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• Obama orders review of election-season hacking

  09-12-2016 23:44 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence officials to conduct a broad review of election-season cyberattacks, including the email hacks that rattled the presidential campaign and raised fresh concerns about Russia’s meddling in U.S. elections, the White House said Friday.
  The review, led by intelligence agencies, will be a “deep dive” into a possible pattern of increased “malicious cyber activity” timed to the campaign season, White Ho
  
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• Ford CEO says Trump threats won’t change small car plans

  09-12-2016 23:29
  
  DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. is going ahead with plans to move small-car production from the U.S. to Mexico despite recent threats from President-elect Donald Trump. CEO Mark Fields tells The Associated Press that Ford’s plan to move production of the Focus from Michigan to Mexico will proceed, in part because U.S. consumers demand low […]
  
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• Our picks of the week

  09-12-2016 23:25
  
  The Original Santa Fe Film Festival has been screening selections, staging events and holding parties ever since Wednesday, but you still have a chance to get in the action since the event continues through Sunday. Movies are showing at the Jean Cocteau, Center for Contemporary Arts Cinematheque and The Screen, and you can find the […]
  
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• Updated: Trump deepens Goldman ties as he builds out economic team

  09-12-2016 23:24
  
  WASHINGTON — In the heat of the presidential campaign, Donald Trump accused primary rival Ted Cruz of being controlled by Goldman Sachs because his wife, Heidi, previously worked for the Wall Street giant. He slammed Hillary Clinton for receiving speaking fees from the bank. “I know the guys at Goldman Sachs. They have total, total […]
  
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• Las Cruces police: Those involved in road rage identified

  09-12-2016 23:20 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on a Las Cruces shooting which police say apparently involved road rage (all times local):
  11:05 a.m.
  Las Cruces police say they’ve identified everybody involved but have made no arrests in a road rage incident in which a 30-year-old man was shot and wounded.
  Police say the wounded man was shot in the abdomen and is hospitalized in critical condition. Police said earlier Friday he was in stable condition.
  Police say the incident occurred Thursday ev
  
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• AD: Western Michigan athlete sought by police in gun slaying

  09-12-2016 23:17
  
  KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Western Michigan University Athletic Director Kathy Beauregard says a current student-athlete has been suspended after being identified by Kalamazoo police as a person of interest in the fatal shooting of another student at an off-campus apartment. Beauregard issued a statement Friday saying the university and the athletic department were cooperating with police […]
  
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• Reimagined: ‘Christmas Carol’ told from Jacob Marley’s viewpoint

  09-12-2016 23:14
  
  SANTA FE – A cagey businessman fights his way to the top, comes out a winner, and believes he deserves all that comes to him. In the well-known Charles Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, the setting is Victorian England, but the story is surprisingly fresh and relevant to modern-day America, according to those preparing to […]
  
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• Albuquerque’s Twinkle Light Parade named one of the nation’s best

  09-12-2016 23:03 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque’s Twinkle Light Parade is apparently one of the best in the country.
  The U.S.A. Today’s List of Best Christmas Time Parades was released Friday and Albuquerque’s parade came in at number two.
  The only parade that beat it out was the Eastport Yacht Club Light Parade in Maryland.
  Albuquerque’s Twinkle light parade even beat out the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas Parade at Disney Worl
  
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• City to wave weekend bus fees through December

  09-12-2016 22:55 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – If you plan to take the bus down Central anytime soon, you’ll get a free ride.
  Starting Saturday, the city will waive the bus fee all day on weekends. Then, on weekdays, people can ride free from 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.
  It’s all part of a pilot project to help support and promote businesses in the area during the ART construction.
  “We really encourage people to get out of their cars and ride the bus. And I think this is one way we can gauge on
  
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• UPS driver saves woman being held captive by husband

  09-12-2016 22:26 via krqe.com
  
  ROBERTSVILLE, Mo. (MEDIA GENERAL) — A UPS driver is being credited with saving a woman who was beaten and held captive in her home by her own husband.
  Police arrested James Jordan at the couple’s Robertsville, Missouri, home Tuesday.
  Citing court documents, KMOV in St. Louis reported Jordan beat his wife, put a gun to her head and threatened to kill her. He also dragged her back inside by her hair when she tried to run away.
  Authorities said the couple’s 3-year-old child was lo
  
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• Power line fight heats up

  09-12-2016 21:28
  
  The burgeoning fight over a 33-mile power line segment proposed to run from southern Rio Arriba County to a spot north and west of Santa Fe on Old Buckman Road is just the latest example of how northern New Mexico is a different kind of place. On the national scene, Native Americans and other people […]
  
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• Santa Fe developing policy for ‘U visas’ for crime victims

  09-12-2016 21:21
  
  SANTA FE – Santa Fe officials are considering formalizing a policy or “best practices” guidelines for how to handle certification of immigrant applications for “U visas,” which grant legal status to crime victims. U visas can be sought by undocumented immigrants who are victims of certain crimes if they assist law enforcement in the investigation […]
  
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• New Northern New Mexico College president is right where he wants to be

  09-12-2016 21:12
  
  ESPAÑOLA — Richard J. Bailey Jr. eschews the use of the titles he’s earned. “Call me Rick,” says the retired Air Force colonel, doctor of philosophy and new president of Northern New Mexico College upon greeting a couple of visitors to his office on Wednesday. It’s that kind of disarming approach, along with what more […]
  
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• SF group working to create a campus for the homeless

  09-12-2016 21:00
  
  SANTA FE – Tom Starke and Sunil Sakhalkar are part of a coalition that wants to create a campus where every homeless person in Santa Fe can have access to all needed services at one location, but a lot still has to fall into place for that to happen. Starke, retired from Los Alamos National […]
  
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• Man sentenced to maximum time for DWI crash that killed UNM student

  09-12-2016 20:51
  
  Roberto Jesus Lucero, who pleaded guilty to the DWI crash that killed 19-year-old Jacob Salazar last January, was sentenced to six years in prison Friday — the maximum under the law that could be imposed by 2nd Judicial District Judge Brett Loveless. In court, Lucero, 35, read a statement to the Salazar family apologizing for […]
  
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• Big business warns Trump against mass deportation

  09-12-2016 20:47 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Still grappling with Donald Trump’s surprise election, the nation’s business community has begun to pressure the president-elect to abandon campaign-trail pledges of mass deportation and other hard-line immigration policies that some large employers fear would hurt the economy.
  The push, led by an advocacy group backed by New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, is still in its infancy as the business world struggles to understand
  
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• Coca-Cola names Quincey as next CEO, Kent stays as chairman

  09-12-2016 20:08 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent will step down from that role next year and be succeeded by the company’s No. 2 executive, at a time when people are drinking less sugary soda including its flagship Coke drink.
  Chief Operating Officer James Quincey, long expected to become the next CEO, will take over leadership of the world’s largest beverage maker on May 1, the company said Friday. Kent will remain as chairman of the board.
  Quincey, who’s worked at Coca-Cola fo
  
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• Gov’t: Takata air bag recalls to cover 42M cars when done

  09-12-2016 19:32
  
  DETROIT — The U.S. government says automakers will end up recalling 42 million vehicles with potentially deadly air bag inflators made by Takata Corp. The National Highway Safety Administration released a schedule for further recalls on Friday. It’s another step toward recalling about 69 million inflators that can potentially explode with too much force and […]
  
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• Iowa court clears way for ‘Field of Dreams’ baseball complex

  09-12-2016 19:30
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa — An Iowa Supreme Court ruling Friday cleared the way for a baseball complex at the “Field of Dreams” movie site in Dyersville, as the state’s highest court upheld a lower court’s decision that the City Council acted properly when it rezoned the property from agricultural to commercial. The ruling came on […]
  
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• Updated: It’s Trump’s war soon: Afghan progress far from clear

  09-12-2016 19:29
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan has fallen so far from Americans’ consciousness that some may have forgotten it’s called the forgotten war. It also is America’s longest war. Now in its 16th year and showing little sign of ending, it will soon be the responsibility of Donald Trump, two presidents removed from the October 2001 invasion. […]
  
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• Consolidated Solar Technologies

  09-12-2016 19:28
  
  The start of the most recent recession in 2008 may not have seemed like the best time to start a new business endeavor, but it worked out pretty well for Mosher Enterprises when it started Consolidated Solar Technologies. “At any point in time, it’s tough to get a new business going,” said CST’s James Mosher. […]
  
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• Rail Yards Market opens for the holidays

  09-12-2016 19:22 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Their mission is to educate the community in all aspects of life. From health to exercise and also the importance of using local produce, the Rail Yards Market (RYM) offers a little of something for everyone.
  The Rail Yards Market of Albuquerque operates on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. during the months of May through October, but there is a winter market each year in December.
  The Holiday Market will host over 100 vendors, live music and so much
  
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• Updated: Houston promotes Major Applewhite to head coach

  09-12-2016 19:20
  
  HOUSTON — Major Applewhite was hired to replace Tom Herman as coach at Houston on Friday. It’s the first head coaching job for the 38-year-old Applewhite, who served as Herman’s offensive coordinator the last two seasons. Herman recently left Houston to become the coach at Texas after two years with the Cougars. “We had our […]
  
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• La Cueva drum major selected to U.S. Army All-American Marching Band

  09-12-2016 18:10
  
  La Cueva drum major Eliana O’Brien was selected to the 2017 U.S. Army All-American Marching Band. She will march upper baritone in the The U.S. Army All-American Bowl on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017. The game, which features some of the nation’s top high school athletes and marching band members, will be televised starting at 11 […]
  
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• Updated: Virginia marina fire destroys at least a dozen boats

  09-12-2016 17:53
  
  HENRICO, Va. — Authorities say a fire at a Virginia marina has destroyed about a dozen boats. No injuries have been reported. The fire broke out Friday morning at the Richmond Yacht Basin along the James River in Henrico County, which surrounds the capital of Richmond. Fire Capt. Taylor Goodman says the blaze destroyed 12 […]
  
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• Truck holding $500,000 in Coach bags is stolen in New Jersey

  09-12-2016 17:45
  
  NEWARK, N.J. — A tractor-trailer carrying $500,000 worth of Coach purses has been stolen from a warehouse in New Jersey’s largest city. The heist occurred just before 8:30 a.m. Friday at SalSon Logistics in Newark. The trailer was loaded with four pallets of luxury purses. The theft is under investigation.
  
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• Updated: World Vision says hundreds affected by Solomon Islands quake

  09-12-2016 17:44
  
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Hundreds of people in remote parts of the Solomon Islands have had their homes damaged or destroyed by a powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Friday, an aid organization said. There have been no deaths reported from the quake, which also caused some small tsunami waves in the Solomon Islands and […]
  
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• Updated: S. Korea’s president loses power, keeps title, house, salary

  09-12-2016 17:44
  
  SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean President Park Geun-hye’s impeachment Friday strips her of power — but not the perks. Even as her prime minister governs in her stead, Park gets to keep living at the presidential Blue House, using her official car and plane, collecting the same monthly salary (about $15,000 reportedly) and receiving […]
  
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• APD releases names of victims in Four Hills shooting

  09-12-2016 17:02
  
  Investigators have revealed the names of the children who were killed in a Monday night shooting in Four Hills.
  
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• Florida Gov. Scott lifts Zika infection zone in Miami Beach

  09-12-2016 16:50
  
  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — Florida’s governor says South Beach is no longer an active infection zone for the Zika virus. Gov. Rick Scott was joined by tourism officials Friday to make the announcement. The first cases of Zika transmission through mosquito bites on the U.S. mainland were reported in July in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood. Health […]
  
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• Updated: At Liberty, hiring of AD from Baylor draws approval . . . and scorn

  09-12-2016 16:42
  
  LYNCHBURG, Va. – They trickled out of the rain and into the classroom, taking their seats behind the long shared desks in Room 116. Many of the students in Religion Hall on Liberty University’s sprawling campushoped to be pastors – not an ambition here but a calling: to someday help interpret the gray areas separating […]
  
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• Senators prepare probe of Russia

  09-12-2016 16:42
  
  Leading Senate Republicans are preparing to launch a coordinated and wide-ranging probe into Russia’s alleged meddling in the U.S. elections and its potential cyberthreats to the military, digging deep into what they view as corrosive interference in the nation’s institutions. Such an aggressive approach puts them on a direct collision course with President-elect Donald Trump, […]
  
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• Army reopens probe into detainee’s death after Special Force soldier’s Fox News interview

  09-12-2016 16:42
  
  The Army’s Criminal Investigation Command has reopened its investigation of an Afghanistan war hero who Army officials said confessed to killing an unarmed Taliban detainee. The service is again scrutinizing former Maj. Mathew Golsteyn after he appeared in a Fox News television interview in October and acknowledged that he had killed a Taliban bombmaker who […]
  
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• Updated: John Glenn, first American to orbit the Earth, dies at 95

  09-12-2016 16:41
  
  John Glenn, who captured the nation’s attention in 1962 as the first American to orbit the Earth during a tense time when the United States sought supremacy over the Soviet Union in the space race, and who rocketed back into space 36 years later, becoming the oldest astronaut in history, died Dec. 8 at a […]
  
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• Facing evacuation, West Bank settlers remain defiant

  09-12-2016 16:26 via krqe.com
  
  AMONA, West Bank (AP) — Facing a court-ordered evacuation, residents of the Jewish settlement outpost of Amona in the West Bank are digging in for a fight to the finish. Vowing fierce but nonviolent resistance, they have built shelters, bathrooms and a large kitchen to host thousands of supporters they hope will join them in their struggle to stay put.
  With the Dec. 25 evacuation date approaching, Israel’s pro-settler government is scrambling to find a solution, fearing a repeat of t
  
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• Tribes suing over pipeline willing to put claims on hold

  09-12-2016 16:20 via krqe.com
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Two Sioux tribes suing over the Dakota Access pipeline say they’re willing to put their claims on hold while the Army considers whether to allow the pipeline to cross under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota.
  The Army on Sunday declined to approve an easement for the crossing, citing a need for more study and consideration of alternative routes.
  Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners believes it already has the necessary permission and has asked a federal
  
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• Friday’s Morning Rush Video, 5 Facts: Feds looking into Albuquerque police body cam allegations

  09-12-2016 15:17 via krqe.com
  
  The 5 Facts You Need to Know
  1. The Department of Justice is now investigating allegations that the Albuquerque Police Department altered and deleted body camera video. Former police records custodian Reynaldo Chavez claims the department trained certain staff to edit videos of interactions with civilians. Chavez’s allegations included claims that video showing the events surrounding the 2014 fatal shootings of 19-year-old Mary Hawkes and law enforcement informant Jeremy Robertso
  
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• Gatlinburg, Smoky Mountains reopen after fatal wildfires

  09-12-2016 15:15 via krqe.com
  
  GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — The Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the resort town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, have reopened to the public after wildfires that caused 14 deaths and damaged about 2,500 buildings.
  After officials moved barriers blocking the roadway at about 7 a.m. Friday, a steady stream of traffic could be seen heading into town, including cars and food delivery trucks.
  Most of the main tourist area in Gatlinburg was spared by the fires that were whipped into the city by hu
  
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• Convicted child rapist may go free

  09-12-2016 14:50
  
  A convicted child rapist who was sentenced to life in prison in 2014 may soon be a free man.
  
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• Identity theft safeguards could delay 2017 tax refunds

  09-12-2016 14:47 via krqe.com
  
  (KRQE) – January tax filers, might not see their tax refunds until mid-February or even later.
  Many refunds will be delayed this year because of new law and identity theft safeguards.
  The IRS announced if you claim the earned income tax credit, or the additional child tax credit, you won’t see your money until February 15th at the earliest.
  The agency estimates that 24% of all earned income tax credit payments in 2013 were mistakenly issued.
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• MDC officer charged with alleged battery of an inmate

  09-12-2016 14:45
  
  Authorities arrested a Metropolitan Detention Center transport officer on a battery charge after an alleged incident with an inmate in late November.
  
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• Copper wiring loss closed business for three days

  09-12-2016 14:33
  
  A small business owner says someone ripped off copper from his business.
  
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• Teen enters plea deal for bartender shooting death

  09-12-2016 14:29
  
  Jeremiah King, one of the six teens accused of murdering popular Albuquerque bartender Steven Gerecke in July 2015, took a plea deal Thursday.
  
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• APD crime lab implements new DNA analysis guidelines

  09-12-2016 14:28
  
  The Albuquerque Police Department is taking steps to make sure complex cases involving DNA testing are done right and past cases can’t be challenged in court, something that’s been a big problem for other cities. In order to do that, the department’s Crime Laboratory DNA Unit is putting a temporary stop to issuing some new case reports.
  
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• Giraffes, rarer than elephants, put on extinction watch list

  09-12-2016 14:09 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The giraffe, the tallest land animal, is now at risk of extinction, biologists say.
  Because the giraffe population has shrunk nearly 40 percent in just 30 years, scientists put it on the official watch list of threatened and endangered species worldwide, calling it “vulnerable.” That’s two steps up the danger ladder from its previous designation of being a species of least concern. In 1985, there were between 151,000 and 163,000 giraffes but in 2015 the
  
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• Trump praises Michigan GOP while weighing RNC chairman call

  09-12-2016 14:01 via krqe.com
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Donald Trump may have more than just his gratitude to offer in Michigan when he visits the state that capped his stunning presidential victory last month. Michigan Republican Party chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel is a leading contender for the Republican National Committee’s chairmanship.
  There was no immediate sign from Trump’s transition team Thursday that the billionaire planned to offer McDaniel the leadership post.
  The niece of 2012 GOP presidentia
  
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• South Korean president is impeached in stunning fall

  09-12-2016 13:37 via krqe.com
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean lawmakers on Friday impeached President Park Geun-hye, a stunning and swift fall for the country’s first female leader amid protests that drew millions into the streets in united fury.
  After the vote, parliamentary officials hand-delivered formal documents to the presidential Blue House that stripped Park of her power and allowed the country’s No. 2 official, Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, to assume leadership until the Constitutional Court
  
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• Prosecutors to play confession in church shooting trial

  09-12-2016 13:34 via krqe.com
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Prosecutors in South Carolina say they plan to play Dylann Roof’s recorded confession during his federal death penalty trial in the Charleston church shootings.
  Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Richardson says he plans to play the confession for jurors Friday as the trial enters a third day.
  Roof is on trial on 33 federal counts, including hate crimes, in the shootings at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June 2015. Prosecutors say Roof shot and killed
  
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• Dylann Roof laughed during church slaying confession to FBI

  09-12-2016 13:34 via krqe.com
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof hesitated for about 20 seconds when an FBI agent asked him what he was doing on the night nine black church members were killed during Bible study.
  “Uh, I did it,” Roof said in a video recording played for the public for the first time Friday at his death penalty trial. After waiving his rights and about a minute of small talk, the agents pressed Roof gently — asking him exactly what he did. He paused another 30 seconds or so.
  “I
  
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• Man who pleaded guilty to drunk driving killing to be sentenced

  09-12-2016 13:26 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A drunk driver who killed a University of New Mexico student and former high school football player will learn his sentence Friday. It’s a day the family has been preparing for, a long time.
  It’s been nearly a year since Robert Lucero drove drunk and hit 19-year-old Jacob Salazar head on killing him. It happened last January on Coors near Las Estancias.
  In August, Lucero pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and DWI.
  Friday, he’s facing a maximum
  
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