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• Fake US embassy in Ghana shut down after ‘about a decade’

  05-12-2016 23:57
  
  ACCRA, Ghana — A fake U.S. embassy that operated for “about a decade” in Ghana’s capital issuing counterfeit and fraudulently obtained visas has been shut down, the U.S. State Department announced. The scam was orchestrated by “Ghanaian and Turkish organized crime rings” and a Ghanaian attorney, a statement said. Several suspects have been arrested, though […]
  
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• Updated: Former Fed official Edward W. ‘Mike’ Kelley Jr. dies at 84

  05-12-2016 23:56
  
  WASHINGTON — Edward W. “Mike” Kelley Jr., who served 14 years as a member of the Federal Reserve Board and was instrumental in modernizing the banking operations of the Federal Reserve system, has died. He was 84. Kelley, whose death was confirmed Monday by the Fed, for many years ran a Houston manufacturing and services […]
  
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• Prosecutor’s office paid bitcoin ransom in cyberattack

  05-12-2016 23:56
  
  PITTSBURGH — A state prosecutor’s office in Pennsylvania was among hundreds of thousands of victims of a now-shuttered international cybercrime operation, paying nearly $1,400 in a bitcoin ransom to free up its infected computer network, authorities disclosed Monday. Federal prosecutors said in court documents only that an unidentified state government entity had been victimized by […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Michigan Republicans appealing recount order

  05-12-2016 23:55
  
  MADISON, Wis. — The Latest on the presidential recount efforts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin (all times local): 3:35 p.m. The Michigan Republican Party is appealing a judge’s order that forced an immediate recount in the presidential race. Lawyers for the GOP filed a brief notice Monday, hours after a federal judge in Detroit told […]
  
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• Updated: Worker pleads guilty to snooping on emails for stock deals

  05-12-2016 23:38
  
  SEATTLE — A former information technology worker at Expedia Inc. pleaded guilty Monday to securities fraud after authorities said he used his access to the computers of top executives to rummage through their email, then made lucrative, illegal stock trades based on the inside information he discovered. Prosecutors said Jonathan Ly, 28, of San Francisco […]
  
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• Oil industry urges Trump to approve Dakota Access pipeline

  05-12-2016 23:23 via krqe.com
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Industry leaders are urging President-elect Donald Trump to make approval of the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline a priority when he takes office next month, but a spokesman for Trump isn’t offering many clues about how the incoming president might act.
  Meanwhile, the leader of the Standing Rock Sioux is calling on pipeline opponents to leave a camp in southern North Dakota where they’ve been protesting for months, as dangerous winter weather sets in. M
  
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• 2016 Holiday Gift Guide: Top 25 hot tech toys for kids

  05-12-2016 23:17 via krqe.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Hatchimals, Legos, Air hogs, and more! The holidays are full of cool, hot tech toys for children, especially in 2016.
  Here are KRON4 Tech Reporter Gabe Slate’s top 25 hot tech toys for kids:HatchimalsThese robot birds that hatch out of their eggs to your kid’s delight are this year’s Furby. They will be hard to find but if you can snag one your kid will be the envy of the block. The more “love” your kid gives the egg, the quicker their n
  
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• Wells Fargo gives $1.3 million in loans, grant

  05-12-2016 23:16
  
  Well’s Fargo has granted $300,000 to Albuquerque-based microlender Acción for outreach to Native and African American entrepreneurs, while making another $1 million in capital available for lending to small and micro businesses. Acción now has $2.4 million in lending capital to draw on from Wells Fargo Works for Small Business Diverse Community Capital program. The […]
  
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• Updated: ‘No way they were going to survive’: Texas sinkhole swallows two cars, killing a sheriff’s deputy

  05-12-2016 23:09
  
  A deadly sinkhole in an industrial part of San Antonio swallowed two cars Sunday evening, killing one person and nearly trapping another who had to be rescued by passersby. The chasm opened just after 7:30 p.m. in an area where the city is engaged in an “aggressive, vigorous, replacement program” for aging sewer pipes, San […]
  
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• Texas’ chief elections officer stepping down after 2 years

  05-12-2016 23:08
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Secretary of State Carlos Cascos is leaving and being replaced by a former utility regulator with business ties on the U.S.-Mexico border. Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday that Rolando Pablos will become Texas’ chief elections officer in January. Pablos is the former CEO of Borderplex Alliance, an El Paso-based economic development […]
  
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• Teeniors wins “Make Better Today” contest

  05-12-2016 23:08
  
  Teeniors, the Albuquerque startup that employs tech-savvy teens to assist seniors with smartphones and other devices, is getting a global media boost from this year’s “Make Better Today” competition by TakePart + Lenovo. TakePart, a digital news and lifestyle magazine, sponsors the annual contest to highlight organizations that use technology in creative ways to better […]
  
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• Boy Scouts to relocate national museum to New Mexico

  05-12-2016 22:47 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — From merit badges and uniforms to an impressive collection of Norman Rockwell paintings and drawings, the Boy Scouts of America will be packing up more than a century of scouting history and taking it to the wilds of northern New Mexico.
  The organization announced Monday that it will move its national museum from its current home in Texas to the Philmont Scout Ranch, which has served as an adventure destination for generations of troops and their families.
  Plans ca
  
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• Dylann Roof allowed to hire lawyers back, for now

  05-12-2016 22:33 via krqe.com
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A federal judge agreed Monday to let a white man accused of fatally shooting nine black parishioners rehire his attorneys until a verdict is reached, but to remain his own lawyer if he is found guilty and the trial moves into a penalty phase.
  The decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel ended a week of Roof acting as his own lawyer in his death penalty trial. Roof wrote the Judge a handwritten note with his request over the weekend.
  It is unclear why Roof is s
  
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• Police investigate motorcycle accident in northeast Albuquerque

  05-12-2016 22:19 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque police are investigating a motor vehicle accident involving a motorcycle that shut down the intersection of Wyoming and Academy Monday afternoon.
  The intersection has since be reopened.
  There is no word yet on how many vehicles were involved other than the motorcycle or if there were any injuries.
  Little information is available at this time.
  For more traffic information, click here.
  Filed under: Albuquerque - Metro, Home, News
  
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• Motorcycle accident shuts down Wyoming, Academy intersection

  05-12-2016 22:19 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque police are investigating a motor vehicle accident involving a motorcycle that has shut down the intersection of Wyoming and Academy.
  Drivers should seek an alternate route.
  Little information is available at this time.
  For more traffic information, click here.Due to motor vehicle accident involving a mc APD shutting down Wyoming / Academy intersection
  — Albuquerque Police (@ABQPOLICE) December 5, 2016
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• Updated: Jury selection begins in high-profile Saints star’s death

  05-12-2016 22:03
  
  NEW ORLEANS — Potential jurors in the trial of a man charged with second-degree murder in the death of former New Orleans Saints star Will Smith were asked Monday about their attitudes on lethal self-defense, whether they can put aside opinions formed amid intense media coverage of Smith’s death and how Smith’s popularity might affect […]
  
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• The dangerous stakes of the NFL make Cam Newton’s necktie benching seem ludicrous

  05-12-2016 22:03
  
  Cam Newton, who had missed one game this season owing to the effects of a concussion, was held out of the Carolina Panthers’ first series Sunday night as punishment. His crime: Failure to wear a tie on the team plane. He hadn’t packed enough button-downs and was left with only a turtleneck, and he didn’t […]
  
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• Updated: Georgia man convicted in son’s hot-car death gets life, no parole

  05-12-2016 22:02
  
  MARIETTA, Ga. — A judge on Monday sentenced a Georgia man to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury found that he intentionally left his toddler son in a hot SUV to die. Jurors last month convicted Justin Ross Harris, 36, of malice murder and other charges in the June […]
  
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• St. Louis-area businessman faces federal kidnapping charge

  05-12-2016 21:58
  
  ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis-area businessman and three other men face kidnapping charges after authorities say they kept a man at a house over three days and threatened and beat him before releasing him when his parents paid about $27,000 in ransom money, court documents show. Todd Beckman, president and CEO of BAM Brands, […]
  
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• Greece gets some short-term debt relief from eurozone

  05-12-2016 21:58
  
  BRUSSELS — Greece won some short-term debt relief from European creditors on Monday even though it failed to clear the latest hurdle in its bailout program that has prevented the country going bankrupt and crashing out of the euro. At a meeting of the 19 eurozone finance ministers in Brussels that was largely overshadowed by […]
  
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• Police say Hobbs man killed by uncle during family dispute

  05-12-2016 20:44 via krqe.com
  
  HOBBS, N.M. (AP) – Police say a Hobbs man was fatally shot by his uncle during a family dispute.
  Michael Johnson, 49, of Hobbs was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder in Saturday’s shooting death of Zachariah Fields, 31.
  Fields died at the shooting scene.
  Johnson is being held on a $50,000 bond.
  It’s unknown whether Johnson has an attorney.
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• New Mexico AG seeks review of police investigation policies

  05-12-2016 20:43 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico’s top prosecutor is asking a panel of experts to review the policies and procedures that law enforcement agencies around the state use when it comes to investigating shootings involving officers or other use-of-force incidents.
  Attorney General Hector Balderas announced Monday that as the chair of the state’s Law Enforcement Academy Board, he has appointed a subcommittee to perform a review and audit.
  The inquiry will cover more than 190 agen
  
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• Feds: Business nearly lost $387,500 to world cybercriminals

  05-12-2016 20:23 via krqe.com
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania business nearly lost more than $387,000 in an international cybercrime operation disabled by federal authorities and the European Union last week.
  Federal prosecutors and FBI agents in Pittsburgh on Monday offered more details from last week’s sweep of the Avalanche network. The group is accused of inflicting hundreds of millions of dollars in losses worldwide before it was dismantled and five key suspects were arrested.
  Documents unsealed Monday had
  
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• Man convicted in son’s hot-car death gets life, no parole

  05-12-2016 20:20 via krqe.com
  
  MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia man convicted of murder after his toddler son died in a hot SUV has been sentenced to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole.
  Jurors last month convicted Justin Ross Harris of malice murder and other charges in the June 2014 death of his 22-month-old son, Cooper. The malice murder conviction means they believed Harris left the young boy to die on purpose.
  Cobb County Superior Court Judge Mary Staley Clark sentenced the 36-year-old Harris at a
  
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• #Oaklandfire: Survivors, friends of victims, and artists share powerful reactions on social media

  05-12-2016 20:17 via krqe.com
  
  View the story “#Oaklandfire: Survivors, friends of victims, and artists share powerful reactions on social media” on Storify
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• 7 winners and losers in Trump’s tax plan

  05-12-2016 20:12 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) — President-elect Donald Trump has promised to simplify the federal tax code and shield middle-class bank accounts from the IRS.
  His plan calls for fewer tax brackets, shrinking corporate taxes, extending child care tax credits and eliminating the head-of-household category.
  But the actual wins and losses will be a more complicated matter.
  Congressional GOP leaders and Trump have pegged the passage of major tax reform as a top-tier priority for passage shortly af
  
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• Woman facing murder charge for drive by shooting to stay out of jail

  05-12-2016 20:11 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A woman facing first-degree murder charges for the death of an 18-year-old in a drive-by will stay out of jail, for now. Police say Marissa Sepulveda told a group of friends to rob someone who had a pound of pot. They say that led to a drive-by shooting that killed 18-year-old Aliyah Garcia.
  Monday, Sepulveda was in court after police say she violated the terms of her release by testing positive for cocaine.
  The state asked the court to increase Sepulveda’s
  
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• Man pleads not guilty to charges stemming from fatal drag racing crash

  05-12-2016 20:11 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A man accused of killing a little girl in a drag racing crash has pleaded not guilty. Police say 22-year-old Xavier Nelson was racing on I-25 last month when he crashed into a van carrying 10-year-old carmen Esmeralda Rivera and her family.
  The girl was ejected and died at the scene.
  Police say they do not suspect Nelson of DWI. He faces up to six years in prison for reckless driving resulting in death.
  At nelson’s plea hearing Monday, a judge lowered his b
  
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• There is a pants-less Mike Pence look-alike in Times Square

  05-12-2016 19:40
  
  Move over, all you Elmos and Power Rangers – there’s a new Times Square character. Meet “Mike Hot-Pence,” a guy who looks an awful lot like the Vice President-elect, and dresses like him, too … at least from the waist up. Below the conservative navy blazer and tie that could have been filched from the […]
  
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• Russia loses second warplane in a month off Syria

  05-12-2016 19:39
  
  MOSCOW — The second crash of a Russian warplane off the coast of Syria in less than a month intensified scrutiny Monday of a critical weakness in Moscow’s show of naval force in the Mediterranean and the 1,000-foot hulk leading it. The Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia’s sole, aging aircraft carrier, made a very public entry into […]
  
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• Updated: Winning football team is a boost for Laramie’s economy, UW

  05-12-2016 19:38
  
  LARAMIE, Wyo. — The Laramie economy has benefited from a resurgent University of Wyoming football team, business owners and community leaders said. The Wyoming football team surged to an 8-4 record this fall, including a 6-1 record on its home field. The football program last had a winning record in 2011. Saturday night, Wyoming hosted […]
  
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• Updated: ‘Crimetown’ looks at Rhode Island city’s corrupt underbelly

  05-12-2016 19:38
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The podcast “Crimetown” opens with the mayor of Providence attacking a man with a lit cigarette and a fireplace log. It’s one of the many stranger-than-fiction tales about the late Mayor Buddy Cianci, the mafia and the city they both once ruled in this serial podcast from two of the people behind […]
  
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• Donald Trump, TV critic: What he watches, and how he feels about it

  05-12-2016 19:25
  
  Donald Trump is probably Twitter’s dream user. Lots of followers, lots of engagement, and lots of tweeting about #brands — particularly TV shows that he’s in the process of watching. Second-screen engagement! Twitter’s engagement team salivates. Late Saturday night, Trump took offense at a “Saturday Night Live” sketch that made fun of his habit of […]
  
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• Police: Man accused of causing deadly crash while high on LSD

  05-12-2016 19:12
  
  Authorities say an Albuquerque man accused of causing a deadly three-vehicle crash when he was high on LSD has been charged with vehicular homicide.
  
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• NFL moves Buccaneers-Cowboys to prime time Dec. 18

  05-12-2016 18:59
  
  NEW YORK — The NFL has moved the Tampa Bay-Dallas game on Dec. 18 to prime time. As part of its flex scheduling for Sundays, the league switched the Buccaneers’ visit to the Cowboys, who already have clinched a playoff berth. Tampa Bay is 7-5 and tied for the NFC South lead. Dallas is 11-1 […]
  
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• Ivanka Trump to meet with Al Gore to discuss ‘climate issues’

  05-12-2016 18:53
  
  President-elect Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump was scheduled to meet Monday with Al Gore, the former Democratic vice president who has become a leading activist in the fight against global warming, to discuss “climate issues,” according to the president-elect’s spokesman. Donald Trump has repeatedly called climate change a “hoax” and has even accused the Chinese […]
  
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• Updated: Are you sick? Are you broke? Did you completely fall apart in a foreign country? A warden will rescue you

  05-12-2016 18:52
  
  Minutes before Holland America’s Nieuw Amsterdam was scheduled to depart for Fort Lauderdale, Berit and Dan Wick received an urgent call at home. Without delay, the couple hailed a taxi to the port terminal in Cartagena, Colombia. Once aboard the vessel, Dan approached an American stretched out on a hospital bed surrounded by the ship’s […]
  
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• Why the ‘Last Tango in Paris’ rape scene is generating such an outcry now

  05-12-2016 18:48
  
  Nearly a decade ago, Maria Schneider revealed the unsettling details surrounding an infamous rape scene in the 1972 drama “Last Tango in Paris,” in which Marlon Brando’s character uses butter as a lubricant before forcing himself on her. But over the weekend, a clip of director Bernardo Bertolucci talking about the scene resurfaced, setting off […]
  
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• Updated: NY tweaks medical pot law but still no talk of legalization

  05-12-2016 18:44
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. — New York is loosening restrictions in its nearly year-old medical marijuana law but, to the dismay of some pot advocates, there is no sign the state is in any hurry to join eight other states in embracing full legalization. Among the latest to do so are two in the Northeast — Massachusetts […]
  
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• Trump taps former campaign rival Carson as housing secretary

  05-12-2016 16:59 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump, moving to complete formation of his Cabinet and decide other key posts, chose former campaign rival Ben Carson on Monday to be secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
  Trump’s decision, announced by his transition office, comes as the real estate mogul continues a series of interviews, meetings with aides and other deliberations aimed at forming his administration. He announced several Cabinet appointees last week.
  
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• Get used to it: Economists see “new normal” of slow growth

  05-12-2016 16:56 via krqe.com
  
  Americans should get used to a “new normal” of slow economic growth, business economists say.
  The median estimate from economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics calls for the American economy to grow 2.2 percent in 2017, up from a forecast 1.6 percent this year and unchanged from the previous survey in September.
  The improved number is still lackluster by historical standards. U.S. economic growth averaged 3.1 percent a year from 1948 to 2015, according t
  
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• ‘We have lost everything’: Syrians return to ravaged Aleppo

  05-12-2016 16:55 via krqe.com
  
  ALEPPO, Syria (AP) — Amina Hamawy burst into tears and then fainted when she returned to eastern Aleppo to find that looters had ransacked her home. “Where am I? What happened?” she asked after her husband and daughter revived her. “We have lost everything.”
  They were among a few hundred residents who fled fighting in the Hanano neighborhood last month and were able to return after government forces drove out Syrian rebels, whose besieged and bombed out enclave in e
  
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• New Mexico Highlands University gets STEM funding

  05-12-2016 16:55 via krqe.com
  
  LAS VEGAS, N.M. (AP) – Students seeking science and other similar degrees at New Mexico Highlands University will have more support toward completing their studies thanks to a nearly $3 million grant.
  The university says the five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education is designed to increase the number of Hispanic and low-income students who enter the workforce in science, technology, engineering and math – collectively known as STEM.
  Those working toward careers as seconda
  
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• Breaking: Lawsuit targets abortion provider over fetal remains research

  05-12-2016 16:52
  
  A young woman has filed a lawsuit against an abortion provider, Southwestern Women's Options,...
  
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• Supersonic passenger planes may begin test flights in 2017

  05-12-2016 16:49
  
  The time it takes to fly from New York to London may be cut by more than half if Virgin Group founder Richard Branson and a Denver startup create a new supersonic passenger plane as they plan. The manufacturing team for Branson’s Virgin Galactic company is working with Boom Supersonic to test a prototype next […]
  
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• Updated: Standing Rock leader heralds pipeline decision

  05-12-2016 16:48
  
  CANNON BALL, N.D. — The Latest on the protest against the construction of the final section of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota. (all times local): 9:50 a.m. The leader of the Standing Rock Sioux says the tribe “will be forever grateful to the Obama administration” for the Army Corps of Engineers’ decision […]
  
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• Updated: Get used to it: Economists see ‘new normal’ of slow growth

  05-12-2016 16:48
  
  Americans should get used to a “new normal” of slow economic growth, business economists say. The median estimate from economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics calls for the American economy to grow 2.2 percent in 2017, up from a forecast 1.6 percent this year and unchanged from the previous survey in September. […]
  
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• Updated: Dow hits another record as bank stocks continue to climb

  05-12-2016 16:47
  
  NEW YORK — U.S. stocks are rising Monday morning, led by gains in bank stocks, sending the Dow Jones industrial average to another record high. Other major indexes are also up but still below their own all-time highs. European stocks were mostly higher, but Italy’s market fell after Italian voters rejected constitutional changes, dealing a […]
  
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• Veteran dies after police standoff in Las Cruces

  05-12-2016 15:56
  
  A vigil was held for a veteran in Las Cruces Sunday night after he died following a standoff with police.
  
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• Death toll grows to 36 in Oakland warehouse fire

  05-12-2016 15:40 via krqe.com
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – The death toll in the Oakland warehouse fire has grown to 36 and authorities say they expect the number to rise when they resume work later Monday following a temporary work stoppage. A wall is leaning inward, posing a safety hazard to those who have been searching the building which erupted in fire Friday night.
  Eleven of the victims have been positively identified, but the names have yet to be publicly released.
  Authorities also believe they’ve located t
  
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