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• Suburban Denver homes evacuated after police find chemicals

  31-10-2016 23:44
  
  CASTLE ROCK, Colo. — Authorities have evacuated more than 30 homes in a suburban Denver neighborhood after police discovered chemicals inside a house. Castle Rock spokeswoman Karen Carter said Monday the evacuations were a safety precaution while authorities await equipment that can test the chemicals. She would not say what kind of chemicals investigators believe […]
  
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• 2 years later, Route 66 musical road changes its tune

  31-10-2016 23:42 via krqe.com
  
  TIJERAS, N.M. (KRQE)- On historic Route 66, there’s a portion of road that plays a melody when your vehicle drives over it. It plays “America the Beautiful.”
  “It’s fun, especially for the children,” said one driver.
  It’s been two years to the month since the musical rumble strips were installed by National Geographic and the New Mexico Department of Transportation.“They selected that roadway partly for it’s beauty and to slow drivers dow
  
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• Verified sighting of rare bird marks first in New Mexico

  31-10-2016 23:18 via krqe.com
  
  CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) – Experts say a small bird found near Lake Carlsbad is the first verified sighting of the black rail species in New Mexico.
  The Carlsbad Current-Argus reports the bird was found last week by a woman who noticed it was unable to fly.
  It was taken to the Desert Willow Veterinary Clinic, where it was nursed back to health with a steady diet of meal worms and seeds. Veterinarian Sammie Uhrig says the bird wasn’t injured but appeared weak and underweight.
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• KRQE News 13 Analysts: ART vote won’t have impact

  31-10-2016 23:17 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Voters will be able to weigh in on the controversial Albuquerque Rapid Transit project when they head to the polls next week. KRQE News 13’s political experts Dick Knipfing and Gabriel Sanchez talked about what they think would happen. The mayor’s office says the outcome will not change the plans for ART. 
  Filed under: Albuquerque - Metro, Home, News, Politics & Government, SmartTV, Top Video Tagged: ART - Albuquerque Rapid Transit, Election
  
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• Updated: Defense dubs Christie a coward in closings as jury gets case

  31-10-2016 22:54
  
  NEWARK, N.J. — A defense attorney thundered in closing arguments Monday in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing trial that Gov. Chris Christie and his inner circle were “cowards” for not testifying against a former staffer on trial for using gridlock for political retaliation. In an emotional presentation that lasted more than two hours, Michael Critchley […]
  
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• Correction: Obit-Tuskegee Airman story

  31-10-2016 22:54
  
  NEW YORK — In an obituary that moved Oct. 29 and Oct. 30, The Associated Press reported erroneously the role that Audley Coulthurst had with the Tuskegee Airman. He flew with them as a radio operator, not a pilot. A corrected version of the story is below: Audley Coulthurst of famed Tuskegee Airmen dies in […]
  
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• Vegas high school student accused of planning mass shooting

  31-10-2016 22:51
  
  LAS VEGAS — Authorities say a student is accused of threatening a mass shooting at his high school in southwest Las Vegas. Clark County School District police Capt. Ken Young told reporters Monday the 15-year-old boy wasn’t armed when he was taken into custody Thursday on campus at Desert Oasis High School. He’s charged as […]
  
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• Reward up to $200,000 for missing Texas college student

  31-10-2016 22:50
  
  ALPINE, Texas — Alpine police say the reward for information leading to the whereabouts or safe return of a missing West Texas college student has increased to $200,000. Police announced the increase Monday in the disappearance of Zuzu Verk, a 22-year-old from Fort Worth who is a junior at Sul Ross State University in Alpine. […]
  
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• Pedestrian killed by car identified as missing Flagstaff man

  31-10-2016 22:50
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A pedestrian fatally struck by a car 22 years ago in Navajo County finally has been identified as a Flagstaff man missing since 1994. Coconino County Sheriff’s officials say its Cold Case Unit solved the missing person case last week. They say 19-year-old Brian Nez was last seen by his family in […]
  
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• Happy Halloween from KOB 4 staff and family

  31-10-2016 22:41
  
  KOB 4 wanted to share some pictures of Halloween with our viewers.
  
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• Police activity prompts lockdown at La Mesa Elementary

  31-10-2016 21:45 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – La Mesa Elementary School has been placed on lockdown due to police activity in the area.
  Police say officers on scene are a violent carjacking. Albuquerque Police say officers are searching for the offenders and have set up a perimeter in the area of Central and Pennsylvania. APD is asking anyone who notices suspicious activity to call 911.
  Albuquerque Public Schools Police is asking people to avoid the area.
  KRQE News 13 will provide updates as they become avai
  
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• Police activity prompted lockdown at La Mesa Elementary; 1 suspect on the loose

  31-10-2016 21:45 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – La Mesa Elementary School was placed on lock-down due to police activity in the area.
  Police say officers on scene were responding to a violent carjacking. Albuquerque police say officers were searching for the offenders and set up a perimeter in the area of Central and Pennsylvania. APD is asking anyone who notices suspicious activity to call 911.
  The carjacking originated in the East Mountains, according to APD. The car crashed near the school and the
  
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• 1 suspect on the loose following police activity near La Mesa Elementary

  31-10-2016 21:45 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – La Mesa Elementary School was placed on lock-down due to police activity in the area.
  Police say officers on scene were responding to a violent carjacking. Albuquerque police say officers were searching for the offenders and set up a perimeter in the area of Central and Pennsylvania. APD is asking anyone who notices suspicious activity to call 911.
  The carjacking originated in the East Mountains, according to APD. The car crashed near the school and the
  
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• Audit questions Las Vegas community college hiring, pay

  31-10-2016 21:36 via krqe.com
  
  LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) – A recently completed special audit of a Las Vegas community college is questioning the school’s hiring practices.
  The Las Vegas Optic reports that according to the report there were multiple instances of family members of the Luna Community College president and board members receiving jobs, promotions and substantial pay hikes.
  Copies of the report are being forwarded to the Attorney General’s Office and to the Office of the State Auditor.
  The Higher Edu
  
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• Updated: Nigerian governor accuses UN, NGOs of misusing aid money

  31-10-2016 21:28
  
  MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — The governor of the Nigerian state most devastated by Boko Haram’s Islamic uprising is accusing some U.N. and international aid agencies of misusing funds meant for refugees. Borno Gov. Kashim Shettima claimed the UN has spent $50 million on unnecessary bulletproof cars. A spokeswoman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of […]
  
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• Clinton challenges FBI, declaring, ‘There’s no case here’

  31-10-2016 21:28 via krqe.com
  
  KENT, Ohio (AP) — Hillary Clinton forcefully challenged the FBI’s new email inquiry Monday, declaring during a campaign rally in battleground Ohio, “There’s no case here.”
  It’s not clear whether the emails are pertinent to the FBI’s dormant investigation into whether classified information passed through Clinton’s homebrew email server. But Clinton’s comments Monday were her most pointed yet on the subject, and they underscored her campaign&r
  
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• Tim Kaine plans to deliver campaign speech in Arizona entirely in Spanish

  31-10-2016 21:27
  
  Vice-presidential nominee Tim Kaine plans to deliver remarks at a rally in Phoenix this week completely in Spanish as part of a newly invigorated push by the Democratic ticket to compete in Arizona, a Republican-leaning state with a rapidly growing Latino population. Kaine’s announced appearance on Thursday will follow a stop in Arizona on Wednesday […]
  
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• The Latest: Man accused in infant’s death requests lawyer

  31-10-2016 21:27
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The Latest on plans to search a landfill in Northern Colorado for the remains of a 13-month-old Cheyenne, Wyoming boy (all times local): 2 p.m. A Wyoming man accused of manslaughter in the death of a missing 13-month-old boy requested a lawyer at his first court appearance Monday. Twenty-three year-old Logan Hunter […]
  
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• Halloween ‘has become a night when the devil rejoices,’ according to Pat Robertson

  31-10-2016 21:27
  
  Each year, Dianne lets her teenage son attend a Halloween event with friends at a local theme park. But this year seemed different, she explained in a letter sent to the Christian Broadcast Network. Rumor had it, she wrote, that the theme park was going to have a haunted house “based on Satan and demons.” […]
  
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• Gays being shunned – for backing Trump

  31-10-2016 21:27
  
  If the only gay voices you hear are Trump foes and Clinton boosters – think George Takei, Ellen DeGeneres, Laverne Cox – you could easily assume that all LGBT voters are in the Democratic presidential nominee’s camp. Well, think again. A Gallup poll released Wednesday reports that 12 percent of LGBT adults view Republican nominee […]
  
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• New: ‘Midnight, Texas’ begins production on first season in NM

  31-10-2016 19:16
  
  ‘Midnight, Texas” is going to be quite different. And that’s a huge pro for New Mexico film. The New Mexico Film Office announced that the NBC TV series is filming through Feb. 2017. Production is taking place in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Bernalillo and Belen. The production will employ over 450 New Mexico crew members and […]
  
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• Carlsbad man accused of kidnapping boys to face judge

  31-10-2016 19:09 via krqe.com
  
  CARLSBAD, N.M. (KRQE) – The man accused of kidnapping two boys in Carlsbad Friday and trying to kidnap several others is scheduled to appear in court Monday.
  Richard FierroIt all started near a bus stop near Center and Primrose Friday morning.
  According to the criminal complaint, 42-year-old Richard Fierro drove by an 8-year-old boy walking to school pointed a gun at him and demanded he get in his car. A short time later he did the same to a 15-year-old boy walking to school.
  Both boys say
  
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• Little girl dresses as a mom for Halloween and it’s perfect

  31-10-2016 19:00 via krqe.com
  
  (MEDIA GENERAL) — Spit up and dark eye circles have never had moms laughing so hard.
  An Indiana girl’s “mom” costume might be so accurate it’s frightening.
  Rachael Fansler Beachy posted the picture of her friend’s daughter Lainie, 7, in her Halloween costume on her Facebook Saturday. The look on her face is perfect, summing up how many moms feel on a daily basis.
  She’s wearing a pink sweatshirt – complete with spit up on the shoulder, pink sweatpan
  
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• World Series’ big TV win is latest piece of bad news for NFL

  31-10-2016 18:40
  
  TV ratings for the NFL are down precipitously this season and everyone has a pet theory for why fans suddenly are tuning out. Donald Trump has his ideas, Roger Goodell has his. And then there’s the latest hard evidence. Ratings figures show that Game 5 of the World Series was a big winner Sunday night, […]
  
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• Study: Next US president must act fast on Colorado River

  31-10-2016 18:40
  
  LAS VEGAS — A university research group says the next president will have to act fast to help the Colorado River continue serving millions of city-dwellers, farmers, Indian tribes and recreational users in the U.S. Southwest. A survey of decision-makers by the University of Colorado group concludes that the president who takes office in 2017 […]
  
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• Donald Trump warns that 650 million immigrants could come to the U.S. in a week. Let’s do the math

  31-10-2016 18:40
  
  Twice on Sunday, Donald Trump told audiences at rallies that electing Hillary Clinton risked a truly spectacular shift in the composition of the United States. “When you’re working for Hillary, she wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it,” Trump said. “Think […]
  
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• El Salvador’s security forces are now involved in more shootouts than Mexico’s

  31-10-2016 18:39
  
  MEXICO CITY — Nearly every day in El Salvador, police have what they call “enfrentamientos” — or confrontations — with the powerful street gangs that blanket the country. Another word for this is a “shootout.” So the announcement last week by the director of the National Civil Police of El Salvador, Howard Cotto, that police […]
  
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• Forgot 2 defrost: Butterball gives Thanksgiving help by text

  31-10-2016 18:07
  
  NEW YORK — “Forgot 2 defrost early. What 2 do now?” Butterball, which has been fielding phone calls from Thanksgiving cooks for three decades, is letting people text their turkey-related questions this year for the first time. The company’s regular phone help line begins Tuesday. Butterball will start to take text message questions on Nov. […]
  
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• Iraqi forces prepare to break into Mosul in battle against Islamic State

  31-10-2016 18:06
  
  MAKHMOUR, Iraq – Iraqi forces said they had reached the eastern outskirts of Mosul on Monday and were preparing to make the first break into the city, which has been held by Islamic State militants for more than two years. After an early morning push, forces from Iraq’s elite counterterrorism units had taken positions on […]
  
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• DNA: dogs seized after Dallas fatal mauling not to blame

  31-10-2016 18:06
  
  DALLAS — Dallas police say DNA results show several dogs seized after a woman was mauled and later died did not carry out the attack. A Dallas police statement Monday said the case involving the death of 52-year-old Antoinette Brown will be closed due to lack of evidence. Investigators say Brown was walking near a […]
  
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• Mayor answers questions about rapid transit

  31-10-2016 18:05
  
  KOB Eyewitness News 4 brought concerns over the Albuquerque Rapid Transit project's impact on commuters and businesses to the mayor on a drive-along tour through the project's construction sites.
  
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• Updated: With election looming, Hollywood votes for escapism

  31-10-2016 18:03
  
  NEW YORK — “Cutting through the noise” is a phrase often uttered around Hollywood, where mammoth marketing budgets are routinely expended to reach moviegoers distracted by a million other entertainment options. But few things have ever generated as much “noise” as the election. Releasing a movie amid the cataclysmic clash between Hilary Clinton and Donald […]
  
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• Updated: Justices sympathetic to girl suing school over service dog

  31-10-2016 18:03
  
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appears sympathetic to a 12-year-old Michigan girl with cerebral palsy who wants to sue school officials for refusing to let her bring a service dog to class. Most of the justices hearing arguments in the case Monday seemed to agree that federal disability laws allow Ehlena Fry to pursue the […]
  
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• Toyota to test car-sharing system that doesn’t use keys

  31-10-2016 17:43 via krqe.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Toyota will test a new car-sharing system next year that lets users unlock doors and start cars with their smartphones.
  The Smart Key Box system eliminates the need for a physical key. Toyota will test the system in San Francisco with the Getaround car-sharing service starting in January. A Toyota investment fund put money into Getaround this month.
  Toyota says a user’s phone will get codes to access the smart key box inside car-sharing vehicles. When the phone gets cl
  
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• Italy’s premier vows help for 15,000+ displaced by quakes

  31-10-2016 17:36 via krqe.com
  
  NORCIA, Italy (AP) — Italy’s premier pledged Monday to find temporary housing for all those displaced by a series of powerful earthquakes in a central mountainous region, as the nation’s strongest temblor in 36 years pushed those needing assistance to more than 15,000.
  Some communities, however, resisted relocation.
  Sunday morning’s quake with a magnitude 6.6 caused no deaths or serious injuries, largely because most fragile city centers had already been closed because of
  
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• Stocks edge higher as traders are cautious ahead of election

  31-10-2016 17:15 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are slightly higher in midday trading on Monday, helped by positive economic data and investors reacting positively to a series of big mergers announced over the weekend.
  Traders also continue to watch the day-to-day developments of the U.S. presidential election, which is slightly more than a week away.
  KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average rose 19 points, or 0.1 percent, to 18,180 as of 12:05 p.m. Eastern. The Standard & Poor’s 500 rose 6 points
  
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• With Clinton on defense, Trump campaigns in blue states

  31-10-2016 17:06 via krqe.com
  
  WILTON MANORS, Fla. (AP) — Newly emboldened, Donald Trump is campaigning in traditionally Democratic states after the recent discovery of more emails that may be relevant to the FBI’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private system.
  Clinton enters the final full week of the presidential race on defense once again.
  Clinton, who was to campaign Monday across Ohio, vowed over the weekend that she would not be “knocked off course” in the election’s final days by
  
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• Updated: Police: Utah suspect involved in 2 chases, kidnapping

  31-10-2016 16:37
  
  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Police in Colorado say a man wanted in a murder in Utah led authorities on two dangerous chases and briefly kidnapped a woman after breaking into her home to change his clothes and steal her car. Thirty-four-year-old James Main, Jr. was arrested Sunday afternoon in Grand Junction after a chase, about […]
  
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• Unattended vehicle rolls over 83-year-old woman

  31-10-2016 16:36
  
  DENVER — Authorities say an 83-year-old woman was seriously injured after an unattended vehicle rolled over her in a gas station parking lot in Adams County. The State Patrol reported that the victim, Judith Warren, had walked behind the car after a driver pulled into the 7-Eleven parking lot on Saturday. Trooper Tim Sutherland says […]
  
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• Supreme Court gives new chance to 5 Arizona inmates

  31-10-2016 16:36
  
  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is ordering Arizona judges to reconsider life sentences with no chance of parole for five inmates who were convicted of murder for crimes they committed before they turned 18. The court on Monday said the state judges did not pay sufficient attention to high court rulings that held that life […]
  
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• Money managers: don’t let politics influence long-term investment plans

  31-10-2016 16:18
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — Money managers are getting a number of questions from clients about the election — not who to vote for but how it could affect their money. The historical trading data can be parsed a number of ways, but the consensus view from money managers: Don’t be rash. “You don’t want to trade your […]
  
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• Updated: Liz Weston: When Social Security turns you into a zombie

  31-10-2016 16:08
  
  If the Social Security Administration thinks you’re dead, you might wish you were. People who accidentally wind up on the agency’s Death Master File have seen their bank accounts frozen, credit cards closed, health insurance cut off and benefit payments canceled or even pulled back from checking accounts. One California man told me his 97-year-old […]
  
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• Updated: Ukrainian officials disclose their wealth in e-declarations

  31-10-2016 14:55
  
  MOSCOW — Tens of thousands of Ukrainian officials and lawmakers have disclosed their incomes and assets in a publicly available database for the first time. Late Sunday was the deadline by which all Ukrainian officials were due to declare expensive possessions and assets held in their own and their families’ names in what is commonly […]
  
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• Updated: Legoland becomes first brick in Dubai’s southern expansion

  31-10-2016 14:55
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A massive amusement complex in Dubai’s southern desert opened its first park on Monday — a Legoland with interlocking plastic blocks that both model the sheikhdom’s architectural wonders and represent the first bricks laid in developing the expanse. Much of the planned Dubai Parks & Resorts project worth over $3 […]
  
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• Updated: Honda 2Q net profit up 39 percent, raises full-year forecast

  31-10-2016 14:55
  
  TOKYO — Honda Motor Co.’s net profit in July-September jumped 39 percent from a year earlier to 177 billion yen ($1.7 billion), helped by strong sales of its sport utility vehicles in China, the company said Monday. The company on Monday upgraded its forecast for its fiscal full-year net profit to 415 billion yen ($3.96 […]
  
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• Updated: Consumer spending rebounded in September

  31-10-2016 14:55
  
  WASHINGTON — Consumers boosted their spending in September at the fastest pace in three months, while their incomes grew by a modest amount. Consumer spending increased 0.5 percent, a significant rebound from August when spending fell 0.1 percent, the Commerce Department said Monday. The increase was led by a 1.3 percent surge in spending on […]
  
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• Updated: US political uncertainty weighs on global stocks

  31-10-2016 14:54
  
  LONDON — The revelation that the FBI has opened a new investigation into U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s private email server weighed on global stock markets on Monday, a little more than a week from election day. Investors around the world also have a raft of potentially market-moving data and events to monitor this week, […]
  
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• Local tour group gears up for Halloween haunted tours

  31-10-2016 14:15 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, NM (KRQE) – Trick or Treating may not be on everyone’s to-do list for Halloween and one local tour group has just the event for those looking to get spooked.
  The Albucreepy Downtown Ghost Walk is not only fun for Halloween, but also year round.
  Albucreepy Tour Guides, Blake Starr and Jordan Jonas, joined KRQE’s This Morning team to discuss the haunted tour.
  It’s a 1.3-mile walking tour of the haunted sites and history of downtown. It stops at places like the
  
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• Monday’s Morning Rush Video, 5 Facts: Former coach accused of raping students to face judge

  31-10-2016 14:13 via krqe.com
  
  The 5 Facts You Need to Know
  1. Donald Trump will rally Michigan after a stop in New Mexico Sunday. Two states that Trump’s advisor said their internal polls show Trump is in a ‘dead heat” with Hillary Clinton. It’s his second stop. Clinton’s never rallied in New Mexico, this presidential run. She’s in Ohio Monday morning. Monday’s news is focused on the FBI’s warrant to start coming through newly discovered emails that are connected to their
  
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• Precision Catering dishes up spooky breakfast

  31-10-2016 14:05 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – There’s nothing like waking up to a frightfully delicious breakfast on Halloween and one local catering company has just the dish for your little monsters.
  Precision Catering’s Owner, Andrew Bustos, is very creative in the kitchen and likes to create dishes that aren’t just fun for chef in the house, but also for the kiddos.
  Bustos joined KRQE’s This Morning team to whip up “Bloody French Toast”. 
  For those looki
  
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