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• Kurdish group says it’s responsible for Istanbul bombings

  11-12-2016 23:48
  
  ISTANBUL — A splinter group of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party claimed responsibility for Saturday night’s double bomb attack in Istanbul, in which 38 people died and and scores more were injured. The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons said in a statement Sunday that the two attacks were timed to go off simultaneously near the Vodafone arena, […]
  
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• US says 2,000 IS fighters killed, gravely wounded in Mosul

  11-12-2016 23:45
  
  QAYARA AIR BASE, Iraq — Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition forces have killed or gravely wounded more than 2,000 Islamic State fighters in the battle for Mosul since October, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Sunday. Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend told reporters there are still an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 IS fighters defending Mosul. He […]
  
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• Updated: US says 2,000 IS fighters killed, gravely wounded in Mosul

  11-12-2016 23:45
  
  QAYARA AIR BASE, Iraq — Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition forces have killed or gravely wounded more than 2,000 Islamic State fighters in the battle for Mosul since October, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said Sunday. Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend told reporters there are still an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 IS fighters defending Mosul. He […]
  
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• KKK, other racist groups disavow the white supremacist label

  11-12-2016 23:39 via krqe.com
  
  PELHAM, N.C. (AP) — In today’s racially charged environment, there’s a label that even the KKK disavows: white supremacy.
  Standing on a muddy dirt road in the dead of night near the North Carolina-Virginia border, masked Ku Klux Klan members claimed Donald Trump’s election as president proves whites are taking back America from blacks, immigrants, Jews and other groups they describe as criminals and freeloaders. America was founded by and for whites, they say, and only wh
  
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• Updated: On Muhammad’s birthday, bomb kills 25 at Coptic church in Egypt

  11-12-2016 23:08
  
  CAIRO – A bomb ripped through Cairo’s Coptic cathedral complex during Sunday Mass, killing at least 25 people and injuring 49 and delivering the bloodiest single attack on Egypt’s Christian minority in recent years, according to Egyptian officials and Christian community leaders. The explosion unfolded inside the 100-year-old Botrosiya Church, also known as the Church […]
  
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• Recounts bring Stein publicity that eluded her on the trail

  11-12-2016 22:45 via krqe.com
  
  Long before presidential recounts crossed her mind, trash dumping and mercury contamination pushed Jill Stein into politics.
  Stein, a physician, joined a 1990s movement to shut down or better regulate mercury-polluting incinerators in Massachusetts. She authored papers on child neurological damage and spoke at public gatherings. She testified at hearings as a medical expert.
  Massachusetts eventually enacted strict limits on mercury emissions, and a few incinerators closed. But Stein had begun to
  
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• Bob Dylan is ‘sorry’ he didn’t show up to accept the Nobel prize

  11-12-2016 22:39
  
  Over the course of his illustrious career, Bob Dylan has appeared at the Grammys, the Golden Globes, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the MusiCares Person of the Year awards, the Kennedy Center Honors, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Critics’ Choice Awards. But when it came time for him to accept perhaps […]
  
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• Updated: Fire at Boyne Highlands Resort ski lodge; 12 go to hospital

  11-12-2016 22:36
  
  HARBOR SPRINGS, Mich. — A fire at the main lodge at Boyne Highlands, a popular ski resort in northern Michigan, injured 12 people and forced the evacuation of dozens more early Sunday. The resort said the injuries didn’t appear to be life-threatening, although one person was taken to a hospital about 180 miles away in […]
  
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• Arizona man pleads guilty to doing $10K in property damage

  11-12-2016 22:00
  
  ST. GEORGE, Utah — An Arizona man has pleaded guilty to doing $10,000 in damage to Hildale property that once belonged to polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs. The Spectrum reports (http://bit.ly/2gOUFc8) that 23-year-old Oliver William Darger of Colorado City acknowledged he illegally entered and vandalized the 6-acre property near the Utah-Arizona border. Darger and an […]
  
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• 10 prominent early astronauts carrying on US space history

  11-12-2016 21:53 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Early U.S. space history is fading with the death of John Glenn, the last of the Mercury 7 astronauts, and the 2012 passing of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon. But others survive, veterans of a time when Americans were glued to their television sets to watch their heroics, from fiery Saturn V launches to ocean splashdowns.
  More than half of the first 30 astronauts NASA hired have died; 19 Apollo astronauts are still with us, including seven of the dozen
  
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• Updated: UCLA should hold at No. 2 after beating Michigan

  11-12-2016 21:52
  
  PHOENIX — UCLA coach Steve Alford brought in a stellar recruiting class to blend with the returning starters, a group that was expected to lead the Bruins at least back to the NCAA Tournament. So far, UCLA has been even better than expected. Led by do-everything freshman point guard Lonzo Ball, UCLA climbed to No. […]
  
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• Housing help for veterans

  11-12-2016 21:24
  
  Loans guaranteed by the Veterans Administration (VA) make it easier for those who have served our country in uniform to own their own homes. While many people are aware of this program, there are many more avenues of assistance for veterans struggling to afford this crucial part of the American dream. Funds are available to […]
  
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• 2016 Holiday Gift Guide: For Mom

  11-12-2016 20:59 via krqe.com
  
  (MEDIA GENERAL) — Are you looking for the perfect gift for mom? This holiday season get her something she wants, but would never buy for herself.
  1. Philips Wake-Up Light with Colored Sunrise Simulation
  Give her the gift of better sleep! This colored sunrise simulation wakes you up gradually with natural light. The FM radio and a tap-to-snooze alarm clock also includes five natural and calming wake-up sounds to choose from. You can find the light on Amazon for around $130.
  2. Sarah Cihat M
  
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• Updated: Mkhitaryan scores, gets hurt as Man United beats Spurs 1-0

  11-12-2016 20:54
  
  MANCHESTER, England — Henrikh Mkhitaryan underlined his growing importance to Manchester United by scoring in a 1-0 win over Tottenham in the Premier League on Sunday, sealing the team’s most important victory under Jose Mourinho. Mkhitaryan’s match ended prematurely when he was carried off on a stretcher in the 85th with a left ankle injury, […]
  
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• Updated: Heisman 2017: Jackson probably won’t repeat, so who wins?

  11-12-2016 20:54
  
  Do not expect Lamar Jackson to join college football’s most exclusive club. Louisville’s sophomore quarterback will be the 10th player to return to school after winning the Heisman Trophy since Archie Griffin became the only two-time winner in 1975. Seven of those returning Heisman winners have come since 2003 and most have not even come […]
  
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• Updated: Watkins scores first TD in nearly 12 months

  11-12-2016 20:53
  
  The Latest on Week 14 of the NFL season (all times Eastern): 2:50 p.m. Buffalo Bills receiver Sammy Watkins has scored his first touchdown in nearly a calendar year. It was an 8-yard catch from Tyrod Taylor midway through the second quarter that cut Pittsburgh’s lead to 14-7. Watkins is playing his third consecutive game […]
  
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• Report: VA hospital left body in shower room for 9 hours

  11-12-2016 20:43 via krqe.com
  
  SEMINOLE, Fla. (AP) — Staff at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Florida left the body of a veteran in a shower for nine hours after the veteran died and proper pickup procedures to the morgue weren’t followed.
  The Tampa Bay Times on Sunday reported that an internal investigation concluded that staff at the Bay Pines VA Healthcare System failed to provide appropriate post-mortem care to the veteran’s body.
  The investigative report said that leaving the body unattended for so long
  
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• Deliberations near in trial of ex-Saints star’s killer

  11-12-2016 20:30 via krqe.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former Saints star Will Smith was “executed” by an irate driver as Smith’s wounded wife lay nearby during the chaos that followed an April 9 traffic accident, a prosecutor told a New Orleans jury Sunday during closing arguments in the shooter’s trial.
  But a defense attorney said the defendant, Cardell Hayes, 29, was the victim of a rushed investigation by police reacting to the death of a beloved football star. And he insisted Hayes’ fired i
  
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• SWAT teams on scene at northeast Albuquerque apartment complex

  11-12-2016 20:22 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque Police Department SWAT teams have been called out to an apartment complex near Chelwood Park and Mountain due to a barricaded subject.
  Officers originally responded to a domestic violence call Sunday morning. SWAT teams were called in because the subject is refusing to follow police commands, according to APD.
  Police say the subject may be wanted for felony charges, but have not released additional information.
  Part of Chelwood Park Blvd has been clos
  
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• Northeast Albuquerque SWAT situation ends with suspect in custody

  11-12-2016 20:22 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque Police Department SWAT teams were called out to an apartment complex near Chelwood Park and Mountain due to a barricaded subject.
  Officers originally responded to a domestic violence call at that location Sunday morning. SWAT teams were called in because the subject was refusing to follow police commands, according to APD.
  Part of Chelwood Park Blvd was closed off while police were on scene.
  Police tell KRQE News 13 the suspect, Fernando Garcia, was a
  
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• Northeast Albuquerque SWAT situation ends with one in custody

  11-12-2016 20:22 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque Police Department SWAT teams were called out to an apartment complex near Chelwood Park and Mountain due to a barricaded subject.
  Officers originally responded to a domestic violence call at that location Sunday morning. SWAT teams were called in because the subject was refusing to follow police commands, according to APD.
  Police say the subject may have been wanted for felony charges, but have not released additional information.
  Part of Chelwood Par
  
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• Bill Clinton, Lynch lead memorial for ex-AG Janet Reno

  11-12-2016 20:13 via krqe.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Former Attorney General Janet Reno, the first woman to hold the top Justice Department job who died last month, never took the easy way out when making the tougher decision was the right thing to do, ex-President Bill Clinton said at a memorial service Sunday.
  Clinton, who appointed Reno in 1993, told several hundred friends, family and colleagues that she didn’t believe in political expediency or cutting corners.
  “I don’t believe Janet Reno ever cut a corner
  
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• USGS records several small earthquakes across Oklahoma

  11-12-2016 20:04 via krqe.com
  
  WAUKOMIS, Okla. (AP) — Several small earthquakes have been recorded during the weekend across Oklahoma, the largest being a magnitude 3.7 temblor near Waukomis.
  No damage or injuries are reported.
  The quake near Waukomis, about 60 miles northwest of Oklahoma City, was recorded early Saturday by the U.S. Geological Survey. Magnitude 3.3 earthquakes were recorded Sunday morning near Perry, about 55 miles north of Oklahoma City, and on Saturday near Mooreland, 110 miles northwest of Oklahoma
  
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• Have travel plans? Prepare for cold rain and snow

  11-12-2016 19:47 via krqe.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A blanket of snow will cover the Great Lakes and the Northeast ahead of an expected dip into Arctic-cold temperatures.
  The wintry weather mostly moved out of the Plains overnight, leaving parts of Minnesota with up to a foot of snow, and pushed into Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana.
  The National Weather Service said the Chicago area received 3-4 inches as of Sunday morning, and an additional 3 to 5 inches could fall Sunday. The city’s aviation website said more than 1,2
  
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• Texas to launch massive youth-athlete concussion study

  11-12-2016 19:39 via krqe.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — This week, Texas will launch what state officials say is the nation’s largest effort to track brain injuries among young athletes.
  The University Interscholastic League, Texas’ governing body for public high school sports, is partnering with the O’Donnell Brain Institute at UT Southwestern Medical Center for the project, from which they hope to gauge whether rules or equipment changes are improving player safety and what more can be done to protect at
  
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• University of Michigan, Google create Flint water crisis app

  11-12-2016 18:47 via krqe.com
  
  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The University of Michigan and Google have teamed up to create an app and website aimed at helping Flint residents and officials deal with the lead-contaminated water crisis.
  Mywater-Flint was developed by computer science researchers at the university’s Flint and Ann Arbor campuses with Google’s technical and financial support.
  The tools are designed to provide information about lead-testing results, water testing, where pipes have been replaced and the loc
  
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• Dylann Roof’s confession and journal detail racist beliefs

  11-12-2016 18:09 via krqe.com
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Prosecutors are using the Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof’s own words to portray him as a cruel angry racist at his death penalty trial.
  Roof’s two-hour confession to killing nine people at a church Bible study, recorded the day after the shooting, was introduced as evidence Friday, along with a handwritten journal found in his car.
  “How could our faces, skin color and body structure be so different, but our brains exactly the same?” Ro
  
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• Sand dune opponents invoke Zika fears in bid to stop project

  11-12-2016 17:52 via krqe.com
  
  MARGATE, N.J. (AP) — This shoreline community has tried everything it can think of to prevent protective sand dunes from being built along the beach, invoking lost views, wrongly seized property rights and damaged tourism prospects.
  Now that those big-picture issues have failed to kill the project, Margate is using a mosquito to make a questionable claim: that the dunes will help spread the Zika virus.
  Six homeowners are suing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the state Department of En
  
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• High School Hoops Saturday Recap

  11-12-2016 17:09 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE)- Tournaments all across the state wrapped up on Saturday. KRQE Sports was able to make it to two championship games on Saturday.
  Joe Armijo Tournament:
  Girls Championship: Hope Christian-56, La Cueva-47
  Boys Championship: Hope Christian-53, Onate-48
   
  Mel Otero Tournament:
  Girls Championship: Roswell- 57, Centennial-53Filed under: Home, New Mexico, News, Sports, Top Stories, Top Video
  
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• Firefighters put out vehicle fire in northeast Albuquerque early Sunday

  11-12-2016 16:15 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Firefighters in northeast Albuquerque worked to put out an overnight car fire Sunday.
  KRQE News 13 has reached out to Albuquerque Police for more information.
  A witness tells KRQE News 13 it happened around 2:30 a.m. Sunday at the Arbors Apartments near Candelaria and Carlisle.
  Video shows the car completely engulfed in flames. The car appears destroyed after the flames are put out.
  The car fire looks to have burned very close to the building.
  No further inf
  
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• At least 160 dead in Nigeria roof collapse

  11-12-2016 16:12 via krqe.com
  
  WARRI, Nigeria (AP) — Mortuaries overflowed with bodies Sunday from a church collapse in southern Nigeria that killed at least 160 people, and worshippers said construction of the building had been rushed.
  Hundreds had been inside the Reigners Bible Church International in the city of Uyo on Saturday for the consecration of founder Akan Weeks as its bishop when the metal girders fell and the corrugated iron roof caved in.
  Screaming survivors streamed out amid cries from the injured inside.
  
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• Police expect Trump to lift limits on surplus military gear

  11-12-2016 15:58 via krqe.com
  
  HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — If president-elect Donald Trump keeps his promise, surplus military grenade launchers, bayonets, tracked armored vehicles and high-powered firearms and ammunition will once again be available to state and local U.S. police departments.
  National police organizations say they’ll hold Trump to that promise.
  Fraternal Order of Police Executive Director James Pasco says he expects Trump to honor a commitment he made in September to the organization to rescind Presid
  
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• Turkish official: 38 killed, 166 wounded in twin bombings

  11-12-2016 13:43 via krqe.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) – Turkey’s interior minister has lashed out at Kurdish militants and their Western allies following twin bombings near an Istanbul soccer stadium that killed at least 38 people, including 30 police officers.
  Speaking today at a funeral for officers, Minister Suleyman Soylu referred to members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, as “animals.” Turkish officials frequently accuse the West of directly and indirectly supporting the insurgency.
  
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• Postal service expands hours for holidays

  11-12-2016 13:38 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – If you are still working on shopping for the holidays, the postal service is lending a hand.
  Starting Sunday, four Albuquerque post offices will be open on the next two Sundays (Dec. 11, 18) to provide extra hours for shipping out packages.
  16 locations will extend their hours for Saturdays.
  Here are the Saturday hours for each location. Location in bold text are open on Dec. 11 and 18.
  Albuquerque Main Post Office: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
  Airport Station: 10
  
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• UNLV no match for Duke

  11-12-2016 08:02
  
  LAS VEGAS, Nev.–The toe that's been bothering Grayson Allen since mid-November may no long ...
  
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• Trio offers advice for Trump on federal deficit

  11-12-2016 08:02
  
  President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to slash taxes, spend upward of a trillion dollars on a nat ...
  
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• Literati derangement over Dylan’s Nobel revealing

  11-12-2016 08:02
  
  WASHINGTON–There has been ferment among the literati since Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel ...
  
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• Editorial: Legislators should not take Constitution lightly

  11-12-2016 08:02
  
  Although the state Legislature's 60-day session doesn't begin for another seven weeks, some legislat ...
  
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• DEAR ABBY: Hosts trim once-a-year friends from Christmas party list

  11-12-2016 08:02
  
  DEAR ABBY: For the past 17 years, we have hosted parties at Christmas. Although years ago they st ...
  
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• UFC 206: Jackson-Wink fighters go 3-for-4

  11-12-2016 07:08
  
  TORONTO — Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone (32-7), who trains in Albuquerque at Jackson-Wink MMA, knocked Matt Brown (20-16) unconscious with a head kick, taking a victory by third-round KO in a featured welterweight fight on UFC 206. In other fights involving Jackson-Wink fighters, lightweight Lando Vannata scored a spectacular first-round knockout of John Makdessi with a […]
  
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• Prep roundup: Hope Christian girls turn aside La Cueva for tourney trophy

  11-12-2016 06:55
  
  This figures to be a season-long quest by the rest of New Mexico to solve the Hope Christian girls basketball team. On Saturday night, La Cueva stepped in for the second time this season. And the Bears were running with the Huskies a good portion of the way in the championship game of the Joe […]
  
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• UNM drops to 6-4 on the season after 84-71 loss to NMSU

  11-12-2016 06:53 via krqe.com
  
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (KRQE)- Turnovers killed the Lobos early in the first half and so did NMSU senior Ian Baker, as he had 13 points midway through. NMSU led 43-26 at the end of the first half and would go on to win 84-71.
  UNM would make a run in the 2nd half with a major contributor being guard Elijah Brown, who finished with a team high of 18 points. They brought the New Mexico State leas to just 2 at one point, but the Aggies would power through the final.
  UNM did have Tim Williams back in
  
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• Outreach center still recovering after roof destroyed in standoff

  11-12-2016 06:40 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A nearly 12 hour standoff between a man known as “Superman” and police shut down Central Avenue in October. That outreach center is still recovering from the damage caused, but is not letting that stop them.
  The damage caused on the roof, left the God’s Warehouse building on Central Avenue without electricity, heat and air conditioning. But the pastors made sure nothing kept Santa from coming to this part of town.
  “Merry Christmas, God Ble
  
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• Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Deputies volunteer to build bikes for children

  11-12-2016 06:38 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE)– Some kids got the gift of learning a valuable skill by building their own Christmas presents.
  Volunteers from the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department along with the Police Athletic League and Sports and Wellness teamed up to help kids build bikes Saturday morning.
  After assembly the volunteers stuck around to help the kids put rubber to the road.
  Thirty kids referred by All Faiths and First Nation Community Health Source got to build and take home bikes.F
  
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• Albuquerque post office braces for holiday shipping

  11-12-2016 06:36
  
  Christmas will be here before we know it -- and if you plan on mailing any presents this year, Albuquerque postal authorities say the sooner the better.
  
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• Aggies handle Lobos, square series

  11-12-2016 06:07
  
  LAS CRUCES — New Mexico State defeated New Mexico 84-71 on Saturday night in men’s basketball at the Pan Am Center. The Aggies, who led by 17 points at the half, evened the two-game series after the Lobos won the first game at the Pit. “Ian Baker willed them to win,” said UNM coach Craig […]
  
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• Aggies get even with Lobos; Neal bemoans guards’ defensive struggles

  11-12-2016 06:07
  
    LAS CRUCES — Leave it to the 3s. The New Mexico State Aggies hit 11 3-pointers and overcame playing without their leading scorer to beat the rival University of New Mexico Lobos, 84-71, on Saturday night in front of an announced crowd of 6,298 in the Pan American Center. The win snapped a five-game […]
  
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• Local 10 year old collects teddy bears for firefighters

  11-12-2016 06:00 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – When firefighters go out to car accidents or fires they often bring something along that you may not expect, they say it can make all the difference.
  We’re talking about a teddy bear.
  So when an Albuquerque 10 year old learned about it, she knew she wanted to help.
  “I thought it was a really good idea,” Samantha Nash said, adding she read about it in a book.
  “I wanted to be one of those people who got to give teddy bears to them,” Sa
  
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• Albuquerque 10-year-old collects teddy bears for firefighters

  11-12-2016 06:00 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – When firefighters go out to car accidents or fires they often bring something along that you may not expect, they say it can make all the difference. We’re talking about a teddy bear.
  So when an Albuquerque 10-year-old learned about it, she knew she wanted to help.
  “I thought it was a really good idea,” Samantha Nash said, adding she read about it in a book.
  “I wanted to be one of those people who got to give teddy bears to them,” Sa
  
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• MDC holds 29th Annual Christmas Party for Children of Inmates

  11-12-2016 05:47 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE)– MDC made the holidays a little brighter for kids whose parents are in jail.
  The 29th Annual Holiday Party for Children of Inmates was held at The Rock at Noon Day ministries and was run by a volunteer crew made up of current and retired MDC staff.
  Although inmates of course couldn’t be there they were encouraged to invite their families to attend.
  The event included a toy giveaway, arts and crafts, and pictures with Santa.
  It was all made possible by donatio
  
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