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• Updated: That's no snow: Sea of foam cascades from airport hangar

  18-11-2016 23:57
  
  A bobbing sea of white foam that's several feet deep in spots has spewed from a large hangar at Mineta…
  
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• State authorities describe horseman’s mountain rescue

  18-11-2016 23:39
  
  CHAMA, N.M. — State authorities say a 64-year-old man was thrown from his horse in a remote, wilderness area of New Mexico before game wardens rescued him. New Mexico Department of Game & Fish said Friday that horsebackrider Randy Van Zant, of Chama, was airlfited from a field after breaking his arm. He had been […]
  
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• Updated: Democrat’s lead widens in North Carolina governor’s race

  18-11-2016 23:38
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. — Hardly anyone in North Carolina is willing to guess when their excruciatingly close governor’s race will be resolved. A Friday deadline came and went with Democratic Attorney General Roy Cooper’s unofficial advantage growing to about 6,600 votes over Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, from nearly 4.7 million cast. McCrory is fighting for his […]
  
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• Judge handling Sandusky’s appeal removes himself from case

  18-11-2016 23:36
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. — The judge who has presided over Jerry Sandusky’s criminal case for five years issued a sternly worded order on Friday removing himself from the former Penn State assistant coach’s appeal. Judge John Cleland said he was taking himself off the case because Sandusky’s lawyers have raised objections to Cleland’s role in a […]
  
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• Updated: China is putting the squeeze on North Korea. But for how long?

  18-11-2016 23:32
  
  DANDONG, China – There’s a chill in the air in Dandong these days, and not just because winter is coming. A steady stream of trucks still rumbles across the single-lane bridge from China to North Korea from dawn until dusk every day, and North Koreans can still be seen in the streets and in the […]
  
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• Tennessee school bus crash sends 23 students to hospital

  18-11-2016 23:11 via krqe.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Twenty-three students were hospitalized after a Tennessee school bus crashed and rolled over on an interstate off-ramp Friday, but authorities said none suffered life-threatening injuries.
  The bus was one of three headed from Chester County in western Tennessee to an academic and community service convention in Nashville when it crashed as it left Interstate 65 northbound.
  A 17-year-old student had a broken collarbone and two other students had arm injuries, Metro N
  
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• Trump agrees to $25M settlement to resolve Trump U lawsuits

  18-11-2016 22:46 via krqe.com
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has agreed to a $25 million settlement to resolve three lawsuits over Trump University, his former school for real estate investors.
  The deal announced Friday by New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman would settle a lawsuit he filed three years ago, plus two class-action lawsuits in California filed on behalf of former Trump University students.
  The suits allege that Trump University failed to deliver on its promise to teach success
  
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• Updated: 2 moose found frozen mid-fight near remote Alaska village

  18-11-2016 20:58
  
  Two moose were recently discovered frozen in battle and encased in ice near a remote village on Alaska's unforgiving western…
  
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• NY state college QB runs down, tackles purse snatcher

  18-11-2016 20:42 via krqe.com
  
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Daniel Bronson’s biggest play on a record-setting day as the quarterback at the University of Rochester came off the field.
  The 21-year-old junior from Lockport in Niagara County was leaving a restaurant in his hometown on Nov. 5 when he saw a man run past a 73-year-old woman and yank her purse out of her arms as she walked with her husband.
  Bronson took off after the man, who dropped the purse but kept on running. Bronson kept running, too, and tackled the sus
  
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• Breaking: DA contacts feds about allegations APD deleted, altered videos in police shootings

  18-11-2016 20:36
  
  District Attorney Kari Brandenburg said this morning that she has contacted the U.S. Attorney’s office about allegations raised in a court filing on Thursday that the Albuquerque Police Department has erased, corrupted and altered police lapel camera video of several fatal shootings of citizens since 2013.
  
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• Trial for former Santa Fe attorney facing DWI charges delayed

  18-11-2016 20:14 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The once-prominent attorney who went to prison for killing a man in a drunk driving crash was supposed to go on trial Friday for another DWI but there was an unexpected twist in court.
  In May, Carlos Fierro was pulled over for swerving in Española. Fierro was charged with aggravated DWI. Fierro served four years in prison for the drunk driving crash that killed pedestrian William Tenorio outside a Santa Fe bar in 2008.
  Friday, Fierro was scheduled to go on
  
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• Former Santa Fe attorney facing charges in second DWI related incident

  18-11-2016 20:14 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – He’s already served time for a deadly DWI crash, now a once-prominent Santa Fe attorney is back in the courtroom Friday, on trial for driving drunk again. But, he may not face much time.
  Carlos Fierro served nearly four years for hitting and killing a pedestrian outside a Santa Fe bar. When he got out, he admitted he made a huge mistake. Then in May, police arrested him for DWI again.
  After getting out of prison in 2012 for the vehicular homicide case, Fier
  
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• Updated: Lennon’s Beatles breakup letter sold at auction for $30,000

  18-11-2016 19:37
  
  BOSTON — An angry letter from John Lennon to Paul and Linda McCartney written shortly after the Beatles’ breakup has been sold at auction for nearly $30,000. The two-page typed draft , with handwritten annotations by Lennon, was sold Thursday by Boston-based RR Auction. RR says the letter is believed to have been written in […]
  
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• Lennon’s Beatles breakup letter sold at auction for $30,000

  18-11-2016 19:37
  
  BOSTON — An angry letter from John Lennon to Paul and Linda McCartney written shortly after the Beatles’ breakup has been sold at auction for nearly $30,000. The two-page typed draft , with handwritten annotations by Lennon, was sold Thursday by Boston-based RR Auction. RR says the letter is believed to have been written in […]
  
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• Fake news on Facebook is a real problem. These college students came up with a fix in 36 hours.

  18-11-2016 19:37
  
  When Nabanita De scrolled through her Facebook feed recently, she felt afraid. There were so many posts with competing information and accusations about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton that she didn’t know how to begin deciphering the fearmongering from the reality. The social media site has faced criticism since the presidential election for its role […]
  
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• Updated: School bus crashes near Nashville, injuring 23 students

  18-11-2016 19:35
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Authorities say a school bus crashed and rolled over on an interstate off-ramp in Nashville, sending 23 students to the hospital, all of whom were expected to survive. Metro Nashville Fire Department spokesman Brian Haas says the school bus from Chester County in western Tennessee crashed Friday morning as it left Interstate […]
  
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• School bus crashes near Nashville, injuring 20 students

  18-11-2016 19:35
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Authorities say a school bus has crashed and rolled over on an interstate near Nashville, Tennessee, injuring 20 students, all of whom are expected to survive. Metro Nashville Fire Department spokesman Brian Haas said the Chester County school bus crashed Friday morning on Interstate 65 northbound. Haas says a 17-year-old student received […]
  
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• Fact Checker: The claim that ’99 percent of women have used birth control’

  18-11-2016 19:34
  
  “More than 99 percent of women have used birth control.” — Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, image shared on Twitter, by Nov. 16, 2016 “99% of women have used birth control in their lives. It needs to be accessible AND affordable. #ThxBirthControl” — Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., post on Twitter, Nov. 16, 2016 “Birth […]
  
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• An urgent request to Trump from civil rights advocates: Speak out against acts of hate

  18-11-2016 19:34
  
  Dozens of labor, faith and civil rights groups are calling on President-elect Donald Trump to speak out against bullying and acts of hate and bigotry that they say have spiked since his election last week, particularly in schools. The effort was led by the American Federation of Teachers, the nation’s second-largest teachers union, and the […]
  
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• New Mexico professors seeking immigrant student protections

  18-11-2016 19:32
  
  A group of professors at the largest university in the nation's most Hispanic state are asking for more protection of immigrant students.
  
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• Trump claims to save auto plant. But it wasn’t closing.

  18-11-2016 19:27 via krqe.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump claimed Thursday that he convinced the chairman of Ford Motor Co. not to move an assembly plant from Kentucky to Mexico. But Ford never intended to move the plant, just production of one of the vehicles it makes.
  Trump said in a tweet that Bill Ford, the company’s executive chairman, telephoned him with the news that a “Lincoln plant” would stay in Louisville. Instead, Ford decided to keep production of the Lincoln MKC small SUV
  
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• Residents file class-action suit over man-made earthquakes

  18-11-2016 18:40 via krqe.com
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Residents of the town hit by Oklahoma’s worst earthquake have filed a class-action lawsuit against dozens of energy companies, accusing them of triggering dozens of temblors by injecting wastewater from oil and gas production underground.
  Pawnee residents filed the suit Thursday against at least 27 companies, saying they operate wastewater injection wells even though they know the method causes earthquakes. The lawsuit seeks an unidentified amount for property dam
  
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• Today in History: November 18

  18-11-2016 18:21 via krqe.com
  
  Today in History
  Today is Friday, Nov. 18, the 323rd day of 2016. There are 43 days left in the year.
  Today’s Highlight in History:
  On Nov. 18, 1966, U.S. Roman Catholic bishops issued a Pastoral Statement on Penance and Abstinence, which did away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays outside of Lent.
  On this date:
  In 1883, the United States and Canada adopted a system of Standard Time zones.
  In 1886, the 21st president of the United States, Chester A. Arthur, died in New York.
  In 1
  
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• John Mark custom homes: contemporary livability

  18-11-2016 17:52
  
  John mark Jones didn’t really set out. As a matter of fact, for the better part of two decades, he sold furniture. But like many industries, the soft economy took its toll on the furniture business. “The recession hit kind of hard back in 2009,” he said. “My lease was coming up. I tried to […]
  
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• 11 US states saw strong hiring last month, 5 lost jobs

  18-11-2016 17:47
  
  Eleven U.S. states reported healthy job gains in October, and the unemployment rate fell in seven, as hiring improved modestly nationwide. Thirty-four states reported little change. New Mexico’s unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.7 percent in October,  the second-highest in the nation, the U.S. Labor Department reported Friday. The Labor Department says the biggest percentage […]
  
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• Updated: Democrat offers scathing assessment of Sessions

  18-11-2016 17:09
  
  NEW YORK — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump’s transition activities (all times EST): 11:20 a.m. A Democratic House member says attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions is the right pick “if you have nostalgia for the days when blacks kept quiet, gays were in the closet, immigrants were invisible and women stayed in the kitchen.” […]
  
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• New Mexico Supreme Court upholds cold-case murder conviction

  18-11-2016 17:09
  
  The New Mexico Supreme Court has upheld the first-degree murder conviction of a man in the 1991 death of an Albuquerque woman.
  
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• Man serves nearly 40 years; police now say he’s not guilty

  18-11-2016 17:09
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. — A South Carolina man who served 39 years in prison for a homicide that he says he didn’t commit has been freed from prison. The Herald of Rock Hill reports (http://bit.ly/2g35TKh) that 61-year-old James Robert McClurkin left Broad River Prison on Thursday as a parolee. Police and attorneys now say he didn’t […]
  
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• Denver man fined $11,000 for poaching trophy elk

  18-11-2016 17:09
  
  CRAIG, Colo. — A Denver man has been fined $11,000 for illegally killing a trophy elk. The Craig Daily Press reports (http://bit.ly/2fom3Np ) that the man was sentenced Monday in Moffat County Court after pleading guilty to shooting the six-point bull elk in 2015. The man may lose hunting privileges in Colorado pending a review […]
  
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• Attendance dips, revenues rise at New Mexico state museums

  18-11-2016 16:22 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – A decision to raise ticket prices and eliminate some free-entrance days at New Mexico’s world renowned state museums and historic sites has provided a boost in revenue to the state’s cash strapped culture agency since the start of July.
  The changes also have been accompanied by a drop in ticketed attendance at a network of eight state museums and eight cultural sites that are an engine of the state tourism economy, where more than a million people flock ea
  
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• TSA airport travel tips to avoid holiday headaches

  18-11-2016 15:56 via krqe.com
  
  (MEDIA GENERAL) — The holidays mean fun and family, but for many Americans, it also means traveling. Airlines for America projects more than 27 million people will fly on U.S. airlines during the Thanksgiving travel period, up 2.5 percent from last year.
  To make things as easy as possible for your trips through airports this holiday season, follow these tips from the Transportation Security Administration.
  Arrive at least two hours early
  The TSA suggests you arrive at least two hours befor
  
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• Friday’s Morning Rush Video, 5 Facts: Freeze warning in Albuquerque until 9 AM

  18-11-2016 15:12 via krqe.com
  
  The 5 Facts You Need to Know
  1. Friday, sunny with highs in the upper 40’s to lower 50’s. North winds 10 to 15 mph in the morning. Friday night, clear. Lows in the lower to mid 20’s. East winds 10 to 15 mph below canyons.
  Video: Kristen’s Friday Morning Forecast
  2. Clean-up and repairs will likely begin Friday after strong winds ripped through New Mexico, knocking down a traffic light in Santa Fe and even causing some trees to fall in the metro. Winds reach
  
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• China astronauts return from monthlong space station stay

  18-11-2016 15:06 via krqe.com
  
  BEIJING (AP) — Two Chinese astronauts returned Friday from a monthlong stay aboard the country’s space station, China’s sixth and longest crewed mission and a sign of the growing ambitions of its rapidly advancing space program.
  Veteran mission commander Jing Haipeng and first-time space traveler Chen Dong were reported in good health after their Shenzhou 11 return vehicle landed on the frozen steppes of Inner Mongolia.
  They spent 30 days aboard the Tiangong 2 station conductin
  
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• A is for Art Gala helps students artists transition to professional

  18-11-2016 15:05 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, NM (KRQE)– Albuquerque Public School (APS) art students are throwing a gala to benefit the APS Foundation, Fine Arts Department and the students themselves.
  A is For Art is a live and silent auction with artwork by APS student artists.
  APS Education Foundation’s Executive Director, Phill Casaus, 2016 La Cueva High Graduate, Amanda Burleson, and West Mesa High Junior, Carlos Aguilar, joined KRQE’s This Morning team to discuss the event. Watch above.
  Guest will recei
  
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• 1 killed in shooting at child’s birthday party in Tennessee

  18-11-2016 15:03 via krqe.com
  
  DYERSBURG, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say at least seven people have been shot, including one fatally, during a child’s birthday party at a home in western Tennessee.
  Dyersburg Mayor John Holden, who’s been in contact with police, told Memphis station WHBQ-TV a female was killed in the shooting around 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Holden says others, including a 6-year-old, were hospitalized. The child’s condition wasn’t immediately known.
  Police were still searching for a susp
  
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• About the cover: November 18, 2016

  18-11-2016 14:45
  
  8643 Rio Grande Blvd NW Los Ranchos, NM 87114 $1,995,000 7,138 sq. ft. 5 bed / 7 bath Anji Lang 505.235.7001 Q Realty 505.750.0059 Welcome to 8643 Rio Grande BLVD NW, originally built by Conrad Hilton as his country home. As one of the area’s largest and most significant estates, this elegant house has been impeccably […]
  
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• Updated: Hunt on for spelling-challenged bank robber in Massachusetts

  18-11-2016 14:40
  
  A bank robber dubbed the "spelling bee bandit" because the notes he's passed to tellers contain the same misspelling is…
  
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• Albuquerque man fasts to protest the Dakota Access pipeline

  18-11-2016 14:04 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – While thousands are chanting and making their voices heard, one local man is leading his own protest, in a way many couldn’t even fathom doing.“It’s a little difficult to talk about these things. It’s an emotional time. I have family that live in the area,” said Jose Garza Rodriguez, Captain of the Azteca-Mexica Tradition and Spiritual Leader of Ayoyotes on the Ground.
  He’s taking a stand a thousand miles away.
  “I started
  
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• New Mexico’s first freeze comes late in the season

  18-11-2016 13:44 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Many across the state are experiencing their first freeze Friday after dangerously strong winds Thursday. For weeks, the freezing temperatures held out, but they’re finally here.
  The Albuquerque Metro Area is under a freeze warning until 9 a.m. Friday.
  Watch Mark’s Thursday Night Forecast »
  Track the storm with the KRQE Radar »
  See all weather alerts »
  Download the KRQE Weather App »
  We have had it easy so f
  
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• Albuquerque’s first freeze comes late in the season

  18-11-2016 13:44 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Many across the state are experiencing their first freeze Friday after dangerously strong winds Thursday. For weeks, the freezing temperatures held out, but they’re finally here.
  The Albuquerque Metro Area is under a freeze warning until 9 a.m. Friday.
  Watch Kristen’s Friday Morning Forecast »
  Track the storm with the KRQE Radar »
  See all weather alerts »
  Download the KRQE Weather App »
  We have had it e
  
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• Updated: Long Island's 'Amityville Horror' house is being bought

  18-11-2016 13:39
  
  The Long Island home that served as the inspiration for the book "The Amityville Horror" and the subsequent films of…
  
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• Trump taps Sessions, Flynn, Pompeo for top positions

  18-11-2016 13:36 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump signaled a sharp rightward shift in U.S. national security policy Friday, naming Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo to head the CIA and former military intelligence chief Michael Flynn as his national security adviser.
  All three have been fierce critics of President Barack Obama’s handling of terrorism and international relations. In tapping Sessions and Flynn, Trump is also rewarding loyalty from two
  
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• Trump offers national security adviser job to Flynn

  18-11-2016 13:36 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is offering former military intelligence chief Michael Flynn the position of national security adviser, elevating a fierce critic of current U.S. foreign policy into a crucial White House role.
  Flynn’s selection amounts to Trump’s first signal to allies and adversaries about the course he could take in office. It’s unclear whether Flynn, a retired Army general, has accepted the job, though a senior transition official confirmed
  
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• Sen. Sessions, Rep. Pompeo picked by Trump for top jobs

  18-11-2016 13:36 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is moving ahead with filling key posts in his administration, picking Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions for the job of attorney general and Rep. Mike Pompeo as head of the CIA.
  The announcements came on the heels of Trump’s decision to tap former military intelligence chief Michael Flynn as national security adviser. A Trump official did not say whether Sessions or Flynn had accepted the job, leaving open the possibility that those two arrangemen
  
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• John Cleese, Eric Idle of ‘Monty Python’ fame take the stage

  18-11-2016 08:11
  
  John Cleese and Eric Idle are living legends. Period.For about half a century, the two ...
  
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• Updated: In Israel, famed pre-WWII ship survivors relate to refugees

  18-11-2016 08:08
  
  JERUSALEM — While the European refugee crisis has captured the world’s attention, Sol Messinger is one of the few who can personally relate to the harrowing images of desperate families fleeing to safety by sea. The 84-year-old retired pathologist from Buffalo was aboard the SS St. Louis, the famed trans-Atlantic liner carrying nearly 1,000 Jewish […]
  
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• Prep football: Storm, Trojans are familiar rivals

  18-11-2016 08:05
  
  There are some tantalizing matchups on the board for quarterfinal weekend in the prep football playo ...
  
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• Holiday meals cheer homeless

  18-11-2016 08:05
  
  A traditional Thanksgiving meal for the homeless can bring back memories of caring family and friend ...
  
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• Editorial: ABQ needs E ticket today to keep tomorrow’s leaders

  18-11-2016 08:05
  
  Pre-1982, an E ticket entitled the bearer to Disneyland's newest, most advanced, and/or most popular ...
  
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• College football: Balanced Rams have hurt Lobos

  18-11-2016 08:05
  
  Regarding Colorado State's 4-0 record against New Mexico since Bob Davie took over as UNM's head coa ...
  
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