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• Updated: Explosion rips fireworks market outside Mexico City; 60 hurt

  20-12-2016 23:39
  
  TULTEPEC, Mexico — An explosion ripped through Mexico’s best-known fireworks market on the northern outskirts of the capital Tuesday, injuring scores of people and sending a huge plume of charcoal-gray smoke billowing into the sky. National Civil Protection Coordinator Luis Felipe Puente told Milenio TV that 60 people were hurt but he had no immediate […]
  
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• Updated: Petra Kvitova injured by knife-wielding attacker at her home

  20-12-2016 23:37
  
  PRAGUE — Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova was injured by a knife-wielding attacker at her home on Tuesday and had to undergo surgery on her left hand. An operation that took 3 hours and 45 minutes revealed that the left-handed player’s injuries were “serious,” but “there’s no reason to think she wouldn’t be able to […]
  
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• NM’s public health guardians get holiday food poisoning

  20-12-2016 23:37
  
    SANTA FE — Even the people tasked with safeguarding our health are not immune from the whimsy of germs. That message was driven home at the state Department of Health last week when a holiday luncheon apparently left many participants suffering from food poisoning afterward. That event, which was held in the department’s headquarters […]
  
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• Convicted serial killer tries to withdraw guilty plea

  20-12-2016 23:19 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Convicted killer Clifton Bloomfield has tried to withdraw his guilty plea in the killings of five people in New Mexico.
  Attorney General Hector Balderas says he’s not going to let that happen.
  Balderas said he argued before Judge Benjamin Chavez on Tuesday that Bloomfield should remain in prison the rest of his life and that his request to withdraw his murder plea should be dismissed without a hearing.
  Bloomfield pleaded guilty in 2008 to murdering five peopl
  
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• Joy Junction helping Albuquerque homeless this winter

  20-12-2016 23:08
  
  Joy Junction has launched a new program on Tuesday to help homeless people get out of the cold.
  
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• Nearly 100 free, temporary parking spots coming to Nob Hill

  20-12-2016 22:46 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Parking in Nob Hill could soon be a whole lot easier.
  Tuesday the city rolled out a new initiative where they’ll add almost 100 free parking spots in the Nob Hill area.
  The city partnered with businesses who had extra spaces they weren’t using during the day or at night.
  Councilor Pat Davis says if people like it, they’ll work to make it permanent.
  “We know parking is a challenge sometimes in a cool place like Nob Hill. So, we’re loo
  
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• A temporary solution: Nearly 100 free parking spots coming to Nob Hill

  20-12-2016 22:46 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Parking in Nob Hill could soon be a whole lot easier.
  Tuesday the city rolled out a new initiative where they’ll add almost 100 free parking spots in the Nob Hill area.
  The city partnered with businesses who had extra spaces they weren’t using during the day or at night.
  Councilor Pat Davis says if people like it, they’ll work to make it permanent.
  “We know parking is a challenge sometimes in a cool place like Nob Hill. So, we’re loo
  
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• A temporary solution: 100 free parking spots coming to Nob Hill

  20-12-2016 22:46 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Parking in Nob Hill could soon be a whole lot easier.
  Tuesday the city rolled out a new initiative where they’ll add almost 100 free parking spots in the Nob Hill area.
  The city partnered with businesses who had extra spaces they weren’t using during the day or at night.
  Councilor Pat Davis says if people like it, they’ll work to make it permanent.
  “We know parking is a challenge sometimes in a cool place like Nob Hill. So, we’re loo
  
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• Updated: ‘I’m such a failure right now’: A mom pleads on Craigslist for Christmastime help

  20-12-2016 22:40
  
  WASHINGTON – The way Tyshika Britten saw it, she had a choice. She could explain to children who still believe in Santa Claus that some years are harder for him than others. She could stand on the street with a sign and a bucket. Or she could turn to an unlikely place for help – […]
  
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• The Third Wives Club: What these Trump insiders share with 3 percent of America

  20-12-2016 22:40
  
  There’s just something about President-elect Donald Trump’s inner circle and Cabinet picks … oh, yeah, they’re really rich. Millionaires, even billionaires — they’re definitely part of the storied 1 percent. But there’s something else. A curious number of them are among the 3 percenters: Those who’ve been married three times, which, according to the most […]
  
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• Study says states with medical marijuana laws have lower traffic fatality rates

  20-12-2016 22:40
  
  States with medical marijuana laws have fewer traffic fatalities than those without, especially among younger drivers, a new study found. You would think crash rates might be higher, supposing that more drivers are, too – especially around midnight, when a run to a 7-Eleven becomes necessary. But, no. Researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of […]
  
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• Priorities USA positions itself as center of gravity for the left in the Trump era

  20-12-2016 22:40
  
  WASHINGTON – The super PAC that poured nearly $200 million into trying elect Hillary Clinton president is remaking itself as a permanent center of opposition to the impending Trump administration, with the long-term aim of helping the Democratic Party claw back voters it lost in the November election. Priorities USA Action is merging with a […]
  
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• Court officials blame software for wrongful arrests, other legal mishaps

  20-12-2016 22:39
  
  Wrongful arrests, delayed prison releases and other legal mishaps have been caused by inaccurate records processed by a new court management software system installed in Alameda County, California, court officials say. It’s gotten so bad that the public defender’s office filed a motion last month for the county court to immediately fix the problems caused […]
  
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• Couple held in Afghanistan seen in new video

  20-12-2016 22:32 via krqe.com
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Officials in Canada are calling for the unconditional release of a Canadian man and his American wife following the release of a video that appears to show them begging for their governments to intervene with their Afghan captors on their behalf.
  The video, which was uploaded to YouTube on Monday and has not been independently verified by The Associated Press, shows Canadian Joshua Boyle and American Caitlan Coleman, who were kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2012.
  In the video, C
  
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• Albuquerque firefighters help get orphaned pets adopted

  20-12-2016 22:30
  
  Don't let the shirtless firefighters fool you. They'll be the first to tell you - the real stars of the show are in their arms.
  
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• Police identify man found beheaded in NE Albuquerque

  20-12-2016 21:44
  
  Albuquerque police said Tuesday they have identified the man who was found beheaded and castrated in the landscaping near a Walmart on Wyoming and Menaul boulevards early Saturday morning.
  
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• Arrests made in stolen vehicle ring

  20-12-2016 20:57
  
  The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department said its Property Crime Unit served a search warrant and made arrests in the 200 block of Prosperity Avenue in connection with a stolen vehicle operation.
  
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• Albuquerque police ID man whose body was found behind Walmart

  20-12-2016 20:42 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque Police Department has identified the man whose decapitated body was found Saturday behind a Walmart as 42-year-old Clifford Miller.
  The body was found around 12 a.m. Saturday behind the Walmart at Wyoming and Menaul.
  APD says Miller was from McAlester, Oklahoma and recently moved with plans to find work in Albuquerque.
  Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers.
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• Sheriff’s Dept says more than 20 stolen vehicles recovered

  20-12-2016 19:52 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s no secret that Albuquerque has one of the worst car theft problems in the country- now we know where some of those stolen cars have been going. Deputies made a huge bust Tuesday in the South Valley.
  Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Deputies raided a salvage yard Tuesday morning, and tell KRQE News 13 they recovered 21 stolen cars. But said this isn’t the first time, multiple stolen cars were found at this address.
  Neil Colella’s car was st
  
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• Sheriff’s Dept says at least 20 stolen vehicles recovered

  20-12-2016 19:52 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – The Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department says detectives have recovered at least 20 stolen vehicles during a raid on a property and made several arrests.
  Sheriff’s Deputy Felicia Romero says the department’s property crime unit served a search warrant Tuesday morning at the property on the 200 block of Prosperity Avenue.
  Photos released by the department showed numerous vehicles in a commercial lot surrounded by a chain link fence.
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• Updated: Four more officials charged with felonies in Flint water crisis

  20-12-2016 19:39
  
  Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette filed another round of criminal charges Tuesday in the ongoing water crisis in Flint, the latest action in a nearly year-long investigation to hold accountable those responsible for a disaster that exposed thousands of children to dangerously high lead levels. Schuette announced felony charges against four people, including two former […]
  
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• Councilors want to hire crew designed to investigate property crime

  20-12-2016 19:39
  
  Mayor Richard Berry promised to crack down on property crime when he took office in 2009, but in 2016 more homeowners than ever are becoming victims of break-ins and burglaries.
  
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• Attitudes about cops driven by race, experience, study shows

  20-12-2016 19:38
  
  The Cato Institute recently published the results of a survey of 2,000 people about their attitudes toward policing. The results are pretty striking. First, 68 percent of white people had a favorable view of police, against just 40 percent of blacks and 59 percent of Hispanics. Blacks (73 percent) were much more likely to say […]
  
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• Man accused of attacking woman, stealing dog

  20-12-2016 19:37
  
  An Albuquerque woman who was walking her dog Sunday afternoon was assaulted by a man who thought the dog had been stolen from his brother, according to court documents.
  
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• Yes, Donald Trump’s America is full of idiots. But not in the way you think.

  20-12-2016 19:35
  
  The word “idiot” is enjoying something of a renaissance. Searching “Donald Trump idiot” on Google yields nearly 10 million results, and the epithet has become a regular feature in the national media. A recent New York Times op-ed blasted Trump’s “agents of idiocracy,” while a headline from Salon asked, “Who are these idiot Donald Trump […]
  
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• Ruling upholds zoning mandates in medical marijuana law

  20-12-2016 19:35
  
  PHOENIX — An Arizona court says the state’s medical marijuana law is constitutional in requiring counties to approve reasonable zoning regulations and other regulatory paperwork for dispensaries. A Court of Appeals ruling Tuesday says the state law isn’t pre-empted by the federal Controlled Substances Act, a federal law that still makes marijuana illegal. The case […]
  
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• Breaking: Seven outside prosecutors to review Sandy, Perez retrial

  20-12-2016 19:19
  
  Incoming District Attorney Raul Torrez announced Tuesday that a team of sevem prosecutors from aroun ...
  
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• DA-Elect Torrez: Statewide prosecutor team to review murder case against two former APD officers

  20-12-2016 19:12
  
  On Tuesday, Bernalillo County District Attorney-Elect Raúl Torrez announced the formation of an independent review team comprised of senior trial prosecutors from around the state to conduct a comprehensive review of the recent case against former police officers Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez in the shooting death of James Boyd.
  
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• Teen accused in Albuquerque man’s murder to be sentenced Tuesday

  20-12-2016 19:05 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – One of six teens accused in the murder of an Albuquerque bartender is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday.
  Police say 15-year-old Matthew Baldonado and five other teens were out on a crime spree when Steven Gerecke was killed in his driveway.
  Last month, Baldonado struck a plea deal dropping his murder charge. He pleaded guilty to four other charges including burglary with a deadly weapon.
  His sentencing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. He could stay behind bars unt
  
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• Teen accused in Albuquerque man’s murder sentenced Tuesday

  20-12-2016 19:05 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – One of six teens accused in the murder of an Albuquerque bartender was sentenced Tuesday.
  Police say Matthew Baldonado, 15 at the time, and five other teens were out on a crime spree when Steven Gerecke was killed in his driveway.
  “Him I want in jail for as long as I possibly can, because, you know that you get a pathetic few years — I get a life sentence. I am in a life sentence,” said Gerecke’s wife.
  Last month, 16-year-old Baldonado str
  
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• Updated: Colombia vs. Brazil in charity match for Chapecoense victims

  20-12-2016 18:58
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO — Colombia and Brazil will play a friendly match on Jan. 25 to raise money for the victims of the air crash last month that killed 19 players from Brazilian club Chapecoense. The match is set for Rio de Janeiro’s Engenhao stadium, which was the venue for athletics during the Olympics. Brazil’s […]
  
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• Updated: At least 80 new parking spaces now available in Nob Hill

  20-12-2016 18:52
  
  Shoppers and other visitors headed to Nob Hill now have about 80 new parking spaces to choose from, and another 20 should be on the way. City Councilor Pat Davis announced Tuesday that the city of Albuquerque and Nob Hill Main Street — a private group that works to revitalize and promote Nob Hill — […]
  
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• Updated: Christmas lives on

  20-12-2016 18:45
  
  It is hard to believe that the Creator of our universe with its billions of galaxies could have sent Himself to this little blue blip not so long ago in the form of an infant born to a virgin, to be first worshipped by illiterate shepherds where He lay in a feed trough, livestock peering […]
  
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• State Medicaid agency side with foes of minimum wage boost

  20-12-2016 18:45
  
  PHOENIX — Arizona’s Medicaid agency is siding with opponents of a voter-approved increase in the minimum wage by arguing in court papers that it is required to spend money because of Proposition 206. The filing contradicts the position of the Attorney General’s office, which argues that the initiative approved in November mandates no new state […]
  
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• Police: 1 dead, another injured in Artesia shooting

  20-12-2016 18:44 via krqe.com
  
  ARTESIA, N.M. (KRQE) – One man has died and another is in the hospital following an early morning shooting in Artesia, according to police.
  The Artesia Police Department says it happened Tuesday at 700 N. 10th Street around 1:30 a.m. When police arrived, they found 22-year-old Otis Chavez and an unidentified 21-year-old male, both with gunshot wounds to the torso.
  Artesia police say Chavez died at the scene, while the unidentified male remains in the hospital in critical condition.
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• Woman gets 2 years in prison for daughter’s death

  20-12-2016 18:40
  
  FLORENCE, Ariz. — A Maricopa woman has been sentenced to two years in prison and a lifetime of supervised probation in the death of her 3-year-old daughter. The Casa Grande Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/2hEcyNV ) that Tina Morse has pleaded guilty to two counts of child abuse for the 2015 death of Tiana Rosalee Capps. She […]
  
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• District Attorney-elect: Panel will review Sandy, Perez deadly shooting case

  20-12-2016 18:22 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Incoming District Attorney Raul Torrez announced Tuesday that the case involving former Albuquerque police officers Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez will be reviewed by an independent panel.
  Perez and Sandy stood trial for the 2014 shooting death of James Boyd in October. After 13 days of testimony, that trial ended with a hung jury and the judge declared a mistrial.
  Both Sandy and Perez were facing second-degree murder charges for the sho
  
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• District Attorney-elect: Panel to decide if Sandy, Perez will be tried again

  20-12-2016 18:22 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Prosecutors from around the state will help decide if Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez will be tried a second time.
  Incoming Bernalillo District Attorney Raul Torrez said Tuesday he’ll get an independent opinion before deciding how to move forward with the high profile case.
  “I believe that having prosecutors investigate and potentially charge police officers from agencies with whom they work on a regular basis can do substantial harm,” said
  
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• District Attorney-elect: Panel to decide if Sandy, Perez will be retried

  20-12-2016 18:22 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Prosecutors from around the state will help decide if Keith Sandy and Dominique Perez will be tried a second time.
  Incoming Bernalillo District Attorney Raul Torrez said Tuesday he’ll get an independent opinion before deciding how to move forward with the high profile case.
  “I believe that having prosecutors investigate and potentially charge police officers from agencies with whom they work on a regular basis can do substantial harm,” said
  
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• City council takes steps to address rape kit backlog

  20-12-2016 17:25
  
  The Albuquerque City Council has approved measures to address the rape kit backlog.
  
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• Torrance County official: Overnight fire destroys 4 structures in Mountainair

  20-12-2016 17:12 via krqe.com
  
  MOUNTAINAIR, N.M. (KRQE) – Four structures were destroyed in an overnight fire in Mountainair, according to Torrance County Fire Marshall Jason Trumbull.
  Officials say the structures affected include an apartment complex and a barber shop that has been in the area at least 50 years. Two other structures were also affected.
  This is a developing story. KRQE News 13 will provide updates as they become available.
  Filed under: Home, New Mexico, News Tagged: News Ap
  
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• Fire that destroyed 4 structures in Mountainair under investigation

  20-12-2016 17:12 via krqe.com
  
  MOUNTAINAIR, N.M. (KRQE) – Torrance County firefighters are investigating a series of overnight fires in Mountainair.
  Torrance County Fire Marshall Jason Trumbull said Tuesday four structures were destroyed in an overnight fire.
  Officials say the structures affected include an apartment complex and a barber shop that has been in the area at least 50 years. Two other structures were also affected.
  This is a developing story. KRQE News 13 will provide updates as
  
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• 100-year-old building among structures burned down in Mountainair fire

  20-12-2016 17:12 via krqe.com
  
  MOUNTAINAIR, N.M. (KRQE) – A massive fire tore through the main street of an old New Mexico town. The blaze took out three buildings in Mountainair; one of them was about 100 years old.
  Tuesday afternoon, firefighters said there was still a fire in a small crawl space in one of the apartments but the man who owns it says he is just thankful his family got out in time.
  In the middle of the night, flames ripped through the three buildings on Broadway in Mountainair.
  “When we got h
  
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• Donald Trump’s BFF in Britain squares off with husband of slain lawmaker over Berlin attack

  20-12-2016 17:01
  
  LONDON — A tussle has broken out between the British politician Nigel Farage and the widower of a slain British lawmaker after Farage said that the deadly attacks in Berlin would be the “legacy” of German Chancellor Angela Merkel. On Monday night, a truck slammed into a heaving Christmas market in Berlin, killing at least […]
  
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• Updated: Iowa cabinet maker taking 800 employees on Caribbean cruise

  20-12-2016 17:00
  
  WATERLOO, Iowa — A Waterloo cabinet manufacturer is taking its more than 800 employees on a company-paid Caribbean cruise to celebrate achieving key goals as it recovers from the recession. Bertch Cabinet manufacturing co-founder Gary Bertch told his employees last week that the company had met its goals for the year — and they would […]
  
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• Trump says on Twitter that Bill Clinton ‘doesn’t know much’ about winning swing states

  20-12-2016 17:00
  
  President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday morning to spar with Bill Clinton – who recently was quoted in a New York state newspaper saying that Trump “doesn’t know much” – claiming that the former president failed to get voters out in crucial swing states for his wife’s campaign. The Record Review, a weekly […]
  
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• Euro slips further toward one-to-one with dollar

  20-12-2016 16:59
  
  FRANKFURT, Germany — The dollar’s upward march has sent the euro currency to its lowest level in 14 years, easing the financial pressure on traveling Americans but giving European exporters a boost. The euro, used by 19 countries, was down 0.3 percent at $1.0367 mid-afternoon Tuesday, drawing closer to the psychologically important level of one […]
  
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• Golfer talks Native American health in New Mexico visit

  20-12-2016 16:56
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The PGA Tour’s first full-blooded Native American golfer and his nonprofit foundation are working to improve Native American health. Notah Begay spoke to a crowd in December at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center and said childhood obesity “drastically impacts everyone in this room, because of the huge health care costs coming down […]
  
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• After 2 years, experts say MH370 likely north of search area

  20-12-2016 16:01 via krqe.com
  
  SYDNEY (AP) — For two years, a handful of ships have diligently combed a remote patch of the Indian Ocean west of Australia in a $160 million bid to find Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. On Tuesday, investigators made what was surely a painful admission: They have probably been looking in the wrong place.
  The latest analysis by a team of international investigators concluded the vanished Boeing 777 is highly unlikely to be in the current search zone and may instead be in a region farther nort
  
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• Five ‘main players’ in juvenile gang jailed, APD says

  20-12-2016 15:39
  
  Albuquerque police say all the key players in a violent juvenile gang are behind bars.
  
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