violates the Constitution’s […]
  
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• Scottsdale police: Couple go to casino, leave child in car

  11-10-2016 23:18
  
  PHOENIX — A couple has been arrested for allegedly leaving the woman’s young son inside a car while they gambled at a Scottsdale casino. Scottsdale police say 23-year-old Brad Porter Jr. and 25-year-old Jessica Lopez were arrested around 3:30 a.m. Sunday outside Casino Arizona. Court documents state that Lopez’s 5-year-old son was left alone inside […]
  
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• Updated: A founder of the New Orleans girl group The Dixie Cups dies

  11-10-2016 22:10
  
  NEW YORK — Joan Marie Johnson, one of the founding members of the New Orleans girl group The Dixie Cups, who had a No. 1 hit in 1964 with “Chapel of Love,” has died at a hospice in New Orleans. She was 72. Johnson, who was only with the group for its first few years […]
  
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• Updated: A new comic-book series asks: Where do we go when we die?

  11-10-2016 22:09
  
  Mark Millar says that some of his biggest hits as a comic-book writer have come from the simplest of his ideas. When creating “Kick-Ass,” Millar asked himself what it would be like if a comic-book-loving kid decided to put on a mask and try to fight crime. For his newest comic book, “Reborn,” which arrives […]
  
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• Indiana Republican in a tight Senate race continues to support Trump

  11-10-2016 22:09
  
  SPENCER, Ind. – Rep. Todd Young is reluctantly sticking with Donald Trump. The Republican Senate candidate from Indiana, who is in a tight race against Democratic former senator Evan Bayh, has considered abandoning the Republican presidential nominee at several points over the past several months but never withdrew support. This week was no different. After […]
  
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• Churches sue over Massachusetts transgender bathroom law

  11-10-2016 22:08
  
  BOSTON — A new Massachusetts law that prohibits discrimination against transgender people in public restrooms is “punishing” the protected religious speech of churches and pastors, a conservative Christian organization claims in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday. Alliance Defending Freedom, based in Scottsdale, Arizona, said it sued on behalf of four Massachusetts churches to protect their […]
  
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• NM innovations pique companies’ interest

  11-10-2016 21:55
  
  A novel, sustainable construction material made from recycled paper and cardboard piqued the interest of at least one new-technology scout Tuesday morning at the Innovate New Mexico Technology Showcase in Albuquerque. Nakayama Kazunori of Japan’s Shimizu Corp. said his company — which manages construction, architecture and engineering services –— can see using the material in […]
  
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• Obama pushes US goal to send humans to Mars by 2030s

  11-10-2016 21:22 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama sought Tuesday to reinvigorate his six-year-old call for the U.S. to send humans to Mars by the 2030s, a mission NASA has been slowly and quietly trudging away at.
  The White House was calling attention to government contracts awarded to six companies to build prototypes for “habitats” that could sustain human life in deep space. One such privately developed habitat — an inflatable room —is already attached to the Internationa
  
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• Jury weighs fates of 2 ex-officers in Albuquerque

  11-10-2016 21:15
  
  A jury has resumed deliberations in the trial of two former Albuquerque police officers who shot and killed a homeless man after an hourslong standoff.
  
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• ABQ lands 2017 indoor track and field championships

  11-10-2016 20:45
  
  Hundreds of athletes will compete in Albuquerque this spring as the USA Track & Field indoor championships return to the Convention Center. Mayor Richard Berry announced Tuesday that the nationally televised event is coming back to the city in March, after two years elsewhere. The city is also in talks about keeping the event in […]
  
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• Updated: 49ers name Colin Kaepernick starting quarterback

  11-10-2016 20:32
  
  SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Colin Kaepernick will start at quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers this week against the Buffalo Bills. Coach Chip Kelly announced the decision Tuesday to bench Blaine Gabbert and give back the job Kaepernick lost midway through last season. Kaepernick has only played briefly in the opener but has generated attention […]
  
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• UFC star McGregor fined $150K for pre-bout fracas in Vegas

  11-10-2016 20:32
  
  LAS VEGAS — UFC star Conor McGregor has been fined $150,000 by the Nevada Athletic Commission for a profanity-laced bottle-throwing fracas with rival Nate Diaz during a pre-fight news conference in August in Las Vegas, officials said. The commission on Monday unanimously approved the penalty representing 5 percent of the $3 million that McGregor was […]
  
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• Head of Presbyterian Healthcare leaving to head Texas firm

  11-10-2016 20:19 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – The head of New Mexico’s Presbyterian Healthcare is leaving his position for the help of one of the largest not-for-profit health care systems in the country.
  The Albuquerque Journal reports that Presbyterian President and CEO Jim Hinton announced Monday that he is leaving to work at Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas.
  Hinton has been at the helm of Presbyterian Healthcare for the past 21 years and is only the sixth executive to lead Presbyterian since
  
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• New Mexico DOT releases new ad against texting and driving

  11-10-2016 20:11 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico Department of Transportation unveiled a new ad Tuesday aimed at stopping texting and driving.
  It shows a mom behind the wheel with her two sons in the back while she’s swerving all over the road.
  The ads are part of the “If You’ve Seen What I’ve Seen” series. They also include anti DWI and distracted driving ads.
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• Today in History: October 11

  11-10-2016 20:06 via krqe.com
  
  Today in History
  Today is Tuesday, Oct. 11, the 285th day of 2016. There are 81 days left in the year. The Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, begins at sunset.
  Today’s Highlight in History:
  On Oct. 11, 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev opened two days of talks concerning arms control and human rights in Reykjavik, Iceland.
  On this date:
  In 1779, Polish nobleman Casimir Pulaski, fighting for American independence, died two days after being wounded during
  
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• Britain to begin taking in eligible children from Calais refugee camp

  11-10-2016 19:51
  
  PARIS — The British government announced Monday that the U.K. will begin accepting eligible children from the Calais migrant camp in northern France within “a week at the most.” Speaking in Parliament on Monday evening, Home Secretary Amber Rudd told British lawmakers that she expects aid organizations to give her a list of the qualified […]
  
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• Analysis: By 2025, most of Trump’s tax cuts would go to wealthiest 1 percent of Americans

  11-10-2016 19:51
  
  Donald Trump has called for historic tax relief for the rich, which would likely add trillions of dollars to the national debt. Hillary Clinton would ask the wealthy to pay much more than they do now, and she would use the money mostly to lessen the burden on middle-class families with small children. A pair […]
  
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• Blue Bell recalls all ice creams with suspect cookie dough

  11-10-2016 19:40 via krqe.com
  
  BRENHAM, Texas (AP) – Blue Bell Creameries is recalling all of its ice cream products that contain cookie dough from an Iowa-based supplier.
  The move announced Monday night comes after Aspen Hills recalled cookie dough supplied to ice cream makers after finding potential listeria bacteria contamination.
  The Blue Bell recall involves half-gallons and pints of Blue Bell Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Blue Bell Cookie Two Step sold to retailers and three-gallon packages of Blue Bell Blue Mon
  
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• Ruling: Short wait at green light doesn’t obstruct traffic

  11-10-2016 19:16 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – A New Mexico court ruling says a driver isn’t violating a local law against obstructing traffic merely by waiting 5 to 15 seconds before proceeding after a light turns green.
  The Court of Appeals ruling overturns the conviction of a man who was stopped by an officer in downtown Albuquerque early in the morning.
  The ruling says the officer had pulled up behind Terence Goodman at a red light and then stopped Goodman after Goodman waited 5 to 15 seconds after the l
  
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• Legionella bacteria detected at 4 American Airlines hangars

  11-10-2016 19:14
  
  DALLAS — American Airlines says the bacteria that cause Legionnaires’ disease have been detected in water at four maintenance hangers in Texas and that one worker became sick. In a letter to workers on Friday, American said low levels of the Legionella bacteria were found in water from eight shower heads, plus some faucets and […]
  
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• Judge refuses to grant plea deal to convicted murderer

  11-10-2016 19:14 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A judge has refused to grant a plea deal to a man accused of raping and murdering an Albuquerque woman.
  Truett Thomas was already convicted back in 2012 for the first-degree murder and rape of Guadalupe Ashford in 2010. But a judge reversed the verdict on appeal after Thomas claimed he didn’t get to confront one of the witnesses directly, a forensic expert who testified via Skype.
  The court ordered a new trial and Tuesday, Thomas tried to plead “no co
  
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• Cochise County man arrested in shootings of 2 neighbors

  11-10-2016 19:14
  
  SUNIZONA, Ariz. — Authorities in southeastern Arizona say a man has been arrested in the shootings of two neighbors –a woman who was killed and her husband who was wounded. The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office says 48-year-old Jesse Lee Steel of Sunizona was arrested on suspicion of murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, burglary and entering […]
  
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• New: Governor tabs Matt Geisel as head of Economic Development Department

  11-10-2016 19:12
  
  SANTA FE — Gov. Susana Martinez has appointed Matt Geisel, an economic development official for the city of Rio Rancho, as the Cabinet secretary of the state Economic Development Department. Geisel has also served on the New Mexico Economic Development Partnership, the marketing arm of the EDD, and previously traveled on trade missions headed up […]
  
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• Man accused of driving drunk, killing pedestrian

  11-10-2016 19:03 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A pedestrian was hit and killed Monday night and police believe the driver responsible was drunk.
  It happened just before 10 p.m. near Lomas and San Pedro. The victim, Juliosimon Martinez, was found with severe trauma in a parking lot.
  Police determined it was likely he had been hit and killed by a car but there were no witnesses. But it wasn’t long before they got a call from the friends of Michael Penick.
  The friends told police Penick called them saying
  
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• Updated: Subway worker saves colleague’s life by pumping her chest to ‘Stayin’ Alive’

  11-10-2016 18:49
  
  He thought she was dead. David Martinez had heard his co-worker fall as his group of subway workers walked off the underground tracks in New York City on Friday afternoon. He saw Monique Brathwaite lying across the third rail that powers the No. 1 train under West 145th Street in Harlem with 600 volts of […]
  
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• Updated: Court seems favorable to defendant claiming jury race bias

  11-10-2016 18:48
  
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is suggesting that racial bias in the jury room may trump the centuries-old legal principle of secrecy in jury deliberations. The justices heard an appeal Tuesday from an immigrant in Colorado who was convicted by a jury on which one man reportedly tied the defendant’s guilt to his Hispanic heritage. […]
  
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• NMSU to auction former basketball court floor

  11-10-2016 18:19 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – Major New Mexico State University fans could bring some of the school’s history home with them as the university is auctioning off the old gym floor.
  The Las Cruces Sun-News reports that the Pan Am Basketball Floor, as it’s called on the auction site Public Surplus, went out to bid on Sept. 29 and bidding continues through Thursday night.
  Someone has made a bid of $1,000 but NMSU Athletics Director Mario Moccia says the university has a $5,000 asking pri
  
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• Tony Bennett supports Virginia basketball team’s protest photo

  11-10-2016 17:53
  
  The night before the Virginia men’s basketball team officially started its 2016-17 season, several players posted a photo of the team kneeling as a sign of unity against social injustice. The photo, which featured Virginia players dressed in all black with their arms interlocked over the “V” at midcourt on the floor of John Paul […]
  
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• Updated: Why you should give your sons more chores than your daughters

  11-10-2016 17:52
  
  For the first few years of life, boys and girls are mostly equal. They develop mentally at about the same rate, are disciplined similarly and are equally likely to start school, a new UNICEF study says. But the study suggests that gender differences begin to grow as the children do – particularly when girls become […]
  
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• Trump is respected for fathering children by multiple women because he’s a rich white man

  11-10-2016 17:52
  
  At the end of an ugly second presidential debate, when asked to each say something they respect about the other candidate, Hillary Clinton praised Donald Trump’s children. “His children are incredibly able and devoted, and I think that says a lot about Donald,” the Democratic nominee said. “I don’t agree with nearly anything else he […]
  
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• Updated: Bandidos gang leader pleads guilty to racketeering in Texas

  11-10-2016 17:51
  
  SAN ANTONIO — Prosecutors say a Bandidos biker gang leader has pleaded guilty to racketeering, drug trafficking and extortion charges in Texas and faces up to life in federal prison. Sergeant-at-arms Justin Cole Forster remains in custody in San Antonio pending sentencing next year. A gunfight in May 2015 during a bikers’ meeting in Waco […]
  
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• Texas death row inmate Danny Bible loses at US Supreme Court

  11-10-2016 17:51
  
  HOUSTON — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused an appeal from a prisoner on Texas death row for the 1979 slaying of a woman who went to his house in Houston to use a telephone and was found later stabbed 11 times with an ice pick, raped and dumped on the bank of a bayou. […]
  
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• Trump assails Ryan for ditching him, battles for GOP support

  11-10-2016 17:40 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Four weeks before Election Day, Donald Trump battled on Tuesday to keep the Republican Party in line, leveling fresh criticism at GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan for effectively abandoning hopes of Trump winning the White House.
  The GOP nominee said — inaccurately — that every poll declared him the winner of the weekend’s second presidential debate against Democrat Hillary Clinton. He added, however, that he was being held back by Ryan and other congressiona
  
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• Intoxicated New Mexico woman dies in fall while car surfing

  11-10-2016 17:08 via krqe.com
  
  FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) – Police in New Mexico say a woman was intoxicated when she fell while car surfing and died.
  Detective Lt. Kyle Lincoln with the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office tells The Daily Times of Farmington that Wilberta Becenti was standing on top of the car Sunday morning while a driver rode on rough dirt roads.
  Lincoln says Becenti was intoxicated at the time. Investigators haven’t determined whether the driver was also intoxicated. No charges have been filed.
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• Transcript shows suspect changed story in killing of 10-year-old girl

  11-10-2016 16:50
  
  Target 7 obtained police transcripts sharing what Fabian Gonzales told investigators the morning after the murder of 10-year-old Victoria Martens.
  
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• Clinton proposes tax relief for families with young kids

  11-10-2016 16:37 via krqe.com
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Continuing her policy focus on children and families, Hillary Clinton is pledging more tax relief for families with young kids.
  The Democratic presidential nominee announced a plan on Tuesday to double the Child Tax Credit and to increase the amount that low-income families could get back in refunds.
  Clinton said she is trying to help families struggling with the cost of child care, health care and college. She said the “new tax credit will make their lives a
  
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• Dangerous interplay of criminals and militants on the rise, report claims

  11-10-2016 16:36
  
  LONDON — When Danish police officers shot a suspected drug dealer earlier this fall in Copenhagen, they assumed the investigation would lead to organized crime. But soon after, the Islamic State claimed the 25-year-old had been a “soldier of the Caliphate.” That wording has been frequently used by the group in recent months, including after […]
  
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• Trump says he’ll put Clinton in jail. It’s a threat that should terrify us.

  11-10-2016 16:35
  
  In the first half of the second presidential debate in St. Louis, Donald Trump said that if he won the election, he was “going to instruct the attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into [Hillary Clinton’s] situation,” thereby providing millions of viewers with an almost dictionary definition of an un-American moment. When […]
  
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• Reasonable Republicans can’t save the GOP from Trump

  11-10-2016 16:35
  
  In the town hall debate in St. Louis on Sunday night, Hillary Clinton made an appeal to those reasonable Republicans who have been turning away from Donald Trump. Many Republicans and independents have said Trump is unqualified to serve as president, Clinton said, part of an apparently ongoing effort to reach out to Republican voters […]
  
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• Hillary Clinton proposes another middle-class tax cut, but not a cut in rates

  11-10-2016 16:35
  
  Hillary Clinton on Tuesday plans to propose expanding a tax credit for parents with young children, a move her campaign is billing as a “middle-class tax cut” and which appears to ensure that the Democratic presidential nominee will not propose any across-the-board reductions in income tax rates before the November election. Clinton’s announcement, which appears […]
  
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• Five dead teens, a stolen police car and the ‘most horrific’ crash in decades

  11-10-2016 16:35
  
  The first 911 call came at 11:43 p.m. Saturday, a report from a concerned motorist about a Toyota truck barreling down Interstate 89 on the wrong side of the road. More calls followed, and more after that. Vermont state and local police dispatched cruisers, hoping to intercept the erratic driver, to stop the truck before […]
  
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• Tuesday morning weather forecast

  11-10-2016 15:46
  
  The morning forecast for Tuesday, Oct. 11.
  
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• Commissioners to discuss minimum wage, Santolina project

  11-10-2016 15:44 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Bernalillo County Commission has a lot on its plate Tuesday, from security at the Metropolitan Detention Center to a minimum wage increase.
  County documents indicate MDC’s surveillance system is old and needs to be repaired or replaced. The resolution commissioners plan to review Tuesday, will help to fund those improvements.
  The improvements include installing high resolution cameras in each day room, and then eventually replacing existing ca
  
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• Commissioners discuss minimum wage, Santolina project

  11-10-2016 15:44 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Bernalillo County Commission has a lot on its plate Tuesday, from security at the Metropolitan Detention Center to a minimum wage increase.
  County documents indicate MDC’s surveillance system is old and needs to be repaired or replaced. The resolution commissioners plan to review Tuesday, will help to fund those improvements.
  The improvements include installing high resolution cameras in each day room, and then eventually replacing existing ca
  
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• Tuesday’s Morning Rush Video, 5 Facts: Jury deliberations to continue in Sandy, Perez trial

  11-10-2016 15:37 via krqe.com
  
  The 5 Facts You Need to Know
  1. In just a few hours, a jury will continue deliberating the fate of two former Albuquerque police officers. Jurors had Monday off because of Columbus Day and went home Friday without reaching a verdict in the murder trial of Dominique Perez and Keith Sandy. They’re deciding whether the two officers committed second-degree murder in the shooting death of James Boyd.
  Full Story: Jury deliberations to continue in Sandy, Perez trial
  2. A North Valley co
  
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• 3 injured in fire at high-rise senior home in Los Angeles

  11-10-2016 15:32 via krqe.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A fire at a high-rise home for seniors in Los Angeles left three elderly residents with burns and smoke-inhalation injuries.
  Fire officials say two of the injured are in critical condition and one is in fair condition after the Monday night blaze at the 15-story building.
  City fire spokesman Scott Erik says flames were showing only from the fourth floor, but it’s not yet clear how much of the building burned or what caused the fire.
  Early official re
  
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