Albuquerque news

• A message from KOB’s news director on identifying Four Hills victims

  08-12-2016 23:33
  
  Today, the Albuquerque Police Department officially released the identities of the three young homicide victims from the Four Hills neighborhood Monday night.Releasing such information is not only routine for APD, it is required under the law in New Mexico.
  
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• Updated: Briles sues Baylor officials for libel and conspiracy

  08-12-2016 23:28
  
  AUSTIN, Texas — Former Baylor football coach Art Briles is suing three school regents and a vice president for libel and slander, accusing them of falsely stating he knew of reported assaults and alleged gang rapes by players and didn’t report them. The lawsuit also asserts that Baylor officials conspired to keep him from getting […]
  
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• Syria suspends offensive in Aleppo to allow evacuation, Russia says

  08-12-2016 23:28
  
  PARIS – Russia said late Thursday that the Syrian military has suspended its combat operations in eastern Aleppo to allow civilians to leave the city and that it had reached agreement with the United States to negotiate the safe departure of rebel fighters. A senior U.S. State Department official here traveling with Secretary of State […]
  
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• NBC shutting down its Breaking News service

  08-12-2016 23:27
  
  NEW YORK — NBC says that it is shutting down its Breaking News digital service, which provided bulletins on stories through Twitter, a website and its own app. The network said Thursday that the service, which began in 2009, wasn’t self-sustaining and will cease operations at the end of the year. It employed 20 people […]
  
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• ‘Godspeed, John Glenn’: Former DC colleagues pay tribute to national hero

  08-12-2016 23:20 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (MEDIA GENERAL) — Shortly after the announcement of the death of iconic astronaut and former U.S. Senator John Glenn, his former colleagues in Washington began paying tribute online to the national hero.
  Glenn spent 24 years serving in Congress, where he helped craft and pass major legislation like the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978, which is credited with limiting the spread of nuclear weapons globally.
  He was a Democrat personally popular with both parties, ran for pres
  
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• Albuquerque police ID victims in Four Hills shooting

  08-12-2016 23:19 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Police have released the names of the three children killed in the Four Hills shooting.
  The mother’s name is Cheryl Mascarenas and the children have been identified as 9-year-old Ian Mascarenas, 6-year-old Olivia Mascarenas and 5-year-old Elijah Mascarenas.
  The shooting happened around 6:30 Monday night. Albuquerque police say 45-year-old Daniel Wechsler forced his way into the family’s Four Hills home, waited for them to return and ambushed them
  
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• Breaking: Police release names of children killed in Four Hills shooting; family releases statement

  08-12-2016 23:13
  
  Police have identified the three children who were shot and killed Monday evening as 5-year-old Elijah Mascarenas, 6-year-old Olivia Mascarenas, and 9-year-old Ian Mascarenas. Their mother, 36-year-old Cheryl Mascarenas, remains in critical condition at the University of New Mexico Hospital Thursday, according to authorities. Officer Fred Duran, a spokesman for the Albuquerque Police Department, said […]
  
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• Big Wyoming wind project closing in on federal eagle permit

  08-12-2016 23:12
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. — One of the biggest wind energy projects under development in the U.S. got closer Thursday to securing a federal permit to kill a limited number of eagles without penalty. A final plan released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would help ensure the Chokecherry-Sierra Madre wind farm in south-central Wyoming doesn’t […]
  
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• Officers shot in Georgia were friends for years

  08-12-2016 22:51 via krqe.com
  
  AMERICUS, Ga. (MEDIA GENERAL) — The two officers shot while responding to a domestic violence call in Americus, Georgia, on Wednesday grew up together.
  Americus Police Chief Mark Scott said Thursday that his department’s officer, Nicholas Smarr, went to high school and later the police academy with Georgia Southwestern State University Police Officer Jody Smith and the two were “very good friends.”
  Officer Jody Smith, left, and Officer Nicholas Smarr (Facebook/Chesley Sma
  
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• Phone Bank: Toys for Tots

  08-12-2016 22:28 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Toys for Tots is a crucial program to ensure every boy and girl receives a present for Christmas. And to make sure that happens, KRQE News 13 along with local law enforcement are hosting a toy drive at Albuquerque Police Department headquarters.
  Thursday’s Toys for Tots phone bank is accepting donations from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m.
  Just call 505-768-2299 to make a donation.
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• John Glenn, the 1st American to orbit Earth, has died at 95

  08-12-2016 22:16 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday. The last survivor of the original Mercury 7 astronauts was 95.
  Glenn died at the James Cancer Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, where he was hospitalized for more than a week, said Hank Wilson, communications director for the John Glenn School of Public Affairs.
  John Herschel Glenn Jr. had two major care
  
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• Federal nuclear waste dump has more to do before reopening

  08-12-2016 21:49 via krqe.com
  
  CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) – The U.S. Energy Department and its contractors have been working for nearly three years to reopen the federal government’s only underground nuclear waste repository following a radiation release, but more needs to be done.
  A preliminary review of the readiness effort at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant identified 21 issues that need to be resolved before operations can start at the southern New Mexico facility.
  Officials also highlighted another 15 issues that ca
  
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• Santa Fe’s Capital High School placed on lockdown

  08-12-2016 21:26
  
  Santa Fe’s Capital High School was placed on lockdown by Santa Fe police as a precaution this afternoon and students at two other schools were ordered to shelter in place by the school after a weapon was found in a student’s car at the high school. According to a news release from Santa Fe Public […]
  
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• Stay or go? Tribe gives conflicting messages to protest camp

  08-12-2016 21:15 via krqe.com
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — For protesters fighting the Dakota Access pipeline, the messages from the Standing Rock Sioux reservation are confusing: The tribal chairman tells demonstrators that it’s time to leave their camp and go home. Another leader implores them to stay through the bitter North Dakota winter.
  The conflicting requests show how the camp’s purpose has widened beyond the original intent of protecting the tribe’s drinking water and cultural sites into a broader s
  
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• Key provisions in the defense policy bill passed by Congress

  08-12-2016 21:11 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday decisively passed the annual defense policy bill, 92-7, a week after the House overwhelmingly approved the measure, 375-34. The votes give Congress solid veto-proof majorities in both chambers as the bill heads to President Barack Obama for his signature.
  The bill seeks to give Republicans the final word on key national security issues, rebuffing Obama’s attempts to shutter the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and reduce the size of armed force
  
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• US life expectancy falls, as many kinds of death increase

  08-12-2016 20:58 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A decades-long trend of rising life expectancy in the U.S. could be ending: It declined last year and it is no better than it was four years ago.
  In most of the years since World War II, life expectancy in the U.S. has inched up, thanks to medical advances, public health campaigns and better nutrition and education.
  But last year it slipped, an exceedingly rare event in a year that did not include a major disease outbreak. Other one-year declines occurred in 1993, when the
  
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• Suit alleges massive real estate contract, mortgage scheme

  08-12-2016 20:58
  
  New Mexico Attorney Hector Balderas is accusing an Albuquerque-area businessman of engaging in a massive real estate contract and mortgage scheme that allegedly included fraud and other wrongdoing.
  
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• Today in History: December 8

  08-12-2016 20:45 via krqe.com
  
  Today in History
  Today is Thursday, Dec. 8, the 343rd day of 2016. There are 23 days left in the year.
  Today’s Highlight in History:
  On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Imperial Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  On this date:
  In 1765, Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, was born in Westborough, Massachusetts.
  In 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception, which holds that Mary, the mot
  
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• Jury deliberating in second trial in El Rancho killings

  08-12-2016 20:15 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – Jurors are again deliberating the fate of a man charged in the slayings of an El Rancho family.
  The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that jurors began deliberating on Wednesday after closing statements were made in the retrial of Nicholas Ortiz, who is accused of killing Dixie and Lloyd Ortiz and their special-needs adult son, Steven, with a pickax in 2011. The suspect was not related to the Ortiz family.
  In June a jury failed to reach a unanimous decision on charges of m
  
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• Updated: Winners, losers and trends at baseball’s winter meetings

  08-12-2016 20:14
  
  OXON HILL, Md. — All-Star closers Aroldis Chapman, Mark Melancon and Wade Davis moved to different bullpens. Chris Sale boosted a big rotation in Boston. And the Washington Nationals got their fans talking — a lot. As teams packed up along the Potomac River and headed home Thursday, a look at what did and didn’t […]
  
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• Updated: Delta will upgrade free snacks in the economy-fare cabin

  08-12-2016 20:02
  
  If it’s true that an army travels on its stomach, will better snacks keep passengers loyal to one airline? Delta Air Lines is rolling out new free snacks for customers in the main cabin, including brand-name yogurt bars and pretzels. Some will come in larger portions than before because, Delta has figured out, that’s what […]
  
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• Updated: Banking on change: Tech startups target financial services

  08-12-2016 20:02
  
  SAN FRANCISCO — It may not be much longer before bank branches join video-rental stores and record shops as relics of a bygone era. Silicon Valley is pressuring banks to change their ways or risk becoming the latest industry overtaken by technology. Hundreds of startups are offering easier and cheaper ways to save, borrow, spend […]
  
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• Teen charged in Albuquerque bartender’s murder pleads guilty

  08-12-2016 19:43 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The teen who initially confessed to killing an Albuquerque bartender has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, but he’ll get a break on his sentence.
  Jeremiah King, 18, faced a judge Thursday morning and pleaded guilty in the killing of Steven Gerecke.
  First degree murder usually carries a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 30 years, but as part of the deal with the District Attorney’s Office King will be sentenced as an adult and fac
  
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• Updated: Santa Fe native gets top DCCC job

  08-12-2016 19:35
  
  Dan Sena, a Santa Fe native, was named as executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in Washington on Thursday, marking the first time that a Hispanic has held the job. Sena was tapped for the influential post by Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, who will serve a second term as chairman of the DCCC […]
  
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• Updated: Global populism tide swamps South Korea

  08-12-2016 19:35
  
  The wave of populism that fueled Brexit, the rise of Donald Trump and the fall of Italian leader Matteo Renzi has reached South Korea, where street protesters see Friday’s parliamentary vote to impeach President Park Geun-hye as a step toward toppling the establishment she symbolizes. Hundreds of thousands of students and workers, young and old, […]
  
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• Updated: Extreme Wyoming cold frosts even Moscow Ballet

  08-12-2016 19:34
  
  It got so cold in Wyoming, even the Moscow Ballet couldn't move. The traveling ballet group famous for performing "The…
  
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• Westbound I-40 near Edgewood reopen after fatal crash

  08-12-2016 18:41 via krqe.com
  
  EDGEWOOD, N.M. (KRQE) – Westbound I-40 at mile marker 187 near Edgewood is reopen after an accident that happened Thursday morning.
  New Mexico State Police said they responded to fatal crash in the area.
  Traffic was being rerouted but the interstate has since reopened.
  No further information is available.
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  Filed under: Home, New Mexico, News Tagged: News App Alert
  
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• USGS: 6.5 magnitude quake in ocean off California coast

  08-12-2016 18:41 via krqe.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Northern California on Thursday, jolting residents of the coastal town of Ferndale but bringing no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
  The quake hit at 6:50 a.m. in the Pacific Ocean about 100 miles west of Ferndale, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
  The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said in a statement there was no threat of a tsunami.
  Bonnie Brower, owner of the Ferndale Pie Company, says she was grabbing someth
  
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• Fatal accident closes I-40 westbound near Edgewood

  08-12-2016 18:41 via krqe.com
  
  EDGEWOOD, N.M. (KRQE) – Westbound I-40 is closed at mile marker 187 near Edgewood due to an accident, the State Department of Transportation reports.
  New Mexico State Police say they are on scene of a fatal crash in the area.
  The DOT says drivers can expect delays as traffic is being rerouted.
  No further information is available.
  For live traffic updates, click here. 
  Filed under: Home, New Mexico, News Tagged: News App Alert
  
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• PNM asks state regulators for 14% average system rate hike

  08-12-2016 18:07 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico’s largest electric provider has asked state regulators for an average system rate increase of 14 percent.
  Public Service Company of New Mexico’s application with the state Public Regulation Commission seeks an increase of $99.2 million and a return on equity of 10.125 percent.
  The overall 14.3 percent rate increase would be spread out over two years to soften the impact for customers.
  The rate increase would mean all classes of customers woul
  
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• State high court won’t intervene in representation dispute

  08-12-2016 17:59
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — The New Mexico Supreme Court is refusing to intervene in a state budget-related issue involving representation in criminal cases. The district attorney for Lea County had asked the high court to intervene after public defenders refused to take on additional indigent clients because of their swelling caseloads. A District Court judge […]
  
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• Appeals court hears case over cross memorial on state land

  08-12-2016 17:59
  
  RICHMOND, Va. — The constitutionality of a Maryland war memorial in the shape of a cross is being challenged in federal court. The Washington Post reports (http://wapo.st/2haueyn) the issue of whether the 40-foot-tall cross violates the First Amendment was debated Wednesday in the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The monument honoring 49 men […]
  
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• Updated: The best movies of 2016: ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Manchester by the Sea’ and ‘Southside With You’ make the top 10

  08-12-2016 17:58
  
  Every year, my fellow movie reviewers and I bemoan the current state of cinema – Too many comic-book flicks! Not enough substance! Where are the musicals/love stories/chick flicks of yore? Wah, I’m bored! – only to realize that, when it’s time to compile our year-end 10-best lists, we’re (once again) spoiled for choice. This year […]
  
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• Updated: Mandolin whiz Thile brings younger crowd to ‘Prairie Home’

  08-12-2016 17:58
  
  MINNEAPOLIS — Mandolin whiz Chris Thile (THEEL’-ee) says he still feels “like a kid in a candy store” taking over as host of the long-running public radio show “A Prairie Home Companion.” The 35-year-old Thile was chosen by creator Garrison Keillor to replace him on the Saturday-evening show. Thile began his first season of 13 […]
  
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• In a first, Latino will manage Democrats’ effort to retake the House

  08-12-2016 17:57
  
  WASHINGTON – The chairman of House Democrats’ campaign arm has tapped a fellow New Mexican to manage the effort to take back the majority from Republicans after eight years. Dan Sena will serve as executive director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Rep. Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., the committee’s chairman, said Thursday. Sena will be […]
  
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• New Mexico agency reports 2 more hantavirus cases

  08-12-2016 17:35 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – The state Department of Health reports two additional confirmed cases of hantavirus, both from McKinley County in northwestern New Mexico.
  Hantavirus infection is a deadly disease transmitted by infected rodents through urine, droppings or saliva.
  The department says the additional cases involving a 59-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman who are hospitalized are the seventh and eighth cases in in New Mexico in 2016.
  There have been four New Mexico fatalities from han
  
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• Pizza shop gunman says he regrets how he handled situation

  08-12-2016 17:06 via krqe.com
  
  SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) — The man accused of firing an assault rifle inside a Washington restaurant said he regrets how he handled the situation but refused to completely dismiss the false online claims involving a child sex ring that brought him there.
  “I just wanted to do some good and went about it the wrong way,” Edgar Maddison Welch, who’s been jailed since his Sunday arrest, told The New York Times in a Wednesday videoconference.
  Welch, 28, told the newspaper he starte
  
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• Updated: Brexit dominates UK politics, from Supreme Court to Commons

  08-12-2016 16:34
  
  LONDON — The drama of Britain’s exit from the European Union was being acted out this week on two of London’s grandest stages — the Supreme Court and the House of Commons chamber. The plot is gripping, but the ending is still a mystery. Inside the Supreme Court building, lawyers argued before the country’s top […]
  
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• US 30-year average mortgage rate rises to 4.13 percent

  08-12-2016 16:32
  
  WASHINGTON — Long-term U.S. mortgage rates climbed for the sixth straight week in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election win, marking new highs for the year. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac says the average rate on a 30-year fixed rate loan jumped this week to 4.13 percent from 4.08 percent the previous week. The benchmark rate […]
  
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• Updated: US indexes back away from record highs in early trading

  08-12-2016 16:32
  
  NEW YORK — US stocks are edging mostly lower in early trading Thursday as major indexes back away from record high levels. Gains in banks and technology shares were outweighed by losses in other sectors including health care and industrial stocks. Bond yields climbed, which sent high-dividend stocks lower. KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial […]
  
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• Updated: An officer and a refugee: New policeman straddles worlds

  08-12-2016 16:29
  
  MANCHESTER, N.H. — Soon after arriving in New Hampshire as a teenager, Abdesselam Baddaoui met two fellow refugees who accidentally ended up involved in a criminal case because, after being instructed about domestic violence laws, the wife mistakenly believed she had to call police any time she and her husband argued. “He got mad. She […]
  
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• Firefighters respond to apartment fire in northeast Albuquerque

  08-12-2016 15:40 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque Fire Department says firefighters are responding to an apartment fire in northeast Albuquerque.
  AFD says the fire is located at 1011 Marron Cir NE near Lomas and I-40.
  No further information is available.
  KRQE News 13 has a crew on scene and will provide updates.
  Filed under: Albuquerque - Metro, Home, News Tagged: News App Alert
  
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• Firefighters investigating northeast Albuquerque apartment fire

  08-12-2016 15:40 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque Fire Department is investigating after a fire at 4-plex apartment building in northeast Albuquerque Thursday morning.
  AFD says crews responded around 7:15 a.m to 1011 Marron Cir NE near Lomas and I-40.. Firefighters say two people woke up to smoke and evacuated themselves without injury.
  Fire officials say the blaze was contained within 30 minutes to two apartments, saving the two adjoining apartments and over 100 surrounding u
  
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• Trump picks labor secretary, heads west to meet OSU victims

  08-12-2016 15:31 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is taking on a somber task Thursday that became all too familiar to his predecessor — supporting survivors after an outbreak of violence, this time families and victims from last week’s attack at Ohio State University.
  Trump is flying to Columbus, Ohio, to meet with several people who were slashed by Ohio State student Abdul Razak Ali Artan. Artan, 18, first rammed a campus crowd with his car before getting out with a knife and stabb
  
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• Recount ends in Michigan after 3 days; ongoing in Wisconsin

  08-12-2016 15:31 via krqe.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Michigan’s recount of presidential votes is over after a judge lifted an order that forced a statewide review of millions of ballots.
  The recount lasted three days in more than 20 of the state’s 83 counties. Some counties hadn’t planned to start until later.
  Federal Judge Mark Goldsmith said Wednesday he must follow a decision by the Michigan appeals court, which found that Green Party candidate Jill Stein couldn’t seek a recount. She got 1 percent of
  
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• Protecting your home and your Christmas tree from fire danger

  08-12-2016 15:16 via krqe.com
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The months of December through January are when firefighters see an increase in calls due to fires involving Christmas trees.
  Protecting your Christmas tree and your home from potential fire danger isn’t hard.
  “Whenever you put a tree up in your home, we want you to move that tree away from any heat source,” said Steve Wilch, a spokesperson with Colorado Springs Fire Department. “Whether that’s a space heater in the room, radiators, f
  
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• Thursday’s Morning Rush Video, 5 Facts: Albuquerque tree lighting to honor young lives lost to violence

  08-12-2016 15:12 via krqe.com
  
  The 5 Facts You Need to Know
  1. An emotional ceremony is planned for Thursday after the tragic Four Hills shooting. The special ceremony will be an angel tree lighting to remember the three siblings who were shot and killed by their mom’s ex-boyfriend, according to police. The mother is still in critical condition. Organizers say the ceremony will also celebrate the young lives our community has lost to violence and abuse like Victoria Martens and Lilly Garcia. The angel tree lighting
  
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• Albuquerque Little Theatre to host ‘A Christmas Story’

  08-12-2016 15:07 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, NM (KRQE) – It’ll take audiences on a fun filled adventure following Ralphie on his timeless Christmas escapades.
  The Christmas classic, A Christmas Story, tells the tale of a young man, Ralphie, who yearns for a a Red Ryder 200 Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle, but his parents don’t think it’s the best idea. Ralphie then nervously takes  his request to Santa.
  Actors Colin Borden and Michelle Roe joined KRQE’s This Morning team to discuss
  
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• Local guitarist celebrates first album release

  08-12-2016 15:04 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, NM (KRQE) – Albuquerque native guitarist and singer is celebrating his debut release of his first recorded album and he’s coming back to where it all began to share his lyrical storytelling.
  Claudio Tolousse, a 2013 UNM Jazz Studies major, is releasing his first album, “The Story of, Part 1”, which was recorded in New Orleans. Tolousse’s style can be described as a smash up of soul and jazz.
  Tolousse stopped by KRQE This Morning to share a few of his s
  
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• Pakistan opens probe into deadly plane crash that killed 47

  08-12-2016 14:53 via krqe.com
  
  GUG, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani military helicopters on Thursday ferried remains of plane crash victims to the capital, Islamabad, as aviation authorities said they opened a probe into the crash that killed 47 passengers and crew the day before in the country’s northwest.
  The small twin-propeller aircraft was travelling from the scenic mountain resort city of Chitral to Islamabad on Wednesday when one of its engines failed shortly after takeoff and crashed in the hillside village of G
  
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